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(4) Denver Artists Discuss Identity & Activism in 'Mexican Modernism' (4) Vida y Arte Podcast Episode 1: 'Power of Muralism' Smoke sculptures, word gardens and a ‘jackrabbit homestead’: Desert X announces artist projects for third edition. Rendering for Living Smoke: A Tribute to the Living Desert by Desert X 2021 artist Judy Chicago Courtesy of the artist and Desert X After an opening delayed from February to March, Desert X (12 March-26 May) has announced the artists selected for the third edition of their outdoor art exhibition in California’s Coachella Valley.

Smoke sculptures, word gardens and a ‘jackrabbit homestead’: Desert X announces artist projects for third edition

Thirteen artists from eight countries — with four based in New York and only one from Southern California — will have work featured in what could be the first major public art event in the region since the Covid-19 shutdown last year. An Artist Jokingly Offered to Install Twitter-Style Checkmarks on Famous People's Homes for $3,000. Lots of People Took It Seriously. It all started, as so many things do these days, with a jokey tweet exchange.

An Artist Jokingly Offered to Install Twitter-Style Checkmarks on Famous People's Homes for $3,000. Lots of People Took It Seriously

While out on a stroll, San Francisco artist Danielle Baskin found herself wondering about the decorative plaster shield she saw on some of her neighbors’ houses. “Is it purely ornamental,” she wondered in a tweet on Friday, “or did it once signify something about the house?” A tech investor piped up: “This was the blue check before twitter,” referring to the site’s way of denoting users with social status. “Please someone (@djbaskin, obvi),” one user begged Baskin, “sell a plaster blue check for SF facades.” Within hours of the request, Baskin posted a deadpan tweet about a firm, Blue Check Homes, offering the service. Episode 91: Apesh*t — The Art History Babes. Scholar Strike. Art Detective: Portrait of a Lady Holding an Orange Blossom – All Things Georgian. WELCOME - Race, Racism, and Anti-Racism - LibGuides at Kent School.

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Harry Potter: A History of Magic. Self-Guided Driving Tour of L.A., Part Three. Highlighting key sites featured in LACMA’s exhibition Found in Translation: Design in California and Mexico: 1915–1985 (on view through April 1), this self-guided driving tour explores connections between California and Mexico.

Self-Guided Driving Tour of L.A., Part Three

From the iconic Union Station to the esoteric Aztec Hotel, we’ll share insights into the design of places throughout L.A. County. Here is part three of three: Koreatown, Hollywood, and beyond. Check out our previous posts for part one, downtown Los Angeles and part two, East Los Angeles. Don’t miss your chance to learn more about these locales and how interconnections between California and Mexico shaped the material culture of each place, influencing and enhancing how they presented themselves to the wider world. CHAPMAN MARKET | 3451 W. 6th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90020 Chapman Market opened in Los Angeles in 1929.

Frank Lloyd Wright, Barnsdall (“Hollyhock”) House, Los Angeles, 1919–21, photo by Julius Shulman, 1963. © J. Robert B. How did WWII actually help the art world? Hear about art restitution in our latest #episode, and read this great article from the… Family to Family. Searching for Millard Sheets’ genius and Masonic relics at the Marciano Art Foundation. For as long as we can remember, the mysterious, windowless lodge building has stood on its prominent Wilshire site, an hermetic, masculine balance to the social, feminine Ebell Club just across the boulevard.

Searching for Millard Sheets’ genius and Masonic relics at the Marciano Art Foundation

Designed by Southern California symbolist extraordinaire Millard Sheets, he of the Home Savings mosaic murals that sold the regional lifestyle to passing motorists and prudent savers, the Scottish Rite Temple (1961) is Southern California’s last great Masonic hall, a Gesamtkunstwerk from its exterior mosaics, instructional texts, high relief figural sculptures and giant unlit braziers to the unknown mysteries within. Mae Jemison: Teach arts and sciences together. THE NEXT BREWERY ART WALK IS APRIL 29th AND 30th 2017. Financial backing of Trivago and Momondo now back Barnebys.

LONDON.- Often described as the ‘Google of the Art World’ Barnebys.com is an aggregator that offers art buyers daily access to a million art objects via 2,000 auction houses and art dealers around the world.

Financial backing of Trivago and Momondo now back Barnebys

The ‘one-stop-shop’ service makes it easier to track down item you are searching for quickly and easily. Tell Congress to Oppose the Elimination of NEH! The Trump Administration has issued a budget blueprint that calls for the elimination of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), along with other cultural agencies.

Tell Congress to Oppose the Elimination of NEH!

Quickly fill out the form to ask your Members of Congress to oppose this proposal by phone and email.