Los Angeles
February 26, 2020
Letter from the editor:
There's a census underway for artists living in Los Angeles. As reporter Jennifer Remenchik points out, such an effort makes a lot of sense in a city with such a large art community. Read more to learn about the kinds of questions the census asks and how you can participate.
If you're headed to Long Beach any time soon, there's an exhibition at the Museum of Latin American Art that's worth seeing, featuring embroideries made by women during the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile. Many of these women were the mothers of those who were murdered. Rosa Boshier writes a great piece that traces how these embroideries became "a major industry."
This week for Meet LA's Art Community we interviewed painter Linda Stark. There are all sorts of gems in her answers, including the time she had "a synesthetic experience with a Gorky painting."
Elisa Wouk Almino
Creating a Census for Los Angeles Artists
The survey, which serves to “identify and map the needs of local artists,” is the first of its kind in a city whose artist population continues to rapidly expand.
Jennifer Remenchik
Event Pick
A Conversation About Sex Work in the Art World
Artists and sex workers will offer their insights at Public School Los Angeles.
Matt Stromberg | The Public School, Feb 27, 7-9 pm
News
Santa Fe Historic Board Says Pro-Palestinian Mural Must Go
The number of artists, critics, and cultural workers supporting Bernie Sanders's presidential campaign with an open letter has jumped from 665 to more than 1,200.
In San Francisco, a Panel Defends Controversial WPA Mural at George Washington High School
On Washington’s birthday, artists, community and Native American leaders, curators, and more talked about why Victor Arnautoff’s “Life of Washington” murals should remain.
Mike Henderson, a Bay Area Pioneer, on His Evolution Through Abstraction
The painter and musician moved West in 1965 to attend the San Francisco Art Institute — the only desegregated art institute at the time. Currently featured in the traveling Soul of a Nation, he continues to make ambitious work.
Emily Wilson | Haines Gallery, through March 28
The Anonymous Women Who Embroidered the Cruel History of the Chilean Dictatorship
The arpilleras narrated the course of Pinochet’s brutal dictatorship through bold colors, broad stitching, and striking imagery, often incorporating fabrics from their disappeared children’s clothes.
Rosa Boshier | MOLAA, through March 29
An Idiosyncratic Selection of California Art Presses
California has a rich history of artful book making. Here’s a small sampling of presses old and new.
Bridget Quinn
Art as Salve in the Age of Anxiety
In a city informed by mutual aid and communal practice, Tucson’s American Institute of Thoughts and Feelings focuses on programming that is “soft,” “gentle,” and deeply relational.
Raquel Gutiérrez
A Trove of Historic and Handwritten Mexican Cookbooks Is Now Online
Skimming through the titles — like Recetas que escribió mi madre con amor para sus hijas (“Recipes my mom wrote with love for her daughters”) — gives one a sense of the intimate nature of these objects, digitized by the University of Texas at San Antonio.
Valentina Di Liscia
Meet LA’s Art Community: Linda Stark Likes the “Challenge of Resurrecting a Bankrupt Image”
An interview series spotlighting some of the great work coming out of Los Angeles. Hear directly from artists, curators, and art workers about their current projects and personal quirks.
Elisa Wouk Almino
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