A forthcoming Performance Art Museum asks what would it look like to collect, historicize, and honor performance art.
| “We’re building on the generations before us that have grown from the fertile grounds of California,” said Museum of Performance Art founder Samuel Vasquez. | Matt Stromberg |
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LATEST NEWS | | Performers say they received a $1,000 flat rate for a week of work including rehearsals and performances in 80-degree weather. | Angella D’Avignon |
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ART SHOWS TO SEE RIGHT NOW | | | at Roberts Projects through August 24 | Bíikkua (The Hide Scraper) features 184 meticulously rendered Bishkisché paintings, each named for a woman in Red Star’s tribe, in an attempt to reclaim the abstractions that have been subsumed into Western art history and pay homage to their origins and creators. |
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| | | at Pace Gallery through August 30 | Gordon Parks was a versatile and boundary-smashing photographer whose work ranged from documenting the Civil Rights movement to celebrity, fashion, and sports portraits and photo essays as the first Black staff photographer for Life magazine. Pace’s exhibition spans the early 1940s to the mid ’80s, and features roughly 40 photographs. |
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| | | at The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture through September 22 | In an era of widespread migration, displacement, and diaspora, what does the idea of “home” mean? This is the question behind Hogar Dulce Hogar, an exhibition featuring 18 artists from the Inland Empire for whom home is less a specific physical location than a fluid combination of family, memory, and site. | Check out our lists of art shows to explore this month and through the summer! |
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IN SAN DIEGO | | Suturing the Border shows how an international group of artists built relationships along this nebulous zone dividing Mexico and the United States. | Renée Reizman |
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