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A high view of the terra cotta-clad exterior of the Orange County Museum of Art
The new Orange County Museum of Art (OCMA) in Costa Mesa, California opens on October 8, 2022 with five new exhibitions, including "California Biennial" and "13 Women."
A wide black and white photo of city streets, the main focus of the photo being a multi-story office building with signage across the roof that reads, "Mobiloil" and "Mobilgas."
About 100 years ago, Los Angeles produced about 20% of the world's oil. These downtown buildings are part of the larger story of how the oil industry significantly transformed Los Angeles' built environment.
Two young girls with a side braid that runs down one shoulder are seated at outdoor elementary school tables. Each girl has a lunchbox and orange water bottle in front of them. The girl on the left, has "Jane" written on the lunchbox while the girl on the right has "Amelia" written on the lunchbox.
Luke and Ethan Montgomery, twin brothers and film students at Biola University, not only wrote and directed the short film 'Amelia (the Twin)' — they built the motion-control camera rig that made it possible.
A black and white photo of a Black man and woman dressed in Victorian-era costuming holding hands and kissing in front of a plain solid color cloth backdrop.
"Something Good – Negro Kiss," is a recently rediscovered 1898 silent short film featuring the earliest on-screen kiss between Black actors. Its recent rediscovery begs the question — what other lost pieces of Black film history could be out there, waiting to be found?
Fine Cut background image with a mosaic of different films.
Here are the top prize winners for "Fine Cut Festival of Films" in 2022.
USC’s Afton Quast Saler, USC’s Kay Niuyue Zhang, UCLA’s Myra Aquino and Cal Arts student Adam Musa Othman accept their awards at KCET’s FINE CUT Festival of Films at The Montalbán Theatre on September 15, 2022.
Four regional student filmmakers will speak about their winning films during the largest international cinema event in Southern California.
A contact sheet set against a black background. There are five portraits on each column, all of which are black and white. The images are multiple exposure, overlaying images of people in Indigenous regalia over Mexican American portraits.
For over three decades, photographer Christina Fernandez used her work as a way to explore immigration, labor, gender and her Mexican American identity with her layered images.
A wide image of the Hoover Dam, a concrete dam holding water from the Colorado River behind it. Surrounding the dam and river is a dry, red and brown mountainous landscape with electric wires crossing across the dam.
An essential primer detailing how overuse, megadrought and climate change are threatening the Colorado River's dwindling water supply throughout the West and Mexico.
A black and white photo of the Nicholas Brothers, Fayard on the left and Harold on the right, mid-air as they jump with their arms up and their legs pointed to the side. The two are in sync, their body language matched up to one another. Behind them is a band playing brass and wind instruments.
A new exhibition at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures highlights how Black cinema, despite the challenges of American racism, has carved its own paths throughout history.
A black and white spread of a "Love & Rockets" comic book. The left side features a person vomiting's and the right side features a woman on a table dancing.
View the full episode lineup for "Artbound" season 13 and learn more about the stories uncovered in each episode — from Marcel Duchamp's lasting impact on Pasadena's art scene to a new generation of Latinx artists defining their place in the history of American art.
Lizette Hernández is seated in front of a table, sculpting a container out of clay, using her hands. She is wearing a button-up plaid shirt and her hair is cut short in a bob. She's surrounded by lit candle sticks on the table and art materials and projects in various stages of completion.
Los Angeles-born and raised ceramicist Lizette Hernández questions spirituality and tradition in her work, pulling from her personal beliefs, experiences and family histories.
An art gallery room with white walls features a wall mural painting that is embossed with three-dimensional text that reads, "Beauty Salon." Below, are portrait paintings of three women of color. Above them, graffiti tags, stickers, illustrations and the words "Hair" and "Nails," are on the wall. To the right of the painting is a sculpture resembling a park/bus stop chair, its back painted in yellow with block text that reads "Bitcoin. www.notascam.com."
Alfonso Gonzalez Jr.'s work preserves public spaces and fixtures of East L.A. in his landscape art, embodying worn surfaces aged with years of embedded memories, cracks and fragments of paint chipped over decades.
An eight by two grid of headshots of the judges that will be participating at the "Fine Cut" 2022 student film festival.
In the 23nd season of "Fine Cut," a panel of eight judges, with experience in various aspects of filmmaking, will determine the finalists and winners in each category.
A young man with a lot of cameras hung around his neck.
Bruce Talamon has trained his lenses on some of the music industry’s brightest stars, but it all began at Wattstax.
A faded colored photo of a stage propped up in the air with steel and metal rods. Performers in white funk/'70s clothing and gold jewelry stand on stage and perform. A man in white bell bottoms, a fringe jacket and silver chains holds up a silver trumpet. A man with a white afro and a white vest stands with a saxophone. A man stands in the middle wearing a white jacket with long fringe hanging off the sleeves and an intricate gold chain around his neck. He is singing into a microphone. Two men stand near him, also in white, flashy outfits playing the guitar and bass respectively.
Fifty years ago, music label Stax Records organized Wattstax, a benefit concert at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum that commemorated the seventh anniversary of the 1965 Los Angeles Uprising.
A woman wearing a kimono and holding a fan in her hands stands in the middle of the street amongst other women in kimonos and fans. In the background, parade onlookers watch from the curb.
After 2 years of virtual Nisei Week events due to the Coronavirus pandemic, Nisei Week returns in-person to celebrate its 80th year, kicking off with a vibrant parade that marched through Little Tokyo last Sunday.
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