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Arts & Culture Collections

Dive deep into Southern California’s creative consciousness. See how diverse ideas and identities meld, mix and recombine, inspiring revolutions beyond art’s borders. Learn more about the triumphs, struggles and interconnected histories that have fueled this region’s aesthetic fires.

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Through a series of short films and articles, Monomania L.A. profiles five L.A. as Subject collectors who have turned a monomaniacal obsession with a particular aspect of Southern California history into a public resource.
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design east of La Brea (you can call us de LaB) is a Los Angeles-based nonprofit that celebrates and supports local creatives in their efforts to enlighten, improve and engage the city.
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Friends of Friends Music is a record label and creative marketing hub based in Los Angeles linking like minded artists, labels, brands and media outlets in unique and forward thinking ways.
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Freewaves is dedicated to the creative exhibition of the most innovative and culturally relevant independent new media art from around the world.
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Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre (HDDT) creates ephemeral contemporary art experiences in extraordinary places that boldly redefine the relationship between audience and art.
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Artbound's music series Hear and Now explores songs with a sense of place. The idea is simple: put Southern California musicians in the locations that inspired a song, and document a performance of the song, in that place.
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Forêt Intérieure/Interior Forest is a multi-faceted project by L.A.-based artist Alexandra Grant encompassing a series of public drawing sessions, reading groups, artist collaborations and an installation at 18th Street Arts Center.
Chats About Change
Chats About Change: Critical Conversations on Art and Politics is five conversations addressing contemporary themes that artists and activists are developing in Los Angeles today.
Borderblaster
Borderblaster brings together the voices of vendors, artisans, artists, and activists in a series of conversations, readings, and interviews that reimagine the Mercado de Artesanias de la Linea and the crossing as a whole as an agora.
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There It Is-Take It! is a self-guided car audio tour through Owens Valley, California along U.S. Route 395 examining the controversial social, political, and environmental history of the Los Angeles Aqueduct system.
Planned on and off for the last 14 years, a new Orange County Museum of Art opens to the public October 2022. Since 1962, OCMA, along with its predecessor the Newport Harbor Art Museum, has presented exhibitions of 20th and 21st-century art that is locally relevant and internationally significant.
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Emmy® award-winning arts and culture series "Artbound" takes viewers on a journey through Southern California's creative landscape. Get an inside look at the stories that bring to light the region’s rich cultural legacy and diversity with these short films.
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