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An image can have powerful consequences. Explore how artists are using the visual arts to empower and elevate a point of view.

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Todd Gray's juxtaposition of a dark-skinned boy atop a pedestal with the cosmos over his head on Crenshaw Boulevard in Leimert Park. | Carol Cheh
Amidst “Safer at Home” orders and racism, Drive-By-Art shows art’s power to move, inspire, make us think and bring us together as we work toward a better world.
Christina Quarles - Studio Visit
A glimpse into the creative space of artist Christina Quarels as she discusses how she creates art during the pandemic.
DOSSHAUS - Corey Helford Gallery - Clockradio 11:03
Corey Helford Gallery presents three new virtual exhibits.
Print Lab doors, CalArts 2020 | Michael Worthington
One of the most prominent and anonymous voices in CalArts is its student graphic designers. Their experiments — alternately spectacular, unreadable, forgettable and unforgettable — now live in an archive.
 Agnes Pelton, "Star Gazer," 1929. Oil on canvas. | Collection of Susan and Whitney Ganz
Agnes Pelton’s Cat City home is no majestic artist enclave, but unable to drive, she still found her mystic inspirations in her small hometown. Walk in her shoes.
Barbara Kruger asks "Are you hungry?" on a digital billboard at the Banc of California Stadium as part of "Untitled (Questions)" | Fredrik Nielsen, courtesy of the artist and Frieze
Barbara Kruger unveils her latest additions to her ongoing series, “Untitled (Questions),” as part of Frieze Week Los Angeles. The unmistakable ad-like artworks boldly ask, “Who buys low? Who sells high?” among other questions.
Paul Revere Williams discusses a project with others at the site of the future LAX | Still from "Hollywood's Architect"
In the course of his five-decade career, Paul Revere Williams, an African American architect born in Los Angeles on February 18, 1894, overcame prejudice and become one of the foremost architects in history.
MOCA: Beyond The Museum Walls
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Artbound explores the programming of the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, featuring The Underground Museum, Wolvesmouth, and Public Fiction.
Night's Regent, 2000 | Courtesy of Sharon Ellis
Sharon Ellis' luminous landscapes draw on nearly the whole history of landscape painting. Think American Luminists, Charles Burchfield and his "animated landscapes" and even Light and Space artists James Turrell and Robert Irwin.
Installation view of Nina Katchadourian’s Strange Creature | Gina Clyne. Courtesy of Clockshop
"Beside the Edge of the World," a multimedia, interdisciplinary art exhibition at The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens explores and unearths ideas of “utopia” through the lens of three artists.
“At Last” illustration from The Suffragist dated June 21, 1919 published by the National Woman’s Party, Washington, D.C. | The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
History may have happened yesterday, but a look at these objects from the past shows that it still holds power even today. 
"Rushing Waters" mural in Pacoima. The image shows a Native American woman holding a basin of water. | Justin Cram
In late November, a massive mural, "Rushing Waters," debuted in Pacoima. Coming in at over 10,000 square feet, it's one of the largest in the city. 
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