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Pencil This In: Videos at LAXART, Walter Mosley at Eso Won Books, Truck Fest at the Americana

Pencil This In: Videos at LAXART, Walter Mosley at Eso Won Books, Truck Fest at the Americana

Project 35, a program of single-channel videos coordinated by the Independent Curators International (ICI), makes a screening stop at LAXART on La Cienega tonight at 7 pm. For the screening, 35 international curators were invited to each choose one work from an artist that they think is important for audiences around the world to experience today. With videos by: Guy Ben-Ner, Robert Cauble, Kota Ezawa / Dan Halter / Tuan Andrew Nguyen & Phu Nam Thuc Ha / Edwin Sanchez, Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz, Yukihiro Taguchi, Zhou Xiaohu. Tonight’s event is the first of four chapters over the course of the year. Free. more ›

A Peek Inside CAA's Private Art Collection

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Office art is often bland, mass produced and uninspired, but that's not the case at the offices of the Creative Artists Agency in Century City. With over 400 works, their collection, which is focused on art by locals who live and create in Los Angeles, is worthy of being a contemporary museum on its own. From established artists to the young and upcoming, the CAA has been collecting these works to support arts education. "LA is great in a sense that we've got all these great art schools concentrated here," explained Thao Nguyen, who oversees the collection. "We want to support LA artists in terms of being educated here and producing art here." more ›

California Biennial: Public Art Arrives on a Culver City Street Corner

    

Now here's some public art meant for you to interact with. As of last Friday, smack dab in the middle of the sidewalk on the northeast corner of Washington Boulevard & Marcasel Avenue in Culver City sits Los Angeles sculptor Jedediah Caesar's "Gleaners Stone." It's part of the California Biennial and LAXART's Public Art Initiatives which questions, as they put it, "the current contexts for the exhibition of art in the public realm." Culver City is not just art friendly, but pedestrian friendly as well. It's Caesar's hope that this project relates to its surrounding urban environs by engaging the public in whichever way they see fit. It's on view through the end of Spring. more ›

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