Los Angeles: rafa esparza, Patty Chang, Nasty Women, and more

This week, LA's iconic lamppost artwork is reinstalled, rafa esparza gives a talk, and Caroline Ellen

Nov 18, 2020 • View in browser

This week, LA’s iconic lamppost artwork is reinstalled, rafa esparza gives a talk, and Caroline Ellen Lieu writes a poignant piece about processing our 2020 feelings with the great Patty Chang. Also, don’t miss Hyperallergic’s beautiful new website! After having been here for almost six years, it’s been exciting to see how our homepage has evolved, but never has it looked *this good.* I hope you’ll peruse to your heart’s content.– Elisa Wouk Almino, Senior Editor

rafa esparza On His Collaborative Art

Installation view Installation view, rafa esparza, Made in LA: a, the, though, only (2016), Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (photo by Brian Forrest)

When asking the artist rafa esparza about what he is working on, his answer almost always involves friends, family, and fellow artists. That’s because esparza sees the job of the artist as inherently collaborative.This Thursday, esparza will deliver a special lecture at the Hammer Museum, in which he will discuss several years of work. “I continue to be inspired by artists who are unapologetically themselves,“ he says, "expanding and breaking from the canon by virtue of daring to dream big from their subjective positions that have been systemically and institutionally marginalized.”

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Latest Reviews

Artists in Nasty Women Show Embrace the Bold, Confident, and Unapologetic Reclaiming the infamous insult hurled at Hillary Clinton by Donald Trump, this show celebrates women’s contributions to art. Jennifer Remenchik

Processing Our 2020 Feelings With Patty Chang In March, Chang put out an open call for our fears and made a video out of them. Watching it eight months later, I hoped it would help name whatever it was I was feeling. Caroline Ellen Liou

What's Happening?

Over 140 artists and celebrities have contributed to Show Me the Signs, a live auction at Blum & Poe that benefits Black women killed by police. LA’s iconic lamppost artwork “Vermonica” will officially shine again after suddenly disappearing in November 2017.

From Our Partners at KCET

Southland Sessions E14: A Tribute to Linda Ronstadt at The Soraya Aida Cuevas, La Marisoul, Mariachi Garibaldi de Jaime Cuéllar and special guest David Hidalgo from Los Lobos pay tribute to the legend Linda Ronstadt.

What 30-Year Old Dance Work ‘D-Man in the Waters’ Can Teach Us About Coping with a Pandemic If the landmark piece of postmodern dance were restaged today — during our current COVID crisis — it might take on a whole new meaning.

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