Every week, I highlight a few events across the SoCal region. This week, celebrate Black history and Lunar New Year, get immersed in time-based media, and travel across time and space.
An after-dark journey through moving images
What a Wonderful World marks the U.S. debut of the Julia Stoschek Foundation, transforming the Variety Arts Theater into a six-floor cinematic journey through 120 years of time-based media. This immersive presentation gives a new definition to arthouse, pairing contemporary works by Arthur Jafa, Marina Abramović, and Doug Aitken with silent-era pioneers Alice Guy-Blaché, Luis Buñuel, and Walt Disney.
Moving art across time and space
Crossing Temporalities: A Conversation with Beatriz Cortez is a timely exploration of messages, stories, and elemental particles across space and time. Multidisciplinary artist Beatriz Cortez joins scholar Jasmine Magaña for a conversation unpacking Cortez’s investigations into…..