Experience a site-specific dance performance that embodies Carolina Caycedo’s River Serpent Book, a recently completed publication that encompasses five years of research on the significance and impact of damming rivers. Using the book as both a score and prop, the performance incorporates ideas about fluidity, water, containment, and environmental justice through African Diasporic dance practices. Along with …
Maps are abstract and partial representations of space. They do not accurately represent a place but redefine it and place value on it. What makes up the city of Los Angeles for each one of us? and How can we represent it on paper? Join The Main’s artist-in-residence Beatriz Cortez in collaboration with Yansi Perez, …
Beta Main’s first commissioned project, Performance Lessons: Suzanne Lacy Teaches Andrea Bowers Performance Art, centers on the profoundly influential trajectory of performance art in California between 1968-1980, reanimating and contextualizing this rich artistic history through durational performance, conversations with practitioners and theorists and inquiry on politics and pedagogy. Performance Lessons follows the photographic artists’ durational installation at …
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Experience an afternoon of music and poetry, as artist Micah James brings together performers who explore the Black queer existence through a multitude of lenses. Participating artists are Eddington Again, Bapari, Black Gatsby, Brandon Drew Holmes, Micah James, Thed Jewel, Amanda-Faye Jimenez, Naeem Juwan, and Adee Roberson. Quiet Isn’t Kept: Amplifications in Black Queer VoiceCaptured by Pablo Simental Micah James is an artist working in LA, making songs, stories, …
Experience the creative process as Mecca Vazie Andrews, Artistic Director of the MOVEMENT movement, prepares for Title X V. 1, a site-specific performance taking place at Beta Main on The Main Sunday, July 16, 2017. Over the two days leading up to Title X V. 1, visitors are encouraged to drop-in, watch, and engage with Andrews as she …
Mecca Vazie Andrews, Artistic Director of the MOVEMENT movement, activates Beta Main’s gallery space through dance and multimedia performance. Responding to the artworks currently on view, Star Montana: I Dream of Los Angeles as well as Alice Konitz’s Circle Chairs and Triangle Chairs, Andrews engenders a conversation between both that explores migration and connectivity in a new cultural age. Seating …
This article is archived from it’s original text themainmuseum.org Edgar Arceneaux: Library of Black Lies ON VIEWSaturday, February 4 – Sunday, March 26, 2017Wednesday – Sunday11am – 7pm For more ceramics art guides and tips read these articles Heat Treating Oven Best Metal Clay Kiln Best Slab Roller Best Clay Extruder Best Clay for Sculpting …
This article is archived from it’s original text themainmuseum.org Images: (left) John Wayne by Vickie Uyeda; (right) Kusama by Milton Davis For more ceramic arts guides read these articles Heat Treating Oven Best Metal Clay Kiln Best Slab Roller Best Clay Extruder Best Clay for Sculpting Kiln Pyrometer Best Pottery Tools Best Kiln for Glass Fusing Best Ceramic Kiln …
This article is archived from the original text themainmuseum.org When Star Montana was a student at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, she longed for California sunshine and dreamed of the light and the people of Los Angeles. A Boyle Heights native, she returned home periodically, trips during which she took a number of …
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This article is archived from the original text themainmuseum.org Dr. Robert King and Albert Woodfox are the two surviving members of the Angola 3, the world-renowned trio of prison reform activists (Herman Wallace, died on October 4th, 2013, three days after his release) exonerated after enduring decades of solitary confinement at Louisiana State Penitentiary—the largest maximum-security prison in …
Rigo 23 (b. 1966, Portugal), a Los Angeles-based Portuguese artist known for large-scale outdoor murals, is considered part of the first generation of the San Francisco Mission School art movement, which emerged in the city’s Mission District in the early 1990s. For nearly three decades, his socially engaged work has focused on addressing injustices, notably …
This article is archived from the original text themainmuseum.org Dora De Larios: Other Worlds highlighted the work of L.A. native and ceramist Dora De Larios, one the city’s most vital, yet under-recognized artists. Dora De Larios: Other Worlds showcased work from the artist’s six-decade-long career and inaugurated the new 2,750-square-foot mezzanine gallery, marking one in a series of …
This article is archived from the original themainmuseum.org letter-from-the-director-dec-2018 Letter from the Director | September 2018 // Carta de la Directora | Septiembre 2018 For more photography guides check out these articles Best Camera with Mic Input Best Camera with Flip Screen Best Camera for Nature Photography Best Camera for Food Photography Best Camera for …
This article is archived from the original themainmuseum.org Star Montana (1987) is a photo-based artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. She was born and raised in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of East Los Angeles, which is predominantly Mexican American and serves as the backdrop to much of her work. Star’s imagery deals with …
In conjunction with Beta Main’s current exhibition, Star Montana: I Dream of Los Angeles, join us for an evening of poetry, music, and zines that celebrate Los Angeles’s Chicana community. This article is archived from the original text as published themainmuseum.org For photography guides and tips read these articles: Best Camera with Mic Input Best Camera …