African American Heritage Month

Desire, Knowledge, and Hope (with Smog)

Event Type
Culture & Community
Family Activity
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
The Broad is pleased to announce Desire, Knowledge, and Hope (with Smog), an exhibition drawn entirely from the Broad collection, showcasing works by Los Angeles-based artists. Drawing its title from a John Baldessari work, the exhibition includes reflections on L.A. as a city in flux, and on societal issues that extend far beyond it. The show includes the work of 21 artists across varying generations who were raised in the Los Angeles area, or relocated to the city.

 

Tuesdays, Wednesdays & Fridays – 11:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.,

Thursdays – 11:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m.,
Saturdays & Sundays 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.

Website Link
thebroad.org/art/collection-exhibitions/desire-knowledge-and-hope-smog-1
Event Date
-
Event Location

The Broad
221 S. Grand Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90012
United States

Event Lat/Long
34.0544714, -118.2505584

tags

Fee Required
No
Event Cost
Free
Contact Phone
(213) 232-6200
Event ID
10291396
Event Main Image

Hip-Hop America: The Mixtape Exhibit

Event Type
Culture & Community
Family Activity
Music
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
Come celebrate the 50th anniversary of hip-hop. Our 5,000-square-foot exhibit delves deep into the multifaceted world of hip-hop through expansive exhibits on hip-hop music, dance, graffiti, fashion, business, activism, and history, providing visitors with an immersive experience that explores the profound impact and influence of hip-hop culture. On display will be an incredible array of artifacts including the Notorious B.I.G.’s iconic red leather pea jacket, LL Cool J’s red Kangol bucket hat, and more.

 

Sundays & Mondays, Wednesdays – Fridays 11:00 noon – 5:00 p.m. Saturdays: 10:00 a.m. – 6:00p.m,  Tuesdays – Closed
Website Link
grammymuseum.org/event/hip-hop-america-the-mixtape-exhibit/
Event Date
-
Event Location

Grammy Museum
800 West Olympic Boulevard, Suite A 245
Los Angeles, CA 90015
United States

Event Lat/Long
34.0447954, -118.2652703

tags

Fee Required
Yes
Event Cost
$13 – $15
Contact Phone
213.765.6800
Event ID
10294509
Event Main Image

Sargent Claude Johnson

Event Type
Culture & Community
Family Activity
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
This exhibition includes 41 works drawn from The Huntington’s as well as key loans from institutional and private collections. On view will be The Huntington’s Head of a Boy and the monumental carved redwood Organ Screen. In this exhibition, the screen—will be reunited with the other parts of Johnson’s California School for the Blind Commission for the first time in over four decades.
Website Link
https://huntington.org/exhibition/sargent-claude-johnson
Event Date
-
Event Location

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Garden
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA
United States

Event Lat/Long
34.1278618, -118.1094516

tags

Fee Required
Yes
Event Cost
$25 – $29
Contact Phone
626.405.2100
Event ID
10298155
Event Main Image

Leimert Park Village Street Festival

Event Type
Culture & Community
Fairs & Festivals
Family Activity
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description

Every Weekend there’s family orientated activities live music, street and food vendors. Bring your own drum for the outdoor Drum Circle Workshop on Sundays and there’s a jam session nightly at the World Stage.

You’ll find cultural friendly people and auntie’s brownies at Laylow’s. In Leimert Park you’ll find fresh-made ice cream, a massage table in a body therapy canopy, custom-crafted beautiful jewelry, clothing, art classes, free entertainment and fun EVERY weekend…just remember to bring a chair you’ll not want to leave.

The construction on the Vision Theatre looks close to being done and on Holidays…sky’s the limit on the sponsored entertainment.

Website Link
iccc2.wootick.com/events/leimert-park-village-street-festival-E80002631728320
Event Date
-
Event Location

Leimert Park
United States

tags

Fee Required
No
Event Cost
Free
Event ID
10291764
Event Main Image

Art for the People: WPA-Era Paintings from the Dijkstra Collection

Event Type
Culture & Community
Family Activity
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
Drawn from the collection of Sandra and Bram Dijkstra, Art for the People explores paintings created in the United States between the 1929 stock market crash and World War II. The exhibition focuses on federal Works Progress Administration artists of the 1930s and early 1940s who were employed by the government to help stimulate the post-Depression economy. More than 10,000 artists participated, creating works that represented the nation and its people and seeking to express fundamental human concerns, basic democratic principles, and the plight of the dispossessed.

 

Sundays, Mondays, & Wednesdays  – Saturdays 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Website Link
https://huntington.org/exhibition/art-people-wpa-era-paintings-dijkstra-collection
Event Date
-
Event Location

Hammer Museum and the The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
United States

tags

Fee Required
Yes
Event Cost
$25 – $29
Event ID
10291674
Event Main Image

The Significant Movies and Moviemakers: Boyz N the Hood

Event Type
Culture & Community
Family Activity
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
The Boyz N the Hood gallery explores the movie’s groundbreaking depiction of Black life in South Central Los Angeles as well as its lasting impact on popular culture. The space highlights writer-director John Singleton’s unique vision for the film, for which he became both the first African American and the youngest person ever to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director. The gallery also spotlights the cast and crew––showing the pivotal role the film played not only in their careers but also for a new generation of Black talent in Hollywood.
Website Link
academymuseum.org/en/exhibitions/boyz-n-the-hood
Event Date
-
Event Location

The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
6067 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90036
United States

Event Lat/Long
34.0633867, -118.3608799

tags

Fee Required
Yes
Event Cost
$15 – $25
Contact Phone
323.930.3000
Event ID
10301092
Event Main Image

Black California Dreamin’: Claiming Space at America’s Leisure Frontier

Event Type
Culture & Community
Family Activity
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
Access to nature, recreation, and sites of relaxation—in other words, leisure—is critical to pursuing the full range of human experience, self-fulfillment, and dignity. The exhibition illuminates Angelenos and other Californians who worked to make leisure here an open, inclusive reality in the first half of the twentieth century. In shaping recreational sites and public spaces during the Jim Crow era, African Americans challenged white supremacy and situated Black identity within oceanfront and inland social gathering places throughout California.
Website Link
caamuseum.org/exhibitions/2023/black-california-dreamin-african-americans-and-the-frontier-of-leisure
Event Date
-
Event Location

California African American Museum
600 State Drive, Exposition Park
Los Angeles, CA 90037
United States

Event Lat/Long
34.0152307, -118.2861853

tags

Fee Required
No
Event Cost
Free
Contact Phone
213-744-2024
Event ID
10287297
Event Main Image

Sacred Spaces: The Work and Collection of Charles Bibbs™

Event Type
Culture & Community
Family Activity
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
This landmark exhibition presents a range of works from Charles Bibbs’™ personal art collection as well as the artist’s original paintings and drawings. Through Sacred Spaces, Bibbs seeks to not only share this artistic journey but also send a message about the power of art in everyday life. He believes in a vital connection between the art that people see in public spaces and the lives they live in the spaces they inhabit every day. Sacred Spaces brings together these concepts in the hope that visitors will experience a connection with art that they take back into the sacred spaces of their own homes.

 

Website Link
riversideartmuseum.org/exhibits/sacred-spaces-the-work-and-collection-of-charles-bibbs/
Event Date
-
Event Location

Riverside Art Museum
3425 Mission Inn Ave.
Riverside , CA 92501
United States

Event Lat/Long
33.9817847, -117.3704849

tags

Fee Required
Yes
Event Cost
$10.95 – $15.95
Contact Phone
951.684.7111
Event ID
10291567
Event Main Image

Riverside Art Museum presents Rico Gatson: Icons

Event Type
Culture & Community
Family Activity
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
Riverside Art Museum is proud to present the second West Coast solo exhibition of Rico Gatson’s work. An interdisciplinary, Brooklyn-based artist, Gatson grew up in Riverside, California. His work is bold and graphic with art historical references to Russian Constructivism and Op art, while his wholly unique style highlights the complexities of Black life and its impact on American popular culture.

The exhibition is on view from Saturday, November 18, 2023 through Sunday, April 7, 2024 at the Riverside Art Museum in the Art Alliance Gallery.

 

Website Link
riversideartmuseum.org/exhibits/rico-gatson/
Event Date
-
Event Location

Riverside Art Museum
3425 Mission Inn Ave.
Riverside , CA 92501
United States

Event Lat/Long
33.9817847, -117.3704849

tags

Fee Required
Yes
Event Cost
$10.95 – $15.95
Contact Phone
951.684.7111
Event ID
10291523
Event Main Image

Tatyana Fazlalizadeh: Speaking to Falling Seeds

Event Type
Culture & Community
Family Activity
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
Tatyana Fazlalizadeh is a Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary artist whose practice considers Black image making as a site of protest, contestation, affirmation, and possibility. At CAAM, Fazlalizadeh will present a series of portraits of Black Angelenos wheat-pasted across the atrium’s monumental walls. Based on photographs and conversations that took place this spring while the artist was living in Los Angeles, the portraits ask how safety is inferred, built, and felt for the city’s Black residents.
Website Link
caamuseum.org/exhibitions/2023/tatyana-fazlalizadeh
Event Date
-
Event Location

California African American Museum
600 State Drive, Exposition Park
Los Angeles, CA 90037
United States

Event Lat/Long
34.0152307, -118.2861853

tags

Fee Required
No
Event Cost
Free
Contact Phone
213-744-2024
Event ID
10287349
Event Main Image
African American Heritage Month