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
10291409
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
10294522
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

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Fee Required
Yes
Event Cost
$25 – $29
Contact Phone
626.405.2100
Event ID
10298168
Event Main Image

Adeola Davies-Aiyeloja – Echoes of Ancestors: Bearing Witness to Their Legacy

Event Type
Culture & Community
Family Activity
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
The Elmina and Cape Coast castles might seem to be far away, but their history connects with our American history. The castles were relics of the continent’s early interactions with Europe. Several thousands of West Africans, mostly men, passed through the castles after being held in the dungeons. When I walked through the dungeons recently, it was terrifying to imagine the reality of what took place in these tiny suffocating rooms filled centuries ago. Then I think of our current state of injustice going on in the marginalized communities and the struggle to survive is so much aligned with the past.
Website Link
laaa.org/adeola-davies-aiyeloja
Event Date
-
Event Location

Gallery 825
825 N. La Cienega Blvd.
West Hollywood, CA 90069
United States

Event Lat/Long
34.0859727, -118.3767668

tags

Fee Required
No
Event Cost
Free
Event ID
10299690
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
10291178
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
10287310
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

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Fee Required
Yes
Event Cost
$10.95 – $15.95
Contact Phone
951.684.7111
Event ID
10291534
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
10295988
Event Main Image

Betye Saar: Drifting Toward Twilight

Event Type
Culture & Community
Family Activity
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
Renowned American artist Betye Saar’s large-scale work Drifting Toward Twilight—recently commissioned by The Huntington—is a site-specific installation that features a 17-foot-long vintage wooden canoe and found objects, including birdcages, antlers, and natural materials harvested by Saar from The Huntington’s grounds.

 

“Betye Saar: Drifting Toward Twilight” transforms an entire room in the Scott Galleries into what the artist calls a “cocoon-like environment.” The walls are painted in an oceanic blue gradient, featuring a poem by Saar and phases of the moon. Shifting lighting effects in the gallery emulate phases of daylight to twilight, evening to night, and night to dawn. Inside the canoe, Saar positions mysterious “passengers,” including antlers in metal birdcages, children’s chairs, and architectural elements—all drawn from the artist’s ever-evolving collection of found objects. The space beneath the canoe is illuminated by a cool neon glow, highlighting plant material.

 

Betye Saar (b. 1926) is one of the most significant American artists. Over her six-decade career, she has created assemblage works exploring themes of racial oppression, mysticism, the occult, family, memory, and identity. She fashions her assemblage artworks from found objects, antiques, and family heirlooms that she collects. Emerging as an important artistic voice during the feminist and Civil Rights movements, Saar is a pioneer of Black feminist art who connected the personal with the political, taking on such subject matter as the legacies of enslavement and the impacts of racism.
Website Link
huntington.org/exhibition/betye-saar-drifting-toward-twilight
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
10296253
Event Main Image

LA Made Presents: Black Punk Now

Event Type
Culture & Community
Family Activity
Music
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description

Discover the inspiration and purpose that fueled the creation of Black Punk Now, James Spooner, and Chris L. Terry’s latest book. Curated from the perspective of Black writers with connections to the world of punk, the collection mixes media as well as generations, creating a new reference point for music lovers, readers, and historians by capturing the present and looking toward the future. With strong visual elements integrated throughout, this smart, intimate collection is demonstrative of punk by being punk itself: underground, rebellious, aesthetic but not static—working to decenter whiteness by prioritizing other perspectives. The co-authors will lead a table reading followed by a moderated conversation with Tunde Adebimpe and Kash Abdulmalik. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to gain insights into the book’s inception and join in the discussion with our talented creators.

Website Link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gLiV_6-fjs
Event Date
Event Location

Los Angeles Library – Online
Los Angeles, CA
United States

Event Lat/Long
34.0522342, -118.2436849

tags

Fee Required
No
Event Cost
Free
Event ID
10301199
Event Main Image
African American Heritage Month