Daytime

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

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Fee Required
Yes
Event Cost
$25 – $29
Event ID
10291660
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

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Fee Required
Yes
Event Cost
$15 – $25
Contact Phone
323.930.3000
Event ID
10301084
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

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Fee Required
No
Event Cost
Free
Contact Phone
213-744-2024
Event ID
10287283
Event Main Image

Outside the Mainstream

Event Type
Culture & Community
Family Activity
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
Adjacent to John Waters: Pope of Trash, in the Warner Bros. Gallery, the Academy Museum presents Outside the Mainstream, an installation that pays homage to the work of other radically independent filmmakers—such as Kenneth Anger, Shirley Clarke, Jack Smith, Andy Warhol, Gregg Araki, Todd Haynes, and Rose Troche—who operate beyond the pale of mainstream cinema. The gallery focuses on examples from the American avant-garde, underground film, and New Queer Cinema movements, united by how forward-thinking film journalists including Jonas Mekas and B. Ruby Rich supported their reach.  

 

Website Link
https://www.academymuseum.org/en/exhibitions/outside-the-mainstream
Event Date
-
Event Location

Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
6067 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90036
Los Angeles, CA 90036
United States

Event Lat/Long
34.0633859, -118.3608413

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Fee Required
Yes
Event Cost
Free – $25
Event ID
10296362
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
10291511
Event Main Image

Black History Month Reading Challenge

Event Type
Culture & Community
Family Activity
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
Learn more about Black history and celebrate Black authors and illustrators through reading. Visit smpl.beanstack.org to register. Log your reading and activities to earn badges and entry into a book-pack drawing. For youth through 17

 

Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays – 10:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m., Saturdays – 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Website Link
smpl.beanstack.org
Event Date
-
Event Location

Santa Monica Main Library
601 Santa Monica Blvd.
Santa Monica, CA
United States

Event Lat/Long
34.0184316, -118.4934215

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Fee Required
No
Event Cost
Free
Contact Phone
310.458.8600
Event ID
10295706
Event Main Image

Collaborative Art Celebrating Black History Month

Event Type
Culture & Community
Family Activity
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
Kids and teens are invited to help complete portions of artwork celebrating Black History Month on our Main Library Youth area display wall. For youth through 17.

 

Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays – 10:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m., Saturdays –  10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Website Link
santamonica.gov/events/4fdt3xd7bgega2rbzqv8gdqt54/202402011000
Event Date
-
Event Location

Santa Monica Main Library
601 Santa Monica Blvd.
Santa Monica, CA
United States

Event Lat/Long
34.0184316, -118.4934215

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Fee Required
No
Event Cost
Free
Contact Phone
310.458.8600
Event ID
10295726
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

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Fee Required
No
Event Cost
Free
Contact Phone
213-744-2024
Event ID
10287335
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

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Fee Required
Yes
Event Cost
$25 – $29
Contact Phone
626.405.2100
Event ID
10296226
Event Main Image

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens

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

Explore living collections of orchids and camellias, a botanical conservatory, a fragrant rose garden, a children’s garden, and more, in 16 themed gardens spread over 120 acres. All visitors, including members, must reserve tickets online in advance.

 

Open Daily,  10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m., Closed on Tuesdays
Website Link
https://tickets.huntington.org/?_gl=1%2awnmvuw%2a_ga%2aMTg1MzA5MDk5NC4xNzA0MzA5ODMx%2a_ga_1BGEDHGTJ6%2aMTcwNDMyMTE5OS4yLjAuMTcwNDMyMTE5OS42MC4wLjA.
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
$13 – $36
Contact Phone
626.405.2100
Event ID
10288223
Event Main Image
Daytime