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Angella d'Avignon
Angella d'Avignon is a writer in Los Angeles.
As Space Becomes Scarce, Artists Take Over an Abandoned LA Structure
Revel Hall was a meditation on empty, dilapidated properties in a city plagued by a housing crisis.
LA Protesters Block Traffic, Chanting “No Oscars During Genocide”
More than 1,000 organizers, artists, and film workers gathered to protest what they see as Hollywood’s silence and complicity with the Israeli government.
The Artist Using Mushrooms to Address LA’s Poor Air Quality
Alice Könitz conducts art experiments with mycelium in the middle of the Mojave Desert.
Protesters Call Out Art World’s Silence on Gaza at Frieze LA Fair
Organizers pointed to Frieze partner Deutsche Bank’s financial ties to Israel and urged fairgoers to speak up.
Trippy Highlights From LA’s Spring/Break Art Show
Car culture, desert scenes, palm tree iconography, and a Burner-ish aesthetics reign supreme at this less-glossy fair.
An Unlikely Art Show Pops Up in an LA Mausoleum
Dignity Plus, staged in an Altadena funeral home, addressed themes of mortality and memory while making use of improbable spaces for art.
Artist’s Posters of Palestinians Killed by Israeli Strikes Emerge Across US
Open-source, printable, and designed for guerilla distribution, Ash Lukashevsky’s flyers are “a small way of insisting on Palestinians’ humanity.”
40 Years Later, Rigoberto Torres and John Ahearn Are Still Making Life Casts of Bronx Residents
“The Bronx Comes to Los Angeles” presents Ahearn’s and Torres’s works side by side, and it is ultimately Torres’s sculptures that stand out.
Inspired by the Story of a Women’s Sanitarium, a Book Explores Mental Health as a Feminist Issue
The personal essays in this luminous anthology, published by Which Witch LA, pair the interiors of the sanitarium’s rooms with the inner lives of women.
Union at Cal State Long Beach Leaks Email from Fired Museum Director, Revealing Divisive Perspectives
The email, which the union cites as an example of Kimberli Meyer’s “problematic management,” discusses how the museum should address visitors to an exhibition on police violence.
Los Angeles Gallery Takes Down One of Two Exhibitions After Anti-Gentrification Protest [UPDATED]
After artists featured in a Chimento Contemporary exhibition engaged with protesters outside, their show was pressured to shut down.