Matt Stromberg

California School Shutters Exhibition After Altering "Political" Art Pepperdine University abruptly closed the show as at least a dozen artists asked to withdraw in protest of what they called an act of censorship.

Pepperdine shuts down show after artists withdraw to protest censorship, via @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/1048434/pepp...

wait, Barry White is taking over cBS?! let's go!

Just a nit pick, journalists don't "do the fucking news," they are supposed to gather, verify and report "the fucking news."

10 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles, October 2025 Radical nun Corita Kent’s photos, Ofelia Esparza’s transformative Día de los Muertos altars, Cameron Harvey’s biomorphic abstraction, Suchitra Mattai’s syncretic storytelling, and more.

10 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles This October via @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/1046144/10-a...

Five Artists Share Their Work in This Year’s Made in LA Biennial Ahead of the opening at the Hammer Museum, Hyperallergic spoke to participants whose practices embrace the show’s threads of history and dissonance.

For @hyperallergic.com, I spoke with 5 artists included in this year's Made in LA biennial at the Hammer (opening this weekend!) who explore history, narrative, and time in their work. hyperallergic.com/1046894/five...

a heartwarming story of how being an unethical and talentless hack is no barrier to success when you are willing to endlessly flatter the wretched views of rich dipshits

UC Irvine Takes Over Orange County Museum of Art The merger will combine both institutions’ holdings to establish a collection of over 9,000 artworks.

UC Irvine Takes Over Orange County Museum of Art, via @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/1045916/uc-i...

Stands on rooftops: 📣 🗣️

🗣️THERE IS NO LINK BTW ACETAMINOPHEN & AUTISM. IT HAS BEEN STUDIED FOR MANY YEARS IN MILLIONS OF PEOPLE.

🗣️THE ONLY REASON THEY ARE TALKING ABT THIS IS THAT THEY DO NOT WANT AUTISTIC PEOPLE TO EXIST.

🗣️IT IS EUGENICS.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION IN THIS MATTER. -EmilyPhD

Superchief, Beloved LA Arts Hub, Fights to Stay Open A longtime cornerstone of underground art and photography is thinking outside the white cube to stay afloat amid financial challenges.

Superchief fights to survive through crowdfunding / membership via @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/1043395/supe...

LA Louver to Close Gallery Space and Shift Into Private Model The Los Angeles gallery’s vast archive will be donated to the Huntington library.

LA Louver to Close Gallery Space and Shift Into Private Model , via @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/1042271/la-l...

Horst Wessel - Wikipedia

If you aren’t already familiar with Horst Wessel, this is a good time to learn how people are turned into martyrs by authoritarian regimes for propaganda purposes.

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Street Vendor Beloved by LA Art World Abducted by ICE Advocates are rallying support for Jorge Cruz, a green card holder who sells frutas, elotes, and more at venues like Frieze LA and the Hammer Museum.

Street Vendor Beloved by LA Art World Abducted by ICE - @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/1040791/jorg...

Amazing how those democratic lawmakers who were hunted down in their homes in the middle of the night in Minnesota weren’t a watershed moment of political violence, huh?

LA’s Holocaust Museum Walks Back “Never Again” Statement, Sparking Outcry The museum posted and then deleted a vaguely worded statement that many interpreted as a denunciation of Israel’s attacks on Gaza.

LA’s Holocaust Museum Walks Back “Never Again” Statement, Sparking Outcry, via @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/1040088/los-...

The president of the United States just declared war, actual military war, not a metaphorical one, on a major American city, and one governed by his political opponents.

In any other period, this would be impeachment-worthy.

Yah totally it’s like “mom, dad please stop fighting!”

Ha no this is great thank you. I’ve been watching a lot of “commentary” about it all and I still can’t tell if it’s bigger than watergate or like no big deal.

can someone please explain this whole taylor lorenz / dark money thing to me like I'm 6

A poster with an image of a woman in a black balaclava holding a tire tool with the text “The government is abducting your neighbours are you going to let them?”

Seen out and about in Chicago.

just got a pr email to attend a "lobby reveal" so that's a thing now i guess.

15 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles This Fall Radical Chicano printmaking, Trenton Doyle Hancock confronts Philip Guston, the LA and California biennials, American Artist on Octavia E. Butler, and more.

15 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles This Fall: Radical Chicano printmaking, Trenton Doyle Hancock confronts Philip Guston, the LA and California biennials, American Artist on Octavia E. Butler, and more. via @hyperallergic.com
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Pretty wild that Bari Weiss made a name for herself by claiming she's silenced for her beliefs and then just quit and then started a media company and is going to be getting hundreds of millions of dollars to merge with and control CBS.

If that's censorship I'll take some please

Decades After “Heartbreaking” Thefts, Santa Ana Pueblo Recovers Stolen Artifacts The repatriation effort is significant not just for the amount of time that has elapsed, but also because it is completely organized and funded by the Pueblo itself.

Decades After “Heartbreaking” Thefts, Santa Ana Pueblo Recovers Stolen Artifacts, via @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/1037100/deca...

Took my kids to see #kpopdemonhunters at the Baldwin Crenshaw mall last week and to see a multiracial group of kids singing and bopping along to a Korean-themed film about overcoming family trauma in a south central theater, I dunno, maybe the kids will be all right.

The D.C. Safe and Beautiful Task Force established in Executive Order 14252 of March 27, 2025 (Making the District of Columbia Safe and Beautiful), shall establish an online portal for Americans with law enforcement or other relevant backgrounds and experience to apply to join Federal law enforcement entities to support the policy goals described in Executive Order 14333. Each law enforcement agency that is a member of the D.C. Safe and Beautiful Task Force, as well as other relevant components of the Department of Justice as the Attorney General determines, shall further, subject to the availability of appropriations and applicable law, immediately create and begin training, manning, hiring, and equipping a specialized unit that is dedicated to ensuring public safety and order in the Nation’s capital that can be deployed whenever the circumstances necessitate, and that could be deployed, subject to applicable law, in other cities where public safety and order has been lost. ( (ii) The Secretary of Defense shall immediately begin ensuring that each State’s Army National Guard and Air National Guard are resourced, trained, organized, and available to assist Federal, State, and local law enforcement in quelling civil disturbances and ensuring the public safety and order whenever the circumstances necessitate, as appropriate under law. In coordination with the respective adjutants general, the Secretary of Defense shall designate an appropriate number of each State’s trained National Guard members to be reasonably available for rapid mobilization for such purposes. In addition, the Secretary of Defense shall ensure the availability of a standing National Guard quick reaction force that shall be resourced, trained, and available for rapid nationwide deployment.

Today’s Executive Order creating a *nationwide* military “quick reaction force” and setting up an online portal to permit random fascist vigilantes to join soldiers is one of the scariest things I’ve seen in U.S. politics in my adult life. Why is it not getting more attention?

Oh yah mujis great, thanks for the reminder!

my dudes, i know the world is on fire, but i really need some basic, cheap, short-sleeve button-down shirts (because the world is on fire). any recs?

More people in Ohio need protection from violent crime than there are people in D.C. Governors of three states — Ohio, South Carolina and West Virginia — are sending members of their state National Guards to D.C. to … well, theoretically to combat crime but, if the past week is any in...

Numbers don’t lie.

Data released by the FBI this month shows that Ohio, South Carolina and West Virginia — all of which are sending members of their state National Guards to D.C — had higher rates of violent crime and homicide than D.C.

A must-read from @pbump.com
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REEL ART Film Series - Featuring "The Chicano Collection" Enjoy a screening of the 2005 documentary “The Chicano Collection / La Colección Chicana” in the Brand Library Recital Hall. A moderated discussion will follow.

Hey LA! I’m moderating a talk at the Brand library after a screening of “the Chicano Collection”. Panelists are artists Margaret Garcia, Michael Alvarez and the film’s co-producer, Melissa Richardson Banks. Sept. 11, 7pm. @thecheechcenter.bsky.social glendaleca.libnet.info/event/14411650

10 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles This August Kevin Beasley’s translucent portals, Judy Baca’s reimagined paleta cart, posters from Ghanaian mobile cinema, Marnie Weber’s monumental dollhouse, and more.

Ten LA shows to see this month via @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/1032430/10-s...