Matt Stromberg
@mattstromberg.bsky.social
freelance arts writer & editor. LA. avi by Rachid Bouhamidi he/him https://linktr.ee/mattstromberg
my @hyperallergic.com picks for ten LA shows to see this month hyperallergic.com/10-art-shows...
10 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles This August
Betye Saar’s wearable art, Alfredo Ramos Martínez’s mountain ranges, the world’s largest pop-up book, three South Asian artists redefine monumentality, and more.
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Simone Forti, a pioneering figure in post-modern dance, whose influence went far beyond the bounds of performance, died yesterday at 91. My obituary for @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/simone-forti...
Simone Forti, Artist of Movement and Chance, Dies at 91
The Italian-born choreographer and performance artist mixed boundless curiosity with a formal rigor across a broad creative spectrum that spanned New York, Los Angeles, and Rome.
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I was saddened of course to hear of the death of Betye Saar, who passed away on Sunday 4 days shy of her 100th birthday, but it's hard to imagine a life more richly lived. I was fortunate enough to speak with her in 2019 for this C Mag feature. Rest in Power Ms. Saar. magazinec.com/culture/la-i...
Inside L.A. Icon Betye Saar's Laurel Canyon Studio | C Magazine®
The assemblage artist has played a pivotal role in the foremost cultural movements of the last century. And at 93, she shows no signs of slowing down
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I wrote about The Stolen Dove, a project by Jon Rubin in conjunction with Grand Central Art Center, that honors the life and legacy of slain Palestinian activist Alex Odeh. It lands at 839 Gallery Saturday. via @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/a-living-mem...
A Living Memorial to Palestinian Activist Alex Odeh Takes Flight
"The Stolen Dove" is a participatory project that turns a decades-old monument into an artwork to keep the scholar and civil rights leader’s memory alive.
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Remember when the Times tried to rehabilitate this rancid piece of shit
Dean Obeidallah@deanobeidallah.bsky.social · last mo.Megyn Kelly goes full White supremacist today about Haitians: "You being here only dilutes it for us, those who built it and live it..We don’t want you! We don’t care if you’re offended. Get out! Go home! Go back to f*cking Haiti!" www.mediaite.com/media/news/g...
"The Extreme Sentences Handed to Anti-ICE Protesters Should Terrify Us All" 30-100 years! Perhaps the most important and scary story you'll read all week:
The Extreme Sentences Handed to Anti-ICE Protesters Should Terrify Us All
The sentences, ranging from 30-100 years, are part of an increasingly disturbing pattern of the Trump administration criminalizing speech and assembly.
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But it behooves Jeffries to remember that Mamdani does represent more people than any congressperson and most US senators, so there's that. (All the states in green have fewer people than NYC.)
I spoke with Lari Pittman about the complexity of queerness, analog space & time, and "polite, well-behaved rebellion" as part of @hyperallergic.com's Pride Month interview series hyperallergic.com/dont-ask-lar...
Don’t Ask Lari Pittman What His Work Is “About”
The Colombian-American painter discusses his new body of work, the complexity of queerness, and the reprieve of the analog.
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Hello World, I'm jurying an online show, One Thing After Another, for Site:Brooklyn. It's all about seriality, multiples, variations on a theme. Submissions close July 27, and the show will run from Aug 21 - Sept 21. Looking forward to seeing what you've got! artist.callforentry.org/festivals_un...
CaFE Event Information - Series: One Thing After Another
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I visited Dataland, LA's new AI museum, which opens to the public on June 20. It was exhilarating. It was mesmerizing. it was hypnotizing. and it made me feel like I was gonna puke. via @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/my-queasy-fo...
My Queasy, Forest-Scented Stroll Through LA’s New AI Art Museum
Refik Anadol’s Dataland is a whirling, glaring, hyper-stimulating audio-visual-olfactory voyage that has more in common with Disneyland.
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Kalshi now allows you to bet on art auction results, but who really benefits? via @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/is-betting-o...
Is Betting on the Art Market a Terrible Idea?
The prediction platform Kalshi is launching a dedicated art category amid heightened scrutiny over insider trading in wagers across industries.
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my @hyperallergic.com picks for 15 LA shows to see this summer hyperallergic.com/15-art-shows...
15 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles This Summer
A romp through early punk culture, Odilon Redon’s dreamy portraiture, Willie Birch’s papier-mâché odes to New Orleans, Samella Lewis’s visions in woodcut, and more.
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There hasn't been an Iraqi Pavilion at the Venice Biennale since 2019. So Ali Eyal made his own. At a gas station. In Venice. Los Angeles. via @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/unofficial-i...
Unofficial Iraqi Pavilion Pops Up in Venice, but Not That One
Ali Eyal and David Horvitz satirize America’s oil war in an installation at a Chevron gas station on Venice Boulevard.
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Couldn’t help noticing the similarities between this Pratt poster and the cover of the Mother’s Day 1939 issue of The Frauen Warte, the NSDAP’s biweekly illustrated magazine for women. Probably just a coincidence!
this Saturday, 4-6pm, i'll be in conversation with curators Constance Mallinson and Lawrence Gipe, and some of the artists they've included in "DegreeZero: Utopia/Dystopia in Contemporary Art" at Wonzimer in Lincoln Heights, Los Angeles. come through! www.wonzimer.com/events/2026/...
DEGREE ZERO : Discussion and artists walkthrough — Wonzimer
Join Wonzimer Gallery on Saturday May 16th from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. for an in depth discussion and artists walkthrough held in conjunction with the exhibition DegreeZero: Utopia / Dystopia in Contempora...
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My dispatch from this weekend's LA Art Book Fair, for @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/getting-mess...
Getting Messy in the Archive at LA’s Art Book Fair
This year’s edition of the annual Printed Matter show unearths and remixes historical media, collapsing time and giving the past new relevance.
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my picks for ten shows to see this month in LA, via @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/10-art-shows...
10 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles This May
Remembering Celeste Dupuy-Spencer, Yoko Ono’s first museum show in LA, Richard Mayhew’s “mindscapes,” Gordon Parks’s musical output, and more.
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Celebrated risk-taking LA gallery The Box announced its decision to close after 19 years, via @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/the-box-la-b...
The Box LA, Beloved Risk-Taking Art Space, Closes After 19 Years
The gallery was known for its fearless, playful programming and support of unconventional work and exhibitions.
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George Herms, foundational figure of West Coast Assemblage, dies at 90 - via @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/george-herms...
George Herms, Titan of West Coast Assemblage, Dies at 90
He transformed found materials and cast-off debris into poetic representations of impermanence, suffused with pathos and humor.
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The new LACMA finally opens this weekend (well, for members), a single concrete structure designed by Peter Zumthor. I wrote about the highlights, the misses, and its novel curatorial approach that is both disruptive and liberating, for @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/lacmas-new-b...
LACMA’s New Building Invites You to Chart Your Own Path
Some visitors may feel unmoored by the museum’s open plan and free-floating associations, but others will welcome the unconventional approach.
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i'll be in conversation with new/old media art duo Blinn and Lambert this Saturday at 5:30pm at Izzy Lee Gallery (formerly North Loop West) in LA Chinatown, come through! www.northloop.art/blinn-and-la...
Blinn and Lambert: Only out an hour — IZZY LEE
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my @hyperallergic.com picks for 10 LA shows to see this month, with Hannah Tishkoff at Ochi, Bob and Bob at Craig Krull, David Alekhuogie at commonwealth and council, Dave Muller at Art Center, and more! hyperallergic.com/10-art-shows...
10 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles This April
David Alekhuogie’s defiant collage, Hannah Tishkoff’s visual poetry, an iconic Angeleno printmaking studio, portraits of Palestinian journalists, and more.
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For @hyperallergic.com, I wrote about the wondrous, funny, and moving #RobertTherrien show at the @thebroadmuseum.bsky.social, which runs through next weekend. hyperallergic.com/taking-a-sea...
Taking a Seat at Robert Therrien’s Table
The Broad invites us into the late artist’s obsessively iterative practice, where oversized tables and chairs give way to more elusive, personal forms.
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Artists Grapple With Cesar Chávez’s Legacy After Abuse Allegations, via @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/artists-grap...
Artists Grapple With Cesar Chávez’s Legacy After Abuse Allegations
The farmworker movement led by Chávez and Dolores Huerta, one of his accusers, has been a central influence for generations of Latine and Chicano artists.
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Well then welcome to the Streisand effect
Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 5mo agoBreaking: the DOGE deposition videos have been taken off YouTube. On Friday the government asked a judge to intervene, said the videos could cause reputational damage, death threats. Judge agreed, ordered them removed: www.404media.co/doge-deposit...
10 LA shows to see this month, via @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/10-art-shows...
10 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles This March
The artists of Nature Morte gallery, Hayv Kahraman’s painted libations, Jesse Wiedel’s screwball American dream, the late Nona Olabisi’s homegrown muralism, and more.
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