On a plaque at the Watts Towers Art Center, adjacent to the iconic spires built by Simon Rodia, is a quote by the institution’s late co-founder, the renowned artist Noah Purifoy: “Creativity can be an act of living, a way of life, and a formula for doing the right thing.” The phrase, as well as Purifoy himself, has inspired Acts of Living, the sixth iteration of the Hammer Museum’s contemporary art biennial, Made in L.A. — and the first since the UCLA building was expanded this year thanks to a capital campaign that counted Marcy Carsey and Darren Star among its top contributors.
Made in L.A. 2023: Acts of Living co-curators Pablo Jose Ramirez and Diana Nawi.
Since its inaugural edition in 2012, the show has become a more and more prestigious launching pad for L.A.–based talent. This year’s exhibition comprises 39 artists, selected by...
Made in L.A. 2023: Acts of Living co-curators Pablo Jose Ramirez and Diana Nawi.
Since its inaugural edition in 2012, the show has become a more and more prestigious launching pad for L.A.–based talent. This year’s exhibition comprises 39 artists, selected by...
- 10/1/2023
- by Julian Sancton
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Like Louis Armstrong, Nellie Mae Rowe claimed July 4, 1900, as the day she was born. If definitive records could be found in either case, they might indicate a less symbolic date. But for Black Americans born into poverty in the Jim Crow South, as Armstrong and Rowe were, that symbolism — Independence Day, the dawn of the century — is significant. Rowe took her independence seriously, as the captivating film portrait This World Is Not My Own makes vibrantly clear. After years of farm work and many more years as a domestic servant, the twice-widowed Georgian decided, in the powerful words of one of her great-great-nieces, “to design my life the way that I want it while I’m on this journey passing through.”
Whether you call her a folk artist, an outsider artist or simply self-taught, Rowe devoted herself with joy to her paintings, drawings and chewing gum sculptures (using gum she’d chomped herself,...
Whether you call her a folk artist, an outsider artist or simply self-taught, Rowe devoted herself with joy to her paintings, drawings and chewing gum sculptures (using gum she’d chomped herself,...
- 3/12/2023
- by Sheri Linden
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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