TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (9/28-10/4)

TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (9/28-10/4)

1. This Image Is Not Available In Your Country (closing) September 29, 2017, 6-9PM Work by: Solomon Adufah Connect Gallery: 1520 E Harper Ct, Chicago, IL 60615   2. Black Panther Party 50 Year Retrospective September 28, 2017, 4-8PM Westside Justice Center: 601 S...
“All the leaves are brown and the sky is grey…”

“All the leaves are brown and the sky is grey…”

Since moving here, I’m beginning to wonder if Los Angeles is just a microcosm – I hate that word, but there you go – of the US generally. In Los Angeles, there is a horrific gap between the rich and the poor; general public disregard for public institutions; shitty public transit; overwhelming belief in outmoded or disappeared dreams. Proposition 13 heralded a nationwide tax revolt and subsequent gutting of social services, leading in part to the evacuated and disjunct nation we have today. And if art can do anything in LA, perhaps it is a signal of what art – or anything, or anyone – might be able to do in the US generally, across all of its destroyed or depressed cities and towns.