What art have I seen? Breath(e):Towards Climate and Social Justice
Exhibition at the Hammer UCLA focused by the triple events #BlackLivesMatter, COVID Pandemic, and the Climate Crisis.
Featuring amongst other things a radical gardening project – and you can never have too many art and gardening projects! This one is led by Ron Finley, the gangsta gardener.
What art have I seen? Made in L.A. Acts of Living
All the right words in the various texts (and also ‘hybridity’). And yet the presentation of the works in the gallery couldn’t be more conventional…
Clearly the artists are in better, and stranger, and frankly worse ways, engaging with complex lived reality but the exhibition design and curation is like every other big group show. Actually the work in the last British Art Show was marginally more provocatively presented…
The Hammer’s periodic look at what’s going on https://hammer.ucla.edu/exhibitions/2023/made-la-2023-acts-living
Citing the Watts Towers as a metaphor for the exhibition, the Intro panel goes on to say “…art is an endeavour that is transformed by those who inherit encounter, steward, reinterpret and continue it.” I don’t really see how this is true of this exhibition or any of the works in particular…
CHRIS FREMANTLE 
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