July 2016
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros + Imarhan plus KCRW DJ Jason Bentley
SOUND IN FOCUS KCRW and the Annenberg Foundation’s signature concert series is back for three great Saturdays in July! RSVP for FREE, all-ages summer fun on the grass at Century Park. Pack your night with music, art, food and friends in Century City’s cool urban oasis. Also, make sure to see the exhibitions REFUGEE at the Annenberg Space for Photography and NEW AMERICANS at Skylight Studios. Special hours for Sound in Focus guests. Sound in Focus admission is free, but…
Find out more »Baaba Maal + Classixx + Brazilian Girls plus KCRW DJ Aaron Byrd
SOUND IN FOCUS KCRW and the Annenberg Foundation’s signature concert series is back for three great Saturdays in July! RSVP for FREE, all-ages summer fun on the grass at Century Park. Pack your night with music, art, food and friends in Century City’s cool urban oasis. Also, make sure to see the exhibitions REFUGEE at the Annenberg Space for Photography and NEW AMERICANS at Skylight Studios. Special hours for Sound in Focus guests. Sound in Focus admission is free, but…
Find out more »Nas + Wild Belle plus KCRW DJ Garth Trinidad
SOUND IN FOCUS KCRW and the Annenberg Foundation’s signature concert series is back for three great Saturdays in July! RSVP for FREE, all-ages summer fun on the grass at Century Park. Pack your night with music, art, food and friends in Century City’s cool urban oasis. Also, make sure to see the exhibitions REFUGEE at the Annenberg Space for Photography and NEW AMERICANS at Skylight Studios. Special hours for Sound in Focus guests. Sound in Focus admission is free, but…
Find out more »July 2017
Sound in Focus with Miguel + Gabriel Garzón-Montano + DJ Stretch Armstrong
KCRW and The Annenberg Foundation Present Sound in Focus JULY 15 LINE-UP: Miguel + Gabriel Garzón-Montano + DJ Stretch Armstrong Doors open at 5pm with KCRW DJ Anthony Valadez spinning! Annenberg Space for Photography will have special hours for Sound in Focus guests. For more information, please visit soundinfocus.kcrw.com/
Find out more »April 2019
Annenberg Space for Photography Presents: Photoville LA
Photoville - the largest annual photographic event in New York City - is heading to Los Angeles for the first time in its seven-year history. Over 55 exhibitions and installations will be presented in repurposed shipping containers, photo cubes, light boxes, and other creative formats creating a multi-gallery festival environment complete with talks, workshops, screenings, nighttime projections, family-friendly activities, and a community beer garden. Presented over two weekends, Photoville LA invites photography enthusiasts of all stripes to celebrate a cross…
Find out more »August 2019
CONTACT HIGH: A Visual History of Hip-Hop
From East Coast to West Coast, hip-hop music became as much a look and a lifestyle as it was a sound. CONTACT HIGH: A Visual History of Hip-Hop celebrates the photographers who played a role in bringing hip-hop's visual culture to center stage. The exhibition, which closes this weekend, takes an inside look at the music and the makers through the most intimate lens: the photographers' unedited contact sheets. “The contact sheets really humanize the artist a lot more, especially in a world…
Find out more »October 2019
W|ALLS: Defend, Divide, and the Divine
On View: October 5 - December 29, 2019 W|ALLS: Defend, Divide, and the Divine explores civilization’s relationship with barriers, both real and imagined. This exhibit, featuring over 70 artists and photographers, explores the artistic, social, political, and historical aspects of walls through six sections: Delineation, Defense, Deterrent, The Divine, Decoration, and The Invisible. These categories overlap and change meaning according to context, much like the walls themselves: erected for one reason, their appearance and use is then altered and modified over centuries, reflecting the civilizations that have grown and changed…
Find out more »November 2019
Convivencia: Art Making at the U.S.-Mexico Border
The debates over US-Mexico border policies are loud and divisive. But some artists and architects are working directly at the border to better understand the complexities of the landscape, and inspire transformative effects. Two of those creators are Ronald Rael, chair of the department of architecture at UC Berkeley, who co-created a vivid pink teeter-totter at the border, and artist-craftsperson Tanya Aguiñiga, founder of Art Made Between Opposite Sides (AMBOS). This Thursday they'll meet on stage for Convivencia: Art Making at the U.S.-Mexico Border, a conversation about coexistence,…
Find out more »The Evolution of Street Art in L.A.
In 1974 the artist Judy Baca started painting The Great Wall of Los Angeles. It is a half-mile long mural in the Tujunga Wash drainage canal in the San Fernando Valley, one of the LA river’s tributaries and involved the participation of 400 youth volunteers. She told DnA, "The Great Wall was a reclamation of a story that had been disappeared very much like the river had been disappearing. I was a kid at the time that the rivers were not all entirely concreted…
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