Matt Stromberg

Los Angeles

Contributing Writer at Freelance

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Articles

15 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles This Summer

2 days ago | hyperallergic.com | Matt Stromberg

This summer, Los Angeles art institutions offer both sorely neededaesthetic escapesand deep dives into contemporary issues. There are several career-ranging surveys and historical reassessments, for one, including a look at Barbara T.
LA’s $1B Lucas Museum Lays Off 21 Employees

2 weeks ago | hyperallergic.com | Matt Stromberg

LOS ANGELES — The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, co-founded by Star Wars filmmaker George Lucas and his wife Mellody Hobson, has laid off 14% of its full-time staff — 15 employees — as well as seven part-time employees. Most of the cuts were in the Learning and Engagement and Museum Services teams, the organization said in a statement shared with Hyperallergic.
Looking for Subculture? It’s at LA’s Art Book Fair

3 weeks ago | hyperallergic.com | Matt Stromberg

LOS ANGELES — Books offer the contradictions of intimacy and communal experience. They represent the specific characteristics of the people and places that created them, but can be easily and affordably shared with a global audience. (It’s no surprise that one of the first things authoritarian regimes do is ban, or burn, books.)The latest edition of Printed Matter’s Los Angeles Art Book Fair, running through this Sunday, May 18, channels this meaningful dichotomy.
10 Shows to See in Los Angeles This May

1 month ago | hyperallergic.com | Matt Stromberg

This month’s picks are about art’s ability to tell stories, and how those stories can reveal larger collective narratives. At Nazarian / Curcio, Widline Cadet reflects on her family’s immigration from Haiti through photo-based works. Akinsanya Kambon’s ceramic vessels draw on the vast Black diaspora, informed by his own life experience as a Black Panther and travels to Africa.
John Humble, Photographer Who Captured LA's Contradictions, Dies at 81

1 month ago | hyperallergic.com | Matt Stromberg

John Humble, a photographer who insightfully documented the urban landscape of Los Angeles with all of its messy contradictions, died on April 13 at the age of 81 as a result of cardiovascular issues, according to his family. For five decades, Humble focused his lens on areas of the city often overlooked or dismissed, “the oddities, absurdities, and mundane beauty of LA,” as gallerist Craig Krull, who worked with Humble for two decades, told Hyperallergic.
Historic Chicano Mural Whitewashed in Culver City

1 month ago | hyperallergic.com | Matt Stromberg

CULVER CITY — A historic public artwork by the pioneering Chicano muralist collective East Los Streetscapers was recently painted over, leaving questions as to how or when it will be restored. “Moonscapes III,” a cosmic tableaux wrapping around all four sides of the the Culver City Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV), depicted Maya astronomers, contemporary astronauts, Albert Einstein, and other scenes related to the study and exploration of space.
LA's Newest Museum Pays Homage to an Iconic Bar

1 month ago | hyperallergic.com | Matt Stromberg

LOS ANGELES — This weekend, LA’s newest — and, allegedly, smallest — museum will open its doors to the public. Located on a quiet residential street in Echo Park, Musée du Al is the creation of Marc Kreisel, who founded Al’s Bar, a legendary watering hole and hub for artists and musicians, in pre-gentrification downtown LA.
LA Artist Joe Goode, Who Put His Own Spin on Pop Art, Dies at 87

2 months ago | hyperallergic.com | Matt Stromberg

We rely on readers like you to fund our journalism. If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, please join us as a member. Joe Goode, a mercurial artist whose more than six-decade career began in the fledgling contemporary art scene of 1960s Southern California, died at his Los Angeles home at the age of 87 on Saturday, March 22, one day before his 88th birthday.
10 Shows to See in Los Angeles, April 2025

2 months ago | hyperallergic.com | Matt Stromberg

We rely on readers like you to fund our journalism. If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, please join us as a member. This month, we recommend shows by several artists who provide singular, visionary, and radical ways of viewing the world — and imagining new ones.
Fred Eversley, Sculptor Who Fused Art and Science, Dies at 83

2 months ago | hyperallergic.com | Matt Stromberg

We rely on readers like you to fund our journalism. If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, please join us as a member. Fred Eversley, who fused art and science to create captivating parabolic sculptures, died on March 14 at the age of 83. A spokesperson for David Kordansky Gallery, which has represented the artist since 2018, told Hyperallergic that he died unexpectedly following a brief illness.