Annenberg Space for Photography Presents Cuba Is
LOS ANGELES – On September 9th, the Annenberg Space for Photography opens an exclusive exhibit called Cuba Is. The show is part of the Getty-led Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA initiative presenting the work of Latino and Latin American artists in more than 70 museums and cultural institutions across Southern California. The Annenberg Space for Photography […]
Annenberg Foundation Advances Arts Education With the Music Center
Annenberg Foundation has gifted $3 million to the Music Center in Downtown Los Angeles in the form of a three-year grant to support arts education. Annenberg Foundation Chairman and CEO Wallis Annenberg, quoted in the Los Angeles Business Journal, acknowledged the Music Center’s innovative approach to artist training: “The Music Center is an immense creative […]
Country: Portraits of an American Sound Feature Documentary Available On-Demand on February 21
Embark on a visual odyssey through the history of country music as told by legendary artists and captured by elite photographers over 90 years. From the Carter Family to Taylor Swift, the film chronicles country’s rise from regional sound to international phenomenon as seen in the evolving image of the country singer—from rhinestone cowboy to […]
Annenberg Space for Photography Announces GENERATION WEALTH by Lauren Greenfield
Los Angeles, CA – On April 8, 2017, the Annenberg Space for Photography will premiere GENERATION WEALTH by Lauren Greenfield, a multimedia exhibit by internationally acclaimed photographer and filmmaker Lauren Greenfield that investigates the global obsession with wealth over the last 25 years. Through a collection of 195 color-saturated prints, 42 riveting first-person interviews, multimedia projections […]
Metabolic Studio’s 2016 Chora Prize Awarded to Jonas Mekas
The Metabolic Studio, Annenberg Foundation’s art activism and social design initiative, awarded its 2016 CHORA prize to poet, filmmaker and artist Jonas Mekas. Annenberg Foundation Vice President and Director Lauren Bon chose Mekas in recognition of his over fifty years of creative innovative work, detailed on the Metabolic Studio site: Lithuanian-born Jonas Mekas has lived […]
“Frans Lanting: The Evolution of LIFE” Won the Best Documentary Film Award at the UnderExposed Film Festival
Metabolic Studio’s Woman’s Building Special Project in Archiving
The Woman’s Building, a Los Angeles-based feminist art and culture collective, operated from 1973 to 1991. In November of 2016, Lauren Bon, Vice President and Director of the Annenberg Foundation, invited a group of Woman’s Building artists to participate in a six-month archiving residency at Metabolic Studio, the Foundation’s art activism and social design initiative, […]
Annenberg Space for Photography Skylight Studios Announces #girlgaze: a frame of mind
#girlgaze: a frame of mind is an interactive, digitally driven exhibit for all ages that maps the imaginative landscape of young, female and trans-identifying photographers from around the world. Largely sourced through social media, the curated images’ raw vitality is their only constant – female, WOC, and trans-identifying perspectives are presented on everything from identity […]
Nas and Wild Belle at Sound in Focus 2016
Watch Nas’ performance from this year’s Sound in Focus Concerts with KCRW. Read more about the Sound in Focus finale at the KCRW Blog.
Sound in Focus 2016 Weekend Two
Watch performances by Brazilian Girls, Classixx and Baaba Maal from the second weekend of Sound in Focus 2016. Read more from the KCRW Blog