“How Many Billboards?” is a public exhibition mounted on Los Angeles billboards that highlights the legacies of California’s conceptually oriented art. The show explores the living history of the trajectory of California’s conceptual art practices, and the remarkable range and diversity of artists it continues to influence. Twenty-one billboards will be commissioned to artists who are critically engaged in their practice and able to contribute a new work that responds to the specificity of the billboard as media.
Participating artists
Kenneth Anger, Michael Asher, Jennifer Bornstein, Eileen Cowin, Christina Fernandez, Ken Gonzales Day, Renee Greene, Kira Lynn Harris, John Knight, David Lamelas, Brandon Lattu, Daniel Martinez, Kori Newkirk, Yvonne Rainer, Martha Rosler with Josh Neufeld, Allan Ruppersberg, Allan Sekula, Susan Silton, Kerry Tribe, Jim Welling, and Lauren Woods.
Curator Kimberli Meyer
Guest curators Lisa Henry, Nizan Shaked, Gloria Sutton
[www.howmanybillboards.org]
Related programs
> February 27, 1–5 p.m.:
Artist Reception at the Schindler House, with bus tours
> February 28, 1–5 p.m.:
Panel Discussion with participating artists (Schindler House)
> March 11, and April 8, 6.30 p.m.: Film and Video Screenings (MOCA) Co-presented by MAK Center and the Museum for Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA)
> March 24, 7 p.m.:
Panel “Visual Rights to the City“ (ALOU D) Co-presented by MAK Center, the Library Foundation of Los Angeles and California Lawyers for the Arts
> April 6, 7 p.m.:
Lecture by Renée Green (Schindler House) Co-presented by MAK Center and the Master of Public Art Studies Program at the University of Southern California Roski School of Fine Arts in Los Angeles
> April 15, 7 p.m.:
Panel “The Visual Ecology of Advertising and Architecture” (SCI-Arc) Co-presented by MAK Center, the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) and the Goethe-Institut Los Angeles
MAK Center Los Angeles,
Schindler House
835 North Kings Road
West Hollywood, CA 90069USA
phone (+1-323) 651 1510
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