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This includes major public art commissions in neighborhoods around the city, including sites such as Pan Pacific Park, Leimert Plaza Park, the Venice Beach Recreation Center and Barnsdall Park, among many others, featuring works by artists such as Nari Ward, Jazmin Urrea, Michael Rakowitz, Julio César Morales and Max La Rivière-Hedrick. And it is the subject of this year’s public art triennial, organized by the City of L.A.’s Department of Cultural Affairs in collaboration with the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. It is the grain that shrivels in a year of drought.
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Food is the sort of topic that can be linked to bounty, to desire and to literal hunger. “Current:LA Food,” in locations around Los Angeles. As in other iterations of the biennial, there will be more to the show than the exhibition at the Armory Center, with satellite programming in Calexico, Mexicali and Tijuana. Featured in the show are artists such as Sandy Rodriguez, Mely Barragán, Chelle Barbour, Noé Olivas, Chinwe Okona, Cog*nate Collective, Invasorix and many others. The latest iteration of this roving, cross-border biennial is landing in Pasadena and the theme on this go-around are the literary origins of our state: Calafia, the black queen and her Amazon warriors who figure in Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo’s 16th century novel “Las Sergas de Esplandian,” the figure from which California gets its name. “Mexicali Biennial: Calafia - Manifesting the Terrestrial Paradise” at the Armory Center for the Arts.
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Here are eight exhibitions and events to check out in the coming week: area and public art pops up in locations all over the city. A cross-border biennial lands in the L.A.