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The Queens' Vernacular: Zackary Drucker Reads Gender

A lost technique of verbal assaults known to a past generation of drag queens as 'reading' is appropriated in videos and performances by Los Angeles-based artist Zackary Drucker.  The seemingly belligerent slurs uncomfortably place the viewer at the border of a forgotten and alienating language while simultaneously addressing the artist's cultural and political position as a self-identified woman.
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Tour Guide: L.A. Art Weekend

As the second annual Los Angeles Art Weekend descended on the city over this past weekend, artist and writer Danny Jaugueri considered the role of such events in L.A's art scene.

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Another L.A.: A Conversation with Darin Klein

Darin Klein is an independent curator and program coordinator at the UCLA Hammer Museum, where he recently organized an exhibition with Los Angeles based artist Christopher Russell as part of the museum’s Hammer Project initiative, which remains on view through April 12th.  His support of projects such as artist-run spaces, weekly performance dance parties, and independently produced publications has proven crucial to Los Angeles’s thriving non-commercial art scene. In a conversation with Danny Jauregui, Klein discusses his experiences working in Los Angeles or as he calls it, “the western edge of western civilization”.

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