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2012 Stories by Sam Bloch

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  Mayan Apocalypse Parties

  published December 13, 2012

  Damian Lazarus isn't a new-age dude, but the coast of the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico is his spiritual home. He's a frequent visitor to... More >>

• Feminism via Twitter

  published January 26, 2012

  To hear Suzanne Lacy talk about it, staging Three Weeks in May — her 1977 attempt to tackle issues of sexual violence in L.A. with... More >>

• Musical hotel fun house

  published January 26, 2012

  On the final night of the Pacific Standard Time festival, experimental music collective Society for the Activation of Social Space Through Art and... More >>

• America's most-watched performance art

  published January 19, 2012

  The similarities between performance art and sports aren't lost on the Pomona College football team. Football games are elaborate stews of... More >>

• Best hike ever

  published January 19, 2012

  When Santa Monica's 18th Street Arts Center asked Lita Albuquerque to restage her 1980 work Spine of the Earth, she didn't think the... More >>

• Painting with a 12-gauge

  published January 19, 2012

  In the early 1960s, L.A. was taking the piss out of action painting, the solitary practice of splattering paint all over a canvas. Behind a... More >>

• Pacific Standard Time Performance Art Festival Preview

  published January 12, 2012

  Is that performance art? Not an uncommon question in Los Angeles, where you might see a guy in a mud-caked bodysuit marching down Wilshire, a... More >>