Dustin Clendenen

Originally founded as an “arts-centric super PAC” in 2016, Hank Willis Thomas and Eric Gottesman’s For Freedoms organization has evolved in surprising ways over...

In the entertainment industry, Terry Crews has been an anomaly. Maybe you know him from his 130 episodes of Brooklyn Nine-Nine. Or as an action hero from The Ex...

In August 2018, a cultural outpost opened its doors in one of the most unlikely of places in Los Angeles — the giant, crawling-with-tourists mall at Hollywood B...

Joseph’s “What do you do?” has been evolving since before he arrived in L.A. He’s done service in the Israeli navy. He’s been in bands. He’s been a real estate investor and developer. Now, finally, and with a level of confidence and enthusiasm missing from all these other identities, he introduces himself to the world as an artist....

Since L.A. Weekly first covered the project’s launch in June, For Freedom has placed more than 150 billboards, created by 400-plus artists, in all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico. In Los Angeles, we have two billboards: one by Rashid Johnson and one by Paula Crown....

A June op-ed in Forbes praised Los Angeles as the Silicon Valley of social impact. And even The New York Times conceded, as far back as 1999, that there's brains behind L.A.'s beauty. Entertainment, art, science, education — all are embodied by the Berggruen Institute, a DTLA-based, big-picture think tank working to get our society out ahead of the major issues that will affect humanity in the coming centuries....

Art Talks On the River is a series of monthly panel discussions produced by the Los Angeles River Public Art Project and Friends of the Los Angeles River, which began June 9 and will be running until Sept. 8....

With the consequences of the last election being beaten into us every moment by an endless barrage of news alerts and outraged social media posts, For Freedoms is launching a new program to remind people they can make a difference on Nov. 6. The new 50 States initiative is a nationwide public art and political engagement campaign that will pair more than 200 cultural institutions with 175 artists across the country to create things like billboards, town hall meetings and special exhibits, all to inspire voting in November’s midterm elections....