Matt Stromberg
freelance arts writer & editor. LA. avi by Rachid Bouhamidi he/him
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- my @hyperallergic.com picks for 15 LA shows to see this spring! hyperallergic.com/15-art-shows...
- Reposted by Matt StrombergI read thousands of pages of Epstein files this weekend trying to understand what he wanted out of his meeting with 4chan's Christopher Poole. Here's everything we know about Epstein's plans to dismantle the internet and, eventually, democracy. www.garbageday.email/p/here-s-how...
- Reposted by Matt StrombergThere are raids going all over Los Angeles. I just saw video of ICE chasing some guy through the parking lot of my local supermarket.
- Reposted by Matt StrombergIt’s really difficult & disorienting but the feds hit LA extremely hard today. There were kidnappings all over & reported cluster raids in Chinatown, East LA, Ktown. This list shows to 1130 AM but they haven’t stopped all day Just because the media attention stopped doesn’t mean the abductions have
- Reposted by Matt StrombergI remain absolutely furious that all this shit in Minneapolis started because a barely-literate homeschooled mormon made a video trying to run up in daycare centers trying to find people of Somalian descent doing fraud despite the ringleader (a white woman) being in jail since March. Demonic.
- Reposted by Matt StrombergThe people who spent years defending and even lionizing Kyle Rittenhouse and Ashli Babbitt now want us to believe that an unarmed mother in her car and a disarmed nurse were domestic terrorists who deserved to be murdered by law enforcement.
- Just cause someone gives you their trophy, doesn’t mean you actually received the award.
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- can someone explain to me how ice goons could possibly have blanket immunity when cops and soldiers don't? like i understand the current admin isn't big on the law, but is there any legal basis for this?
- happy new year world. here's my first list for 2026 of ten LA shows to see this month, via @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/10-art-shows...
- Yeah I’m doing dry January…dry martini January!
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- Pluribus spoiler: it was just a prank bro.
- i contributed 2 blurbs to @hyperallergic.com's list of the best shows around the world in 2025: "Nadya Tolokonnikova: Police State" at MOCA Geffen and "Temporary Home" curated by Beatriz Cortez at the Galka Scheyer House / Blue Heights Arts & Culture Residency hyperallergic.com/the-best-art...
- LACMA workers vote to unionize, via @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/lacma-worker...
- been watching the indiana jones films with my kid and it struck me that there are no jewish characters, even though the nazis are the big baddies in 3 of the 5 films. that's weird right? (yes, i realize spielberg and ford are jewish, and indy could be seen as "jewish-coded")
- Hey fam, I’ll be in conversation with the LA Creeps - Liz Walsh and Kim Weller - at LAST Projects this Sunday Dec 14 at 6pm on the closing day of their show “mirror, mirror” come thru!
- Pilar Tompkins Rivas's exit from the Lucas is the latest shakeup at the $1 billion museum, following May's layoffs of much of the education team, via @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/lucas-museum...
- my picks for 10 LA shows to see this month, via @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/10-art-shows...
- Attn art world: I will not be attending the Miami fairs this week. Thank you for respecting my privacy during this difficult time.
- Llyn Foulkes, Quintessential LA Artist, dies at 91, via @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/1059544/llyn...
- Same toad, same.
- I wrote about the fantastic Hancock / Guston show at the @skirball.bsky.social for @cmonstah.bsky.social’s @kcrw.com Art Insider newsletter. Check it out!
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- LACMA workers form union, LACMA United, via @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/1053478/lacm...
- LA shows to see this november, via @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/1052607/10-a...
- Andrea Gyorody resigns as director of the Weisman Museum at Pepperdine after school administration removes "political" artwork, via @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/1052299/cali...
- hey maggots! I wrote about the most disgusting band in the universe, #gwar for @kcrw.com. Their wonderfully revolting show at Beyond the Streets focuses on the visual art output of this multi-faceted collective. Thanks to @cmonstah.bsky.social for bringing me on board! email.kcrw.com/shock-rocker...
- why are LA galleries closing? please let me know your thoughts!
- Pepperdine shuts down show after artists withdraw to protest censorship, via @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/1048434/pepp...
- wait, Barry White is taking over cBS?! let's go!
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- 10 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles This October via @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/1046144/10-a...
- For @hyperallergic.com, I spoke with 5 artists included in this year's Made in LA biennial at the Hammer (opening this weekend!) who explore history, narrative, and time in their work. hyperallergic.com/1046894/five...
- Reposted by Matt Stromberga heartwarming story of how being an unethical and talentless hack is no barrier to success when you are willing to endlessly flatter the wretched views of rich dipshits
- UC Irvine Takes Over Orange County Museum of Art, via @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/1045916/uc-i...
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- Superchief fights to survive through crowdfunding / membership via @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/1043395/supe...
- LA Louver to Close Gallery Space and Shift Into Private Model , via @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/1042271/la-l...
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- Street Vendor Beloved by LA Art World Abducted by ICE - @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/1040791/jorg...
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- LA’s Holocaust Museum Walks Back “Never Again” Statement, Sparking Outcry, via @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/1040088/los-...
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- can someone please explain this whole taylor lorenz / dark money thing to me like I'm 6
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- just got a pr email to attend a "lobby reveal" so that's a thing now i guess.
- 15 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles This Fall: Radical Chicano printmaking, Trenton Doyle Hancock confronts Philip Guston, the LA and California biennials, American Artist on Octavia E. Butler, and more. via @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/1038473/15-a...
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- Decades After “Heartbreaking” Thefts, Santa Ana Pueblo Recovers Stolen Artifacts, via @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/1037100/deca...
- Took my kids to see #kpopdemonhunters at the Baldwin Crenshaw mall last week and to see a multiracial group of kids singing and bopping along to a Korean-themed film about overcoming family trauma in a south central theater, I dunno, maybe the kids will be all right.
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- my dudes, i know the world is on fire, but i really need some basic, cheap, short-sleeve button-down shirts (because the world is on fire). any recs?
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- Hey LA! I’m moderating a talk at the Brand library after a screening of “the Chicano Collection”. Panelists are artists Margaret Garcia, Michael Alvarez and the film’s co-producer, Melissa Richardson Banks. Sept. 11, 7pm. @thecheechcenter.bsky.social glendaleca.libnet.info/event/14411650
- Ten LA shows to see this month via @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/1032430/10-s...
- This is the last weekend to see "Temporary Home" a group show curated by Beatriz Cortez at the Galka Scheyer House, an historic Neutra building in the Hollywood Hills. Next year it will reopen as Blue Heights Arts & Culture artist residency, via @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/1030087/galk...
- How many of you have stopped posting on Twitter (x, ugh) or deleted your acct there?
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- my picks for ten LA shows to see this month via @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/1022743/10-s...
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- LACMA may not re-open until next April, but I wrote about the first artwork to be installed, Tony Smith's "Smoke" for @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/1024111/reve...
- Anyone know how I can get ahold of Adam Swisher, the technician who left this note inside Tony Smith's SMOKE when it was installed at LACMA in 2008?
- Brad Lander may be a good guy, but he has one of the most goyish names for a Jew I've ever heard.
- What is Jim Dangle Vance doing in LA anyway. www.rawstory.com/jd-vance-267...
