Memory as Resistance: Art Leaders Defend Culture in Authoritarian Times
JANM Symposium on Democracy, January 23, 2026 At the Japanese American National Museum’s symposium “Echoes of History: Inspiring Civic Action and Building Democracy,” a panel of cultural leaders gathered to discuss an increasingly urgent question:...
Grand Central Art Center Awarded Prestigious Warhol Foundation Grant
Grand Central Art Center Awarded Prestigious Warhol Foundation Grant. As part of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts’ Fall 2025 grant cycle, Grand Central Art Center in Santa Ana has been selected alongside 56 other arts organizations nationwide to receive...
What If Orange County Artists Thought Like Corporations (In the Best Possible Way)?
Notes on Yancey Strickler, Metalabel, and the Future of Collective Creative Power There’s a quiet but growing subculture of artists, organizers, and creative misfits who are experimenting with a strange question: What if artists borrowed the structure and scale...
A Walk Through Art Basel Paris
Join Chris Hoff of the OC Art Blog as he navigates the visual overload of Art Basel Paris, where thousands of works compete for attention in a spectacle of color, concept, and commerce. Amid the noise, he searches for, and finds, a piece that stops him in his tracks....
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The OC Art Blog was created in 2004 as a way to build community and promote the marginalized but dynamic Orange County art scene.
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