As a platform for provoking critical discourse about contemporary art,
X-TRA hosts events throughout the year, including artists’ talks, readings, conversations, performances, and film and video screenings. We have co-produced events in collaboration with the following venues and organizations: For Your Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena; College Art Association; Human Resources, Los Angeles; Barnsdall Art Park; Chapman University; Creative Arts Agency; Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE); Mandrake; Honor Fraser Gallery; and the Art Los Angeles Contemporary Art Fair.

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  • Destruction! And Monsters! Fall Launch Party and Screening

    November 3, 2013 7 - 9 pm Armory Center for the Arts
    145 North Raymond Avenue
    Pasadena, CA 91103

    Destruction! And Monsters!
    X-TRA Fall Launch Party & Screening

    Celebrate the decidedly monstrous fall issue of X-TRA.
    Join us for a themed screening of selections from the issue’s writers and artists!

    X-TRA presents a selection of materials that rides the dark current running through the new issue.

    Mike Kelley, excerpts from Day is Done, 2005/2006
    Candice Lin, Whole New Animal, 2012
    Animal Charm, Edge TV, 2008
    Théâtre du Soleil, exceprt from Le Dernier Caravansérail
    (Odyssées) (The Last Caravan Stop [Odysseys]), 2003
    Intermission: Dina Kelberman, Smoke and Fire

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  • The Summer Event!: Conversation and Beer.

    Wednesday August 14 7 - 9 pm Verdugo Bar
    3408 VERDUGO ROAD, LA CA 90065

    ! THE SUMMER EVENT !

    X-TRA punches out our 15th volume with a toast to our contributors and readers.

    In Conversation: The Colby Poster Archive collaborators in another round!

    FEATURING Brian Roettinger vs. Jan Tumlir

    WED. AUG. 14 2013 * 7PM *

    VERDUGO BAR 3408 VERDUGO ROAD, LA CA 90065

     

    X-TRA Issues! Specials! Posters! Raffles! Drinks!

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  • The X-TRA Art Sale

    Donor Preview Sale Days: April 21 and 22
    Sale Dates: April 23 - May 1     Online at theSpotlist.com and the X-TRA Store
    Preview links coming soon

    An Online Sale
    to Benefit 
    X-TRA Contemporary ArtQuarterly
    Project X Foundation for Art & Criticism

    SALE DATES:
    APRIL 23 – MAY 1, 2013
    Hosted online at theSpotlist.com

    Work by Los Angeles Artists.
    (Click on names to view donated artworks)

    HEATHER COOK
    ZOE CROSHER
    SHANNON EBNER
    LIZ GLYNN
    MARK HAGEN
    NATHAN HYLDEN
    MIMI LAUTER
    CARTER MULL
    ALEX OLSON
    STEPHEN G. RHODES
    RY ROCKLEN
    AMANDA ROSS-HO
    STERLING RUBY
    ANALIA SABAN
    MATEO TANNATT
    ERIKA VOGT
    LISA WILLIAMSON
    All proceeds of The X-TRA Art Sale benefit the publication of
    X-TRA and nonprofit publisher Project X Foundation For Art & Criticism.

    X-TRA and Project X Foundation for Art & Criticism
    would like to ...

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  • X-TRA presents Dont Rhine and Clean Needles Now

    April 4, 2013 7 - 9 pm LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions)
    at LA Forum for Architecture and Design at Woodbury Hollywood
    (next door to LACE)
    6518 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90028

    Free and open to the public.

    Facebook Event

    Dont Rhine leads a conversation with Shoshanna Scholar, current Clean Needles Now Executive Director, and AIDS activists, artists and members of the needle exchange past and present.

    Clean Needles Now was an artist-run project that came out of Act UP. Dont Rhine, Shoshanna Scholar, and past and present members and activists of the needle exchange will talk about the beginning of the organization and trace it through to the ...

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  • X-TRA at the College Art Association Conference in New York

    February 13 - 16, 2013 Thursday, February 14, 9-6
    Friday, February 15, 9-6
    Saturday, February 16, 9-2     Hilton New York, 1335 6th Ave, New York, NY 10019

    Come visit us at the Book and Trade Fair!

    We’ll have the new issue of X-TRA, artists editions, a RAFLLE for prizes special to the Book Fair, and the newly published “A LIST OF STUDENTS ENROLLED IN POST STUDIO ART, WITH MICHAEL ASHER AT CALARTS 1976–2008,” A book consisting of a list of students enrolled in Michael Asher’s Post Studio Art class at CalArts, semester by semester, from 1976 until 2008. In memory of Michael Asher.

    Admission to the Book and Trade ...

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