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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 venues and organizations across greater Los Angeles, including: LAXART; For Your Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena; 18th Street Arts Center; Human Resources, Los Angeles; the Underground Museum; Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles; OOF Books; Acid—Free Los Angeles; ICA LA; Navel LA; Active Cultures; 2220 Arts and Archives; The Poetic Research Bureau; MAK Center; Commonwealth and Council; and Women’s Center for Creative Work.

2023

  1. December 15, 2023
    X-TRA Needs Your Support
  2. November 9, 2023
    X-TRA Contemporary Art Journal to Sunset
  3. November 9, 2023
    Celebrate the Fall Issue Launch!
  4. October 1, 2023
    Celebrating X-TRA's 25th Anniversary by Supporting Us
  5. September 16, 2023
    MEET-AND-GREET 2023
  6. August 10-13, 2023
    TOTAL LANDSCAPING at Printed Matter LAABF2023!
  7. July 11, 2023
    Interview with X-TRA Editorial Fellow, Allison Noelle Conner
  8. June 1, 2023
    Astria Suparak: Asian futures, without Asians
  9. May 13, 2023
    Celebrate the launch of the spring issue with X-TRA!
  10. April 22-23, 2023
    Join us at the LA Times Festival of Books!
  11. April 21, 2023
    Total Landscaping: Call for Participation
  12. April 16, 2023
    ArtTable Fellowship Program 2023
  13. February 19, 2023
    Artists Reading: Patty Chang and Ron Athey
  14. February 17, 2023
    Softimage Poetics: An auction to support X-TRA
  15. February 17, 2023
    Join X-TRA in Celebrating Its New Home
  16. February 13, 2023
    A Museum for the Afterlife: Gala Porras-Kim + Mariana Fernández in Conversation
  17. February 10, 2023
    X-TRA visits todo-mundo art book fair in CDMX!

2022

  1. End of Year 2022
    Help us create a brilliant, vibrant future for X-TRA
  2. December 17, 2022
    Like Spiders Spinning Light: David Weldzius, Jon Leaver, and Britt Salvesen in conversation
  3. November 21, 2022
    X-TRA Editorial Fellowship
  4. November 19, 2022
    Fall Issue Launch at Commonwealth and Council!
  5. October 28, 2022
    X-TRA PRESENTS: Uncanny Intelligences
  6. October 13-16, 2022
    X-TRA returns to Printed Matter's NY Art Book Fair!
  7. Thursday, August 4, 2022
    Theo Anthony + X-TRA: Film and Conversation
  8. Saturday, July 23, 2022
    Summer Launch Party with LAXART!
  9. June 9, 2022
    Executive Director Nora N. Khan talks all things X-TRA with The Brooklyn Rail
  10. April 2022
    X MARKS THE SPOT: Turning to the X-TRA archives
  11. March 1, 2022
    Welcoming our new Executive Director

2019

  1. Thursday, October 24
    Fall Launch: Some Among Others Screening
  2. Apply now!
    X-TRA Seeks Interns
  3. Saturday, June 29
    Summer Launch with Anna Mayer and Alison O'Daniel
  4. Ends Friday, April 12
    10 Artists and 50lbs of Clay: Spring Auction
  5. April 11 - 14
    X-TRA Events at LA Art Book Fair
  6. Saturday, April 6
    X-TRA SPR!NG TH!NG, Saturday 4/6
  7. Friday, April 5
    Talk: Bethlehem No More by David Weldzius
  8. Friday, February 15
    Frieze LA Event: X-TRA's Views from Los Angeles
  9. Saturday, February 2
    X-TRA Forum #5: One Text Two Minutes
  10. February 1-28
    February Membership Drive: Join and get two editions by Susan Silton

2018

  1. Now until December 31
    End of Year Fundraiser: You make X-TRA possible.
  2. Saturday, December 15
    Views from Here: Panel discussion moderated by Michelle Grabner
  3. December 5
    Launch Event with Asher Hartman and Rossen Ventzislavov
  4. Wednesday, October 10
    Simone Forti and Dorit Cypis in Conversation
  5. October 8
    X-TRA featured in the LA Times!
  6. October 18-21
    Vancouver Art Book Fair
  7. Saturday, September 22
    Edgar Arceneaux Workshop at The Broad
  8. September 20-23
    X-TRA at Printed Matter's NY Art Book Fair
  9. Friday, September 14
    Fall Launch Party!
  10. Thursday, August 9
    Pope.L / Reading at The Underground Museum
  11. July 29
    X-TRA Summer Sketchy Garden Party
  12. Wednesday, July 18
    Patrick Staff presents CLEAN NEEDLES NOW & NOW
  13. May 29
    Malik Gaines presents A Jennifer Moon Songbook...
  14. Thursday, May 17
    Lynne Tillman + Kerry Tribe in conversation at The Broad
  15. May 4 - 6
    X-TRA at Acid-Free Los Angeles Book Market
  16. May 1 - 15
    XX-TRA 20th Anniversary Benefit
  17. April 29
    Martine Syms / Screening and Conversation
  18. April 9
    Spring Launch Event with Lex Brown and Leslie Dick
  19. Sunday, March 11
    Andrea Fraser / Lecture at ICA LA

2017

  1. Friday, December 1
    X-TRA Thanks for the Anniversary Celebration and Party Pics!!
  2. November 10
    Fall Launch Event with Candice Lin and Miljohn Ruperto
  3. October 7
    Say Hello to the 20th Volume of XX-TRA!
  4. August 3
    X-TRA Summer Event Looking at Performance: Guts, Lust and Kinks
  5. June 30
    A.L. Steiner ARTIST WRITES Lecture #1
  6. Saturday, April 22
    X-TRA Spring Launch Event: The Heart and the Halt
  7. February 25
    X-TRA presents ARTISTS' BOOKS CHANGE LIVES at LAABF 2017
  8. February 11
    grantLOVE x Alisa Ratner prints to benefit X-TRA
  9. January 18
    A Screening and Conversation: Ulysses Jenkins with Aria Dean and Erin Christovale

2016

  1. December 31
    Art Isn't Easy: End of Year Fundraiser and Membership Drive
  2. November 3
    X-TRA Fall Launch with Sarah Conaway, Travis Diehl and Tracy Jeanne Rosenthal
  3. October 22
    Art Book Fair in Chinatown
  4. September 15-18
    X-TRA at NY ART BOOK FAIR
  5. August 7
    Walkthrough of Barbara Kasten: Stages with Susanna Newbury
  6. July 17
    X-TRA Editions: MARK HAGEN
  7. July 17
    Summer Launch: Hole Up with X-TRA & Mark Hagen at ARTBOOK
  8. Saturday, April 23
    X-TRA Spring Launch!
  9. March 13
    LA in the AUGHTS: Benefit Auction and Party for X-TRA
  10. February 19
    MEET & GREET 2016
  11. February 13
    Immaterials and Proposals at the LA Art Book Fair

2015

  1. Wednesday December 9
    XTREME Launch Party!
  2. November 21
    Project X Forum 9: East of Eden, Profane Gardens
  3. November 9-December 11
    Xtreme Archive: Project X 1992-1999
  4. October 19
    X-TRA Launch: Fall together
  5. October 14
    Project X Forum 8: Lost and Found with Nao Bustamante, Soo Kim, and HK Zamani
  6. August 19
    Project X Forum 6: Pair-A-Sites, with Charles Gaines and Kerry Tribe
  7. July 29
    Project X Forum 5: Revisiting "Program for Paradise"
  8. June 30
    Project X Forum 4: Suitably Appointed
  9. May 28
    The Benefit of Friends Collected Panel and White Elephant Party
  10. May 19
    Project X Forum 3: XTREME Research
  11. May 9
    X-TRA Spring Launch: The Conversation
  12. April 15
    Project X Forum 2: FAR Bazaar
  13. Wednesday, March 18
    Panel Discussion: On Art Practice, Theory, and the PhD.
  14. February 1-March 30
    Project X Desk Writer in Residence: Christiane Kues
  15. March 11
    Project X Forum 1: The First Show, 1992
  16. January 31
    1 IMAGE 1 MINUTE at the LAABF
  17. January 30
    The Benefit of Friends Collected, Vol. 2: Book Fair Reception
  18. January 29-February 1
    X-TRA and Project X at the LA ART BOOK FAIR!

2014

  1. November 1
    X-TRA Fall Launch: Leslie Dick and Zackary Drucker in conversation
  2. October 28
    Panel Discussion: What does art practice have to do with political activism?
  3. October 13
    HELL: Shanaynay Library Party and Cadavere Quotidiano Paris Launch
  4. September 26-28
    X-TRA and Project X at Printed Matter's NY Art Book Fair
  5. September 17-20
    X-TRA and Project X at Printed Matter's NY Art Book Fair
  6. September 15-October 31
    The Project X Desk at Outpost@Armory: Johanna Hedva
  7. August 24
    X-TRA Summer Launch in Berlin
  8. June 28
    Artist's Tag Sale
  9. April 26
    Cadavere Telephone: X-TRA and Cadavere Quotidiano Launch Party
  10. February 28
    LA in the 90s : Benefit Auction and Party for X-TRA and Project X
  11. February 1
    Cadavere Quotidiano: The first Project X Projects Paperback
  12. January 29
    SCALE: Launch Event for X-TRA 16.2

2012

  1. December 14
    Launch Event: X-TRA at Armory Center for the Arts with Marcos Lutyens
  2. December 6
    X-TRA hosts Happy Hour at Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum
  3. October 15
    X-TRA=XV CAKE PARTY!!!
  4. October 14
    Chinese Cocktail listening party with Robert Wilhite
  5. October 13
    FIRE IN THE LIBRARY: FIND BIG MIND, a cross discipline talk influenced by the work of Eugenia Butler
  6. October 12
    Performance: Leslie Dick’s “Boundary Lines” & PDAs by CamLab
  7. October 11
    “Country Lessons” hosted by Vanessa Place
  8. October 10
    The Art of Criticism, a panel discussion Organized and moderated by Damon Willick with Sharon Mizota, Doug Harvey, and Aram Moshayedi.
  9. October 9
    Micol Hebron presents 1 Image 1 Minute
  10. October 8
    William Leavitt presents Habitat
  11. October 7
    15 Years in 15 Days: Day 7 / Jan Tumlir presents Black and White Paintings and Albums, a talk with images and music.
  12. October 6
    15 Years in 15 Days: Day 6 / X-TRA celebrates MATERIAL.
  13. October 5
    15 Years in 15 Days: Day 5 / Revisiting the revisiting of feminism.
  14. October 4
    15 Years in 15 Days: Day 4 / MAK Center to support ARTISTS + INSTITUTIONS: Common Ground “What is the Common Ground for Artists and Institutions?”
  15. October 3
    15 Years in 15 Days: Day 3 / Debate Drawing Party
  16. October 2
    15 Years in 15 Days: Day 2 / Why Start An Art Magazine Now? (1997 / 2012)
  17. October 1
    15 Years in 15 Days: Day 1/ Stephen Berens presents The Los Angeles Times and Me
  18. October 1-15
    X-TRA's 15 Years in 15 Days
  19. September 27-30
    X-TRA at the NY Art Book Fair
  20. July 20
    Immaterials and Proposals, part deux
  21. June 10
    Surfing & Smoking
  22. February 23-24
    The Kitchen Table, reprise
  23. January 24
    X-TRA presents Chinese Cocktail, a concert by Robert Wilhite

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