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
- December 15, 2023X-TRA Needs Your Support
- November 9, 2023X-TRA Contemporary Art Journal to Sunset
- November 9, 2023Celebrate the Fall Issue Launch!
- October 1, 2023Celebrating X-TRA's 25th Anniversary by Supporting Us
- September 16, 2023MEET-AND-GREET 2023
- August 10-13, 2023TOTAL LANDSCAPING at Printed Matter LAABF2023!
- July 11, 2023Interview with X-TRA Editorial Fellow, Allison Noelle Conner
- June 1, 2023Astria Suparak: Asian futures, without Asians
- May 13, 2023Celebrate the launch of the spring issue with X-TRA!
- April 22-23, 2023Join us at the LA Times Festival of Books!
- April 21, 2023Total Landscaping: Call for Participation
- April 16, 2023ArtTable Fellowship Program 2023
- February 19, 2023Artists Reading: Patty Chang and Ron Athey
- February 17, 2023Softimage Poetics: An auction to support X-TRA
- February 17, 2023Join X-TRA in Celebrating Its New Home
- February 13, 2023A Museum for the Afterlife: Gala Porras-Kim + Mariana Fernández in Conversation
- February 10, 2023X-TRA visits todo-mundo art book fair in CDMX!
2022
- End of Year 2022Help us create a brilliant, vibrant future for X-TRA
- December 17, 2022Like Spiders Spinning Light: David Weldzius, Jon Leaver, and Britt Salvesen in conversation
- November 21, 2022X-TRA Editorial Fellowship
- November 19, 2022Fall Issue Launch at Commonwealth and Council!
- October 28, 2022X-TRA PRESENTS: Uncanny Intelligences
- October 13-16, 2022X-TRA returns to Printed Matter's NY Art Book Fair!
- Thursday, August 4, 2022Theo Anthony + X-TRA: Film and Conversation
- Saturday, July 23, 2022Summer Launch Party with LAXART!
- June 9, 2022Executive Director Nora N. Khan talks all things X-TRA with The Brooklyn Rail
- April 2022X MARKS THE SPOT: Turning to the X-TRA archives
- March 1, 2022Welcoming our new Executive Director
2021
2020
- End of Year 2020Looking Back at 2020 and Very Forward to 2021
- November 12X-TRA Shifting to Biannual Publishing Schedule
- Thursday, August 20Summer Launch: Conversations about Loss
- July 8, 2020Artists and Rights Podcast
- Friday, May 22Spring Launch: Writers in Conversation
- Now AvailableX-CHANGE Edition: Monica Majoli and Hanna Hur
- While we're at homeThe Benefit of X-CHANGE
- Thursday, January 23Winter Launch: The Reader's Chorus, Screening and Conversation
2019
- Thursday, October 24Fall Launch: Some Among Others Screening
- Apply now!X-TRA Seeks Interns
- Saturday, June 29Summer Launch with Anna Mayer and Alison O'Daniel
- Ends Friday, April 1210 Artists and 50lbs of Clay: Spring Auction
- April 11 - 14X-TRA Events at LA Art Book Fair
- Saturday, April 6X-TRA SPR!NG TH!NG, Saturday 4/6
- Friday, April 5Talk: Bethlehem No More by David Weldzius
- Friday, February 15Frieze LA Event: X-TRA's Views from Los Angeles
- Saturday, February 2X-TRA Forum #5: One Text Two Minutes
- February 1-28February Membership Drive: Join and get two editions by Susan Silton
2018
- Now until December 31End of Year Fundraiser: You make X-TRA possible.
- Saturday, December 15Views from Here: Panel discussion moderated by Michelle Grabner
- December 5Launch Event with Asher Hartman and Rossen Ventzislavov
- Wednesday, October 10Simone Forti and Dorit Cypis in Conversation
- October 8X-TRA featured in the LA Times!
- October 18-21Vancouver Art Book Fair
- Saturday, September 22Edgar Arceneaux Workshop at The Broad
- September 20-23X-TRA at Printed Matter's NY Art Book Fair
- Friday, September 14Fall Launch Party!
- Thursday, August 9Pope.L / Reading at The Underground Museum
- July 29X-TRA Summer Sketchy Garden Party
- Wednesday, July 18Patrick Staff presents CLEAN NEEDLES NOW & NOW
- May 29Malik Gaines presents A Jennifer Moon Songbook...
- Thursday, May 17Lynne Tillman + Kerry Tribe in conversation at The Broad
- May 4 - 6X-TRA at Acid-Free Los Angeles Book Market
- May 1 - 15XX-TRA 20th Anniversary Benefit
- April 29Martine Syms / Screening and Conversation
- April 9Spring Launch Event with Lex Brown and Leslie Dick
- Sunday, March 11Andrea Fraser / Lecture at ICA LA
2017
- Friday, December 1X-TRA Thanks for the Anniversary Celebration and Party Pics!!
- November 10Fall Launch Event with Candice Lin and Miljohn Ruperto
- October 7Say Hello to the 20th Volume of XX-TRA!
- August 3X-TRA Summer Event Looking at Performance: Guts, Lust and Kinks
- June 30A.L. Steiner ARTIST WRITES Lecture #1
- Saturday, April 22X-TRA Spring Launch Event: The Heart and the Halt
- February 25X-TRA presents ARTISTS' BOOKS CHANGE LIVES at LAABF 2017
- February 11grantLOVE x Alisa Ratner prints to benefit X-TRA
- January 18A Screening and Conversation: Ulysses Jenkins with Aria Dean and Erin Christovale
2016
- December 31Art Isn't Easy: End of Year Fundraiser and Membership Drive
- November 3X-TRA Fall Launch with Sarah Conaway, Travis Diehl and Tracy Jeanne Rosenthal
- October 22Art Book Fair in Chinatown
- September 15-18X-TRA at NY ART BOOK FAIR
- August 7Walkthrough of Barbara Kasten: Stages with Susanna Newbury
- July 17X-TRA Editions: MARK HAGEN
- July 17Summer Launch: Hole Up with X-TRA & Mark Hagen at ARTBOOK
- Saturday, April 23X-TRA Spring Launch!
- March 13LA in the AUGHTS: Benefit Auction and Party for X-TRA
- February 19MEET & GREET 2016
- February 13Immaterials and Proposals at the LA Art Book Fair
2015
- Wednesday December 9XTREME Launch Party!
- November 21Project X Forum 9: East of Eden, Profane Gardens
- November 9-December 11Xtreme Archive: Project X 1992-1999
- October 19X-TRA Launch: Fall together
- October 14Project X Forum 8: Lost and Found with Nao Bustamante, Soo Kim, and HK Zamani
- August 19Project X Forum 6: Pair-A-Sites, with Charles Gaines and Kerry Tribe
- July 29Project X Forum 5: Revisiting "Program for Paradise"
- June 30Project X Forum 4: Suitably Appointed
- May 28The Benefit of Friends Collected Panel and White Elephant Party
- May 19Project X Forum 3: XTREME Research
- May 9X-TRA Spring Launch: The Conversation
- April 15Project X Forum 2: FAR Bazaar
- Wednesday, March 18Panel Discussion: On Art Practice, Theory, and the PhD.
- February 1-March 30Project X Desk Writer in Residence: Christiane Kues
- March 11Project X Forum 1: The First Show, 1992
- January 311 IMAGE 1 MINUTE at the LAABF
- January 30The Benefit of Friends Collected, Vol. 2: Book Fair Reception
- January 29-February 1X-TRA and Project X at the LA ART BOOK FAIR!
2014
- November 1X-TRA Fall Launch: Leslie Dick and Zackary Drucker in conversation
- October 28Panel Discussion: What does art practice have to do with political activism?
- October 13HELL: Shanaynay Library Party and Cadavere Quotidiano Paris Launch
- September 26-28X-TRA and Project X at Printed Matter's NY Art Book Fair
- September 17-20X-TRA and Project X at Printed Matter's NY Art Book Fair
- September 15-October 31The Project X Desk at Outpost@Armory: Johanna Hedva
- August 24X-TRA Summer Launch in Berlin
- June 28Artist's Tag Sale
- April 26Cadavere Telephone: X-TRA and Cadavere Quotidiano Launch Party
- February 28LA in the 90s : Benefit Auction and Party for X-TRA and Project X
- February 1Cadavere Quotidiano: The first Project X Projects Paperback
- January 29SCALE: Launch Event for X-TRA 16.2
2013
- December 313 Ways to Make X-TRA's Year End Right.
- November 3Destruction! And Monsters! Fall Launch Party and Screening
- Wednesday August 14The Summer Event!: Conversation and Beer.
- April 23-May 1The X-TRA Art Sale
- April 4X-TRA presents Dont Rhine and Clean Needles Now
- February 13-16X-TRA at the College Art Association Conference in New York
- February 1-3X-TRA at Printed Matter's LA Art Book Fair
2012
- December 14Launch Event: X-TRA at Armory Center for the Arts with Marcos Lutyens
- December 6X-TRA hosts Happy Hour at Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum
- October 15X-TRA=XV CAKE PARTY!!!
- October 14Chinese Cocktail listening party with Robert Wilhite
- October 13FIRE IN THE LIBRARY: FIND BIG MIND, a cross discipline talk influenced by the work of Eugenia Butler
- October 12Performance: Leslie Dick’s “Boundary Lines” & PDAs by CamLab
- October 11“Country Lessons” hosted by Vanessa Place
- October 10The Art of Criticism, a panel discussion Organized and moderated by Damon Willick with Sharon Mizota, Doug Harvey, and Aram Moshayedi.
- October 9Micol Hebron presents 1 Image 1 Minute
- October 8William Leavitt presents Habitat
- October 715 Years in 15 Days: Day 7 / Jan Tumlir presents Black and White Paintings and Albums, a talk with images and music.
- October 615 Years in 15 Days: Day 6 / X-TRA celebrates MATERIAL.
- October 515 Years in 15 Days: Day 5 / Revisiting the revisiting of feminism.
- October 415 Years in 15 Days: Day 4 / MAK Center to support ARTISTS + INSTITUTIONS: Common Ground “What is the Common Ground for Artists and Institutions?”
- October 315 Years in 15 Days: Day 3 / Debate Drawing Party
- October 215 Years in 15 Days: Day 2 / Why Start An Art Magazine Now? (1997 / 2012)
- October 115 Years in 15 Days: Day 1/ Stephen Berens presents The Los Angeles Times and Me
- October 1-15X-TRA's 15 Years in 15 Days
- September 27-30X-TRA at the NY Art Book Fair
- July 20Immaterials and Proposals, part deux
- June 10Surfing & Smoking
- February 23-24The Kitchen Table, reprise
- January 24X-TRA presents Chinese Cocktail, a concert by Robert Wilhite