Mooallem, Stephen. “L.A. Story.” Harper’s Bazaar (December 2023)
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…"The role that alternative spaces can play is also evolving. Over the past few years, a group including Crenshaw Dairy Mart, Gyopo, Human Resources, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, LAXART, Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND), and the Mistake Room formed the Los Angeles Visual Arts Coalition to coordinate efforts and resources. “There are rich, deep, generative cultural conversations to be had in meeting artists and community members and people where they are,” says Christine Y. Kim, the L.A.-based curator at large at London’s Tate Modern and a former curator at LACMA. Kim is also a cofounder of both LAND, a public-art initiative, and Gyopo, an educational nonprofit formed by culture workers of the Korean diaspora. Gyopo’s programs have included symposiums on anti-Asian hate and healing sessions after last January’s Half Moon Bay and Monterey Park shootings. “There are limited resources for small nonprofits, as we all know. But we all got together and said, ‘We all need the same things. How do we make our collective energy and our collective missions, which are diverse and about equity, connected?’” Kim says. “I think it very much speaks to the cultural landscape in L.A., where nothing is monolithic…’”

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Mooallem, Stephen. “L.A. Story.” Harper’s Bazaar (December 2023 / January 2024)
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