"This has been an extremely challenging year for Angelenos, starting, obviously, with the devastating fires in January and followed by [US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or Ice] raids, which began in the spring and continue to this day,"
"We have also seen chilling rhetoric and federal actions targeting diversity and inclusion policies and even museum presentations of historical narratives and objects."
"We had no themes or thematics that we were looking to populate,"
"Instead, what we wanted to do was visit as many studios as we possibly could, see as much art as we were able and have as many conversations as time would allow."
Los Angeles experienced a turbulent year marked by devastating January fires, ongoing ICE raids from spring onward, and chilling rhetoric and federal actions targeting diversity, inclusion policies, and museum presentations of historical narratives and objects. Los Angeles County declared a state of emergency in response to the ICE raids. The Hammer Museum's Made in LA 2025 features 28 artists connected to Los Angeles, with some works newly created. Lead curators Essence Harden and Paulina Pobocha invited artists to show any work and visited more than 200 studios, guided by prior viewings and recommendations, while selection criteria remained difficult to articulate.
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