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So after 6 years of warring (yeah, it’s been 6 years. Crazy), it seems as though maybe war really isn’t the answer after all. But you can still make your own surge by heading out to join the LA vs. WAR movement through art, music, and creating something yourself. Hundreds of artists representing diverse communities unite in delivering a universal message of peace and understanding, and offering resistance and opposition to the US government’s war policies. Consisting of poster and street art, live t-shirt and poster screenprinting, a stencil garden (featuring LA icon Mear-One), film screenings and DJ sets throughout, LA vs. WAR is 4 full free days of art and expression in the name of peace starting April 10th going through Sunday the 13th from 12pm to 11pm daily.

Event highlights also include:

Yo! What Happened to Peace?: posters on display from the international touring peace poster exhibition.

Hit+Run: live t-shirt printing featuring custom artwork from the Hit+Run artist network

Dublab.com & Art Don’t Sleep: music selections created by DJs from the web radio collective

Artwork Exhibition: handmade creations by independent local artists

LA vs. WAR opening reception is Thursday April 10th from 7-9pm. The event continues through April 13th and is located at The Firehouse on 710 S. Santa Fe Avenue, Los Angeles CA 90021. All ages are welcome and admission is free. Check out LA vs. WAR for more information and event schedule.

Boasting “the largest exhibition of cutting-edge Chicano art ever presented at LACMA”, Phantom Sightings: Art after the Chicano Movement features works created during the counterculture revolutions of the late 1960s and early 1970s. The exhibition explores the more experimental tendencies within the Chicano art movement—ones oriented less toward painting and declarative polemical assertion than toward conceptual art, performance, film, photo- and media-based art, and “stealthy” artistic interventions in urban spaces. (I guess graffiti is still a bad word to the ears of L.A. county.) Paintings, sculptures, installations, conceptual and performance art, and inter-media works that incorporate film, digital, and sound art make up the museums offerings.

Phantom Sightings: Art after the Chicano Movement runs from April 6, 2008 through September 1, 2008. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art is located on 5905 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90036. Admission is $12 for non-members and grants access to the other current exhibitions, members are free. On the second Tuesday of each month, general admission to the permanent galleries and non-ticketed exhibitions is free to all. After 5 pm, you may pay what you wish.