Events for September 8, 2024

The Long Beach Museum of Art is pleased to announce our forthcoming exhibition, Chris Eckert: Overload, on view at LBMA Downtown from July 13 – October 6, 2024. Chris Eckert is a Southern California artist who utilizes machinery in order to examine complex concepts such as surveillance and control. Six large-scale installations will take over...

This is a story about activism, a dramatization of true events during the early years of World War II. After trying to enlist in the army, Jimmy Thompson becomes distraught by the way he has been treated. He writes a letter to the then largest African-American newspaper in the United States, The Pittsburgh Courier, which...