ArcLight and Academy Museum lighted up with Gaza protest projections
LA TimesThe art collective Indecline projected images of the war in Gaza onto the side of a Hollywood building Monday evening. An activist art collective called Indecline projected a series of graphic videos onto several symbolic local buildings, including the ArcLight Cinema off Sunset Boulevard, on Monday night, calling attention to the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip. Titled “For Your Consideration: Ceasefire,” the guerrilla protest also lighted up the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures on Wilshire Boulevard and the Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study on Vine Street. Monday’s protest comes just two days after the opening of the group’s first retrospective exhibition at downtown L.A.’s Superchief Gallery, which chronicles nearly two decades of its guerrilla art actions. The decision to target the Academy Museum follows a recent controversy surrounding an exhibition about the film industry’s Jewish founders, further emphasizing the thorny questions swirling around cultural institutions over their responsibility to confront social justice issues.
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