13 Things LA: October 30
Endorsements for your art calendar
Postcards for Democracy, art by Mark Mothersbaugh and Beatie Wolfe
This is going to be one absolutely wild week. To help make it through with some measure of sanity, we’ve assembled art and artistry that offers escapades with nature, collective creativity in final-stretch activism, a little bit of Halloween dress-up, and some stylish Pop culture subversions—from Arcane Space, Postcards for Democracy, Trunks for Change/Scout Lab/PFAW, LAND/Del Vaz Projects, Giant Robot/The Hammer, Shatto Gallery, Laguna Art Museum, Make Room, Long Beach Artist Co-Op, Walter Maciel Gallery, Matter Studio Gallery, Caltech/JPL (PST), and Dorado 806 Projects. Now get out there and complete the assignment. With love, the childless cat ladies of 13ThingsLA.
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Mark Mothersbaugh, Fred Armisen, and Beatie Wolfe inaugurate the Postcards for Democracy dropbox in Hollywood
Mark Mothersbaugh & Beatie Wolfe present Postcards for Democracy 2024. The brainchild of musical and artistic visionaries Mark Mothersbaugh and Beatie Wolfe, the Postcards for Democracy mail art campaign launched during the unholy 2020 trinity of covid lockdown, fraught elections, and existential threats to the Post Office. (Remember when we all went and bought all the stamps we still haven’t used? Well, now’s our chance.) Then as today, the instructions are simple: Buy stamps, make a crazy postcard about life in a democracy, mail it to Mark and Beatie. Last time, the collected responses ended up at the Smithsonian! How cool is that? But this year there’s not only a heightened urgency, there’s an extra way to take part—you can drop off your postcards in person at the project’s Hollywood HQ. More specifically, at the ridiculously enormous mailbox out front—ideally suited for your goofy selfies, as you are of course encouraged to photograph and share your cards before you post them. Because the goal is not only to create a citizen archive of political art for the future, it’s to get out the vote right f*cking now. Website: postartfordemocracy.com. —SND
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