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Aaron Kai is riding high on a wave of creativity

Huck x adidas — Artist Aaron Kai is one of 200 creative people around the world collaborating with Adidas on their [FUTURECRAFT.LOOP] initiative. We met him in Los Angeles to find out why he believes art is the best response to the age of emergency.

  • Art
  • Michael Fordham

How one acid-fuelled road trip turned into a full-blown riot

A truly wild day — In the summer of 1986, 15-year-old Zach Sebastian set off on a journey to Zed Records – landing him right in the middle of one of surfing’s most infamous events in the process. Now, over 30 years later, he’s turning the experience into a film.

  • Film
  • O. Stanley

A portrait of Los Angeles at the turn of the 1980s

Behind the glamour — In the exhibition Los Angeles Cibachromes, photographer John Humble peels back the city’s glitzy facade.

  • Photography
  • Miss Rosen

Surreal snapshots of everyday Los Angeles

Plastic fantastic — Street photographer Isaac Diggs captures a city at odds with itself, using a wide array of formats to explore the complex and layered nuances of LA life.

  • Photography
  • Miss Rosen

A photographic history of East LA in the 90s

Legends never die — In her visual archive, artist Guadalupe Rosales passes on the stories, traditions and history of Chicanx culture in the 1990s.

  • Photography
  • Miss Rosen

An inside look at LA’s queer Chicano networks

True radicals — Fusing Mexican-American culture with a DIY punk spirit, the underground Chicano art scene of the late ’60s and early ’90s is finally celebrated a new exhibition.

  • Art
  • Miss Rosen

A trip back in time to the dark heart of Los Angeles

The real film noir — A new book delves into the murky depths of LA’s past, exposing the city’s seedy underbelly through photography, magazine clippings and uncovered police reports.

  • Photography
  • Miss Rosen

Venice Beach: The last days of a bohemian paradise

Freaks, geeks and bodybuilders — When Dotan Saguy made the leap from business developer to street photographer, he immersed himself in California's world-famous tourist attraction: a real-life circus on the verge of being gentrified.

  • Photography
  • Cian Traynor

The Travel Diary: A nostalgic stroll through the streets of LA

What you see along the way — Photographer Lorena Endara shoots the freeways, businesses, and housing projects of Boyle Heights for her latest photo series, LA (Latin America) Dreams.

  • Travel
  • Lorena Endara

The new show celebrating female body positivity

Women on women — A new exhibition looking at diversity, body positivity, and the creative work of female-identifying artists is coming to Los Angeles this week.

  • Photography
  • HUCK HQ

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