Acceleration-in-Equilibrium: Crisis as Quintessence

Date

October 3

Time

3:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Cost

Free

Council District

City Council District 10

Event Series Dates

Exhibition Runs: October 3 to November 14, 2026

Event Schedule

Acceleration-in-Equilibrium: Crisis as Quintessence, a group exhibition, treats the crisis not as a temporary disruption, but as a continuous state of baseline reality. It gathers contemporary art through the focus of marginalized artists and communities. Asking key questions: How do we build home/sanctuary, preserve memory? Foster culture while targeted by systemic displacement?

Opening reception:
Saturday, October 3, 2026, 3:00 to 7:30 p.m.
With a live tribute to Max Roach and Abbey Lincoln’s 
“WE INSIST: The Freedom Now Suite” by The Veritus Miller Truth Troupe at 6 pm

Free, accessible and open to the public

The exhibition is a project of The William Grant Still Arts Center, Department of Cultural Affairs, in collaboration with Fall of Freedom www.falloffreedom.comand The Friends of WIlliam Grant Still Arts Center

Acceleration-in-Equilibrium:Crisis as Quintessence includes visual, film and sonic/music artists with ancillary programming throughout the duration. Please call or check our website for upcoming events.

Upcoming Events

October 1 @ 11:00 am - 4:00 pm -
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$0.00 - $7.00

Hollyhock House Tours

Experience the interior of Hollyhock House at your own pace with a self-guided tour. Docents are on hand to provide information and answer questions.

September 30 @ 10:00 am - 4:00 pm -
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Free

Shifting Perspectives: Cheech Collects

Over the past year and a half, artists and collectors have donated 80 works by almost 35 artists to The Cheech Center Collection. This year's exhibition will highlight some new additions alongside works from Cheech Marin's initial gift of 500 works. The latest exhibition, Cheech Collects, explores different forms within the Cheech Marin Collection. It introduces photography and sculpture alongside paintings, prints, and mixed media works for which the collection is celebrated. See website for ticket prices.

October 3 @ 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm -
See event website.

Construction, Occupation

Construction, Occupation presents the work of 24 artists and collectives that engage art’s potential to shape the city through the power of community. Drawing on myriad visual languages and poetics grounded in collective action, the exhibition investigates a radical urban vocabulary that blurs art and activism to address questions of infrastructure and vulnerability, circulation and segregation, and the body in public

September 30 @ 10:00 am - 4:00 pm -
$0.00 - $19.00

BEHIND BARS: INCARCERATION IN THE WEST

This installation features some of the many forms that incarceration has taken in the American West over time, in conversation with a new photo series by fine art photographer Pep Williams, taken in a California state prison. Located in the jail cell area of the Autry’s firearms galleries, the installation brings past and present into dialogue.

September 30 @ 10:00 am - 5:00 pm -
$0.00 - $15.95

Bernard Hoyes: Out from Under the Net

Presenting the evolution of Bernard Hoyes’ signature Rag Series, developed during the 1970s and expanded through collage, painting, and printmaking. His rhythmic compositions reflect Afro-Caribbean spirituality, rituals, and the power of women across music, dance, and magic. The works explore themes of race, identity, memory, and liberation through layered visual language.