Join Susanna Phillips Newbury for her lecture Forensics: The Cultural Power of Art and Real Estate.

Los Angeles has long invested in contemporary art and real estate development as a long-term strategy for cultural growth. More than 70 years into intensive plans to incentivize arts infrastructure as an engine of its global and local economy, Forensics: The Cultural Power of Art and Real Estate looks back on its uneven path, asking how artists, museums, cities and regions might plan for different futures.

Susanna Phillips Newbury is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Her research and teaching interests focus on the social history of twentieth and twenty-first century art, histories of photography and architecture, urban studies, and economic geography. Her first book, The Speculative City, was published in 2021 by the University of Minnesota Press. Her writing has appeared in East of Borneo, caa.reviews, The Believer, and Xtra Contemporary Art Quarterly, among other publications.

This lecture is free and open to the public — no RSVP required. The program is made possible in part by a grant from the City of Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA).