We’ve been cooking up some pretty cool things here at ONE, including three outstanding programs for the month of December, two in conversation with Alexandra Juhasz’s exhibition Holding Patterns. Plus, a sneak peak at the next major exhibition from ONE…

DECEMBER PROGRAMS

We’re partnering up with Los Angeles Nomadic Division and USC Fisher Museum of Art to present a conversation with Ken Gonzalez-Day and Paul Mpagi Sepuya. Please join them Saturday, December 6 at 4pm with moderator Amelia Jones (curator of Ken Gonzales-Day: History’s “Nevermade” currently up at the USC Fisher Museum of Art), for this public discussion on the power and limits of queer photography, an especially urgent topic given the current repression of political speech and queer representation in the U.S.

Join us Thursday, December 11 at 7 pm for a night of conversation with acclaimed authors and activists to discuss AIDS activism, Asian-American identity, and our current political moment. We will be joined by Keiko Lane, who writes and teaches about the intersections of queer culture and kinship, oppression resistance, racial and gender justice, HIV criminalization, reproductive justice, queering sex therapy, and liberation psychology; Eric Wat, whose fiction and non-fiction writing reflects his experiences as a queer Asian immigrant in the U.S. and as an activist who still believes history is made by everyday people; and Jih-Fei Cheng, whose research examines the intersections between science, media, surveillance, and social movements. 

As the final send off to Holding Patterns, we are excited to partner with Visual Aids, MOCA, and Chicano Study Research Center’s Latina Futures 2050 Lab on Last Address Tribute: Los Angeles. 

The event honors sites, people, and histories of Downtown and East LA critical to understanding artistic, community-based narratives of the AIDS epidemic, with a focus on queer Chicanx artists and activists. We are honored to tribute Laura Aguilar, Gil Cuadros, Ray Navarro, and Yolanda Retter.

A bus will transport attendees across the three locations of with tributes expressed by family, friends, scholars, curators, and archivists who have cared for the memories of these queer Los Angelenos. The event runs from 1-4 pm and snacks will be provided. This is a ticketed event with limited capacity. Please save the date: tickets will launch December 3. Check your inbox for an update when the event registration is live.

CURATORIAL NEWS

There’s still time to see Holding Patterns before it closes on December 20. Make sure to see this multi-media installation on loss and archival care before it’s gone.

ANNOUNCING: NEED ME, or, (de)mystifying the myth of the modern primitive, coming February 25, 2026. NEED ME presents the Western renaissance of body piercing as a definitively queer history rooted in the sexual underground – one that provided a vital bloodline to the pulse of queer artistic production through the 1980s and 1990s. The exhibition will trace the networks of queer individuals through magazines, correspondence, ephemera, photography, and new commissioned works by ONE’s latest artist-in-residence Noorann Matties. NEED ME is curated by ONE Archives Getty Marrow Emerging Professionals Curatorial Assistant Quetzal Arévalo.

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