X-TRA is the longest-running contemporary art journal in Los Angeles. For nearly twenty-five years, the publication has served the creative community of greater LA by providing a space for critical dialogue and artistic experimentation in print. Throughout its history, the managing institution Project X has evolved the journal and related year-round events to best reflect the needs of its audience and those of the artists it serves. In recent years, the organization has expanded its online platform, X-TRA Online, and produced a full calendar of public talks and lectures. Shifting to a biannual print schedule in order to to respond to a surge in readership of its online articles as well as a higher volume of digital submissions from artists and arts writers, X-TRA is committed to print as a form. The journal continues to highlight work made by Los Angeles-based artists, while considering it within a larger international art making context
Project X Foundation for Art & Criticism/X-TRA
“The terrific range of project proposals we receive each year speaks to the mobile and porous disciplinary boundaries of contemporary art practice, and to the rich and inventive ways writers approach art today. They are alert to the urgent need to expand the conventions of art history and criticism with ideas from other discourses, such as black studies, transnational and diaspora studies, gender and women’s studies, and LGBT studies. The work of lesser known and overlooked artists and art communities continues to be mined, with writers articulating new ways to counter the striking imbalances of race, class and gender that continue to affect the arts and the culture industry.”