In 2022, Los Angeles-based feminist artist Nancy Buchanan decided to throw a dinner party to discuss the politics of the nuclear state. Out of that event was born the feminist collective Slow War Against the Nuclear State -- better known as SWANS. Three SWANS members grew up with fathers who were deeply involved in the production of atomic weapons, while two had parents who were anti-war and anti-nuclear activists. The exhibition "Atomic Dragons," on view recreantly at Pitzer College Art Galleries in Claremont, CA, includes contributions from each SWANS member, focusing on photography's role in nuclear weapons development and the human cost of nuclear disasters.

  Saturday, April 11: Haas Brothers | Uncanny Valley at MAD Museum This wildly imaginative mid-career survey will plunge visitors into the exuberant, uncanny worlds of twin artists Nikolai and Simon Haas. Spanning more than fifteen years of collaborative practice, the show brings together approximately 85 works, featuring the surreal hybrid creatures, imaginative environments, and exuberant material experimentation across art, design, craft, and technology the b...