Guide
15 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles This Summer
A romp through early punk culture, Odilon Redon’s dreamy portraiture, Willie Birch’s papier-mâché odes to New Orleans, Samella Lewis’s visions in woodcut, and more.
Los Angeles
Feature
Unofficial Iraqi Pavilion Pops Up in Venice, but Not That One
Ali Eyal and David Horvitz satirize America’s oil war in an installation at a Chevron gas station on Venice Boulevard.
Feature
The Private Worlds of Charlotte Brontë and Octavia E. Butler
Behind The Huntington Library’s glass cases, the layers of motherhood, career, friendship, family, and loss are revealed in personal objects.
Art Review
Haegue Yang’s Constellations for a Divided Korea
The artist’s play on light and shadow transforms Venetian blinds into haunting reflections on exile, borders, and the longing for reunification.
Art Review
Todd Gray Reframes Black Diasporic History
His installations of layered photos drawn from an expansive Black heritage entice viewers to keep looking, find connections, and ask questions.
Community
Beer With a Painter: Keith Mayerson
“I wanted to rip the mask off the signifier and just deal with the signified,” said the cartoonist-turned-painter who depicts a cosmology of American identity and activism.
Features
Getting Messy in the Archive at LA’s Art Book Fair
This year’s edition of the annual Printed Matter show unearths and remixes historical media, collapsing time and giving the past new relevance.
Obituary
Steven Durland, Champion of Performance Art, Dies at 75
A longtime editor of High Performance magazine in Los Angeles, Durland maintained his own practice while advocating for the art form.
Guide
10 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles This May
Remembering Celeste Dupuy-Spencer, Yoko Ono’s first museum show in LA, Richard Mayhew’s “mindscapes,” Gordon Parks’s musical output, and more.
News
The Box LA, Beloved Risk-Taking Art Space, Closes After 19 Years
The gallery was known for its fearless, playful programming and support of unconventional work and exhibitions.
News
Mexican Cultural Workers Denounce Pedro Reyes Sculpture at LACMA
A letter signed by 80 people, including Carmen Argote and Cuauhtémoc Medina, says the museum ignored the contentious history of a similar artwork rejected by Mexico City in 2021.
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Announcement
Printed Matter’s LA Art Book Fair Returns May 7–10
Connect with 250 international artists, publishers, and booksellers and celebrate the art publishing community at ArtCenter South Campus in Pasadena, California.