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REFRAMING DIORAMAS Natural History Museum of Los Angeles

This beautiful show grapples with the history and purpose of habitat dioramas—those eerily lifelike tableaus found in darkened museum halls—and, by extension, questions the past and present life of...

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WILLIAM KENTRIDGE at The Wallis

In his monumental displays of structure, history, movement and sound—operatic compositions that unabashedly aspire to the now-“traditional” status of Gesamtkunstwerk, William Kentridge has become a...

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RUBY ZARSKY at Ceradon

Goddesses once etched into stone tablets and later deified in oil paintings now live another immortal existence: nude or scantily clad, wet and voluptuous, digitally rendered and plastered across...

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ORDINARY PEOPLE at MOCA

MOCA’s “Ordinary People” manages to tell a story about photorealism that is eclectic, diverse, condescending and drab. Homage to the People of the Bronx: Double Dutch at Kelly Street – La Freeda,...

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PIPPA GARNER at STARS

The artist died during the run of her exhibition, just a few days before the new year. It is fitting given that Pippa Garner used her body as a sort of extended art project, something she worked on for...

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FAYE DRISCOLL at REDCAT

I’ve always said that I have a crush on dance—on the medium itself, its libidinousness, its structural uninhibitedness, the insanity of memorizing your body’s movements on command and then repeating...

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ANGELYNE at Melrose Botanical Garden

As I fought through crosstown traffic, the messages came in fast and furious. Hurry up!… Where are you?!… She’s about to arrive!… You’re gonna miss her corvette pull up! When I finally parked and made...

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PAUL THEK at Hannah Hoffman

I ring the buzzer three, maybe four times at 725 N. Western. No one answers. While I debate whether to abandon my mission, a man with a ladder leaves a side gate open and I slip in. Wandering through a...

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DUELLING REVIEWS: Doug Aitken at Regen Projects and the Marciano Art Foundation

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Ed Gomez at the MXCL BNL LAB

The long-running MexiCali Biennial got a recent boost from Mellon Foundation and is currently making its mark in the eastern LA suburb of Whittier. The space, which also houses an archive, MXCL BNL...

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Ramekon O’Arwisters at Craft Contemporary

  Textile art has not always been one of my favorite mediums, but Ramekon O’Arwisters’ exhibit altered my thinking. At a time where being Black and Queer, and any semblance of DEI seems fraught – the...

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Ryan Preciado at Palm Springs Art Museum

Palm Springs’ annual Modernism Week dominates the city in February, but I caught this quiet, elegant exhibit at the museum’s satellite space. It’s a revelatory history and homage to Frank Lloyd Wright...

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DERRIANN PHARR at Luis De Jesus Los Angeles

It’s not uncommon that an art show claims to deconstruct the human form and challenge societal notions of beauty. Derrian Pharr’s innovative “I Am a Bloodstone” makes good on this promise. The...

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KELLY AKASHI at Lisson Gallery

  Time is a common theme in Kelly Akashi’s work. Doilies inherited from her grandmother represent the past. The artist’s hands, cast in bronze, serve as timestamps for the present—  lines and wrinkles...

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HAILEY HEATON at Authorized Dealer

  Sontag famously wrote about the photograph as a means of securing ownership over an ethereal past. Her words come to mind as one moves through Hailey Heaton’s “Hissyfit,” which reckons with the...

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