Los Angeles: Cathartic Public Art, Including an Ode to Missed Parties

Remember parties? Over at Grand Park, Tanya Aguiñiga and Mark “Frosty” McNeill have a buoyant install

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Remember parties? Over at Grand Park, Tanya Aguiñiga and Mark “Frosty” McNeill have a buoyant installation of music, balloons, and party materials. It’s part of Art Rise, an exhibition spread all over the city this month. See it through photojournalist Samanta Helou Hernandez’s eyes. In news, cherished LA art spaces — like the Underground Museum and the Museum of Neon Art — are getting the money they need after a rough year. Also, Chon Noriega is stepping down as the director of UCLA’s Chicano Studies Research Center after 19 years. Read our interview with him from last year. And Caroline Liou highly recommends catching the last week of Nonaka-Hill’s Busy Work at Home: “If there’s any show that can coax you back into seeing art in-person, let it be this one.” Here is a beautiful video by Nathan Gulick that travels through the exhibition. — Elisa Wouk Almino, Senior Editor

Cathartic Public Art, Including an Ode to All the Missed Parties We Rise, an initiative of the LA County Department of Health, has taken over Los Angeles with altars, canopies, and dance rituals. Samanta Helou Hernandez

Dozens of LA Arts Nonprofits Receive Over $36M In Post-Pandemic Relief Nearly three-quarters of grantees are founded by, led by, or have a board majority of Black, Latinx, Asian, or Indigenous leaders. Valentina Di Liscia

How Does Plastic Age? Conservators Are Taking a Closer Look A new project is researching how Soviet-era plastics were made and used. Karen Chernick

Navigating Home, the Way Children Might See It Stuck at home as we have been, Busy Work at Home invites us to rediscover our sense of wonder. Caroline Ellen Liou

Closing Soon

Yōshū Chikanobu, “Famous Sights of Nikkō: Hannya and Hōtō Waterfalls” (1891) (photo courtesy © Japan House Los Angeles)

Nature/Supernature at Japan House Los Angeles through May 31 The New Contemporaries Vol. 2 at Residency Art Gallery through June 5 Amy Sherald: The Great American Fact at Hauser & Wirth LA through June 6 Call Card at Los Angeles Contemporary Archive (LACA) through June 12

On View in LA Museums

Paul Pescador: PSA at Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles through May 30 Yoshitomo Nara at LACMA through July 5 Made in LA at the Hammer Museum through August 1 Intergalactix: against isolation/contra el aislamiento at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE) through August 14 Mesopotamia: Civilization Begins at the Getty Villa through August 16 Judson Studios: Stained Glass from Gothic to Street Style at Forest Lawn Museum through September 12 Making Time at Craft Contemporary through September 12 Common Fantasy/Gemeinsame Fantasie at the Wende Museum Garden through October 21 Rights and Rituals: The Making of African American Debutante Culture at the California African American Museum through February 27, 2022

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