Los Angeles: Gabriel Sanchez’s Cuban Portraits Grapple With Home and Bel onging

Some of the highlights this week include the acquisition of a rare painting by Artemisia Gentileschi

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Some of the highlights this week include the acquisition of a rare painting by Artemisia Gentileschi by the Getty Museum, a look at Gabriel Sanchez’s Cuban portraits, and from our partners at KCET we take a look at the man who predated Bob Ross as the US’s first art teacher.— Hrag Vartanian, editor-in-chief

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Gabriel Sanchez’s Cuban Portraits Grapple With Home and Belonging Sanchez’s most arresting paintings allow the viewer to get lost in a vast expanse of skin. Caroline Ellen Liou

SPONSORED See "Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts" starting Friday at Laemmle Theatres Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts documents one of America’s greatest self-taught artists, born into slavery, whose work bore witness to profound social change spanning Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and the Great Migration. Traylor was the subject of a major Smithsonian retrospective in 2018. Opens Friday at Laemmle Theatres (in theater and virtual cinema)

Artemisia Gentileschi Masterpiece, Unrecognized for Decades, Is Acquired by Getty “Lucretia” (ca. 1627) remained in private hands for centuries before it was recently rediscovered in a collection in southern France. Valentina Di Liscia

From Our Partners at KCET

Before Bob Ross: Jon Gnagy Was America's First TV Art Teacher As America’s first TV artist debuting in 1946, Jon Gnagy was a predecessor to the now-trendy Bob Ross.

Animated Series Explores LA's Rich Histories for Kids Award-winning animator Elizabeth Ito explores LA’s diverse history in a hybrid documentary and animated series, City of Ghosts.

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Leon Kossoff, “Bacchanal Before a Herm II” (1998), unique artist’s proof, 11.75 x 16.5 inches (image courtesy LA Louver)

Gabriel Sanchez: Mirando al Mundo through April 17 at Luis De Jesus Los Angeles Ben Sakoguchi: Chinatown through April 24 at Bel Ami Leon Kossoff: Drawn From Revelry through April 30 online at LA Louver The Billboard Creative through April 30 at public sites across Los Angeles

On View in LA Museums

Sula Bermúdez-Silverman: Neither Fish, Flesh, nor Fowl through May 2 at California African American Museum Yoshitomo Nara through July 5 at LACMA Paul Pescador: PSA currently open at Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles afroLAtinidad: mi casa, my city open indefinitely at LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes

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