This week, a meditation on LA's housing crisis and its empty, dilapidated properties, the artists of Korea's "silheom misul" movement, and more.
| | | Revel Hall was a meditation on empty, dilapidated properties in a city plagued by a housing crisis. | Angella d'Avignon |
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SPONSORED | | | | In this video, curator Michaëla Mohrmann introduces Spiritual Geographies: Religion and Landscape Art in California, now on view at UCI Langson Institute and Museum of California Art. The exhibition examines how different religious outlooks shaped landscape painting between 1890 and 1930, contributing to California’s reputation as a mystical place. | Watch now |
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| | | | Artists of the silheom misul movement in the 1960s and ‘70s wrestled with an increasingly globalizing, industrializing, and politically censorious Korean art world. | Alex Paik | Only the Young: Experimental Art in Korea, 1960s–1970sat the Hammer Museum through May 12 |
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| | | Katherine Behar’s automated office machines simply pantomime labor, just like many bored office workers after they’ve fulfilled their daily email quota. | Renée Reizman | Katherine Behar: Ack! Knowledge! Work!at the Beall Center for Art + Technology at the University of California, Irvine, through April 20 |
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| | | Scratching at the Moon hones in on a loose network of artists that have known each other for decades in Los Angeles. | Alex Paik | Scratching at the Moonat the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles through July 28 |
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| | Looking for some art to explore this weekend? We recommend seeing Sargent Claude Johnson at the Huntington Library, which shines a bright light on the California artist that played a seminal role in the West Coast’s counterpart to the Harlem Renaissance. | “The Huntington’s retrospective, the first solo show of his work in 25 years, features 43 artworks in ceramic, oil, stone, and wood, spanning his career from the Great Depression to the Civil Rights Movement. Notably, the exhibition features his massive carved redwood ‘Organ Screen’ (1933–34), which he created for the California School for the Blind in Berkeley, on view alongside his other commissions for the school.” — Matt Stromberg | Sargent Claude Johnsonat The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens through May 20 | See more this month’s exhibition highlights in Los Angeles |
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