Los Angeles “As horrifying as the details of my family story are, that is literally every émigré story. Your only choice is to leave everything behind,” says artist Jenny Yurshansky. | Matt Stromberg The school’s 2022 cohort was encouraged to fail, get messy, and try new things. | Caroline Ellen Liou WHAT TO CATCH THIS WEEK Installation view of Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo) at Hannah Hoffman, 2022 (photo by Paul Salveson, image courtesy the artist and Hannah Hoffman, Los Angeles) An Other Pretty Autumn
The Box through May 21The inimitable, the legendary, and the iconic Simone Forti has no doubt been the subject of countless exhibitions, but rarely does one feel as gentle of an embrace as An Other Pretty Autumn. Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo)
Hannah Hoffman through May 21The artistsheds some of the mechanisms of distance like the sexiness, humor, and critique that characterized so much of her work under the moniker of Puppies Puppies to reveal more of herself as Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo. CFGNY: Import Imprint
Bel Ami through May 21CFGNY, short for Concept Foreign Garment New York or Cute Fucking Gay New York, makes their Los Angeles debut in Chinatown’s Bel Ami. American Artist: Shaper of God
Roy and Edna Disney / CalArts Theater, opening May 28Whether tied to science or fiction, this show promises to ground Octavia E. Butler’s universe within the realities of Los Angeles, and conversely, unearth the fantasies embedded in the making of the city. Become a Member ON VIEW IN MUSEUMS Background of Princess Mononoke (1997) (© 1997 Studio Ghibli – ND) Hayao Miyazaki
Academy Museum of Motion Pictures through June 5 Pipilotti Rist: Big Heartedness, Be My Neighbor
Geffen Contemporary at the Museum of Contemporary Art through June 6 Ebon: Fear of a Black Planet: A project by Black Kirby
Culver Center of the Arts through June 19 Flesh and Bones: The Art of Anatomy
Getty Research Institute through July 10 Barbara Kruger: Thinking of You. I Mean Me. I Mean You
Los Angeles County Museum of Art through July 17 Sonic Terrains in Latinx Art
Vincent Price Art Museum through July 30 | 