Los Angeles: The Women Artists Who Found Inspiration in Friendship

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June 8, 2022 • View in browser

Birria and No-Fuss Artwork at LA’s Tlaloc Studios

You can find plenty of alternative spaces in Los Angeles, but Tlaloc Studios mixes up-and-coming and established artists in a way that feels authentic. | Eva Recinos

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WHAT TO CATCH THIS WEEKEND

Installation view of Farah Al Qasimi: Surge at François Ghebaly, 2022 (photo by Paul Salveson, image courtesy the artist and François Ghebaly, Los Angeles)

Farah Al Qasimi: Surge
François Ghebaly through June 18

Farah Al Qasimi takes the 1975 Japanese film version of “The Little Mermaid” as the premise for her Los Angeles debut Surge, spinning the fairytale classic into a contemporary tale to reveal how utterly depressing its modern-day equivalent would be.

Jesse Mockrin: Reliquary
Night Gallery through June 18

Reliquary is a tour de force of Jesse Mockrin’s exquisitely rendered oil paintings, which draw on Western canonical imagery to make the classical contemporary.

Restored / Access: Keko Jackson
Fulcrum Press through June 18

Few are familiar with the history of Allensworth, the first town in California to be founded, financed, and governed exclusively by Black people. This town is the subject of Restored / Access, a project by artist and archivist Keko Jackson.

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Summer Happenings Return to The Broad!

We’re kicking off the season with mariachi, short films, rap, and more in the museum, a DJ set + cash bar on the plaza, and late-night access to our Murakami + This is Not America’s Flag exhibitions.

Use promo code NWH10 for $10 off tickets.

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The Women Artists Who Found Inspiration in Friendship

Nancy Buchanan, Marcia Hafif, and Barbara T. Smith shared studio and exhibition spaces, babysat each other’s children, and took part in one another’s avant-garde work. | Anya Ventura

Kevin Beasley Threads Wires That Connect Los Angeles With the South

While this exhibition exists in an austere white cube, far away from the heavy heat and kudzu of Virginia or Louisiana, the artist invokes the South through material and conceptual pull. | Noah Simblist

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ON VIEW AT MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES

Kyle Staver “Hercules and the Harpies” (2022), oil on canvas, 68 x 58 x 1 1/2 inches (image courtesy the artist and Moskowitz Bayse, Los Angeles)

Kyle Staver: Show of Strength
Moskowitz Bayse through June 18

Andrea Fraser: This Meeting is Being Recorded
Hammer Museum through June 19

Ebon: Fear of a Black Planet: A project by Black Kirby
Culver Center of the Arts through June 19

East of the River: Guadalupe Rosales
Commonwealth and Council through June 25

Ken Gun Min: Silverlake Dog Park
Shulamit Nazarian through June 25

Manyu Gao: T-Time
Gattopardo through July 1

Kathleen Henderson: Bluebeard and Other Poolings
Track 16 Gallery through July 2

Knees, Schools, Urges
The Box through July 9