This week: How Lesly Pierre Paul’s New Vision Art School keeps neighborhood’s children out of gangs through the arts, reviews of Nora Turato, Katherine Behar, and more.
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Los Angeles • April 16, 2024

A Haitian Artist Fights Gang Life With Art

Lesly Pierre Paul’s New Vision Art School turns to the arts as a way to continue local traditions and keep the neighborhood’s children out of gangs. 

Jennifer Remenchick

Art Under Siege: The Art of Lesly Pierre Paul and the Students of His New Vision Art School

at Galerie Lakaye through May 11

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Curator Michaëla Mohrmann Introduces Spiritual Geographies at UCI Langson IMCA

In this video, curator Michaëla Mohrmann introduces the exhibition Spiritual Geographies: Religion and Landscape Art in California 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.

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Nora Turato Makes Collective Angst Creative

The artist unveils the frenzied, emotional underpinnings of consumption, transforming collective angst into her own creative product.

Claudia Ross

Nora Turato: it’s not true!!! stop lying!
at Sprüth Magers through April 27

Machines Cannot Replace Human Boredom

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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OPENING THIS WEEK

Explore more than 150 of Maurice Sendak’s drawings, storyboards, and paintings in Wild Things Are Happening, opening at the Skirball Cultural Center this Thursday, April 18.

“The exhibition includes artworks related to his beloved children’s books including Where the Wild Things Are (1963), In the Night Kitchen (1970), and Outside Over There (1981), alongside his illustrations for books by other authors and designs for opera, television, and film. The show also explores his collaborations with Spike Jonze, Tony Kushner, Twyla Tharp, and other creatives, as well as his own inspirations, from Shakespeare to Herman Melville.” — Matt Stromberg  

Wild Things Are Happening: The Art of Maurice Sendak

at the Skirball Cultural Center, April 18–September 1

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