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This past Saturday, hundreds in Los Angeles gathered to commemorate Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day. An all-female Armenian collective of artists, known as the She Loves Collective, planned a beautiful exhibition in time for this important day in which visitors could spend time with the many relics of Armenian homes. You can still see the show through this Sunday.

Also this weekend, LACMA launches a documentary series on the politics of street vending in Los Angeles, and if you’re feeling ready to see art in-person, I suggest popping over to the California African American Museum. Personally, I will never watch a Tina Turner performance in the same way again.

— Elisa Wouk Almino, Senior Editor

A Tribute to Los Angeles's Street Vendors

Ruben Ochoa and Pete Galindo are premiering The Politics of Street Vendors in Los Angeles with LACMA this Saturday.

Elisa Wouk Almino

Nikita Gale Makes the Labor of Tina Turner’s Performances Visible

Gale considers the work occurring behind the scenes and how technologies structure our experience of live performances.

Allison Conner

A Home of Armenian Relics Becomes a Space to Heal From Trauma

My Relic tells stories of Armenian culture through the lens of female Armenian artists living in the diaspora.

Matt Stromberg

A Fragrance Bottles Up the Everyday Scents of Former East Germany

Notes of mold and tobacco hit quickly, with raspberry candies cutting through the musk, personifying the feeling of “bittersweet.”

Renée Reizman

Closing Soon

Khari Johnson-Ricks, “Juneteenth Should Be a National Holiday“ (2021), 90" x 91" (image courtesy the artist and Night Gallery)

Leon Kossoff: Drawn From Revelry through April 30 online at LA Louver
The Billboard Creative through April 30 at public sites across Los Angeles
John Waters: Hollywood’s Greatest Hits through May 1 at Sprüth Magers
Khari Johnson-Ricks: Feel Me? through May 1 at Night Gallery
Sula Bermúdez-Silverman: Neither Fish, Flesh, nor Fowl through May 2 at the California African American Museum
Ameh Egwuh: Life After Life through May 8 at Rele Gallery
New Iconography: Artists Raising Children through May 8 at the Landing
Stanley Whitney: How Black is That Blue through May 8 at Matthew Marks Gallery
Brenna Youngblood: the LIGHT and the DARK through May 15 at Roberts Projects

On View in LA Museums

Yoshitomo Nara through July 5 at LACMA
Made in LA through August 1 at the Hammer Museum
Judson Studios: Stained Glass from Gothic to Street Style through September 12 at Forest Lawn Museum
Common Fantasy/Gemeinsame Fantasie through October 21 at the Wende Museum Garden
Paul Pescador: PSA currently open at Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
afroLAtinidad: mi casa, my city on view indefinitely at LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes

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