Los Angeles: Artist studios, Hall of Records, Farshid Bazmandegan

A View From the Easel in Los Angeles

This week, artists in Los Angeles find freedom in tight spaces, take the pressure out of their studio routine, and revel in the sunset outside their window. | Lakshmi Rivera Amin

CLOSING SOON

Renée Reizman

Out of Site: Survey Science and the Hidden West at the Autry Museum of the American West through Jan. 5, 2025

“The terrain that became actor Gene Autry’s jubilant Hollywood playground bears the scars of genocide, extraction, and ecological damage from military testing.”

Nathan Gelgud

Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice at the Hammer Museum through Jan. 5, 2025.

“Am I being cynical? I sometimes felt like it, but then I say a portrait of Greta Thunberg by Yoshitomo Nara and considered what she would make of curator Glenn Kaino saying: We didn’t want to put forth a show that was in any way prescriptive.”

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In LA’s Hall of Records, New Artworks Look to the Past and Future

Teresa Baker and Felix Quintana’s recently unveiled commissions make visible some of the city’s overlooked communities and places. | Matt Stromberg

The Sinister Subtext of Farshid Bazmandegan’s Paintings

The artist’s latest show connects the art industry with geopolitics, urging us to examine our role in a complicated negotiation of denial and strategic ignorance. | Alex Paik