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September 29, 2021 • View in browser

For Inspiration, Betye Saar Turns to Her Doll Collection

Saar's irreverent paintings of dolls from her collection celebrate the catharsis she found in play. | Colony Little

The New Academy Museum of Motion Pictures and Hollywood’s Ugly Truths

The museum details the process of moviemaking, from its inception in storytelling all the way to its marketing. But interwoven into these exhibits are ugly truths. | Carman Tse

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CLOSING SOON

Dorothea Lange, “Pledge of Allegiance, Raphael Weill Elementary School, San Francisco”
(negative April 20, 1942, print about 1960s), featured in In Focus: Protest

Photo Flux: Unshuttering LA
Getty Center, through October 10

In Focus: Protest
Getty Center, through October 10

Michael C. McMillen: A Theory of Smoke
LA Louver, through October 16

ON VIEW IN MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES

Common Fantasy/Gemeinsame Fantasie
Wende Museum Garden, through October 21

Enrique Castrejon: Mind Heart Rectum
Bermudez Projects, through October 30

Betye Saar: Black Doll Blues
Roberts Projects, through November 6

Photo Cameroon: Studio Portraiture, 1970s-1990s
Fowler Museum at UCLA, through December 5

Alison Saar: Of Aether and Earthe
Armory Center for the Arts and Benton Museum of Art, through December 12

Sadie Barnette: Legacy & Legend
Benton Museum of Art and Pitzer College Art Galleries, through December 18