This week, a show at The Box examines how fire has shaped art and life west of the San Bernardino Mountains, a new project mappingAltadena’s cultural heritage, and more.
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Los Angeles • June 24, 2025

New Project Will Map Fire-Ravaged Altadena’s Cultural Heritage 

LA’s Getty Foundation is funding the documentation of the historic neighborhood as developers rush to buy up burned lots. | Isa Farfan 

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LATEST REVIEWS

Claudia Ross

Burn Me! at The Box

“These artworks grow under immense natural and unnatural threat, boasting their scars as new metaphors for contemporary life in LA.”

Renée Reizman

Barbara T. Smith: Xerox 914 at Marciano Foundation 

“Once she discovered the Xerox, [Barbara T.] Smith never stopped exposing herself — to the light of the bulb, and to the world through art.”

WHAT TO SEE THIS SUMMER

Jeffrey Gibson: the space in which to place me at The Broad

First presented last year at the 60th Venice Biennale, the space in which to place me includes painted and beaded wall works and sculptures featuring references to America’s history of racism and repression, as well as the perseverance and solidarity among people of color and LGBTQ+ communities.

Imagining Black Diasporas: 21st-Century Art and Poetics at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art

With work by 60 artists from Africa, Europe, and the Americas, and a special focus on those based on the West Coast, Imagining Black Diasporas takes an expansive view of contemporary Black art.

Noah Davis at the Hammer Museum

In his brief career, the late artistNoah Davis established himself as a significant voice in contemporary American painting. This first institutional survey of his work includes more than 50 paintings created between 2007 and 2015, the year he passed away.

See our full list of shows to see in Los Angeles this summer!

FROM THE ARCHIVE

The Hand-Painted Signs and Murals of Latinx LA

Sign painters and muralists have helped create the visual language of Los Angeles. | Samanta Helou Hernandez

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