Los Angeles: Cache of Photos Reveals LA's Old Chinatown

Before there was New Chinatown, there was Old Chinatown, which was demolished in the 1930s to make wa

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Before there was New Chinatown, there was Old Chinatown, which was demolished in the 1930s to make way for Union Station. You can now see rare photos of the original Chinatown, including bustling street scenes and intimate portraits, in a collection recently donated to the Huntington. Also this week, Allison Conner speaks with Harmony Holiday about her latest video on James Baldwin and his little-discussed suicide attempts. You can watch a trailer of the artwork, called “God’s Suicide,” which is a part of Made in LA: A Version. — Elisa Wouk Almino, Senior Editor

An Exhibition Trembles With Black Spiritualities Otherwise/Revival traces the contours of Black spiritual thought from Louisiana plantations to Azusa Street to our present moment. Allison Conner

Cache of Photos Reveals LA’s Old Chinatown The intimate photos offer a glimpse at an important but under-documented period in Chinese American history. Lauren Moya Ford

An Intimate Look at James Baldwin and His Rarely Discussed Suicide Attempts Harmony Holiday wants to show “the Baldwin who was baffled and befuddled and wounded and perfectly real.” Allison Conner

Closing Soon

Veronica Fernandez, “One to Thirty Days” (2020) (photo by Elon Schoenholz)

The New Contemporaries Vol. 2 at Residency Art Gallery through June 5 Amy Sherald: The Great American Fact at Hauser & Wirth LA through June 6 Call Card at Los Angeles Contemporary Archive (LACA) through June 12 Tomoo Gokita: Fresh at Blum & Poe through June 26

On View in LA Museums

Yoshitomo Nara at LACMA through July 5 Made in LA at the Hammer Museum through August 1 Intergalactix: against isolation/contra el aislamiento at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE) through August 14 Mesopotamia: Civilization Begins at the Getty Villa through August 16 Judson Studios: Stained Glass from Gothic to Street Style at Forest Lawn Museum through September 12 Making Time at Craft Contemporary through September 12 Common Fantasy/Gemeinsame Fantasie at the Wende Museum Garden through October 21 Rights and Rituals: The Making of African American Debutante Culture at the California African American Museum through February 27, 2022

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