This week, an exhibition flexes the state’s wide-ranging visual language and a new museum pays homage to Al’s Bar the legendary watering hole and hub for artists in pre-gentrification downtown.
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Los Angeles • April 22, 2025

LA’s Newest Museum Pays Homage to an Iconic Bar

Musée du Al is the creation of Marc Kreisel, founder of Al’s Bar, the legendary watering hole and hub for artists in pre-gentrification downtown. | Matt Stromberg

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FROM OUR CRTICS

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Public Texts: A Californian Visual Language at the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at the University of California, Santa Barbara

“Instead of narrowing down California to just one language, curator Alex Lukas makes room for many dialects in his exhibition.”

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Otis College of Art and Design 2025 MFA Thesis Exhibitions at 9045 Lincoln Boulevard

“Across 13 solo thesis exhibitions on view this winter and spring, Otis’s most recent graduating class takes up its founder’s creed, rendering the city — its structures, landscapes, art, and people — anew.”

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Madam X’s spiritual diagrams, Umar Rashid curates Robert Colescott, Carole Caroompas’s anti-hero journey, 50 years of L.A. Louver, and more. | Matt Stromberg 

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