This week, a David Hammons exhibition prompts a rethinking of what we consider worthy art, highlights from last weekend’s LA Art Book Fair, and more.
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Los Angeles • May 20, 2025

David Hammons Gets at the Why? of It

His elegantly simple exhibition — just darkness and flashlights — prompts a rethinking of what we consider worthy art. | Nereya Otieno

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FAIR HIGHLIGHTS

Looking for Subculture? It’s at LA’s Art Book Fair 

The diverse array of printed matter on view points to the role of small publishers in archiving and restoring lesser-told histories, preventing them from being forgotten. |Matt Stromberg

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Amalia Mesa-Bains’s altars to memory, Akinsanya Kambon’s Pan-Africanist sculptures, colonial wine production, restaging Diane Arbus’s 1972 retrospective, and more. | Matt Stromberg

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