This week, a meditation on LA's housing crisis and its empty, dilapidated properties, the artists of Korea's "silheom misul" movement, and more.
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Los Angeles • April 10, 2024

As Space Becomes Scarce, Artists Take Over an Abandoned LA Structure

Revel Hall was a meditation on empty, dilapidated properties in a city plagued by a housing crisis.

Angella d'Avignon

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Curator Michaëla Mohrmann Introduces Spiritual Geographies at UCI Langson IMCA

In this video, curator Michaëla Mohrmann introduces Spiritual Geographies: Religion and Landscape Art in California, now on view at UCI Langson Institute and Museum of California Art. The exhibition examines how different religious outlooks shaped landscape painting between 1890 and 1930, contributing to California’s reputation as a mystical place.

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FROM OUR CRITICS

How Korean Artists Captured and Resisted a Turbulent Political Era

Artists of the silheom misul movement in the 1960s and ‘70s wrestled with an increasingly globalizing, industrializing, and politically censorious Korean art world.

Alex Paik 

Only the Young: Experimental Art in Korea, 1960s–1970s

at the Hammer Museum through May 12

Machines Cannot Replace Human Boredom

Katherine Behar’s automated office machines simply pantomime labor, just like many bored office workers after they’ve fulfilled their daily email quota.

Renée Reizman 

Katherine Behar: Ack! Knowledge! Work!

at the Beall Center for Art + Technology at the University of California, Irvine, through April 20

Must Asian Americans Always Be Seen in Relation to One Another?

Scratching at the Moon hones in on a loose network of artists that have known each other for decades in Los Angeles. 

Alex Paik 

Scratching at the Moon

at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles through July 28

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WHAT TO SEE THIS WEEKEND

Looking for some art to explore this weekend? We recommend seeing Sargent Claude Johnson at the Huntington Library, which shines a bright light on the California artist that played a seminal role in the West Coast’s counterpart to the Harlem Renaissance.

“The Huntington’s retrospective, the first solo show of his work in 25 years, features 43 artworks in ceramic, oil, stone, and wood, spanning his career from the Great Depression to the Civil Rights Movement. Notably, the exhibition features his massive carved redwood ‘Organ Screen’ (1933–34), which he created for the California School for the Blind in Berkeley, on view alongside his other commissions for the school.” — Matt Stromberg

Sargent Claude Johnson

at The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens through May 20

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