Los Angeles
December 21, 2022
How Nancy Holt Anticipated the Influencer Age
Though Holt’s photos come from the mid-20th century, they anticipate 21st-century aesthetics and could be a backdrop in an influencer’s desert pilgrimage. | Renée Reizman
Nancy Holt: Locating Perception
Oct. 28—Jan. 14
Sprüth Magers, 5900 Wilshire Boulevard, Mid-Wilshire (spruethmagers.com)
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Visit The Broad in LA This Holiday Season for William Kentridge: In Praise of Shadows
This holiday season, visit The Broad! Experience the new immersive and multi-sensory special exhibition, William Kentridge: In Praise of Shadows. You won’t want to miss this exhibition, as it will capture your imagination through drawings, film, sculpture, installation, theater, and more. Purchase tickets here. General admission at The Broad is always free.
ACROSS THE CITY
Murals in LA Lift the Voices of Iranian Protesters
Murals by Iranian-American artists across the city are inescapable reminders of the regime’s ongoing brutality. | Matt Stromberg
“Culturally I felt very in the middle. This was something that could feel so personal to me, but this isn’t about just me. It’s about all the women who are fighting for their future and future generations,” says artist Katrine Karimpour. “What art can do is amplify those who are not being heard. We are their echoes.”
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EXHIBITION HIGHLIGHTS
For Ruth, The Sky in Los Angeles: Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt and David Horvitz
Nov. 13–Mar. 12, 2023
Wende Museum, 10808 Culver Boulevard, Culver City (wendemuseum.org)
As an artist living under East German repression during the 1970s and ’80s, Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt was an active participant in the Mail Art movement. This allowed her to share her “typewritings” with artists around the world despite state censorship and travel restrictions. For Ruth, The Sky in Los Angeles focuses on the creative and personal exchange between Wolf-Rehfeldt and LA-based artist David Horvitz whose own practice involves poetic moments of connection between people across time and distance.
Michelle Uckotter: Dustbox
Nov. 11–Dec. 23
Marc Selwyn Fine Art, 9953 South Santa Monica Blvd, Beverly Hills (marcselwynfineart.com)
Michelle Uckotter’s eerie interior scenes are rife with disquieting potential, like calm moments in a horror film. Decrepit houses, dusty attics, exposed beams, and vertiginous stairways give the impression of dank and fetid life, even when no people are present. In some of her oil pastel works, she adds a lone female figure, whose sickly pallor suggests a correlation between unstable architecture and the body.
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