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Jun 16, 2021 • View in browser

Hey LA,

This week we highlight some MOCA programming, as the museum reopened this month. Also, LACMA just reinstalled its modern art collection and there are some gems worth visiting, like Frida Kahlo’s weeping coconuts and Michael C. McMillen’s wild, immersive garage installation, which hasn’t been on view at the museum in 20 years.

In other news, the Orange County Museum of Art announced on Monday that it will be officially opening its new building in October 2022. (More about the design of the building, by Morphosis Architects, here.) The museum will open with the return of the California Biennial, which ran from 1984 to 2010. It’ll be curated by Elizabeth Armstrong, Essence Harden, and Gilbert Vicario. We’re looking forward to seeing the lineup.

— Elisa Wouk Almino, Senior Editor

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Closing Soon

Installation view of "Otherwise/Revival" at Bridge Projects

Rindon Johnson: The Valley of the Moon at François Ghebaly through June 19
Otherwise/Revival at Bridge Projects through June 26
Tomoo Gokita: Fresh at Blum & Poe through June 26
Yoshitomo Nara at LACMA through July 5
Lisa Williamson: Amplifier at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery through July 17
Desire Encapsulated at Make Room Los Angeles from June 19–July 31
Kandis Williams: The Absolute Right to Exclude: Reflections on and Implications of Cheryl Harris’ “Whiteness as Property” at LAXART through July 31
Paulina Peavy: An Etherian Channeler at Mike Kelley Gallery at Beyond Baroque through July 31

In the Galleries

Made in LA at the Hammer Museum through August 1
Lygia Pape: Tupinambá at Hauser & Wirth LA 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
Nari Ward: Say Can You See at Jeffrey Deitch through August 21
Queer Communion: Ron Athey + Kenneth Tam: Silent Spikes at Institute of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, from June 19–September 5
Artists as Collectors at the Getty Center through September 12
Cathy Cooper: Dramatis Personae at Craft Contemporary through September 12
Judson Studios: Stained Glass from Gothic to Street Style at Forest Lawn Museum through September 12
Making Time at Craft Contemporary through September 12
Photo Flux: Unshuttering LA at the Getty Center through October 10
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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