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Your Concise Los Angeles Art Guide for June 2022
Your list of must-see, fun, insightful, and very Los Angeles art events this month, including Jesse Mockrin, Ken Gun Min, Farah Al Qasimi, and more. | Caroline Ellen Liou
OPENING THIS WEEK
Knees, Schools, Urges
The Box, opening June 3
Pieter Performance Space and The Box present a performance-program-slash-exhibition of ten dancers-slash-artists exploring the city’s undocumented and under-recognized histories of modern dance.
Uta Barth: Figure/Ground, Figure Ground
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, opening June 3
Curated by art writer and teacher Jan Tumlir, the exhibition promises a poetic reflection on absence and presence, object and subject, and the camera’s inevitable blurring between the two.
LATEST REVIEWS
Deconstructing the Masculinity of Hercules
Artist Kyle Staver’s portrayal of the mythic hero feels balanced, as if to say: sure, the 12 labors are absurd, but isn’t all human endeavor? | Daniel Gerwin
Queering the Archive, Tracing One’s History
The artists showcased in Archival Intimacies examine the colonial trauma’s impact on Asian Americans and search for ways to overcome it. | Vanessa Holyoak
IN THE NEWS
Months After Opening, LA’s Academy Museum Workers Move to Unionize
Staff cited wage discrepancies, allegedly inadequate responses to COVID-19 outbreaks, and being asked to do work outside their job description. | Matt Stromberg
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CLOSING SOON
Pipilotti Rist, "Neighbors Without Fences" (2021), video still, audio video installation (© Pipilotti Rist, courtesy the artist, Hauser & Wirth, and Luhring Augustine)
Pipilotti Rist: Big Heartedness, Be My Neighbor
Geffen Contemporary at the Museum of Contemporary Art through June 6
how we are in time and space: Nancy Buchanan, Marcia Hafif, and Barbara T. Smith
Armory Center for the Arts through June 12
Jesse Mockrin: Reliquary
Night Gallery through June 18
Farah Al Qasimi: Surge
François Ghebaly through June 18
Restored / Access: Keko Jackson
Fulcrum Press through June 18
ON VIEW IN MUSEUM AND GALLERIES
Ebon: Fear of a Black Planet: A project by Black Kirby
Culver Center of the Arts through June 19
East of the River: Guadalupe Rosales
Commonwealth and Council through June 25
Ken Gun Min: Silverlake Dog Park
Shulamit Nazarian through June 25
Manyu Gao: T-Time
Gattopardo through July 1
Kathleen Henderson: Bluebeard and Other Poolings
Track 16 Gallery through July 2
Flesh and Bones: The Art of Anatomy
Getty Research Institute through July 10
