Doug Aitken’s Poetic Tableau of Southern California

“I wanted to make something aggressively non-linear, using sound and music to express things that hard language couldn’t,” the artist said of his latest work. | Matt Stromberg 

EXHIBITION REVIEW

Natalie Haddad

Sci-fi, Magick, Queer L.A.: Sexual Science and the Imagi-Nation at the USC Fisher Museum of Art

“Photographs of nude muscle men by Morris Scott Dollens and fantastical illustrations of nude women by Margaret Brundage for the covers of Weird Tales draw together these connections between alternate worlds and forms of embodiment and queer desire during an era when heteronormativity was a necessary costume in daily life.”

IN THE NEWS

Chicano Art Patron Cheech Marin Gets Life-Sized Bronze Statue

Artist Ignacio Gómez’s sculpture depicts Cheech with open arms in a gesture of warm welcome to visitors outside his namesake arts center. | Maya Pontone

CLOSING SOON 

• Joe Brainard at Chris Sharp Gallery through Nov. 30

• Tee A. Corinne: A forest fire between us at Webber Gallery through Nov. 30

• William Leavitt: Gothic Electronica at Sebastian Gladstone Gallery through Dec. 1 and Marc Selwyn Fine Art through Dec. 3

• Christopher Suarez: Park Where Ever at Guerrero Gallery through Dec. 7

• In Medias Res: Expanded at the Torrance Art Museum through Dec. 7

• Arthur Jafa: nativemanson at Sprüth Magers through Dec. 14