Los Angeles
March 29, 2023
LA’s Hammer Museum Wants to Be Seen
After two decades of renovations, the museum that calls itself a “well-kept secret” reopens with a mission to be more visible. | Anne Wallentine
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FROM OUR CRITICS
An Artist’s Hopeful Vision of the Ocean
Indonesian artist Mulyana crafts a tactile, mystical world in which fish, whales, and coral reefs coexist with sea monsters. | Renée Reizman
Mulyana: Modular Utopia
Feb. 25–Apr. 13, 2023
USC Fisher Museum of Art, 823 West Exposition Boulevard, University Park (fisher.usc.edu)
Memories So Fair and Bright
Kimetha Vanderveen's paintings are about the interaction of materiality and light, the bond between the palpable and ephemeral world in which we live. | John Yau
Kimetha Vanderveen
Feb. 11–Apr. 1, 2023
Peter Mendenhall Gallery, 180 South Lake Avenue, Suite 110, Pasadena (petermendenhallgallery.com)
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ON OUR RADAR
William Kentridge: In Praise of Shadows
Nov. 12–Apr. 9, 2023
The Broad, 221 South Grand Avenue, Downtown, Los Angeles (thebroad.org)
South African artist William Kentridge has wrestled with his country’s tortured history, and his own identity as a White South African, throughout his career. In Praise of Shadows brings together 130 works created over 35 years, focusing on the breadth of his output, including drawings, prints, sculptures, theatrical collaborations, and film, including the hand-drawn animations he is best known for, made through a painstaking process of drawing and erasure. A highlight of the show will be Kentridge’s 2012 video installation “The Refusal of Time” which touches on relativity, colonialism, and Victorian industrialism.
Hostile Terrain ‘94: The Undocumented Migration Project
Sept. 17–Jul. 9, 2023
LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes, 501 North Main Street, Downtown (lapca.org)
In 1994, the United States Border Patrol initiated an approach to immigration enforcement called “Prevention Through Deterrence,” which pushed undocumented migrants away from well-traveled border crossings towards more remote, desolate areas. In the ensuing decades, thousands of migrants have died attempting the perilous journey through the desert. In 2009, UCLA Anthropology Professor Jason De León started the Undocumented Migration Project (UMP) to study border crossings and educate about migration issues through research and art. Hostile Terrain ‘94: The Undocumented Migration Project showcases the work of the UMP through photographic chronicles of migration, collections of objects left behind by those navigating the desert, and a recording studio where visitors can share their personal stories of immigration. The exhibition also features a 16-foot-long map of the Arizona-Mexico border, with tags bearing the names of those who lost their lives while crossing, marking the location where their bodies were found.
