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Your Concise Los Angeles Art Guide for October 2022

Your list of must-see, fun, insightful, and very Los Angeles art events this month, including the Maya Codex of Mexico at the Getty, Beatrice Wood, Trenton Doyle Hancock, and more. | Matt Stromberg 

October will have us looking back and forward simultaneously in Los Angeles, with historical shows alongside new bodies of work from contemporary artists. These start 1,000 years back with the Maya Codex of Mexico (Códice Maya de México) at the Getty, then jump to the 20th century with exhibitions devoted to the “Mama of Dada” Beatrice Wood at LA Louver, and a homage to the late transgressive performance artist Bob Flanagan at Kristina Kite.

HIGHLIGHTS THIS WEEK

Ana Mendieta, “Untitled: Silueta Series 1976 / 2001” (July 1976) (© 2022 The Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection, LLC, courtesy Galerie Lelong & Co. / Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York)

Joan Didion: What She Means
The Hammer Museum, opening October 11

Curated by writer and critic Hilton Als, Joan Didion: What She Means attempts to reflect the writer's vast influence and legacy through the works of 50 or so visual artists, including Felix Gonzales-Torres, Ana Mendieta, Betye Saar, and more.

Sarah Pucci and Dorthy Iannone
Hannah Hoffman Gallery through October 15

This show at Hannah Hoffman pairs sculptures by Dorthy Iannone's mother, Sarah Pucci, with collages that Iannone made on a 1962 trip to Japan, drawing connections between the formal and familial.

Códice Maya de México
The Getty Center, opening October 18

Only four pre-Conquest Maya manuscripts are known to have survived, and the Códice Maya de México is the oldest, estimated to have been written about 900 years ago. The Getty’s exhibition will be the first time the manuscript has been seen in the US in half a century.

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CLOSING SOON

Kaari Upson, “Kris’s Dollhouse,” detail (2017–19) (photo by An Xiao Mina/Hyperallergic)

Kaari Upson: never, never ever, never in my life, never in all my born days, never in all my life, never
Sprüth Magers through October 8

Lee Alexander McQueen: Mind, Mythos, Muse
Los Angeles County Museum of Art through October 9

ON VIEW IN MUSEUMS & GALLERIES

Stars Don’t Stand Still in the Sky: A Tribute to Lawrence Weiner
Regen Projects through October 22

Martin Roemers: Relics of the Cold War
Wende Museum through October 23

The Medium is the Message: Flags and Banners
Wende Museum through October 23

Beatrice Wood: Drawings, Prints, Ceramics
L.A. Louver through October 29

Lily van der Stokker: What is it
Parker Gallery through October 29

Trenton Doyle Hancock: Good Grief, Bad Grief
Shulamit Nazarian through October 29

Ray Anthony Barrett: …of frontiers and phantoms
Wilding Cran through October 29