This Museum Wants to Reignite Performance Art in Los Angeles

“We’re building on the generations before us that have grown from the fertile grounds of California,” said Museum of Performance Art founder Samuel Vasquez. | Matt Stromberg

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Dancers Call for Fair Wages During Joan Jonas Performance at Getty

Performers say they received a $1,000 flat rate for a week of work including rehearsals and performances in 80-degree weather. | Angella D’Avignon

ART SHOWS TO SEE RIGHT NOW

Wendy Red Star: Bíikkua (The Hide Scraper)

at Roberts Projects through August 24

Bíikkua (The Hide Scraper) features 184 meticulously rendered Bishkisché paintings, each named for a woman in Red Star’s tribe, in an attempt to reclaim the abstractions that have been subsumed into Western art history and pay homage to their origins and creators.

Gordon Parks

at Pace Gallery through August 30

Gordon Parks was a versatile and boundary-smashing photographer whose work ranged from documenting the Civil Rights movement to celebrity, fashion, and sports portraits and photo essays as the first Black staff photographer for Life magazine. Pace’s exhibition spans the early 1940s to the mid ’80s, and features roughly 40 photographs.

Hogar Dulce Hogar

at The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture through September 22

In an era of widespread migration, displacement, and diaspora, what does the idea of “home” mean? This is the question behind Hogar Dulce Hogar, an exhibition featuring 18 artists from the Inland Empire for whom home is less a specific physical location than a fluid combination of family, memory, and site.

IN SAN DIEGO

The Chicanx and Latinx Artists Who Made the Border a Connection Point

Suturing the Border shows how an international group of artists built relationships along this nebulous zone dividing Mexico and the United States. | Renée Reizman