In LA for Frieze Week? Here Is Our Guide to 22 Mind-Expanding Museum Shows to See If You Want to Venture Beyond the Fairs
Visitors in Los Angeles for Frieze Week will have a busy agenda
with the many art fairs and gallery and museum exhibitions. To help
you keep it all straight, here’s a guide to some of the highlights
that are on view at institutions across the city, from Paul
McCarthy’s first US museum survey to the clay biennial at Craft
Contemporary, and much, much more.
“Luchita Hurtado: I Live I
Die I Will Be Reborn“ at the Los Angeles County Museum of
Art
February 16–May 3, 2020
Luchita Hurtado’s Untitled
(1970). Photo by Cole Root, courtesy of the artist and Park
View/Paul Soto, Los Angeles and Brussels.
After decades of supporting the careers of her husband, Lee
Mullican, and son, Matt Mullican, while privately nurturing her own
artistic practice, Luchita Hurtado is finally getting her first
solo museum show in the US at the remarkable age of 99. The show
originated at the Serpentine Galleries in London after her rediscovery at the
Hammer’s “Made in LA” biennial in 2018. Expect a treasure trove of
works, both abstract and figurative, that have long waited to see
the light of day.
LACMA is located at 5905 Wilshire Boulevard, Resnick
Pavilion, Los Angeles, California; general admission is
$25.
“Ann Greene
Kelly“ at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los
Angeles
February 16–June 14, 2020
Ann Greene Kelly, Shirt With
Smokestack (2019). Photo courtesy of the artist and Chapter
NY.
Los Angeles-based artist Ann Greene Kelly is having her first
museum solo show. In it, she offers her own take on the readymade,
combining more traditional materials like plaster and stone with
found objects like mattresses and tires.
The ICA LA is located at 1717 East 7th Street; Los
Angeles, California; admission is free.
“Rodney McMillian, Brown: videos
From The Black Show” at the Underground Museum
Through February 16, 2020
Installation view of “Rodney McMillian,
Brown: videos from The Black Show” at the Underground Museum. Photo
by Zak Kelley courtesy of the Underground Museum.
The Underground Museum presents the video works from Rodney
McMillian’s “The Black Show,” which
appeared at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia in
2016. The videos of costumed performances were filmed across the
southern US and fueled by the country’s history of racial
oppression.
The Underground Museum is located at 3508 West Washington
Boulevard, Los Angeles, California; admission is
free.
“LA Blacksmith” at the California African American
Museum
Through February 16, 2020
Ed Love, The Big O Series
(detail). Photo courtesy of the California African American
Museum.
Drawing on traditions of West African metalsmithing, Los
Angeles’s African American artists have long worked with iron,
steel, bronze, copper, and other metals. This group show includes
sculptures by Beulah Woodard inspired by African masks as well
as work by artists including Noah Purifoy, Kehinde Wiley, John
Outterbridge, and Betye Saar.
The California African American Museum is located at 600
State Drive, Exposition Park, Los Angeles, California;
admission is free.
“Shirin Neshat: I Will Greet the Sun Again”
at the Broad
Through February 16, 2020
Shirin Neshat, Land of Dreams
(2019), video still. Photo courtesy of Shirin Neshat/Gladstone
Gallery and Goodman Gallery.
In her biggest exhibition to
date, Iranian artist Shirin Neshat presents 320 photographs
and eight video installations—including her most
recent, Land of Dreams, inspired by what
the artist perceives as a growing distrust of immigrants in the
US.
The Broad is located at 221 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles;
admission is free.
“Apariciones/Apparitions” at
the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical
Gardens
Through February 17, 2020
Still from the performance at the
Huntington Art Gallery for Carolina Caycedo’s
“Apariciones/Apparitions,” choreographed by Marina Magalhães and
shot by David de Rozas. Photo courtesy of the artist.
Carolina Caycedo has placed black, brown, and queer bodies in
the spotlight at the historic Huntington Library, filming dancers
enacting Afro-Brazilian spiritual rituals across the museum
grounds.
The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens is
located at 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, California; general
admission is $25 on weekdays, $29 on weekends.
“Postcommodity: Some Reach While Others
Clap” at LAXART
Through February 29, 2020
Installation view of “Postcommodity:
Some Reach While Others Clap” at LAXART. Photo courtesy of
LAXART.
Indigenous art collective Postcommodity has worked
with Starlite Rod & Kustom, which restores and customizes
classic American cars, to transform the LAXART space to acknowledge
Indigenous peoples as the historical foundation of Los Angeles.
LAXART is located at 7000 Santa Monica Boulevard, Los
Angeles, California; admission is free.
“El Sueño Americano | The
American Dream: Photographs by Tom Kiefer” Skirball Cultural Center
Through March 8, 2020
Tom Kiefer, USA! USA! USA!
(2019). Photo courtesy of the Skirball Cultural Center.
Photographer Tom Kiefer is also a janitor at the US
Customs Border Protection processing center outside Ajo,
Arizona—a job that has afforded him the opportunity to create
poignant portraits of apprehended migrants by photographing their
confiscated possessions. Kiefer stealthily pilfered these
objects from the trash and sorted them, shooting everything from
medicine to rosaries to cell phones on brightly colored
backgrounds, honoring the former owners’ quest for a better
life.
Skirball Cultural Center is located at 2701 North
Sepulveda Boulevard, Los Angeles, California.
“SOUND OFF: Silence +
Resistance” at Los Angeles Contemporary
Exhibitions
Through March 15, 2020
Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz, still
from Silent (2016), performance by Aérea Negrot. Image
courtesy of the artists.
A jury selected interdisciplinary artist Abigail Raphael
Collins to curate the fifth exhibition in LACE’s emerging curators
series. She’s selected works by activists and artists that employ
silence as a form of political resistance, including Baseera Khan,
Kameelah Janan Rasheed, and Lawrence Abu Hamdan.
LACE is located at 6522 Hollywood Boulevard, Los
Angeles, California; admission is free.
“50 Years of Oil & Water:
Gloriane Harris, 1969–2020” at the Venice Institute of Contemporary
Art
Through March 31, 2020
Gloriane Harris in Wade Street Studio
(1983). Photo ©ViCA/Juri Koll.
The Venice Institute of Contemporary Art celebrated the grand
opening of its new space over the weekend with the opening of
Gloriane Harris’s first solo show in 35 years, featuring many
never-before-seen paintings by this long-overlooked LA artist and
educator.
VICA is located at the Bendix Building, 1206 South Maple
Avenue #722, Los Angeles, California; admission is free.
“Käthe Kollwitz: Prints,
Process, Politics” at the Getty
Center
Through March 29, 2020
Käthe Kollwitz, Charge
(1902–03). Courtesy of the Getty Research Institute.
Käthe Kollwitz didn’t shy away from tough subjects, making work
about war, poverty, and injustice. The Getty Research Institute is
highlighting the artist’s working process by bringing out its
collections of her works on paper, including rare preparatory
drawings, working proofs, and trial prints.
The Getty Center is located at North Sepulveda Boulevard and
Getty Center Drive, Los Angeles; general admission is
free.
“Arte, Mujer y Memoria: Arpilleras From
Chile” at the Museum of Latin American Art
Through March 29, 2020
Arpillerista A.P.A Arrests and
Raids (1976). Photo courtesy of Margaret Beemer/MOLAA.
During and following the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet,
Chilean women began anonymously making textile works on burlap
called arpilleras to denounce the cruelties and human
rights abuses of the government. A selection of 30 of these works,
which women sold though international networks to support their
families when their husbands were murdered, exiled, or imprisoned,
have been gathered for this exhibition by the Movement for the
Emancipation of the Chilean Woman-Los Angeles.
MOLAA is located at 628 Alamitos Avenue, Long Beach,
California; general admission is $10.
“The Medea Insurrection:
Radical Women Artists Behind the Iron Curtain” at the Wende Museum
Through April 5, 2020
Sibylle Bergemann, Heike,
Berlin (1988). Photo courtesy of Loock Gallerie.
Before the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, one prominent way in
which East German women artists would express their frustration
with authoritarian rule was by featuring mythological figures such
as Medea and Cassandra in their work. This group show, originally
organized by Susanne Altmann for Dresden’s Albertinum, features
Magdalena Abakanowicz, Geta Brătescu, and Natalia LL, among other
artists.
The Wende Museum is located at 10808 Culver Boulevard,
Culver City, California; admission is free.
“Betye Saar: Call and
Response” at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Through April 5, 2020
Betye Saar, I’ll Bend But I Will Not
Break (1998). Photo courtesy of the artist; Roberts Projects,
Los Angeles, California; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, gift
of Lynda and Stewart Resnick through the 2018 Collectors Committee.
©Betye Saar.
Throughout her long and storied career, Betye Saar has relied on
sketchbooks, creating preliminary drawings for her works.
Showcasing this important component of the artist’s practice, this
exhibition also features a dozen of the artist’s travel sketchbooks
of more finished drawings.
LACMA is located at 5905 Wilshire Boulevard, Resnick
Pavilion, Los Angeles, California; general admission is
$25.
“Beyond the World We Know:
Abstraction in Photography” at the Norton Simon Museum
Through April 20, 2020
Mati Maldre, Untitled (Nude Multiple
Views), 1971. Courtesy of the Norton Simon Museum, Museum
Purchase through the Florence V. Burden Foundation, ©Mati
Maldre.
Photography has a reputation for accurately and faithfully
capturing reality, but there is a long history of photographers who
have worked to subvert those expectations, using the medium to
embrace abstraction. The Norton Simon has brought together 16
artists who eschew realism in their photography, including Edward
Weston, Barbara Morgan, and Edmund Teske.
The Norton Simon Museum is located at 411 West Colorado
Boulevard, Pasadena, California; general admission is $15.
“Las Hijas de los Días: 7
Female Views from the Margins” at the 18th Street Arts Center
Through April 19, 2020
Luciana Abait, Displacement
(2016). Photo courtesy of the 18th Street Arts Center.
One for each day of the week, seven women artists—Cristina de
Middel, Eunice Adorno, Lola del Fresno, Luciana Abait, Doni Silver
Simons, Sabine Pearlman, and Pamela Simon-Jensen—explore global
problems such as climate change and displacement.
The 18th Street Arts Center is located at 1639 18th Street
Santa Monica, California; admission is free.
“Paul McCarthy: Head Space,
Drawings 1963–2019” at the Hammer Museum, Los
Angeles
Through May 10, 2020
Paul McCarthy, Indian Mummy
(1965), detail. Courtesy of the artist and Hauser & Wirth.
In his first comprehensive US survey show, Paul McCarthy
presents 600 works on paper made with a wide range of
mediums—charcoal, graphite, and ink, but also unconventional ones
such as ketchup and peanut butter.
The Hammer is located at 10899 Wilshire Boulevard, Los
Angeles, California; admission is free.
“The Body, the Object, the
Other” at Craft Contemporary
Through May
10, 2020
Photo courtesy of Craft Contemporary,
Los Angeles.
For its second clay biennial, Craft Contemporary—known until
last year as the Craft & Folk Art Museum—is focusing on 21 artists
who are representing the body in ceramics in unusual ways.
Craft Contemporary is located at 5814 Wilshire Boulevard,
Los Angeles, California; general admission is $9.
“With Pleasure: Pattern and Decoration in
American Art 1972–1985” at the Museum of Contemporary Art
Los Angeles
Through May 11, 2020
Sandra Sallin, Melasti (1981).
Photo by Zak Kelley, courtesy of the artist.
In the early 1970s, artists in the Pattern and Decoration
movement embraced traditionally feminine and domestic art practices
once relegated to the realm of craft. LACMA revisits the stars of
the movement, such as Joyce Kozloff and Miriam Schapiro, as well as
its under-recognized figures such as Kendall Shaw and Takako
Yamaguchi, and considers the lasting influences of a movement that
has been unfairly overlooked in recent years.
The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles is located at 250
South Grand Avenue; Los Angeles, California; admission is
free.
“Under a Mushroom Cloud: Hiroshima,
Nagasaki, and the Atomic Bomb” the Japanese American National
Museum
Through June 7, 2020
Mushroom cloud from the atomic bomb
explosion, Nagasaki, August 9, 1945, 11:02 a.m. Photo by US
military, donated by Stimson Center, courtesy of Hiroshima City
University.
This summer marks the 75th anniversary of the Hiroshima and
Nagasaki bombings, and the Japanese American National Museum is
marking the occasion with an exhibition of artifacts from atomic
bomb victims, as well as contemporary artworks inspired by the
bombings’ aftermath.
The Japanese American National Museum is located at 100
North Central Avenue, Los Angeles, California; general admission is
$16.
“Vanity Fair: Hollywood
Calling” at the Annenberg Space for Photography
Through July 26, 2020
Justin Bishop, Mark Ronson and Lady
Gaga share the gold (2019). Photo courtesy of the Annenberg
Space for Photography.
A selection of 130 photographs of Hollywood celebrities
from Vanity Fair photographers, including, of course,
Annie Leibovitz, is accompanied by a behind-the-scenes look at the
magazine’s 2020 Hollywood issue highlighting up-and-coming
stars.
The Annenberg Space for Photography is located at 2000
Avenue of Stars, Los Angeles; admission is free.
“Assyria: Palace Art of Ancient Iraq” at
the Getty Villa
Through September 5, 2020
Royal Lion Hunt (detail),
Assyrian, (875–860 BC), Kalhu (Nimrud), Northwest Palace, reign of
Ashurnasirpal II. Photo courtesy of the British Museum, London,
acquired 1849. ©the Trustees of the British Museum, all rights
reserved.
The British Museum in London has loaned an impressive selection
of relief sculptures from Assyrian palaces, dating from the ninth
the seventh centuries, to the Getty Villa.
The Getty Villa is located at 17985 Pacific Coast Highway,
Pacific Palisades, California; general admission is free.
“Do Ho Suh: 348 West 22nd
Street” at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Through March 29, 2020
Do Hu Suh, Apartment A, Unit 2,
Corridor and Staircase, 348 West 22nd Street, New York, NY 10011,
USA (2011–14), installation view, Museum of Contemporary Art
San Diego (2016). Photo by Pablo Mason, courtesy the artist and
Lehmann Maupin, New York and Hong Kong, ©Do Ho Suh.
This long-term installation, a full-scale fabric recreation of
Do Hu Suh’s New York City apartment—from the Korean artist’s
signature style—is new to the museum as of November.
LACMA is located at 5905 Wilshire Boulevard, Resnick
Pavilion, Los Angeles, California; general admission is
$25.
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