Los Angeles: Breathtaking Photos of LA’s Subway System

This week, Caroline Liou reviews the much-anticipated Made in LA biennial, which this year is split b

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This week, Caroline Liou reviews the much-anticipated Made in LA biennial, which this year is split between the Hammer Museum and the Huntington Library. Liou calls the new format “a brilliant curatorial move.”And don’t miss two gorgeous photo projects: one on LA’s car culture and the other on the city’s oft-misunderstood subway system. — Elisa Wouk Almino, Senior Editor

Breathtaking Black-and-White Photos of LA’s Subway System What began as a one-day project for Ken Karagozian transformed into a 30-year one. Renée Reizman

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"Made in LA" Mines the Necessary Performance of Everyday Life Performance has always been essential as a means of survival to participate in the fiction of America. Caroline Ellen Liou

LA’s Mexican-American Lowrider Car Culture, Photographed in All Its Glory Lowriding is often considered to be a male-dominated movement, but Kristin Bedford shines a spotlight on the women of all ages behind the wheel. Lauren Moya Ford

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Learn How to Make Your Own Artist’s Book Artist Debra Disman hosts an online workshop, “Bookmaking with Self-Compassion.” Elisa Wouk Almino

Closing Soon

Tyler Ballon, “When the Trumpet Sounds!” (2020) (image courtesy the artist and Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles)

Brenna Youngblood: the LIGHT and the DARK through May 15 at Roberts Projects My Very Favourite Things through May 22 at the Lodge Shattered Glass through May 22 at Jeffrey Deitch Art Rise through May 31 at various sites in Downtown LA, Koreatown, Mid-Wilshire, Leimert Park, and South Central Nature/Supernature through May 31 at Japan House Los Angeles The New Contemporaries Vol. 2 through June 5 at Residency Art Gallery Amy Sherald: The Great American Fact through June 6 at Hauser & Wirth LA

On View in LA Museums

Yoshitomo Nara through July 5 at LACMA Intergalactix: against isolation/contra el aislamiento from May 15 through August 14 at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE) Mesopotamia: Civilization Begins through August 16 at the Getty Villa Judson Studios: Stained Glass from Gothic to Street Style through September 12 at Forest Lawn Museum Making Time through September 12 at Craft Contemporary Common Fantasy/Gemeinsame Fantasie through October 21 at the Wende Museum Garden Paul Pescador: PSA currently open at Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles afroLAtinidad: mi casa, my city on view indefinitely at LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes

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