For Mental Health Awareness Month, the Los Angeles County Department of Health has organized a series
| For Mental Health Awareness Month, the Los Angeles County Department of Health has organized a series of art events with the belief that art can help us heal. Personally, I’ve probably never been more conscious of that fact than now. We’ve gathered some of the highlights from the WE RISE program in our art guide, as well as exciting exhibitions from newly reopened museums, including the Getty Villa, Craft Contemporary, and more.Anyone interested in the history of murals in Los Angeles — including how they became powerful forces for social justice, and their fight for legalization — should read Rachel Heidenry’s feature on Judy Baca and the Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC). Baca and the center just won a grant to expand one of the most important murals in the city, “The Great Wall of Los Angeles.”Happy reading!— Elisa Wouk Almino, Senior Editor | |
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| | Fred Eversley's Joyful Light Eversley’s parabolic sculptures draw us into a self-aware and ever-shifting encounter with space and perceptual phenomena. Natalie Haddad |
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| Paul Pescador's Crash Course in Government In a series of PSA-style videos, Paul Pescador poses questions about government that quickly unravel into a nightmarishly complex knot of existential crises. Caroline Ellen Liou |
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| | Stanley Whitney, “Sun Moon” (2020) (© Stanley Whitney, courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery) |
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