Los Angeles: Top Art Shows to See this Summer

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June 22, 2022 • View in browser

Top Art Shows to See in LA This Summer

Your list of must-see exhibitions and art events in Los Angeles this summer, including Judy Baca, Andrea Bowers, Minerva Cuevas, Aram Han Sifuentes, and more. | Caroline Ellen Liou

If you know anything about Los Angeles, you know that the city is full of weird and wonderful niches geared towards almost everything imaginable, and its art world is no exception — there are museums at native plant nurseries, gallery spaces given over to exhibiting ramen and blood-infused mushrooms, even exhibitions involving the likes of Cheech & Chong and Tupac Shakur.

This summer, we’ve compiled a guide to museum and institutional shows across the county (and a little bit beyond), with an eye toward encouraging readers to explore those hidden pockets of LA.

WHAT TO CATCH THIS WEEK

Installation of PHILTH HAUS: LYLEX 1.0 presented by Feminist Center for Creative Work (FCCW) (photo by Gilda Davidian, image courtesy the artist and FCCW)

PHILTH HAUS: LYLEX 1.0
NAVEL, opening June 24

The exhibition features PHILTH HAUS’s injection of the blood of a person undergoing hormonal and dietary modulation therapies into oyster mushrooms and investigating its implications.

East of the River: Guadalupe Rosales
Commonwealth and Council through June 25

Guadalupe Rosales looks to the ways in which her native East Los Angeles has been historicized and obfuscated, sometimes with the very attempt at historicization leading to its obfuscation.

Ken Gun Min: Silverlake Dog Park
Shulamit Nazarian through June 25

In Ken Gun Min's new series, Asian masculinity is depicted against the backdrop of an idyllic day at the Silverlake Dog Park — bare-buttocked, tender, whimsical, and sensual.

IN & BEYOND THE CITY

A Photographer’s Love Letter to LA’s Koreatown

Emanuel Hahn’s photobook Koreatown Dreaming offers readers a personal look into the stories of a generation that often remains tight-lipped about their hardships to put on a brave face for the world. | Jeanha Park

The Ocean, a Backdrop Against Which Exploitation and Pleasure Unfold

An exhibition examines how our understanding of the natural environment has degraded both the ocean and our social systems to a perilous degree. | Elizabeth Rooklidge

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ON VIEW IN MUSEUMS & GALLERIES

Kevin Beasley, “In my dream I saw a landscape” (2022) (© Kevin Beasley, courtesy Regen Projects)

Kevin Beasley: On Site
Regen Projects through June 25

Manyu Gao: T-Time
Gattopardo through July 1

Kathleen Henderson: Bluebeard and Other Poolings
Track 16 Gallery through July 2

Knees, Schools, Urges
The Box through July 9

Flesh and Bones: The Art of Anatomy
Getty Research Institute through July 10

Hanne Darboven: Six Books on 1968
Sprüth Magers through July 16

Uta Barth: Figure/Ground, Figure Ground
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery through July 16