Los Angeles: Your Concise LA Art Guide for April

April is beginning to look a little brighter in Los Angeles with cherry trees, increased vaccinations ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌

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April is beginning to look a little brighter in Los Angeles with cherry trees, increased vaccinations, and museums opening their doors across the city. After a year of closures, institutions can finally share exhibitions that have been sitting in their galleries, including the Made in LA biennial and the exhaustive retrospective of Yoshitomo Nara at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Check out our guide.Don’t miss rafa esparza’s show closing at Commonwealth and Council this weekend, and I highly recommend Caroline Ellen Liou’s reflection on Ben Sakoguchi’s exhibition Chinatown: As an Asian American myself, it was nothing short of painful for me to look at “Chinatown” — the mockery, the things that mark me as Other, the anti-Asian brutality that has always existed throughout American history. It’s been almost a year since Hyperallergic started its membership program, which has truly been a savior. If you’ve already joined us, thank you so much. If you haven’t, we hope you’ll consider joining us — every penny counts! And don’t forget you can boogie with Patrisse Cullors in a virtual electric slide this weekend. – Elisa Wouk Almino, Senior Editor

Your Concise Los Angeles Art Guide for April 2021 Your list of must-see, fun, insightful, and very Los Angeles art events this month. Matt Stromberg and Elisa Wouk Almino

A Gut-Wrenching Illustration of the Asian American Experience Comprised of 15 panels, Ben Sakoguchi’s “Chinatown” is a history lesson in miniature. Caroline Ellen Liou

rafa esparaza’s Lovingly Collaborative Portraits of Artists and Friends His paintings insist upon the rightful presence of brown, Black, and queer bodies in the white cube of the gallery. Daniel Soto

How an LA Printmaking Workshop Advanced the Career of Women Artists Ruth Asawa, Anni Albers, and others first experimented with printmaking at June Wayne’s Tamarind Lithography Workshop. Jordan Karney Chaim

Events This Week

Boogie With Patrisse Cullors in a Virtual Electric Slide On Sunday, April 11, Patrisse Cullors will be restaging “F*ck White Supremacy, Let’s Get Free” online for a global audience. Matt Stromberg

A Space to Write Letters to Those Who Are No Longer Living On Thursday, April 8, join an online, communal letter-writing session dedicated “to those who have transcended.” Elisa Wouk Almino

Closing Soon

"Sula Bermúdez-Silverman: Sighs and Leers and Crocodile Tears" (photo by Josh Schaedel)

Ceremonies through April 10 at Tlaloc Studios Sula Bermúdez-Silverman: Sighs and Leers and Crocodile Tears through April 10 at Murmurs rafa esparza: keeping through April 11 at Commonwealth and Council Why We Won’t Just Leave: What Alaska Is Telling the World About Climate Change through April 10 online at SPARC Ben Sakoguchi: Chinatown through April 24 at Bel Ami Leon Kossoff: Drawn From Revelry through April 30 online at LA Louver The Billboard Creative through April 30 at public sites across Los Angeles

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