What 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.

Art, With an Asterisk

Artists Jami Porter Lara, Erin Mickelson, and Kate Ruck put terms and conditions front and center.

The Real Space Invaders

New Mexico artist Eric J. García creates satirical sci-fi images of White colonization, painted with prickly pear ink.

Uncovering Hidden Spaces at UCI’s Open Studios

Seeing the works by the University of California, Irvine’s MFA students, many of which use leftover material site-specific to the campus, lead me to wonder if they also constitute a kind of leftover material of time.

Required Reading

This week, where did chickens come from? Is being “fashionably late” obsolete? And other important questions.

A Studio Visit With Jillian Conrad

In her sculpture, Conrad is disengaging from permanence and the imposition of one’s will, as taken up by sculptors from Michelangelo to Serra.

Beer with a Painter: John Lees

Despite the fact that Lees works on paintings for as long as 30 years, they don’t appear overly precious. Instead, they seem human and vulnerable.