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ICA LA (Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles) Martin Ramirez: His Life In Pictures, Another Interpretation (September 9—December 31, 2017   The Martin Ramirez story is at once unusual for and typical of ā€œoutsider artists.ā€ Typical, in that his artistic output was realized at particularly far remove from any

ICA LA (Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles) Sarah Cain: Now I’m going to tell you everything (September 9—December 31, 2017)   To describe the paintings of Los Angeles artist Sarah Cain as visual poetry is not merely contriving a trite metaphor. A sometime poet herself, Cain consciously references

Chagall: Fantasies for the Stage (July 31, 2017—January 7, 2018)   Chagall: Fantasies for the Stage, a collaboration between the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, was curated by LACMA’s Stephanie Barron in collaboration with opera director Yuval Sharon. The exhibition vividly

Fran Siegel: Lineage through Landscape: Tracing Egun in Brazil (July 23—December 10, 2017)   Fran Siegel’s commissioned work, Lineage through Landscape: Tracing Egun in Brazil, features the artist’s interpretation of Egun (or Egungun), the worship of ancestors. The ritual originated in West Africa and was practiced mainly by

ā€œI just like using an ordinary object, and changing the meaning of it.ā€ — Betye Saar ā€œBetye Saar is to assemblage what Mick Jagger is to rock and roll.ā€ — Monica Wyatt   The assemblage work of Betye Saar is soft- spoken; conveying its message in a beguiling