5 Art Exhibitions You Need to Know About

MOMA, NYC

We are excited for the re-opening of the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan on October 21st. The architecture firm Diller, Scofidio + Renfro (The Broad in Los Angeles is also one of the firm’s museum works) added 40,000 sq. ft. of new exhibition space at the tune of $400M. Opening exhibitions include a survey of Latin American art as well as two African American artists Pope.L and Los Angeles’ own Betye Saar who is 92 years young and finally receiving the recognition her career deserves.

Betye Saar’s “Black Girl’s Window” (1969), featured in the exhibition “Take an Object” at MoMA. Photo by Hiroko Masuike | The New York Times

Construction in the new gallery spaces at the museum. Photo by Max Touhey | Turner Construction Company

SAYRE GOMEZ at Francois Ghebaly Gallery, DTLA

Sayre’s Los Angeles landscapes are beautiful yet mysterious, commonplace yet out of place - all masterly conceived and executed. 

X-Scapes installation View. Photo from ghebaly.com

ROBIN F. WILLIAMS at Various Small Fires Gallery on Highland Avenue

The West Coast debut of Robin F. Williams features paintings of feminine AI (artificial intelligence) figures that act independently of what we usually expect. She is definitely an artist to watch!

Installation of Robin F. Williams. Photo from vsf.la

CHARLES GAINS at Hauser and Wirth

Charles has brought his Angeleno background into his latest work with towering color mapped palm trees and layers and layers of his numbered-system. Just gorgeous!

Installation view, ‘Charles Gaines. Palm Trees and Other Works’. Photo by Fredrik Nilsen.

THE ALLURE OF THE MATTER at LACMA

Done by contemporary Chinese artists who have developed relationships with their artistic materials of choice, this exhibition spans four decades of work. It includes a large-scale patterned rug made entirely of cigarettes, historic photographs on antique roof tiles, images made from temple incense ashes and more.

United Nations: American Code. Photo by Michael Juliano