After the recent frenzy of the Kunstweek here in Los Angeles, this month’s selections focus on community and cooperation, in which historical and personal connecting networks are traced. Wael Shawky’s movie Drama 1882 is a stylized opera based on an anti-colonial uprising in Egypt, a imaginative mix of facts and fiction. Kour Pour’s first LA show in more than a decade smears geometric modernism with Islamic design, which reflects his diaphist identity. An exhibition and implementation program at Redcat looks at the creative synergy between experimental musicians Julius Eastman and Arthur Russell, while solo shows by Kim Ye and Isabel Yellin Putten from their autobiographical experiences such as women and artists, albeit in different ways. The daring canvases of Simón Silva honor the agricultural workers, housekeepers and landscapes whose essential work is often not recognized.
Wael Shawky: Drama 1882
The Geffen Contemporary in Moca152 North Central Avenue, Little Tokyo, Los Angeles
Up to and including March 16
The film of the in Egypt in Egypt Drama 1882 (2024) is an eight-part opera based on the 19th-century Urabi revolution, a nationalist Egyptian uprising against British and French colonial powers. Shawky combines historical reports and fictional stories and focuses on a single café -fight during this larger conflict and how the reverb is going on for the next 70 years. Filmed in a historical theater in Alexandria, the opera is completely sung in classical Arabic and contains sets and costumes that are reminiscent of German expressionist cinema. Originally presented in the Egyptian pavilion of the 2024 Venice Biennale, the presentation of Moca marks the debut of the film of the film.
Kim Ye: M0mmy Brain Marketplace
Guggenheim Gallery from Chapman University315 Palm Avenue, Orange, California
Up to and including 20 March
M0mmy brain marketplace Is Kim Ye’s irreverent interrogation of various forms of work, from the unpaid and often non -recognized workers to the capitalist structure of the art world. With sculpture, painting, video and live performance, the exhibition reflects the artist’s own experiences through these systems, the staged drama of reality television and a vulnerable eroticism. On Sunday, March 16, you will perform ‘A Costco Shopper Analysis’, which the artist describes as a “stand -up comedy/academic lecture/TED Talk” in which she takes on the role of a demographic typical customer of the large Retailer box to comment on immigration, consumption and family.
Kour Pour: find my way home
Nazarian / Curcio616 North La Brea Avenue, Fairfax, Los Angeles
Up to and including March 22
Find my way homeKour Pour’s first solo show in the city in more than 10 years, contains stacked and layered paintings that reflect his diaphist identity as an artist of Iranian and British descent who lives in LA. The geometric abstraction combines with elements of Persian miniature painting and Islamic design, pour’s constructed paintings weave the threads of autobiography and global history, of the trips of his family and geopolitical or art -historical events, such as Frank Stella’s journey from 1963 to Iran. In combination with the show, Pour has compiled a simultaneous group exhibition, MehmooniWith work by La-Figure Iranian artists Shagha Ariannia, Amir H. Fallah, Nasim Hantehzadeh, Aryana Minai and others.
Simón Silva: Salt of the earth
Eastern projects900 North Broadway, #1090, Chinatown, Los Angeles
Up to and including March 22
Mexican-American artist Simón Silva’s paintings by agricultural workers, household staff, paleteros and landscape architecture bring lively visibility to the essential employees, mainly Latinx, whose labor often unnoticed. Silva throws householders like La Virgen de Guadalupe, enclosed in holy mandalas, and paints portraits of migrating employees on fruit crates, covered their faces with hats and bandanas, so only leave their expressive eyes visible. Paleteros push their carts against the background of boring highways and tunnels, solitary figures with stray dogs as their only companions. In the more than 40 paintings included in SalineSilva shows these workers with a sense of respect and honesty, in honor of their humanity, while capturing the heavy and often dangerous nature of their daily realities.
Isabel Yellin: Mothership
Frederick R. Weisman Museum of ArtPepperdine University, 24255 Pacific Coast Highway, Malibu, California
Up to and including March 30
The first Museum Show of Isabel Yellin contains wavy silicone paintings and winding sculptures with metal and silver, ripples of confused lines that vibrate with energetic tension. The works over Maternity I also have deep psychological roots, functioning as a way for Yellin to process her grief about the death of her mother, Anne Locksley, who took her own life in 2008. She started this series shortly after rediscovering her mother’s own paintings. The exhibition brings wonderful work together from both mother and daughter, which sets up a moving creative dialogue between the two.
Meat world: Monica Berger and Sofia Heftersmith
Central server works DTLA334 Main Street, Suite 5012, downtown, Los Angeles
March 8 – April 12
Meat world Collects paintings by Monica Berger and Sofia Heftersmith, two artists who take traditional images of the female form with a nod to so-called “lowbrow” aesthetics and mass media symbolism. Heftersmith is based on classic pin-ups, poster show posters and religious iconography, enjoying the grotesque and physical, while Berger’s women new wave and fauvism extend themselves, their neon-tinted bodies characterized by tattoos and theatrical makeup. All in all, their work offers self -assured, compelling visions of femininity that easily make voyeuristic pleasure more difficult.
40th birthday exhibition
Michael Kohn Gallery1227 North Highland Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles
Up to and including April 19
Michael Kohn’s of the same name is a fixed value of the Hollywood -art scene since its foundation in 1985 and the move to Highland Avenue in 2014. He opened with an exhibition by artists from New York, but has since founded a wide selection, with various remarkable LA Beriarte, Jiffa and Albuquerde Thomas. This 40 -year anniversary exhibition contains work by a wide selection of artists who have exhibited in the gallery, such as Keith Haring, Alicia Adamerovich, Martha Alf, Kenny Scharf, Gonzalo Lebrija and many others. The show will also contain the premiere of the restored version of Bruce Conner’s film “The White Rose” (1967), in which the extraction of Jay Defeo’s monumental painting “The Rose” (1958–1966) is documented by the window of her apartment in San Francisco.
Bruce Nauman: Pasadena Years
Marian Goodman Gallery1120 Seward Street, Hollywood, Los Angeles
Up to and including 26 April
Bruce Nauman lived in Los Angeles – first in the Pasadena house of Walter Hopps, and then in Altadena – between 1969 and ’79, an incredibly productive time early in his career. Pasadena -years presents a selection of sculptures, installations, sound works, video and works on paper, whereby the extensive conception of Nauman about the possibilities of making art in this particularly formative period is emphasized. Remarkable works include “revolving upside down” (1969), a video of the artist who performs simple actions; “Microphone/tree piece” (1971), which transfers the sound of a tree that grows in the gallery; and architectural installations that invite the participation of viewers, such as “Performance Corridor” (1969), and a recreation of “Text for a room” (1973-2025).
World of Echo: Julius Eastman and Arthur Russell
Redcat631 West 2nd Street, Downtown, Los Angeles
March 15 – May 4
World of Echo is an exhibition and performance series that explores connections between two wild influential figures in experimental music: Julius Eastman and Arthur Russell. With audio, video and other archive material, the show looks at the various collaborations between the two of 1975 until their early death in 1990 and 1992” respectively, and how their compositions that are classic for jazz to disco embodied liberation themes. A trio versions of Orkestral Collective Wild Up brings their groundbreaking music back to life.
Gustave Caillebotte: Men paint
Getty Center1200 Getty Center Drive, Brentwood, Los Angeles
Up to and including 25 May
The impressionist artist Gustave Caillebotte is remembered for his paintings that depict daily French life with a remarkable atmosphere of realism. Men paint Houses in on one facet of his practice, with his images of male figures. With images of working men, young professionals, café scenes and family and friends, the exhibition argues that Caillebotte depicted modern forms of masculinity that illustrated a break with traditional standards of that time.
