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Exhibitions to See
Katrien De Blauwer • The cinematic collages of a Belgian artist
Rediscovered Books and Writings • Deborah Turbeville’s take on the fashion magazine
Curriculum • A List of Favorite Anythings
Los Angeles
City of Images • Six artists and writers reflect on Los Angeles in pictures.
John Divola & Mark Ruwedel
Anthony Hernandez
Back in the Days • Guadalupe Rosales and her archive of Chicano life in Los Angeles
Chávez Ravine • In postwar Los Angeles, a young photographer chronicled Mexican American life—in a settlement that would soon be destroyed.
Lise Sarfati
Barak Zemer
Christina Fernandez
Toward Poetic Vision • Robert Heinecken’s ambition for photography
The Genuine in a World of Copies • How one groundbreaking exhibition defined experimental photography in Southern California.
Ilene Segalove’s Modern America
Sophie Tianxin Chen
Paul Mpagi Sepuya
Carter Mull
Rodrigo Valenzuela
David Alekhuogie
Janna Ireland
Mona Kuhn
TORBJØRN RØDLAND INTO THE LIGHT
Object Lessons • Ed Ruscha’s Production Notebooks, 1973–90