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13ThingsLA: December 18 Wrapped (PST’s version) for your art calendar As 2024 finally fades away, our take on the year-end list rolls up some of our favorite and most popular reviews and recommendations across the PST Art & Science Collide continuum—all of which (except Lita’s) are still on view for a few more weeks or even months, making this the perfect chance to catch up on the Getty initiative and/or entertain your incoming relatives. If you’re already a subscriber, you have access to our entire archive, so while you’re in there, do peruse the recent back issues for more goodies! If you’re not a subscriber yet, now’s a great time because January and February are already looking lively—and if you are, thank you most sincerely, we couldn’t do it without you. And remember, a subscription makes a great gift—especially at the last minute. Happy Holidays! Read & Subscribe 🔗inbio and: https://hijinxarts.substack.com/p/13thingsla-december-18 @13thingsla @pstinla @litaalbuquerque @nomadicdivision @moahlancaster @hammer_museum @welcometolace @lamagbarnsdall @epoch.gallery @artcenterexhibitions @robertsprojects @thebroadmuseum @wendemuseum @lapubliclibrary @lacma @moca @museumofjurassictechnology

New in the @villagevoice my interview with @studioolafureliasson on the occasion of both his magnificent @pstinla exhibition at @moca in Los Angeles and for my east coast friends, his concurrent exhibition at @tanyabonakdargallery in NYC. “With concurrent exhibitions in Los Angeles and New York, polydextrous interdisciplinary artist and occasional architect Olafur Eliasson continues his multisensory, multiplatform advocacy on behalf of Earth’s natural magic... “ 🌞 Read the full interview here: https://www.villagevoice.com/olafur-eliassons-phenomenological-prismatics-shimmer-on-both-coasts/ 🌞

We stopped by both Jeffrey Deitch spaces yesterday. The much celebrated group show, Human Nature, in its final weeks is a total trip. Lots of stuff to love about this classic Deitch curated show. Catch it before it goes. And then we popped through Paul McCarthy: Tomato Head. From the 1990s, McCarthy creates a life-size, cartoon-like figure that explores the relationship between modern culture, consumerism and innocence. Still processing this one BRB 🍅 #13thingsla

The Featured Review in the new @13thingsla is: Firelei Báez: The fact that it amazes me does not mean I relinquish it, at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles. “Báez is masterfully adept at combining the delectable splendor of blossoms and botanical eruptions obscuring the lithe female forms from which they billow, with the craquelure of empire-era maps imposing rigid order on invaded Caribbean ecosystems and their indigenous inhabitants. Her work demonstrates an array of techniques from the Baroque to the futuristic, the architectural to the ancestral, the experimental and the diasporic imaginary—as well as a thoughtful narrative command of what each element contributes to a post-colonial present. It’s a bit difficult, in a good way, to rouse yourself from the onslaught of beauty in these pictures (the monumental tuft of white feathers alone could smother a person to death) but looking past the honey to find the traps is equally rewarding, as clues small and large to the ultimate meaning(s) behind the works abound. Through the richly textured, sumptuous vortices for example, aspects of the female body (arms, legs, torsos) appear—are they emerging or being subsumed, from/into what? Though her palette is prismatic, it is also blended with shadow, its radiance is as though through a veil, perhaps of history, or of tears. Does the obscuring of evidence of historical trauma with literal flower bombs heal or erase it? Mostly not, and yet that’s exactly what plays out inside these heartfelt, hypnotic paintings.” On view through January 5 at @hauserwirth #dtla. 💐 Artist talk with Essence Harden, Saturday, December 14, 2pm 💐 Read more & subscribe to our experiment in reader-supported art writing here: https://hijinxarts.substack.com/p/13thingsla-december-11

13ThingsLA: December 11 Blurry Boundaries for your art calendar A review of one of my favorite exhibitions of the year, Firelei Báez at @hauserwirth . Plus two very different art history lessons at @nortonsimon and @jeffreydeitchgallery ; one-day only hits at @torranceartmuseum , @aplusd_la , and The Wrinkle Room/ @golden_poppy_market ; magic lanterns at both Sidecar/ @nightgallery and @automata_losangeles ; new exhibitions at @marcianoartfoundation / @pstinla , @laaagallery825, and @la_centerofphoto ; Queer Christmas at @am_cinematheque ; and absolute legends return to @ladanceproject. Read more and subscribe on @substack: https://hijinxarts.substack.com/p/13thingsla-december-11 @13thingsla by @shananys & @hijinxarts 🫶🏼

This week our @13thingsla Feature is… Shana’s Review of: Isabelle Albuquerque X Robert Therrien, now open at Therrien Studio. The invigorating work of the late sculptor Robert Therrien gets a surprising influx of new life, as the Estate and the artist’s longstanding industrial live/work studio host the intervention of sculptor Isabelle Albuquerque. Albuquerque (b. 1981) and Therrien (1947-2019) may at first seem to have little in common. Her most celebrated work riffs off using her own body as the model for a series of mixed media works with a witchy sense of humor and an omnivorous material curiosity that runs to the pelted fawn, the vulvic candelabra, fun little sex games, loneliness, and subversive empowerment. Therrien is best known for his absurdly outsized domestic objects—dining tables and chairs that tower above your head, precarious stacks of monumental plates and cooking pots, steel wigs that seem to lightly waft but are in fact dangerous wiry tonnages. But the reason this pairing—the first in what is promised to be a series of such on-site invitational participations in the Therrien archive—is so inspired is precisely because it succeeds in teasing out fundamental shared intrigues between the works, offering not only prima facie surprise and delight, but opening new perspectives on each of their practices—including and especially their best-known pieces. The sightlines are epic, with unexpected connections across abstraction and image playing out between, for example, the power of heavy black pigment to redefine forms, the way shimmering chrome can be intimate and musical, the way thrusting a grounded body toward the sky is different when men and women do it, or the way a dripping pile of wax is even funnier with an obelisk of dirty dishes piled up behind it. —SND On view south of Downtown through December 14; free; @nicodimgallery @roberttherrienestate @isabellealbuquerque Read & subscribe here: https://hijinxarts.substack.com/p/13thingsla-december-4

Cruised by a few of our recent @13thingsla picks. Turned out they’re all fantastic! At @bermudezprojects , @la_beast_gallery , @luisdejesuslosangeles , @hauserwirth & @michaelwernergallery #qualitycontrol

In which I confess my personal dislike of Impressionism, my understanding of the difference between taste and appreciation especially as regards the art historical canon, and the one Cézanne exception I’ll allow. “The Plate of Apples, c. 1877 lives at the @artinstitutechi and when I first saw it it was a revelation…I love this painting. I’m obsessed with this painting, and the way it blends Impressionism with a prodigal embrace of conventions of clarity and balance. It is arguably not an important painting (it’s not even the most important Cézanne painting of apples in the same museum), but in its humble jumble it contains an entire art-historical journey, there and back again. It’s a fusion of classicism and mold-breaking, replete with humanity...” Be mad about it in the new @artillery_mag and here: https://artillerymag.com/my-favorite-cezanne/ #taste #appreciation #impressionism #cezanne #stilllife #howdoyoulikethemapples

A new @13thingsla is here! December 4: The Body Problem for your art calendar. A truly exceptional situation at the @roberttherrienestate & Studio; a talk at @honorfrasergallery ’s @pstinla show; exciting photography presented by @altavistaarts , at @humanresourcesla , via the @photographicartscouncil_la , and at @artbookhwla; openings at @craigkrullgallery / All- @bergamotsantamonica Open House, @arcane.space , @sbmuseart , and @albertzbenda ; short films at the @skirball_la ’s PST show, dance at @thewallisbh , music at @hauserwirth WeHo. Read the full slate & subscribe here: https://hijinxarts.substack.com/p/13thingsla-december-4 💥And in personal news… we hit the 1000-subscriber mark here at our project, and not gonna lie, it feels pretty good. Thank you, everyone, you really are making a difference in keeping truly independent art writing alive in Los Angeles!💥

Grateful indeed ✨ 🫶 @shananys @heidijo_la 🫶 In a time when media is upside down 🙃 we are honored to be apart of the non-bias independent media shaking it up on @substack 🔗 to Substack is always in the bio. You can subscribe for one freebie a week or $5 per month for the full weekly newsletter with calendar and reviews. 2025 big things come in 13s! Thank you fam 💋 #13thingsla #independentmedia #laart #artlifeisthebestlife

Featured in the current issue of @13thingsla — Enchanted Forest of Light is now open at @descansogardens . If there’s one spot that knows how to take full advantage of these long winter nights, it’s Descanso. Each season, they transform the site’s beloved pathways through groves, gardens, meadows, and glades, past creeks, ponds, and railroad tracks into a meandering route innovatively activated by light and sound sculptures. Every year is a little bit different… Read more here: https://hijinxarts.substack.com/p/13thingsla-november-27 #13thingsla #arttok