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Yoko Ono, “Music of the Mind”

by Margaret Hawkins MCA Chicago , Chicago, Illinois Continuing through February 22, 2026 Clay Perry, “Yoko Ono with Half-a-Room,” 1967. All images courtesy of Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. “A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.” — Yoko Ono Yoko Ono is one of those artists whose persona overshadows her artwork, which never quite reemerged publicly in the U.S. after the 1980 murder of her husband, John Lennon. But all along she ha

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Nov 245 min read

Rajni Perera, “Dhum Lōkaya (Smoke World)”

by George Melrod Rajiv Menon Contemporary , Los Angeles Continuing through December 13, 2025 Rajni Perera, “Primitive,” 2025, acrylic gouacher, aluminum, glass and semiprecious stone beads, mother of pearl beads, and charcoal on polyester, 60 x 84”. All images courtesy of Rajiv Menon Contemporary, Los Angeles. Born in Sri Lanka and based in Toronto, Rajni Perera draws from traditional and contemporary influences to create her own strikingly immersive personal mythology, invit

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Nov 245 min read

Sabrina Gschwandtner, “Absinthe, Smoke, Sugar, Choice”

by David S. Rubin Shoshana Wayne Gallery , Los Angeles Continuing through January 10, 2026 Sabrina Gschwandtner, “Absinthe, Smoke, Sugar, Choice,” installation view. All images courtesy of Shoshana Wayne Gallery. Since 2009, when Sabrina Gschwandtner acquired a collection of archival film footage that had been deaccessioned from the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, she has been making geometrically patterned “film quilts” by sewing together filmstrips and exhi

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Nov 244 min read

R. Crumb, “Tales of Paranoia”

by Michael Shaw David Zwirner Gallery , Los Angeles, California Continuing through January 10, 2026 R. Crumb, “Rabbit … Is My Dome Too Dominant?” 2019, gouache ink, and graphite on paper, 7 x 9 1/2”. All images courtesy of David Zwirner, Los Angeles. Spoiler alert: R.Crumb is an anti-vaxxer. And a conspiracy theorist. But Crumb’s probing, self-critical dive into why he’s gone down this path, including some very specific re-creations of conversations he’s had (one with a docto

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Nov 194 min read

Yoshida Chizuko, Retrospective

by Matthew Kangas Portland Art Museum , Portland, Oregon Continuing through January 4, 2026 Yoshida Chizuko, “Shoreline,” 1950, oil on canvas, 31 3/16 x 25 9/16 x 1 1/16”. All images courtesy of the Portland Art Museum and the Estate of Yoshida Chizuko. This retrospective of Japanese painter and printmaker Yoshida Chizuko (1924-2017) coincides with the museum’s acquisition of 80 works by the postwar artist. Accompanied by an international symposium in October, a full-length c

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Nov 194 min read

Yuko Yabuki, “Duality”

by Lynn Trimble Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum , Mesa, Arizona Continuing through January 4, 2026 Yuko Yabuki, “Beast,” 2019, mixed media on paper, 62 x 52”. All images courtesy of Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum. Imagine a cosmos swirling in dualities, where the interplay of opposing forces creates a constant state of personal, ecological, and metaphysical balance. That’s the expansive, ever-changing reality presented by Yuko Yabuki, an Arizona-based artist born and raised in J

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Nov 195 min read

Alan Lau, “Walk Along the Kamogawa”

by Matthew Kangas ArtXContemporary , Seattle, Washington Continuing through November 15, 2025 Alan Lau, “in the peach orchard,” 2001, Sumi ink, watercolor and pastel on rice paper, 53 3/4 x 54”. All images courtesy of ArtXContemporary, Seattle. Alan Lau’s current exhibit is both straightforward and complicated. His variously scaled Sumi paintings are based on reminiscences of and experiences in Kyoto, where he spends part of each year in the family home of his wife, art criti

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Nov 194 min read

James Casebere and Jose Dávila, “The Poetic Dimension”

by Jody Zellen Sean Kelly , Los Angeles, California Continuing through November 1, 2025 Jose Dávila, “Joint Effort,” 2024, concrete, boulder, and ratchet strap, 92 13/16 x 26 1/2 x 22 5/8”. All images courtesy of Sean Kelly, Los Angeles. “The Poetic Dimension” pairs photographer James Casebere with sculptor Jose Dávila, linking them together because of their shared interests in Mexican modernist architect Luis Barragán. Barragán (1902-1988) was a revered figure in architectur

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Nov 194 min read

OCMA's Demise is UCI’s Gain Through a Major Merger

by Liz Goldner Richard Jackson, ''The Laundry Room (Death of Marat)'' (detail), 2009, acrylic, metal, wood, linoleum, aqua resin, plastic, fabric, computer, washing machine, 47 1/4 x 224 3/8 x 224 3/8''. Photo: Stephan Altenberger Photography, Zurich. Two remarkable collections of 20th century California art are now joined together, thanks to the merger in September of the Orange County Museum of Art (OCMA) and UC Irvine’s Jack and Shanaz Langson Institute and Museum of Calif

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Nov 195 min read

Tamara Johnson, “Get Me, Don’t Get Me”

by John Zotos Keijsers Koning Gallery , Dallas, Texas Continuing through October 18, 2025 Tamara Johnson, “Fruit Cocktail.” All images courtesy of the artist. In 1960 Jasper Johns’ now famous and groundbreaking cast sculpture of two Ballantine Ale cans, “Painted Bronze” (1960), was hand-painted to resemble the original objects. Johns modified this homage to Duchamp’s readymade precedent by fabricating his own sculpture rather than merely finding a mass-produced object and add

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Oct 213 min read

Michael Brophy, “Infandous”

by Matthew Kangas Russo Lee Gallery , Portland, Oregon Continuing through November 1, 2025 Michael Brophy, “Infandous: Mute,” 2025, oil on canvas, 54 x 60”. All images courtesy of Russo Lee Gallery, Portland. The exhibit title, “Infandous,” is an Old English word that means “too odious to be expressed" or "unspeakable; nefarious,” which Michael Brophy happened on to describe the overall imagery of his current exhibition. He also wrote a 26-word, haiku-like poem that accompani

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Oct 214 min read

Luis Jiménez, “American Dream”

by David S. Rubin Matthew Marks Gallery , Los Angeles, California Continuing through November 8, 2025 Luis Jiménez, “American Dream,” 1966, cast fiberglass and automotive paint with epoxy coating, 20 x 29 x 35”. All images courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery, Los Angeles. Luis Jiménez (1940-2006) may be best known as the only Mexican American artist associated with New York Pop art in the 1960s, or maybe for the many controversies surrounding his public art later on. But this surv

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Oct 214 min read