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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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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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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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5 days ago4 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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