This Week in LA: March. 5→11
In this Edition: Resistance, Memory, and the Body as Archive — From the Black Arts Movement to the Great Wall of Los Angeles
This week’s exhibitions explore resistance, memory, and the body as archive – from sweeping movements for social change to quiet acts of personal defiance. At the Getty Center, Photography and the Black Arts Movement examines how artists and activists used photography as a tool for transformation across three pivotal decades. In Leimert Park, Art + Practice presents Giving you the best that I got, curated by Dominique Clayton, foregrounding Black mothers and matrilineal histories through works by Carrie Mae Weems, Bisa Butler, Karon Davis, and more. Anat Ebgi debuts Veronica Fernandez’s Prey, where childhood memories of adversity transform into vivid, dreamlike environments brimming with private sentiment.
Over at Jeffrey Deitch, Judith F. Baca and SPARC unveil the latest segment of The Great Wall of Los Angeles, capturing the heartbeat of 1970s resistance fifty years after the mural’s initial production. At Make Room, Tuan Vu’s Ode to Slowness praises unhurriedness as feminine strength and quiet defiance against colonial rule. Vielmetter Los Angeles presents Hayv Kahraman’s Libations – an offering to a burning world, marking the artist’s first LA exhibition since her displacement from the Eaton Fire. And at Abigail Ogilvy Gallery, The Dance explores femme movement as both ritual and resistance, from ballet to voguing to gestural abstraction.
Explore this week’s full lineup below and find what moves you!
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Getty Center | Brentwood
Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955–1985
On view through June 14, 2026
From studio and street photographers to graphic designers and community organizers, Photography and the Black Arts Movement explores how an incredible range of artists and activists used photography as a tool for social change—contributing to the lively exchange of pan-African ideas that propelled the movement forward.
Art + Practice | Leimert Park
Giving you the best that I got
On view through March 7, 2026
The sacred relationship between mother and child has shaped countless artistic expressions, yet the nuanced experiences of Black mothers in contemporary art remain underdocumented. Curated by Dominique Clayton and co-presented with the California African American Museum, Giving you the best that I got features twenty artists—including Carrie Mae Weems, Bisa Butler, and Karon Davis—foregrounding Black women and matrilineal histories.
Anat Ebgi | Miracle Mile
Veronica Fernandez: Prey
On view through April 4, 2026
Children and adolescents occupy a central role in Veronica Fernandez’s memories—not idealized innocents but playful figures brimming with private sentiment, claiming their own space within scenes crowded by friends, siblings, neighbors, and caretakers. Prey transforms the artist’s formative experiences of adversity into vivid characters and dreamlike, at times fantastical, environments.
Jeffrey Deitch | Hollywood
Judith F. Baca: Great Wall of Los Angeles:
The 1970s – A Decade of Defiance and Dreams
On view through April 4, 2026
Fifty years after its initial production, SPARC returns to Jeffrey Deitch to exhibit the latest complete segment in the expansion of The Great Wall of Los Angeles. Beginning with the Native American occupation of Alcatraz in 1969 and unfolding through the Chicano Moratorium and campus uprisings, the mural captures the heartbeat of the decade’s most consequential movements.
Make Room | Hollywood
Tuan Vu: Ode to Slowness
On view through April 18, 2026
The birds sing the same songs they sang last spring. Tuan Vu’s paintings capture the timelessness of serenity, praising unhurriedness as an act of resistance and a quiet display of feminine strength—drawing inspiration from Les Nabis while demonstrating the beauty of Vietnamese culture as its own form of defiance against colonial rule.
Vielmetter Los Angeles | Arts District, DTLA
Hayv Kahraman: Libations
On view through March 21, 2026
What does one do when the world collapses? Marking Hayv Kahraman’s first Los Angeles exhibition since her displacement from the Eaton Fire in Altadena, Libations responds to the catastrophic events of the past year through paintings that invoke divination, ritual, and magic—an offering to a burning world, incorporating handmade flax, marbling techniques, and Arabic inscriptions referencing a mythical phoenix reborn through fire.
Abigail Ogilvy Gallery | Arts District, DTLA
The Dance: In Collaboration with Cierra Britton Gallery
On view through April 4, 2026
From ballet to voguing to gestural abstract painting, movement has long transcended the stage—becoming a vital tool for self-expression, community formation, and the preservation of bodily autonomy. The Dance explores the significance of femme movement as both ritual and resistance through works by Latifa Alajlan, Ambrose Rhapsody Murray, Hiba Schahbaz, Sydney Vernon, and others.
ArtBug Gallery | Arts District, DTLA
Re-calentado: Group Exhibition
On view through March 7, 2026
Re-calentado—Spanish for “to reheat”—extends the joy of family celebrations one more day. ArtBug reignites its CDMX Art Week roster of artists for Los Angeles, echoing the Mexican tradition of reuniting after a celebratory party to finish leftover bacalao or romeritos, where the pillars of family, tradition, and sustainability meet in strengthening cross-cultural border relationships.
Keystone Art Space | Chinatown
Caron G Rand: Undertow
On view through March 7, 2026
“Life’s ebbs and flows bring unexpected undertows, pulling us under, thrashing we rise up finding power in survival and resilience.” Undertow, curated by Peter Frank, presents Caron G Rand’s thematic oeuvre exploring duality, memory, and transformation—honoring her mother’s battle with Alzheimer’s through imagery divided between left and right hemispheres.
Gattopardo | Glendale
Madeline Ludwig-Leone: Secondary Source
On view through April 5, 2026
How do desire and ideology shape vision? Madeline Ludwig-Leone situates fragments of nature within constructed interiors—window panes, floor planes, and beams—where landscape becomes something staged rather than experienced. Secondary Source references the Hudson River School while quietly destabilizing it, exposing the distance between lived environments and their romanticized cultural images.
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