This Week in LA: Nov. 20→26
In this Edition: Photography, Sculpture, and the Art of Resistance
This week brings a powerful convergence of photography, sculpture, and cultural resistance across Los Angeles. Leica Gallery offers an intimate look at Bryan Adams—yes, that Bryan Adams—revealing his formidable second career capturing celebrities and cultural icons through his lens. Pace Gallery examines how space becomes emotional terrain in their group exhibition land marks, while Lisson Gallery presents a stunning survey of Olga de Amaral’s six-decade practice weaving precious metals into luminous sculptural forms.
Marian Goodman Gallery invites eighteen contemporary artists to dance with the revolutionary thinking of Robert Smithson, and The Broad unveils the largest exhibition ever mounted of Robert Therrien’s beloved work—those enormous tables and chairs that have captivated visitors for decades. Meanwhile, The Huntington hosts the West Coast debut of Radical Histories, sixty bold Chicano prints spanning six decades of resistance and cultural reclamation. From West Hollywood to San Marino, from rock star photographers to earthwork visionaries, this week’s selections span scales both monumental and intimate, exploring how art shapes memory, identity, and our sense of place. Check out this week’s top picks below and start planning your gallery route!
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Leica Gallery | West Hollywood
Bryan Adams: #ShotByAdams
On view through December 1, 2025
World-famous musician and composer Bryan Adams showcases his formidable international reputation as a photographer through intimate portraits of famous personalities from entertainment, fashion, and the arts that reveal openness between photographer and subject.
Sprüeth Magers | Miracle Mile
Horror
November 21, 2025 – February 14, 2026
Organized by Jill Mulleady, this intergenerational group exhibition presents horror as both symptom and strategy, featuring works by Dario Argento, Bruce Conner, Anne Imhof, Arthur Jafa, Mike Kelley, Cindy Sherman, Kara Walker, and more.
Pace Gallery | Los Angeles
land marks
On view through January 17, 2026
Curated by Joshua Friedman, this group exhibition of 17 artists examines how space functions as emotional and psychological terrain, exploring how the places we inhabit accumulate meaning and form layered maps of memories.
Lisson Gallery | Hollywood
Olga de Amaral
On view through January 17, 2026
A focused survey spanning the early 1970s through 2018 traces the renowned Colombian artist’s six-decade career dissolving boundaries between weaving, painting, and sculpture through luminous forms interlacing linen, horsehair, Japanese paper, and precious metals.
Marian Goodman Gallery | Hollywood
Casting a Glance: Dancing with Smithson
On view through January 24, 2026
Curated by Lisa Le Feuvre, this exhibition invites eighteen artists including Tony Cragg, Tacita Dean, Julie Mehretu, Steve McQueen, and Bruce Nauman to join Robert Smithson as partners who resist, improvise, and extend his revolutionary thinking.
The Broad | DTLA
Robert Therrien: This is a Story
November 22, 2025 – April 5, 2026
The largest museum exhibition of Therrien’s work to date features over 120 pieces spanning five decades, showcasing his personal vocabulary of enormous tables and chairs alongside intimate drawings of snowmen, birds, and chapels.
Night Gallery | Arts District, DTLA
Daniel T. Gaitor-Lomack: You Can Hate Me Now
November 22, 2025 – February 14, 2026
Combining assemblage, printmaking, performance, and installation, this exhibition examines endurance, spirituality, and survival through unconventional materials including a repurposed turn-of-the-century gold birdcage elevator and a transformed child’s bunk bed.
Patricia Sweetow Gallery | Arts District, DTLA
Jamie Vasta: House of Roses
On view through December 13, 2025
Ballroom culture reimagined through 19th-century Pre-Raphaelite paintings celebrates queer identity through glitter portraits that pay homage to Black and Latinx communities who built ballroom as a site of chosen family, safety, and performance.
Noon Projects | Chinatown
Matt Lifson: Corner Time
November 21, 2025 – January 17, 2026
A series of intimate portraits and still lifes marks the artist’s third presentation with the gallery.
The Huntington | San Marino
Radical Histories: Chicano Prints from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
On view through March 2, 2026
The West Coast debut features 60 bold works by 40 artists and collectives spanning six decades of Chicano printmaking as a form of resistance, community building, and cultural reclamation, including a commissioned mural by Melissa Govea.
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