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At the Getty, a Camille Claudel survey aims to refocus attention on her art rather than her turbulent life, while Albrecht Dürer at the Huntington illustrates the influence of Italian art on this German Renaissance master. The LA Public Library is displaying a mural by pioneering Chicano collective East Los Streetscapers for the first time in 25 years, and an exhibition of photographs by J. T.
Sata at the Japanese American National Museum highlights the late artist’s modernist innovations. Josh Kline at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sofía Córdova at JOAN, and Sangre de Nopal at the Fowler confront global legacies of exploitation and extraction, imagining speculative futures of catastrophe or liberation. In this ambitious solo show, Oakland- and Puerto Rico-based artist Sofía Córdova asks what is required to make liberation a reality.
Alongside a newly commissioned text and sculptural installation, the exhibition features two video installations from the artist’s GUILLOTINÆ WannaCry series (2019–2022). Its first half follows characters .