Bryan Barcena

Our West Coast editor visits exhibitions at Timothy Hawkins, Sea View, and Château Shatto. View of “Rick Bartow: All of these things have happened” 2026, Timothy Hawkinson Gallery, Los Angeles. Photo: ofphotostudio. WHEREAS THE REST of the Northern Hemisphere sees June as the point where summer bright and true arrives, Angelenos typically spend these months under a blanket of gray clouds that stifle our photon-addled brains.

Jack Malotte, The End, 1983. Watercolor and ink on paper, 22 x 29 ¾ in. (55.9 x 75.6 cm). Nevada Museum of Art, gift of William and Janet Abernathy. 1988.02.02. © Jack Malotte. Image courtesy Nevada Museum of Art. There is a phenomenon in the realm of industrial design known as alarm fatigue. The term describes a condition in which people in high-risk occupations (medical staff, airline pilots, industrial-machine operators) become desensitized to the visual or audio cues that indicate danger.

Crowdsourcing first impressions of the David Geffen Galleries The plaza of the David Geffen Galleries. All photos: the author. BY THE EVENING of Saturday, April 18, the last day of the weeklong string of VIP events organized to mark the opening of the new David Geffen galleries at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, I had thrice been back. I was in search of an angle, or more specifically, for some individual or group of people who could tell me what to think about our new county museum.