CP Museum & Gallery Picks

• Leo Villareal
  To Sunday, Nov. 9, at Conner Contemporary Art
  It’s difficult to snag a cab from Conner Contemporary’s new space, but this can something to be grateful for—it gives you a reason to linger in front of the building and enjoy the gorgeous glow...
• ID-entity
  To Oct. 18 at Transformer and the Mexican Cultural Institute
  A statue at the Mexican Cultural Institute winked at me last weekend. Encased in a pedestal, artist Xavier Rodriguez was made up to look like the ceramic bust of Mexican folk hero Jesus Malverde, a...
• "An Iconography of Contagion"
  To Sunday, Dec. 21, at the National Academy of Sciences
  Condom handouts, discounted flu shots, and free HIV testing reflect a progressive awareness of the universality of disease, but a new exhibit at the National Academy of Sciences reminds us that...
• “The Great American Epic: Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series”
  To Sunday, Oct. 26, at the Phillips Collection
  Jacob Lawrence was an artist, not a writer, but the 60-painting “Migration Series” sums up the African-American struggle in its final pane with a sentence so perfectly succinct and telling of...
• Julia Fullerton-Batten
  To Saturday, Oct. 18, at Randall Scott Gallery
  Julia Fullerton-Batten doesn’t want to grow up. “In Between” is the London photographer’s third exhibition dedicated to teenage girls, and each installment has grown more...

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