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The Box LA @theboxla.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
OPEN NOW: “FROM COMMON GROUND” FEATURING MARWA ABDUL-RAHMAN’S “ALWAYS COMING HOME” @ SIDECAR GALLERY On view through August 23, 2025 Images: Marwa Abdul Rahman, “Always Coming Home” 2023-2025 Photo: Nik Massey
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The Box LA @theboxla.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Image: “Small Santa Butt Plug,” Paul McCarthy. 2022. Photo: Fredrik Nilsen Studio @fns.bsky.social
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The Box LA @theboxla.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
BURN ME! EXTENDED THROUGH JULY 19TH Please note: The gallery will be closed on Friday, July 4. We will resume normal hours the following day, Saturday, July 5.
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The Box LA @theboxla.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Amazing turnout for our “Burn Me!” Artist Talk last Saturday! Special thanks to John Joyce, Mara McCarthy, Paul McCarthy, Molly Tierney, Sean Townley, and Johanna Went
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The Box LA @theboxla.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Photo: Fredrick Nilsen Studio @fns.bsky.social
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The Box LA @theboxla.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
BURN ME! ARTIST TALK WITH JOHN JOYCE, PAUL MCCARTHY, MOLLY TIERNEY, SEAN TOWNLEY AND JOHANNA WENT JUNE 28, 2025, 2PM 805 TRACTION AVE. LOS ANGELES, CA 90013 Join us next week for an exclusive talk with select artists from Burn Me! Light refreshments will be served. Hope to see you there.
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The Box LA @theboxla.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
A slide show conversation about art and reproduction (with a photocopy machine). In conjunction with the MAF Library exhibition “Barbara T. Smith: Xerox 914”, curated by Jenelle Porter. Tickets $20 - Link in Bio
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The Box LA @theboxla.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
SAVE THE DATE: The Library at Marciano Art Foundation Presents: Kathleen Hanna in conversation with Jenelle Porter June 10, 2025 | 7:30pm
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The Box LA @theboxla.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Photo: @fns.bsky.social
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The Box LA @theboxla.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Artist Laura Soto @lauracatherinesoto.bsky.social is in the summer 2025 edition of Artforum! "In the harmonious symbiosis she cultivates, one object’s wound becomes another sculpture’s body, trash retooled as treasure, trauma as ornament." - Andrea Gyorody Link in bio to read the full review!
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The Box LA @theboxla.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Opening Reception Saturday, May 17 5-8pm 805 Traction Ave Artist Talk Saturday, June 28 2pm
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The Box LA @theboxla.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
SAVE THE DATE “Burn Me!” featuring John Joyce, Nastya Klychkova, Lee Lozano, Robert Mallary, Damon McCarthy, Paul McCarthy, Jason Rhoades, Jasmine Rudolph, Molly Tierney, Sean Townley, Johanna Went + more! May 17 - July 5, 2025
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The Box LA @theboxla.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Image: Laura Soto, “concentrate, consecrate” 2022-2024. Photo: Frederick Nilsen Studio @fns.bsky.social
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The Box LA @theboxla.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
fixation : process : ritual CLOSING DAY APRIL 12, 2025, 11-6PM 805 TRACTION AVE. LOS ANGELES, CA 90013 Enjoy the final day of the exhibition with @lauracatherinesoto.bsky.social in attendance.
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The Box LA @theboxla.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Images: 1: Laura Soto, “the cave,” 2024. Photo: Fredrick Nilsen Studio 2: “Our Externalized Frieze Booth,” 2025, installation view.
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The Box LA @theboxla.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Stan VanDerBeek’s experimental illuminations, including one watercolor with sorbet oranges and pinks announcing ‘A World of Two Dimension Love.’ I loved it.” - Andrew Berardini for Artforum
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The Box LA @theboxla.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
OUR EXTERNALIZED FRIEZE BOOTH “The magical post-Fluxus noise and color of Ursula Reuter Christiansen, the black-and-white (and sometimes red) sculptural majesty of Sarah Conaway’s photographs (in which a cat seemed to wander and fall asleep amid the serious artmaking), ...
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The Box LA @theboxla.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
LAURA SOTO - FIXATION : PROCESS : RITUAL “Creatures from Laura’s hands seem to never cease moving and changing. Her challenge is to shape what does not have a final shape and in so doing produces an enchantment hard to resist.” - Rosanna Albertini for the kite
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The Box LA @theboxla.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
EXHIBITIONS EXTENDED | NOW OPEN THROUGH SATURDAY, APRIL 12, 2025.
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The Box LA @theboxla.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
get your copy here! ⁠
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I Am Abandoned
I Am Abandoned documents a little-known, but visionary performance by Barbara T. Smith. Taking place in 1976, it featured a conversation in real time between two psychoanalytic computer programs (know...
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The Box LA @theboxla.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
The Box LA and Primary Information are pleased to announce the release of Barbara T. Smith's I Am Abandoned, which documents a little-known, but visionary performance by the artist!
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The Box LA @theboxla.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
EQUINOX CELEBRATION WITH LAURA SOTO MARCH 22, 2025, 3-6PM 805 TRACTION AVE. Come for our Spring Equinox Celebration! Bring an offering for the altar. Enjoy some refreshments. Spend some time with Ash Allard’s ethereal sounds. Let Laura Soto’s creations settle in. @lauracatherinesoto.bsky.social
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The Box LA @theboxla.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Image: Laura Soto, “December 2024,” 2024, acrylics, oils, glues, resins, wax, silicone, paper, plastic, plaster, pigments, mirror fragments on acrylic panel. Photo: Fredrik Nilsen Studio @fns.bsky.social
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The Box LA @theboxla.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Stop by and see Laura Soto’s @lauracatherinesoto.bsky.social “fixation : process : ritual” Open now through March 29th
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The Box LA @theboxla.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Laura Soto will be at The Box during open hours this Friday, February 21st. Stop by and say hi! We will also be open extended hours this week Tuesday 2/19 - Sunday 2/23 11am-6pm Photo courtesy of Maya Fuhr
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The Box LA @theboxla.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
SPECIAL FRIEZE HOURS: open this week Tuesday - Sunday 11am-6pm Stop by and see "Our Externalized Frieze Booth," open now through March 29. From left to right: Sarah Conaway,"Cat and Velvet," 2025. Stan VanDerBeek, "Untitled," circa 1955. Ursula Reuter Christiansen, "Bali #2," 1992.
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The Box LA @theboxla.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
and will remain open until the end of Laura Soto's exhibition, March 29th. We believe these actions of community care, and practices of presenting work we care about to our community, are equal imperatives. Link to preview:
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The Box_Frieze 2025 Preview.pdf
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The Box LA @theboxla.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
In respect to our original enthusiasm to exhibit the work of Stan VanDerBeek, Sarah Conaway, and Ursula Reuter Christiansen, we will be installing Our Externalized Frieze Booth in the auxiliary rooms of The Box, open during the fair week from Tuesday, February 18th to Sunday, February 23rd [cont.]
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The Box LA @theboxla.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
The Box has chosen to withdraw from this edition of Frieze Los Angeles. [read more below]
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Laura Soto @lauracatherinesoto.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
install begins @theboxla.bsky.social
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The Box LA @theboxla.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
New review from @theartnewspaper.bsky.social by Tim Schneider on Judith Bernstein: Public Fears at Kasmin. Congrats Judy!
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Comment | Censorship in the US is rearing its ugly head again—but the art world isn't taking it lying down
As anxieties grow about a new era of cultural repression, artists and institutions are finding ways to come together and push back
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