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L.A.’s Expanded L&M Arts to Open With McCarthy Show

Published: September 8, 2009
LOS ANGELES— The expanded L.A. branch of high-end New York gallery L&M Arts is set to open in September 2010 with an exhibit by Paul McCarthy, known for the provocative and sometimes shocking humor in his performances, installations, and sculptures.

It will be the artist’s first show in Los Angeles since his 1998 and 2000 exhibitions at Patrick Painter’s gallery and a 2000-01 retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art. His major project this past summer was a park full of inflatable sculptures in Utrecht, the Netherlands, and this fall he will have a show of drawings at Hauser & Wirth’s New York branch. Even McCarthy himself is not certain what he will be showing at L&M Arts, but the exhibit will inaugurate the gallery’s new complex, described as a garden with two pavilions — one a refurbished brick power plant built in 1930 and the other a newly constructed brick structure. Each building will have about 1,200 square feet of exhibition space, and the 4,000-square-foot garden will display sculpture and other outdoor artworks.

Read more at the Los Angeles Times.

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