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BEST OF THE LEF T COAST California boasts some of the most spectacular art campuses in North America, including its latest addition in LA, the David Geffen Galleries, designed by Peter Zumthor, which recently opened after nearly two decades of anticipation. It hits the mark. Up the Pacific Coast Highway, the Bay Area also delivers two summer must-sees. At the de Young, Nigerian artist Nengi Omuku makes her first US institutional debut with "The Gathering," bringing her luminous landscape paintings on hand-woven sanyan fabric into conversation with the living density of Golden Gate Park. Across the bay at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, better known as BAMPFA, the view is longer. "Maren Hassinger: Living Moving Growing" is the most comprehensive retrospective yet of an exceptional LA–born artist who has spent 50 years coaxing wire, rope, and industrial castoffs into new life forms. MOUNTAIN TIME As we have established, the mountains aren't just for winter. In fact, in the summer, the hills tend to sing. We recommend hiking the ones over at Powder Art Foundation in Utah, where new large-scale artworks are added every year. Look out for chandeliers in the trees by Kayode Ojo, or a towering rock totem by Nobuo Sekine. If you're in the Rockies, there's a good chance you'll be stopping through Aspen—the art world's high season is in late July, when the Aspen Art Museum hosts well- heeled pilgrims for the annual AIR Festival, bringing artists from all over the world for five days of performance and activation. This year's highlights include a new theatrical performance by artist Camille Henrot with sets by designer Adam Charlap Hyman. L AKE COUNTRY When the Great Lakes start to warm up, Chicago's art scene springs into full bloom. At the Museum of Contemporary Art, the late sculptor Kenzi Shiokava finally gets his due: a first museum solo surveying nearly 50 years of work made in a Compton warehouse, where he transformed driftwood, telephone poles, and castoff objects into towering wooden totems and enigmatic box assemblages. A second-generation Japanese Brazilian who arrived in Los Angeles just before the 1965 Watts riots, Shiokava drew on Japanese woodcarving, Afro-Brazilian spiritual traditions, and the assemblage lineage of South LA to build a practice that resists every category while somehow belonging to all of them. Across town at the Art Institute of Chicago, "Beyond Form: Abstraction at Midcentury" offers a different kind of immersion: a chance to sit with the paintings and gestures that cracked open the 20th century. Frank Stella's Double Concentric Squares, on view at The Art Institute of Chicago SOUTHERN CHARM The South always has its own rhythms, idling rather than catapulting, and the art scene follows this independent script. At Glenstone, the incomparable jewel-box museum campus tucked into the Maryland countryside, you can catch one of the largest presentations of Andrea Bowers's work to date. It captures Bowers at the height of her powers, deploying eye-catching strategies (disco balls, neon lights, functional swings) to draw people into thoughts and questions that usually take the energy out of the room. In Durham, North Carolina, the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke is marking 20 years of visionary collecting with "Everything Now All At Once," a greatest-hits survey put together by current staff that reads like the spine of an excellent mixtape, with works by Nick Cave, Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Firelei Báez, Barkley L. Hendricks, and other icons. Maren Hassinger's Tree Duet I, 5617 San Vicente Blvd, Los Angeles, 1977-2021 Inspired looks for your artful escape. What To Pack Nobuo Sekine's Phase of Nothingness—Stone Stack (1970/2025) at Utah's Powder Art Foundation Inspired looks To Pack BRUNELLO CUCINELLI Straw fedora VICTORIA BECKHAM Denim jacket CHANEL Clownfish coin purse BRUNELLO CUCINELLI Drawstring backpack TOD'S Marlin boat shoes RIMOWA Essential Cabin BOTTEGA VENETA Woven Mycelium key ring © N O B U O S E K I N E E S TAT E ; © 2 0 1 8 F R A N K S T E L L A / A R T I S T S R I G H T S S O C I E T Y ( A R S ) , N E W YO R K , C O U R T E S Y T H E A R T I N S T I T U T E O F C H I C AG O ; P H OTO BY B R I A N Q U I N BY, C O U R T E S Y N A S H E R M U S E U M O F A R T AT D U K E U N I V E R S I T Y; P H OTO BY A DA M AV I L A ; C O U R T E S Y O F S U S A N I N G L E T T G A L L E R Y, N YC ; C O U R T E S Y O F T H E B R A N D S CUCINELLI CUCINELLI backpack TOD'S Marlin boat shoes An installation view of "Everything Now All At Once" at the Nasher

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