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Goodbye from The Box. Thank you Box artists, staff, collaborators, and community. It's been our pleasure to serve LA for 19 years. Stay tuned for more details for our closing celebration on June 6, 2026. Love to you all. -- Image: Mural by Sarah Conaway. Photo: Fredrik Nilsen Studio 2025.

TODAY is final day of "Wally Hedrick: SEX POLITICS RELIGION" at The Box and Parker Gallery! Thank to you all who attended the Wally Hedrick Symposium last week! Big thanks to our lecturers Laura Whitcomb, Anastasia Aukeman, and Mark Van Proyen, as well as our panelists Dave Getz, Mike Henderson, Paul McCarthy, Ruby Neri and moderater Michael Ned Holte. Link to the recording of the symposium in bio! -- Photos: Eli Chartkoff

TOMORROW! WALLY HEDRICK SYMPOSIUM Saturday, March 28, 2026 at The Box 805 Traction Ave, Los Angeles Please join The Box and Parker Gallery for a day of Wally Hedrick-related events, in honor of the galleries' joint exhibition "Wally Hedrick: SEX POLITICS RELIGION." LECTURERS | 11am–12:30PM Laura Whitcomb - "Encryption as Resistance; The Machine as Metaphysical Allegory" Anastasia Aukeman - "Wally Hedrick, Instigator and Architect of Counterculture Communities" Mark Van Proyen - "Our Diogenes: Wally Hedrick’s Lamp of Art" ARTIST PANEL | 1:30–2:30PM Dave Getz, Mike Henderson, Paul McCarthy, Ruby Neri Moderated by Michael Ned Holte MUSIC & PING PONG | 2:30PM Mike Henderson and Cabin Fever featuring Dave Getz and John Rogstad Free event. RSVP is encouraged but not required. RSVP to [email protected]  Exhibition will remain on view at The Box and Parker Gallery through April 4, 2026. --- Image: Wally Hedrick playing ping pong in the courtyard at the California School of Fine Arts (later San Francisco Art Institute), c.1958.

WALLY HEDRICK SYMPOSIUM Saturday, March 28, 2026 at The Box 805 Traction Ave, Los Angeles Please join The Box and Parker Gallery for a day of Wally Hedrick-related events, in honor of the galleries' joint exhibition "Wally Hedrick: SEX POLITICS RELIGION." LECTURERS | 11am–12:30PM Laura Whitcomb - "Encryption as Resistance; The Machine as Metaphysical Allegory" Anastasia Aukeman - "Wally Hedrick, Instigator and Architect of Counterculture Communities" Mark Van Proyen - "Our Diogenes: Wally Hedrick’s Lamp of Art" ARTIST PANEL | 1:30–2:30PM Dave Getz, Mike Henderson, Paul McCarthy, Ruby Neri Moderated by Michael Ned Holte MUSIC & PING PONG | 2:30PM Mike Henderson and Cabin Fever featuring Dave Getz and John Rogstad Free event. RSVP is encouraged but not required. RSVP to [email protected]  Exhibition will remain on view at The Box and Parker Gallery through April 4, 2026.

Special edition Burn Me! Exhibition Monographs are now available at The Box! This edition of 250 includes 72 pages of artworks, exhibition materials, install photos by Fredrik Nilsen, documentation of artists' homes/studios post-Eaton fire by Alex Stevens, and essay by Jillian McManemin. Available for purchase for $25 at gallery or online at Box Editions (link in bio) Contributors: John Joyce Wally Hedrick Nastya Klychkova Lee Lozano Jillian McManemin Robert Mallary Damon McCarthy Paul McCarthy Fredrik Nilsen Jason Rhoades Jasmine Rudolph Alex Stevens Molly Tierney Sean Townley Johanna Went -- Images courtesy of @vacantprojects

Party recap from last weekends “Frieze after Dark” hosted by Alexis Borges, The Box and NOON. Thanks to @art.documents for the reel! @agentborges @theboxla @noonprojects #friezeafterdark #noonprojects #friezela #laartweek #theboxgallery 💦💦💦💦💦

We did it again. Thank you to everyone who came out for Frieze After Dark to celebrate LA Art Week. Huge thanks to Alexis Borges for hosting us, and to The Box – Mara, and Robert for co-hosting. Hunter Harvey for the incredible floating installation, and our DJs Banofee, Bebe, and DJ KGB for keeping things sweaty. Major gratitude to the bartenders, servers, and pals who made the night happen — and special thanks to everyone doing flips off the diving board at 2am. We love you. LA Art Week felt electric this year. We ♥️ LA. Images by @alexfree_hii @noonprojects @theboxla @agentborges @_hunter @jenyaflowers @banoffeemusic @bebee10000 #noonprojects #theboxla #alexisborges #casaborges friezeLA friezeafterdark

WALLY HEDRICK: SEX POLITICS RELIGION 7 Shows to See During Frieze Los Angeles The postwar Bay Area is often remembered for its literary output, yet recent exhibitions have directed renewed attention toward its countercultural artists, who sought out the region for its distance from market pressures. Coincidentally, a two-venue survey of Pasadena-born artist Wally Hedrick aligns with an excellent presentation of work by Jay DeFeo (Hedrick’s former wife), at Marc Selwyn Fine Art; a show of Wallace Berman’s Verifax collages at Michael Kohn Gallery; and an exhibition featuring seven of Bruce Conner’s films at the Marciano Art Foundation – all of which are necessary viewing. A cofounder of Six Gallery (where Allen Ginsberg debuted ‘Howl’ [1955]) and an early antiwar agitator, Hedrick rejected stylistic continuity, moving from junk assemblage to mystical monochromes to polemic signage with ‘improvisational’ freedom. ‘The political issues that were central to his practice are unfortunately very much still with us’, Parker Gallery founder Sam Parker tells me. As Los Angeles remains a site of national friction, Hedrick’s refusal to toe the line models both inward reckoning and political protest. Link to the full list in our bio @friezeofficial @wfenstermaker @parker.gallery #WallyHedrick -- Image: Wally Hedrick, "Peace Awakening / (Wiggy With Wings)," 2000. Courtesy of The Estate of Wally Hedrick, Parker Gallery, and The Box LA. Photo: Paul Salveson @no_sevlas

EUGENIA P. BUTLER ARCHIVE OPEN STUDIO WITH CORAZON DEL SOL LOCATION: The Barn, architect A. Quincy Jones’s personal home and office built in 1950. This event is hosted by Metabolic Studio February 26-28 | 10-4PM The Barn | 10300 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles 90025 RSVP link in bio. In 2025, as part of Metabolic Studio's Special Projects in Archiving, artist Corazon del Sol, Butler's daughter, began excavating the archive dedicated to Butler's life and work. Eugenia P. Butler played a formative and often overlooked role at the border between conceptual art, community art practice and experimentation. This incredible body of paintings, drawings, journals and ephemeral pieces are now on view at the Barn, the former home and practice office of renowned architect, A. Quincy Jones. The archive will continue to be on view at The Barn Wednesdays and Thursdays through April 29, 2026. EVENT: Corazon del Sol and Catherine Wagley on Eugenia P. Butler Sunday March 1 | 10AM-2PM The Barn | 10300 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles 90025 RSVP link in bio On March 1, we invite you to a special conversation about Butler's work featuring Corazon del Sol and Catherine Wagley @cgwagley , author of the forthcoming book She Wanted Adventure: Five Gallerists Who Gave Their Lives to Art in the 1960s and 1970s. Doors open at 10:00AM for light refreshments, conversation begins at 10:30AM. We are so grateful to Metabolic Studio for their ongoing support of the estate of Eugenia P. Butler. -- Video courtesy of Metabolic Studio

TONIGHT Wally Hedrick: SEX POLITICS RELIGION OPENING RECEPTIONS February 14, 2026 PARKER GALLERY | 3-6 PM 6700 Melrose Ave Los Angeles, CA 90038 THE BOX LA | 5-8 PM 805 Traction Ave Los Angeles, CA 90013 — Images 1-2: Installation view of “Wally Hedrick: SEX POLITICS RELIGION” at Parker Gallery, 2026. Images 3-4: Installation view of “Wally Hedrick: SEX POLITICS RELIGION” at The Box LA, 2026. Photos: Paul Salveson @no_sevlas

WALLY HEDRICK: SEX POLITICS RELIGION  FEBRUARY 14 – APRIL 4, 2026 THE BOX AND PARKER GALLERY, LOS ANGELES OPENING RECEPTIONS FEBRUARY 14, 2026 PARKER GALLERY | 3-6 PM 6700 MELROSE AVE LOS ANGELES, CA 90038 THE BOX LA | 5-8 PM 805 TRACTION AVE LOS ANGELES, CA 90013 A Wally Hedrick symposium will be held on March 28, 2026 at The Box. Additional details forthcoming. Link to press release in bio. Image: Wally Hedrick,” A Part Died/Phules Mate,” 1985-86. Courtesy of the Estate of Wally Hedrick, Parker Gallery, and The Box LA.

Barbara T. Smith “Outside Chance” at the Variety Arts Theatre (formerly the Friday Morning Club–a clubhouse for women) presented by @hardtoread Sunday, February 15, 6pm until late With PERFORMANCES by Bunny Rogers @bunrogers , Lexee Smith @lexeesmith , #BarbaraTSmith, #PattyChang, Harmony Holiday @harmony_holiday , Alicia Novella Vasquez @lightlicker  (x Maya Martinez @hidingfrommystalkerok ), Matt Hilvers @matthilvers , The War Pigs @thewarpigsla , & NEW YORK @_n_e_w__y_o_r_k   Plus an all-ages Coumba Samba coloring station @savecoumba  @bierkebooks On-site bookselling care of @storiesbooksandcafe , with SIGNINGS Shop BOOKS by Bunny Rogers, Barbara T. Smith, Patty Chang, Harmony Holiday, Maya Martinez, Fiona Alison Duncan, Jason De León @jason.de.leon , and Coumba Samba Sunday, February 15, 6pm until late Variety Arts Theater 940 S Figueroa St, Los Angeles, CA, 90015 Free with RSVP This special event is composed in concert with “What a Wonderful World: An Audiovisual Poem,” edited by Udo Kittelmann and presented by the @juliastoschekfoundation at the Variety Arts Theater from February 6 to March 20, 2026 Hard to Read is organized by Fiona Alison Duncan @fifidunks Flyer art by Chloe Maratta @chloe.slipper , repurposing a Los Angeles Times paper from 1924 reporting on the Friday Morning Club, the women’s club that first erected what is now the Variety Arts Theater