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Spanning both North Galleries and the outdoor courtyard, Gary Simmons’ first exhibition with Hauser & Wirth will debut new paintings, wall drawings, and sculpture, as well as the installation ‘Recapturing Memories of the Black Ark,’ presented for the first time in Los Angeles. For over 30 years, Simmons’ multidisciplinary practice has probed American history to examine the pervasive nature of racist ideology and its manifestations in visual culture. Drawn from both personal and collective memory, his works address themes of race, identity, politics, and social inequality, and the ways in …