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AN ANXIOUS MAN On the eve of his first New York gallery exhibition in five years, Rashid Johnson gives Carol Kino 170 a preview of his hotly anticipated new show at Hauser & Wirth. I'M WITH HER We visit the studios of five Los Angeles women who are redefining the art world from the Left Coast. 176 INSISTING ON OPACITY Artist Julie Mehretu challenges the binary notion of black artists, embracing abstraction 188 far beyond otherness. AMBIGUOUS BY DESIGN Architecture studio SO-IL takes an elastic approach to their projects. 192 REMASTERED With his grand tableaux, Kerry James Marshall has been brilliantly rewriting art history. 196 POWER UP Anne Pasternak, the Brooklyn Museum's first female director, is quickly making moves in her new position. 200 TAKING IT OUTSIDE The Walker Art Center's Olga Viso rethinks the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden as the next step 204 in the institution's pioneering history. CALL OF THE WILD An art-dealing family breaks through the privatized gallery structure with Domaine du Muy, 208 a sprawling sculpture park in the South of France. ARTISTIC REBIRTH A new gallery exhibition unearths the early influential works of Italian-American artist 212 Salvatore Scarpitta. TIPPING THE SCALE Think you know artist Joel Shapiro? A fall show at Dominique Lévy presents a body of new 216 and rarely seen historical works that just may shift your perspective on the septuagenarian sculptor. ART HOUSE Collector Chara Schreyer offers a rare peek inside the art-filled homes she's curated over the last 220 40 years in a new book from Assouline. HOLD THE WALL Dealer Anthony Meier and designer Douglas Durkin collaborate on Meier's gallery in residence. 224 WHERE'S ALPHA? How can Alphachanneling, an artist with 286K Instagram followers, remain anonymous IRL? 228 CULTURED X FOR FREEDOMS We celebrated our Summer cover stars, Hank Willis Thomas and Eric Gottesman, 238 with a dinner at Jack Shainman Gallery during their politically charged "For Freedoms" exhibition. QUITE THE CATCH Coinciding with his first New York solo show at Galerie Perrotin, Daniel Arsham creates 240 Amethyst Baseball for our latest Cultured Commission. Contents On the COver Artist Rashid Johnson in his Bushwick studio, photographed by Hank Willis Thomas and produced by Michael Reynolds exclusively for Cultured's newsstand edition. Artist Julie Mehretu in her New York studio, photographed by Landon Nordeman and produced by Michael Kirkland exclusively for Cultured. Styled by Mindi Smith for Sarah Laird, Mehretu is wearing a Rick Owens jacket, Alexander Wang shirt, A.P.C. pants and II VIII VIII shoes. Brooklyn Museum Director Anne Pasternak JEREMY LIEBMAN 52 culturedmag.com