Jeffrey Deitch's Art Fall Spectacle: It Smells Like a Girl

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At Jeffrey Deitch Gallery’s Fall Spectacle: "It Smells Like a Girl"
9.13.2025, By Ally Gotwald, Artist & Writer, London, for LaArtTV

Step into the buzz: 53 electrifying works that pull you in, each demanding pause and reflection. Perfect for our “salience detection”—the mind’s instinctive spotlight that locks onto every gesture, color, and detail charged with meaning. Barbara Sanchez-Kane’s Parasite or Host, in aluminum and polyurethane foam, had me wondering if my medical insurance could cover this thrill. Jeanette Mundt shared her Odalisque paintings, while Nadia Lee Cohen’s immersive installation drew curious art voyeurs, touching life-size screens as she celebrated chat with body movement in real time.

Around 200 people mingled, sizing each other up—a playground for actors, fashion scouts, or anyone hunting the next Hollywood star. In that moment, the crowd realized: I am not lonely—surrounded by the buzz, the art, and the people, I felt fully alive. Some studied artworks in meticulous detail, jotting notes—signaling they are the potential buyers. Olga, 78, cruised in on her scooter: “I’m on social security, but coming to Deitch openings for four years keeps me socially stable. I paint my two cats only in blue using watercolor—so far, 168 small paintings.”

Go see it—alone or with a friend. Art is still the ultimate conversation starter. Don’t just read about it—be part of the spectacle yourself.

September 6 – November 1, 2025
925 N. Orange Dr., Los Angeles, CA

 No other encounter could draw a gallery visitor so vividly into dialogue as an interview with a LaArtTV journalist.

“This is the art of conversation: as revealing as the canvas itself.”

The surprise lay not in the question but in the ease of the replies. That is the journalist’s gift—what psychology calls empathetic voyeurism: the subtle ability to make private thoughts feel safe to share. In that space, taboo dissolves, and nudity shifts from silence and shame to memory, story, and preference. Conversation itself becomes an artwork—rapport at its most refined, or more precisely, the result of a “projective empathy,”

The artists participating in It Smells Like Girl are:

Kelly Akashi, Isabelle Albuquerque, Danica Barboza, Tosh Basco, Stefania Batoeva, Meriem Bennani, Jibz Cameron, Nadia Lee Cohen, Liz Craft, Janiva Ellis, K8 Hardy, Eunnam Hong, Juliana Huxtable, Tala Madani, Jeanette Mundt, Naudline Pierre, Roksana Pirouzmand, Jessi Reaves, Bunny Rogers, Gabriela Ruiz, Bárbara Sánchez-Kane, Diane Severin Nguyen, Flannery Silva, Marianna Simnett, Connor Marie Stankard, Frances Stark, Jordan Strafer, Martine Syms, Frieda Toranzo Jaeger, Nora Turato, Michelle Uckotter, Cajsa von Zeipel, Ambera Wellmann, Aleksandra Waliszewska, Women's History Museum.

Inspired by personal perception and the natural world, Lapin’s palette transforms abstract projections into a visual feast, where color and form ripple like the ocean’s hidden depths. Her voyage of color surprises evokes the cosmos—spiral galaxies, star clusters, and nebulae—recalling wonders such as the Carina Nebula and Cat’s Eye Nebula.

Delicately diluted, her colors then spark into the eye, revealing new discoveries. Gallery visitors shared their excitement, many imagining a painting joining their collections. Lapin’s works are part of major U.S. Museum collections and have exhibited internationally.

September 13 to October 25, 2025, at: 616 N La Brea Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90036

 LaArtTV flows the same direction, uniquely preparing always original questions for its viewers, echoing the current global existential culture—now linked to Markus Gabriel’s TEDxBerlinSalon talk “The Nature of Our Values”, showing values stem from human experience, not just biology or culture. Note: From 286 responses. 110 would take the painting. The rest: “You can’t carry your house, but you can a painting—and it fits perfectly into the BMW XM Label, offering mind’s soothing decision"..“©

2025 The Other Art Show – September 25–28, 2025, at Barker Hangar. Step onto the magic art carpet where The Big Lebowski’s iconic Gutterballs sequence was filmed, and let your imagination roll through fantastical visions, like the “Dude,” (Jeff Bridges) had. Over 150 U.S. and international artists transform dreams into reality—paintings, sculptures, collages, and wearable art that demand your attention. Attendance soared 15% over last year. Barker Hangar, 3021 Airport Ave, Santa Monica, CA. Covered by LaArtTV.com.

The Hidden Self, framed: Which part of you deserves its own frame? 

At the 2025, Saatchi The Other Art Show in Santa Monica, we asked: Which hidden detail of myself would the artist choose to frame? The reaction was electric—one of the strongest LaArtTV has seen in a decade of the Today’s Art Flavor Question- encounters.© We explored why, linking it to psychologist Esther Perel (see LaArtTV article), known for her work on modern relationships, self-confidence, self-appraisal, and ‘erotic intelligence.’”

Visitors leaned in, eager to answer. The question wasn’t about art—it was about them. Their words reflected Burckhardt’s individuality, Carlyle’s greatness, Emerson’s authenticity, Herder’s humanity, and Tocqueville’s resilience. Through Esther Perel’s lens, the responses revealed a deeper truth: the pull between security and freedom in every relationship. To be asked was to be seen; to answer was to reveal. That is why people wished they had been there—the moment became both an exhibition and a mirror, a frame for the hidden self. (John Smith, AP)