On View

A quick roundup of noteworthy museum shows on view this fall.

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For over four decades, Cindy Sherman has been examining themes of portraiture, the female persona, and mediated social identity, through photographs in which she serves as her own subject, costume designer, make-up artist, and director. The Broads have collected her work in depth for three of them, so it’s fitting that the museum’s first monographic exhibition should be of Sherman. Titled “Imitation of Life” (a reference to the 1959 Douglas Sirk melodrama), the show emphasizes the cinematic and mass media influences that infuse her practice. Including works from 1975 to her recent series on aging starlets of a bygone era, with two site-specific murals, the show counts as a must-see, especially for the city in which celebrity image-making is its own cherished art form. At the Broad, Los Angeles, CA, June 11 – October 2, 2016.