7/5-LA3 losing to the past

Head to UCLA Hammer Museum and back yesterday, there is a good historical show on the Societe of the Anonyme going on, revealing how this group founded together by Duchamp and others help bring modernism to the US, how it formed its own society, quarterly, publication, exhibition, curating and even collection. Duchamp is really advance in so many aspects in promoting arts strategically.
Afterwards, my friend took me to Santa Monica, for an art bkshop (there should be more than one, but it seems they too have closed down), and I brought one Lippard edited bk on conceptual art, on the way, we visited a gallery hub, but the Joan Jonas show in Rosamund Felsen gallery is quite disappointing. So is the new Jorg Immendorf in another gallery there, lacking all the rawness, a bit like Polke's painting more really. The line Jeder Mensch ist ein Maler still written underneath one of the painting has lost almost all its substance.