- Following 1.2K
- Followers 43.7K
- Engagement 0.32%
- Avg likes 147
- Avg comments 7
About Carla
Carla (@contemporaryartreview.la) is an Arts & entertainment creator on Instagram, also filed under Entertainment. The account has 43,734 followers and 3,220 published posts. Recent posts average 147 likes and 7 comments, an engagement rate of 0.32%.
With 43.7K followers, Carla is a micro creator by the common 10,000 to 100,000 definition. Set against 1,226 accounts followed, the audience works out to about 36 followers per account Carla follows. Carla is set up as an Instagram business account. Flinque files Carla under Arts & entertainment, with Entertainment as a secondary category.
The Instagram bio for Carla runs to 20 words. The latest activity Flinque has on record for Carla dates from July 2025.
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3,220 Posts
Of the 10 most recent posts shown for Carla, 7 are carousels, 2 are videos and 1 is a single image. That mix leans toward carousels. With 3,220 posts published, Carla's archive runs well past the 2,000 mark. Against the audience, that is roughly 14 followers for each post published. Carla also keeps 30 story highlights on the profile. All 10 carry captions, averaging 137 words each. The captions are written mainly in English. Words that recur across them include issue, artists, essay, online and recent. The captions tag #44 and #spruethmagers.
On June 20th, we’re excited to invite Club Carla members for a walkthrough of Betye Saar's newest exhibition, "Let's Get It On: The Wearable Art of Betye Saar," at Roberts Projects. 📿
The tour will be led by Associate Director Alexandria Ryahl from 4–5 PM, followed by light refreshments and time to gather afterward.
Not a Club Carla member? Join today using the link in our bio for invites to exclusive events like this one and more! 🔗
Note: You must be a Club Carla member by June 15th to be eligible to RSVP.
📸 Image courtesy of Betye Saar and Roberts Projects.
Since founding his eponymous gallery Rajiv Menon Contemporary (RMC) in 2023, the gallerist has brought South Asian hospitality and style to the West. In February 2025, the gallery established its quietly capacious headquarters on Highland Avenue in Hollywood. RMC aims to not only preserve but also amplify South Asian culture in Los Angeles—already home to a robust and diverse art community.
The Dealers is a year-long photo series featuring up-and-coming art dealers in L.A.
Read the full essay online via the link in our Story ★.
Karapetian shares, "My education was one used bookstore in Stockton, California. That's where I learned everything, like Brassaï and Bresson and this lady called Lissette [Model]..I would devour this stuff...I had nothing else to do. The whole day I would spend with my dad, either working or at the pool hall. [S]o when I discovered the printed page, oh my god...”
Read the full interview online via the link in our Story ★.
Edwards writes, "[A]t Pepperdine University's Weisman Museum of Art last fall, after the institution altered several artworks on view in 'Hold My Hand in Yours'... artists withdrew from the exhibition in protest, the show closed six months early; in a 'mutual decision' with the university shortly after, Gyorody resigned."
Read the full essay online via the link in our Story ★.
Issue #44’s cover image features the artist book collection inside LACA's Reading Room at from an essay by Marie Heilich on "Contemporary Archives in L.A. and Beyond," exploring how archives function.
Features:
☆ Marie Heilch on where her engagement with the estates of Luchita Hurtado and Lee Mullican began.
☆ Ella Ray on Panteha Abareshi the specatcle of illness.
☆ Aleina Grace Edwards on censorship, dialogue, and institutional responsibility in Trump’s America.
☆ Farah Karapetian in conversation with iconic photographer Reynaldo Rivera.
☆ A photo essay by Claire Preston featuring Rajiv Menon of Rajiv Menon Contemporary.
Reviews:
☆ Nneka Jackson on "Driftwork" at Southern Guild's final L.A. exhibition
☆ Teresa Fleming on "Against Outer Space" at Beall Center for Art + Technology
☆ Silvi Naçi on Beverly Semmes at Official Welcome
☆ Aaron Boehmer on and Vaginal Davis at MoMa PS1 , bringing L.A. to N.Y.
☆ Alexander Schneider on "Horror" at Sprüth Magers
Want every new issue of Carla sent to your doorstep? Become a Club Carla member to get a subscription — link to sign up in bio! 📚
Ray writes, "Although disabled artists critically interrogating the spectacle of illness is nothing new, this work gains potency when it meets with an increasingly ill and debilitating world. Abareshi's works can be situated alongside a lineage of disabled and chronically ill artists-Bob Flanagan, Donald Rodney, and Xixi Edelsbrunner-who also use their experience as medicalized subjects to explore erotic desire, objectification, and authority."
Read the full essay online via the link in our Story ★.
The exhibition is on view across two venues:
Sprüth Magers, Los Angeles
5900 Wilshire Boulevard
Tuesday–Saturday, 11am–6pm
Sizzler
6145 Wilshire Boulevard
Thursday–Saturday, 12–6pm
#SpruethMagers
Photos: Robert Wedemeyer
Thanks to our community’s incredible support, we raised over $57,000 (!!!), celebrated the launch of Carla Issue 44, and supported over 70 local artists. You showed up, placed bids, laughed, danced, purchased Carla merch, and filled the evening with the warmth, enthusiasm, and joy that have come to define Carla’s ethos. We’re so grateful to have celebrated artist-led publishing in L.A. with you all!
Endless thanks to our venue host 💝 and our amazing event hosts. You all helped make our second art auction and Soirèe possible!
If you’d like to support Carla into its next chapter, join Club Carla—our membership community that fuels our mission to uplift artists, writers, and the future of accessible, independent art criticism. Link in bio. 💌
Here’s to the arts in L.A.! ⭐️
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Heilich writes, "In Shakespeare's Cymbeline, 'the same dead thing alive' describes a law that only becomes real in execution. The phrase also names a mode of archival practice where past work returns to generate new forms... Art history persists, but its modes of engagement are changing. Rather than aiming for closure, such models enlist artists as collaborators to activate and interpret materials in relation to the."
Read the full essay online via the link in our Story ★.
For the past 10 years, Carla has changed the way that art is written about, who does that writing, and who that writing reaches.
To celebrate this milestone, we worked with videographer Joshua Romero to produce a video that looks back at Carla’s first decade and features interviews with Carla staff as well as artists and gallerists in our community.
We’re so proud to reach this milestone, and so grateful for everyone who has supported us along the way.
Cheers to the decade ahead!
With Love,
The Carla Team
Ps. Thank you to and for your interviews and kind words & for the amazing voice over! ❤️💕
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Carla's engagement
Carla's engagement rate on Instagram is 0.32%, under 1%, fewer than 1 like or comment per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 313 followers. An average post collects 147 likes and 7 comments, close to 21 likes for each comment.
Engagement rate
0.32%
- Avg likes
- 147
- Avg comments
- 7
- Interactions : followers
- 1 : 313
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Who is Carla?
Carla (@contemporaryartreview.la) is an Arts & entertainment creator on Instagram, also filed under Entertainment. Carla is set up as an Instagram business account. The Instagram bio for Carla runs to 20 words.
How many followers does Carla have?
Carla has 43,734 followers on Instagram (43.7K). Set against 1,226 accounts followed, the audience works out to about 36 followers per account Carla follows. With 3,220 posts published, Carla's archive runs well past the 2,000 mark.
What is Carla's engagement rate?
Carla's engagement rate on Instagram is 0.32%, under 1%, fewer than 1 like or comment per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 313 followers. An average post collects 147 likes and 7 comments, close to 21 likes for each comment.
What does Carla post about on Instagram?
Flinque files Carla under Arts & entertainment, with Entertainment as a secondary category. Of the 10 most recent posts shown for Carla, 7 are carousels, 2 are videos and 1 is a single image. The 10 recent Instagram captions Flinque holds for Carla repeatedly use the words issue, artists, essay, online and recent. Carla's captions carry hashtags such as #44 and #spruethmagers. Carla writes those captions mainly in English. Carla keeps 30 story highlights, which open with a free Flinque account.
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