In 1983, Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin titled their album, the first they recorded after their split, Baby Alone in Babylone. The songs present Los Angeles as a modern-day Babylon, a place of opportunity and ephemeral happiness. With a nod to Babylone, the artist Ariana Papademetropoulos, a Los Angeles native herself, has created paintings inspired by her hometown and the Mesopotamian capital. They draw imagery from two renowned tapestry series that date to the Middle Ages: The Lady and the Unicorn at the Musée de Cluny and The Hunt of the Unicorn at the Cloisters, which depict, respectively, the human senses and the Passion of Christ. Mystical! —Elena Clavarino