The Box in Los Angeles announced this weekend that it would close after 19 years in business. Its final show was a two-venue collaboration with Parker Gallery for the late California artist Wally Hedrick, which ran through April 4. The gallery said they would mark the closure with a fashion show for Johanna Went, done in collaboration with artist and playwright Asher Hartman on June 6. “While this decision has been brewing for some time, it has landed with urgency, shaped by a set of circumstances that made continuing impossible,” gallery founder Mara McCarthy wrote in a statement sent to its email listserv and posted on Instagram. “It feels right to end this way, with the kind of work we always existed to support: radical, enlightening, and not easily contained by the commercial marketplace.” Related Articles Located at 805 Traction Avenue in downtown LA, The Box opened in June 2007 with a multichannel video installation by Spandau Parks.…