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At Frieze Los Angeles, Greg Ito’s bright baggage carries hope

The Japanese American artist’s colourful Superposition Gallery stand is both eye-catching and imbued with personal history

Felix Art Fair brings good vibes—and healthy sales

The fair’s laid-back hotel venue did not stop dealers from doing brisk business during the VIP preview

‘Painting continues to be viable’: Enrique Martínez Celaya on his sugar-coated show at the Wende Museum

The Los Angeles-based artist’s new show is inspired by his Cold War-era childhood in Cuba, and the final entry in a trilogy of exhibitions

Why Robert Therrien is a big deal

A posthumous retrospective of the Los Angeles conceptual artist’s work at The Broad includes his famous large-scale sculptures of everyday objects, and much more

A selective history of the moving image comes to downtown Los Angeles

The Germany-based Julia Stoschek Foundation, which has an unmatched collection of time-based works spanning the 1960s to now, presents its first major US exhibition at Variety Arts Theater

How four Los Angeles artists are doing a year after the wildfires

Kelly Akashi, Christina Quarles, Adam Ross and Kathryn Andrews, all of whom lost their homes in the Eaton and Palisades fires, reflect on the last year

12 must-see exhibitions in and around Los Angeles during Frieze

From the latest additions to Judith Baca's "Great Wall of Los Angeles" at Jeffrey Deitch and "Monuments" at Moca and the Brick, to the Julia Stoschek Foundation's epic pop-up show of video art and medieval creation stories at the Getty

Made in LA biennial contemplates wildfires and immigrant arrests

The Hammer Museum hosts 28 artists' projects while looking back on a tumultuous year in California’s biggest city

California nonprofits keep losing funding in what new study calls ‘the shadow of the pandemic cliff’

The latest Otis College Report on the Creative Economy paints a sombre picture of arts nonprofits in the US’s most populous state

How Ai Weiwei gave a classic Italian opera a political twist

A new behind-the-scenes documentary shows how the Chinese dissident artist brought his signature stylings to Giacomo Puccini’s ‘Turandot’

San Francisco’s Museum of the African Diaspora marks 20 years with a show about Blackness and the cosmos

For the occasion, the institution has also remodelled its lobby and put together a separate exhibition looking back at its history

Filmreview

New documentary wrestles with Leni Riefenstahl’s toxic artistic legacy

Working with a trove of materials from Riefenstahl’s archive, director Andres Veiel and producer Sandra Maischberger seek to offer a fuller picture of a reviled figure without ‘excusing her on any level’

Once upon a time in New Mexico: 12th Site Santa Fe International focuses on the art of visual storytelling

This year’s biennial features almost 100 artists and “figures of interest” in a city-wide exploration of the tales we all tell and how they form us and our cultures

Orange County Museum of Art in talks to merge with University of California, Irvine

Less than three years after opening a $94m new building, the museum is “exploring a transformative agreement” with the nearby university

Reportnews

California’s creative economy buttressed by Hollywood and college arts departments

This is according to the latest edition of the Otis College Report on the Creative Economy

Whimsy wins the day at Desert X's 2025 edition

Two hours east of Los Angeles, a road trip worth the journey to outdoor projects by Alison Saar, Agnes Denes, Jose Dávila and others

Felix Art Fair in Los Angeles is packed with smashing ceramics

The hotel rooms and cabanas at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel abound with clay sculptures—and plenty of paintings, too

Exploring Architectural Pottery's mid-century Modern design legacy

A show at the American Museum of Ceramic Art highlights the ceramics company's groundbreaking designs that complemented post-war architecture

Doug Aitken: ‘I didn’t start with characters, I started with topographies’

The artist’s multi-channel video project at the Marciano Art Foundation, and related solo show at Regen Projects, are an ode to Los Angeles’s “dark magic”

Los Angeles artists face long road to recovery after deadly wildfires

Some lost everything, others are in limbo waiting to go home and most have found support in the art community

12 must-see exhibitions in and around Los Angeles during Frieze

From ancient Peruvian pottery and mid-century Modern ceramics, to reimagined Old Masters, an invented queer cowboy movie and more

Prizesnews

Moca Los Angeles announces recipients of new environmental art prize

The artists Cecilia Vicuña and Julian Charrière will each receive $100,000 and exhibit new work at the museum

PST Art’s science-meets-art extravaganza in eight superlatives

From the Getty initiative’s most widely exhibited artist to its most calming installation

Los Angeles museum repatriates 20 objects to the Warumungu people of Australia

The Australian government pays the major expenses of repatriation, making it easier for cash-strapped museums to engage with the often expensive and time-consuming process

An uncensored triumph for Barbara Carrasco's Los Angeles mural

Four decades after refusing to sanitise her depiction of the city’s history, the artist will see her giant mural, and all its 51 vignettes of scenes and people, installed in the LA Natural History Museum’s new entrance pavilion

$11m worth of public art at the LA Clippers' new arena

Charles Gaines, Refik Anadol, Glenn Kaino and four other renowned artists with local connections were chosen to create some monumental works in Inglewood

Aspen Art Fair is newest addition to wealthy Colorado town’s art calendar

The Rocky Mountain culture crush continues with a second art fair taking place the same week as Intersect Aspen

Getty’s PST Art initiative goes green for science-centric edition

As it prepares for its next Southern California-wide programme launching in September, the Getty is supporting participants’ efforts to reduce their environmental impacts