Frieze Los Angeles 2025

Dealers feel justified in forging ahead with Los Angeles art week

It is still too soon to tell how the city’s art scene will be affected by the blazes in the long term

Post-Fair, a new satellite fair in Santa Monica, delivers camaraderie without high costs

The fair is held in an Art Deco former post office and provides a collegial atmosphere

‘One night I slept under my desk’: Getty leader Katherine Fleming reflects on solidarity in the wake of the Los Angeles wildfires

The chief executive of the J. Paul Getty Trust shares her experience of the disaster, how the institution is supporting artists in the aftermath and the important capital projects that are on the way

'I’m still dreaming about a very large Tomo Campbell painting': the lighting executive Alexandra Matthews on brilliant abstraction

The collector tells us about her family firm’s artist collaborations, and her first art purchase, furniture from a Paris flea market

In Pictures: Frieze Los Angeles, a feast for the senses

“Don’t touch the art” is, generally, a good rule of thumb at an art fair, but a few dealers at Frieze Los Angeles are offering more multi-sensory pieces involving touch, sound or the always-edifying experience of seeing yourself reflected in a work of art

Rising from the ashes: as Los Angeles rebuilds after the wildfires, a Del Vaz Projects exhibition features subversive new ecologies

The exhibition includes work by three artists who are united by a shared invocation of alchemical transformation

‘Painting is uniquely suited to house these air phenomena’: Su Yu-Xin's atmospheric worlds

The Los Angeles-based artist’s Orange County Museum of Art show features luminous, airy painting she composes with homemade pigments

Chris Burden’s folly offers oasis of calm at Frieze

Installation was originally created for the 2001 Istanbul Biennial

Bruce Nauman and David Hammons unveil portentously empty galleries in Los Angeles

Marian Goodman and Hauser & Wirth opened their doors to (almost) blank spaces for each artist’s exhibition

‘Los Angeles is like a phoenix’: Frieze gives boost to city’s artists and galleries

Just weeks after the fires, a strong opening at the fair indicates a positive mood among buyers

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

Coco Fusco skywriting on Los Angeles's billboards

The artist's poetic texts are appearing in the sky around the city, on digital billboards

Expert Eye: Amanda Sroka’s Frieze Los Angeles favourites

Gathering objects of desire with the senior curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

Los Angeles-based producer Michael Sherman on his 'love at first sight' buying strategy

The film producer reveals that his first purchase was a Banksy, and how he missed the chance to buy a work by Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, who died last month

‘I wanted my gay cowboy 80s movie’: Ana Segovia realises the movie he always wanted to watch for MoCA

The Mexico City-based artist created his own fake classic film as inspiration for a show of new paintings at the Museum of Contemporary Art

'Her work asks us to confront the cycles of oppression and resilience': Octavia E. Butler’s enduring influence on artists

The Pasadena native and award-winning science-fiction writer not only predicted with alarming accuracy the world we now live in, but also influenced numerous visual artists

Eight PST Art shows, in and around Los Angeles, to see before they close

While most museum shows in the PST Art: Art & Science Collide event closed at the end of 2024, more than two dozen are still open. Here are the best of the bunch, which explore themes from gender non-conformity to human ingenuity

Out of the ashes: how California is learning lessons from the past on controlling wildfires

Curators at the Fowler Museum—and other Los Angeles cultural leaders—are looking to centuries-old Native American fire-tending practices to help address an urgent crisis

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

Galleries, fairs and curators offer works to aid Los Angeles wildfire recovery

Fundraising events both in California and New York aim to support affected artists and art workers

Artists offer to replace collectors’ works lost in LA fires

Photographer Martin Schoeller and painter Cynthia Daignault say they will provide new versions of pieces destroyed in the blazes

'I think Frieze Los Angeles is exactly what the city needs right now': Sophia Cohen on the healing power of art

The one-time gallerist with a dizzying array of other art-world roles describes her early love of Pop art and her regret at not buying a Salman Toor before he was famous

Galleries revamp Frieze plans in wake of fires

Last month’s deadly wildfires have prompted exhibitors to reschedule exhibitions and parties, and launch fundraisers for artists most affected by the disaster

Inflatable flower-topped clock welcomes fairgoers to Frieze Los Angeles

Greg Ito’s sculpture at Santa Monica Airport aims to provide visitors with a healing message