Frieze Los Angeles 2026

‘We're the Tijuana of the tent’: non-profit Ambos's stand at Frieze Los Angeles is relocated

The non-profit, which uses art to connect communities on either side of the Mexico-US border, had to move its stand the day before Frieze's preview

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

Los Angeles’s next generation of dealers forges new paths

Local galleries that stayed nimble during recent socioeconomic headwinds have emerged from the market downturn

What in tarnation is U-Haul Gallery showing now?

A new painting by the artist Alexis Rockman, made using tar from Los Angeles’s famous La Brea Tar Pits

Post-Fair delivers by keeping it simple

Four miles and a world apart from Frieze, Post-Fair is in its second iteration this year, offering an antidote to the chaos of art week for gallerists, collectors and visitors alike

In Pictures: sculpture gets a leg up at Frieze Los Angeles

Artists and dealers have really gone out on a limb this year—or several. Seemingly every other stand holds out a hand or sticks out a foot, and visitors appear to be getting a kick out of it.

‘I rely heavily on instinct’: entertainment mogul Hassan Smith on the art he collects and why

John Legend’s manager, a prolific collector of Black post-war and contemporary art, tells us about a recent acquisition and the artists he regrets missing out on

‘Better every year’: Frieze opens to swift sales for Los Angeles artists

The VIP preview saw galleries big and small taking care of business, and even Frieze’s new owner making a splashy purchase

Patrick Martinez’s anti-Ice neons greet Frieze LA visitors

The Los Angeles-based artist’s bright and bold works make a statement at the fair’s main entrance

Expert Eye: curator Cornelia Stokes’s Frieze LA favourites

A walk through the fair with the new assistant curator of the art of the African Diaspora at SFMoMA and Museum of the African Diaspora

J. Paul Getty Museum acquires trove of Irving Penn photographs

The famed photographer created the 189 works while travelling in Peru

Enzo fair is fun and fee-free

A buoyant, young crowd gathered for the fair’s inaugural edition in Echo Park

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

Sophie Calle explores the stories we tell ourselves

The artist's first major North American survey gathers five decades of work, mining the unstable border between documentation and invention

Perfectly unusual settings for art in Los Angeles

Looking beyond the traditional white walls, Los Angeles artists are opening experimental spaces in unlikely venues, from gardens to restaurants to wholesale markets

‘My paintings are always really kitchen sink, everything’s thrown into them’: Christina Quarles on her new solo show in Los Angeles

The artist’s first solo exhibition with Hauser & Wirth in Los Angeles features works she made after her community in Altadena was devastated by the Eaton fire in January of last year

‘Everyone can talk about a cabinet or a chair’: Ryan Preciado on his show at Hollyhock House in Los Angeles

The artist brings his “insecure sculptures” to one of Frank Lloyd Wright’s most unusual buildings, located in East Hollywood

'If I love something, I buy it': Los Angeles-based Rina Mark on the art she collects and why

The superfan of printmaking workshop and publisher Gemini G.E.L. talks about her extensive collection of prints and her excitement for new art-fair discoveries

Pace Prints will open printmaking studio and gallery in Los Angeles

The New York-based publisher sees opportunity in the city’s large community of artists

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Palisades Fire Memorial rises from the ashes

A project organised by the House Museum aims to preserve the chimneys of architecturally significant homes that were destroyed in last year’s catastrophic blazes

‘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

Los Angeles museums on the cusp of new golden age

Could the city’s cultural cachet soon match that of New York? A slew of multi-million-dollar projects, from dramatic new museums to major renovations, suggest that it could

Bearing the weight of the world: Amanda Ross-Ho rolls out a new performance at Frieze Los Angeles

The artist embraces the Sisyphean task of clocking the fair’s duration on its three-acre turf field

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

'If a work is meant to be mine, there’s always time': Mashonda Tifrere on the art she collects and why

The singer-turned-curator, and founder of two non-profits focused on uplifting women and underrepresented artists, shares her enthusiasm for Hiba Schahbaz’s paintings and her Oscars picks

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

Is it finally time for the Guerrilla Girls to remove their masks?

A new Getty show on the activists’ legacy points to the power and limits of anonymity

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