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The Big Review | Lacma's David Geffen Galleries ★★★★

This vast, visionary new building on the Los Angeles County Museum of Art campus flaunts strengths in displaying antiquities

From the World Cup and the Olympics to two new museums: upcoming cultural attractions in Los Angeles

As well as the renovated and expanded Los Angeles County Museum of Art, here are some of the art and culture projects to look forward to

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Drum and trumpet with human skulls attached complicate plan for restitution from Los Angeles to Ghana

Two West African musical instruments at the Fowler Museum were looted by British troops in the late 19th century

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Sea change: inside LACMA’s new curatorial strategy

The David Geffen Galleries showcase the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s permanent collection, which is reorganised around oceans and seas, emphasising connection and circulation

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Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s new David Geffen Galleries reframe 6,000 years of history

A vast concrete beauty that has been 20 years in the making is opening on 19 April, aiming to serve the local community and provide a welcoming focal point for the Los Angeles area

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Getty Center will close for a year to undergo major renovations

The upgrades, set to start in March 2027 and estimated to cost between $600m and $800m, will include a new tram from the parking structure to the museum’s hilltop campus

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Overdue payments to artists, landlords and workers at a popular gallery reflect pressures squeezing the dealer sector

The New York gallery The Hole has closed its Los Angeles space after struggling to pay bills and artists

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

‘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

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

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

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

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