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Five years on, Frieze Los Angeles has grown up without growing old
Long doubted, the fair proves it is here to stay with its latest edition
Bay Area galleries descend on Frieze Los Angeles
Representatives of Northern California’s tight-knit art community make the journey south
John Lennon drawing coming up at auction in California
The sale at Analogr in Glendale features an original work by the late Beatle, which has a note from his widow, the artist Yoko Ono, on the back
Winning by a whisker: the rodents of Sharif Farrag’s Rat Race face off at Frieze Los Angeles
Stuffed-animal bodies sporting ceramic heads, hubcaps and their own licence plates roam Frieze
Felix art fair proves as fun as ever, even as sales slow
The scrappy art fair continues to attract galleries and buyers to playful stands inside a Hollywood hotel
News
Non-profit art collaborative using craft to promote cross-border relations returns to Los Angeles
Ambos (Art Made Between Opposite Sides) has been working with communities on both sides of the US-Mexico border for nearly a decade
Slimmer Frieze Los Angeles fair has simmering start on first VIP day
California galleries did swift business in the fair’s opening hours, but dealers reported fewer seven-figure sales than last year
Santa Monica Art Bank and California African American Museum make opening-day acquisitions at Frieze Los Angeles
Sculpture by Mustafa Ali Clayton and textile Gary Tyler enter collections
Spring Break art fair in Los Angeles puts personality first at fifth edition
The fair continues to push back against the white cube model with plenty of characterful stands and satirical works
Ukrainian dealer gives the country’s emerging artists a foothold in Hollywood
Lia Snisarenko launched Art Axcess in her home last September to showcase contemporary art from Ukraine
Features
Meet the next generation of Los Angeles galleries
Even as out-of-town dealers open outposts in Hollywood and Melrose Hill, a fast-rising cohort of local artists, gallerists and curators is experimenting and thriving
Welcome to the funhouse: the revival of Luna Luna in Los Angeles reignites a tradition of art as carnival
A restored Hamburg theme park created by artists in the late 1980s is now on view in Los Angeles—but it was not the first. We take a ride through five historic artist-designed amusements
‘Largest Black public art project in the US’ to launch in Los Angeles this spring
Conceived as an outdoor museum, with murals and sculptures by artists both world-renowned and locally beloved, Destination Crenshaw aims to preserve a close-knit community
In pictures: Frieze Los Angeles’s Focus section explores the notion of ‘ecologies’
Essence Harden, the curator of the section for young galleries, picks out some highlights
How artist-run gallery The Pit is helping to form a new art district in Los Angeles
The founders are breaking the mould by moving into the Eastside neighbourhood Atwater Village—with others soon to follow
Interviews
Rita McBride: ‘I can draw through space, and it’s infinite’
The artist’s installation at the Hammer Museum dissolves space and time with laser beams and a uniquely science-fiction-flecked optimism
‘You have to come in knowing your taste and trusting your instinct’: Emilia Yin's survival guide for fairs
The owner of Hollywood’s Make Room gallery describes how her love of Surrealism informs her curatorial work, and offers Los Angeles newbies her top tips
Mercedes Dorame: ‘Borders shift and change with perspective’
The artist’s commission for the Getty Center’s rotunda replicates the forms and colours of abalone shells that were once ubiquitous on the Los Angeles coast
'I held onto a box of Sylvie tiles that composed a psychotic, abstract cat': John Rubeli on his artful bathroom
The music executive and his wife, Stacy, are fixtures of Los Angeles’s art scene, collecting works by emerging artists and serving on boards of museums and non-profits
Paul Pfeiffer: ‘I want to preserve the intensity of the image’
The multi-disciplinary artist reflects on 25 years of transforming mass media in a way that “makes you become aware of the act of looking”
Exhibitions
Year-long exhibition in Los Angeles celebrates legendary petrol head Jason Rhoades
Hauser & Wirth show revisits the artist's exploration of car culture
Judy Baca turns Lacma into her studio as she charts the history of Los Angeles
The artist is working on sections of 'The Great Wall of Los Angeles' at the museum
Exhibition in Los Angeles unearths Gordon Matta-Clark’s ‘graffiti time capsule’
Around 200 largely unseen images that the artist created in the early 1970s are on show at Los Angeles's Control Gallery
13 shows to see in and around Los Angeles during Frieze
From important shows of Korean and Japanese contemporary art, to major surveys of Paul Pfeiffer and Joan Brown, and more
Dozens of Los Angeles galleries will mount science-related shows for the Getty’s next PST Art programme
More than 40 galleries in the city will stage shows that resonate with PST Art’s focus on the intersections of art and science
Diary
Frieze Los Angeles Diary: slam-dunk stars, out-of-this-world shoes and hole-y dough
Plus: critters clash in clay and visitors take home dirt bags
Frieze Los Angeles diary: A-listers abound, Koh’s coffee break and Bowers’s champagne moment
Plus: dreamy Fellini drawings and opulent parties