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Frieze holds the fifth edition of its Los Angeles fair this week (13-19 February), bringing the art world to America's West Coast. Explore all our on-the-ground coverage of the fairs, exhibitions, and happenings taking place.
Gold rush: collectors snap up California artists’ work at Frieze Los Angeles
Dealers open new outposts and auction house activity intensifies around the growing fair
Iranian women’s rights movement arrives in Los Angeles
The “Woman, Life, Freedom” project, initiated by Dina Nasser-Khadivi, aims to raise the art world’s awareness of the ongoing fight for greater freedoms in Iran
Huge Paul McCarthy installation seeks forever home
The artist’s “WS White Snow”, an installation which had only been on public display once, is on view in the artist’s studio amid efforts to secure its long-term care
Los Angeles Natural History Museum’s $75m expansion to create new, free spaces
The ambitious campus revamp will include construction of an admission-free entry pavilion and “sustainable” gardens designed in consultation with a new Indigenous advisory council
Art Market
Palms by the hotel pool: a relaxed environment for robust sales at the Felix Art Fair
A pre-Frieze opening, record VIP visitors and strong in-person engagement are helping the homegrown fair go from strength to strength
Former Los Angeles train depot, transformed into an arts centre in the 1990s, bounces back with influx of new galleries
Municipal support during the pandemic and an influx of new tenants is helping to restore Santa Monica's Bergamot Station Arts Center to its former glory
Wheeling and dealing: Los Angeles galleries move into old car showrooms
Roberts Projects and Hauser & Wirth take over two of the city’s historic car showrooms, while Lisson slides into a former sex club
New programme matches artists with Los Angeles communities for residencies
Hayley Barker's Night Gallery show draws on her time living at Laguna Castle, a residential group built on communal traditions
Interviews
'Look with your eyes, not your ears': the best collecting advice Allison Berg's been given and the Kaari Upson sculpture under the stairs
The writer, editor, producer and collector has a passion for Martin Puryear and 'badass' Magdalena Suarez Frimkess
Helen Cammock: 'Archives illuminate the present and future'
The artist’s latest exhibition, at Art + Practice, stems from her time spent in New Orleans exploring a rich seam of African American history
'Just relax. You don’t have to have everything': Danny First shares advice for new collectors and his fantasy of sitting for Lucian Freud
An artist and collector, First runs a residency programme and operates a gallery from a shed in the backyard of his Los Angeles home
'More is more’: Iranian American artist Amir H. Fallah's LA show takes a maximalist approach to cultural exchange
Tehran-born artist draws on his migrant experience for new exhibition "The Fallacy of Borders" at UCLA's Fowler Museum
Features
Los Angeles museums are conducting the US’s biggest free admission experiment
Multiple free-admission policies have been introduced in the Los Angeles area—and early results are looking promising
Goodbye pink marble, farewell 1980s office vibe: inside the Hammer Museum’s 24-year transformation
A radical renovation and expansion overseen by director Ann Philbin and architect Michael Maltzan is just weeks from completion
Nam June Paik the prophet: documentary creates chronological collage of pioneering video artist's life
Director Amanda Kim’s "Moon Is the Oldest TV" supplements a timeline of the artist’s life with archival footage of his work
Exhibitions
Bridget Riley’s drawings hold the key to her process
A travelling exhibition featuring more than 90 works on paper reveals the evolution of the British abstractionist’s approach to line, tone and colour
Ukraine benefit exhibition blossoms in Los Angeles
A pop-up exhibition in aid of Ukrainian relief efforts has opened in Los Angeles following a stint in New York
Hollywood’s newest art space takes up residence in artist's future burial plot
Nao Bustamante unveils Los Angeles's most ghoulish gallery space in the legendary Hollywood Forever cemetery
Computer art at the dawn of the algorithm: ambitious Lacma show celebrates 75 pioneering artists
"Coded: Art Enters the Computer Age, 1952-1982" exhibition at Los Angeles County Museum of Art show work generated through the mainframes of the pre-internet era