Frieze Los Angeles 2023

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

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

Artist and the local football club help fairgoers with soccer skills at Frieze Los Angeles

Alake Shilling demonstrated the art of football at a clinic organised by the Art Production Fund and Los Angeles Football Club

City of Santa Monica acquires Edgar Ramirez painting from Frieze Los Angeles

Collaboration enables the work from the fair’s Focus section to join the Art Bank collection of the local municipality

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

Winners of prize supporting rising film-makers revealed at Frieze Los Angeles

Irene Gil-Ramon wins $10,000 Deutsche Bank Frieze Los Angeles Film Award from initiative that nurtures burgeoning local talent

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

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

In pictures: Frieze Los Angeles goes big with towering sculpture, large-scale installations and more

Many of the works on show capitalise on the soaring spaces offered by this year's new location at Santa Monica Airport

Frieze Los Angeles Diary: Art dealer action figures, Lionel Richie says hello and Tyler the Creator brings his bodyguards

Plus: legendary Hollywood producer Samuel Goldwyn's home and a famous Frank Lloyd Wright house open up to art

'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

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

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

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

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

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

'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

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

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

Artist installs quilt-covered airplane at Frieze Los Angeles's Santa Monica Airport venue

Basil Kincaid's sculpture at the fair incorporates textiles the artist has sourced from St Louis, Ghana and elsewhere since 2016

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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

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

Clear the runway! Chris Burden Skyscraper lands at Frieze Los Angeles

The late artist's monumental metal sculpture, only exhibited once before, is a beacon at the fair's new Santa Monica Airport location

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

'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

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

Eight must-see exhibitions to see during Frieze Los Angeles

From New Mexico's short-lived Transcendental Painting Group to the evolution of America through its quilts

Artist Narsiso Martinez wins Frieze Impact Prize for series highlighting migrant workers’ plight

The artist will receive $25,000 and a solo stand at the fair showcasing his portraits of agricultural workers

Frieze Los Angeles bringing a skyscraper, a truck-based gallery and more to Santa Monica Airport

The fair’s special programmes include performances and large-scale installations around its venue, as well as contemporary art interventions at storied West Los Angeles locales

Frieze reveals details of its largest Los Angeles fair to date, with 124 galleries landing at Santa Monica Airport

The fair will take over the west Los Angeles airfield, with strong cohorts of local galleries, international megas and Korean dealers