Art
The Artist Using Mushrooms to Address LA’s Poor Air Quality
Alice Könitz conducts art experiments with mycelium in the middle of the Mojave Desert.
Los Angeles
News
At the Getty, Adam and Eve Come Back to Life
After a three-year-long restoration project, Lucas the Elder’s iconic 16th-century panels are back on view at the Los Angeles museum.
Art
River Garza Shows Us What a True Land Acknowledgment Looks Like
The artist’s “landscape” paintings juxtapose imagery from Tongva culture with the architecture that was built over it, asserting an ongoing Indigenous presence.
News
Protesters Call Out Art World's Silence on Gaza at Frieze LA Fair
Organizers pointed to Frieze partner Deutsche Bank's financial ties to Israel and urged fairgoers to speak up.
Performance
Glass House Is a Dance of Drama and Domesticity
Performers carried one another the way we shoulder our friends, lovers, and family: sometimes dragging them, sometimes exalting them.
Art
Dispatches From Inside (and Outside) Frieze LA
Take-home bags of dirt and worms, a “Rat Race” on a soccer field, and other surprises broke with the business-as-usual vibe of this year’s fair.
Art
Getting Cozy at Felix, LA's Art Fair Underdog
The dizzying hallways and poolside cabanas of Hollywood’s Roosevelt Hotel come alive with art that leans into the lowbrow.
Art
Trippy Highlights From LA's Spring/Break Art Show
Car culture, desert scenes, palm tree iconography, and a Burner-ish aesthetics reign supreme at this less-glossy fair.
Art
Nathan Vincent Crochets Away Toxic Masculinity
Drawing on his knitting and crochet skills, Vincent softens hard surfaces, such as steel lockers and locks, porcelain urinals, guns, grenades, and bombs.
Art
Catherine Opie’s Intimate Los Angeles
The works in Opie’s harmony is fraught are documents that bear witness, but they also highlight the connection between our public and private lives.
Art
The Violent Sublime of Wanda Koop’s Paintings
Koop both illuminates and conceals expressions of power, aestheticizing and making visible Russia’s violent war on Ukraine.
Guide
10 Shows to See in Los Angeles This March
SWANA women artists, Dorothy Hood’s unsung surrealism, Jennifer West’s cosmological spider webs, queer Chicanx borderlands, and more.