George Lucas is curating 18 thematic exhibitions that will fill 100,000 sq. ft of the $1bn museum he and his wife Mellody Hobson are building in Los Angeles

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Japanese American artist’s colourful Superposition Gallery stand is both eye-catching and imbued with personal history

Local galleries that stayed nimble during recent socioeconomic headwinds have emerged from the market downturn

A new painting by the artist Alexis Rockman, made using tar from Los Angeles’s famous La Brea Tar Pits

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

Plus: an art-filled flea market and a Serpentine celebration

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

The Los Angeles-based artist’s bright and bold works make a statement at the fair’s main entrance

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

The famed photographer created the 189 works while travelling in Peru

A buoyant, young crowd gathered for the fair’s inaugural edition in Echo Park

The fair’s laid-back hotel venue did not stop dealers from doing brisk business during the VIP preview

Plus: a Beverly Hills bash and dollar-store delights

Looking beyond the traditional white walls, Los Angeles artists are opening experimental spaces in unlikely venues, from gardens to restaurants to wholesale markets

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

The artist brings his “insecure sculptures” to one of Frank Lloyd Wright’s most unusual buildings, located in East Hollywood

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

The New York-based publisher sees opportunity in the city’s large community of artists

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

The artist embraces the Sisyphean task of clocking the fair’s duration on its three-acre turf field

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

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

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