Los Angeles
In Pictures | Artists play it up on the backlot at Frieze LA
Responding to current issues in a surreally faux-New York setting
LA's grassroots spaces keep growing
With more alternative art galleries than ever, many are slowing down on exhibitions and stepping up on programming
Does Los Angeles want a big art fair?
As Frieze Los Angeles opens, we look at the LA art scene. Plus, we explore the Met's exhibition Sahel about art from the Sahara. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793
Hollywood stars descend on Frieze Los Angeles
Jennifer Lopez and Jason Statham were amongst the A-list celebrities who showed up to the LA fair
Climate change fundraisers and a new space for Perrotin: dispatches from Frieze Los Angeles
Plus, Sprüth Magers's Los Angeles outpost will host a posthumous survey of John Baldessari’s last painting series
Pose for a Polaroid with Gary Simmons at Frieze Los Angeles
The artist restages his 1993 Backdrop Project at the fair
Frieze Los Angeles diary: glass orbs of LA smog and a Baldessari biscuit
Plus, Eric Doeringer pranks the Broads and Serpentine Galleries embraces the golf cart
Los Angeles galleries search for the next hot art spot...
An evolving real estate landscape is keeping the city's dealers on their toes
US artists and museums join forces to fire up voters
Artists and activists gather in Los Angeles later this month for the first For Freedoms Congress, a three-day event to spur voter engagement
In person | Dealer Susanne Vielmetter on the decline of artist exclusivity and the empty talk around gender parity
The Los Angeles gallery owner explains why she encourages her artists to have galleries in Europe and New York too, and how collaboration is key
Ten must-see shows during Frieze Los Angeles
From Paul McCarthy's monkey self-portrait to a New York apartment made of polyester, our picks of the city's top exhibitions
Bedevilled: multi-million Getty Gauguin is a fake
Museum probably paid at least $3m for the widely exhibited sculpture of a horned devil, but the misattributed work may have been made by a Polynesian artist for the European market
Frieze announces new award for emerging filmmakers
The winner of the $10,000 Deutsche Bank Frieze Los Angeles Film Award will be announced at the second LA edition of the fair
Stephen Garrett, inaugural director of the Getty and the Hammer, has died, aged 96
“Bon vivant” took over at the museum's villa and expanded its mission after J. Paul Getty died in 1976
Art workers' union to stage Black Friday protest against Marciano brothers by targeting their fashion empire
The protests will take aim at Guess fashion stores while workers are looking into the billionaire family's other investments in LA's art world
The Marciano masquerade is exposed
The art foundation, which has closed its doors, was never more than the shell of a museum
Los Angeles's Marciano Art Foundation lays off staff trying to unionise
The private museum cited low attendance records over the past few weeks in a short letter to nearly six dozen workers who recently announced they voted to join a union
Affordability is the number one concern for artists in Los Angeles, report finds
A survey conducted by the non-profit Arts for LA warns that the city could lose its culture cache if it becomes too expensive for its creative class
Wildfire spread close to the Getty Center, but an official says the art is ‘just fine’
The campus in the Santa Monica Mountains was designed to resist fire, with a powerful irrigation system, million-gallon water tank and air conditioning that pushes smoke out instead of letting it in
‘This US government looks more like Iran's every day’: Shirin Neshat talks about the power of political satire ahead of LA show
The Iranian artist's major exhibition opens at the Broad museum features new work addressing discrimination in Trump's America
‘I can divide my life into before and after Judy Chicago’: Gloria Steinem reveals how the artist changed her thoughts about art at Hammer Museum gala
Three board members resign as Desert X announces collaboration with Saudi Arabia, Los Angeles Times reports
Ed Ruscha, Yael Lipschutz and Tristan Milanovich have resigned over the decision to launch the sculpture biennial in Al-Ula next year
Getty acquires Bronzino’s Madonna and Child with Saints, a twin of National Gallery in London’s
The brightly coloured painting, depicting the same family scene, has been in private hands for decades, most recently the Chilean Alana Collection
Deborah Marrow, the Getty’s longest-serving leader, has died, aged 70
Starting in 1983 as publications coordinator, she spent most of her three decades at the Getty overseeing its grant-making programmes
How to make the most of an artist’s estate
Four takeaways from the Institute for Artists’ Estates’ Los Angeles workshop
Three exhibitions to see in Los Angeles this weekend
The West Coast gallery season opens with its own slate of must see shows, from Tala Madani's scatological depictions of motherhood to Kenny Scharf's jabs at consumerism
Next edition of Pacific Standard time looks at the intersection of art and science
The Getty-led PST: Art x Science x LA is due to be held in 2024
Wishful thinking: LA’s latest pop-up art project is both highly memorable and totally Instagrammable
Artist collective The Art Department spent a year gathering heaps of dandelion fuzz for their immersive "wish factory"
Lauren Halsey brings the spirit of South Central LA to Frieze New York
Artist dedicates installation to Nipsey Hussle, the slain rapper and neighbourhood activist