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Collective Climate Action Implemented by Los Angeles Arts Institutions
In part a reaction to the wildfires that ravaged Los Angeles just over one year ago, a number of the city’s most significant arts institutions issued a collective pledge to follow climate-minded guidelines known as the Bizot Green Protocol. Initiated in 2015 by the Bizot Group, a network of art museum directors from institutions around read more
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10 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles This March
Los Angeles may be recovering from a bit of an art hangover after our dizzying fair week, but there are several excellent shows worth a closer look this month. At Vielmetter, Hayv Kahraman draws on personal loss to create mystical visions of resilience. Painters Jesse Wiedel and Cole Case focus on our nation’s complexities and read more
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Getty’s Next PST ART to Focus on Exchange Between Los Angeles and Pacific Rim
The next edition of the Getty Foundation‘s PST ART will be themed around cultural exchanges between Los Angeles and the Pacific Rim. The fourth edition of the initiative is set to open at institutions across Southern California in September 2030. Justine Ludwig, the inaugural creative director of PST ART, officially started in her role last read more
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Frieze Week LA: Mobile LED truck displays Epstein emails
Artist Tod Lippy has been following reports about art world figures who maintained friendships and correspondence with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein—even after his crimes were public—and been left with the nagging sense that the consequences have been too mild. Billionaire collector Leon Black still sits on the board of New York’s Museum of Modern read more
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Frieze LA Satellite Fairs Await Art Lovers and Crowds
On Wednesday morning at 11 a.m., the VIP line for Felix Art Fair extended from the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel’s Blossom Ballroom out onto Hollywood Boulevard. And, as is always the case with this fair, the line for the elevators to ascend to the 12th floor was equally lengthy. For this reason—unlike the other fairs taking read more
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Catherine Pégard French Culture Minister; Frieze LA Sales
To receiveMorning Linksin your inbox every weekday,signupfor ourBreakfast with ARTnewsnewsletter. The Headlines MACRON PICKS PÉGARD. Catherine Pégard, former president of the Chateau de Versailles and a close ally of French president Emmanuel Macron, will become the new French culture minister, reports Le Monde. Unconfirmed guestimates that she would replace the outgoing Rachida Dati weremaking the read more
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Nor’easter Causes Travel Delays for New York Dealers Heading to Frieze Los Angeles
I arrived in Los Angeles last Friday afternoon, expecting that the showers that drenched my hometown last week might have dampened spirits ahead of Frieze Los Angeles. That proved not to be the case—temperatures here have been steadily increasing into the mid-70s over the past few days—but it turns out that weather across the country, read more
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Heading Into Frieze After a Year Marked by Fire and ICE, Los Angeles’s Art World Is Poised Between ‘Grief and Hope’
As the art market looks ahead to its next major tentpole event, the 2026 edition of Frieze Los Angeles this week, LA is marking just over one year since devastating wildfires ripped through parts of the city. “There was really a point where we thought the whole city was going to burn down,” said lifelong read more
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Butter Art Fair Expands to Los Angeles During Frieze Week
Butter, the Indianapolis-founded art fair that returns 100 percent of sales proceeds to artists, will make its Los Angeles debut this week, expanding for the first time beyond its Midwest base as the city fills with collectors and dealers for Frieze week. Founded in 2021 and organized by Indianapolis-based cultural development firm GangGang, Butter positions read more
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MOCA Los Angeles Reveals 158 Newly Acquired Works, Including Acclaimed Kara Walker Sculpture
An acclaimed Kara Walker sculpture, abstractions by beloved painters of the past and present, and a video about two lizards in Covid-era New York are among the 158 artworks acquired last year by the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, which revealed the newest pieces to enter its holdings on Tuesday. Fifty of the artists read more
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From Gorillaz to the Port of Los Angeles: Stephen Thomas Gallagher to Debut a Trippy New Film During Frieze LA
There are many people who say they have the coolest job in the world. Stephen Thomas Gallagher might actually have a case. Hedesigns live showsfor Gorillaz and Lana Del Rey. He helped build ablazing London tower block with a tube train smashed through itat Glastonbury, and once brought a little bit (or rather,a whole chunk) read more
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15 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles This Spring
This spring, LA institutions present retrospectives on iconic local artists and group shows that explore the link between material, spirituality, and community. The Museum of Contemporary Art mounts an exhibition of influential conceptual artist Michael Asher, whose ephemeral works illustrate unseen networks of influence, and a Steve Roden exhibition in Orange County focuses on the read more
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Pulitzer Prize-Winning Critic Christopher Knight Retires from the Los Angeles Times
Renowned critic and commentator Christopher Knight is retiring after writing about art for some 45 years, including 36 years at the Los Angeles Times. Knight is among the few remaining full-time critics at magazines and newspapers. Friday is his final day. “It’s impossible to overstate the loss Knight’s departure represents for the paper and Los read more
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