Even inside the tent, works that had no connection to the recent devastating fires took on new levels of meaning.

From the Anti-Frieze performance festival to a benefit exhibition for artists impacted by fires, the city’s creative communities return with resilience.

A video for the new single “Man Made of Meat” riffs on the readymade, satirizes zombie formalism, and parodies action painting.

Work by artists impacted by last month’s fires, Joseph Beuys’s reforestation project, Alice Coltrane’s rippling influence, and much more.

Organizers cited the fires that consumed swaths of the region and the “trepidation of collectors and participants to attend,” among other factors.

Frieze, Felix, and other shows will move ahead as planned in the wake of the fires as galleries told Hyperallergic that the need for financial support and community is greater than ever.

With much of the area now in ruins and no clear picture of recovery, artists are reflecting on the once-thriving community and imagining what the future might look like.

“I literally only have the clothes I’m wearing, but that’s the same story as thousands of others,” artist Amir Nikravan told Hyperallergic.

Post-Fair, whose first edition will be held at the Santa Monica Post Office, promises camaraderie and affordability.

Pippa Garner’s last show, a Photorealism family tree, Iván Argote’s overgrown monuments, Elizabeth Tremante lampoons patriarchal art history, and more.

Teresa Baker and Felix Quintana’s recently unveiled commissions make visible some of the city’s overlooked communities and places. 

Shiva Ahmadi’s aqueous visions, Dave Smith’s oxymoronic LA, Miller Robinson’s cosmology of survival, the Guerrilla Girls’ first West Coast show, and more.

These 11 local and online artist-run sales, craft fairs, and markets stress community over consumption.

“I wanted to make something aggressively non-linear, using sound and music to express things that hard language couldn’t,” the artist said of his latest work.

Barbara Carrasco’s landmark 80-foot painting portraying the city’s origins and evolution will anchor the Natural History Museum’s new wing.

The Los Angeles artist examines the contemporary phenomenon of art as asset class by focusing on the financial dealings of a billionaire investor and MoMA trustee.

Female subjectivity in the work of Leonor Fini and Leonora Carrington, Christopher Suarez’s odes to the parking lot, Yolanda López’s heroic portraits, and more.

The artist's newest performance, Rexodus: Out of the Closet, Into the Tribe, is “sort of a TED talk, but not a boring one,” Rex told Hyperallergic.

David Horvitz and Ali Eyal’s subversive action was a response to the Noguchi Museum’s new policy banning staff from wearing the Arab headscarves. 

Jane Dickson’s hazy roadtrip hymns, Joe Brainard’s whimsical collages, David Lloyd’s curious collaborations with AI, crosscurrents of Asian diasporic art, and more.

The artist, educator, and activist fused social justice and spirituality in her bold, vibrant works.

The latest edition of PST Art tackles aesthetics and technology with a wide focus, from the historical to the contemporary and the astronomical to the fantastical.

Unsung lesbian photographer Tee A. Corinne, Rachael Bos’s Olympic oil paintings, Samantha Yun Wall redeems mythical antagonists, Tom Van Sant’s portrait of the earth, and more.

The city’s arts scene is in full swing again, with Magdalena Suarez Frimkess, queer science fiction, light in Medieval Europe, Christina Ramberg’s fragmented figuration, and more.

An exhibition at Superchief Gallery explores the work of Operation Under, a collective of artists using subterranean tunnels as their canvas.

A two-part, bicoastal exhibition centers a group of artists united by their distinctive DIY spirit, subversive humor, and common interest in feminism.

Lila de Magalhaes’s fornicating insects, Kyungmi Shin’s excavation of the so-called “Orient,” the late Steve Roden’s genre-bending work, and so much more.

“If it was another artist doing it, recycling it into an artwork, that’s different, but this is an ad campaign,” David Horvitz told Hyperallergic.

The installation banner included a Reuters photograph of bulldozers breaking down the border fence on October 7.

The John Rowland Mansion is now open to the public with site-specific contemporary artworks centering access and found materials.

“We’re building on the generations before us that have grown from the fertile grounds of California,” said Museum of Performance Art founder Samuel Vasquez.

This month: Gordon Parks’s iconic photographs, Wendy Red Star’s Indigenous abstractions, Chiffon Thomas’s unsettling mixed media sculptures, a celebration of Juxtapoz Magazine, and more.

The museum known for its mix of history and whimsy received support from the Getty and Mike Kelley Foundations to take on its most ambitious project yet.

The LA arts nonprofit is marking a new chapter in its 20-year history.

The art scene has something for everyone this season, from Kwame Brathwaite and mural collective East Los Streetscapers to Simone Leigh and Zapotec textile art.

Keith Mayerson’s two-decade ode to the city, Tony Cragg’s organic sculptures, Esteban Cabeza de Baca on a familial legacy of protest, and much more.

Well-known names and veteran muralists with deep ties to local communities were tapped for the project at César E. Chávez Learning Academies in San Fernando.

A student committee will work with the school to divest from funds linked to human rights violations following campus protests against Israel’s war on Gaza.

Amid aggressive escalations at UCLA and arrests at USC, protesters are invoking the artistic legacy of radical activism.

Kwame Brathwaite’s singular photography, Jackie Amézquita’s “soil paintings,” Sanaa Gateja’s paper beadwork, ancient pottery, and more.

Art Happens Here With John Lithgow, a one-hour PBS special premiering tonight, follows the thespian as he explores various creative forms at four LA art centers.

Advocates decried Pratt and wife Katherine Schwarzenegger’s decision to raze an architecturally significant home for yet another “McMansion.”

The drawings, taken from ledger books made by Native people imprisoned in the 19th century, were sold at auction in 2022 against tribal members' wishes.

The group asked for the ability to modify or remove their works and for the SF institution to divest from “Israeli governmental and pro-Zionist foundation funding.”

Assembly Bill 2867 was inspired by a recent ruling in the dispute over a Pissarro painting that was looted from a Jewish family during World War II.

Elizabeth Glaessner’s dreamlike worlds, Merrick Morton’s candid portraiture, Costa Rican artists on the body and identity, Sargent Claude Johnson, and more.

An artist and scholar duo hosted community meals with dishes made from water, tree ash, and clay from across the country, now on view at the Skirball Center.

The new Hilbert Museum of California Art at Chapman University holds over 5,000 works that plumb the rich history of the Golden State.

LA artist Malado Francine is just beginning to make sense of the loss after a blaze consumed decades of work — and she is far from the only one.

After a three-year-long restoration project, Lucas the Elder’s iconic 16th-century panels are back on view at the Los Angeles museum.