Kicking off October, good things come in pairs: Art, fashion, culture, and cocktails collide during the West Hollywood Design District ArtWalk on 3 October; while on the same night, MOCA launches the Democracy Sessions that will span across LA for the entire month. LACMA and GETTY, both offer double shows from The Home of the Future to Moments in Mexican Photography; and The Hammer has two major retrospectives from abstract artists: Lebanese-born Huguette Caland and Jamaican-born Mavis Pusey. Also, over the first weekend in October, founded by Wallpaper* 400 creative Holland Denvir, LA Design Week/end features 130 designers, artists, studios, galleries and brands across over 15 neighbourhoods from Still Life Ceramics in the Arts District, to ENZO art collective in Echo Park. Other highlights include Companionship by Yamaha Design Laboratory at the Neutra VDL Studio and Residences in Silver Lake, while The Future Perfect Presents Dark Forest, Silver Moon in the Hollywood Hills, along with a VIP opening preview at the Haas Brothers studio in the valley.
Los Angeles Art Exhibitions: what to see in October 2026
West Hollywood Design District ArtWalk
Throughout the city, 3 October 2026
Experience more than 35 participating locations, including galleries, showrooms, boutiques, bars and restaurants exploring art, fashion, and food within a few blocks during the day. District After Dark features luxury shopping, dining, and evening programming across the Melrose, Beverly and Robertson corridors. Participating galleries and showrooms include, Denenberg Fine Arts to Design Within Reach; Gemini G.E.L., Hamilton Selway, Hauser & Wirth, Leica, Louis Stern Fine Arts, Phillips, Bang & Olufsen, and Maxfield, along with records spinning at Darling by Sean Brock.
Gilt and Shadow: The Art of Neil Lane
MOCA PDC Until 4 December, 2026
For more than half a century, Neil Lane is best known as a celebrated vintage-meets-modern jewelry designer to the A-list stars. But since childhood, Lane has also been quietly making art - a practice that has run parallel to his glittering red carpet career for decades. This West Hollywood exhibition is Lane’s first public showing. In 1990s, following the death of a loved one from AIDS, the loss prompted a sustained return to studio work, including a monumental multi-canvas installation memorializing the final period of that person’s life. This installation includes complex layers of drawing, ink color manipulation, and reconstructed self-portrait imagery laid beneath metallic leaf of gold, silver, and copper. The surfaces are physically damaged, then repaired in precious metals, a process analogous to the Japanese tradition of Kintsugi.
Home of the Future
LACMA until 14 March, 2027
Two exhibitions at LACMA explore design as an agent of social, political, and economic transformation in modern domestic life: Home of the Future, 1925-1985; and Designing Domestic Utopias, and The Kitchen and Its Discontents. Over the course of the 20th century, Americans were offered an astonishing array of domestic tomorrows: self-cleaning kitchens, plastic houses assembled in a day, push button appliances, and desktop computers all shaping aspirations about how to live. With more than 260 architectural models, drawings, photographs, films, paintings, furniture, and objects ranging from sinks to televisions, this exhibit explores the American home of tomorrow.
Instante/revelación: Moments in Mexican Photography
GETTY until 3 January 2026
This exhibition features works by 13 prominent photographers, who have shaped Mexico’s photographic history including Lola Álvarez Bravo, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Héctor García, Graciela Iturbide, and Pablo Ortiz Monasterio, alongside key related publications. The photographs, donated by Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser to the Getty Museum over the past 25 years, record the instantes y revelaciones (instants and revelations) of a remarkable century of Mexican creativity.
Every Minute Is History: Five Views of Los Angeles
GETTY until 3 January 2026
Also at the Getty, the work of five photographers whose singular approaches to the medium have expanded traditional representations of Chicano/a communities in Los Angeles during the second half of the 20th century. Drawing from social documentary practices, staged scenes, fashion and the popular press, these artists - Laura Aguilar, Reynaldo Rivera, George Rodriguez, Patssi Valdez, and Ricardo Valverde, pushed the medium in new directions.
Huguette Caland: A Life in a Few Lines and Mavis Pusey: Mobile Images
Hammer Museum until 28 February 2027
Making its US premiere, Huguette Caland, A Life in a Few Lines features approximately 150 drawings, paintings, sculptures and textiles alongside archival materials and ephemera from the Lebanese artist. This show presents an artist deeply connected to community, communication, and the idea of home. It also reveals her defiance of social and sexual norms in sensual and vibrant works that explore notions of humor, language, gender, aging and physicality. Mavis Pusey: Mobile Images marks the first major museum survey on the West Coast dedicated to the work and life of the Jamaican-born abstract artist. An important figure in geometric abstraction, Pusey created rich abstract paintings and works on paper that reflect her wide-ranging engagement with fashion, printmaking, music, and the urban environments in which she lived. Featuring over 60 artworks from her prolific 50-year career, the exhibition is a comprehensive exploration of Pusey’s unique visual language.
Democracy Sessions
MOCA, REDCAT, and CalArts from 3 October to 3 November 2026
This citywide festival brings together 10 of Los Angeles’ experimental arts organizations for a month of art, music, performance and community-driven programming across the city. Led by LA orchestral collective Wild Up, and developed with MOCA, REDCAT and CalArts, the festival includes additional programming from the Performance Art Museum, Clockshop, 2220 Arts + Archives, Human Resources and Living Earth. Timed around the midterm elections, the larger idea is to explore how music and art can create spaces for gathering, listening and collective participation. It’s also an interesting snapshot of LA’s decentralized creative scene working in tandem with organizations of different sizes coming together around one citywide program.
And, don’t miss Venezuelan artist Alexander Apóstol’s Regime: Dramatis Personae at MOCA with black-and-white portraits of archetypal political roles modeled by LGBTQ+ activists in Caracas.
The Art of the Album: The Photography of Linda McCartney
Wrensilva Los Angeles, until February 2027
This is the only installation in the US currently devoted solely to Linda McCartney's music photography, paired with the vinyl records that immortalized them, alongside a Wrensilva console where you can play the records from The Beatles, The Cimarons, Denny Laine, Paul McCartney, The Pretenders, Professor Longhair, and Neil Young. Photography connected with all facets of McCartney’s career and life. The images on display at Wrensilva were used on album covers, and while many were the result of official commissions from record labels, some were personal snapshots.
The School of Los Angeles: Herb Ritts, Greg Gorman, and Matthew Rolston
Fahey Klein from 1 October to 28 November 2026
This exhibition examines seminal work by photographers Herb Ritts, Greg Gorman, and Matthew Rolston, three artists who took root in Southern California in the late 1970s and developed distinct approaches to photographing personalities. Together, they reimagined the traditions of glamour and portraiture and created a visual language that continues to influence how fame, aspiration, identity, and beauty are pictured today. They lived and breathed the culture they photographed from up-and-coming artists to Madonna, Diana Ross, Richard Gere, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Andy Warhol at L.A. Eyeworks.
Best Picture
Serge Sorokko Gallery NAPA until 31 Oct 2026
If you happen to be heading up to Napa for harvest season this fall, Richard Phillips Best Picture brings together the artists’ complete 2024 Nominees series for the first time in the U.S. with twelve portraits of Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Leonardo DiCaprio, Lily Gladstone, Greta Lee, Jacob Elordi and others. Beyond the obvious Hollywood connection, this marks Phillips’ return to celebrity portraiture, nearly 15 years after Most Wanted. For these works, he deliberately selected publicity images that felt quieter and less rehearsed than the traditional red-carpet photograph, which opens up a nice conversation around how celebrity image-making has changed between the paparazzi era and today’s social-media-controlled public persona.
TOUCHPOINTS
Lola Gallery, through 8 November 2026
As part of the opening festivities of LA Design Week/end (founded by Wallpaper* 400 creative Holland Denvir), Lola Gallery in Chinatown presents TOUCHPOINTS - a group show featuring the work of Los Angeles-based artists Amiee Byrne, Hartwick Hanson, Lauren Miranda, Meg Jorgenson, and Michael Laed. The artists are working in ceramic, textile, and wood, while celebrating human connection in art and design.
Matt Smiley: Lost in my Own Universe
Bailey Wick Gallery until 17 October 2027
The London West Hollywood has opened the new Bailey Wick Gallery, and is hosting Canadian-born filmmaker and artist Smiley’s solo show to mark the occasion. Expect a mix of new paintings, mixed-media works, and pieces from the ongoing Smiley Soup series. It comes from milestones that have left an indelible mark over the years, such as movies, childhood imagery, pop culture, memory and the strange emotional weight certain images can carry long after we first encounter them.
Night Window: David Smith Spray Paintings
Hauser & Wirth West Hollywood until 16 January 2027
Long considered the sculptor most closely associated with abstract expressionism, David Smith (1906 – 1965) was a restless polymath for whom sculpture, drawing and painting formed a single creative current. This is an exhibition devoted to his pioneering Sprays, and rarely seen two-dimensional works that embody the artist’s gift for daring, even startling innovations of form and color, space and time, in every medium he chose. Over his 33-year career, Smith acquired a hands-on mastery of metal that would make him the first known American artist to weld steel into sculpture.
Raghav Babbar: Sangam
Rajiv Menon Contemporary until 24 October 2026
One of the most globally recognized young India-born artists, Raghav Babbar’s US solo exhibition is presented across two cities: in the Los Angeles gallery and a dedicated booth at The Armory Show in New York. Babbar transitions from his celebrated portraiture practice to a sweeping, epic treatment of pilgrimage and faith. In 2025, Babbar attended the Maha Kumbh, a Hindu pilgrimage in North India and the largest religious gathering ever recorded. Among over 600 million other pilgrims, Babbar found himself in the midst of history in the making, while embracing the Kumbh's sheer force of the crowd.
Summoning Cleo
Roberts Projects until 24 October
This marks UK artist Mia Middleton second solo presentation with the gallery. Building on earlier bodies of work that examined the unexpected and often oblique meanings latent within familiar scenes, these new paintings recast recognizable forms as surreal archetypes, dramatizing the interplay between presence and absence, and between the literal and the metaphorical. Combining intimate, intensely concentrated paintings with works made at a new and expanded scale, Middleton uses a shifting palette of theatrical reds and archival greys to articulate two thematic registers: the vitality of life and the systems that contain it.
Gabriel Slavitt
Babst Gallery until November 7, 2026
For this solo exhibition of new works by Gabriel Slavitt, the title of the exhibition, ‘Dancing in the Pocket,’ is a term coined by NFL commentators to describe the intricate footwork of a quarterback within the protected space created by the offensive line. For the artist, this moment is psychological as much as it is physical: complete engagement between mind and body, person and environment, synthesizing analysis and technique. It is striving to be totally present. And not just once, but endlessly. The quarterback steps into the pocket in every single play of the game, regardless of success or failure.
Xie Lei
François Ghebaly in Beverly Hills, until 24 October 2026
After a solo show earlier this year at the Musée Denys-Puech, and his receiving the Prix Marcel Duchamp in 2025, Pain of Others, is Xie’s first exhibition in Los Angeles. The paintings are enigmatic, developing out of his signature palette of phosphorescent blues, Sèvres greens, and warm ochres. His figures, rendered as enflamed silhouettes, engage in obscure struggles that seem to shift between violence and eros. His latest body of work, draws in references from Italian Baroque art, as well the Sontag text from which the show derives its title, but is ultimately concerned with investigating the tenuous boundaries of the self.
Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Exposition Park
Opening 22 September 2026
Co-founded by George Lucas and Mellody Hobson, the museum is encompassing everything from prehistoric cave paintings to today’s screen art. The spaceship structure is spanning over 30 galleries – holding works from Sargent to Wyeth, while exploring and celebrating the power of visual storytelling to inspire and forge community. Built in Los Angeles’s Exposition Park, the Museum was designed by Ma Yansong of MAD with Stantec to embody the emotional power of narrative art, creating a sense of wonder, possibility, and connection to something larger than ourselves. The building is integrated into a new 11-acre campus and a park designed by Mia Lehrer of Studio-MLA: a green, multilayered gathering place for local communities and an extraordinary programming resource that brings learning and engagement outdoors. And, a must stop is the mid-century influenced Skywalker Café designed by Rockwell Group, with sculptural architectural forms, adding another work of art to the venue.
David Lynch: LA
Pace 19 September to 24 October 2026
For the first presentation of David Lynch’s work in his home city since his passing in 2025, Pace will present an exhibition of photographs at its Los Angeles gallery, placing five of Lynch’s photographic series together for the first time. Unraveling the myths and mysteries of LA, and its emotional landscape, Lynch holds close to the dream of the city and its archetypes: the ingenue, the shapeshifter, the beauty and darkness - defining atmosphere and characteristics that are physical and psychological.
Objective Truths
Roberts Projects 19 September to 24 October 2026
This group exhibition features artists from the gallery’s program including Aaron Glasson, Chris Johanson, Suchitra Mattai, Evan Nesbit, Wendy Red Star and Brenna Youngblood, among others. Responding to the changing conditions of the 21st century, works in the exhibition bridge the distance between representation and non-representation by reconfiguring color, light, material and texture as tools for rendering ineffable sensibilities. In tandem with the artists’ diverse approaches is a shared engagement with phenomenology and the malleability of meaning, centering the process of introspection and interpretation above reaching conclusive outcomes.
John Baldessari Sculptures
Sprüth Magers LA until 24 October 2026
Baldessari is widely celebrated for his groundbreaking work with language, photography, and conceptual art, whose influence shaped generations of contemporary artists. This new exhibition showcases a lesser-known side of his practice: sculpture. Baldessari's key three-dimensional works including giant ears, eyebrow reliefs, anthropomorphic furniture, and playful experiments with scale, reveal how the artist extended his signature humor and visual wit beyond the frame and into physical space. Sculptures including Beethoven's Trumpet (with Ear) (2007), an interactive work reproducing the deaf composer’s listening device and a massive, oversized ear, which makes sound as visitors approach, along with Ear Sofa and Nose Sconces with Flowers (2009). To see another side of the artist, fans can head to Cut in the Beverly Wilshire to view pieces from Baldessari’s W/Studio 54 Series - made with archival lightjet print laminated with lexan and mounted on dibond, acrylic paint.
FILM by Tacita Dean
MAF until 2 January 2027
For the US debut of FILM by Berlin and Los Angeles-based artist Tacita Dean, the installation is an homage to analog filmmaking, utilizing techniques that have been employed since the earliest days of the medium. First presented in 2011 for the Tate Modern's Turbine Hall, this silent, 35mm film will be projected onto a 31-foot-tall monolith within MAF's Theater Gallery. Dean is perhaps best known for her 16mm and 35mm film works that treat time, memory, light, and chance as subject matter, and reflect the artists belief that analog offers something deeply embodied and physical that digital cannot replace.
the sound i saw
David Zwirner, 19 September to 31 October, 2026
An exhibition of photographs by Roy DeCarava (1919–2009) was curated by Ebony L. Haynes at the gallery’s Melrose Hill location, focuses on his unwavering exploration of the relationship between the visual and the aural created between the late 1940s and the 1960s. First exhibited at the Studio Museum in Harlem in 1983, this body of work juxtaposes images of everyday life in New York City from deliverymen working, children playing, and riders waiting for the train, with images of jazz musicians, glimpsed both mid-set and off-stage in moments of repose. These tonally rich silver gelatin photographs are “images for the head and for the heart.” Presented in an adjacent gallery will be a listening room inspired by the artist’s personal playlists and favorite jazz albums.
The Hour of the Pearl
Megan Mulrooney Gallery September 12 to 24 October, 2026
This is Jonathan Ryan’s first exhibit with the gallery and a new chapter in his career. The artist began as an observational painter, working along the Mississippi River until relocating to Los Angeles, and moving away from the literal landscape. Rock formations and industrial structures became the building blocks for imagined worlds that feel ancient and futuristic at once. Sand and pulverized granite are worked directly into the paint, giving his surfaces a physical connection to the earthen forms they depict. Ryan introduces a visual language that draws from archaic architecture and geological formations as it does the pixelated imagery of 1980s video games.
Hothouse
Karma from 18 September to 24 October, 2026
For his debut solo exhibition in Los Angeles, Brooklyn-based Randy Wray presents new oil-on-linen paintings from an ongoing body of work that spans the past decade of his practice. For Wray, the studio is a hothouse: an environment teeming with growth, where color, form, and texture progressively overcome the blankness of the canvas. His intuitive process follows a logic akin to those of biological and geological phenomena suggested by his compositions, which evoke mitosis, proliferating moss, the slow erosion of rock, and other organic transformations.
OLYMPIA
Perrotin, 18 September until 7 November, 2026
The City of Angels is in the cross-hairs of Paul Pfeiffer’s canny examination of media, spectacle, architecture, and the body. As LA prepares for its LA28 Olympics, the artist is building on the momentum of his acclaimed 2023-24 MOCA retrospective, and revisits his conceptual million-seat stadium project, imagining two of Los Angeles’s iconic venues, LA Memorial Coliseum and SoFi Stadium - a provocative representation of spectatorship in the age of social media. The architectural renderings inspired by Gothic and Renaissance, are recast as paired symbols of LA’s past and future. In addition, new sculptures from Pfeiffer’s Incarnator series that include fragments of Justin Bieber’s body (recognizable from his tattoos) are crafted in collaboration with traditional skilled carvers from the Seville region of Spain.
Path Discovery by Vinnie Hager
Route 66, Santa Monica Blvd, Until November 2026
In a first-of-its-kind public collaboration, The Cities of West Hollywood, Beverly Hills, and Santa Monica are coming together for a shared public art initiative celebrating this historic highway’s Centennial milestone. This summer into the late fall, all three cities will present artist Hager’s vibrant series of graphic vinyl wraps on street poles in West Hollywood and Santa Monica, and as art banners along Santa Monica Boulevard in Beverly Hills. Featuring customized Route 66 shields and colorful motifs inspired by the joy of exploration, the project brings a unified artistic experience to one of Southern California’s most iconic corridors. Along the way, Luciana Abait’s Road Trip, a temporary vinyl mural located at 8315 Santa Monica Boulevard reimagines the Route 66 landscape, on view through November 2026; along with Sylke Meyer’s Past Tense / Future Perfect temporary sculpture at Plummer Park, captures the motion, mythology, and memory of Route 66 through a curved fiberglass camera obscura.
Paul R. Williams: An Architect Considered
USC Fisher Museum of Art from 18 August 2026 until 13 March 2027
Highlighting 35 housing projects from Williams’s 60-year career, the show emphasizes the designer’s sustained commitment to innovative, dignified solutions for collective living during a period of rapid urbanization. Organized jointly by the USC School of Architecture and the USC Fisher Museum of Art, this exhibition examines Williams’s major contributions to modern multifamily housing as the first AIA-certified Black architect west of the Mississippi River. It pairs original archival drawings with newly commissioned works by contemporary artists and architects. This also comes on the heels of a new book, Regarding Paul R. Williams: A Photographer's View of a Trailblazing Architect photographed by Janna Ireland, published by Angel City Press at Los Angeles Public Library.
Eileen Cowin: Between Panic and Paradise
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) from 23 August 2026 to 3 January 2027
This is the Los Angeles–based artist’s first major museum exhibition. Often blurring the distinction between nonfiction and fiction, for more than 50 years, Cowin’s provocative photography and video works have explored romance and confrontation, the personal and the political, and the monotony and mystery of daily life.
Marilyn Monroe: Hollywood Icon
Academy Museum until 28 February 2027
To honour 100 years of the on-screen goddess, hundreds of newly unveiled or rarely seen images, posters, letters, artifacts, and memorabilia are on display of the blond bombshell that still haunt and fascinate. This exhibition offers unique insight into her agency in becoming a Hollywood icon including many costumes from her most famous films.
Lauren Halsley’s sculpture garden
South Central LA, permanent
Artist Lauren Halsey’s public sculpture park and garden in South Central LA is now open to the public. Architecture studio Current Interests, led by Mira Henry and Matthew Au, served as the architectural collaborators on the project. Entitled sister dreamer lauren halsey’s architectural ode to tha surge n splurge of south central los angeles, the project will serve as a living shrine and tribute to the neighborhood that Halsey and her family have called home for several generations, with dedicated space for a full slate of programming led by Halsey's Summaeverythang Community Center.
Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind
The Broad from 23 May until 11 October 2026
Yoko Ono, the visionary artist, musician, and activist whose work has shaped contemporary culture for more than seven decades, will be celebrated at her first solo museum exhibition in Southern California. Materials from the artist’s international campaigns for peace and displays of anti-war activism will also be on view, such as Acorn Event (1968) and Bed Peace (1969), projects done in collaboration with her late husband, John Lennon.
Organized in collaboration with Tate Modern, London, visitors will be invited to directly participate in many of Ono’s works that transform simple acts into expressions of peace and connection. The Broad’s olive trees on East West Bank Plaza will become Wish Trees for Los Angeles, a key installation (first realized in 1996 at Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica), inviting audiences to tie their own wishes to the tree branches in a living expression of hope in the city.
A Queer Arcana: Art, Magic, and Spirit
Palm Springs Art Museum until Oct 2026
Take a drive out to the desert before the soaring summer temperatures kick-in, for a group exhibition bringing together 35 queer artists whose work spans more than 100 years (1909–2026). Collectively, they explore magic, esoteric spirituality, and occult knowledge as tools for survival, resistance, and world-building. Presented as part of the museum's Q+ Art initiative, curated by David Evans Frantz, Curator-at-Large of Q+ Art, this show explores how queer artists throughout time have turned to esoteric systems to cultivate community and imagine new social and spiritual frameworks.
Free and Queer: Black Californian Roots of Gay Liberation
California African American Museum, until 28 February 2027
This exhibit centers Los Angeles as a foundational site of Black queer cultural power, shaped through networks of resistance across neighborhoods, institutions, and grassroots communities. Curated by Susan D. Anderson, the exhibition foregrounds the role of Black queer cultural labor, bringing into focus a history that has often been left out of both mainstream LGBTQ+ narratives and dominant accounts of the civil rights movement. At a moment when queer history and representation are under renewed political pressure, the exhibition feels especially timely and urgent.
Five Centuries of Works on Paper: The Grunwald Center at 70
Hammer Museum
Part I: until 17 May 2026
Part II: June 7 – October 25, 2026
The Hammer Museum at UCLA is presenting a two-part exhibition celebrating the 70th anniversary of the UCLA Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts. With more than 45,000 prints, drawings, photographs, and artist’s books, the center’s collection of works on paper is among the most significant in the United States. Part One, features nearly 100 works reflecting the breadth of the collection, from the Renaissance to present day, including works by Albrecht Dürer, Rembrandt van Rijn, Vassily Kandinsky, Käthe Kollwitz, Ansel Adams, Elizabeth Catlett, Corita Kent, Bridget Riley, Ed Ruscha, and Vija Celmins.
The AIDS Monument
West Hollywood Park, permanent
Big Art. Bigger Dreams.
Downtown LA, until 2028
DTLA Alliance, has partnered with Street Art for Mankind (SAM) and the City of Los Angeles to create a public art museum launching in real time starting with three massive murals by acclaimed LA-based artists. With support from the Coca-Cola Company, a total of 12 large-scale works will be created that will reimagine downtown’s skyline and streetscape by 2028 when the city is set to host the Olympic Games.
Each mural celebrates global values of sustainability, education, and women’s empowerment, turning walls into landmarks. David Flores is creating a massive, vibrant mural on the Los Angeles Athletic Club (LAAC) depicting a skateboarding scene, Emily Ding is bringing to life a powerful and elegant mural of two women walking arm-in-arm on the Figueroa Eight while Shamsia Hassani is crafting a poetic triptych on The Bloc.
Intuit Dome
Inglewood, permanent
One of the most exciting art collections to hit Los Angeles can be found at the new home for the LA Clippers in Inglewood. The cutting-edge sports venue recently unveiled the monumental, site-specific, outdoor artworks commissioned for the Intuit Dome which opens to the public this August. The $11 million public art collection features a collection of globally recognised artists, selected by Ruth Berson, former deputy director of curatorial affairs at SFMOMA, who have deep ties to Los Angeles and intertwine their artistic talents with sports.
Glenn Kaino’s massive sculpture Sails, made of painted steel and wood looms in the form of the clipper ships that connected the world via the ocean’s trade routes. In this ship, basketball is the cultural wind that can connect us all.
Michael Massenburg’s mural of printed porcelain enamel on steel panel features figures of basketball, tennis, and soccer players, singers, musicians, and dancers, titled Cultural Playground expresses the artist’s belief that 'the two most profound things that unite people are the arts and sports.'
Jennifer Steinkamp’s digital artwork Swoosh, uses the entire surface of the Intuit Dome, designed by the architectural firm AECOM, with five animations will transform the surface of the dome and light up the sky with geometric panels.
Patrick Martinez’s sculpture Same Boat uses a neon sign to create an image that reproduces a statement by the late Civil Rights leader Whitney M. Young: “We may have all come on different ships but we’re in the same boat now.”
On a wall adjacent to Same Boat, you will find Kyungmi Shin’s stained-glass mosaic with stainless steel tracery, Spring to Life. For this work, Shin drew inspiration from Centinela Springs, the now-vanished water source in South Los Angeles that once supported the Tongva people and the land they cultivated. (If you would like to see more of Shin’s work, the artist has a solo exhibition at Craft Contemporary until 8, September 2024.)
The Dome opening features an exhibition of photographs by Catherine Opie (on loan from MOCA) evoking the experience of community. “We designed Intuit Dome to be a place that brings people together,” said Gillian Zucker, CEO of Halo Sports & Entertainment. “When it came to our public art, we wanted to deliver a collection that is as compelling to people well versed in art as it is to a novice viewer. We are eager to make these unique works, from these amazing artists, available to everyone.”
Mineo Mizuno: Homage to Nature
The Huntington, Pasadena, until 25 May 2029
The Huntington holds a library with British medieval manuscripts, including the 15th-century Ellesmere tome of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales; 16 themed gardens with more than 83,000 living plants; an art museum and more.
In the main garden area on the vast grounds, Mineo Mizuno’s sculpture celebrates the beauty of wood in its natural state and emphasises its potential as a reusable and renewable resource. This site-specific work explores the fragility of the Earth’s ecosystem, as well as the destruction of the forest and its potential for regeneration.