Los Angeles art exhibitions: the best shows to see in March 2026
Read our pick of the best Los Angeles art exhibitions to see this month, from Leonard Baby's 'Resting Babyface' at Half Gallery to Andy WarhoLA at Dover Street Market
- Paul McCarthy - CSSC Coach Stage Stage Coach, and A&E, Adolf & Eva, Adam & Eve, Samples
- Andy WarhoLA
- John Willenbecher
- Resting Babyface
- Hard n’ Soft
- ‘Arshile Gorky. Horizon West’
- Christina Quarles. The Ground Glows Black
- Destiny Is a Rose: The Eileen Harris Norton Collection
- Berta Fischer
- FACTORY DOOMSCROLL
- Under One Roof
- Frieze Los Angeles
- Felix LA
- The Other Art Fair
- Lauren Quin: Eyelets of Alkaline
- Mourning's Orbit
- Veronica Fernandez
- Alma Berrow
- Diary of a Fly
- Leiko Ikemura: Riding Horizon
- Wally Hedrick: Sex Politics Religion
- everything was once something else
- Five Centuries of Works on Paper: The Grunwald Center at 70
- The Art of the Album – The Photography of Danny Clinch
- Keep Movin’ by Wolfgang Tillmans
- The AIDS Monument
- Robert Therrien: This is a Story
- JOHN GIORNO: NO NOSTALGIA
- Monuments
- The Day Tomorrow Began
- Jaws: The Exhibition
- Big Art. Bigger Dreams.
- Intuit Dome
- Mineo Mizuno: Homage to Nature
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If you are somehow missing the Frieze LA frenzy (26 February – 1 March), do not fret. Many of the shows that opened for the fair, and LA Art Week, have extended at the perspective local galleries well into the spring and, in some cases, the summer. A few to not miss are never-before-seen works by Paul McCarthy at The Journal Gallery in West Hollywood, and ‘Andy WarhoLA’ at Dover Street Market in the arts district, which unveils vintage photographs (many never published) taken by the iconic artist in the City of Angels. Elsewhere around town, a new space has opened featuring sculptures at Brodin Gallery in Hollywood, and Santa Monica Studios 3026 has launched with a collective of 32 resident artists ‘Under One Roof.’
Los Angeles Art Exhibitions: what to see in March 2026
Paul McCarthy - CSSC Coach Stage Stage Coach, and A&E, Adolf & Eva, Adam & Eve, Samples
The Journal Gallery until 25 April 2026
For the gallery’s first exhibition with artist Paul McCarthy, that opened during Frieze, two ongoing series collide, CSSC, Coach Stage Stage Coach, and A&E, Adolf & Eva, Adam & Eve. Both bodies of work serve as remnants of and counterparts to filmed performances in which McCarthy himself performs in character as a banker (in CSSC) and Adolf Hitler (in A&E). The exhibition will include paintings, drawings, and two sculptures depicting the corpses of the aforementioned characters, and include never before seen pieces including a large scale diptych.
Andy WarhoLA
Dover Street Market Los Angeles until 12 March 2026
Showcasing the iconic works of Andy Warhol, the exhibit was curated by Michael Dayton Herman of The Andy Warhol Foundation. Celebrating the multifaceted spirit of Los Angeles that fascinated Warhol, and an energy that remains alive in the creative community cultivated by DSMLA. Andy WarhoLA reframes Los Angeles through the artist’s own lens, pairing original vintage photographs by the artist of the people and places that shaped the city’s mythology. Installed as a sculptural homage to Warhol’s iconic Brillo Boxes, the exhibition collapses commerce, celebrity, and place into a single immersive environment filled with objects of desire. Within the exhibition, over 100 landscape photographs of Los Angeles, many previously unpublished, projected on screen, create a mesmerizing visual chronicle of the city as Warhol saw it.
John Willenbecher
Babst Gallery until 18 April 2026
New Works, is a solo exhibition of recent paintings and works on paper by the artist and is his first solo exhibition in Los Angeles since 1972. The exhibition includes a series of new works, each of which is entitled Object. The pieces are made of acrylic paint and circles of metallic leaf on fiberboard. Born in PA Dutch country in the 1930s, the new material was made in the artist’s Tribeca loft from 2022-2025, and were inspired by his lifelong passions of children’s games, astronomy, and the underlying Euclidean forms in Renaissance Tondos. Willenbecher’s work was also shown in the Boxes show at Virginia Dwan, alongside Andy Warhol’s Brillo Boxes debut in 1964.
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Resting Babyface
Half Gallery at Villa Carlotta until 26 March 2026
This evocative solo exhibition by artist New York-based Leonard Baby, features new paintings created during a period of profound melancholy, encapsulating the essence of vulnerability and the complexities of personal experience. Known for his unique ability to blend humor and sincerity within his work, while drawing from his own experiences and emotions, the work resonates deeply with viewers, inviting them to explore their own narratives of struggle and introspection. Through painting, Baby transforms personal trauma into a testament to resilience and self-acceptance while serving as a poignant reminder of the beauty found in vulnerability and the human condition.
Hard n’ Soft
Brodin Gallery until 11 April 2026
Creative partners Gavin and Kelley Brodin are opening their dedicated Formed For studio alongside the debut of Brodin Gallery, bringing their trade-driven sculptural practice and fine art work into a shared, purpose-built location. Launched during Frieze Los Angeles, this opening marks the launch of the inaugural exhibition, Hard n’ Soft, a group show examining tension and transformation in contemporary materials co-curated by art works and Abigail Ogilvy Gallery.
‘Arshile Gorky. Horizon West’
Hauser & Wirth West Hollywood until 25 April 2026
Horizon West tells the story of the summer of 1941 when Arshile Gorky, his soon-to-be wife Agnes ‘Mougouch’ Magruder and Isamu Noguchi drove across country from New York City to Los Angeles over a two-week time period. This marked Gorky’s first visit to California since arriving in America as an Armenian refugee in 1920. Focused on the transformative impact of this journey, ‘Horizon West’ will present a selection of Gorky’s landscapes from before, during and after the transcontinental trip, tracing the development of his incomparable approach to the genre as a 20th-century visionary and leader of the abstract movement.
Christina Quarles. The Ground Glows Black
Hauser & Wirth Downtown Los Angeles until 3 May 2026
Christina Quarles’ latest body of work reflects the acute sense of displacement she experienced in the wake of the historic Los Angeles wildfires that consumed her home in early 2025. Already admired internationally for the dexterity and assertiveness with which she manipulates paint, ‘The Ground Glows Black,’ pushes that expressive and physical power to new limits, conveying the impact of the fires on her inner landscape.
Destiny Is a Rose: The Eileen Harris Norton Collection
Hauser & Wirth Downtown Los Angeles 16 August 2026
Eileen Harris Norton has built an inspiring art collection and forged a philanthropic legacy by focusing upon the work of women artists, as well as artists of color and of her native California. Marking fifty years since Harris Norton made her first acquisition - a print purchased in 1976 directly from Los Angeles artist and African American arts advocate Ruth Waddy, ‘Destiny Is a Rose’ will present more than 80 works from Harris Norton’s holdings in an exhibition conceived to celebrate the connoisseurship and commitment to social justice.
Taking its title from a 1990 painting by Kerry James Marshall, ‘Destiny Is a Rose’ features paintings, sculptures and works on paper by Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Catherine Opie, Yoshitomo Nara, Betye Saar, Lorna Simpson, and many others.
Berta Fischer
James Fuentes until 28 March 2026
This exhibition features three monumental sculptures completed in 2025, presented alongside a selection of earlier works, highlights her ongoing exploration of how sculptural form can inhabit, shape, and reconfigure space. Known for her innovative use of industrial plastics and resin-based materials, Fischer creates sculptures that appear simultaneously weightless and architectural. Quaoloris (2025), one of the new large-scale works, is a suspended object composed of nine modules made of formed acrylic glass, with coloration transitioning from green to orange shimmering silver. The result is an otherworldly mass that floats through the gallery, dynamically traversing and activating the room through its shifting chromatic and atmospheric presence.
FACTORY DOOMSCROLL
Night Gallery until 4 April 2026
This two-person exhibition of new work by San Francisco-based artist Christine Tien Wang and Albuquerque-based artist Rachel Youn, opened during Frieze LA. Wang has been showing work at the gallery for over a decade, while this is Youn’s second major exhibition, following ‘Well Adjusted’ in 2023.
In two of Wang's paintings, Luigi Mangione – the accused assassin of UnitedHealthCare CEO Brian Thompson – is rendered holy. Both artists revel in the exhaustive gestures of contemporary life – the perpetual motion that leads nowhere. They both take objects designed for instant gratification, whether physical comfort or viral dopamine hits, and trap them in a kind of amber, forcing us to reckon with what we consume and discard. Wang and Youn's collaboration serves as a testament to the excess that comes with contemporary Western living.
Under One Roof
Santa Monica Studios 3026 until 3 May 2026
The Santa Monica Studios 3026 at the Airport Arts Center launched with a dynamic multi-disciplinary group exhibition curated by acclaimed Los Angeles art critic and curator Peter Frank. Harnessing the creative energy of Santa Monica’s largest artist community, featuring 32 resident artists working in sculpture, painting, textile, photography, ceramics, prints, and drawing. This expansive show, ‘Under One Roof,’ celebrates nearly 25 years of artistic innovation for the center.
Frieze Los Angeles
Santa Monica Airport, 1 March, 2026
The 2026 edition of Freize LA will start out strong with a neon installation by Patrick Martinez at the fair’s entrance reflecting on ICE raids and immigrant rights in America. Inside, the fair will span twenty-two international locations, and include close to 100 galleries from Gagosian to Hauser & Wirth, and David Zwirner. In addition, LA-based artists Dan John Anderson, Polly Borland, Cosmas & Damian Brown, Kohshin Finley, Shana Hoehn, Amanda Ross-Ho and Kelly Wall will come together for Frieze Projects ‘Body & Soul’ - a public art program, presented in partnership with the Art Production Fund that explores the human form in its physical and metaphysical dimensions. This year, Napoles Marty was awarded the 2026 Frieze Los Angeles Impact Prize, which recognizes an early-career artist and partners with a non-profit organization that has made a significant social impact. Marty’s onsite exhibit at the fair is in collaboration Titus Kaphar's New Haven, CT-based nonprofit cultural advocacy organization NXTHVN.
Felix LA
Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel until 1 March 2026
For its eighth edition, the contemporary art fair taking place amid the storied hotel’s suites and pool area, while showcase exhibitors from around the world, including galleries from Buenos Aires, Milan, Seoul, London, along with Chicago, Dallas, and Miami. This year’s edition features over 20 first-time exhibitors including New York Life Gallery; Feia, from Los Angeles; and SOM GALLERY from Tokyo. The fair also welcomes back over 20 galleries including Brigitte Mulholland from Paris; Corbett vs. Dempsey from Chicago; and Uffner & Liu from New York.
The Other Art Fair
3Labs Culver City, until 1 March, 2026
With a brand new location in Culver City, the Saatchi Art supported fair will welcome 155 emerging and established independent artists. This year’s notables include Vanessa Valero, Xan Padron, Alec Cumming, and Los Angeles-based artists Kiara Aileen Machado, Michael Bove, and Carrie Cramer. One of this year’s highlights is an interactive ‘Marty Supreme’ moment with artist designed table tennis tables and paddles from London-based The Art of Ping Pong. The show is also supporting Altadena Brick by Brick, a new nonprofit created in the wake of the Eton Fires, continuing the fair's commitment to community impact.
Lauren Quin: Eyelets of Alkaline
PACE until 28 March 2026
LA-born and based artist Lauren Quin’s debut exhibition with Pace gallery will coincide with the 2026 edition of Frieze LA, and will spotlight new, large format works that mark a decisive rupture in the artist's practice. Known for her expansive, vibrant abstractions, Quin has turned from an ‘overdose’ of chromatic intensity toward what she describes as a ‘detox of colour.’ This experimentation with tonality and chromatic structure will be on full view in the upcoming show, which will also accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue from Pace Publishing featuring a new text by the poet, playwright, and essayist Ariana Reines.
Mourning's Orbit
Night Gallery until 4 April, 2026
On the one year anniversary of the Eaton Canyon wildfire, this new body of paintings by LA artist Mira Dancy, who is an Altadena resident, and is still in the midst of instability and rebuilding her life. She has a temporary studio, and she and her family have been in-between hotels and homes. Her new work bears witness to the devastation wrought by the fire, and this will be the artist's fifth solo exhibition with the gallery.
For Frieze Los Angeles, Night Gallery will present British painter and elected Royal Academician Clare Woods new body of wet-into-wet paintings on aluminum, inspired by a recent visit to The Huntington Gardens in Pasadena.
Veronica Fernandez: Prey
Anat Ebgi Gallery until 4 April, 2026
For the first big solo exhibition of new work by emerging Los Angeles-based artist Veronica Fernandez, her autobiographical paintings are rooted in memory, inspired by the financial difficulty and homelessness in her upbringing, living in various temporary housing solutions. She uses old photographs as a starting point and her figures occupy real spaces: families in LA motel rooms, kids playing in gas stations or construction sites. Veronica is also a co-founder of Ignite The Hearts Foundation, where she provides crucial support to LA families experiencing homelessness.
For Frieze Los Angeles, Anat Ebgi Gallery will show work by Mexican artist Anabel Juárez, among others. Her work deals with topics of migration and the recent ICE raids in LA, and she will debut new work as part of her ongoing series of ceramic pots, plants and flowers.
Alma Berrow
Megan Mulrooney Gallery until 28 March, 2026
The gallery presents a new body of work, and the first US solo exhibition, by British ceramicist Alma Berrow. The decadent, grotesque tablescape is drawing on 1970s domestic excess and her grandmother’s Cordon Bleu magazines. The installation features elaborate dinnerware overtaken by ants, slugs, cigarette butts, and other signs of decay. A former pastry chef who learned ceramics from her mother during the pandemic, Berrow uses food as both lure and critique, exploring consumption, waste, and the lingering fantasy of idealized domesticity.
Diary of a Fly
Barnsdall Art Park’s Hollyhock House, until 25 April 2026
Located within the grounds of Barnsdall Art Park, Ryan Preciado's installation at Frank Lloyd Wright's Hollyhock House is significant for a myriad of reasons - one being the landmark home was in danger of closing due to funding cuts, but is still open to the public. Installed throughout the landmark structure, Preciado’s textiles–his first in the medium–and sculptures are titled after a late-1930s musical composition by Béla Bartók that imitates the frenzied pace of a fly. The music’s repetitive motifs and observation of the everyday resonates with Preciado’s approach to his site-responsive exhibition, which builds on Hollyhock House’s one-hundred year history as a platform for artists and experimentation. Preciado’s work has recently been featured locally at the Hammer ‘Made in LA’ exhibition.
Leiko Ikemura: Riding Horizon
Lisson until 28 March, 2026
After Leiko Ikemura's Lisson debut in New York in 2025, she opens a second gallery exhibition in Los Angeles in 2026 with a range of works produced over the past five or six years that explore her relationship to bodies of water and the horizon line, or as she describes it: ‘the place where two worlds come together.’ While one of Ikemura's monumental Usagi characters – her starry-skirted rabbit hybrid creatures – greets visitors outside the gallery, the recurring figure of a reclining girl or woman is seen inside the show, both in large-scale bronzes and paintings made with egg tempera, which again confront the coexistence of humans and nature. An indoor stone garden will sprout vertical sculptures that reach between these two poles, while her fantastical treatments of landscape painting enter into the realms of reflection, dreamtime and even of conflict.
Wally Hedrick: Sex Politics Religion
Parker Gallery and The Box, until 4 April, 2026
The Box and Parker Gallery are concurrently presenting a full-scale retrospective, spanning from the 1950s to the early 2000s, by the iconoclastic California artist Wally Hedrick (1928–2003). Hedrick, who was born in Pasadena and died in Bodega Bay, CA, was a pivotal figure of the San Francisco Beat Generation. In 1954, he co-founded the legendary Six Gallery in San Francisco. Hedrick conceived and organized an important poetry event at the gallery, held on October 7, 1955, in which Allen Ginsberg publicly read ‘Howl’ for the very first time, heralding the San Francisco Renaissance and West Coast literary revolution. In 1959, Hedrick and his wife, Jay DeFeo, were included in Sixteen Americans at The Museum of Modern Art in New York City, alongside Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Rauschenberg and Frank Stella.
At Frieze, Parker Gallery will be showcasing new paintings by Marley Freeman in collaboration with Textile Artifacts, the artist’s family run business located in Los Angeles, CA. The presentation at Frieze precedes a solo exhibition with Marley Freeman at the gallery in the fall.
everything was once something else
OXY ARTS until 11 April, 2026
OXY ARTS, Occidental College's public art space rooted in social justice and community engagement is mounting a solo exhibition by 2025-26 Wanlass Artist in Residence Roksana Pirouzmand. This body of work considers the Los Angeles-based artist’s ongoing inquiry into transformation, interconnectedness, and impermanence. Working with clay and metal, materials born of the earth and shaped by fire, Pirouzmand explores their contrasting qualities. Across her practice, matter becomes a conduit for thinking about cause and effect, fragility and force, and the ways energy moves between bodies, materials, and environments. Presented across two sites, JOAN and OXY ARTS, with staggered openings, the exhibition features a series of new sculptural works linked through vibration and sound.
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 Art of the Album – The Photography of Danny Clinch
Wrensilva on Melrose Ave. until Spring 2026
For a completely immersive experience, Wrensilva LA Listening Studio on Melrose has launched a photo and listening installation with more than three decades of music culture and lifestyle photography by Danny Clinch. This installation brings iconic images together with the album covers they helped define, plus the vinyl itself, played on a Wrensilva record console. It’s a rare chance to stand inside the relationship between image, artist, and record. Featured artists include 2Pac, Johnny Cash, Foo Fighters, Patti Smith, Bruce Springsteen, Eddie Vedder, and more, that reveal living documents of artists in their element, images that become inseparable from the songs, the albums, and the eras they helped shape.
Keep Movin’ by Wolfgang Tillmans
Regen Projects until 1 March 2026
Following a year of ambitious institutional presentations at the Centre Pompidou, Paris; Haus Cleff, Remscheid; and the Albertinum, Dresden, and the inclusion in the 36th Bienal de São Paulo, this exhibition marks Tillmans’ ninth solo exhibition with the gallery since 1995. Highlights include core themes of the artist’s practice through new photographs, videos, sculptural installations, and a new iteration of Truth Study Center.
Throughout the exhibition, Tillmans emphasizes interconnectedness—between people, materials, histories, and images. His work is marked by a deep sensitivity to the interweaving of past and present, the fragility of seemingly stable structures, and the transformation of matter from one state to another.
The AIDS Monument
West Hollywood Park, permanent
With World AIDS Day on 1 December, the City of West Hollywood and the Foundation for the AIDS Monument (FAM) unveiled The AIDS Monument in West Hollywood Park to memorialize those impacted by HIV/AIDS, and will honor the community's activism and the personal stories. Designed by artist Daniel Tobin, the monument will feature a plaza, a donor wall, vertical bronze ‘traces’ with narrative text, integrated lighting reminiscent of a candlelight vigil, and a podium facing N. San Vicente Boulevard, that will function as a public art experience and memorial site.
Robert Therrien: This is a Story
The Broad until 5 April 2026
This is a story, indeed. Featuring 120 artworks spanning five decades, including enormous tables, chairs, and dishes, to intimate drawings of snowmen, birds, and chapels – many made in Therrien’s downtown LA studio in his adopted home of Los Angeles, until his passing in 1990. This location was pivotal to his musings on scale, as the region's sprawling, open spaces allowed him to see the untapped potential of everyday objects. The show will include partial reconstructions of Therrien’s studio environment, like his project tables, drawings, and tools.
JOHN GIORNO: NO NOSTALGIA
Marciano Art Foundation until April 2026
Marciano will reopen its second-floor Window Gallery with an exhibit devoted to the late poet, artist, and activist John Giorno. Known for transposing poetry into the visual, sonic, and performative, the exhibition spans Giorno's early prints to his later text paintings. Works from the 1960s through the 2010s reveal how he merged spiritual clarity with pop immediacy, and how language could heal and become physical. Notably, the exhibition will feature his landmark Dial-A-Poem (1969) recordings, newly reactivated to offer 24-hour access to more than 250 recordings by 132 poets, artists, musicians, and activists. Dial-A-Poem will be accessible through a physical landline within the exhibition, as well as through a QR code that guests may use through their own devices.
Monuments
Geffen Contemporary at Museum of Contemporary Art, Little Tokyo, until 3 May 2026
Inspired by the wave of repulsion after the turbulent 2017 white supremacist Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va., that opposed the removal of a local statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. 200 other tributes across the country to American turncoats who supported slavery have also been removed. A selection of decommissioned Confederate statues will be shown at MOCA and alternative space The Brick (on N. Western in the Melrose Hill area), joint organizers of the exhibition, paired with contemporary work by Bethany Collins, Stan Douglas, Leonardo Drew, Jon Henry, Martin Puryear, Hank Willis Thomas, Kara Walker and a dozen other artists, borrowed and commissioned for the occasion.
The Day Tomorrow Began
LACMA until 29 March 2026
For his upcoming solo at LACMA (his largest in LA and most ambitious to date) Bahamian artist Tavares Strachan takes on alarming efforts to censor institutions and rewrite American history by asking: What happens if, instead of hiding and obscuring the past, we spotlight it and reflect it back on itself?
Strachan does exactly that across his signature immersive installations (including a barbershop, a laundromat, and a rice field) and monumental sculptures, he invites the public to critically rethink the ways in which we represent, discuss, commemorate, and celebrate history, and which histories at that. This exhibit coincides with the lead up to the opening of LACMA’s new David Geffen Galleries, housing the 3,000+ works from the museum’s encyclopedic collection. (Later in the month, Strachan’s modern take on commemorative structures will also be on view at MOCA.)
Jaws: The Exhibition
Robert Shaw as Quint during production of Jaws (1975)
The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures until 26 July 2026
For a final end-of-the-summer fling, Jaws: The Exhibition - in the Marilyn and Jeffrey Katzenberg Gallery, will be the largest presentation ever mounted for the Oscar® winning Steven Spielberg classic and feature scene breakdowns, interactive experiences, behind-the-scenes stories, and some 200 original objects, many never before put on public display. And, yes, it’s still terrifying 50-years later.
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.
Carole Dixon is a prolific lifestyle writer-editor currently based in Los Angeles. As a Wallpaper* contributor since 2004, she covers travel, architecture, art, fashion, food, design, beauty, and culture for the magazine and online, and was formerly the LA City editor for the Wallpaper* City Guides to Los Angeles.