Art, architecture and travel in Los Angeles

Painted faces: Vanessa Prager's portraits bring online impressions into reality

By Michael Slenske Last updated 16 October 22

‘The New Modern Hair’ exhibition, Los Angeles

By Jessica Klingelfuss Last updated 14 October 22

Out of office: coffee and creative small talk with Eric Fischl

Bodil Blain, Wallpaper* columnist and founder of Cru Kafé, shares coffee and creative small talk with leading figures from the worlds of art, architecture, design, and fashion. This week it’s American artist Eric Fischl, who is making a splash at Sprüth Magers in Los Angeles with an exhibition of new paintings centred on bodies of water

By Bodil Blain Last updated 14 October 22

Beverly Fishman's intoxicating artworks are hard pills to swallow

In Los Angeles, American artist Beverly Fishman’s provocative, electric-hued objects square up to the pharmaceutical industry, confront physical and mental health, and nod to California’s modern art roots

By Harriet Lloyd-Smith Last updated 14 October 22

Kate Ballis’ candy-coloured dreamscapes hit the sweet spot in Los Angeles

By Jessica Klingelfuss Last updated 14 October 22

Warmth and fun at Studio Shamshiri’s Shulamit Nazarian Gallery

The new Shulamit Nazarian Gallery space in Los Angeles by Studio Shamshiri combines party fun and domestic comfort

By Ellie Stathaki Last updated 13 October 22

LA carpark transformed into temporary shelter to house transient and homeless people

This new temporary shelter concept aims to support Los Angeles' transient and homeless population as a response to the city's ongoing pandemic and housing crisis

By Pei-Ru Keh Last updated 13 October 22

Leading female architects in their own words

International Women’s Day 2022 and Women’s History Month: Wallpaper* talks to four leading female architects about dreams, heroines and navigating the architecture world

By Harriet Thorpe Last updated 13 October 22

Design Awards 2016: Best New Gallery

By Hunter Drohojowska-Philp Last updated 13 October 22

Serge Attukwei Clottey on fashion, gender, and unexpected art

In captivating new portraits for ‘Beyond Skin’, Ghanaian artist Serge Attukwei Clottey explores fashion as identity and subverts antiquated ideas of gender and sexuality 

By Pei-Ru Keh Last updated 13 October 22

Pop star: colourful Hollywood Hills house is a stand-out hit

Berkeley-based Envelope Architecture + Design is the brains behind a colourful, new build home in Los Angeles' Hollywood Hills green landscape

By Ellie Stathaki Last updated 12 October 22

Matthew Royce rethinks the Venice Beach house

A new Venice Beach house by architect Matthew Royce on a triangular site makes an eye-catching addition to a Los Angeles neighbourhood

By Pei-Ru Keh Last updated 12 October 22

Barbara Kruger leaves question marks on LA during Frieze

In Los Angeles, Barbara Kruger leaves burning questions in weird and wonderful spaces during Frieze Week

By Charlotte Jansen Last updated 12 October 22

Open house: a London architect in LA delivers a breath of Bel-Air

By JC Gabel Last updated 12 October 22

Californian dream: Kelly Wearstler opens a soulful shop at Harrods

By Sujata Burman Last updated 12 October 22

High life: meet Ten Thousand, the latest addition to LA's skyline

By Sara Sturges Last updated 11 October 22

Mapplethorpe unseen: archival works go on display at Getty Centre and LACMA

By Charlotte Jansen Last updated 11 October 22

Roll up: unravel these inventive toilet roll holder designs

At Marta gallery in LA, over 50 imaginative interpretations of the loo roll holder go on view from designers, artists and studios, addressing the environmental politics behind the domestic product

By Pei-Ru Keh Last updated 11 October 22

Emerson College Los Angeles by Morphosis Architects

By Ellie Stathaki Last updated 11 October 22

Midcentury modernist Maxwell Starkman’s LA studio converted into an office by 1100 Architect

By Harriet Thorpe Last updated 11 October 22

The graphic sensibility of Paul Smiths' new LA boutique

British ceramicist John Booth takes over the interiors of the new Los Angeles outpost

By Simon Mills Last updated 11 October 22

Johnston Marklee's UCLA Margo Leavin Graduate Art Studios completes

Los Angeles architecture firm Johnston Marklee completes the UCLA Margo Leavin Graduate Art Studios in Culver City, a constellation of artist studios that makes for a vibrant creative neighbourhood for the campus

By Carole Dixon Last updated 11 October 22

A transborder glass collaboration forges at Zona Maco in Mexico City

By Benoit Loiseau Last updated 11 October 22

Novel idea: an East Hollywood art venture inspired by writer Gertrude Stein

By JC Gabel Last updated 11 October 22