Los Angeles
Let Wallpaper* guide you through the worlds of art, design and architecture in Los Angeles - and discover where to go and what to see when you travel to Los Angeles.

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The West Coast meat joints where diners can have a butcher’s at their dinner before cooking
By Carole Dixon Last updated
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LA’s new wave of galleries blend art and architecture
By Charlotte Jansen Last updated
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Singling out the solo booths to see at Frieze Los Angeles
Over 70 galleries will descend on Paramount Pictures Studio for the second edition of the West Coast art fair (14-16 February), anchored by an ambitious programme of special projects, film screenings, talks, and institutional collaborations
By Jessica Klingelfuss Last updated
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Frieze Los Angeles 2019 preview: will the art fair get its big Hollywood break?
By Jessica Klingelfuss Last updated
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Dax Savage's witchy works embrace the natural world, religion and the American West
By Aaron Peasley Last updated
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Painted faces: Vanessa Prager's portraits bring online impressions into reality
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‘The New Modern Hair’ exhibition, Los Angeles
By Jessica Klingelfuss Last updated
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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
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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
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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
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On reflection: a mystery photographer’s strangely sensual selfies from 1966 come to light
By Charlotte Jansen Last updated
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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
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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
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Design Awards 2016: Best New Gallery
By Hunter Drohojowska-Philp Last updated
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Californian dream: Kelly Wearstler opens a soulful shop at Harrods
By Sujata Burman Last updated
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Snapchat and LACMA celebrate diversity in LA
For ‘Snapchat x LACMA: Monumental Perspectives’, five LA artists create an augmented reality monument in ode to the city’s history and culture
By Pei-Ru Keh Last updated
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High life: meet Ten Thousand, the latest addition to LA's skyline
By Sara Sturges Last updated
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Mapplethorpe unseen: archival works go on display at Getty Centre and LACMA
By Charlotte Jansen Last updated
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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
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Emerson College Los Angeles by Morphosis Architects
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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Midcentury modernist Maxwell Starkman’s LA studio converted into an office by 1100 Architect
By Harriet Thorpe Last updated
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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
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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