Hammer Museum

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At the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, the late artist’s conceptual practice exists in the polarity between obsessive documentation and rigorous anti-interpretation

BY Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer |

The LA-based musician played an exclusive gig at Frieze Los Angeles 2024 and gave this interview where she talks about the pressure of creating and performing on her own

In Collaboration with BMW

Three of the artist’s projects are presented at Santa Monica Airport—including a little-seen ’zine—exploring physical appearance, gender-hacking and consumer culture

BY Matthew McLean |

Recently appointed at the Hammer Museum, the curator enjoys studio visits, Taiwanese food and getting lost

BY Pablo José Ramírez |

From monumental gallery shows to eerily intimate installations, Los Angeles is packed with brilliant exhibitions during Frieze this year

BY Chris Waywell |

From a retrospective of Josh Kline in New York to the ‘Made in LA’ biennial, here are the best stateside exhibitions of the year

BY Lisa Yin Zhang |

Find out what the LA artist’s cat Roger wants to tell humans in this extraordinary fusion of contemporary issues and traditional techniques

In Collaboration with Getty

In the first activation of the yearlong creative collaboration between Frieze and Getty, the Korean collective looked at a uniquely spiritual marine ecosystem

In Collaboration with Getty

From Candice Lin's tales of demonic transformation to Elif Saydam's overlapping of schmaltz and camp

BY frieze |

The 39 artists of the sixth edition both capture and prompt tender interactions that tease out overlooked histories across the city

BY Armando Pulido |

Based in Santa Monica for six decades, the artist has spent a lifetime capturing likeness through line, from David Hockney to his life partner Christopher Isherwood

BY Jonathan Griffin |

From Donna Huddleston's alien divas at Simon Lee to Ulysses Jenkins's caustic juxtapositions at the Hammer Museum, these are the shows currently on our radar

BY frieze |

‘Made in L.A. 2020: a version’, slated to open in 2021, exposes the horrors of American life pre-pandemic

BY Jonathan Griffin |

As the artist’s inaugural show at Paula Cooper Gallery opens in New York, Rianna Jade Parker guides us through her filmmaking trajectory

BY Rianna Jade Parker |

A specially commissioned visual essay by the artist, ahead of his Hammer Museum retrospective

BY Paul McCarthy |

As his retrospective opens at the Hammer Museum, a look at the influence Ruppersberg has held over art and pop culture

BY Joseph Mosconi |

As the inaugural Frieze Los Angeles opens this week, here are the exhibitions you shouldn’t miss across the city

BY Simone Krug |

Born in Venezuela in 1920, emigrating to New York at the age of nine, the artist ranged gracefully across the mid 20th century

BY Chris Wiley |

For the 2018 edition of the biennial, it’s as if artists feel the need to resolve situations formally where they can’t be resolved for real

BY Travis Diehl |

Meticulous, gently humorous paintings isolate a deeply personal encounter with the obdurate structures of society and culture

BY Jonathan Griffin |