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Frieze Los Angeles

Frieze L.A. returns to Santa Monica Feb. 26 to March 1.

Ah, Frieze L.A. The raison d’être for each things art-related happening present successful precocious February. The just tin beryllium overstimulating, but it’s inactive important to traverse the maze of booths astatine Santa Monica Airport to acquaint oneself with the champion creation galleries the satellite has to connection from Feb. 26 to March 1. Karma’s booth volition diagnostic paintings from Ernie Barnes and Milton Avery Pace volition signifier a never-before-seen installation by James Turrell; Hoffman Donahue is presenting its archetypal expanded programme highlighting Martine Syms; David Kordansky Gallery is showing Sam Gilliam and Lauren Halsey; and Superposition volition amusement Greg Ito successful the Focus section, among many others. frieze.com

Frieze Party astatine Hauser & Wirth

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Hauser & Wirth’s accumulation opening parties are ever the champion spot to tally into astir 60% of the radical you know, and the outdoor mounting makes it 1 of the fewer events successful L.A. wherever you tin stone a overgarment that would different beryllium relegated to the shadows of your closet. The 1 connected Feb. 23 is successful solemnisation of the gallery’s caller shows from creator Christina Quarles and collector Eileen Harris Norton. hauserwirth.com

Silencio residency astatine the Edition

The legendary Parisian nightlife instauration is landing successful West Hollywood for a three-night residency, Feb. 24-26, wherever the art, manner and euphony worlds volition collide for a nighttime of dancing nether Sunset astatine Edition’s ceiling of disco balls. Tuesday nighttime is hosted by Whitewall Magazine, Wednesday nighttime is hosted by LACMA Avant-Garde and Enzo Los Angeles and Thursday nighttime has How Long Gone and Tom of Finland astatine the helm. sunsetatedition.com

Baile World

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Baile World is the brainchild of co-founder Courtney Hollinquest, a staple of L.A.’s nightlife country known for centering POC femmes — some successful presumption of the assemblage she curates and the DJs she books. The enactment connected Feb. 27 is simply a nighttime celebrating Black nine euphony for Black History Month, featuring sets from Kevin Saunderson (Detroit techno legend), SHEKDASH, DJ Nico, Tromac and CQUESTT herself. Pull up to bask successful the glory of genres with Black roots: techno, location and ghettotech. Tickets scope from $15 to $40. ra.co

Butter Fine Art Fair

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Butter, an creation just founded 5 years agone successful Indianapolis, is making its inaugural debut successful Los Angeles astatine Inglewood’s Hollywood Park, moving from Feb. 26-March 1. Curated by Nakeyta Moore, Kimberly Drew and Butter co-founders Malina Simone and Alan Bacon, the just is designed to spotlight L.A.’s established and emerging Black artists. In a uncommon move, 100% of artwork income spell straight to the artists, showing an accent connected accessibility and equity. Artists connected presumption see Mr. Wash, April Bey, Autumn Breon, Micaiah Carter and galore others. butterartfair.com

Post-Fair

The boutique alternate creation just founded past twelvemonth by gallerist Chris Sharp is returning to its open-format venue successful Santa Monica — a historical 1930s Art Deco station bureau (hence the name). It runs from Feb. 26-28, and features a beardown database of solo presentations from galleries, including Bel Ami, CASTLE, Mariposa, Marta and others.

Felix Art Fair

The eighth variation of Felix Art Fair volition instrumentality place, per usual, astatine the iconic Hollywood Roosevelt edifice from Feb. 26-March 1, with booths that bespeak the breadth of L.A.’s creation country and a divers postulation of galleries much globally. Exhibitors from Tokyo, Buenos Aires, Milan, Seoul and London volition person a presence, including ones from Chicago, Miami, Dallas, New York and our precise ain Los Angeles, of course. (The David Hockney excavation successful the halfway of the enactment is ever a bully centerpiece too.) felixfair.com

Harmonia Rosales successful ‘Beginnings’ astatine Getty Museum

“Beginnings: The Story of Creation successful the Middle Ages” explores however the biblical conception of Genesis has been interpreted and visualized crossed time, starting with artists making enactment during the Middle Ages. Harmonia Rosales’ Black figurative paintings harvester Eurocentric creator traditions with African diasporic cosmologies arsenic a mode to course-correct the humanities erasure of Black images from classical narratives. In “Beginnings,” her modern works are successful speech with the Getty’s medieval illuminated manuscripts, creating a collision of past and contiguous that broadens our knowing of root and authorship. The accumulation runs done April 19. getty.edu

Sayre Gomez astatine David Kordansky

“Precious Moments,” is simply a solo amusement of caller paintings, sculpture and video by Sayre Gomez, spanning each 3 of the gallery’s spaces. Gomez’s attack to observing municipality beingness is authentic and impacted by the unreliability of memory. His large-scale, photorealistic paintings render L.A.’s ocular connection done tools similar commercialized photograph retouching, Hollywood acceptable coating and manual motion coating traditions, creating a unsocial commentary connected representation making and the city’s systems of communication. The accumulation runs done March 1. davidkordanskygallery.com

Lyndon J. Barrois Sr. astatine LACMA

Los Angeles-based, New Orleans-born creator and animator Lyndon J. Barrois Sr. brings enactment and a singular attack to creation making to the depository with his solo exhibition, “Fûtbol Is Life: Animated Sportraits.” This ocular past of the World Cup from 1930 to contiguous time shows iconic moments from the athletics staged with vivid detail, and is brought to beingness by Barrois’ miniature figures made from gum wrappers. In anticipation for the 8 matches L.A. is hosting for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, this amusement offers a wide-ranging and cautiously crafted survey connected the breadth of taste practice and identities that beryllium wrong the athletics globally, and commentary connected the nuanced governmental undertones of “the beauteous game.” The accumulation runs done July 12. lacma.org

Samella Lewis astatine Louis Stern Fine Arts

“The Work Is Never Finished: Prints, Drawings, and Paintings” unearths the prolific enactment of Samella Lewis (1923-2022), an artist, educator, activist, historiographer and curator. Lewis kept her ain signifier passim her life, adjacent arsenic she worked for museums and universities, founded the Museum of African American Art successful Los Angeles and launched the periodical, Black Art: An International Quarterly (later published arsenic the International Review of African American Art). As a Black pistillate who grew up successful the segregated South, she transmuted the prejudice her assemblage faced into striking scenes of quality connection, galore of them sketched from representation and immoderate rendered arsenic linocuts. The accumulation runs done March 7. louissternfinearts.com

Takashi Murakami astatine Perrotin Los Angeles

A caller solo accumulation by Takashi Murakami, the iconic laminitis of Japan’s postmodern Superflat movement, is connected presumption astatine Perrotin: “Hark Back to Ukiyo-e: Tracing Superflat to Japonisme’s Genesis.” Inspired by a sojourn to Giverny, the colony Claude Monet called home, Murakami explores ukiyo-e and Impressionism successful 24 caller paintings. They research fashion, feminine sensuality, landscapes (“floating satellite pictures”) successful a amusement that is arsenic colorful arsenic it is simply a nuanced commentary connected however Japanese approaches to creation inspired European painters. The accumulation runs done March 14. perrotin.com

Ramsés Noriega astatine Marc Selwyn Fine Art

“Ramsés Noriega: De Sonora a Los Ángeles” includes works connected insubstantial produced by the artist, an aboriginal pioneer of the Chicano Art movement, betwixt 1968 and 1989. A erstwhile migrant workplace worker, Noriega immigrated to the United States from Sonora, Mexico, successful the 1950s. He was a co-organizer of the 1970 Chicano Moratorium march successful East L.A., 1 of the largest Mexican American anti-war demonstrations successful U.S. past with an estimated 30,000 participants. Often employing caricature, distortion and symbolism to pass anxiousness and resistance, his works are idiosyncratic and political, offering a critique of the systems that oppress radical of color. Concurrent with this exhibition, Noriega’s enactment is besides connected presumption (through Feb. 28) astatine the Chicano Park Museum and Cultural Center successful “Fragmentos Del Barrio: A 60 Year Retrospective,” which surveys six decades of the artist’s enactment and activism. The accumulation astatine Marc Selwyn Fine Art runs done March 14. marcselwynfineart.com

Zenobia Lee astatine Sea View

“Démesuré” is the debut solo accumulation of sculptor Zenobia Lee, an hold of which volition beryllium presented by the assemblage successful a booth of works astatine Frieze Los Angeles. Objects similar dominos and leaves, which fig into the past of Caribbean imperialism, are fashioned from alloy and wood. At once, they face the absurdity of the narration betwixt lack and presence, and subvert expectations done Lee’s striking attack to scale. The accumulation runs done March 28. sea-view.us

Ash Roberts astatine Francis Gallery

“The Year Room” is simply a postulation of Ash Roberts’ delicate scenery paintings, which uncover a poetic knowing of the earthy satellite and a brushed yet embodied colour palette. These works are Impressionistic, displaying washes of scenes featuring elements similar lily pads and flowers, immoderate of them incorporating golden leafage arsenic an accent successful notation to the Japanese kintsugi technique. The accumulation runs done April 18. francisgallery.com

Evan Nicole Brown is simply a Los Angeles-born writer, editor and writer who covers the arts and culture. Her enactment has been featured successful Architectural Digest, the Cut, Fast Company, Getty Magazine, the Hollywood Reporter, the New York Times, T Magazine and elsewhere. She is the managing exertion of Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles and the laminitis of Group Chat, a speech bid and originative salon successful L.A.

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