Los Angeles
February 15, 2023

Your Handy Guide to LA Frieze Week 2023

Yes, you'll have to cross the 405 after 3 pm, but we promise it'll be worth it. | Renée Reizman

Welcome to Los Angeles Art Week, the most jam-packed stretch of the year in our city’s art world. February has long been associated with the LA Art Show, but when Frieze landed here five years ago, it heralded the explosion of back-to-back fairs, exhibitions, performances, and pop-ups. This year, five fairs take place simultaneously, and if that’s not enough art for you, other institutions have strategically timed their openings and public programs to coincide with them. (And if you’re not a Frieze VIP, snagging a free drink at one of these events will certainly make you feel like one.) 

In our guide to LA Art Week, we’re bringing you all you need to know about the big fairs as well as all the art you can find in historic homes, at an airport, planted in a garden, spinning on a carousel, and even at a gravesite.

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THROUGH A NEW LENSE

Views From the End of Human Expansion

Five Southern California Views taps into the mythology of the West as an expanse for the imagination, only to decenter the human presence. | Natalie Haddad

Five Southern California Views
Feb. 9–Apr. 8, 2023
Gallery Luisotti, 432 South Alameda Street, Arts District (galleryluisotti.com)

A Radically Inclusive Vision of the Jewish Tzitzit

LA-based artists Julie Weitz and Jill Spector are reimagining the traditional Jewish garment to include a wide spectrum of identities. | Matt Stromberg

CLOSING SOON

Victor Estrada: Purple Mexican
Oct. 6–Feb. 25, 2023
ArtCenter, Peter and Merle Mullin Gallery, 1111 South Arroyo Parkway (artcenter.edu)

Purple Mexican, named for a hybrid strain of marijuana, is a 30-year survey of Victor Estrada's drawings, paintings, and sculptures showcasing his broad spectrum of influences from gritty punk aesthetics, to Chicano graphics and cartoon fantasy.

Brad Phillips: I Know What I did Last Summer
Jan. 7–Feb. 25, 2023
de boer, 3311 East Pico Boulevard, Boyle Heights (deboergallery.com)

Canadian artist and writer Brad Phillips’s oeuvre is characterized by contradiction. His work jumps between autobiographical, photo-realistic paintings and deadpan text-based one-liners that transform familiar phrases into darkly humorous slogans. He continues to chart a course through the poles of sincerity and irony with his second solo show at de boer, I Know What I Did Last Summer, which features intimate portraits of artist Christine Brache, alongside cheeky fictional scenes from the home of director Brian De Palma, himself a genre-hopping auteur.