This November, plan a trip to Pasadena for The Norton Simon exhibit of Manet’s ‘Execution of Maximilian’ on view from the National Gallery London, and then for a complete 180, visit the Robert Indiana LOVE sculpture unveiling after 21 November. On the heels of the Ron Howard movie that debuted at the 2026 Cannes film festival on legendary photographer Richard Avedon, Gagosian Beverly Hills shares rare images of Hollywood celebrities and political figures with ties to Tinseltown. In West Hollywood, Gemini G.E.L. celebrated 60 years at its iconic Frank Gehry designed building, where Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, David Hockney and Ed Ruscha, among others have produced shows. Downtown, The Broad also draws from 60 years of archival works from Andy Warhol to Mickalene Thomas to answer the question, ‘Has the myth been shattered’ by local artist Guadalupe Rosales who looks back at the 1992 LA riots.
Los Angeles Art Exhibitions: what to see in November 2026
Making History: Manet’s ‘Execution of Maximilian’
The Norton Simon Museum 13 November 2026 – 1 March 2027
Over from the National Gallery, London, this exhibition is centered around the French artist’s most ambitious paintings, made all the more compelling by its now-fragmentary condition.The second of five versions (four paintings and one print) that Manet created, this monumental work depicts the death by firing squad of Austrian archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, the short-lived emperor of Mexico, at the hands of forces loyal to ousted Mexican president Benito Juárez in 1867. The execution—along with that of his generals Tomás Mejía and Miguel Miramón—shocked Europe, where many, including Manet, blamed French emperor Napoleon III, who had enticed Maximilian to take the throne.
Dorr Bothwell: In Her Mind’s Eye
ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena until 24 April, 2027
This exhibition, celebrating the extraordinary life and work of California Surrealist artist, designer and educator Dorr Bothwell (1902–2000), marks the first comprehensive survey of her work. Co-organized by the Frances Loeb ArtCenter, Vassar College, in the College’s flagship space, the Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery. Nearly 20 years in the making, this exhibit features more than 100 works spanning six decades of Bothwell’s artistic life. Focusing on her paintings and prints while also highlighting her work as a West Coast designer, art teacher, and gallery founder, the exhibition includes paintings, drawings, prints, ceramics, textiles and selected ephemera, demonstrating the artist’s lifelong practice as a pioneering, creative force.
Richard Avedon’s Hollywood
Gagosian from 4 November until 19 December 2026
The legendary photographer’s defining portraits of the stars, filmmakers, and cultural figures who shaped the silver screen in a major exhibition with more than 150 photographs spanning over half a century of Avedon’s career, the exhibition offers a lens on a Hollywood photographer’s point of view of celebrities and politicians in Hollywood — exploring not only the glamour of the industry, but also its influence and power dynamics in politics. Some of the photographer’s most iconic portraits include rarely seen images of Marilyn Monroe, Katharine Hepburn, Clint Eastwood, Al Pacino, Sharon Stone, John Ford, and Steven Spielberg.
Has the myth been shattered
The Broad 21 November until 4 April 2027
This group exhibition brings together work from six decades of artists who use the media itself as material, ranging from protest pamphlets and archival imagery to depictions of American politicians. Curated by The Broad's Assistant Curator Jen Vanegas Rocha, it draws from The Broad's collection from established archive artists such as Barbara Kruger and Andy Warhol to newer acquisitions by Mickalene Thomas. The title is from another recent acquisition by Los Angeles-based artist Guadalupe Rosales. The work sets a Los Angeles Times front page, published after the 1992 Los Angeles riots, behind a two-way mirror lit with shifting LED color. As the light changes, the paper's headlines "Seeing Ourselves" and "Has the Myth Been Shattered?" glow back at the viewer, reflecting a question that remains unanswered.
(Almost) Every Year: Sixty Years of Printmaking at Gemini G.E.L
Gemini G.E.L. until January 2027
Located in a Frank Gehry-designed home on Melrose Avenue, the legendary artists' workshop in West Hollywood, is celebrating its 60-year-anniversary of printmaking.
Curated by the renowned Helen Molesworth and Susan Dackerman, the exhibition marks the first time in Gemini's history that external curators have been invited to interpret its six decades of work, which also marks the first curatorial collaboration between Molesworth and Dackerman. The pair selected works from nearly every year of Gemini's history, which includes generations of famous Gemini artists from Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, David Hockney and Ed Ruscha, to Julie Mehretu, Tacita Dean and Analia Saban, absorbed not only Los Angeles' creative energy but also one another's boundary pushing ideas, creating a continuum of artistic exchange across six decades.
Dark Forest, Silver Moon
The Future Perfect until January 2027
This solo exhibition by the California-based sculptor Ian Collings can be viewed The Future Perfect’s Goldwyn House in Los Angeles. The new body of work marks Collings' return to wood. It includes carved root burls, tree cavities and cast tin, along with sculptural forms, cabinets and lighting that explore how light and shadow change form and perception under moonlight.
Milano Chow: Fantasy Street and Deborah Turbeville: The Lifted Veil
Hollyhock House until 20 December 2026
Fantasy Street is an exhibition of new works on paper in two and three dimensions by Los Angeles-based artist Milano Chow. For this project, Chow mined the photo archives of the Los Angeles Public Library, drawing on images of movie palaces, shop windows, and apartment buildings coexisting with the construction of Hollyhock House to conjure an invented cast of buildings and structures that look documentary but exist nowhere. Alongside her work, Chow has curated The Lifted Veil, an exhibition of photographs by Deborah Turbeville
(1932-2013), who is widely recognized for her work that appeared in fashion campaigns and publications such as Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, and Vanity Fair. With a background in dance and theater and a passion for film and literature, Turbeville brought an avant-garde sensibility to fashion photography.
Social Housing: Vienna—Los Angeles
MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House until 17 January 2027
For the MAK Center’ final exhibition of 2026, this timely presentation brings together case studies from both cities to examine the relationship between architecture, housing policy, and civic responsibility. Schindler House was designed in 1922 by Austrian émigré architect R.M. Schindler as an experiment in cooperative living. Its construction coincided with the emergence of Red Vienna, when the city began developing the municipally supported housing system that would transform Vienna over the following century. These parallel experiments in collective life provide a historical frame for considering the sharply different trajectories the two cities have followed: Vienna’s sustained public investment in housing alongside the largely market-driven conditions that have shaped Los Angeles.
ENTROPY
Old Fire Station #6 in Angelino Heights until 13 December 2026
Angela Anh Nguyen’s site-specific installation will address the collective experience of the 2025 Eaton and Palisades Fires. The works consist of a large-scale sculpture comprised of a series of interlinking tufted rugs encased in vinyl that will scale the exterior wall of the firehouse. The word entropy is spelled out across seven ascending segments, with each segment layering a letter of the word against a variety of images associated with the fires drawn from online postings, message boards, and other digital media. The Old Fire Station #6 is a designated Historic-Cultural Monument built in 1929, that currently serves as the headquarters of the Central City Action Committee, a non-profit agency that provides youth services for low-income families.
Kenturah Davis: Rest Stops
Crenshaw Dairy Mart until 15 November 2026
For its first collaboration, Destination Crenshaw and Crenshaw Dairy Mart’s exhibition is an ongoing garden initiative created in response to the Eaton Fire. For Rest Stops, Davis envisions a series of sensory gardens offering moments of rest and renewal amid the scorched landscape. Inspired by Black quilting traditions, the project stitches together a network of green spaces designed to heal both land and community. This exhibition of the artist's prototypes and drawings reimagining public and private thresholds across Altadena, offering resilient, restorative spaces which support soil remediation and lay the groundwork for restoring the natural habitats that have long defined Altadena's foothills.
Oliver Lee Jackson
Lisson until 7 November 2026
This is the last chance to see the gallery's first Los Angeles exhibition of the 90-year-old painter, sculptor, and printmaker. A Bay Area resident based in Oakland, Jackson builds his compositions around the human figure, a recurring presence that underpins his work’s structure. This presentation brings together works spanning several decades of his practice from paintings to a group of marble and mixed media sculptures. His sculptural output, a lesser-known but vital aspect of his oeuvre, was last seen in a monumental commission of metal figures for New York’s High Line in 2024, while these forms are being presented publicly for the first time.
Gary Cannone
FERNBERGER, Melrose Hill, 13 November until 19 December 2027
Gary Cannone’s recent acrylic paintings on wood panel possess a distinctly human scale: small enough to rest in the artist’s lap, where they are typically painted, in wheelchair as a result of multiple sclerosis. They depict built environments such as architectural structures, interiors, ramps, and furniture, that are organized according to a spatial logic that is at once familiar and impossible. Recalling the recursive architecture of M.C. Escher, Cannone’s compositions resist resolution: stairways, planes, and passages appear coherent at first glance, only to undermine themselves upon sustained looking.
Meridian
DIE PLEK until 10 January 2026
DIE PLEK (The Place) is located in the iconic modernist Rudolph M. Schindler ‘Modern Creators’ building on Holloway Drive in West Hollywood. Meridian is Keegan Holden’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles. Comprising five large-format, limited-edition photographic works, he explores the space between artistic intention and viewer interpretation. Beginning with the visual language of documentary photography, Holden pushes the photograph beyond its expected role as an objective record of a place, person, thing or event, questioning the relationship between what an image presents and what it allows us to perceive.
Perishable Dimension
839 until 19 December 2026
This marks LA artist Olivia Gibian’s second solo exhibition at the gallery, where she explores the topography and disorientation of city life in Los Angeles. Gibian develops these works in stages. She first paints with cold-process dyes on large-scale canvas and linen, applying color and washing it away, cropping and stretching the fabric to highlight moments of interest. The artist then builds up the surface with oil paints—levels of rich pigment atop the soft saturation of the pictorial ground. The results are properly atmospheric, airborne landscapes tilting toward abstraction. There is a precision to the openness of these beautiful works.
Sinners: Sounds That Summon
The California African American Museum (CAAM) until 14 March 2027
The first museum exhibition devoted to Ryan Coogler and Proximity Media’s Sinners from Warner Bros. Pictures. – the film that made Academy Awards history with a record 16 nominations and won four Oscars. The exhibition revisits the fan-favorite Club Juke sequence, where music opens a portal across generations, from traditional African ritual to present-day street dance. Co-organized by CAAM and Warner Bros. Archives, the exhibition brings together objects from the film and the history. Featuring Preacher Boy’s guitar, Smoke and Stack’s costumes, and the Club Juke sign. Three sections: Music Makes Sound, Music Makes Movement, and Music Makes Worlds, explore the histories carried by instruments, dance as cultural memory, and music’s role in shaping language, fashion, identity, and community.
Gilt and Shadow: The Art of Neil Lane
MOCA PDC Until 4 December, 2026
For more than half a century, Neil Lane is best known as a celebrated vintage-meets-modern jewelry designer to the A-list stars. But since childhood, Lane has also been quietly making art - a practice that has run parallel to his glittering red carpet career for decades. This West Hollywood exhibition is Lane’s first public showing. In 1990s, following the death of a loved one from AIDS, the loss prompted a sustained return to studio work, including a monumental multi-canvas installation memorializing the final period of that person’s life. This installation includes complex layers of drawing, ink color manipulation, and reconstructed self-portrait imagery laid beneath metallic leaf of gold, silver, and copper. The surfaces are physically damaged, then repaired in precious metals, a process analogous to the Japanese tradition of Kintsugi.
Home of the Future
LACMA until 14 March, 2027
Two exhibitions at LACMA explore design as an agent of social, political, and economic transformation in modern domestic life: Home of the Future, 1925-1985; and Designing Domestic Utopias, and The Kitchen and Its Discontents. Over the course of the 20th century, Americans were offered an astonishing array of domestic tomorrows: self-cleaning kitchens, plastic houses assembled in a day, push button appliances, and desktop computers all shaping aspirations about how to live. With more than 260 architectural models, drawings, photographs, films, paintings, furniture, and objects ranging from sinks to televisions, this exhibit explores the American home of tomorrow.
Instante/revelación: Moments in Mexican Photography
GETTY until 3 January 2026
This exhibition features works by 13 prominent photographers, who have shaped Mexico’s photographic history including Lola Álvarez Bravo, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Héctor García, Graciela Iturbide, and Pablo Ortiz Monasterio, alongside key related publications. The photographs, donated by Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser to the Getty Museum over the past 25 years, record the instantes y revelaciones (instants and revelations) of a remarkable century of Mexican creativity.
Every Minute Is History: Five Views of Los Angeles
GETTY until 3 January 2026
Also at the Getty, the work of five photographers whose singular approaches to the medium have expanded traditional representations of Chicano/a communities in Los Angeles during the second half of the 20th century. Drawing from social documentary practices, staged scenes, fashion and the popular press, these artists - Laura Aguilar, Reynaldo Rivera, George Rodriguez, Patssi Valdez, and Ricardo Valverde, pushed the medium in new directions.
Huguette Caland: A Life in a Few Lines and Mavis Pusey: Mobile Images
Hammer Museum until 28 February 2027
Making its US premiere, Huguette Caland, A Life in a Few Lines features approximately 150 drawings, paintings, sculptures and textiles alongside archival materials and ephemera from the Lebanese artist. This show presents an artist deeply connected to community, communication, and the idea of home. It also reveals her defiance of social and sexual norms in sensual and vibrant works that explore notions of humor, language, gender, aging and physicality. Mavis Pusey: Mobile Images marks the first major museum survey on the West Coast dedicated to the work and life of the Jamaican-born abstract artist. An important figure in geometric abstraction, Pusey created rich abstract paintings and works on paper that reflect her wide-ranging engagement with fashion, printmaking, music, and the urban environments in which she lived. Featuring over 60 artworks from her prolific 50-year career, the exhibition is a comprehensive exploration of Pusey’s unique visual language.
Democracy Sessions
MOCA, REDCAT, and CalArts from 3 October to 3 November 2026
This citywide festival brings together 10 of Los Angeles’ experimental arts organizations for a month of art, music, performance and community-driven programming across the city. Led by LA orchestral collective Wild Up, and developed with MOCA, REDCAT and CalArts, the festival includes additional programming from the Performance Art Museum, Clockshop, 2220 Arts + Archives, Human Resources and Living Earth. Timed around the midterm elections, the larger idea is to explore how music and art can create spaces for gathering, listening and collective participation. It’s also an interesting snapshot of LA’s decentralized creative scene working in tandem with organizations of different sizes coming together around one citywide program.
And, don’t miss Venezuelan artist Alexander Apóstol’s Regime: Dramatis Personae at MOCA with black-and-white portraits of archetypal political roles modeled by LGBTQ+ activists in Caracas.
The Art of the Album: The Photography of Linda McCartney
Wrensilva Los Angeles, until February 2027
This is the only installation in the US currently devoted solely to Linda McCartney's music photography, paired with the vinyl records that immortalized them, alongside a Wrensilva console where you can play the records from The Beatles, The Cimarons, Denny Laine, Paul McCartney, The Pretenders, Professor Longhair, and Neil Young. Photography connected with all facets of McCartney’s career and life. The images on display at Wrensilva were used on album covers, and while many were the result of official commissions from record labels, some were personal snapshots.
The School of Los Angeles: Herb Ritts, Greg Gorman, and Matthew Rolston
Fahey Klein from 1 October to 28 November 2026
This exhibition examines seminal work by photographers Herb Ritts, Greg Gorman, and Matthew Rolston, three artists who took root in Southern California in the late 1970s and developed distinct approaches to photographing personalities. Together, they reimagined the traditions of glamour and portraiture and created a visual language that continues to influence how fame, aspiration, identity, and beauty are pictured today. They lived and breathed the culture they photographed from up-and-coming artists to Madonna, Diana Ross, Richard Gere, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Andy Warhol at L.A. Eyeworks.
TOUCHPOINTS
Lola Gallery, through 8 November 2026
As part of the opening festivities of LA Design Week/end (founded by Wallpaper* 400 creative Holland Denvir), Lola Gallery in Chinatown presents TOUCHPOINTS - a group show featuring the work of Los Angeles-based artists Amiee Byrne, Hartwick Hanson, Lauren Miranda, Meg Jorgenson, and Michael Laed. The artists are working in ceramic, textile, and wood, while celebrating human connection in art and design.
Night Window: David Smith Spray Paintings
Hauser & Wirth West Hollywood until 16 January 2027
Long considered the sculptor most closely associated with abstract expressionism, David Smith (1906 – 1965) was a restless polymath for whom sculpture, drawing and painting formed a single creative current. This is an exhibition devoted to his pioneering Sprays, and rarely seen two-dimensional works that embody the artist’s gift for daring, even startling innovations of form and color, space and time, in every medium he chose. Over his 33-year career, Smith acquired a hands-on mastery of metal that would make him the first known American artist to weld steel into sculpture.
Gabriel Slavitt
Babst Gallery until November 7, 2026
For this solo exhibition of new works by Gabriel Slavitt, the title of the exhibition, ‘Dancing in the Pocket,’ is a term coined by NFL commentators to describe the intricate footwork of a quarterback within the protected space created by the offensive line. For the artist, this moment is psychological as much as it is physical: complete engagement between mind and body, person and environment, synthesizing analysis and technique. It is striving to be totally present. And not just once, but endlessly. The quarterback steps into the pocket in every single play of the game, regardless of success or failure.
Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Exposition Park
Opening 22 September 2026
Co-founded by George Lucas and Mellody Hobson, the museum is encompassing everything from prehistoric cave paintings to today’s screen art. The spaceship structure is spanning over 30 galleries – holding works from Sargent to Wyeth, while exploring and celebrating the power of visual storytelling to inspire and forge community. Built in Los Angeles’s Exposition Park, the Museum was designed by Ma Yansong of MAD with Stantec to embody the emotional power of narrative art, creating a sense of wonder, possibility, and connection to something larger than ourselves. The building is integrated into a new 11-acre campus and a park designed by Mia Lehrer of Studio-MLA: a green, multilayered gathering place for local communities and an extraordinary programming resource that brings learning and engagement outdoors. And, a must stop is the mid-century influenced Skywalker Café designed by Rockwell Group, with sculptural architectural forms, adding another work of art to the venue.
FILM by Tacita Dean
MAF until 2 January 2027
For the US debut of FILM by Berlin and Los Angeles-based artist Tacita Dean, the installation is an homage to analog filmmaking, utilizing techniques that have been employed since the earliest days of the medium. First presented in 2011 for the Tate Modern's Turbine Hall, this silent, 35mm film will be projected onto a 31-foot-tall monolith within MAF's Theater Gallery. Dean is perhaps best known for her 16mm and 35mm film works that treat time, memory, light, and chance as subject matter, and reflect the artists belief that analog offers something deeply embodied and physical that digital cannot replace.
OLYMPIA
Perrotin, 18 September until 7 November, 2026
The City of Angels is in the cross-hairs of Paul Pfeiffer’s canny examination of media, spectacle, architecture, and the body. As LA prepares for its LA28 Olympics, the artist is building on the momentum of his acclaimed 2023-24 MOCA retrospective, and revisits his conceptual million-seat stadium project, imagining two of Los Angeles’s iconic venues, LA Memorial Coliseum and SoFi Stadium - a provocative representation of spectatorship in the age of social media. The architectural renderings inspired by Gothic and Renaissance, are recast as paired symbols of LA’s past and future. In addition, new sculptures from Pfeiffer’s Incarnator series that include fragments of Justin Bieber’s body (recognizable from his tattoos) are crafted in collaboration with traditional skilled carvers from the Seville region of Spain.
Path Discovery by Vinnie Hager
Route 66, Santa Monica Blvd, Until November 2026
In a first-of-its-kind public collaboration, The Cities of West Hollywood, Beverly Hills, and Santa Monica are coming together for a shared public art initiative celebrating this historic highway’s Centennial milestone. This summer into the late fall, all three cities will present artist Hager’s vibrant series of graphic vinyl wraps on street poles in West Hollywood and Santa Monica, and as art banners along Santa Monica Boulevard in Beverly Hills. Featuring customized Route 66 shields and colorful motifs inspired by the joy of exploration, the project brings a unified artistic experience to one of Southern California’s most iconic corridors. Along the way, Luciana Abait’s Road Trip, a temporary vinyl mural located at 8315 Santa Monica Boulevard reimagines the Route 66 landscape, on view through November 2026; along with Sylke Meyer’s Past Tense / Future Perfect temporary sculpture at Plummer Park, captures the motion, mythology, and memory of Route 66 through a curved fiberglass camera obscura.
Paul R. Williams: An Architect Considered
USC Fisher Museum of Art from 18 August 2026 until 13 March 2027
Highlighting 35 housing projects from Williams’s 60-year career, the show emphasizes the designer’s sustained commitment to innovative, dignified solutions for collective living during a period of rapid urbanization. Organized jointly by the USC School of Architecture and the USC Fisher Museum of Art, this exhibition examines Williams’s major contributions to modern multifamily housing as the first AIA-certified Black architect west of the Mississippi River. It pairs original archival drawings with newly commissioned works by contemporary artists and architects. This also comes on the heels of a new book, Regarding Paul R. Williams: A Photographer's View of a Trailblazing Architect photographed by Janna Ireland, published by Angel City Press at Los Angeles Public Library.
Eileen Cowin: Between Panic and Paradise
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) from 23 August 2026 to 3 January 2027
This is the Los Angeles–based artist’s first major museum exhibition. Often blurring the distinction between nonfiction and fiction, for more than 50 years, Cowin’s provocative photography and video works have explored romance and confrontation, the personal and the political, and the monotony and mystery of daily life.
Marilyn Monroe: Hollywood Icon
Academy Museum until 28 February 2027
To honour 100 years of the on-screen goddess, hundreds of newly unveiled or rarely seen images, posters, letters, artifacts, and memorabilia are on display of the blond bombshell that still haunt and fascinate. This exhibition offers unique insight into her agency in becoming a Hollywood icon including many costumes from her most famous films.
Lauren Halsley’s sculpture garden
South Central LA, permanent
Artist Lauren Halsey’s public sculpture park and garden in South Central LA is now open to the public. Architecture studio Current Interests, led by Mira Henry and Matthew Au, served as the architectural collaborators on the project. Entitled sister dreamer lauren halsey’s architectural ode to tha surge n splurge of south central los angeles, the project will serve as a living shrine and tribute to the neighborhood that Halsey and her family have called home for several generations, with dedicated space for a full slate of programming led by Halsey's Summaeverythang Community Center.
Free and Queer: Black Californian Roots of Gay Liberation
California African American Museum, until 28 February 2027
This exhibit centers Los Angeles as a foundational site of Black queer cultural power, shaped through networks of resistance across neighborhoods, institutions, and grassroots communities. Curated by Susan D. Anderson, the exhibition foregrounds the role of Black queer cultural labor, bringing into focus a history that has often been left out of both mainstream LGBTQ+ narratives and dominant accounts of the civil rights movement. At a moment when queer history and representation are under renewed political pressure, the exhibition feels especially timely and urgent.
The AIDS Monument
West Hollywood Park, permanent
Big Art. Bigger Dreams.
Downtown LA, until 2028
DTLA Alliance, has partnered with Street Art for Mankind (SAM) and the City of Los Angeles to create a public art museum launching in real time starting with three massive murals by acclaimed LA-based artists. With support from the Coca-Cola Company, a total of 12 large-scale works will be created that will reimagine downtown’s skyline and streetscape by 2028 when the city is set to host the Olympic Games.
Each mural celebrates global values of sustainability, education, and women’s empowerment, turning walls into landmarks. David Flores is creating a massive, vibrant mural on the Los Angeles Athletic Club (LAAC) depicting a skateboarding scene, Emily Ding is bringing to life a powerful and elegant mural of two women walking arm-in-arm on the Figueroa Eight while Shamsia Hassani is crafting a poetic triptych on The Bloc.
Intuit Dome
Inglewood, permanent
One of the most exciting art collections to hit Los Angeles can be found at the new home for the LA Clippers in Inglewood. The cutting-edge sports venue recently unveiled the monumental, site-specific, outdoor artworks commissioned for the Intuit Dome which opens to the public this August. The $11 million public art collection features a collection of globally recognised artists, selected by Ruth Berson, former deputy director of curatorial affairs at SFMOMA, who have deep ties to Los Angeles and intertwine their artistic talents with sports.
Glenn Kaino’s massive sculpture Sails, made of painted steel and wood looms in the form of the clipper ships that connected the world via the ocean’s trade routes. In this ship, basketball is the cultural wind that can connect us all.
Michael Massenburg’s mural of printed porcelain enamel on steel panel features figures of basketball, tennis, and soccer players, singers, musicians, and dancers, titled Cultural Playground expresses the artist’s belief that 'the two most profound things that unite people are the arts and sports.'
Jennifer Steinkamp’s digital artwork Swoosh, uses the entire surface of the Intuit Dome, designed by the architectural firm AECOM, with five animations will transform the surface of the dome and light up the sky with geometric panels.
Patrick Martinez’s sculpture Same Boat uses a neon sign to create an image that reproduces a statement by the late Civil Rights leader Whitney M. Young: “We may have all come on different ships but we’re in the same boat now.”
On a wall adjacent to Same Boat, you will find Kyungmi Shin’s stained-glass mosaic with stainless steel tracery, Spring to Life. For this work, Shin drew inspiration from Centinela Springs, the now-vanished water source in South Los Angeles that once supported the Tongva people and the land they cultivated. (If you would like to see more of Shin’s work, the artist has a solo exhibition at Craft Contemporary until 8, September 2024.)
The Dome opening features an exhibition of photographs by Catherine Opie (on loan from MOCA) evoking the experience of community. “We designed Intuit Dome to be a place that brings people together,” said Gillian Zucker, CEO of Halo Sports & Entertainment. “When it came to our public art, we wanted to deliver a collection that is as compelling to people well versed in art as it is to a novice viewer. We are eager to make these unique works, from these amazing artists, available to everyone.”
Mineo Mizuno: Homage to Nature
The Huntington, Pasadena, until 25 May 2029
The Huntington holds a library with British medieval manuscripts, including the 15th-century Ellesmere tome of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales; 16 themed gardens with more than 83,000 living plants; an art museum and more.
In the main garden area on the vast grounds, Mineo Mizuno’s sculpture celebrates the beauty of wood in its natural state and emphasises its potential as a reusable and renewable resource. This site-specific work explores the fragility of the Earth’s ecosystem, as well as the destruction of the forest and its potential for regeneration.