Free Clinic Teaches Angelenos How to Repair Damaged Art
LOS ANGELES — Art conservation is usually thought of as a specialized practice that happens behind closed doors — tucked away in museum basements or…
Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects Brings Co-Housing to West L.A. with Barrington 1503
✕ The architect Lorcan O’Herlihy is something of a go-to when it comes to designing apartment buildings in Los Angeles. In a city notorious for…
A New Edition of ‘Los Angeles Before the Freeways’ Comes at a Time When L.A. Again Finds Itself at a Crossroads
✕ Los Angeles Before the Freeways: Images of an Era 1850–1950, by Arnold Hylen with Nathan Marsak. Angel City Press at the Los Angeles Public…
Getty Acquires Raymond Pettibon Archive
Raymond Pettibon with David Larsen, “Untitled (Joan had been…)” (mid-1990s), linocut (all images courtesy Getty Research Institute) LOS ANGELES — The Getty announced this week…
10 Shows to See in Los Angeles This March
After the recent frenzy of Art Week here in Los Angeles, this month’s selections focus on community and collaboration, tracing historical and personal networks of…
Jeffrey Gibson’s Venice Biennale Show Is Heading to LA
About a year after becoming the first Native artist to ever singularly represent the United States at the Venice Biennale, Jeffrey Gibson will make his…
Paradise and Precarity Merge in Jessica Bellamy’s Paintings of Los Angeles Life
For Jessica Taylor Bellamy, juxtapositions, transparency, and layers shape a way of working that evokes her family history and notions of home and landscape. Born…
February 2025 Editor’s Letter | Architectural Record
As we were preparing to ship this issue to the printer in early January, the city of Los Angeles erupted in flames. At press time,…
NYC Art Events to Support LA Fire Survivors
Fundraising efforts have sprouted across the United States to support Angelenos displaced amid the unprecedented destruction from the devastating fires over the last 10 days….
How to Help Those Impacted by the L.A. Wildfires
✕ As of this writing, more than 170,000 Los Angeles County residents are under evacuation orders and warnings. The Palisades fire, the first and largest…