LA Art Week Guide by @Art + Arkive

Los Angeles has always been a projection screen for those with enough imagination to fill it. Joan Didion, the oracle of California herself, famously observed that  “a place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest… wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image.” Those who made movies claimed it hardest for almost a century, but the art scene has vied for co-billing ever since Ed Ruscha started painting the Hollywood sign. As this cohort converges on LA for Frieze this week, they will find a city that is now an uncontested, white-hot center for art, both reflecting and predicting all that is now, new, and next in culture. 

For this year’s LA Art Week guide, we’ve compiled advice from some of the iconic LA power players making, shaping, rendering, and loving the city’s art scene – so radically, in fact, that they’ve remade it in their own image.