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.
David Lynch: LA
Pace 19 September to 24 October 2026
For the first presentation of David Lynch’s work in his home city since his passing in 2025, Pace will present an exhibition of photographs at its Los Angeles gallery, placing five of Lynch’s photographic series together for the first time. Unraveling the myths and mysteries of LA, and its emotional landscape, Lynch holds close to the dream of the city and its archetypes: the ingenue, the shapeshifter, the beauty and darkness - defining atmosphere and characteristics that are physical and psychological.
The Other Art Fair Los Angeles
Barker Hangar Santa Monica 24-27 September, 2026
This year’s fair will support 63% women-identifying and 46% Los Angeles-based exhibitors representing 14 countries, from Australia to Colombia, and Greece to South Korea. New to this edition, The Other Open is an artist-designed mini golf course, part sculpture, part installation, and fully interactive. Three female artists are designing unique courses: local artist Suze Riley, Isabel Arenda, and Heather Bellino. Another site-specific installation by Adam Rose and Richard Hoffman, TP Catalog - On Loan from The British Museum, a hand-painted restroom featuring a row of gold-framed toilet-paper transfers, each depicting an artifact that may itself have been acquired by The British Museum. From the playful to the immersive, visitors can leave a written fortune in artist Gina Su's oversized ceramic fortune cookie, Leave a Fortune, Take a Fortune, and take one left behind by a stranger. Also look for the Los Angeles-based Lisa Tse, recipient of its Fall 2026 New Futures award, who will exhibit her works in oil and mixed media.
Objective Truths
Roberts Projects 19 September to 24 October 2026
This group exhibition features artists from the gallery’s program including Aaron Glasson, Chris Johanson, Suchitra Mattai, Evan Nesbit, Wendy Red Star and Brenna Youngblood, among others. Responding to the changing conditions of the 21st century, works in the exhibition bridge the distance between representation and non-representation by reconfiguring color, light, material and texture as tools for rendering ineffable sensibilities. In tandem with the artists’ diverse approaches is a shared engagement with phenomenology and the malleability of meaning, centering the process of introspection and interpretation above reaching conclusive outcomes.
John Baldessari Sculptures
Sprüth Magers LA until 24 October 2026
Baldessari is widely celebrated for his groundbreaking work with language, photography, and conceptual art, whose influence shaped generations of contemporary artists. This new exhibition showcases a lesser-known side of his practice: sculpture. Baldessari's key three-dimensional works including giant ears, eyebrow reliefs, anthropomorphic furniture, and playful experiments with scale, reveal how the artist extended his signature humor and visual wit beyond the frame and into physical space. Sculptures including Beethoven's Trumpet (with Ear) (2007), an interactive work reproducing the deaf composer’s listening device and a massive, oversized ear, which makes sound as visitors approach, along with Ear Sofa and Nose Sconces with Flowers (2009). To see another side of the artist, fans can head to Cut in the Beverly Wilshire to view pieces from Baldessari’s W/Studio 54 Series - made with archival lightjet print laminated with lexan and mounted on dibond, acrylic paint.
Baldessari is widely celebrated for his groundbreaking work with language, photography, and conceptual art, whose influence shaped generations of contemporary artists. This new exhibition showcases a lesser-known side of his practice: sculpture. Baldessari's key three-dimensional works including giant ears, eyebrow reliefs, anthropomorphic furniture, and playful experiments with scale, reveal how the artist extended his signature humor and visual wit beyond the frame and into physical space. Sculptures including Beethoven's Trumpet (with Ear) (2007), an interactive work reproducing the deaf composer’s listening device and a massive, oversized ear, which makes sound as visitors approach, along with Ear Sofa and Nose Sconces with Flowers (2009). To see another side of the artist, fans can head to Cut in the Beverly Wilshire to view pieces from Baldessari’s W/Studio 54 Series - made with archival lightjet print laminated with lexan and mounted on dibond, acrylic paint.
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.
the sound i saw
David Zwirner, 19 September to 31 October, 2026
An exhibition of photographs by Roy DeCarava (1919–2009) was curated by Ebony L. Haynes at the gallery’s Melrose Hill location, focuses on his unwavering exploration of the relationship between the visual and the aural created between the late 1940s and the 1960s. First exhibited at the Studio Museum in Harlem in 1983, this body of work juxtaposes images of everyday life in New York City from deliverymen working, children playing, and riders waiting for the train, with images of jazz musicians, glimpsed both mid-set and off-stage in moments of repose. These tonally rich silver gelatin photographs are “images for the head and for the heart.” Presented in an adjacent gallery will be a listening room inspired by the artist’s personal playlists and favorite jazz albums.
An exhibition of photographs by Roy DeCarava (1919–2009) was curated by Ebony L. Haynes at the gallery’s Melrose Hill location, focuses on his unwavering exploration of the relationship between the visual and the aural created between the late 1940s and the 1960s. First exhibited at the Studio Museum in Harlem in 1983, this body of work juxtaposes images of everyday life in New York City from deliverymen working, children playing, and riders waiting for the train, with images of jazz musicians, glimpsed both mid-set and off-stage in moments of repose. These tonally rich silver gelatin photographs are “images for the head and for the heart.” Presented in an adjacent gallery will be a listening room inspired by the artist’s personal playlists and favorite jazz albums.
The Hour of the Pearl
Megan Mulrooney Gallery September 12 to 24 October, 2026
This is Jonathan Ryan’s first exhibit with the gallery and a new chapter in his career. The artist began as an observational painter, working along the Mississippi River until relocating to Los Angeles, and moving away from the literal landscape. Rock formations and industrial structures became the building blocks for imagined worlds that feel ancient and futuristic at once. Sand and pulverized granite are worked directly into the paint, giving his surfaces a physical connection to the earthen forms they depict. Ryan introduces a visual language that draws from archaic architecture and geological formations as it does the pixelated imagery of 1980s video games.
This is Jonathan Ryan’s first exhibit with the gallery and a new chapter in his career. The artist began as an observational painter, working along the Mississippi River until relocating to Los Angeles, and moving away from the literal landscape. Rock formations and industrial structures became the building blocks for imagined worlds that feel ancient and futuristic at once. Sand and pulverized granite are worked directly into the paint, giving his surfaces a physical connection to the earthen forms they depict. Ryan introduces a visual language that draws from archaic architecture and geological formations as it does the pixelated imagery of 1980s video games.
Hothouse
Karma from 18 September to 24 October, 2026
For his debut solo exhibition in Los Angeles, Brooklyn-based Randy Wray presents new oil-on-linen paintings from an ongoing body of work that spans the past decade of his practice. For Wray, the studio is a hothouse: an environment teeming with growth, where color, form, and texture progressively overcome the blankness of the canvas. His intuitive process follows a logic akin to those of biological and geological phenomena suggested by his compositions, which evoke mitosis, proliferating moss, the slow erosion of rock, and other organic transformations.
OLYMPIA
For his debut solo exhibition in Los Angeles, Brooklyn-based Randy Wray presents new oil-on-linen paintings from an ongoing body of work that spans the past decade of his practice. For Wray, the studio is a hothouse: an environment teeming with growth, where color, form, and texture progressively overcome the blankness of the canvas. His intuitive process follows a logic akin to those of biological and geological phenomena suggested by his compositions, which evoke mitosis, proliferating moss, the slow erosion of rock, and other organic transformations.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
Ed Moses: Moses @ 100
William Turner Gallery until 5 September 2026
Located inside Bergamot Station in Santa Monica, the William Turner Gallery exhibition of works by Ed Moses marks the centennial of the artist’s birth in Long Beach, CA. The exhibition brings together a focused selection of material that underscore the restless experimentation and continual reinvention that defined Moses’ practice for more than seven decades, mainly from his Venice, CA studio.
Eileen Cowin: Between Panic and Paradise
Located inside Bergamot Station in Santa Monica, the William Turner Gallery exhibition of works by Ed Moses marks the centennial of the artist’s birth in Long Beach, CA. The exhibition brings together a focused selection of material that underscore the restless experimentation and continual reinvention that defined Moses’ practice for more than seven decades, mainly from his Venice, CA studio.
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.
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.
A Gaze Through Time: Contemporary Reflections on Memory and History
ADVOCARTSY until 26 September 2026
To inaugurate the new gallery space in Downtown Los Angeles, A Gaze Through Time brings together artists whose practices examine the ways in which memory is preserved, transformed, and reimagined across time. Spanning personal recollection, migration, mythology, political critique, and historical representation, the exhibition considers memory not as a fixed archive, but as a dynamic force through which the past continually informs the present.
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.
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.
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.
Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind
The Broad from 23 May until 11 October 2026
Yoko Ono, the visionary artist, musician, and activist whose work has shaped contemporary culture for more than seven decades, will be celebrated at her first solo museum exhibition in Southern California. Materials from the artist’s international campaigns for peace and displays of anti-war activism will also be on view, such as Acorn Event (1968) and Bed Peace (1969), projects done in collaboration with her late husband, John Lennon.
Organized in collaboration with Tate Modern, London, visitors will be invited to directly participate in many of Ono’s works that transform simple acts into expressions of peace and connection. The Broad’s olive trees on East West Bank Plaza will become Wish Trees for Los Angeles, a key installation (first realized in 1996 at Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica), inviting audiences to tie their own wishes to the tree branches in a living expression of hope in the city.
Yoko Ono, the visionary artist, musician, and activist whose work has shaped contemporary culture for more than seven decades, will be celebrated at her first solo museum exhibition in Southern California. Materials from the artist’s international campaigns for peace and displays of anti-war activism will also be on view, such as Acorn Event (1968) and Bed Peace (1969), projects done in collaboration with her late husband, John Lennon.
Organized in collaboration with Tate Modern, London, visitors will be invited to directly participate in many of Ono’s works that transform simple acts into expressions of peace and connection. The Broad’s olive trees on East West Bank Plaza will become Wish Trees for Los Angeles, a key installation (first realized in 1996 at Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica), inviting audiences to tie their own wishes to the tree branches in a living expression of hope in the city.
September 28, 2026
