Shana Nys Dambrot

Art Los Angeles Contemporary (ALAC to its friends) first came into being a decade ago, in response to the need for a fair spotlighting the significant contributions of L.A. to the international art world, fostering a unique mix of emerging and established voices. This year, the fair's date was moved up to coincide with Frieze Week but organizers have helpfully planned their opening-night party for Wednesday, so as not to put too much pressure on your art fair evenings’ itinerary....

Meet an Artist is an ongoing series of Q&As with a diverse selection of eclectic and dynamic contemporary artists. This week it’s Cathy Immordino, whose photo-based art works not only combine multiple sets of images, but multiple stories from her personal and family history, and a range of materials and presentations to achieve a total archive of emotionally charged experiences that speak to the complexities of the human condition....

An already supersaturated Frieze Week art fairs calendar got a little bit extra this week, as word reached us that New York’s SPRING/BREAK Art Show has planned a fresh iteration in Los Angeles, its first outside the New York area. It runs in DTLA on Feb. 15-17....

For Frieze Week a preponderance of L.A. galleries are bringing extra panache to their own programs in anticipation of the international influx of art lovers. Among the most L.A.-forward, count “Local: Gemini G.E.L. Collaborations With Los Angeles Artists,” opening on Feb. 11, and anchoring an open house studio event on Feb. 16....

As with memory and history, sometimes with a photograph it’s all about what isn’t there — or, in this case, who. In Alejandro Cartagena’s new exhibition at Kopeikin Gallery in Culver City, the artist takes a conceptual approach to the modification of vintage and vernacular photographs that sees the main subjects painstakingly excised....

Legendary street and gallery artist Kelly “RISK” Graval is upping the ante on his curatorial residency at the Mayfair Hotel this weekend. For one night and one day only, he’ll be selling works from his personal archive of more than a decade....

On Friday morning, Otis College released its findings for the 2019 Otis Report on the Creative Economy, and, as L.A. County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas put it at Friday morning’s official presentation releasing the report, it “illustrates and quantifies what we’ve known to be instinctively true.” Namely, that the arts are more than just essential to our society — they are essential to our economy as well....

Meet an Artist is an ongoing series of Q&As with a diverse selection of eclectic and dynamic contemporary artists. This week it’s Leonard Greco, a painter and sculptor who channels a neo-baroque aesthetic in his epic mythological scenes and operatic characters, deploying art history in the service of analyzing experiences of life, sexuality and the visceral, thorny politics of our society....

"Time Is Running Out of Time: Experimental Film and Video From the L.A. Rebellion and Today" examines the innovation and legacy of black video artists active in Los Angeles in the 1960s through '80s, as well as their influence on subsequent generations....

"Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power 1963-1983" will be on view at the Broad in downtown from March 23 to Sept. 1. Tickets go on sale Friday, Feb. 1, at noon....