Some of this year’s standout exhibitions are nevertheless on exhibit at museums at this quite second (like “Inspiring Walt Disney,” which just snuck in in advance of the conclusion of the yr and therefore eluded this record), but we’re usually contemplating about what is just on the horizon. A main museum expansion, a study of an iconic muralist and a retrospective on cinema’s patron saint of filth: These are the 13 L.A. artwork exhibitions that we’re already building plans to pay a visit to in 2023.
Psst: You can see just about all of our picks underneath without acquiring to spend for admission if you brush up on L.A.’s absolutely free museum days to start with.
“Simone Forti”
MOCA, Jan 15–Apr 2
Ideal acknowledged for her lo-fi sculpture-centric Dance Constructions, choreographer Simone Forti’s motion-targeted items explore the connection among visible artwork and contemporary dance. Catch weekly stagings of all those Dance Constructions moreover 6 a long time of other operates at MOCA.
“Frieze Los Angeles”
Santa Monica Airport, Feb 16–19
However it’s technically an artwork honest, this dreamy display screen of operates from dozens of global galleries reads more like a cluster of mini museum and gallery shows. Following first debuting in the surreal setting of the Paramount backlot and then decamping to a space next to the Beverly Hilton, the latest version of the New York export has settled on a web-site-unique tent in the southeast corner of Santa Monica Airport.
“Refik Anadol: Living Paintings”
Jeffrey Deitch, Feb 18–Apr 8
Most recognizable to Angelenos for his projections that’ve blanketed both equally the Walt Disney Concert Hall and a block of DTLA, Refik Anadol has visualized data sets based on California environmental and weather info for this exhibition at Jeffrey Deitch. Of particular be aware: his touring Infinity Room, an immersive wall of genuine-time information.

“George Apartment: People today are Strange”
Hauser & Wirth West Hollywood, Feb 15–Apr 22
These beautifully unappealing massive-scale paintings from neo-expressionist George Condominium would be truly worth observing no matter of the context. But for this L.A.-channeling exhibition (the identify is an homage to the basic track by the Doors), we’re specially interested mainly because it marks the debut exhibit at Arts District mega-gallery Hauser & Wirth’s new West Hollywood space, housed in a former common automobile showroom.
Desert X
Coachella Valley, Mar 4–May 7
The desert-spanning biennial is again, with premieres of internet site-precise operates from a slate of to-be-introduced artists. For its third iteration, Desert X will as soon as once more stage out of doors installations across about 40 miles of the Coachella Valley.

Hammer Museum expansion
Hammer Museum, opens Mar 26
The Hammer Museum has been embarking on a $180 million enlargement of its Westwood space since 2018, and now it’s last but not least established to be concluded. The latest iteration of the free museum will now have a appropriate pedestrian entrance on the corner of Wilshire and Westwood, moreover a sculpture terrace on the opposite finish. The block-prolonged building, dubbed the Lynda and Stewart Resnick Cultural Heart, will appear much less opaque from the outside, and within you will discover additional house than ever for artwork, which includes a five-gallery presentation of the Hammer’s modern assortment, plus—starting earlier in February—drawings by Bridget Riley and present-day pictures and films from China.
“Light, House, Surface: Choices from LACMA’s Collection”
LACMA, Apr 2–Oct 1
We’re all variety of obsessed with the lights in Southern California, but the nearby progenitors of the shiny and industrial 1960s Light-weight and Place movement definitely love it. LACMA is digging into its collections to pull out all kinds of reflective and refractive will work from the likes of Peter Alexander, Larry Bell, Judy Chicago, Mary Corse, Fred Eversley and Robert Irwin, among the many others (however a single notable identify is missing: James Turrell).
“Dawoud Bey & Carrie Mae Weems: In Dialogue”
Getty Middle, Apr 4–July 9
This touring photograph exhibition focuses on four decades of work from Dawoud Bey and Carrie Mae Weems, who first fulfilled in Harlem in the 1970s and have remained buddies at any time since as just about every has tackled equivalent themes of race, electricity and representation as a result of scenes rooted in the Black neighborhood.
“All Consuming: Artwork and the Essence of Food”
Norton Simon Museum, Apr 14–Aug 14
Bountiful feasts and bowls of fruit have peppered the scenes of European artwork for hundreds of years. But what do they truly say about the hunger, surplus and sustenance of people instances? And how has art impacted foodstuff developments? The Norton Simon examines all of these with 60 paintings, prints, photographs and sculptures from 1500 to 1900.
“Carl Craig: Party/Right after-Party”
The Geffen Present-day at MOCA, Apr 16–July 23
Envisioned decades in advance of the pandemic but debuted in the throes of it, Detroit DJ Carl Craig’s Bash/Immediately after-Social gathering turned the basement of New York’s Dia Beacon into a cavernous, empty dance club with a sliver of flashing light sneaking via a doorway. The techno-heavy operate tends to make the jump to the Geffen Up to date at MOCA, with a slate of are living performances to accompany it.

“Keith Haring: Artwork is for Everybody”
The Broad, May 23–Oct 8
Keith Haring’s colourful, energetic designs—like his barking puppies or crawling adhere determine-like radiant baby—have moved well beyond the planet of road artwork over the past 4 many years and ingrained by themselves as immediately recognizable pieces of pop artwork. Now, the Broad will analyze that entire body of function in a museum environment with this screen of about 120 artworks and archival resources.
“Imagined Wests”
The Autry, May possibly 2023
Like the Artbound episode of the very same title, the Autry reexamines how we inform tales about the American West with this new very long-time period exhibition. “Imagined Wests” asks visitors to contemplate “what is a Western?” by the screen of in excess of 250 pieces of pop lifestyle, clothing, toys and art.
“John Waters: Pope of Trash”
Academy Museum of Movement Pictures, Tumble 2023
See how the Hairspray and Pink Flamingos writer and director’s delightfully filthy design has redefined the possibilities of impartial cinema—as very well as what just goes into creating an indie movie—during this career-spanning exhibition at the Academy Museum. All over the same time, you’ll also come across the museum’s new, permanent “Hollywoodland” screen on the industry’s predominantly Jewish founders earlier in the calendar year in February, anticipate to see more second-ground gallery rotations, such as deep dives into Casablanca and Boyz n the Hood.
