From the report
The rise of the Los Angeles art scene, in charts
Seventy-five years of the city’s art world, counted: the galleries that opened and closed, the square feet they filled, the museums built, the prices paid, and how many of the world’s top-selling artists now have a gallery here.
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- Los Angeles in numbers, October 2026
- The Los Angeles art world, 1951 to 2026: 105 openings, closings, shows and sales
- Galleries from elsewhere in Los Angeles: one in 2009, 26 in 2024, 16 today
- Forty galleries, from the year each opened in Los Angeles to the year it closed
- The leading galleries’ floor space grew eightfold in 24 years, then fell by a seventh
- Hauser & Wirth’s flour mill is nearly four times the size of any other gallery in the city
- Seven in ten of the top 100 contemporary artists now have a gallery in Los Angeles. In 2000, one in ten did
- Gagosian alone represents more than a fifth of the top 100 contemporary artists
- How many of the top 100 contemporary artists had a solo show in Los Angeles each year
- Two of the three costliest museum buildings in the city’s history opened in 2026
- LACMA’s attendance doubled, then halved while it rebuilt
- Pacific Standard Time has more than doubled its audience in three editions
- Frieze Los Angeles peaked at 124 galleries in 2023 and has settled near 100
- Frieze Los Angeles is about a third the size of the largest art fairs
- The Arts District has more galleries than any other part of Los Angeles