Felix Landau opens on La Cienega Boulevard The street becomes the city’s gallery row. (Galleries, opening) research.frick.org

Ferus Gallery opens The curator Walter Hopps and the artist Edward Kienholz start it on La Cienega; Irving Blum joins in 1958. (Galleries, opening) westernartandarchitecture.com

Virginia Dwan opens in Westwood Her gallery moves to a larger space there in 1962. (Galleries, opening) oac.cdlib.org

Warhol’s soup cans at Ferus Andy Warhol’s first solo show of Pop paintings: the 32 Campbell’s Soup Cans. (Exhibitions) westernartandarchitecture.com

Duchamp’s first retrospective, in Pasadena Walter Hopps organizes it at the Pasadena Art Museum, with Marcel Duchamp there. (Exhibitions) nortonsimon.org

Monday nights on La Cienega Time counts 22 exhibitions open on the boulevard on one evening. (Galleries) time.com

LACMA opens on Wilshire Boulevard The county’s art museum, separate since 1961, gets its own campus. (Museums, opening) lacma.org

Ferus closes Irving Blum carries on for two years with New York’s Pace, as Ferus/Pace. (Galleries, closing) westernartandarchitecture.com

Gemini G.E.L. begins The artists’ print workshop on Melrose Avenue is still publishing. (Galleries, opening) geminigel.com

Dwan closes in Los Angeles Virginia Dwan had moved to New York in 1965; her gallery there runs to 1971. (Galleries, closing) lacma.org

Ace Gallery arrives from Vancouver Douglas Chrismas runs it in Los Angeles until a bankruptcy trustee removes him in 2016. (Galleries, opening) acegallery.net

Margo Leavin opens in West Hollywood She stays for 42 years and more than 500 exhibitions. (Galleries, opening) oac.cdlib.org

Art and Technology at LACMA The results of a four-year program that put artists to work inside corporations. (Exhibitions) unframed.lacma.org

The Getty Villa opens J. Paul Getty’s museum, modeled on a Roman villa at Herculaneum. (Museums, opening) laconservancy.org

Larry Gagosian opens a print shop in Westwood Prints on Broxton turns to exhibitions the next year, as the Broxton Gallery. (Galleries, opening) gagosian.com

L.A. Louver opens in Venice Peter and Elizabeth Goulds’s gallery will show there for 50 years. (Galleries, opening) lalouver.com

The Pasadena Art Museum becomes the Norton Simon Facing bankruptcy after its 1969 building, it reopens with Norton Simon’s collection. (Museums) nortonsimon.org

Treasures of Tutankhamun at LACMA About 1.3 million visitors in four months. (Exhibitions) beverlypress.com

MOCA is founded It opens in a warehouse, the Temporary Contemporary, in 1983. (Museums, opening) moca.org

Gagosian opens on Almont Drive He moves to Robertson Boulevard in 1982, and by 1985 has a space in New York too. (Galleries, opening) gagosian.com

Ace takes a floor of the Wilshire Tower 30,000 square feet on the Miracle Mile. (Galleries, opening) acegallery.net

MOCA opens on Grand Avenue Arata Isozaki’s building, downtown. (Museums, opening) libraries.usc.edu

Stuart Regen Gallery opens in West Hollywood It becomes Regen Projects in 1993. (Galleries, opening) theartnewspaper.com

Luhring Augustine Hetzler opens in Santa Monica A joint branch of a New York and a Cologne gallery; it closes in February 1992. (Galleries, opening) luhringaugustine.com

The Hammer Museum opens in Westwood UCLA takes over its management in 1994. (Museums, opening) en.wikipedia.org

Helter Skelter at MOCA Paul Schimmel’s show of 16 Los Angeles artists, subtitled L.A. Art in the 1990s. (Exhibitions) moca.org

Blum & Poe opens in Santa Monica ACME. and Marc Foxx open there the same year. (Galleries, opening) theartnewspaper.com

Bergamot Station opens A five-acre complex of galleries on a former rail and factory site in Santa Monica. (Galleries, opening) bergamotstation.com

Gagosian returns, to Beverly Hills A building by Richard Meier on Camden Drive, opening with Frank Stella. (Galleries, opening) gagosian.com

PaceWildenstein opens in Beverly Hills New York’s Pace stays until 2000. (Galleries, opening) pacegallery.com

The Getty Center opens Richard Meier’s $1.3 billion campus above Brentwood, free from the first day. (Museums, opening) pbssocal.org

China Art Objects opens in Chinatown The first gallery on Chung King Road, in a $500-a-month basement. (Galleries, opening) phaidon.com

Blum & Poe moves to Culver City Dozens of galleries follow, making the Culver City Arts District. (Galleries, opening) eschergunewardena.com

David Kordansky opens in Chinatown Part of the neighborhood’s second wave of galleries. (Galleries, opening) davidkordanskygallery.com

David Geffen sells a Pollock and a de Kooning In private sales: No. 5, 1948 for a reported $140 million and Woman III for $137.5 million. (Auctions and sales) worldart.news

©Murakami at MOCA More than 90 works and a working Louis Vuitton shop; 149,323 visitors. (Exhibitions) huffpost.com

The Broad Contemporary Art Museum opens at LACMA A $56 million building by Renzo Piano. (Museums, opening) www-images.lacma.org

Blum & Poe’s 21,000 square feet The gallery crosses La Cienega Boulevard into a converted factory. (Galleries, opening) eschergunewardena.com

Art Los Angeles Contemporary begins The city’s contemporary fair for a decade, at Santa Monica Airport. (Art fairs, opening) theartnewspaper.com

A Los Angeles collection sets the auction record Picasso’s Nude, Green Leaves and Bust, from the Brody collection, sells for $106.5 million at Christie’s in New York. (Auctions and sales) en.wikipedia.org

L&M Arts opens in Venice The New York gallery converts a 1930s power station; it closes in August 2013. (Galleries, opening) why-site.com

Art in the Streets at MOCA 201,352 visitors, the most for any exhibition in MOCA’s history. (Exhibitions) moca.org

Pacific Standard Time The Getty’s program on art in Los Angeles from 1945 to 1980: 68 exhibitions and about 1.8 million visits. (Exhibitions) getty.edu

Matthew Marks opens in West Hollywood The New York gallery builds new, with an Ellsworth Kelly on the facade. (Galleries, opening) fineartpublicity.com

The first Made in L.A. The Hammer’s biennial of the city’s artists opens with 60 of them. (Exhibitions) hammer.ucla.edu

Regen Projects moves to Hollywood A 20,000-square-foot building by Michael Maltzan starts a gallery district at Highland Avenue. (Galleries, opening) laweekly.com

Margo Leavin closes After nearly 42 years. (Galleries, closing) oac.cdlib.org

Night Gallery and François Ghebaly move downtown The first big galleries in what LA Weekly calls an industrial no man’s land. (Galleries, opening) laweekly.com

Paris Photo Los Angeles Three editions on the Paramount lot; the fourth is cancelled for weak sales. (Art fairs, opening) theartnewspaper.com

David Kordansky moves to Mid-City 13,000 square feet off La Brea Avenue, made from a martial-arts studio and a car repair shop. (Galleries, opening) why-site.com

Ed Ruscha’s Smash: $30.4 million At Christie’s; his top price will more than double in the next ten years. (Auctions and sales) heni.com

The Broad opens Eli and Edythe Broad’s $140 million museum on Grand Avenue, free; 820,000 visitors in its first year. (Museums, opening) thebroad.org

Maccarone opens in Boyle Heights The New York gallery takes 35,000 square feet on Mission Road. (Galleries, opening) theartnewspaper.com

Sprüth Magers opens across from LACMA The Berlin gallery takes a 1971 building by William Pereira’s firm on Wilshire Boulevard. (Galleries, opening) wallpaper.com

Hauser Wirth & Schimmel opens All 116,000 square feet of a former flour mill in the Arts District. (Galleries, opening) architecturalrecord.com

Christie’s opens a Beverly Hills flagship 4,500 square feet, with no auctions planned there. (Auctions and sales, opening) theartnewspaper.com

The Marciano Art Foundation opens In a former Masonic temple on Wilshire Boulevard; ICA LA opens in the Arts District the same year. (Museums, opening) timeout.com

Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA Latin American and Latino art at more than 70 institutions; nearly 2.8 million visits. (Exhibitions) getty.edu

Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors at The Broad The first 50,000 tickets sell out in under two hours. (Exhibitions) artsbeatla.com

Mark Bradford’s Helter Skelter I: $12 million At Phillips in London, then the most paid at auction for a living African American artist. (Auctions and sales) culturetype.com

Kerry James Marshall’s Past Times: $21.1 million The painter was raised in South Los Angeles and trained at Otis. (Auctions and sales) theartnewspaper.com

356 Mission closes Laura Owens’s space in Boyle Heights, after sustained protests against galleries in the neighborhood. (Galleries, closing) hyperallergic.com

Jeffrey Deitch opens in Hollywood A 15,000-square-foot warehouse converted by Frank Gehry, opening with Ai Weiwei. (Galleries, opening) galeriemagazine.com

David Hockney’s $90.3 million Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) at Christie’s in New York: then the record for a living artist. (Auctions and sales) cbsnews.com

The first Frieze Los Angeles 70 galleries on the Paramount lot, and about 30,000 visitors; Felix opens the same week. (Art fairs, opening) culturetype.com

Ruscha’s Hurting the Word Radio #2: $52.5 million At Christie’s in New York. (Auctions and sales) heni.com

MOCA becomes free On a $10 million gift; the Hammer has been free since 2014. (Museums) abc7.com

LACMA begins demolishing its old buildings Four of them, to make way for Peter Zumthor’s. (Museums, closing) laconservancy.org

Gallery Platform LA With their doors shut by the pandemic, about 80 galleries start a shared website. (Galleries) hyperallergic.com

Karma opens in West Hollywood One of six galleries from elsewhere to open in the city that year. (Galleries, opening) artdealers.org

The Academy Museum opens Renzo Piano’s $482 million museum of the movies, next to LACMA. (Museums, opening) cbsnews.com

Pace returns, by taking over Kayne Griffin And with it the gallery on South La Brea Avenue, with its Turrell Skyspace. (Galleries, opening) pacegallery.com

Ernie Barnes’s The Sugar Shack: $15.3 million Against an estimate of $150,000 to $200,000. (Auctions and sales) culturetype.com

Sean Kelly opens in Hollywood 10,000 square feet on Highland Avenue. (Galleries, opening) skny.com

Phillips opens in West Hollywood A gallery for previews and selling exhibitions. (Auctions and sales, opening) phillips.com

Frieze moves to Santa Monica Airport 124 galleries, its largest edition. (Art fairs) theartnewspaper.com

Hauser & Wirth opens in West Hollywood A second gallery, in a 1931 car showroom. (Galleries, opening) wehotimes.com

The Hammer finishes its expansion Twenty years of work by Michael Maltzan, and 60% more gallery space. (Museums, opening) newsroom.ucla.edu

Lisson opens in Hollywood The London gallery, on Sycamore Avenue. (Galleries, opening) lissongallery.com

David Zwirner opens in Melrose Hill In two former prop shops on Western Avenue; a district grows around it. (Galleries, opening) culturedmag.com

Keith Haring at The Broad 171,000 visitors, the museum’s most for a special exhibition. (Exhibitions) thebroad.org

Marian Goodman opens in Hollywood 13,000 square feet by Johnston Marklee, opening with Steve McQueen. (Galleries, opening) mariangoodman.com

Perrotin opens in Mid-City The Paris gallery, during Frieze week. (Galleries, opening) hypebeast.com

Zwirner’s third building A new three-story gallery brings its block of Western Avenue to 30,000 square feet. (Galleries, opening) artnowla.com

Nino Mier closes his four Los Angeles galleries Three weeks after former staff said the gallery had underpaid artists. (Galleries, closing) artefuse.com

PST ART: Art & Science Collide The third Pacific Standard Time: 67 exhibitions and, the Getty says, 4 million visits. (Exhibitions) getty.edu

Ruscha’s Standard Station: $68.3 million Standard Station, Ten-Cent Western Being Torn in Half (1964), at Christie’s in New York: his record. (Auctions and sales) en.thevalue.com

The Palisades and Eaton fires Artists, dealers and collectors lose homes, studios and collections; the Getty Villa closes until June. (Galleries) theartnewspaper.com

Frieze goes ahead, six weeks after the fires With 97 galleries. (Art fairs) theartnewspaper.com

The Broad breaks ground on its expansion $100 million and 70% more gallery space, due in 2028. (Museums) theartnewspaper.com

Blum says it will close Tim Blum ends the gallery he founded with Jeff Poe in 1994: “This is not about the market. This is about the system.” (Galleries, closing) theartnewspaper.com

Clearing closes In New York and Los Angeles on the same day. (Galleries, closing) theartnewspaper.com

Tanya Bonakdar closes in Hollywood After seven years, at the end of its lease. (Galleries, closing) theartnewspaper.com

L.A. Louver closes its doors to the public After 50 years in Venice, it turns to private dealing. (Galleries, closing) theartnewspaper.com

MONUMENTS at MOCA and The Brick Curated by Hamza Walker, Kara Walker and Bennett Simpson; it runs to May 2026. (Exhibitions) moca.org

Sean Kelly ends public exhibitions in Los Angeles Three years after opening; the space is now by appointment. (Galleries, closing) apollo-magazine.com

Hockney’s Isherwood and Bachardy: $44.3 million His 1968 double portrait: the most paid for one of his Los Angeles pictures. (Auctions and sales) heni.com

Southern Guild leaves for New York The Cape Town gallery had opened in Melrose Hill in February 2024. (Galleries, closing) theartnewspaper.com

Frieze Los Angeles, seventh edition About 100 galleries and 32,000 visitors at Santa Monica Airport. (Art fairs) artdependence.com

Michael Werner’s Beverly Hills gallery has closed Less than two years after it opened. (Galleries, closing) culturedmag.com

LACMA’s David Geffen Galleries open Peter Zumthor’s building over Wilshire Boulevard: $724 million, and 110,000 square feet of galleries. (Museums, opening) architecturalrecord.com

Marian Goodman’s last Los Angeles show closes Tacita Dean’s; the gallery now lists only New York and Paris. (Galleries, closing) mariangoodman.com

The Box says it will close After 19 years, in Chinatown and then the Arts District. (Galleries, closing) hyperallergic.com

Dataland opens Refik Anadol and Efsun Erkılıç’s “museum of AI arts”, at The Grand LA downtown. (Museums, opening) related.com

The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art opens 300,000 square feet in Exposition Park, with more than 1,300 works on view. (Museums, opening) lucasmuseum.org