Portrait Of A City

Ahead of the first-ever Frieze Art Fair in Los Angeles, Bazaar explores the alternative cultural spots that make the city unique

- Vasundhara Pachisia

Golden beaches, avenues lined with palm trees, surfers and skateboarders, and movie stars continue to burnish our imagination of a place so postmodern that no single image could possibly capture its soul. Underneath this seemingly idyllic place lies an archipelago called Los Angeles, made up of cultures that don’t always engage with one another, yet coexist. It is this diversity and dynamism in music, art, design, food, film, and more that has captured the interest of the art world.