What’s Next in Los Angeles: Key Milestones Shaping the City of Angels

Made in L.A. 2025 is the seventh iteration of the Hammer’s signature biennial exhibition that showcases artists practicing throughout the greater Los Angeles area. The 28 participants in the exhibition present work not only made in the city but also grounded in its complex and unfolding terrain. Neither myth nor monolith, Los Angeles is many things to many people, and its dissonance is perhaps its most distinguishing feature. The works presented in this year’s biennial include film, painting, theater, choreography, photography, sculpture, sound, and video. Attitude draws them together: Each engages with this city in ways alternately literal, formal, material, and metaphoric. Conceived or made in Los Angeles, they are of this city and nowhere else.

The NBA All-Star Game is returning to Inglewood for the first time in over forty years. Hosted by the Los Angeles Clippers at the city’s new Intuit Dome on Feb. 15, 2026, it’s the focus of an entire All-Star weekend of hoops-related events. The fun starts on Friday, Feb. 13 with NBA Rising Stars, which showcases the skills of top rookies and second-year NBA players. On Saturday, the State Farm All-Star Saturday Night will feature the Kia Skills Challenge, the Starry 3-Point Challenge, and AT&T Slam Dunk. Of course, all these are just appetizers for the All-Star Game itself on Sunday, an exhibition contest for two dozen of the NBA’s top players that is marking its 75th annual edition at the Intuit Dome and its record seventh time in Los Angeles.

Scheduled to open in 2026 in Exposition Park, the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art comprises billion-dollar futuristic architecture surrounded by 11 acres of eclectic landscaping. Co-founded by celebrated Star Wars and Indiana Jones filmmaker George Lucas and his wife Mellody Hobson, this curvaceous construction will house all forms of visual storytelling from painting, photography, comic art, illustration and sculpture to the arts of filmmaking. Artists expected to feature upon its opening include Judy Baca (co-founder of LA’s Social and Public Art Resource Center), Charles M. Schulz (Peanuts cartoonist), concept artist Ralph McQuarrie (Star Wars), and painter Norman Rockwell.

The U.S. Women’s Open Golf Championship comes to the nearly century-old course at Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades. Designed free of charge by amateur architect George C. Thomas, the 1927 course has proven to be an incredible bargain, renowned for both its wonderfully natural layout and new challenges at every hole (Arnold Palmer dubbed it “one of the great tests of golf”). The current home of the Genesis Invitational on the PGA Tour, the Riviera’s course will also host men’s and women’s golf competitions at the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The Women’s Open will coincide with the centenary of the Riviera Country Club, which is additionally home to one of the oldest and largest tennis clubs in the Western U.S.

There’s always a lot going on along the San Pedro seafront, with the Port of Los Angeles busier than at any time in its 117-year history. But there’s now much more public-facing activity, with the $170-million West Harbor complex set for completion in early 2026. Occupying the old Ports O’Call site, the 42-acre West Harbor will comprise more than 350,000 square feet of retail and restaurants plus a roughly 6,200 seat amphitheater.

Alongside cargo and commerce, ports are places where cultures and ideas connect, which is being recognized and celebrated by the development of ArtPORT LA. Set to open in 2028, ArtPORT will be a 25-acre global sculpture park occupying the waterfront 22nd Street Park.

Spurred by plans to run the new Crenshaw/LAX airport light rail line through Black LA’s historic neighborhood, Destination Crenshaw is rising to the opportunity to expose thousands of tourists and new visitors to the cultural heart of the city’s Black community. The under-construction project is a 1.3-mile-long open-air museum along Crenshaw Boulevard dedicated to preserving the history and culture of African Americans including new pocket parks, murals, outdoor sculptures, street furniture and landscaping. The project will include funding commissions for more than 100 Black artists, planting a hundred trees, investing in local businesses, and creating local jobs, while celebrating the art, energy, legacy, and accomplishments of Black LA.

Scheduled to open in 2026, Glendale’s Armenian American Museum and Cultural Center of California will be a cultural campus aimed at enriching the community and educating the public on the Armenian American story. Its permanent exhibition will be devoted to the Armenian Genocide alongside temporary exhibits on diverse cultures and subject matters. Under construction at the time of writing, renderings of the 60,000 square-foot facility, designed by Glendale-based Alajajian-Marcoosi Architects, show a striking, angular façade facing a spacious lawn. Behind, a central plaza will connect to the Glendale Central Library, the city’s adult recreation center, the Museum of Neon Art, parks, play areas and pedestrianized streets.

The NFL announced that Super Bowl LXI will be hosted in Los Angeles in 2027, with the game played at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood. Super Bowl LXI comes just five years after SoFi Stadium first hosted Super Bowl LVI in 2022. It will be the ninth edition in the Los Angeles region, marking 60 years since Super Bowl I at the L.A. Memorial Coliseum.

In 2012, the retired Space Shuttle Endeavour was moved to the California Science Center in Exposition Park. But its new home was just a temporary, steel-framed structure while its permanent exhibition space, the 200,000-square-foot Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center, was under construction. In the summer of 2023, the various Endeavour components began their six-month move into the new facility. The incredible Endeavour exhibit will be one of three new multi-level galleries (Aviation, Space, and Shuttle) spanning four floors.

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