Richard Simms, the 93-year-old donor, built up the enviable collection on a dentist’s salary starting in the 1960s

The art foundation, which has closed its doors, was never more than the shell of a museum

Coalition of curators organise events and exhibitions of art by women at 50 museums

The brightly coloured painting, depicting the same family scene, has been in private hands for decades, most recently the Chilean Alana Collection

Four takeaways from the Institute for Artists’ Estates’ Los Angeles workshop

Independent curators and handlers could be affected but no major changes predicted in museum recruitment practices

The West Coast gallery season opens with its own slate of must see shows, from Tala Madani's scatological depictions of motherhood to Kenny Scharf's jabs at consumerism

San Jose Museum of Art celebrates visionary female artists

The great US sculptor's work comes to the UK, while a new book explores the thought-provoking works that inspired 50 internationally acclaimed artists

In Jori Finkel's book It Speaks to Me, Kentridge discusses the sculpture in Johannesburg that first made him feel the power of art

Artist collective The Art Department spent a year gathering heaps of dandelion fuzz for their immersive "wish factory"

The artist says the US government shutdown effectively “killed” the sculpture

Dollhouse-sized paintings and installations replace big artistic statements and egos

From the West Coast version of Soul of a Nation, to Roy DeCarava’s photographic studies of blackness

With more than a million people through the doors annually since 2015, the museum is a case study in how to expand audiences

The group Art+Feminism has organised events at six museums to boost the online presence of women artists and cultural leaders

The artist dives deep to create a lurid theatre from biological forms for his Frieze Los Angeles Projects commission

Last year, the LA gallery took on Michael Williams, Fred Eversley, Huma Bhabha and Lauren Halsey

Artist Tai Shani and art consultant James Doeser on the grim reality of working as an artist today and Jori Finkel on the inaugural edition of Frieze Los Angeles. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793.

Some half-baked works mean this year’s event fails to live up to the promise of the first edition

From a Charles White retrospective to raw canvases inspired by the occult and queer sex magic

The Getty Foundation’s leader, who retired in December, discusses her feminist credentials and the broader challenges in cultural philanthropy

From 3D illusions at Lacma to environmental disasters at the Craft & Folk Art Museum

The show includes male and female examples for historic accuracy, its lead curator says

Artist who photographed herself naked every morning in 1972 has recreated her "Carving" work, to be shown in May 2019

Inspired by an underground essay written by the late artist Manny Farber, the exhibition concept is anything but clear-cut

Drawings in a show opening at the Hammer testify to his feverish spiritual side

The Baghdad-born, Los Angeles-based artist talks about the impetus for her new work at Susanne Vielmetter

His death comes just weeks after the opening of the agency's new gallery in Beverly Hills, designed by the artist Ai Weiwei