The latest Otis College of Art and Design report on the state’s arts economy found every sector experienced declines in employment last year—except the fine and performing arts

The California institution’s new Q+ Art initiative is the first of its kind in the US and includes exhibitions, public programming, acquisitions and awards

Lauren Bon is hoping her new project can save some of Southern California’s most precious resource: water

The sale at Analogr in Glendale features an original work by the late Beatle, which has a note from his widow, the artist Yoko Ono, on the back

Conceived as an outdoor museum, with murals and sculptures by artists both world-renowned and locally beloved, Destination Crenshaw aims to preserve a close-knit community

The fair continues to push back against the white cube model with plenty of characterful stands and satirical works

Several of the exhibitions in PST Art in Los Angeles this September will tell the history of the film industry while also looking to the future

The third PST Art, presented by the Getty, will be focused on the connections between art and science

The Swiss architect's building for the future has—at last—found a permanent location in Palm Springs

The Fowler Museum at UCLA has repatriated seven artefacts that were taken during the Sagrenti War of 1874

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With attractions by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Sonia Delaunay, David Hockney, Roy Lichtenstein and others, the resurrected Luna Luna opens in Los Angeles this month

The latest edition of the Hammer Museum’s closely-watched biennial takes its title, “Acts of Living”, from a comment by revered Southern California assemblage sculptor Noah Purifoy

The new Vladem Contemporary, which adds exhibition, education and storage space, aims to showcase recent art in a state best-known for its Modernist traditions

The beloved non-profit is undertaking an extensive revamp of its home, a former seafood packing plant near the Downtown Arts District

The science-themed initiative will span museums and organisations big and small throughout Southern California

The California biennial, which controversially expanded to Saudi Arabia, is eyeing another international edition

The actor returned to painting during pandemic lockdowns and used her practice to process difficult periods in her personal life and professional career

Art dealer Peter Blake is renting the Palm Springs house that renowned architect William F. Cody built for himself

Sean Kelly Gallery, a powerhouse of the New York art scene yet for a long time one of the few major players without a location in another city, has kept things in the family at its West Coast space

Anthony Meier is joining many of the City by the Bay’s residents who have migrated out of the centre to more spacious surroundings since the start of the pandemic

Collaboration enables the work from the fair’s Focus section to join the Art Bank collection of the local municipality

Nao Bustamante unveils Los Angeles's most ghoulish gallery space in the legendary Hollywood Forever cemetery

Municipal support during the pandemic and an influx of new tenants is helping to restore Santa Monica's Bergamot Station Arts Center to its former glory

A traveling exhibition about the Pharoah of Pharaohs includes ancient artefacts on loan from Egypt, curatorial texts and a $20 VR experience “guided” by Ramses II’s queen, Nefertari

The Chinese American artist, who died at age 62 in relative obscurity, is the subject of an illuminating exhibition at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco

The 19th edition of the photography exhibition is on view across various venues in the Texan metropolis

From a show honouring the women who founded the institution to a call-back to a mid-1970s Light and Space exhibition, the OCMA is moving forward and looking back

The Los Angeles museum recently acquired 100 works from the period to plug an important gap in its collection