Fine and performing artists contributed $34.9bn to California’s economy in 2021, according to Otis College of Art and Design’s latest annual report, far less than workers in media and even architecture

Californian collectors had the taste and cash to buy some of his finest paintings, with stars including Elizabeth Taylor, Edward Robinson and Barbra Streisand

Fourteen years in the making, the new 53,000 sq. ft building designed by Thom Mayne of architecture firm Morphosis features a wide outdoor staircase intended to serve as a gathering place

The museum’s longstanding struggles to balance its books were exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic

The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture in Riverside, California will house the collection of its patron, the actor and long-time champion of Chicano art

The latest edition of the annual Otis College Report on the Creative Economy makes the point that even as California’s arts sector bounces back, long-term support is needed to ensure it truly thrives

La Jolla museum is set to reopen after a $105m renovation and collection revamp, telling the story of contemporary art from a distinctively West Coast perspective

The initiative A Cool Million, launched by three artist-led collectives, features climate-themed public artworks and aims to preserve one million acres

The museum’s director Julie Rodrigues Widholm has made several senior-level hires in her first year

Jason Harrington pleaded guilty to selling phony paintings to at least 15 galleries and individuals between 2018 and 2020

Seven staff will also lose their jobs as tightened budgets and low attendance impact operations

Dozens gather to denounce sexualised depiction of actress with her skirt flying up

Plus, artists' album covers, and Grace Jones in the Work of the Week

Staff will shrink from 126 to 106 as institution pursues an organisational makeover

With lockdown lifted for nail salons and zoos, anger rises over arts institutions’ continued closure, estimated to cost the sector $22m a day

Following environmental concerns, The Living Desert garden and zoo has pulled out of a planned project with the artist this month

Judy Chicago, Oscar Murillo, Nicholas Galanin and others to present works in Southern California's first major art event since the pandemic shutdown last year

The next iteration of the region-wide exhibition series will focus on art and science

Gavin Newsom and Andrew Cuomo have announced plans to support art institutions and artists hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic

$100,000 grant will advance an effort to reassemble and display Albert Frey and A. Lawrence Kocher’s Modernist Aluminaire House

There is not a person in the arts who wants to open until it is safe to do so, but we cannot even prepare to start without state guidelines

“Doses” of datura plant used in communal ceremonies have been found embedded in the ceiling of Pinwheel Cave

A plan to install the kitsch work in front of the city’s art museum has raised complaints from the community, which has called Forever Marilyn “blatantly sexist”

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Indictment says the paperwork misrepresented the work’s quality and value

The inaugural programming includes displays of work by Glenn Kaino and Tavares Strachan and free yoga, meditation, and gardening classes

Missing since 2012, around 1,300 prints have been returned to their rightful owner, who used to sell Creme's works

Calls for emergency art storage are putting pressure on art shipment and insurance firms

A symposium bringing together architects and scholars from around the world takes place as homelessness surges in the state of California

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