From Paul McCarthy's monkey self-portrait to a New York apartment made of polyester, our picks of the city's top exhibitions

“Bon vivant” took over at the museum's villa and expanded its mission after J. Paul Getty died in 1976

The Getty-led PST: Art x Science x LA is due to be held in 2024

Santa Monica-based artist, "discovered" at 94, has a retrospective in London and the 88-year-old Lebanese artist makes her UK debut in Cornwall

The exhibition includes a major new 13-hour video

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

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

Wonderfully tongue in cheek video, the museum's curator Aram Moshayedi takes the actors on a mock VIP tour of the show Stories of Almost Everyone