The $1bn institution founded by Star Wars creator George Lucas and his wife, Starbucks chairwoman Mellody Hobson, is taking its futuristic shape in Los Angeles’s Exposition Park

The iconic mural of a girl on a swing, and the storied building on which it was painted, are expected to bring between $16m and $30m

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

Plus, Norway’s mega-museum and a Spanish-American screen in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art

“For people who are not really familiar with my art, maybe it's hard to understand fully,” the artist says. "I think as a first step of communication, it's a great thing.”

The fair’s third location since its founding in 2019 will include more space for food vendors and other external activities

An exhibition of Colombian ceramics and other artefacts at the Los Angeles Museum of Art was informed by advice from an Arhuaco spritual leader

The immersive exhibition, Superblue's first in Los Angeles, lays at the intersection of social and environmental justice and the capacity for spectacle to inspire hope

Chrismas, who was arrested by the FBI in 2021, is also facing up to 15 years in prison if convicted in a separate criminal case

After moving into its first permanent home later this year, nonprofit is prepping an ambitious show of decommissioned Confederate monuments

Fleming succeeds the Getty’s longtime leader James Cuno, who is retiring this summer

The new building for the Colburn School, an important music and dance institution, is expected to be complete in 2025

The museum, founded by the late Noah Davis and his wife, the artist Karon Davis, announced the sudden closure in a statement that offered few specifics but alluded to inner turmoil

The seven pieces, the first Tek has donated since forming a partnership with the Los Angeles institution in 2018, are featured in a current exhibition

Most Los Angeles art institutions have reopened while complying with Covid-19 safety measures—except those run by the city

A retrospective at the Hammer Museum chronicles the artist’s pivotal role in the history of video art

After stops in New York and London, the late artist’s works will be on view at the Underground Museum, which he and his wife founded

Plus, Betye Saar remakes a mural in Los Angeles

Collector Danny First is extending his homegrown programme beyond the walls of a replica of the Unabomber's nerve centre

It joins a half-dozen galleries with designs on opening West Coast outposts, from megas like Pace and Sean Kelly to smaller spaces like Sargent's Daughters

Organisers and galleries are banking on “pent-up desire” to make this year’s edition a success

The merger continues a trend of mega-galleries expanding their presence in California

Negotiations have been delayed, with wages proving a major sticking point and with administrators proposing increases well below union members’ demands

The new non-profit, Horizon, is funded by Los Angeles-based patrons Harry Hu and Jason Li

West Coast gallerists in the artist-discovery business are landing in Manhattan

Gearing up for 2023 opening, Lucas Museum adds works by Frida Kahlo, Robert Colescott and Artemisia Gentileschi to filmmaker's Norman Rockwell trove

Artist who found her subject when trespassing in abandoned houses in San Bernardino, California, and whose formal obsessions included "couches upon couches upon couches"

A civic ordinance in effect from October sets aside 1% of building projects for arts and culture programmes

The $100m public art and community improvement project will launch with new sculptures by Kehinde Wiley, Melvin Edwards, Alison Saar, Brenna Youngblood and more

The artist was known for years-long, multi-pronged projects based on singular figures—such as her mother or a mysterious man she dubbed “Larry”—and subjects