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Centrepiece of Destination Crenshaw, a sculpture-filled public space in south Los Angeles, to open in early autumn
The space, which will feature works by Maren Hassinger, Kehinde Wiley and others, also has the support of local celebrities Issa Rae and DeMar DeRozan
Mass protest against Iran's human rights abuses staged at Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Protesters gathered at Lacma to mark the Zahedan massacre as well as draw attention to the suppression and imprisonment of protesters and activists
Van Gogh goes to Hollywood: the celebrities who have owned Vincent's work
Californian collectors had the taste and cash to buy some of his finest paintings, with stars including Elizabeth Taylor, Edward Robinson and Barbra Streisand
Lucas Museum delays opening until 2025, reveals acquisitions including Ernie Barnes and John Singer Sargent works
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
Banksy mural, and the Los Angeles building he painted it on, head to auction
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
Works showing the complexities of life in the Americas under Spanish colonial rule go on show at Lacma
The Los Angeles museum recently acquired 100 works from the period to plug an important gap in its collection
Crypto crash: what now for NFTs and the art world?
Plus, Norway’s mega-museum and a Spanish-American screen in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Takashi Murakami opens major augmented reality show at The Broad in Los Angeles
“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.”
Frieze Los Angeles takes off from Beverly Hills locale, will land at Santa Monica Airport for 2023 edition
The fair’s third location since its founding in 2019 will include more space for food vendors and other external activities
New show in Los Angeles keeps an ancient culture alive by ‘nourishing’ its objects
An exhibition of Colombian ceramics and other artefacts at the Los Angeles Museum of Art was informed by advice from an Arhuaco spritual leader
Glenn Kaino and Superblue find hope in the magic of nature
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
Disgraced dealer Douglas Chrismas ordered to repay $14.2m in profits from art sales
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
Los Angeles alternative space LAXART lays down roots with $5m new building
After moving into its first permanent home later this year, nonprofit is prepping an ambitious show of decommissioned Confederate monuments
New York University provost Katherine Fleming will be the Getty Trust’s next leader
Fleming succeeds the Getty’s longtime leader James Cuno, who is retiring this summer
Frank Gehry unveils new design for $350m arts school building in downtown Los Angeles
The new building for the Colburn School, an important music and dance institution, is expected to be complete in 2025
Los Angeles’s Underground Museum abruptly closes as directors depart
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
Collector Budi Tek donates contemporary Chinese works to Lacma, including Ai Weiwei's Zodiac Heads
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
'Totally Kafkaesque': Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs spaces still paralysed by pandemic
Most Los Angeles art institutions have reopened while complying with Covid-19 safety measures—except those run by the city
Pioneering video artist Ulysses Jenkins on creating new images of Black life
A retrospective at the Hammer Museum chronicles the artist’s pivotal role in the history of video art
Noah Davis’s paintings come back home to his Los Angeles museum
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
Warhol and Basquiat on the stage in London and Faith Ringgold's retrospective at New York's New Museum
Plus, Betye Saar remakes a mural in Los Angeles
In a Los Angeles backyard, a collector's gallery project expands
Collector Danny First is extending his homegrown programme beyond the walls of a replica of the Unabomber's nerve centre
New York gallery The Hole opening Los Angeles location just in time for Frieze
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
First Frieze Los Angeles since pandemic began opens this week in new Beverly Hills venue—minus a sculpture park
Organisers and galleries are banking on “pent-up desire” to make this year’s edition a success
Pace expands West Coast footprint, merges with the Los Angeles gallery Kayne Griffin
The merger continues a trend of mega-galleries expanding their presence in California
Two years after forming union, MOCA Los Angeles employees still negotiating first contract with museum leaders
Negotiations have been delayed, with wages proving a major sticking point and with administrators proposing increases well below union members’ demands
Ex-Whitney curator Christopher Y. Lew heads up new Los Angeles art foundation
The new non-profit, Horizon, is funded by Los Angeles-based patrons Harry Hu and Jason Li
East meets west: Los Angeles galleries seize on real estate discounts prompted by the pandemic to open New York outposts
West Coast gallerists in the artist-discovery business are landing in Manhattan
Museum of Star Wars creator George Lucas goes on buying spree with international, if not intergalactic, focus
Gearing up for 2023 opening, Lucas Museum adds works by Frida Kahlo, Robert Colescott and Artemisia Gentileschi to filmmaker's Norman Rockwell trove
Remembering Kaari Upson, Los Angeles artist who created The Larry Project, a seven-year-long series exploring the life of a mysterious stranger
Artist who found her subject when trespassing in abandoned houses in San Bernardino, California, and whose formal obsessions included "couches upon couches upon couches"