Los Angeles County Museum of Art
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
Billy Al Bengston, painter who epitomised the visual lexicon of California culture, has died, aged 88
The artist was best-known for his abstract lacquered works and played a key role in the development of the Los Angeles art scene in the 1960s
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
Paris Hilton helps Lacma launch fund to acquire digital art by women
The heiress and NFT evangelist is supporting a new acquisition fund at the museum, which has a history of supporting artists working with cutting-edge technology
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
Artists visualise Los Angeles’s recent and pre-human histories in Lacma and Snapchat's latest augmented reality collaboration
The second edition of the digital art partnership features Snapchat lenses by artists Judy Baca, Kang Seung Lee and Sandra de la Loza
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
Support for controversial Lacma expansion and a new Dred Scott museum: first round of $24.7m US federal culture grants announced
The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded 208 grants for projects in most states, Washington, DC, Guam and Canada
Lacma acquires 60 works with a focus on Black representation
Among the works joining the museum’s collection are paintings by Amy Sherald and Kehinde Wiley as well as a self-portrait by an artist who worked as a preparator at Lacma for decades
The forgotten faces of American art: Lacma surveys 200 years of Black portraiture
An exhibition 'showcasing Black subjects as powerful, beautiful and complex' includes works by and of the greatest Black talents of the last two centuries
Ai Weiwei’s animals feel the heat as conservators treat them to al fresco waxing at Lacma
Sculptures arrived from China ahead of a show of works of Chinese contemporary art
Exclusive survey: what progress have US museums made on diversity, after a year of racial reckoning?
We asked art institutions around the country about their efforts to diversify their workforces, exhibition programmes, permanent collections and audiences
Eli Broad, who helped reshape the cultural landscape of Los Angeles, has died, aged 87
Billionaire art collector, businessman and philanthropist founded the museum that bears his name and helped shore up Disney Concert Hall, Lacma and MOCA
Los Angeles museums are revving up to reopen
Amid decline in Covid-19 cases, governor lifts a closure mandate that had stirred some dissent
Lacma ends director’s free housing perk
The museum is selling a smaller property it bought last year as a residence for Michael Govan, as pandemic continues to squeeze finances
The biggest art exhibitions opening around the world in 2021
The new year's must-see shows include Vermeer and Botticelli blockbusters; major Jasper Johns and Yayoi Kusama retrospectives; and sweeping surveys on Iran, slavery and queer art
Tom Gores steps down from Lacma board after pressure over prison telecom ties
Billionaire investor argues in his resignation letter that he pushed for reforms
Space race: how the pandemic is pushing museums to rethink design
Experts predict bigger galleries, a stronger connection to the outdoors and an end to the expansion juggernaut
Lacma has put its director’s spacious $6.57m home on the market
A more modest Los Angeles dwelling seems to be lined up for Michael Govan
Groups call for removal of Lacma trustee tied to ‘exploitative’ telecommunications company
Organisations target Tom Gores, whose firm invests in a corporation accused of charging prison inmates “egregious” rates for calls
Remembering Luchita Hurtado, painter, eco-warrior and witness to a century of art
The Venezuelan artist— associated with the founders of European Surrealism and the New York School in the 1940s—centred her art on nature and her own life story, and became a sensation in her 99th year
Competition spawns alternative designs for controversial Lacma building project
A protest group champions six ideas that remedy what it views as shortcomings in Peter Zumthor's design
'There is no fast track back to normal': museums confront economic fallout of the pandemic
Closed museums are losing millions in income, ushering in job cuts, appeals for emergency relief and lasting changes in strategy
Art meets (indoor) activism to mark the 50th anniversary of Earth Day
Judy Chicago launches Create Art for Earth with the Serpentine Galleries while a new documentary foregrounds how Indigenous peoples are fighting climate change
Seeking answers from Lacma, Ahmanson Foundation threatens to take its largesse elsewhere
Long-time patron wants ‘a clear understanding’ of how a new building can accommodate the permanent collection highlights it has funded
Ahmanson Foundation cuts off gifts of art to Lacma
Foundation president cites concern over a dramatic museum redesign that could force works into storage
‘At 99, I’m another person entirely’: Luchita Hurtado on fossil fuels and new challenges ahead
As her touring retrospective arrives in Los Angeles and then heads for Mexico, the nonagenarian artist is excited about showing her new work—and the prospect of making more
King Tut’s golden year, Koons’s worst: the highs and lows of the art world in 2019
As Notre Dame burned, protestors called the shots and a gold toilet vanished, it was certainly a year to remember
Tefaf awards conservation grants for a Wright interior and a colonial Bolivian painting
V&A and Lacma plan to stabilise and restore works to their original appearance
Treasure trove of Fijian artefacts to reveal a rich artistic heritage at Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Exhibition includes 19th-century breast plates and clubs made from whale ivory, as well as a newly commissioned 26ft canoe