Community lawsuit brings welcome last stand against museum’s alarmingly secretive project

The massive work, shown at the 2017 Venice Biennale, re-interprets 19th-century wallpaper depicting native Pacific peoples

From the West Coast version of Soul of a Nation, to Roy DeCarava’s photographic studies of blackness

The design spans Wilshire Boulevard and replaces four extant buildings

County officials prepare to vote on the $650m project this week, but the museum’s next incarnation could come at too high a cost for culture

The Los Angeles museum's director Michael Govan is in Hong Kong this week to formally sign agreement

The group Art+Feminism has organised events at six museums to boost the online presence of women artists and cultural leaders

From a Charles White retrospective to raw canvases inspired by the occult and queer sex magic

From 3D illusions at Lacma to environmental disasters at the Craft & Folk Art Museum

Fulfilling artists’ quests, a diamond-shaped balloon and a gold bust are expected to orbit the Earth

Scientists and artists replicated the Renaissance design, inking and printing process

Artist who photographed herself naked every morning in 1972 has recreated her "Carving" work, to be shown in May 2019

Artists based in Iran were absent at the opening of exhibition of historical and contemporary Iranian art this week due to Trump's travel ban

Ten works are added to the permanent collection, including a striking slavery themed installation by Betye Saar and the museum's first sculpture by Ruth Asawa

The real subject in the show, and the source of each portrait’s fascination, is the tension between self-image and outward appearance

Seriously ill Indonesian-Chinese collector has created a ground-breaking partnership with Los Angeles museum

Two touring exhibitions are highlighting the explosion of global interest in viceregal period

Largest city of the ancient Americas brought back to life in show of Mexican treasures at Lacma

The museum will rehab a disused building in the neighbourhood’s Wetlands Park for storage and exhibition space, and start community arts programming within the next two years

Abdulnasser Gharem says the US show allows him more freedom than he may have in Saudi Arabia

Political and poignant, Gharem's art reflects on one of the defining moments of the 21st century

Former lieutenant colonel in the Saudi Arabian army is known for his politically and socially engaged works that draw on his Muslim heritage