Los Angeles
Los Angeles authorities criticised for art project to ‘beautify’ areas after unhoused people living in vehicles moved
In a city facing an acute housing crisis, and where around 14,000 people live in their vehicles, the initiative sparked a swift backlash from artists and housing advocates
Los Angeles gallery Anat Ebgi taking over former Praz-Dellavalade space
The gallery's newest location will launch with a site-specific project by Jibade-Khalil Huffman, followed by a full renovation
Lacma pushes back opening of new building until 2026
Museum leaders are hoping to organise public programming in the empty building next year
Paul McCarthy throwing out vast installation no institution or collector stepped in to preserve
Last year, the artist put his 2013 installation “WS White Snow” on show in a Los Angeles warehouse in hopes of finding a long-term custodian
Lacma, Moca and the Hammer Museum jointly acquire significant collection of works by Los Angeles artists
The three museums will share 260 pieces from the collection of Jarl and Pamela Mohn, plus recent and future acquisitions of works by local artists
Loving La La land: Steve Martin to collaborate on show paying homage to Los Angeles
The Hauser & Wirth exhibition is set to embrace Hollywood comedy royalty
Los Angeles museum repatriates 20 objects to the Warumungu people of Australia
The Australian government pays the major expenses of repatriation, making it easier for cash-strapped museums to engage with the often expensive and time-consuming process
An uncensored triumph for Barbara Carrasco's Los Angeles mural
Four decades after refusing to sanitise her depiction of the city’s history, the artist will see her giant mural, and all its 51 vignettes of scenes and people, installed in the LA Natural History Museum’s new entrance pavilion
$11m worth of public art at the LA Clippers' new arena
Charles Gaines, Refik Anadol, Glenn Kaino and four other renowned artists with local connections were chosen to create some monumental works in Inglewood
The Broad will reimagine a famed Joseph Beuys reforestation project
Inspired by '7000 Eichen (7000 Oaks)' and organised in conjunction with PST Art, the initiative coincides with a major solo show of the artist’s work
Getty’s PST Art initiative will open with a colossal Cai Guo-Qiang fireworks display
The artist’s daytime fireworks event, incorporating drones and artificial intelligence, will take place in and above the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on 15 September
Megan Mulrooney, a former director at Nino Mier, will open her own gallery in his old Los Angeles space
A native of Los Angeles, Mulrooney aims to highlight emerging and mid-career artists at her eponymous gallery
After public vote, Los Angeles Natural History Museum’s star dinosaur fossil christened with unusual gname
The 75ft-long sauropod fossil will go on prominent display when the museum’s new entry pavilion opens this autumn
Sidney Felsen, co-founder of influential Los Angeles printmaking studio Gemini GEL, has died, aged 99
Felsen was also a trained artist and prolific photographer, who documented his close contact with the artists who worked at Gemini
Employment in California’s creative economy took a hit in 2023, but ‘museums were leading the way’ to growth
The latest Otis College of Art and Design report on the state’s arts economy found every sector experienced declines in employment last year—except the fine and performing arts
Los Angeles's Institute of Contemporary Art reveals details of $12m revamp and expansion
The downtown museum has announced an ambitious renovation plan that centers local artists
Lauren Halsey to create outdoor sculpture park in South Central, Los Angeles
In addition to the temporary sculpture park, Halsey will open a community centre in 2026 through her non-profit Summaeverythang
Los Angeles non-profit LAXART prepares to re-open in new home with new name
The art space's first commission under its new name, the Brick, is a mural of Pope.L by the 3B Collective
The artist ‘bending’ the Los Angeles River
Lauren Bon is hoping her new project can save some of Southern California’s most precious resource: water
The Broad museum in Los Angeles reveals $100m expansion plans
The institution has re-enlisted the architecture firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro to create a new wing that will expand its gallery space by 70%
Revisiting Jean-Michel Basquiat's Los Angeles breakthroughs
New show, co-curated by Larry Gagosian, includes works Basquiat made with dismantled fenceposts from the property in Venice that he used as a studio
John Lennon drawing coming up at auction in California
The sale at Analogr in Glendale features an original work by the late Beatle, which has a note from his widow, the artist Yoko Ono, on the back
Five years on, Frieze Los Angeles has grown up without growing old
Long doubted, the fair proves it is here to stay with its latest edition
Winning by a whisker: the rodents of Sharif Farrag’s Rat Race face off at Frieze Los Angeles
Stuffed-animal bodies sporting ceramic heads, hubcaps and their own licence plates roam Frieze
Judy Baca turns Lacma into her studio as she charts the history of Los Angeles
The artist is working on sections of 'The Great Wall of Los Angeles' at the museum
Frieze Los Angeles Diary: slam-dunk stars, out-of-this-world shoes and hole-y dough
Plus: critters clash in clay and visitors take home dirt bags
‘Largest Black public art project in the US’ to launch in Los Angeles this spring
Conceived as an outdoor museum, with murals and sculptures by artists both world-renowned and locally beloved, Destination Crenshaw aims to preserve a close-knit community
Santa Monica Art Bank and California African American Museum make opening-day acquisitions at Frieze Los Angeles
Sculpture by Mustafa Ali Clayton and textile Gary Tyler enter collections
Frieze Los Angeles diary: A-listers abound, Koh’s coffee break and Bowers’s champagne moment
Plus: dreamy Fellini drawings and opulent parties
How artist-run gallery The Pit is helping to form a new art district in Los Angeles
The founders are breaking the mould by moving into the Eastside neighbourhood Atwater Village—with others soon to follow