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An environmental art festival in Los Angeles seeks to counteract climate despair and inspire action

The organisers of Earth Edition, a new festival at CalArts, are seeking to showcase “what is being done that’s positive, that’s solutions-oriented”

South African gallery Southern Guild opening a permanent space in Los Angeles

The Cape Town-based art and design gallery will inaugurate its Los Angeles location in February of 2024

Hundreds of works from Los Angeles's infamous Ace Gallery to be liquidated via online auction

At least $230,000 worth of art and ephemera is being offered to repay creditors in the gallery's 2013 bankruptcy

Jeff Poe steps down from Blum & Poe, a mainstay of the Los Angeles gallery scene

Jeff Poe and Tim Blum have been running the gallery together since 1994

Los Angeles inaugurates three new art-filled metro stations

The city’s newest underground train stations are home to permanent commissions by eight artists including Andrea Bowers and Ann Hamilton

Keith Haring's first time in Los Angeles: we talk to the curator of the Broad's landmark show

Plus, Tate Britain rehangs its collection and Work of the Week is a Joan Brown painting

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Los Angeles’s Self Help Graphics marks 50 years with $14.9m renovation

The beloved non-profit is undertaking an extensive revamp of its home, a former seafood packing plant near the Downtown Arts District

New York, London, Los Angeles, Dubai, Linz ... Which city has the best digital art?

With the power to show works simultaneously in different countries, digital art does not really need to "be" anywhere. But where it is being created, exhibited and funded has a deep impact on how the work is made

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‘I painted and painted and painted, and I refound myself’: Sharon Stone on her first solo show

The actor returned to painting during pandemic lockdowns and used her practice to process difficult periods in her personal life and professional career

New York dealer Sean Kelly’s son takes the reins at Los Angeles outpost

Sean Kelly Gallery, a powerhouse of the New York art scene yet for a long time one of the few major players without a location in another city, has kept things in the family at its West Coast space

Art Bridges acquires $4.5m Robert Colescott painting at Bonhams auction

The Arkansas-based non-profit was founded by Walmart heiress Alice Walton

Artist and the local football club help fairgoers with soccer skills at Frieze Los Angeles

Alake Shilling demonstrated the art of football at a clinic organised by the Art Production Fund and Los Angeles Football Club

Gold rush: collectors snap up California artists’ work at Frieze Los Angeles

Dealers open new outposts and auction house activity intensifies around the growing fair

Hollywood’s newest art space takes up residence in artist's future burial plot

Nao Bustamante unveils Los Angeles's most ghoulish gallery space in the legendary Hollywood Forever cemetery

Palms by the hotel pool: a relaxed environment for robust sales at the Felix Art Fair

A pre-Frieze opening, record VIP visitors and strong in-person engagement are helping the homegrown fair go from strength to strength

Frieze Los Angeles Diary: Art dealer action figures, Lionel Richie says hello and Tyler the Creator brings his bodyguards

Plus: legendary Hollywood producer Samuel Goldwyn's home and a famous Frank Lloyd Wright house open up to art

'Look with your eyes, not your ears': the best collecting advice Allison Berg's been given and the Kaari Upson sculpture under the stairs

The writer, editor, producer and collector has a passion for Martin Puryear and 'badass' Magdalena Suarez Frimkess

Former Los Angeles train depot, transformed into an arts centre in the 1990s, bounces back with influx of new galleries

Municipal support during the pandemic and an influx of new tenants is helping to restore Santa Monica's Bergamot Station Arts Center to its former glory

New programme matches artists with Los Angeles communities for residencies

Hayley Barker's Night Gallery show draws on her time living at Laguna Castle, a residential group built on communal traditions

Wheeling and dealing: Los Angeles galleries move into old car showrooms

Roberts Projects and Hauser & Wirth take over two of the city’s historic car showrooms, while Lisson slides into a former sex club

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

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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

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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