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Diarypreview

A very fond farewell to Machine Project

A post from Maxwell Williams' Take It To The Max

Diarypreview

Catherine Opie’s first film is right on queue

Part of Maxwell Williams' Take it to the Max

Art marketanalysis

Art Los Angeles Contemporary fair perks up, but is it enough?

The city could use a circuit-making commercial event, but a lack of momentum is holding it back

Art marketarchive

Arts scene in downtown Los Angeles grows

Galleries, not developers, are driving the creation of new arts neighbourhoods in the city

Eli Broadarchive

LA Mayor spares the city’s cultural department despite financial pressure

The philanthropist Eli Broad will help the organisation focus on attracting tourists

Eli Broadarchive

Eli Broad leads subway route campaign in Los Angeles

Philanthropist joins group petitioning to expand LA Metro

Interviewarchive

“LA is tricky, slippery, invisible”: Interview with dealer Shaun Caley Regen

…but that didn’t stop the contemporary dealer opening Regen Projects’ biggest ever space with a first-class show last month

Collectorsarchive

Who’s buying? Art collectors in LA

Many have private museums, serve as trustees and lend to public museums

Los Angeles’ post-war art remapped: Pacific Standard Time puts city’s lesser known artists in the spotlight

The Getty funded project has resulted in more than 125 exhibitions, performances, and events to celebrate the city's history

Interview with Glenn Kaino: Now you see him...

When Kaino thought the art world was getting too obsessed with money, he retreated into the realm of magic

New Museumarchive

Los Angeles Broad Art Foundation aims at ultra accessibility

Los Angeles collectors Eli and Edythe Broad open their doors

Art marketarchive

Rumoured expansion west for Cheim & Read

While opening remains unconfirmed, it would be among a spate of other galleries branching out

Collectorsinterview

‘I’ve never met anyone who collects cynically’: an interview with Steve Martin

The polymath performer Steve Martin has written An Object of Beauty, a novel set in the art world. So should every dealer he’s ever met be afraid?

Interview with Mark Bradford: “It’s a complex conversation and there’s no closure”

The artist on class and identity in South Central LA, working with children and making art in post-Katrina New Orleans

Dealers look to LA future as blue-chip galleries move west

Galleries such as Gagosian and Matthew Marks see opportunities, despite small collector base

Museumsarchive

Eli Broad uses Art Basel in mission to prevent LA Moca's closure

Appeals which demonstrated the museum's necessary and individual character were made to target potential patrons

Gagosian doubling space in Los Angeles

Meanwhile, Steven Kasher moves in on Gagosian territory

Booksarchive

Books: Sixties art in the US, a tale of two coasts

Eva Hesse’s tragic vision and the multifarious works by artists in California

Newsarchive

“Curator’s essay traduces my wife’s work” says husband of Lee Bontecou

William Giles stated that an essay by Robert Storr misrepresented Bontecou's work

What’s On: rest of US commercial galleries

Delia Brown: getting hung up at a collector’s home en route to the museum. Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles

Eli Broadarchive

Eli Broad finances new building scheme for Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Total rebuild by Dutch architect, Rem Koolhaas, is scrapped, however

Sean Scully at LA Louver, Los Angeles

In the tradition of numerous art-historical masters, Scully takes inspiration from his time in Morocco

Berlin Andy Warhol retrospective comes to LA

The blockbuster show comes to the US via London

Collectorsarchive

Collector profile: Eli Broad. 'Real entrepreneurs don’t collect Old Masters'

Eli Broad speaks about how he cultivates culture in Southern California

Collectorsarchive

Collectors’ profile: “America’s model millionaires”

Computer-glitch software, Norton Utilities, has made the fortunes of Peter and Eileen Norton

Castello di Rivoli to host its second exhibition of American art this year

“Sunshine and noir” explores the dramatic contrasts of Los Angeles as seen through the art produced there over the past forty years

The art scene takes off in LA with a star studded cast including Gagosian and PaceWildenstein

Tinseltown tunes into art as money and movies draw New York dealers, creating new collectors out of Hollywood royalty - though no one will kiss and tell