The Museum of Contemporary Art celebrates its anniversary by looking back over the past four decades

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

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

New commercial gallery shows—from East African scenes to Freud’s sitter

The historic Southwest Museum, operated by the Autry Museum of the American West, is seeking proposals for reuse

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

The city’s street paintings, vehicles for protest since the 1930s, continue to be a flashpoint

The exhibition includes a major new 13-hour video

Closure comes just weeks after three key staff members announced their departures

A local stalwart celebrates its tenth edition, a New Yorker goes West, and a young upstart sets out its stall at the Roosevelt Hotel

We speak to the co-founder of Freedman Fitzpatrick gallery in Los Angeles about coding, George Bush and mistaking dealers for magicians

First LA edition of the British fair focuses on local artists and pieces that speak to a Hollywood crowd

Plus, Suzanne Jackson’s modest gallery revival

The artist dives deep to create a lurid theatre from biological forms for his Frieze Los Angeles Projects commission

We speak to the senior director of Night Gallery in Los Angeles about art world small talk, forgotten studio visits and the resurgence of photography

Last year, the LA gallery took on Michael Williams, Fred Eversley, Huma Bhabha and Lauren Halsey

The Los Angeles-based philanthropist tells us what she's bought and why

Artist Tai Shani and art consultant James Doeser on the grim reality of working as an artist today and Jori Finkel on the inaugural edition of Frieze Los Angeles. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793.

More than 20 photographs are included in the artist’s first solo exhibition at a US museum

Don’t Forget to Breathe—three ghostly figures lit from within—are on show in an abandoned storefront

Having for years viewed each other with suspicion, relations between agencies and galleries may start warming up

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

The fair gets short shrift in the art media, perhaps for its street-y nature or for its focus on spectacle and maximalism

She founded the LA History Project, which led to the exhibition series Pacific Standard Time

The Getty Foundation’s leader, who retired in December, discusses her feminist credentials and the broader challenges in cultural philanthropy

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

For Frieze Projects, artists including Barbara Kruger and Paul McCarthy will create site-specific works within Paramount Pictures Studios's fake New York city

It was not just Malibu’s celebrities who lost their property in the Woolsey Fire that ravaged the beachside community