Jori Finkel
Clear the runway! Chris Burden Skyscraper lands at Frieze Los Angeles
The late artist's monumental metal sculpture, only exhibited once before, is a beacon at the fair's new Santa Monica Airport location
David Hockney’s latest floral iPad works to blossom at five different galleries, from Los Angeles to Paris
LA Louver, Gray, Pace, Annely Juda and Galerie Lelong team up to show the same works at more or less the same time in five different cities
With new $94m building, the Orange County Museum of Art gets its own version of the Met museum steps
Fourteen years in the making, the new 53,000 sq. ft building designed by Thom Mayne of architecture firm Morphosis features a wide outdoor staircase intended to serve as a gathering place
‘Are you going to be a witness or are you going to be a bystander?’ A new true-crime podcast examines Ana Mendieta’s shocking death
The podcast’s host, curator Helen Molesworth, discusses Mendieta’s work, life and death—and what at times resembles an art-world cover-up
Is Alice Rahon the next Surrealist rediscovery?
San Francisco dealer Wendi Norris is giving Rahon the royal treatment, with a new exhibition and online archive
Ruth Asawa made hundreds of masks of her San Francisco community—now a local museum is putting them on permanent display
Representing one of the artist’s least known but most ambitious works, "The Faces of Ruth Asawa" is going on show at Stanford University's Cantor Arts Center
Amid overwhelming silence from US museums on Roe v. Wade news, ICA San Francisco offers its space to abortion rights activists
Few museums have spoken out since a leaked draft of a US Supreme Court decision indicated that the country's highest court will overturn the landmark abortion rights case
Los Angeles alternative space LAXART lays down roots with $5m new building
After moving into its first permanent home later this year, nonprofit is prepping an ambitious show of decommissioned Confederate monuments
Light and much more Space: first look at the expanded Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
La Jolla museum is set to reopen after a $105m renovation and collection revamp, telling the story of contemporary art from a distinctively West Coast perspective
Trains, planes and a sea-faring hamster: Chris Burden’s unrealised projects come to light
A new book published by Gagosian chronicles 67 projects conceived by the late artist, which for reasons such as funding and technology were never executed
Womanhouse—the original matrix for feminist art—turns 50
Anat Ebgi gallery and Judy Chicago’s Through the Flower exhibition space are marking the occasion
Pace and David Zwirner’s new Los Angeles branches expected to test local loyalties
The mega-galleries are planning local outposts, posing challenges for the homegrown Los Angeles galleries who share their artists
The women artists altering our perception of the Light and Space movement
The history of a movement long-centred on Robert Irwin and James Turrell is being radically expanded
Liz Larner’s Corner Basher channels the helpless and hopeful rage of our day
The artist’s 1988 kinetic, participatory sculpture—which is included in a new survey show at SculptureCenter in New York—is temperamentally attuned to the prevailing moods of 2022
East meets west: Los Angeles galleries seize on real estate discounts prompted by the pandemic to open New York outposts
West Coast gallerists in the artist-discovery business are landing in Manhattan
The Big Review: Judy Chicago at De Young Museum
The retrospective of the legendary feminist offers some familiar pleasures and a chance to re-evaluate her recent work
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive staff grows with Christina Yang as new chief curator
The museum’s director Julie Rodrigues Widholm has made several senior-level hires in her first year
Museum of Star Wars creator George Lucas goes on buying spree with international, if not intergalactic, focus
Gearing up for 2023 opening, Lucas Museum adds works by Frida Kahlo, Robert Colescott and Artemisia Gentileschi to filmmaker's Norman Rockwell trove
Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles names Johanna Burton of the Wexner as its first executive director
Burton will run the museum with Klaus Biesenbach, who has been reassigned as artistic director in a restructuring
Barbara Kruger: ‘Thank God I’m an artist and not a movie or Tiktok star’
As a survey show opens in Chicago, the US artist discusses the political urgency of her work, her response to rip-offs, and her desire to let the work speak for her
Despite widespread opposition, 'sexist' Marilyn Monroe statue installed next to Palm Springs Art Museum
A number of activist groups are still fighting to relocate the statue, considered to be exploitative and sexist, from outside the museum
A masterclass in activism: What artists today can learn from ACT UP’s response to the Aids crisis
A new book by Sarah Schulman describes how the radically democratic and fast acting group grabbed the public’s attention and held politicians and institutions accountable
Eli Broad, an unexpected—and often unreasonable—arts patron
The self-made billionaire helped shape the Los Angeles art scene, while clashing with most of its prominent museum leaders
‘Some Like It Not’: protesters rally against plan to install Marilyn Monroe sculpture near Palm Springs Art Museum
Dozens gather to denounce sexualised depiction of actress with her skirt flying up
The Big Review | Made in LA 2020: A Version
The Los Angeles biennial has been installed but unvisited for six months due to Covid-19 restrictions. Does it still capture our present moment?
His name is my name too: Nick Cave, the musician, creates further confusion with Nick Cave, the artist, by releasing new visual art works
UK culture war: how should museums confront colonialism?
Plus, craft and American identity and critic Michael Peppiatt on Frank Auerbach
Can Clubhouse recreate those art world conversations we are all missing?
Our correspondent gamely makes her way through a full day of AMAA talks, NFT tips, IG debates, and more, so you don’t have to
A gift of blue-chip Modern art comes to the Seattle Art Museum
The Friday Foundation, run by the heirs of collectors Jane Lang Davis and Richard E. Lang, has donated 19 works by artists including Bacon, Rothko, Krasner, Pollock, Frankenthaler, Kline and de Kooning
Meet the experts who root out racism and exclusion in the arts
Racial equity consultants are helping to roll out strategies and training for museum staff and executives