Jori Finkel
Wishful thinking: LA’s latest pop-up art project is both highly memorable and totally Instagrammable
Artist collective The Art Department spent a year gathering heaps of dandelion fuzz for their immersive "wish factory"
Trevor Paglen’s Orbital Reflector sculpture fails to deploy
The artist says the US government shutdown effectively “killed” the sculpture
Honey I shrunk the art: the ultimate alternative biennial opens in Los Angeles
Dollhouse-sized paintings and installations replace big artistic statements and egos
Three exhibitions to see in Los Angeles this week
From the West Coast version of Soul of a Nation, to Roy DeCarava’s photographic studies of blackness
Topping a million visitors: how MCA Australia broadened the appeal of contemporary art
With more than a million people through the doors annually since 2015, the museum is a case study in how to expand audiences
Women are written into online art history at expanded Wikipedia edit-a-thons across Southern California
The group Art+Feminism has organised events at six museums to boost the online presence of women artists and cultural leaders
Max Hooper Schneider: 'my fantasy army of marine-mammal people, across all genders'
The artist dives deep to create a lurid theatre from biological forms for his Frieze Los Angeles Projects commission
David Kordansky doubles gallery space and expands diverse artist roster
Last year, the LA gallery took on Michael Williams, Fred Eversley, Huma Bhabha and Lauren Halsey
Can artists live off art alone? Plus, Los Angeles
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.
Hits and misses at Palm Springs's second Desert X biennial
Some half-baked works mean this year’s event fails to live up to the promise of the first edition
Six shows to see during Frieze Los Angeles
From a Charles White retrospective to raw canvases inspired by the occult and queer sex magic
LA stories: Deborah Marrow looks back
The Getty Foundation’s leader, who retired in December, discusses her feminist credentials and the broader challenges in cultural philanthropy
Three exhibitions to see in Los Angeles this weekend
From 3D illusions at Lacma to environmental disasters at the Craft & Folk Art Museum
The Getty’s Renaissance Nude explores issues of power and sexuality—but don’t expect a #metoo reckoning
The show includes male and female examples for historic accuracy, its lead curator says
Eleanor Antin revisits her dieting diary, 45 years on, for Lacma show
Artist who photographed herself naked every morning in 1972 has recreated her "Carving" work, to be shown in May 2019
For her final show at MoCA LA, curator Helen Molesworth chews on the meaning of 'termite art'
Inspired by an underground essay written by the late artist Manny Farber, the exhibition concept is anything but clear-cut
Recognising Victor Hugo as an avant-garde artist
Drawings in a show opening at the Hammer testify to his feverish spiritual side
Hayv Kahraman on the Kurdish exodus—and the trouble with humanitarian campaigns
The Baghdad-born, Los Angeles-based artist talks about the impetus for her new work at Susanne Vielmetter
Josh Roth, Hollywood deal-maker who was the head of UTA's fine arts division, has died, aged 40
His death comes just weeks after the opening of the agency's new gallery in Beverly Hills, designed by the artist Ai Weiwei
‘A critical juncture’: Richard Koshalek on MOCA’s future under Klaus Biesenbach
The Los Angeles museum’s longest-serving director shares his recommendations for its newly appointed leader
After a year-long journey in the California desert, Desert X's art rover Shybot is found
The missing and crowd averse work has been recovered in Palm Springs, a bit banged up but otherwise intact
Appeals court largely strikes down California’s artist resale rights law
The decision limits the rule to a narrow one-year window of secondary market sales—but what does it mean for the future of droit de suite in the US?
The best shows in town during Frieze New York
From Adrian Piper at MoMA to Radican Women in Brooklyn
Lacma acquires major works by women through lively Collectors Committee Weekend
Ten works are added to the permanent collection, including a striking slavery themed installation by Betye Saar and the museum's first sculpture by Ruth Asawa
Los Angeles’s David Kordansky Gallery gives Betty Woodman her first retrospective in years
The posthumous survey traces the artist’s trajectory, from classic pottery to wildly dramatic forms
Will Ferrell and Joel McHale try to make sense of the art at LA’s Hammer Museum
Wonderfully tongue in cheek video, the museum's curator Aram Moshayedi takes the actors on a mock VIP tour of the show Stories of Almost Everyone
Sam Durant and Anne Ellegood reflect on being in the hot seat of museum controversies
The artist and curator shared what they learned from their 2017 experiences during a College Art Association panel on "censorship"
Scholars weave craft into the art history canon at College Art Association
The subject appears throughout this year's programme for the leading US conference for art historians
The Getty, the world’s richest museum, hunts for wealthy patrons
Some are concerned that new fundraising drive will lure donors from other Los Angeles institutions
Podcast episode 16: Charles I at the Royal Academy—an exhibition fit for a king
We pick apart the latest smash hit show to open in London with art historian Bendor Grosvenor, then complete our 2018 preview with a look at the big exhibitions coming to the US this year