Jori Finkel

Middle East goes West: show brings Saudi artists to San Francisco

Surprises await visitors to an exhibition of contemporary art in the city’s new gallery complex Minnesota Street Project

Teresa Margolles builds monument to 100 people who died in the streets of Los Angeles

Imposing concrete shelter in Echo Park incorporates debris and residue gathered at homicide scenes

‘Imagine how easy Keith Haring is to fake’

The dealer and author Richard Polsky explains why he is brave enough to authenticate works by Haring and Basquiat

Location, location, location: the real estate lessons to be learned from Ace Gallery’s bankruptcy

How Los Angeles dealer Douglas Chrismas leveraged his property to attract artists, reassure clients, and generate income—even while facing financial disaster

Lawnews

Millions of dollars and dozens of works diverted in Ace Gallery bankruptcy case, accountant finds

In a report to the court, Sam Leslie details why he ended Douglas Chrimas’s involvement in the gallery

Portrait of the artist as a young woman: inside the mind of Eva Hesse

Diaries and film describe how the minimalist lauded by LeWitt was plagued by self-doubt and anxiety

Latino and Latin American artists to meet in Pacific Standard Time

New research leads curators to rip up the rulebook ahead of the Getty’s ambitious PST: LA/LA event

Flip the switch: Lacma’s Urban Light to go dark

The popular public installation is due to be turned off temporarily—but will soon shine again with a new paint job

Hauser Wirth & Schimmel transcends the big-box gallery model

And their inaugural sculpture show goes beyond the oversized trophies of Modern art, says our LA correspondent Jori Finkel

The unspoken reason why galleries are flocking to Los Angeles

Galleries like Sprüth Magers and Hauser Wirth & Schimmel quietly but fiercely compete for the city's artists

Fairsnews

Frontier fun at LA’s Paramount Ranch fair

This scrappy young event is dog-friendly, kid-friendly and artist-friendly

Out-of-towners stay out-of-sight at Art Los Angeles Contemporary fair

But the event delivers for local curators and collectors looking for some of the city’s best artists and galleries

Getty displays Medieval illuminated pages after legal battle finally ends

Manuscripts are part of a table of contents from the Zeyt’un Gospels, a Medieval Armenian bible

How university museums bridge the gap between art and science

The Berkeley Art Museum, which reopens this month, joins host of institutions looking to cross disciplinary boundaries

Los Angeles artist sells shadows of sculptures by Koons and Brancusi at a sliver of the price

Ana Prvacki finds a more “sustainable and minimal” form of appropriation art

Poetry, made in LA

The Hammer Museum names one artist in its upcoming 2016 biennial—who names the biennial itself

Catherine Opie creates monumental work for Los Angeles courthouse

Artist reveals how Yosemite Falls inspired her biggest public art project so far

Getty brings ancient athletes face to face

Intimately related bronze figures are on show together for the first time

Hockney’s new portraits destined for London and Los Angeles shows

Art-world figures including Larry Gagosian and Benedikt Taschen among sitters

The aviator director with one foot in the desert

Lacma’s Michael Govan has adopted Heizer’s vast City complex in the Nevada desert

Kanye West and Steve McQueen discuss their new co-production now on show at Lacma

But why the reluctance to call the nine-minute piece a “music video”?

Ford Foundation joins global fight against inequality

Grants of $500m will focus on fairness, president says

Westward, ho! San Francisco show to explore Ruscha's vision of the American frontier

Cars, cowboys and Hollywood shape exhibitition planned for 2016 at the De Young

Museums pay tribute to the art that Aids made

The 1980s art world was devastated by HIV/Aids, but artists made era-defining work even as their peers were dying from the disease. Now, US institutions are recognising the extent of their legacy, with numerous shows planned

Remembering Chris Burden, the artist who traded daredevil performances for daring engineering

Lacma plans to put on show artist's 40-ft-long airship, his last project, this week

Paris Photo Los Angeles loses its international accent

The latest West Coast edition of the French fair is more Californian than ever—a threat to its future