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Felix Art Fair in Los Angeles is packed with smashing ceramics

The hotel rooms and cabanas at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel abound with clay sculptures—and plenty of paintings, too

Exploring Architectural Pottery's mid-century Modern design legacy

A show at the American Museum of Ceramic Art highlights the ceramics company's groundbreaking designs that complemented post-war architecture

Doug Aitken: ‘I didn’t start with characters, I started with topographies’

The artist’s multi-channel video project at the Marciano Art Foundation, and related solo show at Regen Projects, are an ode to Los Angeles’s “dark magic”

Los Angeles artists face long road to recovery after deadly wildfires

Some lost everything, others are in limbo waiting to go home and most have found support in the art community

12 must-see exhibitions in and around Los Angeles during Frieze

From ancient Peruvian pottery and mid-century Modern ceramics, to reimagined Old Masters, an invented queer cowboy movie and more

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Moca Los Angeles announces recipients of new environmental art prize

The artists Cecilia Vicuña and Julian Charrière will each receive $100,000 and exhibit new work at the museum

PST Art’s science-meets-art extravaganza in eight superlatives

From the Getty initiative’s most widely exhibited artist to its most calming installation

Los Angeles museum repatriates 20 objects to the Warumungu people of Australia

The Australian government pays the major expenses of repatriation, making it easier for cash-strapped museums to engage with the often expensive and time-consuming process

An uncensored triumph for Barbara Carrasco's Los Angeles mural

Four decades after refusing to sanitise her depiction of the city’s history, the artist will see her giant mural, and all its 51 vignettes of scenes and people, installed in the LA Natural History Museum’s new entrance pavilion

$11m worth of public art at the LA Clippers' new arena

Charles Gaines, Refik Anadol, Glenn Kaino and four other renowned artists with local connections were chosen to create some monumental works in Inglewood

Aspen Art Fair is newest addition to wealthy Colorado town’s art calendar

The Rocky Mountain culture crush continues with a second art fair taking place the same week as Intersect Aspen

Getty’s PST Art initiative goes green for science-centric edition

As it prepares for its next Southern California-wide programme launching in September, the Getty is supporting participants’ efforts to reduce their environmental impacts

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Employment in California’s creative economy took a hit in 2023, but ‘museums were leading the way’ to growth

The latest Otis College of Art and Design report on the state’s arts economy found every sector experienced declines in employment last year—except the fine and performing arts

Palm Springs Art Museum launches permanent LGBTQ+ programming

The California institution’s new Q+ Art initiative is the first of its kind in the US and includes exhibitions, public programming, acquisitions and awards

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The artist ‘bending’ the Los Angeles River

Lauren Bon is hoping her new project can save some of Southern California’s most precious resource: water

John Lennon drawing coming up at auction in California

The sale at Analogr in Glendale features an original work by the late Beatle, which has a note from his widow, the artist Yoko Ono, on the back

‘Largest Black public art project in the US’ to launch in Los Angeles this spring

Conceived as an outdoor museum, with murals and sculptures by artists both world-renowned and locally beloved, Destination Crenshaw aims to preserve a close-knit community

Spring Break art fair in Los Angeles puts personality first at fifth edition

The fair continues to push back against the white cube model with plenty of characterful stands and satirical works

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Colour visions: PST Art shows how technology and art have shaped cinema

Several of the exhibitions in PST Art in Los Angeles this September will tell the history of the film industry while also looking to the future

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'The biggest arts project in the US': PST Art to bring dozens of exhibitions to Los Angeles and Southern California this September

The third PST Art, presented by the Getty, will be focused on the connections between art and science

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Albert Frey’s Aluminaire House finds a home 

The Swiss architect's building for the future has—at last—found a permanent location in Palm Springs

Los Angeles museum repatriates Asante artefacts to Ghana

The Fowler Museum at UCLA has repatriated seven artefacts that were taken during the Sagrenti War of 1874

The 'world's first art amusement park' rides again

With attractions by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Sonia Delaunay, David Hockney, Roy Lichtenstein and others, the resurrected Luna Luna opens in Los Angeles this month

In the latest Made in LA biennial, art and life are one

The latest edition of the Hammer Museum’s closely-watched biennial takes its title, “Acts of Living”, from a comment by revered Southern California assemblage sculptor Noah Purifoy

New Mexico Museum of Art adds $20.2m contemporary art outpost

The new Vladem Contemporary, which adds exhibition, education and storage space, aims to showcase recent art in a state best-known for its Modernist traditions

Los Angeles’s Self Help Graphics marks 50 years with $14.9m renovation

The beloved non-profit is undertaking an extensive revamp of its home, a former seafood packing plant near the Downtown Arts District

Getty reveals $17m in funding and 50-plus exhibitions for 2024 edition of Pacific Standard Time

The science-themed initiative will span museums and organisations big and small throughout Southern California