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
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
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
'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
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 must-see exhibitions in 2024: from two Michelangelo shows in London to the Met's most expensive painting
We round-up the biggest shows opening each month
From Paris to LA: what exhibitions to see in the world's great art cities in 2024
The shows to visit in London, New York, Los Angeles, Basel and Paris
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
Mindful of its footprint, Desert X returns to the Coachella Valley and mulls expansion
The California biennial, which controversially expanded to Saudi Arabia, is eyeing another international edition
‘I painted and painted and painted, and I refound myself’: Sharon Stone on her first solo show
The actor returned to painting during pandemic lockdowns and used her practice to process difficult periods in her personal life and professional career
A paragon of Desert Modern architecture becomes an art gallery
Art dealer Peter Blake is renting the Palm Springs house that renowned architect William F. Cody built for himself
New York dealer Sean Kelly’s son takes the reins at Los Angeles outpost
Sean Kelly Gallery, a powerhouse of the New York art scene yet for a long time one of the few major players without a location in another city, has kept things in the family at its West Coast space
Seeking more space, a San Francisco dealer relocates to the suburbs
Anthony Meier is joining many of the City by the Bay’s residents who have migrated out of the centre to more spacious surroundings since the start of the pandemic
City of Santa Monica acquires Edgar Ramirez painting from Frieze Los Angeles
Collaboration enables the work from the fair’s Focus section to join the Art Bank collection of the local municipality
Hollywood’s newest art space takes up residence in artist's future burial plot
Nao Bustamante unveils Los Angeles's most ghoulish gallery space in the legendary Hollywood Forever cemetery
Former Los Angeles train depot, transformed into an arts centre in the 1990s, bounces back with influx of new galleries
Municipal support during the pandemic and an influx of new tenants is helping to restore Santa Monica's Bergamot Station Arts Center to its former glory
A bracing VR ride through Ancient Egypt accompanies Ramses II exhibition
A traveling exhibition about the Pharoah of Pharaohs includes ancient artefacts on loan from Egypt, curatorial texts and a $20 VR experience “guided” by Ramses II’s queen, Nefertari
The rediscovery of Abstract Expressionist Bernice Bing
The Chinese American artist, who died at age 62 in relative obscurity, is the subject of an illuminating exhibition at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco
Contemporary and historic photographs capture moments of political urgency in Houston’s FotoFest biennial
The 19th edition of the photography exhibition is on view across various venues in the Texan metropolis
Orange County Museum of Art carries its history forward with inaugural exhibitions in new building
From a show honouring the women who founded the institution to a call-back to a mid-1970s Light and Space exhibition, the OCMA is moving forward and looking back
Works showing the complexities of life in the Americas under Spanish colonial rule go on show at Lacma
The Los Angeles museum recently acquired 100 works from the period to plug an important gap in its collection