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
Monumental Sanford Biggers sculpture will welcome visitors to Orange County Museum of Art's new home
The sculpture will be installed prominently outdoors at the Southern California museum's new $93m Morphosis-designed building
Takashi Murakami opens major augmented reality show at The Broad in Los Angeles
“For people who are not really familiar with my art, maybe it's hard to understand fully,” the artist says. "I think as a first step of communication, it's a great thing.”
Glenn Kaino and Superblue find hope in the magic of nature
The immersive exhibition, Superblue's first in Los Angeles, lays at the intersection of social and environmental justice and the capacity for spectacle to inspire hope
An outdoor exhibition returns to Joshua Tree, the California desert’s art boomtown
The latest edition of High Desert Test Sites opens as the desert around Joshua Tree is becoming an increasingly popular destination for art-lovers and tourists
Artists visualise Los Angeles’s recent and pre-human histories in Lacma and Snapchat's latest augmented reality collaboration
The second edition of the digital art partnership features Snapchat lenses by artists Judy Baca, Kang Seung Lee and Sandra de la Loza
How do you conserve a sculpture designed to decay?
Neri Oxman’s exhibition at SFMOMA features two versions of a sculpture made with bio-composite materials, one of which will decompose over the course of show
Cut from its frame in brazen theft and lost for 30 years, restored De Kooning painting will take centre stage in Getty show
Los Angeles museum will unveil the results of an intensive conservation of Woman-Ochre, which was badly damaged when it was stolen in 1985
Frank Gehry unveils new design for $350m arts school building in downtown Los Angeles
The new building for the Colburn School, an important music and dance institution, is expected to be complete in 2025
Collector Budi Tek donates contemporary Chinese works to Lacma, including Ai Weiwei's Zodiac Heads
The seven pieces, the first Tek has donated since forming a partnership with the Los Angeles institution in 2018, are featured in a current exhibition
Calida Rawles’s mural makes waves at Inglewood's new SoFi Stadium
The regal painting of a Black woman floating happily in a swirl of water was finished just in time for Los Angeles Rams Super Bowl win on Sunday
After exhaustive performances and pandemic stress, EJ Hill takes a break to paint
The Los Angeles artist is showing a suite of new floral works at Occidental College
Eli Broad’s legacy in Los Angeles endures
Almost a year after the death of philanthropist Eli Broad, his namesake museum remains as ambitious as ever
Lacma acquires 60 works with a focus on Black representation
Among the works joining the museum’s collection are paintings by Amy Sherald and Kehinde Wiley as well as a self-portrait by an artist who worked as a preparator at Lacma for decades
Julian Lennon teams up with US furnishings store RH for photography series
The musician and artist is showing his works in select stores through an arrangement with General Public, the fine arts publisher founded by the former actress Portia de Rossi
The forgotten faces of American art: Lacma surveys 200 years of Black portraiture
An exhibition 'showcasing Black subjects as powerful, beautiful and complex' includes works by and of the greatest Black talents of the last two centuries