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
Percent for art programme to expand into Los Angeles county’s unincorporated areas
A civic ordinance in effect from October sets aside 1% of building projects for arts and culture programmes
Santa Barbara Museum of Art opens rejuvenated lobby and galleries
$50m renovation of California institution improves structural stability and helps to showcase the riches of the collection
Felix brings the in-person art fair back to Los Angeles
The fair, hosted at the glitzy Hollywood Roosevelt hotel, features 29 L.A. based galleries and is bolstered by the city's own gallery weekend and the Frieze online viewing room
No luck getting tickets for immersive Van Gogh show? San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum opens with more cutting-edge projections by teamLab
The pandemic-delayed expansion features an interactive exhibition by the Japanese contemporary art collective that was designed to disorient
Ai Weiwei’s animals feel the heat as conservators treat them to al fresco waxing at Lacma
Sculptures arrived from China ahead of a show of works of Chinese contemporary art
Diego Rivera’s kaleidoscopic Pan American Unity mural takes up residence at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
The monumental work, on loan from a local college and always meant to be mobile, was painstakingly transported across town
Desert X loses venue for Judy Chicago ‘smoke sculpture’
Following environmental concerns, The Living Desert garden and zoo has pulled out of a planned project with the artist this month
Lintels at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco to return to Thailand
Museum director says Justice Department’s legal case only served “to cloud the respectful and serious process of deaccession and repatriation”
Smoke sculptures, word gardens and a ‘jackrabbit homestead’: Desert X announces artist projects for third edition
Judy Chicago, Oscar Murillo, Nicholas Galanin and others to present works in Southern California's first major art event since the pandemic shutdown last year
Orange County Museum of Art names Heidi Zuckerman as director
Former leader of Aspen Art Museum says she was beguiled by the California institution’s history and new building by Morphosis
Once greeted as a sensation, 1931 aluminum-clad house gets a boost for relocation at the Palm Springs Art Museum in California
$100,000 grant will advance an effort to reassemble and display Albert Frey and A. Lawrence Kocher’s Modernist Aluminaire House
Provocative Marilyn Monroe sculpture to return to Palm Springs—and the arts community is not happy about it
A plan to install the kitsch work in front of the city’s art museum has raised complaints from the community, which has called Forever Marilyn “blatantly sexist”
US presses for return of two Thai lintels from Asian Art Museum in San Francisco to Thailand
Federal attorneys file a civil complaint, but museum says repatriation was already in the works
SFMoMA releases a plan for diversity reforms
Following weeks of upheaval among current and former staff, the museum has issued a list of actions to improve diversity, equity, and inclusion
Gainsborough's newly restored Blue Boy awaits the end of lockdown
Closed by coronavirus, Huntington Library posts online video reflecting on 18-month conservation treatment of dazzling portrait