California
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”
Cammie Staros evokes environmentally apocalyptic scenarios on the Lux Art Institute app
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California man is charged with illegally importing an ancient mosaic, possibly from Syria
Indictment says the paperwork misrepresented the work’s quality and value
Compound, a space for art and wellness, to open in Long Beach, California
The inaugural programming includes displays of work by Glenn Kaino and Tavares Strachan and free yoga, meditation, and gardening classes
Los Angeles police recover $800,000 worth of stolen lithographs by Scottish artist Benjamin Creme
Missing since 2012, around 1,300 prints have been returned to their rightful owner, who used to sell Creme's works
Art storage demands flare as California fires rage
Calls for emergency art storage are putting pressure on art shipment and insurance firms
Goethe-Institut Los Angeles examines architecture and design amid housing crisis
A symposium bringing together architects and scholars from around the world takes place as homelessness surges in the state of California
Experts fear California's gig economy law may hit culture workers
Independent curators and handlers could be affected but no major changes predicted in museum recruitment practices
Oakland’s ‘museum of the people’ launches $85m capital campaign
Renovation aims to reflect the demographic diversity of the birthplace of the Black Panthers
Families express frustration over trial outcome in California's Ghost Ship fire
Acquittal for one man and deadlock on another on charges related to artists' compound shifts the focus to pending civil lawsuit
Main Museum’s mysterious closure serves as a cautionary tale about funding
Closure comes just weeks after three key staff members announced their departures
Action! Cinematic works abound at Frieze Los Angeles as galleries go all out for glamour
First LA edition of the British fair focuses on local artists and pieces that speak to a Hollywood crowd
Hits and misses at Palm Springs's second Desert X biennial
Some half-baked works mean this year’s event fails to live up to the promise of the first edition
Art and entertainment worlds cosy up at Frieze Los Angeles
Having for years viewed each other with suspicion, relations between agencies and galleries may start warming up
Artists’ homes and work destroyed in California wildfires
It was not just Malibu’s celebrities who lost their property in the Woolsey Fire that ravaged the beachside community
Fly me to the moon? Elon Musk plans to launch Japanese billionaire collector Yusaku Maezawa and eight artists into space
After a year-long journey in the California desert, Desert X's art rover Shybot is found
The missing and crowd averse work has been recovered in Palm Springs, a bit banged up but otherwise intact
Dalí foundation sues California museum for use of artist’s name and image
Monterey’s Dalí17, which displays the 500-work private collection of the Ukrainian-born real estate developer Dimitry Piterman, features the Surrealist’s face—complete with upturned moustache—on its logo
Appeals court largely strikes down California’s artist resale rights law
The decision limits the rule to a narrow one-year window of secondary market sales—but what does it mean for the future of droit de suite in the US?
Grants aim to find solutions to Bay Area artists’ housing crisis
Among the projects to receive $25,000 from the California College of Arts is an affordable live/work space for emerging artists and designers in Stockton
New York gallerist Tanya Bonakdar to open first space in Los Angeles
The dealer says her artists encouraged the expansion
Bay Area commissions turn dismantled guns into art
The Robby Poblete Foundation, started by the mother of an aspiring artist and gun violence victim, aims to take guns off the street and draw attention to daily shootings in minority neighbourhoods
San Francisco promotes pro-immigrant projects
The programming series comes as Trump’s administration is fighting California over its "sanctuary state" laws
Marcia Hafif, California artist who found her calling in Italy, has died, aged 89
Like many other female artists of her generation, the painter and performer was overlooked by most of the art world until recently
Fury over artist’s plan to preserve prototypes of Trump’s border wall
Others, including the Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, support Christoph Büchel’s proposal to turn the eight designs into national monuments
Büchel’s feeble satire ignores the hateful reality of Trump’s wall
The petition to make the proposed border wall a National Landmark is one of the worst excesses of contemporary art and needs to be called out
Californian collectors hit by tax rise
The rates for use tax and sales tax has increased to 7.5%
California and New Mexico murals go digital with the Getty
Painstakingly documented by Ernest Long, this archive may be all that is left of many