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Los Angeles wildfire memorial project seeks to save chimneys from famous architects’ houses

Chimneys from Pacific Palisades homes designed by Richard Neutra, Eric Lloyd Wright and others—in many cases the homes’ only remaining elements—would be turned into a memorial for wildfire victims

The Broad breaks ground on its $100m expansion

If everything goes according to plan, the buildout will open just before the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles

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Remembering Val Kilmer: film star, artist, collector and subverter of the male archetype

The ‘Top Gun’ and ‘Heat’ star was a fixture on the Los Angeles contemporary art scene—and made his own art exploring themes such as his rich heritage

‘We cannot remain silent’: Museums in Los Angeles brace for Trump’s immigration crackdown

Faced with anti-immigrant policies, institutional leaders are providing “know your rights” guidance

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California’s creative economy buttressed by Hollywood and college arts departments

This is according to the latest edition of the Otis College Report on the Creative Economy

Lucas Museum of Narrative Art’s director will depart before institution opens

George Lucas, the “Star Wars” film-maker and co-founder of the museum, will take on a programming role following Sandra Jackson-Dumont’s departure

Artist offers bird’s-eye view of Los Angeles wildfire devastation

Madeline Hollander teamed up with Santa Monica Flyers for Frieze Projects

Rajiv Menon Contemporary, a new gallery with focus on South Asian art, opens in Hollywood

The gallery’s debut exhibition showcases established and emerging artists of South Asian descent

Post-Fair, a new satellite fair in Santa Monica, delivers camaraderie without high costs

The fair is held in an Art Deco former post office and provides a collegial atmosphere

‘One night I slept under my desk’: Getty leader Katherine Fleming reflects on solidarity in the wake of the Los Angeles wildfires

The chief executive of the J. Paul Getty Trust shares her experience of the disaster, how the institution is supporting artists in the aftermath and the important capital projects that are on the way

'I’m still dreaming about a very large Tomo Campbell painting': the lighting executive Alexandra Mathews on brilliant abstraction

The collector tells us about her family firm’s artist collaborations, and her first art purchase, furniture from a Paris flea market

In Pictures: Frieze Los Angeles, a feast for the senses

“Don’t touch the art” is, generally, a good rule of thumb at an art fair, but a few dealers at Frieze Los Angeles are offering more multi-sensory pieces involving touch, sound or the always-edifying experience of seeing yourself reflected in a work of art

Rising from the ashes: as Los Angeles rebuilds after the wildfires, a Del Vaz Projects exhibition features subversive new ecologies

The exhibition includes work by three artists who are united by a shared invocation of alchemical transformation

‘Painting is uniquely suited to house these air phenomena’: Su Yu-Xin's atmospheric worlds

The Los Angeles-based artist’s Orange County Museum of Art show features luminous, airy painting she composes with homemade pigments

Chris Burden’s folly offers oasis of calm at Frieze

Installation was originally created for the 2001 Istanbul Biennial

Bruce Nauman and David Hammons unveil portentously empty galleries in Los Angeles

Marian Goodman and Hauser & Wirth opened their doors to (almost) blank spaces for each artist’s exhibition

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

Expert Eye: Amanda Sroka’s Frieze Los Angeles favourites

Gathering objects of desire with the senior curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

Los Angeles-based producer Michael Sherman on his 'love at first sight' buying strategy

The film producer reveals that his first purchase was a Banksy, and how he missed the chance to buy a work by Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, who died last month

‘I wanted my gay cowboy 80s movie’: Ana Segovia realises the movie he always wanted to watch for MoCA

The Mexico City-based artist created his own fake classic film as inspiration for a show of new paintings at the Museum of Contemporary Art

Eight PST Art shows, in and around Los Angeles, to see before they close

While most museum shows in the PST Art: Art & Science Collide event closed at the end of 2024, more than two dozen are still open. Here are the best of the bunch, which explore themes from gender non-conformity to human ingenuity

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

Los Angeles pop-up exhibition showcases—and benefits—wildfire victims

Curated by Aram Moshayedi, “One Hundred Percent” includes works by Kelly Akashi, Kathryn Andrews, Paul McCarthy, Diana Thater and others impacted by the fires

After the Los Angeles wildfires, will art become uninsurable?

The catastrophic blazes are expected to become the costliest wildfires ever in terms of insured losses, leading to concerns that it may become prohibitively expensive to insure art in parts of southern California

Getty and other arts organisations launch $12m relief fund for victims of Los Angeles wildfires

The LA Arts Community Fire Relief Fund will provide support to artists and cultural workers affected by the fires