Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Lacma)
Lacma's inaugural art parade celebrates new building and Los Angeles creative community
Artists and performers of all kinds flocked to Wilshire Boulevard for the city's first Art Parade
Pedro Reyes’s new Lacma commission sparks criticism in Mexico
Mexican cultural figures say the Olmec-inspired sculpture reprises a work that was previously rejected in Mexico City
The Big Review | Lacma's David Geffen Galleries ★★★★
This vast, visionary new building on the Los Angeles County Museum of Art campus flaunts strengths in displaying antiquities
From the World Cup and the Olympics to two new museums: upcoming cultural attractions in Los Angeles
As well as the renovated and expanded Los Angeles County Museum of Art, here are some of the art and culture projects to look forward to
A teaspoon at a time: how LACMA built its collection
For 60 years and counting, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art has moved with the times, both in its changes of location and navigating the art world, curating its archives with a startup’s mentality and an appetite for risk
Museum openings: V&A East and Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Plus, William Blake in Dublin—podcast
In this week's episode, Ben Luke gets a sneak peak of London's new V&A East Museum, speaks to California-based correspondent Jori Finkel about the new home of Lacma's collection, and learns about a work by William Blake on show at the National Gallery of Ireland
Sea change: inside LACMA’s new curatorial strategy
The David Geffen Galleries showcase the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s permanent collection, which is reorganised around oceans and seas, emphasising connection and circulation
‘I’m interested in breaking binaries, barriers and boundaries’: Sarah Rosalena on her new LACMA commission
The Angeleno academic and weaver has drawn on her family history to create a permanent artwork for LACMA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s new David Geffen Galleries reframe 6,000 years of history
A vast concrete beauty that has been 20 years in the making is opening on 19 April, aiming to serve the local community and provide a welcoming focal point for the Los Angeles area
Los Angeles museums on the cusp of new golden age
Could the city’s cultural cachet soon match that of New York? A slew of multi-million-dollar projects, from dramatic new museums to major renovations, suggest that it could
12 must-see exhibitions in and around Los Angeles during Frieze
From the latest additions to Judith Baca's "Great Wall of Los Angeles" at Jeffrey Deitch and "Monuments" at Moca and the Brick, to the Julia Stoschek Foundation's epic pop-up show of video art and medieval creation stories at the Getty
The most exciting museum openings in 2026
From the idyllic Slovenian countryside to the heart of Los Angeles, here are ten of the biggest new and expanded museums opening this year
Staff at Lacma vote overwhelmingly in favour of forming a union
The new union, which 96% of eligible employees voted for, will represent more than 300 employees
Lacma staff move to unionise as $720m new building nears completion
The union would represent more than 300 workers at the museum across departments including curatorial, education, publications and more
Van Gogh’s exuberant ‘Tarascon Stagecoach’ will be donated to a Los Angeles museum
The masterpiece will also tour to New York, alongside 62 other works given by the Pearlman family
'It's about world-making': Tavares Strachan on his expansive new Lacma exhibition
The artist sheds light onto his interdisciplinary approach to excavating "invisible" histories
Christie’s expects Elaine Wynn’s collection to bring $75m, while her record-breaking Bacon triptych goes to Lacma
Wynn, who died in April, owned trophy works by Lucian Freud, Richard Diebenkorn, Joan Mitchell and others
Museums in New York and Los Angeles receive collection of 63 Modern works
Works by Cézanne, Manet, Degas, Van Gogh and others from the Pearlman Foundation are headed to the Brooklyn Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and New York’s Museum of Modern Art
A first glimpse (and listen) inside Lacma’s $720m new building
The David Geffen Galleries, which officially opens next April, recently hosted a preview event and performances by Kamasi Washington and an ensemble of 100 jazz musicians
Lacma will plant towering, flowering Jeff Koons sculpture outside new building
The artist’s 37ft-tall “Split-Rocker” was donated to the museum by collectors Lynda and Stewart Resnick
Lacma acquires self-portrait by long-overlooked female Old Master
Virginia Vezzi's "Self-Portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria" is one of the 112 pieces acquired during the museum's annual Collectors Committee Weekend
A brush with Dhyandra Lawson
The curator of contemporary art at Los Angeles County Museum of Art on her cultural passions
Los Angeles museum triumvirate makes Frieze purchases
Hammer Museum, Lacma and Moca jointly acquire two works
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
Art and technology shows in London and Los Angeles, a restored 17th-century cosmic atlas—podcast
Curators at Tate and Los Angeles County Museum of Art discuss the ways in which technology has shaped artists’ work, plus a chat about the “mesmerising” Harmonia Macrocosmica
Kim Kardashian graces Los Angeles art gala in Princess Diana's cross necklace
The reality TV star wore famed jewel to the Lacma bash
PST Art’s science-meets-art extravaganza in eight superlatives
From the Getty initiative’s most widely exhibited artist to its most calming installation
Lacma pushes back opening of new building until 2026
Museum leaders are hoping to organise public programming in the empty building next year
Long-planned Las Vegas art museum given plot of land downtown
After decades of efforts to build an art museum in the city, a plan led by collector and philanthropist Elaine Wynn has real momentum—and, now, real estate
From ‘Brat summer’ to Brat fundraiser: Charli xcx to headline Lacma gala
The museum’s next Art+Film Gala on 2 November will honour the artist Simone Leigh and the film-maker Baz Luhrmann





























