Los Angeles
‘Everyone can talk about a cabinet or a chair’: Ryan Preciado on his show at Hollyhock House in Los Angeles
The artist brings his “insecure sculptures” to one of Frank Lloyd Wright’s most unusual buildings, located in East Hollywood
'If I love something, I buy it': Los Angeles-based Rina Mark on the art she collects and why
The superfan of printmaking workshop and publisher Gemini G.E.L. talks about her extensive collection of prints and her excitement for new art-fair discoveries
Pace Prints will open printmaking studio and gallery in Los Angeles
The New York-based publisher sees opportunity in the city’s large community of artists
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
Bearing the weight of the world: Amanda Ross-Ho rolls out a new performance at Frieze Los Angeles
The artist embraces the Sisyphean task of clocking the fair’s duration on its three-acre turf field
Why Robert Therrien is a big deal
A posthumous retrospective of the Los Angeles conceptual artist’s work at The Broad includes his famous large-scale sculptures of everyday objects, and much more
'If a work is meant to be mine, there’s always time': Mashonda Tifrere on the art she collects and why
The singer-turned-curator, and founder of two non-profits focused on uplifting women and underrepresented artists, shares her enthusiasm for Hiba Schahbaz’s paintings and her Oscars picks
A selective history of the moving image comes to downtown Los Angeles
The Germany-based Julia Stoschek Foundation, which has an unmatched collection of time-based works spanning the 1960s to now, presents its first major US exhibition at Variety Arts Theater
How four Los Angeles artists are doing a year after the wildfires
Kelly Akashi, Christina Quarles, Adam Ross and Kathryn Andrews, all of whom lost their homes in the Eaton and Palisades fires, reflect on the last year
The Big Review | Monuments, The Geffen Contemporary at Moca and The Brick, Los Angeles ★★★★★
By not going down more obvious routes, the exhibition, which places nine Confederate monuments in dialogue with 19 artists, avoids preachiness
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
Made in LA biennial contemplates wildfires and immigrant arrests
The Hammer Museum hosts 28 artists' projects while looking back on a tumultuous year in California’s biggest city
Comment | Why Frank Gehry was the ultimate artist’s architect
The radical builder emerged—and learned—from a scrappy group of Los Angeles artists
Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic Christopher Knight is retiring
After 36 years at the Los Angeles Times, the esteemed critic and journalist is putting down the pen
Llyn Foulkes, art world iconoclast, has died, aged 91
An anti-establishment fixture of the Los Angeles scene, Foulkes leaves behind a long legacy of furious expression spanning painting, sculpture, animation, music and more
Frieze lines up more than 95 exhibitors for next Los Angeles fair
The fair returns with a stacked list of participants, both new and familiar faces
A new hope: Lucas Museum of Narrative Art sets September 2026 opening date
The $1bn museum co-founded by the ‘Star Wars’ director George Lucas and his wife, Mellody Hobson, will open its futuristic doors next autumn in Los Angeles
California nonprofits keep losing funding in what new study calls ‘the shadow of the pandemic cliff’
The latest Otis College Report on the Creative Economy paints a sombre picture of arts nonprofits in the US’s most populous state
At a Los Angeles exhibition, contemporary artists face off with decommissioned Confederate statues
The show at the Brick and the Museum of Contemporary Art addresses the US’s fraught racial history—featuring decommissioned Confederate monuments alongside works by Kara Walker, Leonardo Drew, Torkwase Dyson and others
Residency offers Los Angeles artists affected by wildfires chance to work again
The Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Colorado is offering free five-week residencies to 15 artists who lost their houses and studios
After 50 years, LA Louver is closing its gallery in Venice, California
The gallery will donate its vast archive to the Huntington as it shifts to a new business model
New app aims to improve access to Los Angeles art scene
The ArtWrld app, which also covers New York and plans to add more cities soon, is one of several digital resources seeking to keep art-loving Angelenos in the know
George Lucas reveals new details of Los Angeles museum at Comic-Con panel
The Star Wars director, appearing at the famed conference for the first time, described the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art as “a temple to the people’s art”
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
Los Angeles dealer Ariel Pittman launching new gallery in MacArthur Park
A veteran of Vielmetter and Various Small Fires, Pittman is pursuing an adaptive business model for her own gallery, Official Welcome
After a close call, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Hollyhock House keeps its Unesco status
Fears have been dispelled that city budget cuts in Los Angeles would impact the architectural landmark's distinction
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
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
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





























