Los Angeles
Mark Bradford wins $500,000 Getty Prize
As stipulated in the award's new rules, the Los Angeles-based abstract artist will donate the money to a non-profit of his choosing
‘One of the great museum directors of her generation’: Ann Philbin to retire after 25 years leading the Hammer Museum
Philbin transformed the University of California, Los Angeles's campus museum (originally built to house an oil magnate's Old Masters) into a world-class contemporary art institution
In the latest Made in LA biennial, art and life are one
The latest edition of the Hammer Museum’s closely-watched biennial takes its title, “Acts of Living”, from a comment by revered Southern California assemblage sculptor Noah Purifoy
New 3D documentary tells the multidimensional story of American artist H.C. Westermann
Westermann’s hand-carved wooden sculptures pop off cinema screens in Los Angeles and Chicago this month
$1.5m bronze Buddha statue stolen from Los Angeles gallery
A single thief allegedly maneuvered the 250-pound sculpture, dating from Japan’s Edo Period, out of the Barakat Gallery’s backyard and into a rental truck
An environmental art festival in Los Angeles seeks to counteract climate despair and inspire action
The organisers of Earth Edition, a new festival at CalArts, are seeking to showcase “what is being done that’s positive, that’s solutions-oriented”
South African gallery Southern Guild opening a permanent space in Los Angeles
The Cape Town-based art and design gallery will inaugurate its Los Angeles location in February of 2024
Hundreds of works from Los Angeles's infamous Ace Gallery to be liquidated via online auction
At least $230,000 worth of art and ephemera is being offered to repay creditors in the gallery's 2013 bankruptcy
Jeff Poe steps down from Blum & Poe, a mainstay of the Los Angeles gallery scene
Jeff Poe and Tim Blum have been running the gallery together since 1994
Los Angeles inaugurates three new art-filled metro stations
The city’s newest underground train stations are home to permanent commissions by eight artists including Andrea Bowers and Ann Hamilton
Keith Haring's first time in Los Angeles: we talk to the curator of the Broad's landmark show
Plus, Tate Britain rehangs its collection and Work of the Week is a Joan Brown painting
Los Angeles’s Self Help Graphics marks 50 years with $14.9m renovation
The beloved non-profit is undertaking an extensive revamp of its home, a former seafood packing plant near the Downtown Arts District
New York, London, Los Angeles, Dubai, Linz ... Which city has the best digital art?
With the power to show works simultaneously in different countries, digital art does not really need to "be" anywhere. But where it is being created, exhibited and funded has a deep impact on how the work is made
‘I painted and painted and painted, and I refound myself’: Sharon Stone on her first solo show
The actor returned to painting during pandemic lockdowns and used her practice to process difficult periods in her personal life and professional career
New York dealer Sean Kelly’s son takes the reins at Los Angeles outpost
Sean Kelly Gallery, a powerhouse of the New York art scene yet for a long time one of the few major players without a location in another city, has kept things in the family at its West Coast space
Art Bridges acquires $4.5m Robert Colescott painting at Bonhams auction
The Arkansas-based non-profit was founded by Walmart heiress Alice Walton
Artist and the local football club help fairgoers with soccer skills at Frieze Los Angeles
Alake Shilling demonstrated the art of football at a clinic organised by the Art Production Fund and Los Angeles Football Club
Gold rush: collectors snap up California artists’ work at Frieze Los Angeles
Dealers open new outposts and auction house activity intensifies around the growing fair
Hollywood’s newest art space takes up residence in artist's future burial plot
Nao Bustamante unveils Los Angeles's most ghoulish gallery space in the legendary Hollywood Forever cemetery
Palms by the hotel pool: a relaxed environment for robust sales at the Felix Art Fair
A pre-Frieze opening, record VIP visitors and strong in-person engagement are helping the homegrown fair go from strength to strength
Frieze Los Angeles Diary: Art dealer action figures, Lionel Richie says hello and Tyler the Creator brings his bodyguards
Plus: legendary Hollywood producer Samuel Goldwyn's home and a famous Frank Lloyd Wright house open up to art
'Look with your eyes, not your ears': the best collecting advice Allison Berg's been given and the Kaari Upson sculpture under the stairs
The writer, editor, producer and collector has a passion for Martin Puryear and 'badass' Magdalena Suarez Frimkess
Former Los Angeles train depot, transformed into an arts centre in the 1990s, bounces back with influx of new galleries
Municipal support during the pandemic and an influx of new tenants is helping to restore Santa Monica's Bergamot Station Arts Center to its former glory
New programme matches artists with Los Angeles communities for residencies
Hayley Barker's Night Gallery show draws on her time living at Laguna Castle, a residential group built on communal traditions
Wheeling and dealing: Los Angeles galleries move into old car showrooms
Roberts Projects and Hauser & Wirth take over two of the city’s historic car showrooms, while Lisson slides into a former sex club
Centrepiece of Destination Crenshaw, a sculpture-filled public space in south Los Angeles, to open in early autumn
The space, which will feature works by Maren Hassinger, Kehinde Wiley and others, also has the support of local celebrities Issa Rae and DeMar DeRozan
Mass protest against Iran's human rights abuses staged at Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Protesters gathered at Lacma to mark the Zahedan massacre as well as draw attention to the suppression and imprisonment of protesters and activists
Van Gogh goes to Hollywood: the celebrities who have owned Vincent's work
Californian collectors had the taste and cash to buy some of his finest paintings, with stars including Elizabeth Taylor, Edward Robinson and Barbra Streisand
Lucas Museum delays opening until 2025, reveals acquisitions including Ernie Barnes and John Singer Sargent works
The $1bn institution founded by Star Wars creator George Lucas and his wife, Starbucks chairwoman Mellody Hobson, is taking its futuristic shape in Los Angeles’s Exposition Park
Banksy mural, and the Los Angeles building he painted it on, head to auction
The iconic mural of a girl on a swing, and the storied building on which it was painted, are expected to bring between $16m and $30m