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

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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