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Los Angeles alternative space LAXART lays down roots with $5m new building
After moving into its first permanent home later this year, nonprofit is prepping an ambitious show of decommissioned Confederate monuments
New York University provost Katherine Fleming will be the Getty Trust’s next leader
Fleming succeeds the Getty’s longtime leader James Cuno, who is retiring this summer
Frank Gehry unveils new design for $350m arts school building in downtown Los Angeles
The new building for the Colburn School, an important music and dance institution, is expected to be complete in 2025
Los Angeles’s Underground Museum abruptly closes as directors depart
The museum, founded by the late Noah Davis and his wife, the artist Karon Davis, announced the sudden closure in a statement that offered few specifics but alluded to inner turmoil
Collector Budi Tek donates contemporary Chinese works to Lacma, including Ai Weiwei's Zodiac Heads
The seven pieces, the first Tek has donated since forming a partnership with the Los Angeles institution in 2018, are featured in a current exhibition
'Totally Kafkaesque': Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs spaces still paralysed by pandemic
Most Los Angeles art institutions have reopened while complying with Covid-19 safety measures—except those run by the city
Pioneering video artist Ulysses Jenkins on creating new images of Black life
A retrospective at the Hammer Museum chronicles the artist’s pivotal role in the history of video art
Noah Davis’s paintings come back home to his Los Angeles museum
After stops in New York and London, the late artist’s works will be on view at the Underground Museum, which he and his wife founded
Warhol and Basquiat on the stage in London and Faith Ringgold's retrospective at New York's New Museum
Plus, Betye Saar remakes a mural in Los Angeles
In a Los Angeles backyard, a collector's gallery project expands
Collector Danny First is extending his homegrown programme beyond the walls of a replica of the Unabomber's nerve centre
New York gallery The Hole opening Los Angeles location just in time for Frieze
It joins a half-dozen galleries with designs on opening West Coast outposts, from megas like Pace and Sean Kelly to smaller spaces like Sargent's Daughters
First Frieze Los Angeles since pandemic began opens this week in new Beverly Hills venue—minus a sculpture park
Organisers and galleries are banking on “pent-up desire” to make this year’s edition a success
Pace expands West Coast footprint, merges with the Los Angeles gallery Kayne Griffin
The merger continues a trend of mega-galleries expanding their presence in California
Two years after forming union, MOCA Los Angeles employees still negotiating first contract with museum leaders
Negotiations have been delayed, with wages proving a major sticking point and with administrators proposing increases well below union members’ demands
Ex-Whitney curator Christopher Y. Lew heads up new Los Angeles art foundation
The new non-profit, Horizon, is funded by Los Angeles-based patrons Harry Hu and Jason Li
East meets west: Los Angeles galleries seize on real estate discounts prompted by the pandemic to open New York outposts
West Coast gallerists in the artist-discovery business are landing in Manhattan
Museum of Star Wars creator George Lucas goes on buying spree with international, if not intergalactic, focus
Gearing up for 2023 opening, Lucas Museum adds works by Frida Kahlo, Robert Colescott and Artemisia Gentileschi to filmmaker's Norman Rockwell trove
Remembering Kaari Upson, Los Angeles artist who created The Larry Project, a seven-year-long series exploring the life of a mysterious stranger
Artist who found her subject when trespassing in abandoned houses in San Bernardino, California, and whose formal obsessions included "couches upon couches upon couches"
Percent for art programme to expand into Los Angeles county’s unincorporated areas
A civic ordinance in effect from October sets aside 1% of building projects for arts and culture programmes
Destination Crenshaw commissions its first group of Black artists to create new works in Los Angeles
The $100m public art and community improvement project will launch with new sculptures by Kehinde Wiley, Melvin Edwards, Alison Saar, Brenna Youngblood and more
Kaari Upson, Los Angeles artist who obsessively explored identity, family and Americana, has died, aged 51
The artist was known for years-long, multi-pronged projects based on singular figures—such as her mother or a mysterious man she dubbed “Larry”—and subjects
Face doesn't fit? Getty Center show to shed new light on triptych by 14th-century artist Paolo Veneziano
First US exhibition devoted to the Trecento artist questions previous assumptions and reunites key panels
James Cuno will retire as mastermind of the Getty Trust’s art endeavours
President and chief executive has led the institution for a decade, bolstering its reputation
Los Angeles gallery Regen Projects brings on two new directors Bryan Barcena and Stephanie Dudzinski
Both Bryan Barcena and Stephanie Dudzinski have worked with major museums and galleries in the city
Hauser & Wirth expands its already large footprint in Los Angeles
The gallery is opening a second space in West Hollywood, in a former car showroom
Hallelujah! Former studio of 'nun-turned-artist' Corita Kent designated historic cultural landmark
The Hollywood studio where Kent made works challenging social injustice in the 1960s was due to be demolished to make room for a parking lot
Contract Killers: artist Nancy Baker Cahill challenges the efficacy of the 'smart contracts' behind NFTs with an augmented reality project
The environmentally conscious project considers broken and violated social contracts in the artists space and in society as a whole
Eli Broad, an unexpected—and often unreasonable—arts patron
The self-made billionaire helped shape the Los Angeles art scene, while clashing with most of its prominent museum leaders
Eli Broad, who helped reshape the cultural landscape of Los Angeles, has died, aged 87
Billionaire art collector, businessman and philanthropist founded the museum that bears his name and helped shore up Disney Concert Hall, Lacma and MOCA
Return to La La Land: art is back in California
Plus, artists' album covers, and Grace Jones in the Work of the Week