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From the Getty initiative’s most widely exhibited artist to its most calming installation
Zoë Ryan, currently the director of the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania, will take the helm at the Hammer in the new year
The three museums will share 260 pieces from the collection of Jarl and Pamela Mohn, plus recent and future acquisitions of works by local artists
Even the science-themed PST Art exhibitions, opening in Los Angeles in September, avoid the tech revolutions of our day
Ann Philbin’s last pre-retirement bash also set a record for attendance and fundraising
Frieze's search to replace Berry, who has led The Armory Show since 2017, is already underway
The artist’s installation at the Hammer Museum dissolves space and time with laser beams and a uniquely science-fiction-flecked optimism
The music executive and his wife, Stacy, are fixtures of Los Angeles’s art scene, collecting works by emerging artists and serving on boards of museums and non-profits
In three exhibitions in Southern California this September the artist imagines future worlds for Indigenous peoples — and allows children to create their own world with Velcro
From important shows of Korean and Japanese contemporary art, to major surveys of Paul Pfeiffer and Joan Brown, and more
The prize, plus two others of $25,000 each, are given to artists participating in the museum’s “Made in LA” biennial
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
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
Westermann’s hand-carved wooden sculptures pop off cinema screens in Los Angeles and Chicago this month
Butler made a similar cross-country move in 2006, when she left the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles for a job at the Museum of Modern Art in New York
A travelling exhibition featuring more than 90 works on paper reveals the evolution of the British abstractionist’s approach to line, tone and colour
Multiple free-admission policies have been introduced in the Los Angeles area—and early results are looking promising
A radical renovation and expansion overseen by director Ann Philbin and architect Michael Maltzan is just weeks from completion
From New Mexico's short-lived Transcendental Painting Group to the evolution of America through its quilts
A retrospective at the Hammer Museum chronicles the artist’s pivotal role in the history of video art
Artist who found her subject when trespassing in abandoned houses in San Bernardino, California, and whose formal obsessions included "couches upon couches upon couches"
An exhibition at the Colby College Museum of Art probes how the African-American painter defied expectations
Plus, artists' album covers, and Grace Jones in the Work of the Week
The Los Angeles biennial has been installed but unvisited for six months due to Covid-19 restrictions. Does it still capture our present moment?
Amid decline in Covid-19 cases, governor lifts a closure mandate that had stirred some dissent
With more alternative art galleries than ever, many are slowing down on exhibitions and stepping up on programming
Artists and activists gather in Los Angeles later this month for the first For Freedoms Congress, a three-day event to spur voter engagement
Los Angeles exhibition reveals how drawings have shaped the multi-media artist’s work over 56 years
From Paul McCarthy's monkey self-portrait to a New York apartment made of polyester, our picks of the city's top exhibitions
“Bon vivant” took over at the museum's villa and expanded its mission after J. Paul Getty died in 1976