NewsConservation & Preservation
Getty teams with city of Los Angeles to identify places that are important to African American heritage
Conservation effort goes beyond architectural distinction to highlight sites where Black residents embraced their culture and advocated for advancement
Newsreopenings
Los Angeles museums are revving up to reopen
Amid decline in Covid-19 cases, governor lifts a closure mandate that had stirred some dissent
NewsCommercial galleries
Poacher turned gamekeeper? Stefan Simchowitz opens Los Angeles gallery
“I support so many artists and I’d like to provide exhibition opportunities for them,” says the controversial dealer and art advisor
NewsOpenings
Amid Covid-19 adjustments, Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles delays opening by five months
The museum’s debut, repeatedly postponed, is now anticipated in September of next year
NewsArtists
Artist sues Los Angeles and the Chinese American Museum for junking his work
Lawsuit demands that court issue an injunction to prevent future dismantling of works of art without artists’ supervision
NewsAcquisitions
Jaws shark installed in the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles
The museum, due to open in April 2021, has acquired the 25-foot prop model for its permanent collection
NewsObituaries
Gordon Baldwin, longtime Getty photography curator, has died, aged 81
A former artist and fixture of Warhol’s Factory, the curator got his start at the Getty cataloguing two important photography collections
PreviewPrivate view
Our pick of must-see gallery shows opening around the world in November
From new works by the emerging artist Collins Obijiaku in Accra to a pre-election tribute to the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg in Los Angeles
ReviewArt & Technology
Black Lives Matter murals: Can truly public art exist on private platforms policed by private algorithms?
An expert view brought to you by our XR Panel of artists and storytellers who create in virtual reality and augmented reality
NewsAuctions
Los Angeles shows its love for Beirut with online charity art auction
Standout works include a haunting photograph by Rania Matar and an image of Muhammad Ali by French street artist Mr Brainwash
NewsMuseums & Heritage
Academy Museum of Motion Pictures to open with Hayao Miyazaki retrospective in 2021
The new Los Angeles institution will honour the influential Japanese film-maker with an immersive show that draws visitors into his animated worlds
PreviewLos Angeles
For no eyes only: Mark Bradford’s quarantine paintings push the bounds of virtual art viewing
For his first online exhibition, the artist hangs paintings made during lockdown in isolation in an empty space atop Hauser & Wirth’s LA gallery
NewsWomen Artists
Campaign launched to enshrine Corita Kent’s former Los Angeles studio as a historical landmark
The studio where the “nun-turned-artist” produced colourful, conscious works in the 1960s could be demolished
NewsLos Angeles
Pop-up outdoor art shows in LA fill a need for real-life art experiences
From a West Coast edition of an exhibition you can view from your car to ephemeral installations across the LA basin, the city’s arts community has found ways to reconnect
NewsPrizes
Los Angeles Times art critic Christopher Knight wins Pulitzer prize
Writer was recognised for his criticism of Lacma’s controversial expansion plan
NewsLos Angeles
Why Los Angeles is America’s free museum capital
Four of the city’s major art museums do not charge an entry fee—but that is more than just a way to boost visitor numbers, they say
Newscoronavirus
Getty sets up $10m fund for small and mid-size Los Angeles-area arts organisations reeling from virus
The trust anticipates that grants will range from $25,000 to $200,000
NewsPhotography
Photographers are capturing the stark mood of major cities amid the coronavirus pandemic
As many self-employed photographers face work losses due to Covid-19, others document the "seriousness of what is happening on a personal and community level"
News US politics
Artist Whitney Bedford is drawing a portrait of Elizabeth Warren every day until she is elected president
The Los Angeles painter started the project shortly after the Democratic primaries began
NewsMuseums & Heritage
Hollywood dreams really do come true: the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures beckons
The museum will open on 14 December in Los Angeles with 50,000 sq. ft of exhibition space and two theaters
NewsFrieze Los Angeles 2020
Mr Brainwash to open Los Angeles museum
The vacant Paley Center in Beverly Hills will be transformed into a space for both his own and other artists’ work
BlogFrieze Los Angeles 2020
Diary: Grimes hits the decks, the art of small business and Frieze hits the rocks (in a good way)
Plus Miss Ellie gets a makeover, and fair denizens tone up
NewsFrieze Los Angeles 2020
Artists go bumper to bumper at Frieze with auto-themed works
The car's the star as galleries move into the driving seat
NewsFrieze Los Angeles 2020
Turrell's Roden Crater gets some starry support
Proceeds from sales of colour-shifting works by the artist will go toward a fundraising and awareness-raising initiative for the crater
NewsFrieze Los Angeles 2020
Plans for Berggruen Institute's 'scholars' campus' in the Santa Monica Mountains move forward
First cohort of artist fellows includes Nancy Baker Cahill, Agnieszka Kurant and Pierre Huyghe
FeatureFrieze Los Angeles 2020
LA's grassroots spaces keep growing
With more alternative art galleries than ever, many are slowing down on exhibitions and stepping up on programming
NewsFrieze Los Angeles 2020
Climate change fundraisers and a new space for Perrotin: dispatches from Frieze Los Angeles
Plus, Sprüth Magers's Los Angeles outpost will host a posthumous survey of John Baldessari’s last painting series
NewsFrieze Los Angeles 2020
Pose for a Polaroid with Gary Simmons at Frieze Los Angeles
The artist restages his 1993 Backdrop Project at the fair
BlogFrieze Los Angeles 2020
Frieze Los Angeles diary: glass orbs of LA smog and a Baldessari biscuit
Plus, Eric Doeringer pranks the Broads and Serpentine Galleries embraces the golf cart
NewsFrieze Los Angeles 2020
Los Angeles galleries search for the next hot art spot...
An evolving real estate landscape is keeping the city's dealers on their toes
NewsPolitics
US artists and museums join forces to fire up voters
Artists and activists gather in Los Angeles later this month for the first For Freedoms Congress, a three-day event to spur voter engagement
InterviewArt dealers
In person | Dealer Susanne Vielmetter on the decline of artist exclusivity and the empty talk around gender parity
The Los Angeles gallery owner explains why she encourages her artists to have galleries in Europe and New York too, and how collaboration is key
PreviewFrieze Los Angeles 2020
Ten must-see shows during Frieze Los Angeles
From Paul McCarthy's monkey self-portrait to a New York apartment made of polyester, our picks of the city's top exhibitions
NewsJ. Paul Getty Museum
Bedevilled: multi-million Getty Gauguin is a fake
Museum probably paid at least $3m for the widely exhibited sculpture of a horned devil, but the misattributed work may have been made by a Polynesian artist for the European market
NewsFrieze Los Angeles
Frieze announces new award for emerging filmmakers
The winner of the $10,000 Deutsche Bank Frieze Los Angeles Film Award will be announced at the second LA edition of the fair
NewsObituaries
Stephen Garrett, inaugural director of the Getty and the Hammer, has died, aged 96
“Bon vivant” took over at museum villa and expanded its mission after J. Paul Getty died in 1976
NewsMarciano Art Foundation
Art workers' union to stage Black Friday protest against Marciano brothers by targeting their fashion empire
The protests will take aim at Guess fashion stores while workers are looking into the billionaire family's other investments in LA's art world
CommentPrivate Museums
The Marciano masquerade is exposed
The art foundation, which has closed its doors, was never more than the shell of a museum
NewsMuseums & Heritage
Los Angeles's Marciano Art Foundation lays off staff trying to unionise
The private museum cited low attendance records over the past few weeks in a short letter to nearly six dozen workers who recently announced they voted to join a union
NewsLos Angeles
Affordability is the number one concern for artists in Los Angeles, report finds
A survey conducted by the non-profit Arts for LA warns that the city could lose its culture cache if it becomes too expensive for its creative class
NewsGetty Center
Wildfire spread close to the Getty Center, but an official says the art is ‘just fine’
The campus in the Santa Monica Mountains was designed to resist fire, with a powerful irrigation system, million-gallon water tank and air conditioning that pushes smoke out instead of letting it in
InterviewShirin Neshat
‘This US government looks more like Iran's every day’: Shirin Neshat talks about the power of political satire ahead of LA show
The Iranian artist's major exhibition opens at the Broad museum features new work addressing discrimination in Trump's America
BlogDiary
‘I can divide my life into before and after Judy Chicago’: Gloria Steinem reveals how the artist changed her thoughts about art at Hammer Museum gala
NewsDesert X
Three board members resign as Desert X announces collaboration with Saudi Arabia, Los Angeles Times reports
Ed Ruscha, Yael Lipschutz and Tristan Milanovich have resigned over the decision to launch the sculpture biennial in Al-Ula next year
NewsAcquisitions
Getty acquires Bronzino’s Madonna and Child with Saints, a twin of National Gallery in London’s
The brightly coloured painting, depicting the same family scene, has been in private hands for decades, most recently the Chilean Alana Collection
NewsObituaries
Deborah Marrow, the Getty’s longest-serving leader, has died, aged 70
Starting in 1983 as publications coordinator, she spent most of her three decades at the Getty overseeing its grant-making programme
NewsArtist estates
How to make the most of an artist’s estate
Four takeaways from the Institute for Artists’ Estates’ Los Angeles workshop
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in Los Angeles this weekend
The West Coast gallery season opens with its own slate of must see shows, from Tala Madani's scatological depictions of motherhood to Kenny Scharf's jabs at consumerism
BlogIn the frame
The Moaning Lisa? Pornhub commissions exhibition in LA
NewsPacific Standard Time
Next edition of Pacific Standard time looks at the intersection of art and science
The Getty-led PST: Art x Science x LA is due to be held in 2024
ReviewPublic art
Wishful thinking: LA’s latest pop-up art project is both highly memorable and totally Instagrammable
Artist collective The Art Department spent a year gathering heaps of dandelion fuzz for their immersive "wish factory"
InterviewFrieze New York 2019
Lauren Halsey brings the spirit of South Central LA to Frieze New York
Artist dedicates installation to Nipsey Hussle, the slain rapper and neighbourhood activist
PreviewExhibitions
Honey I shrunk the art: the ultimate alternative biennial opens in Los Angeles
Dollhouse-sized paintings and installations replace big artistic statements and egos
PreviewExhibitions
Forty years rocking the foundations in Los Angeles
The Museum of Contemporary Art celebrates its anniversary by looking back over the past four decades
NewsThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in Los Angeles this week
From the West Coast version of Soul of a Nation, to Roy DeCarava’s photographic studies of blackness
CommentMuseums & Heritage
A train wreck in slow motion? Why Lacma’s new building is an impending disaster
County officials prepare to vote on the $650m project this week, but the museum’s next incarnation could come at too high a cost for culture
PreviewPrivate view
Private View: must-see gallery exhibitions opening this April
New commercial gallery shows—from East African scenes to Freud’s sitter
NewsMuseums & Heritage
A national treasure of Native American art in Los Angeles is looking for a new owner
The historic Southwest Museum, operated by the Autry Museum of the American West, is seeking proposals for reuse
NewsFeminist art history
Women are written into online art history at expanded Wikipedia edit-a-thons across Southern California
The group Art+Feminism has organised events at six museums to boost the online presence of women artists and cultural leaders
FeatureLos Angeles
Wearing its art on its sleeve: Los Angeles' enduring passion for murals
The city’s street paintings, vehicles for protest since the 1930s, continue to be a flashpoint
NewsExhibitions
Hammer Museum dishes up a feast for Allen Ruppersberg's first major US show in 30 years
The exhibition includes a major new 13-hour video
News
Main Museum’s mysterious closure serves as a cautionary tale about funding
Closure comes just weeks after three key staff members announced their departures
NewsSatellite Fairs
Frieze Los Angeles brings satellite fairs into its orbit
A local stalwart celebrates its tenth edition, a New Yorker goes West, and a young upstart sets out its stall at the Roosevelt Hotel
InterviewFrieze Los Angeles 2019
Confessions of a dealer: Alex Freedman
We speak to the co-founder of Freedman Fitzpatrick gallery in Los Angeles about coding, George Bush and mistaking dealers for magicians
NewsFrieze Los Angeles 2019
Action! Cinematic works abound at Frieze Los Angeles as galleries go all out for glamour
First LA edition of the British fair focuses on local artists and pieces that speak to a Hollywood crowd
BlogFrieze Los Angeles 2019
Frieze LA diary: Leibovitz’s photo finish, Destroyer smashes it and a mushroom-powered rocket (doesn't) take off
Plus, Suzanne Jackson’s modest gallery revival
InterviewFrieze Los Angeles 2019
Max Hooper Schneider: 'my fantasy army of marine-mammal people, across all genders'
The artist dives deep to create a lurid theatre from biological forms for his Frieze Los Angeles Projects commission
InterviewFrieze Los Angeles 2019
Confessions of a dealer: Brian Faucette
We speak to the senior director of Night Gallery in Los Angeles about art world small talk, forgotten studio visits and the resurgence of photography
NewsCommercial galleries
David Kordansky doubles gallery space and expands diverse artist roster
Last year, the LA gallery took on Michael Williams, Fred Eversley, Huma Bhabha and Lauren Halsey as well as the estates of Tom of Finland and Betty Woodman
InterviewCollecting
Collector's Eye: an interview with Wallis Annenberg
The Los Angeles-based philanthropist tells us what she's bought and why
BlogThe Buck stopped here
Patti sings 'Because the night belongs to Annie'
PreviewExhibitions
Lucas Blalock gives ‘pathetic’ objects a new lease of life at the ICA LA
More than 20 photographs are included in the artist’s first solo exhibition at a US museum
NewsFrieze Los Angeles
Art and entertainment worlds cosy up at Frieze Los Angeles
Having for years viewed each other with suspicion, relations between agencies and galleries may start warming up
BlogDiary
Gavin Rossdale goes shopping at the LA Art Show
The fair gets short shrift in the art media, perhaps for its street-y nature or for its focus on spectacle and maximalism
NewsObituaries
Lyn Kienholz, champion of art in Southern California, has died at 88
She founded the LA History Project, which led to the exhibition series Pacific Standard Time
InterviewMuseums & Heritage
LA stories: Deborah Marrow looks back
The Getty Foundation’s leader, who retired in December, discusses her feminist credentials and the broader challenges in cultural philanthropy
NewsThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in Los Angeles this weekend
From 3D illusions at Lacma to environmental disasters at the Craft & Folk Art Museum
NewsArt market
Fairytale of New York in La-La land—artists to take over film set at Frieze Los Angeles
For Frieze Projects, artists including Barbara Kruger and Paul McCarthy will create site-specific works within Paramount Pictures Studios's fake New York city
NewsLos Angeles
Artists’ homes and work destroyed in California wildfires
It was not just Malibu’s celebrities who lost their property in the Woolsey Fire that ravaged the beachside community
NewsExhibitions
The Getty’s Renaissance Nude explores issues of power and sexuality—but don’t expect a #metoo reckoning
The show includes male and female examples for historic accuracy, its lead curator says
NewsExhibitions
Eleanor Antin revisits her dieting diary, 45 years on, for Lacma show
Artist who photographed herself naked every morning in 1972 has recreated her "Carving" work, to be shown in May 2019
PreviewExhibitions
For her final show at MoCA LA, curator Helen Molesworth chews on the meaning of 'termite art'
Inspired by an underground essay written by the late artist Manny Farber, the exhibition concept is anything but clear-cut
NewsAcquisitions
Getty acquires archive of Betye Saar
Purchase is part of a new programme known as the African American Art History Initiative
FeatureArtist interview
Hayv Kahraman on the Kurdish exodus—and the trouble with humanitarian campaigns
The Baghdad-born, Los Angeles-based artist talks about the impetus for her new work at Susanne Vielmetter
NewsObituaries
Josh Roth, Hollywood deal-maker who was the head of UTA's fine arts division, has died, aged 40
His death comes just weeks after the opening of the agency's new gallery in Beverly Hills, designed by the artist Ai Weiwei
NewsArt market
Hollywood stars and art world A-listers come out in support of Frieze Los Angeles
Salma Hayek, Tobey Maguire and Serena Williams are among those on the fair’s host committee, while Gagosian, Zwirner, Hauser & Wirth and Ropac will exhibit
NewsUSA
Naked 'clown Trump' statue installed on Los Angeles billboard
In their latest project, the guerrilla group Indecline compares the US president to serial killer John Wayne Gacy
NewsExhibitions
Black Power and Shirin Neshat take centre stage at the Broad in 2019
LA museum will be last stop for Tate Modern's acclaimed Soul of a Nation show examining race relations in the US
NewsArtists
West Coast wave of Ai Weiwei shows puts Chinese artist in Los Angeles spotlight
Activist launches Jeffrey Deitch’s new Hollywood gallery and will show works with talent agency UTA
NewsArt market
New York gallerist Tanya Bonakdar to open first space in Los Angeles
The dealer says her artists encouraged the expansion
CommentPhilanthropy
Please send help: a letter to the Getty Trust
Our Los Angeles correspondent Jori Finkel asks the world's richest cultural organisation to support the city's struggling arts community during the coronavirus pandemic
Jori Finkel