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The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles, founded by George Lucas and Mellody Hobson and built at a reported cost of $1 billion, is facing a lawsuit questioning whether it should be treated...
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The Getty Center in Los Angeles closed early on Wednesday after a fire broke out along the 405 Freeway, prompting an evacuation warning that included the museum complex. The Los Angeles Times...
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ARTnews highlighted five notable works at Portland’s Converge 45 triennial, founded in 2016 by dealer Elizabeth Leach to draw attention to art on the 45th parallel. The latest edition, titled “Here,...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic reports that Abstract Mag, an art-focused social media platform with more than 1 million followers, invited artists to what it described as an all-expenses-paid, two-week residency in...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
The $1bn Lucas Museum of Narrative Art is scheduled to open in Los Angeles’s Exposition Park on 22 September, eight years after its 2018 groundbreaking and after delays from an original 2021 target....
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic’s fall reading roundup, introduced by associate editor Lakshmi Rivera Amin, recommends 15 forthcoming art books selected from a larger field of “approximately five dozen” seasonal...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic reports that the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, founded by George Lucas and Mellody Hobson, will open later in September in Exposition Park in South Los Angeles after nearly two decades...
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ARTnews reports that the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles, a private institution costing more than $1 billion and developed over nearly two decades, is set to open to the public on...
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An open letter with more than 600 signatures criticizes Beeple’s AI-driven artwork “Diffuse Control” (2025), scheduled to appear next month at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art in Wisconsin,...
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The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation refused to license Mapplethorpe’s 1981 portrait Roy Cohn for the cover of a forthcoming biography, American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn’s Dark Journey from Joe McCarthy to...
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ARTnews’s Morning Links for August 18, 2026 reports that Joshua Reynolds’s eight-foot 18th-century portrait of Mai, a young Tahitian man who arrived in London with Captain Cook in 1774, will make its...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic’s “Betye Saar, Picasso, BlackStar,” introduced by editor-in-chief Hakim Bishara, highlights several art-world stories including a little-known account of a stolen Pablo Picasso work...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
The town of East Hampton has sued over “Meditating Figure (2026),” a nearly 60-foot-tall sculpture made from 12 decommissioned shipping containers by Los Angeles artist Matt Johnson, installed at the...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
A commentary in The Art Newspaper questions why Star Wars creator and billionaire collector George Lucas is soliciting public donations and charging admission for the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Vincent van Gogh’s painting Tarascon Stagecoach (October 1888), made in Arles, will be shown in New York as part of the touring exhibition “Cézanne to Modigliani: Gifts of Modern Art from the...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic published a never-before-released interview in which scholar and curator Julia Bryan-Wilson speaks with performance artist Simone Forti (born 1935 in Italy), who died in Los Angeles in...
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Elizabeth Mulholland, a longtime director and partner at New York’s Andrew Kreps Gallery, is joining David Zwirner as a senior director at the gallery’s Los Angeles outpost. Zwirner expanded to Los...
Artnet News
Simone Forti, an Italian-American pioneer of postmodern dance and performance art known for her Fluxus-adjacent “Dance Constructions,” died earlier this month in Los Angeles at age 91, her gallery...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Los Angeles assemblage artist Betye Saar died on 26 July at age 99, just days before her 100th birthday on 30 July, her family said in a statement. Born Betye Irene Brown in Los Angeles in 1926, Saar...
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Simone Forti, a key figure in New York’s Judson Dance Theater scene of the 1960s and an influential contributor to postmodern dance, Minimalism, and Fluxus, died in Los Angeles at age 91, according...
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Assemblage artist Betye Saar died on July 26, four days before her 100th birthday; she was born in Los Angeles in 1926 and worked for six decades using found objects to address race, politics, and...
Artnet News
American artist Betye Saar died peacefully in her sleep at age 99, four days before her 100th birthday, according to a statement from her gallery Roberts Projects. Born in Los Angeles in 1926, Saar...
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The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles, founded by George Lucas and Mellody Hobson, announced its inaugural film program at San Diego Comic Con ahead of the museum’s September 22 opening....
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The Hammer Museum has named Michael Wellen and José Luis Blondet as co-curators of the eighth edition of the Made in L.A. biennial, scheduled to open in fall 2027. Wellen, who became the Hammer’s...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
A new staging of Yoko Ono’s performance work Cut Piece (1986) was performed by the artist MPA at Redcat in downtown Los Angeles on Sunday, 19 July, as part of a commission connected to Ono’s...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic reviewed Michael Asher, a small survey at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, arguing that the late conceptual artist (died 2012) treated the museum itself as his medium. The...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic profiled artists and filmmakers Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens in San Luis Obispo, California, where they presented a sneak preview of their new film Playing with Fire: An Ecosexual...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Post-Fair, a curatorially oriented fair associated with Frieze Los Angeles week, will launch its first international edition in Paris from 19 October to 25 October during Art Basel Paris week....
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Media artist Refik Anadol will present “Smithsonian Dreams,” a large-scale A.I.-driven projection on the facade of the Smithsonian Castle in Washington, DC, on July 17 and July 18 at 9 p.m. The...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Refik Anadol has opened Dataland in Downtown Los Angeles, described as the world’s first AI art museum, occupying 25,000 square feet in Frank Gehry’s Grand LA development across from Walt Disney...
Hyperallergic
The Obama Foundation unveiled the first official dual portrait of Barack and Michelle Obama on Monday, June 15, commissioning Nigerian-born, Los Angeles-based artist Njideka Akunyili Crosby. The...
Artnet News
Artnet News reports that Japanese artist Kohei Nawa is making his Los Angeles solo debut at Pace Gallery with “Photon Camp,” an exhibition that brings together works from his “PixCell” and “Prism”...
Hyperallergic
A Hyperallergic roundup centers on a critical visit by Matt Stromberg to Dataland, an AI-focused art venue in Los Angeles founded by artist Refik Anadol, which he compares to Disneyland and describes...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Ahead of the 2026 Fifa World Cup (11 June–19 July 2026) in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, artists from 10 of the 11 US host cities created downloadable posters opposing the presence of US...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic reviews Dataland, billed as “the world’s first museum of AI Arts,” co-founded by media artist Refik Anadol and Efsun Erkılıç and opening to the public in Los Angeles on June 20. Located...
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ARTnews profiles VJayBombs, a Los Angeles guerrilla projection collective whose anti-Trump street-art interventions have gained a large online following, including nearly 300,000 followers across...
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Pace Gallery is downsizing by cutting about 50 artists and estates from its roster of more than 130, and laying off roughly 50 of its 250 staffers, according to a New York Times report published late...
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Pussy Riot has released a music video for its song “DISOBEY” made from footage of the group’s protest at the unveiling of the 61st Venice Biennale, where members in pink balaclavas set off...
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ARTnews notes that when Los Angeles Times critic Christopher Knight retired at the end of 2025, it marked the departure of the last of three highly influential US post-1975 art critics, following...
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ARTnews reviews “Several Eternities in a Day: Form in the Age of Living Materials,” an exhibition at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles on view through August 23, featuring 18 contemporary artists—many...
Hyperallergic
Outdoor apparel company Patagonia has sued drag queen and environmental activist Pattie Gonia— the persona of Oregon-based Wyn Wiley—for trademark infringement, prompting backlash from activists and...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art will open in Los Angeles on 22 September with 18 thematic inaugural exhibitions curated by founder George Lucas, announced on 30 April. The program will present more...
Hyperallergic
Artist George Herms, a foundational figure in the West Coast Assemblage movement, died on Friday, April 24, at age 90. Born July 5, 1935 in Woodland, California, Herms left engineering studies at UC...
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ARTnews reports that The Box, a Los Angeles gallery founded by Mara McCarthy, announced it will close after 19 years in business. The gallery’s final exhibition was a two-venue collaboration with...
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ARTnews reports that DATALAND, a museum dedicated to AI art co-founded by Refik Anadol and Efsun Erkılıç, will open in Los Angeles on June 20, 2026, in the Grand LA complex designed by Frank Gehry....
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ARTnews reports that collector Julia Stoschek will close her Berlin exhibition venue at the end of October 2026 after 10 years, while continuing operations at her Düsseldorf space, open since 2007....
Artnet News
Refik Anadol and Efsun Erkiliç will open Dataland, billed as the world’s first A.I. art museum, in Los Angeles on June 20 after more than two-and-a-half years of planning and construction. Located in...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
The Art Newspaper reviews Peter Zumthor’s new Los Angeles County Museum of Art building, now called the David Geffen Galleries, awarding it a four-star rating and noting its $724 million cost. The...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
The Fowler Museum at the University of California, Los Angeles is seeking to restitute an Asante drum and an ivory trumpet looted by British troops in late-19th-century Kumasi, Ghana, but both...
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West Coast abstract painter James Hayward died on April 16 at age 82, according to an obituary posted by his studio. Born in San Francisco in 1943, Hayward studied at San Diego State University and...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
The Art Newspaper’s 300th podcast episode in 2024 spotlights two major museum openings: V&A East in London and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). V&A East director Gus Casely-Hayford tours...
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ARTnews reviews the new David Geffen Galleries at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), which open to members on April 19 and to the public on May 4, as an attempt to present a non-linear,...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is using its forthcoming David Geffen Galleries to advance a curatorial strategy championed by CEO and director Michael Govan that breaks down traditional...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is preparing to reopen its permanent collection after seven years with the new Peter Zumthor–designed David Geffen Galleries, a major component of a...
Hyperallergic
Painter Celeste Dupuy-Spencer died at age 46 on Friday, April 10, at her home in Los Angeles, days before a planned solo exhibition at Jeffrey Deitch’s West Hollywood gallery; no cause of death was...
Hyperallergic
Chicana painter Criselda Vasquez said Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detained her father, who served as a muse for her work, in an Instagram post dated April 3. In an April 13 email,...
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Painter Celeste Dupuy-Spencer died at her home in Los Angeles on Friday at age 46, with Jeffrey Deitch gallery announcing the death on Saturday and not providing a cause, according to ARTnews. Known...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
The Getty Center in Los Angeles will close for one year starting 15 March 2027 for its most significant upgrades since it opened in 1997, after welcoming 1.3 million visitors last year. The...
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The Getty Center in Los Angeles will close for roughly a year for renovations, from spring 2027 to spring 2028, with its last public day set for 15 March 2027. The Getty described the work as its...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Canyon, a new institution devoted to moving-image art alongside sound and performance, is set to open in autumn at 200 Broome Street on Manhattan’s Lower East Side in 40,000 square feet of renovated...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Italian Arte Povera artist Michelangelo Pistoletto launched Three Mirrors, a global digital-billboard project organized by the UK-based platform Circa, centered on his concept of “preventive peace.”...
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The Hole, a New York gallery founded by Kathy Grayson, is being sued by landlords over alleged unpaid rent at its 312 Bowery and 86 Walker Street locations, according to ARTnews citing a report in...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
The Hole, a gallery founded in 2010 by Kathy Grayson, has permanently closed its West Hollywood space after a period of late payments to artists and workers, unpaid rent, and broader financial strain...
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Gladstone Gallery announced it now represents the estate of Pope.L, the influential American performance and conceptual artist who died in December 2023, and plans to mount its first solo show for...
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Lauren Halsey’s long-planned sculpture park in South Central Los Angeles has opened to the public nearly two decades after she first conceived it while studying architecture at El Camino College,...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
French artist Sophie Calle is the subject of “Overshare,” her first major North American survey, at the UC Irvine Langson Orange County Museum of Art, bringing together work from the 1970s to the...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic reported that Los Angeles artist Judy Baca denied allegations that she misused a $5 million grant connected to an iconic LA mural project. The article focuses on Baca’s response to...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
The Julia Stoschek Foundation is presenting its first major US exhibition of time-based media at the Variety Arts Theater, a 1924 Italianate venue in downtown Los Angeles, according to a 25 February...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (Moca) has acquired Kara Walker’s monumental bronze sculpture Unmanned Drone (2023), made by dissecting and reassembling a decommissioned 1921 Confederate...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
The Los Angeles exhibition “Monuments,” presented at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA and The Brick, brings nine Confederate monuments into dialogue with works by 19 artists and received a five-star...
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ARTnews reported that artist Ali Eyal won the Hammer Museum’s Mohn Award, which carries a $100,000 prize. The award is part of the Hammer Museum’s Made in L.A. biennial program recognizing artists in...