The Trump administration has removed a painting by artist Kehinde Wiley from the U.S. Embassy in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, after administration officials criticized the work as “very woke” and “aesthetically terrifying.” The State...

Yayoi Kusama spent her life trying to make infinity visible. Through paintings, sculptures, performances and immersive installations, she transformed hallucinations and obsessive thoughts into an exuberant universe of dots, nets, mirrors,...

Hollywood has always depended on illusion, but Staging California in Early Hollywood at the UC Irvine Langson Orange County Museum of Art makes a persuasive case that some of the most important illusionists were not directors, actors or...

Mary Heilmann, whose deceptively simple paintings brought together geometric abstraction, personal memory, popular culture and the pleasures of everyday life, died on Friday in Riverhead, N.Y., on Long Island. She was 86. Born in San Francisco...

Pop art was never simply about soup cans, comic strips and celebrities. Its real subject was the rapidly changing relationship between art, commerce and everyday life—and that relationship remains remarkably unsettled. “Guggenheim Pop: 1960 to...

Nearly three decades after the Hayward Gallery hosted the first major British survey of Anish Kapoor's work, the artist returns with an exhibition that is larger, darker, and more psychologically unsettling than ever. On view from June 16...

Betye Saar, the pioneering American artist whose evocative assemblages transformed found objects into profound meditations on race, memory, spirituality, and identity, has died. She was 99. For more than six decades, Saar challenged audiences to confront the enduring...

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art has announced that artist Vija Celmins and filmmaker Denis Villeneuve will be honored at its 15th annual Art+Film Gala, scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 7. The black-tie fundraiser, one of Los Angeles'...

After nearly a decade without a New York solo exhibition, Ryan McGinley returns to Jeffrey Deitch with Night Shift, a luminous meditation on the city that first shaped his artistic imagination. On view through August 8, 2026, the exhibition...

As Los Angeles continues to reassess the artists who helped define its postwar identity, William Turner Gallery is marking the centennial of Ed Moses' birth with Moses @ 100, a focused exhibition celebrating one of the city's most influential...

For more than five decades, James Turrell has insisted that light is not merely a means of seeing art—it is the art itself. With As Seen Below – The Dome, a Skyspace at ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, the American artist brings that lifelong pursuit to...

Christo’s reputation rests on monumental acts of wrapping: the Reichstag in Berlin, the Pont Neuf in Paris, and, more recently, the Arc de Triomphe. Yet Air, at Gagosian Grosvenor Hill, argues that some of his most ambitious ideas concerned not...

British-born artist David Hockney, whose luminous paintings of swimming pools, sun-drenched landscapes, and Southern California domestic life helped define the visual identity of Los Angeles for generations, has died at the age of 88. Widely...

Raphael: Sublime Poetry at The Metropolitan Museum of Art is less a conventional blockbuster than a meticulous argument for Raphael’s restless intelligence. Rather than relying solely on the familiar mythology of Raphael as the serene master of...

CMAY Gallery will present Figuratively Speaking, Jody Zellen’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. Opening on Saturday, June 6, from 3 to 6 pm, the show runs through July 11, 2026. Jody Zellen is a Los Angeles–based artist whose...

Roberts Projects will open Let’s Get It On: The Wearable Art of Betye Saar on Friday, May 29, from 5 PM to 7 PM, an exhibition that explores a lesser-known aspect of the celebrated artist’s career: her extensive work in costume design, jewelry,...

In a move that would reshape New York’s cultural landscape, the Neue Galerie New York and the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced plans to merge their collections and operations, bringing one of the world’s most celebrated paintings — Gustav...

The most affecting exhibitions at the 2026 Venice Biennale are not necessarily the loudest ones. Amid the immersive video installations, politically charged national pavilions, and monumental spectacles spread across the Giardini and Arsenale,...

Georg Baselitz, the German painter and sculptor whose inverted figures and raw, often unsettling imagery made him one of the most influential artists of the postwar era, died on April 30 at age 88. His death was announced by the gallery...

A new group exhibition in Culver City is bringing together artists from Altadena whose lives and work were disrupted by last year’s Eaton fire, offering a view of how creative practices continue in the aftermath of disaster. “Post-Fire 1,” on...

A new book and accompanying pop-up exhibition opening in Los Angeles next month will examine the construction of the Metro D Line Subway Extension, one of the region’s most ambitious transportation projects in decades. Titled Wilshire Subway:...

Celeste Dupuy-Spencer, a painter whose candid, often darkly humorous depictions of American life examined subculture, politics, and identity with unflinching clarity, has died at 46. Her work, rooted in observation yet charged with allegory,...

The exhibition Roy Lichtenstein in the Studio at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, Texas, offers a revealing recalibration of an artist too often flattened by his own graphic clarity. Best known for his comic-strip appropriations and...

Pat Steir, an American painter whose cascading “waterfall” canvases merged abstraction with chance and control, died in 2026 at the age of 84. Over a career spanning more than five decades, Steir developed a distinctive visual language rooted in...