Klaus Biesenbach has been announced as the next director of Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie and of its forthcoming Museum of the 20th Century. Biesenbach, who is currently artistic director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (LA MoCA),...

The New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) announced its fall seasonal highlights complementing its critically acclaimed exhibition KUSAMA: Cosmic Nature, on view through October 31, 2021. The exclusive presentation features work by internationally...

Joan Mitchell has long been hailed as a formidable creative force — a painter who attained critical acclaim and success in the male-dominated art circles of 1950s New York. She then spent nearly four decades in France creating distinctive,...

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens has commissioned Kehinde Wiley to create a new work inspired by Thomas Gainsborough’s The Blue Boy (ca. 1770). Wiley’s A Portrait of a Young Gentleman (also the original title of the...

The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (LA MoCA), announced today that Johanna Burton will take up the post of executive director of the institution, working alongside artistic director Klaus Biesenbach. Burton, the longtime executive...

February James’s (Don’t) Take Me With You, opening September 11, 2021 at Wilding Cran Gallery,  is an intimate, raw conversation about the expectations of adulthood: The challenging of inherited values versus innate desires, the navigating of...

With Light | Glyphs, opening at William Turner Gallery on September 11, 2021, Casper Brindle presents two new bodies of work, each involving dramatic investigations into light, color, and perspective. A contemporary disciple of the 1960s &...

Pace Gallery has announcee the gallery’s representation of Jules de Balincourt in collaboration with Victoria Miro and Thaddaeus Ropac. Pace will debut de Balincourt’s painting New Arrivals at its East Hampton space in August, and the artist’s...

With six monumental body sculptures, Enrique Castrejon’s new exhibit “Mind Heart Rectum” puts the Bermudez Projects art gallery in Cypress Park at the crossroads of the human response to cancer, aging, masculinity, and the pandemic. It is a...

Chuck Close, who emerged as an art-world force in the 1970s and ’80s with his intimate, large-scale Photorealist portraits of tremendous visual and psychological impact, died of congestive heart failure August 19 in Oceanside, New York, at the...

The Jewish Museum is showing Louise Bourgeois, Freud’s Daughter, an exhibition that explores Bourgeois’s art and writings in light of her complex and ambivalent relationship with Freudian psychoanalysis. Curated by Philip Larratt-Smith, the...

The Santa Barbara Museum of Art (SBMA) re-opened following a six-year, $50 million renovation, led by the Santa Barbara-based firm of Kupiec Architects PC and executed by Santa Maria-based Diani Corporation. Marking the Museum’s 80th anniversary...

For the first time in more than four centuries, the epic series of mythological paintings by Titian, one of the most celebrated artists of the Renaissance, is reunited in Titian: Women, Myth & Power. The exhibition—jointly organized by The...

“Hysteria” is Maui-based artist Cudra Clover’s museum-wide exhibition currently on view at the Lancaster Museum of Art and History (MOAH) in Lancaster, CA. Hysteria is an expansive, multimedia three-part show that comprises large format silk...

Tibor de Nagy Gallery's new show, West Coast Collage and Assemblies, presents nine artists, all friends, who came of age and/or made their home in California. The exhibition focuses on these artists’ shared stylistic connection to collage and...

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) has announced the honorees of its 2021 Art+Film Gala. On Saturday, November 6, LACMA will honor Amy Sherald, Kehinde Wiley, and Steven Spielberg . LACMA trustee Eva Chow and actor Leonardo DiCaprio...

The Helen Frankenthaler Foundation has announced the recipients of its first round of climate-change grants totaling $5.1 million, parceled out among seventy-nine US institutions in amounts ranging from $7,000 to $100,000. The foundation...

Crossroads, Crossing, and Convergence at Tufenkian Fine Arts is a group exhibition featuring a selection of first-generation immigrant female artists. The exhibition will run from Wednesday, July 21st and will be on view through Saturday, August...

World-renowned photographer and UCLA Lynda and Stewart Resnick Endowed Chair in Art, Catherine Opie, has been appointed departmental chair of the UCLA Department of Art, beginning September 1st. Opie’s appointment comes after nearly four years...

The LA Art Show, the most comprehensive international contemporary art show in America, is honored to officially kick-off the city’s 2021 art season at the Los Angeles Convention Center on July 29, 2021. This special Summer Edition--on the heels...