Getty Museum to Return Objects to Italy
The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles has announced it will return to Italy the Sculptural Group of a Seated Poet and Sirens, a group of life-size terracotta figures also known as Orpheus and the Sirens. The Museum is also working with the...
Steven Arnold: Theophanies at Fahey/Klein
The Fahey/Klein Gallery is presenting Theophanies, an exhibition of works by multidisciplinary California artist Steven Arnold. The exhibition has been curated as a limited retrospective of Arnold’s surrealist tableau photographs, supported by a...
Another Lawsuit Filed Over Rights To Henry Darger Estate
A new lawsuit, filed July 27 in US District Court in Chicago, alleges that the estate of Henry Darger is illegally in the hands of his former landlord. The suit, brought by a distant relative of Darger and Darger’s estate, accuses Kiyoko Lerner,...
Nacho Carbonell to Inaugurate Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Los Angeles
Carpenters Workshop Gallery Co-Founders Julien Lombrail and Loïc Le Gaillard, and Director of the Americas Ashlee Harrison, have announced the expansion of the gallery to Los Angeles in June 2022. Carpenters Workshop Gallery currently has...
Gallerist, Model, Felon, Perry Rubenstein Has Died
Perry Rubenstein, a gallerist known for his uncanny ability to predict the art world’s next hot locus, as well as for his imprisonment on grand theft charges, died July 21 at his home in Los Angeles at the age of sixty-eight. His former wife,...
Hilton Als Curates “Joan Didion: What She Means” at the Hammer
The Hammer Museum is presenting Joan Didion: What She Means, an exhibition as portrait of the author Joan Didion organized by Hilton Als—writer, curator, and critically acclaimed New Yorker contributor—in collaboration with Hammer chief curator...
Tufenkian Fine Arts Presents Dreams in Deixis
Tufenkian Fine Arts's new exhibit, Dreams in Deixis, is a group exhibition curated by Ava Burnes featuring artworks by Claire Chambless, Sessa Englund, Lara Joy Evans, Rosemary Holliday Hall, Isabella Kressin, Amelia Lockwood, Carlotta Lücke,...
Tod Papageorge Making Waves at 82 with a Show at Danziger Gallery
Danziger Gallery L.A. is presenting the first showing of Tod Papageorge’s photographs taken in the late seventies and early eighties of Los Angeles beachgoers. An early participant in the American school of street photography Tod Papageorge’s...
Basquiat Expert Denies Authenticating Disputed Works Seized By FBI
Jordana Moore Saggese, an associate art history professor at the University of Maryland who was hired to write a report on a group of paintings said to be by Jean-Michel Basquiat and comprising an exhibition of the late, revered artist’s work at...
Art and Race Matters: Robert Colescott at the New Museum, NYC
Featuring approximately forty paintings, this exhibition highlights the sixty-year-long career of one of America’s most adventurous and subversive artists. The bold and richly rendered works of Robert Colescott (1925–2009) traverse art history...
Abbas Zahedi Wins 2022 Frieze Artist Award
London-born installation artist Abbas Zahedi has been named the winner of the 2022 Frieze Artist Award. His Waiting With {Sonic Support} will occupy a spot near the entrance of Frieze London, to be held October 12–16 in Regent’s Park alongside...
Margaret Keane Painter Of Big Eyed Children Dies Aged 94
The painter Margaret Keane, creator of melancholy portraits of big-eyed children, popular in the late 1950s-1960s, has died aged 94. She became phenomenally successful with fans and collectors, including celebrities like Natalie Wood, Andy...
Adam Parker Smith Crushing It at the Hole
The Hole is presenting six new sculptures by Adam Parker Smith in the form of Crush, his fifth solo exhibition with the gallery. While furthering Smith’s stylistic sense of humor and long-standing investigation into the legitimacy of classical...
ArtCenter to Unionize
The faculty of the Pasadena ArtCenter College of Design earlier this month voted to join AFT/CFT, the California branch of the American Federation of Teachers, which is affiliated with the AFL-CIO (American Federation of Labor and Congress of...
Hammer Museum Presents Andrea Bowers
The Hammer Museum at UCLA presents the first museum retrospective surveying more than two decades of work by the Los Angeles–based artist Andrea Bowers (b. 1965, Wilmington, Ohio). Bowers has built an international reputation as a chronicler of...
“The Cheech” Set to Open June 18
One of the nation’s first permanent spaces dedicated to showcasing Chicano art and culture is coming together quickly with the June 18 grand opening within sight. And when the doors open, visitors to The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art &...
Joan and Jack Quinn Family Collection Makes Debut in Boston
The Armenian Museum of America is presenting "On the Edge: Los Angeles Art 1970s - 1990s" from the Joan and Jack Quinn Family Collection. This selection of work explores a period that is pivotal to understanding current practices and the West...
Nino Mier Announces New York Gallery
Nino Mier Gallery has announced a new gallery space in New York’s Soho neighborhood, slated to open in January 2023. The 4,500 square-foot, ground-floor space will mark Nino Mier Gallery’s New York debut, and will be the ninth space operating...
Paula Rego Has Died in London Aged 87
Her gallery, Victoria Miro put out the following statement; “It is with immense sadness that we announce the death of the Portuguese-born, British artist Dame Paula Rego. She died peacefully this morning, after a short illness, at home in North...
Tate Museum’s Clara Kim Appointed Chief Curator at MOCA
Clara Kim is leaving London’s Tate Modern, where she has served as senior curator of international art since 2016, to become chief curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (LA MoCA). Kim, who will assume her new role September 1,...
