The art critic Christopher Knight is retiring after more than 40 years on the job, 36 of them at the Los Angeles Times. One of the last full-time art critics left at a US daily newspaper, Knight has been a renowned, incisive voice in the art...

Llyn Foulkes, a painter, jazz musician, and assemblage artist, passed away on November 25. He was renowned for his work that defied classification and his opposition to the commercialization of art. He was ninety-one. His death was announced by...

Sotheby’s opened its worldwide headquarters on Saturday, November 8, 2025. Free and open to the public, the opening coincides with a blockbuster exhibition of Modern and Contemporary art followed by marquee sales the week of November 17....

WestEdge Design Fair celebrates its 10th anniversary with expanded features and support for Habitat for Humanity of Greater Los Angeles’ ReBUILD LA™ Recovery Fund. WestEdge Design Fair returns to Santa Monica’s Barker Hangar November 20–22,...

Next month, David Hockney’s iconic 1968 painting, Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy, will be auctioned at Christie’s in New York. This historic double portrait—controversial for its time for directly and unapologetically depicting an openly...

Garel Fine Art is presenting Chasing Sleep, the first Los Angeles solo exhibition by Kiley Ames. The exhibition brings together a series of new paintings and bronze sculptures that trace the restless terrain of insomnia—its disorienting rhythms,...

Homeira Goldstein, Chairman of the Board of TIME4ART, with the support of the Manhattan Beach Art Center, will present Continuation, a momentous exhibition showcasing the works of Charles Arnoldi, Natalie Arnoldi, and Ryland Arnoldi. Curated by...

L.A. Louver announces a significant transition for the gallery, which has been located on the same city block in Venice Beach since it was established by Founding Director Peter Goulds and Elizabeth Goulds in 1975. As of Fall 2025, the gallery...

Tierra del Sol Gallery presents an inaugural fashion show on September 27th from 2 to 4 pm featuring eight of the gallery's artists in a runway show in Fiesta Hall at Plummer Park in West Hollywood, located directly across Santa Monica Blvd from...

Musée du Al is presenting Mortal Coils, a groundbreaking exhibition of recent work by the remarkable artist Leah Doyle, whose long-overlooked voice is now demanding attention. In this powerful collection, Doyle transforms wood, stone, and other...

In an attempt to balance a projected $15 million budget deficit, the private California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) in Santa Clarita, California, laid off nine employees this summer and eliminated at least twelve open positions, according to...

Tanya Bonakdar Gallery has announced the closure of its Los Angeles branch. Inaugurated in 2018, the space will shut after its last exhibition, a solo show of work by Bek Hyunjin, which closes on August 29. The gallery, which currently...

The Huntington Beach Art Center (HBAC) celebrates its 30th anniversary with Personal Data—What is a Portrait?, a landmark exhibition positioning the Center as a leading destination for contemporary art in Southern California. The exhibition runs...

Renowned artist Joe Potts will appear for an Artist’s Talk at Musée du Al on Sunday, August 31, 2025, from 6:00 to 7:00 PM. Attendees should register at museedual.com/contact to get the address. During the event, Potts will discuss his artistic...

The New York–based Joan Mitchell Foundation on August 13 named fifteen recipients of its 2025 Joan Mitchell Fellowship. Each will receive an unrestricted $60,000 grant, to be disbursed over a five-year period. The fellows—who work across fields...

A newly established curatorial group—initiated by Betye Saar in collaboration with Roberts Projects—will serve as a scholarly committee dedicated to preserving, interpreting and advancing Saar’s profound artistic legacy. Working closely with the...

The Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania (ICA Philadelphia) has named Johanna Burton as its next director. Burton, who since 2021 has served as executive director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, will...

The Ronald H. Silverman Fine Arts Gallery has announced its new show, Thru the Lens: Photographic Art from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, curated by Billie Milam Weisman. The exhibition runs July 21 to October 25th, 2025, with an...

Shamim M. Momin has been named the new chief curator and director of the Bronx Museum of the Arts. Momin, who was most recently director of curatorial affairs at the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle, will take up her new post in early September amid...

The Robert Berman Gallery has announced REDUX 1995–2025: William S. Burroughs, opening Saturday, July 12, 2025, 11 AM–7 PM, at Bergamot Station Arts Center. This exhibition revisits the 1995 exhibition “Concrete and Buckshot,” a presentation of...

The Los Angeles Poverty Department (LAPD) has announced the opening of the “Walk the Talk 2014-2024” exhibition. There will be an opening reception on Thursday, July 10, from 5 to 8 pm at the Skid Row History Museum & Archive, 250 South Broadway...

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) has secured a major addition to its public art program with the acquisition of Jeff Koons’ Split-Rocker (2000), a towering floral hybrid of dinosaur and rocking horse, standing 37 feet tall and...

Musée du Al, Los Angeles’s newest—and smallest—contemporary art museum, presents “Les Femmes du Al”, an exhibition of Los Angeles-area women artists, on display from July 5 through August 3, 2025. The exhibition was shaped by an unconventional...

Joel Shapiro (1941–2024), the American sculptor whose deceptively simple wooden figures pulsed with life, tension, and wit, died on Saturday in Manhattan at 83. His daughter, Ivy Shapiro, confirmed his death from acute myeloid leukemia....