Donald Judd Historic District Listed on the National Register of Historic Places
The Donald Judd Historic District, comprised of fifteen buildings and one work of art, has been recognized on the National Register of Historic Places. This listing encompasses and expands the existing Fort D.A. Russell Historic District to...
Trump Announces Firing Kim Sajet, Director of the National Portrait Gallery
Kim Sajet, who has been the director of the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC, since 2013, was fired by President Donald Trump on May 30 on his Truth social media platform. “Upon the request and recommendation of many people, I am...
Painter and MedMen Co-Founder Andrew Max Modlin has Special Event Solo Exhibition
Andrew Max Modlin is a fine artist based in Los Angeles. After graduating with a BFA from UCLA – focused on painting – Modlin considered graduate school, but instead went into a design career. Previously, he has been best known for co-founding...
Vojislav Radovanović at Cal State L.A.
Bird Circuit, a solo exhibition by artist Vojislav Radovanović, opens with a reception on Saturday, May 31, 2025 from 2-5pm at the Ronald H. Silverman Fine Arts Gallery at Cal State Los Angeles. Curated by Jason Jenn, the exhibition welcomes...
Atlanta’s High Museum Awards Alison Saar
Alison Saar, a Los Angeles-based artist, has been named the 2025 David C. Driskell Prize winner by Atlanta's High Museum of Art for her contributions to the African American art community. In addition to receiving an unrestricted $50,000 cash...
The Getty Presents Symbols and Signs: Decoding Medieval Manuscripts
The J. Paul Getty Museum presents Symbols and Signs: Decoding Medieval Manuscripts, an exhibition showcasing how medieval scribes and artists used textual and visual strategies to captivate readers and engage them in deciphering enigmatic codes....
Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts Announces New Board Members
The Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts has announced the appointment of artist Ken Gonzales-Day, museum leader Lisa Mark, and artist Cauleen Smith to its Board of Directors. They join Chair Edward Rada and members Elizabeth Armstrong, Connie...
The de Young Museum Presents Isaac Julien: I Dream a World
The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco is now exhibiting Isaac Julien: I Dream a World. Over the past 25 years, artist Isaac Julien has developed a singular, choreographic style of moving image exhibition in the form of immersive multichannel...
Max Kozloff: New York Art Critic And Artist Dies Aged 91
Max Kozloff (1933–2025), the incisive critic, prolific writer, and quietly brilliant artist, passed away at his New York home on April 6, 2025, at the age of 91. A towering figure in postwar American art criticism, Kozloff’s penetrating insights...
Osceola Refetoff at Von Lintel Gallery
Osceola Refetoff is a Canadian-American-Danish-Bulgarian photographer and filmmaker known for his innovative use of infrared and pinhole photography to document humanity’s ongoing relationship to the environment. Multispectral opens at the Von...
Huntington Library Presents Don Bachardy: A Life in Portraits
“Don Bachardy: A Life in Portraits,” a retrospective exhibition on the prolific Los Angeles artist, will feature more than 100 works of art and archival materials spanning over 70 years. The show runs from April 12, 2025, through August 4, 2025....
Santa Barbara Museum to Present Solo Exhibition of Elliott Hundley
The Santa Barbara Museum of Art will present an extensive mid-career exhibition of work by Elliott Hundley including an innovative installation rethinking the current display of Greco-Roman antiquities in the Museum’s Ludington Court. The show...
Mike Kelley Foundation Announces Recipients of Infinite Expansion Grants
The Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts (MKFA) has announced the recipients of its first Infinite Expansion Grants (IEG), which will support compelling upcoming projects at contemporary arts organizations across Los Angeles County. While...
Anselm Kiefer’s Landmark Exhibition in Amsterdam
A major new immersive painting installation by Anselm Kiefer will form the centerpiece of a landmark exhibition of the artist’s work in Amsterdam next spring. For the first time in their history, the Van Gogh Museum and the Stedelijk Museum...
The Frick Collection Reopens Its Gilded Age Fifth Avenue Home
The Frick Collection, housed in one of New York City’s last great Gilded Age homes, offers intimate encounters with one of the world’s foremost collections of fine and decorative arts. Its highly anticipated reopening on 17 April 2025 follows a...
Raymond Pettibon Donates Archive to the Getty
Raymond Pettibon has donated his personal archive to the Getty in Los Angeles. He first gained recognition in the Southern California punk scene in the 1970s and 1980s with his starkly drawn flyers and album covers. He then began to receive...
“QUEERING DIGITAL”
Curators Steve Galindo and Jamison Edgar are presenting Queering Digital, a sprawling group exhibition at the West Hollywood Pacific Design Center. The exhibition features thirteen visual artists who collaborate with digital tools to trouble...
Cattelan Case of the Missing 18-Carat Toilet Goes to Trial
After a four-year break, the accused thieves are finally on trial for the heinous theft of a solid gold toilet that was fully operational at Blenheim Palace by artist Maurizio Cattelan. The 18-carat toilet, named America and designed by...
Paul McCartney’s Beatlemania Photographs Are Coming to Gagosian
Gagosian will exhibit recently rediscovered photographs by Paul McCartney—including some previously unseen—at its gallery in Beverly Hills. Featuring thirty-six works composed of images taken between December 1963 and February 1964, it offers an...
Gustave Caillebotte Exhibition Explores the Artist’s Fascination with Masculinity
The J. Paul Getty Museum presents Gustave Caillebotte: Painting Men, an exhibition featuring about 100 paintings and drawings by French Impressionist Gustave Caillebotte (1848–1894). On view at the Getty Center from February 25 to May 25, 2025,...
Leigh Bowery!
This Spring, Tate Modern will celebrate the provocative and boundary-pushing career of Leigh Bowery - one of the most fearless and original artists of the 20th century. In his short but extraordinary life, Bowery (1961-1994) forged a truly...
Christo and Jeanne-Claude: The Gates
Christo and Jeanne-Claude: The Gates and Unrealized Projects for New York City marks the 20th anniversary of The Gates, the artists’ monumental work of temporary public art. Installed in Central Park in February 2005, the artwork consisted of...
Getty Museum Appoints Heidi Strean Associate Director for Exhibitions
The J. Paul Getty Museum announced today the appointment of Heidi Domine Strean as associate director for exhibitions. She will join Getty on March 17, 2025. Strean joins Getty from the Cleveland Museum of Art where she has been a part of that...
Alonzo Davis Dead at 82
At the age of 82, artist and scholar Alonzo Davis passed away on January 27 in Largo, Maryland. He cofounded Brockman Gallery, the center of the Black art scene in Los Angeles during the 1960s and 1970s, with his brother Dale Brockman Davis. The...
























