In Brief
The Dalí Foundation has their sights on the Monterey museum devoted to the Spanish Surrealist and unlike the case in Spain, which the foundation lost, this may be different.
News
Aguilar, the photographer who captured people's bodies with genuine empathy, died yesterday at the age of 59.
Art
The photographer known as Spot will tell the stories behind the hippies of Hollywood, the skate scene in Hermosa Beach, and the origins of South Bay punk.
Art
There’s a casual, almost candid quality in Ed Templeton's photos. His subjects look “cool,” most likely because he himself thinks that they are.
Art
Last weekend, the Pioneer Cabin Tree in California collapsed. It was one of a number of West Coast trees that had holes cut through them in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Art
LOS ANGELES — If you visited LA this summer, it would have been hard for you to ignore the presence of Robert Mapplethorpe.
In Brief
Last week, the United States lost one of its quirkiest historical museums to a wildfire in northern California.
Art
Bay Area artist Richard Diebenkorn kept sketchbooks for his entire career; they served as a sort of nomadic studio where he experimented with visuals that bridged figurative and abstract ideas.
Art
From medical deformities to military enemies, the impulse to turn the unknown and threatening into mythical monsters has endured for centuries.
News
After a landmark year in California's state funding for the arts that saw support for the California Arts Council's boosted by $5 million, Governor Jerry Brown's proposed state budget for 2015–16 allocates just $1.1 million to the organization.
Art
Another day, another art fair. There has been, in recent years, a massive influx of art fairs, to point where it seems like every major city (and some boutique-y destination cities) has their own. Thus was born Silicon Valley Contemporary, which took place April 10–13 at the San Jose McEnry Conventi
News
Photography was rare in the early days of California urban development, but some pioneer practitioners did get out to the burgeoning bustle of Los Angeles and Santa Monica. Now one collector's passionate focus on photography of 19th-to-mid-20th-century California has culminated in 4,600 images being