News
LA’s $1B Lucas Museum Lays Off 22 Employees
The institution co-founded by Star Wars filmmaker George Lucas and his wife Mellody Hobson cut both full- and part-time workers ahead of its 2026 opening.
Los Angeles
Features
Looking for Subculture? It’s at LA’s Art Book Fair
The diverse array of printed matter on view points to the role of small publishers in archiving and restoring lesser-told histories, preventing them from being forgotten.
Art Review
David Hammons Gets at the Why? of It
His elegantly simple exhibition — just darkness and flashlights — prompts a rethinking of what we consider worthy art.
Art Review
The UCLA MFA Show Proves We’ve Got to Learn From Students
Far from perfect, their work illustrates the kind of mess, ambition, and attention that many artists would be lucky to have.
Art Review
Los Angeles as Site for Diasporic Ghosts
In paintings, ceramics, and installations, Rachel Hakimian Emenaker depicts scenes of gentrification, religion, and homeland.
Guide
10 Shows to See in Los Angeles This May
Amalia Mesa-Bains’s altars to memory, Akinsanya Kambon’s Pan-Africanist sculptures, colonial wine production, restaging Diane Arbus’s 1972 retrospective, and more.
Art Review
Los Angeles Pays Homage to the Cool Trance of Alice Coltrane
An exhibition of the late musician and devoted spiritual leader effectively incorporates music, performance, and visual art.
News
John Humble, Photographer Who Captured LA's Contradictions, Dies at 81
For five decades, Humble focused his lens on areas of the city often overlooked or dismissed, from its industrial infrastructure to its mom-and-pop storefronts.
Art Review
The Experimental Composers Who Inspired a Generation of Artists
Arthur Russell and Julius Eastman’s influence is felt in the echoes between the present and the past, the dead and the living, and, most prominently, each other.
Art Review
Otis College MFA Students Remake Los Angeles
Graduates display the breadth of LA’s institutional art ecosystem today, offering a range of approaches to making art this side of the Mississippi.
News
Historic Chicano Mural Whitewashed in Culver City
Created in 1979 by the East Los Streetscapers, the painting on the wall of a local DMV was a rare example of Latine representation in images of space and STEM.
Art Review
California’s New Slang
From airbrushed lettering of lowriders to silkscreen and sign-painting, an exhibition flexes the state’s wide-ranging visual language.