How Takako Yamaguchi Subverts the Seascape

Oct 20, 2025

What makes a seascape? In this focus exhibition of 10 recent paintings at the Museum of Contemporary Art, veteran Los Angeles artist Takako Yamaguchi subverts the traditional notion. Rather than base her imagery on observations of the natural world, she takes the...

California School Shutters Exhibition After Altering “Political” Art

Oct 10, 2025

Los Angeles — A private Christian university in Malibu has closed an exhibition six months ahead of schedule, following requests from at least a dozen artists to withdraw from the show after the school removed or altered art it considered “political.” The news comes...

Sister Corita Kent Found the Sacred in the Profane 

Oct 7, 2025

LOS ANGELES — “T” stands for “tight rope.” At least, it does in late artist Sister Corita Kent’s circus alphabet (1968), a 30-part series of serigraph prints that each feature a letter. In the “T” print, the words “High Wire Artists” appear alongside illustrations of...

Five Artists Share Their Work in This Year’s Made in LA Biennial

Oct 4, 2025

LOS ANGELES — The Hammer Museum’s biennial, Made in LA, provides a snapshot of the state of contemporary art throughout the greater region, attempting to give coherent form to its sprawling and heterogeneous artistic landscape. With this year’s edition, opening to the...

10 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles This October

Oct 3, 2025

Befitting the season, this month brings exhibitions that enable the barriers between art and life, and life and death, to fade away. A retrospective of the work of master altarista Ofelia Esparza showcases her iconic altars that helped popularize Día de los Muertos in...

UC Irvine Takes Over Orange County Museum of Art 

Oct 2, 2025

COSTA MESA — Just three years after it reopened in a brand-new $98 million facility, the Orange County Museum of Art (OCMA) has become part of the University of California, Irvine. In a statement released on Monday, September 29, the university announced that it had...

Artists Are Projecting Satirical Anti-Trump Images Around LA 

Sep 29, 2025

On Monday, September 22, a projection of FBI Director Kash Patel looking back and forth with widened eyes appeared on a building on 2nd Street and Beaudry Avenue in Downtown Los Angeles. Other digital projections parodying Trump and his allies have been popping up...

Superchief, Beloved LA Arts Hub, Fights to Stay Open

Sep 20, 2025

LOS ANGELES — For over a decade, Superchief Gallery has been a cornerstone of LA’s underground scene, showcasing street art, photography, and work made on the cultural fringes. Despite its role as an experimental hub, mounting financial challenges in recent years have...

LA Louver to Close Gallery Space and Shift Into Private Model 

Sep 17, 2025

LA Louver, the oldest extant gallery in Los Angeles, will be closing its space in Venice this fall and transitioning to focus on private art dealing and consulting, according to an announcement today, September 16. Alongside this pivot, the gallery will be donating...

Street Vendor Beloved by LA Art World Abducted by ICE

Sep 12, 2025

Jorge Cruz selling his “antojitos del mar” at the Hammer Museum in July 2023 (all photos courtesy Ruben Ochoa unless noted) LOS ANGELES — A beloved street vendor who has provided food to hungry crowds at LA art events over the past two years is at risk of...