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2025

• How L.A. Taco Filled a Gap in Los Angeles’ Media Landscape

• The Renovated Hot Springs Hotel at the Center of a Forgotten Border Town’s Reinvention

• A first glimpse (and listen) inside Lacma’s $720m new building

• As ICE Raids Stir Fear, My LA Neighborhood Perseveres

• Hank Willis Thomas’s Pop Culture Platitudes Belong to an Alternate Timeline—Not the One We’re Living In

• Is the Future of the Outdoors...Indoors?

• Salvaging the Historic Tiles of California’s Burned Fireplaces

• Upstart art fair brings collectors to an Old West movie set in the California desert

• Galleries Together offers solidarity after the Los Angeles wildfires

• ‘Los Angeles is like a phoenix’: Frieze gives boost to city’s artists and galleries

• Former employees of New York arts organisation claim they were fired for supporting artists’ pro-Palestine statement

• With a new David Hockney show in Palm Springs, we visit the artist’s L.A. haunts

• Are Our Homes Starting to Look More...Holy?

• The Dismantling of the Frank Gehry Project You’ve Never Heard Of

2024

• California Institute of the Arts faculty and staff move to unionise

• Indigenous mound in St Louis is transferred to the Osage Nation

• Los Angeles authorities criticised for art project to ‘beautify’ areas after unhoused people living in their vehicles have been moved

• Dancers Call for Fair Wages During Joan Jonas Performance at Getty

• How San Diego Gave Rise to the Country’s First Legal Nude Beach

• Artists Rally at Hammer Museum After Arrests at UCLA

• Artists priced out of Los Angeles head to this creative hub in the high desert

• Where the Construction Site Meets Brancusi’s Studio

• After Mass Arrests, UCLA Faculty Protest at Hammer Museum Gala

• Across LA Schools, Art Students and Faculty Rally for Palestine

• Recombination Dance--For Louise Nevelson, imitation was an affirmation that her style was worth repeating.

• Eavesdropping at the Dallas Art Fair

• Dallas Art Fair 2024: what to see

• As Space Becomes Scarce, Artists Take Over an Abandoned LA Structure

• LA Protesters Block Traffic, Chanting “No Oscars During Genocide”

• Protesters Call Out Art World’s Silence on Gaza at Frieze LA Fair

• Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego’s recently closed downtown location to become Navy Seal Museum

• The Artist Using Mushrooms to Address LA’s Poor Air Quality

• We’re Living Through Another Age of the Bunker

• An Unlikely Art Show Pops Up in an LA Mausoleum

• The Eames Archives launches Bay Area headquarters

• Deinfluencing, “Anti-Hauls,” and the Dupe Decor Conundrum

• Artist’s Posters of Palestinians Killed by Israeli Strikes Emerge Across US

• New Mexico gallery shows art in fallen tree trunks and on branches—for one-day show in the mountains

• California Poetics

• Giving Los Angeles back its lungs: PST Art exhibitions will uncover the links between art, water and ecology

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