From Van Gogh to Star Wars: George Lucas’s Museum of Narrative Art opens in LA
3 September 2026 • Mark Westall
From Van Gogh to Star Wars, George Lucas’s new LA museum brings fine art, comics, cinema and popular culture under one roof.
Tag: Los Angeles
FAD NEWS: Getty appoints Kimberly Uyttewaal to lead Development and Institutional Advancement
19 August 2026 • Mark Westall
The J. Paul Getty Trust has appointed Kimberly Uyttewaal as Vice President of Development and Institutional Advancement
When Images Don’t Quite Settle
26 July 2026 • Mark Westall
Bin Fang’s xü, aha! at 4C Gallery transforms everyday materials, moving image and sound into a quietly immersive installation
FAD NEWS: Post-Fair expands to Paris with first European edition during Art Basel Paris
13 July 2026 • Mark Westall
Post-Fair launches in Paris, bringing 34 international galleries together during Art Basel Paris with its alternative exhibition-led fair model.
Zidane film on view at Gagosian L.A. for World Cup
26 June 2026 • Mark Westall
Magic is sometimes very close to nothing at all centres on Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait and explores football, language and popular culture.
David Hockney Dies: The Artist Who Never Stopped Looking
12 June 2026 • Mark Westall
David Hockney has died aged 88, his influence on contemporary art is immeasurable.
Synoptico Explores Attention, Memory and Digital Life Through Dance and Video Art in Los Angeles
5 June 2026 • Mark Westall
Synoptico is a new multimedia performance by Eno Freedman Brodman combining dance, video art and immersive projection
David Zwirner now represent the Robert Therrien Estate
29 May 2026 • Mark Westall
David Zwirner has announced exclusive global representation of the Robert Therrien Estate following the artist’s landmark retrospective at The Broad.
Ai Weiwei doing three show in Los Angeles during the Autumn.
22 May 2018 • Mark Westall
Ai Weiwei is scheduled to do to three shows in Los Angeles in September/October firstly he is taking over Jeffrey Deitch’s new Hollywood gallery for its inaugural show, opening Sept 29th then he has a show at the Marciano Art Foundation, opening Sept 28th and finally starting Oct 4th he will be showing a marble sculpture at the new UTA Artist Space in Beverly Hills.
Car, shed … elevator? The Los Angeles art spaces proving smaller is better
10 July 2017 • Mark Westall
A range of alternative galleries have sprung up in the city, creating micro-museums that offer unique experiences not found in ‘white-walled galleries’
Los Angeles hires artist Alan Nakagawa to help cut deaths from traffic
10 June 2016 • Mark Westall
The Los Angeles Department of Transportation has recruited artist Alan Nakagawa to reduce traffic deaths.
Los Angeles’ resurgence as America’s cultural capital
21 December 2015 • Mark Westall
With new prestige museums, high-profile art events and a proliferation of bands, record stores and hangout spaces, the city’s cultural life is booming
Los Angeles Opening: The Broad Museum
19 September 2015 • Staff
Fast becoming a city of migrating artists in as much it is of angels, as its moniker suggests, Los Angeles welcomes a new museum
David Hockney does LA again, but differently: ‘I stay in, I smoke, I feel OK’
17 July 2015 • Mark Westall
The 78-year-old British artist is back in Los Angeles with an exhibit that explores the intersection of art and technology, but he says his fast-and-loose days are behind him: ‘I don’t go out much anymore because I’m too deaf, really’
Daniel’s Value and Ideas #77: I’d Be Safe and Warm If I Was in LA
10 July 2015 • daniel barnes
High up in the Hollywood Hills, an Englishman is grappling with his demons. After nearly a decade in Bridlington, David Hockney has moved back to Los Angeles, following the tragic death of his young assistant Dominic Elliott.
Banksy’s Flower Girl artwork up for auction in LA
5 December 2013 • Mark Westall
Banksy’s Flower Girl artwork up for auction
GO SEE : John Divola his first UK show at Laura Bartlett Gallery
24 November 2012 • Mark Westall
This is the first solo exhibition by Los Angeles-based artist John Divola, in the U.K. so you must go and visit it as soon as you can it closes in early January.
“Your Land/My Land: Election ’12” by Jonathan Horowitz Across America
27 August 2012 • Mark Westall
Jonathan Horowitz, “Your Land/My Land: Election ’12.” Courtesy the artist and Gavin Brown’s enterprise. Photo: Thomas Mueller The New Museum… Read More
Merry Karnowsky Gallery LA: Tara Mc Pherson, Lady Aiko, Deedee Cheriel and Lindsay Way
10 February 2012 • Mark Westall
This past weekend the Merrry Karnowsky gallery (one of the more established galleries for the so called “Low Brow Art”… Read More
The dark arts of Los Angeles
15 September 2011 • Mark Westall
This autumn, galleries and museums across the Californian city will celebrate its historic art scene. Just don’t expect rainbows
Daniel Danger “They Will Take It Back” at Gallery1988:Los Angeles Art Opening Thursday August 5th 2010
5 August 2010 • Mark Westall
August 5 – 27, 2010 “They Will Take It Back,” is a solo exhibit from artist Daniel Danger. This show,… Read More
GO SEE: Dennis Hopper Double Standard at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Through to September 26th 2010
13 July 2010 • Mark Westall
Hopper’s artistic output and feature more than 200 works spanning his prolific 60-year career in a range of media………..