The documentary 'Asco: Without Permission' premieres on PBS on Oct. 2. It follows the '70s and '80s East L.A. revolutionary art group Asco and the next generation of L.A. Chicano artists.

L.A. Opera is set to unveil a monumental new curtain created by the Cuban-born artist Enrique Martínez Celaya. More than a year in the making, the utilitarian art work will serve as the visual centerp...

The anonymous arts group known as Secret Handshake's latest satirical anti-Trump artwork is a playable video game console called, "Nuuk 'Em All," in, yes, Nuuk, Greenland.

The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art has placed gates around its main courtyard, making it so ticketed and nonticketed guests must go through security to access the space. This is not the public plaza th...

RM, a member of the South Korean K-pop group BTS, is a serious about art. A portion of his 400-piece collection is now going on view at SFMOMA.

As Segerstrom Center for the Arts turns 40, its leaders look back on its rise—and ahead to a rich and varied future.

Tom Cruise, Jesse Plemons and John Goodman — stars of Alejandro González Iñárritu's 'Digger' — attended the LACMA unveiling of a new film poster by Ed Ruscha.

Wende Museum workshops center on samizdat, in which Soviet dissidents hand-typed literature to bypass state censorship. At a time when the U.S. government is curtailing public discourse, the practice ...

Performance artist Anida Yoeu Ali's exhibit, 'Anida Yoeu Ali: The Buddhist Bug,' features a 328-foot-long performance installation of an orange bug that explores race, religion, feminism and immigrati...

L.A. Times classical music critic Mark Swed has retired. He was the last full-time classical music critic at a major American newspaper.

The Museum of Contemporary Art has appointed Jonathan Abbott, formerly of GBH in Boston, as its new chief executive and director. Abbot will be the institution's sixth leader since 2008.

Hammer Museum founder Armand Hammer's private art collection will go up for auction after a preview exhibition at Sotheby's L.A. Works include Mary Cassatt's "Summertime" and Edgar Degas' "Trois danse...

Ernie Wolfe, the owner of the Ernie Wolfe Gallery of African Art, is dying and wants to find a home for what is among the most significant private collections of African Art in the country.

The Lebanese-born painter, sculptor and fashion designer Huguette Caland's life was as wild and audacious as her art. A Hammer Museum retrospective unpacks the once L.A.-based artist's remarkable lega...

A photo of President Trump reviewing what looks to be a rendering of a demolished Kennedy Center was featured in a court filing Thursday asking for an emergency hearing over the center's recent closur...

George Lucas' quest to find a permanent home for his namesake museum started more than 20 years ago and involved land battles in Chicago and San Francisco before the project landed in L.A.s Exposition...

The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art is challenging art-world hierarchies by placing commercial art, comics and pop culture works in conversation with pieces by Frida Kahlo, Mary Cassatt, Pablo Picasso, ...

A contractor has filed a lawsuit against the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art for unpaid work. It shines fresh light on the land deal given to the museum by the state of California.

A contractor has filed a lawsuit against the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art for unpaid work. It shines fresh light on the land deal given to the museum by the state of California.

Lucas Museum of Narrative Art co-founders George Lucas and Mellody Hobson spoke Wednesday at the press preview for the new museum. "This one almost broke my will," Lucas said.

Synthetic yet organic, populist yet elitist, the $1 billion Lucas Museum of Narrative Art is full of contradictions. Highlights include an extraordinary park, cascading waterfall, structural feats and...

By discarding artistic hierarchy of any kind, the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art is stepping into an ongoing debate about what kind of work gets to be labeled "art."

Fans can pay tribute to the late artist Yayoi Kusama by visiting one of her two Infinity Mirror Rooms at the Broad in L.A.

In a Monday court filing lawyers for the Justice Department argued that the Kennedy Center may need to be torn down if it doesn't receive the renovations proposed by President Trump.

"Eileen Cowin: Between Panic and Paradise," on view at LACMA through Jan. 3, highlights an impressive array of the L.A.-based photographer's most provocative work.

Activist Dolores Huerta helped create the exhibition 'Help Wanted/Leave Now,' with plans in the works for travel.

"To Share a Stomach" at the Brick features works envisioned by 25 Iranian artists that were fabricated with varying degrees of collaboration by 24 counterparts in the U.S.

As Lumiere in "Beauty & the Beast" at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre, actor Danny Gardner must sing and dance with live flames on his hands. Here's how his 7-pound ‘handlesticks’ are created backstage...

The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art on Tuesday announced its flagship restaurant, Skywalker Grill. Nestled at the top of the museum with sweeping city views, the classic American eatery is now taking re...

"Game of Thrones: The Mad King," the first stage adaptation of writer George R. R. Martin's bestselling fantasy saga, opened Saturday at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre with Martin — and rapturous fans ...

The 12-acre Sixth Street PARC, set to open this year beneath the 6th Street Bridge, is meant to connect Boyle Heights to the Arts District. But will this new civic space face the same precipitous decl...

A 10-foot sculpture of a golden trophy made for President Trump by the anonymous arts activist group Secret Handshake is officially on tour, with an Instagram page and appearances in D.C., New York an...

Alaska will star as Mary Todd Lincoln in 'Oh, Mary!' at the Ahmanson Theatre in the fall alongside J. Harrison Ghee.

Groundbreaking begins in October on a $22-million renovation of the Watts Towers Arts Center Campus. With this work, one of Los Angeles’ most important cultural landmarks is entering a new chapter aft...

Groundbreaking assemblage artist and lifelong Angeleno Betye Saar died at 99, leaving a vast trove of work in her wake that reshaped the art world and helped kickstart the Black women's movement.

Betye Saar, a Los Angeles artist who transformed collections of bigoted bric-a-brac — Sambo dolls, ceramic mammies, and crude renderings of pickaninnies — into potent works of assemblage that mined th...

When Oskar Eustis announced he would step down as the artistic director of New York's Public Theater in 2028 he shook up the arts world with his comment that the American nonprofit theater movement wa...

TV 'Batman's' Wayne Manor hits the Pasadena real estate market for $32 million, the Hollywood Bowl sound, Yoko Ono and the story behind 'Phantom's' chandelier.

The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art announced its inaugural film programs to run nonstop throughout the day in two dedicated theaters.

After almost 40 years of performances, the 2,000-pound chandelier at the heart of the action in the famed Gothic melodrama "Phantom of the Opera" is a character unto itself. If beads could talk, this ...

Handmade trophies for President Trump are stacking up on the National Mall as part of activist group Secret Handshake's new protest art.

As Betye Saar turns 100, she's more interested in creating new work than reflecting on her legacy as one of America's most groundbreaking artists.

Artist Vija Celmins and filmmaker Denis Villeneuve will be honored at LACMA's 15th annual Art + Film Gala co-hosted by Eva Chow and Leonardo DiCaprio.

The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art will give free annual passes to South L.A. neighbors in the 90037 ZIP Code.

Architect Lorcan O’Herlihy died Sunday at the age of 66. The LOHA founder changed L.A. for the better — rethinking, among other things, dense urban housing and its relationship to the city.

LACMA will follow the April opening of its David Geffen Galleries with a large-scale Art Parade that moves beyond the museum walls and into the streets.

President Trump's name has been removed from the Kennedy Center's website and is supposed to come off the building, too. But serious damage has been done.

'Martin Mull: The Joys of Indoor/Outdoor Living' in Santa Barbara will be curated by comedian-actor Steve Martin and former Hammer Museum director Ann Philbin.

Ali Louis Bourzgui scored an upset win for performance by an actor in a featured role and went on to make a passionate speech in support of Palestine and immigrants — using vampires as a metaphor.