Trump’s 2027 budget aims to shutter the NEA, NEH and IMLS
Bombs are in and art is out as the Trump administration’s proposed 2027 budget requests $1.5 trillion in…
Readers react to LACMA’s new David Geffen Galleries
This week saw the publication of The Times’ tremendous package on the imminent opening of Los Angeles County…
Segerstrom Center for the Arts turns 40, launches Hispanic initiative
During a time of great anti-immigrant turmoil, with ICE in our airports and the Supreme Court hearing the…
What to do with California’s many Cesar Chavez murals?
Public murals are among the best ways to honor our heroes, which is why dozens of murals of…
Hollywood Pantages announces a buzzy 2026-27 season
The Hollywood Pantages Theatre on Thursday announced its 2026-27 season, which contains a whopping seven L.A. premieres including…
An Art Week party at a 99 Cents Only Store on Wilshire Blvd gets rowdy
What sounded like a very cool L.A. Art Week party ended up getting a bit too rowdy. On…
Los Angeles museums closed for anti-ICE ‘National Shutdown’
Several Los Angeles museums, art galleries and cultural institutions are shuttering their doors on Friday following calls for…
Consummate L.A. painter Harry Blitzstein dies at 87: L.A. arts and culture this weekend
Harry Blitzstein, the tireless L.A. painter who ran the Blitzstein Museum of Art on Fairfax Avenue, has died.…
Drag artists’ petition asks Kennedy Center donors to stop funding
The Kennedy Center has been losing talent since mid-December when President Donald Trump’s hand-picked board voted to change…
The artists we lost in 2025: L.A. arts and culture this weekend
It’s the second day of a brand new year, and I’d like to take a moment to look…
Here are our most-read arts stories and criticism of the year
Christmas is behind us, and the New Year is bearing down on us with alarming speed. It’s hard…
The Trump administration’s imminent threat to historic New Deal art
With the ongoing fracas over President Trump’s demolition of the White House’s East Wing, a number of other…