Deborah Vankin

Los Angeles, CA - May 23: Statue of Liberty, 1982 on display in the Keith Haring exhibition at the Broad on Tuesday, May 23, 2023 in Los Angeles, CA. Haring's work pushed boundaries and created work outside traditional art spaces. (Dania Maxwell / Los Angeles Times).

Timelier than ever, Keith Haring’s first L.A. museum show shines a neon-bright light on his art and activism

June 30, 2023 at 9:12 p.m.

Keith Haring climbed atop scaffolding inside a classroom building at Pasadena’s ArtCenter College of Design and began to quietly but determinedly paint. It was late November 1989, and the New...

Artist Cannupa Hanska Luger in Glorieta, NM conducting the first round of material and light testing with handmade paper samples made from abaca and flax. The artist will be part of the Hammer Museum's PST presentation, "Breath(e): Towards Climate and Social Justice."

Getty invests more than $17 million in 2024’s art and science-themed Pacific Standard Time, which includes Mingei Museum

May 9, 2023 at 11:41 p.m.

The Getty announced on Tuesday that it has increased its grant investment for organizations to conduct research and develop programming for the next iteration of the art extravaganza, Pacific Standard...

Maj Hasager's exhibition, "Three Structures Touching" 2021, in collaboration with the Quinn Research Center, at 18th Street Arts Center's Airport Campus Propeller Gallery.

This arts nonprofit mapped a pre-gentrified Santa Monica. With a new $3-million grant, the project is going statewide

January 26, 2023 at 12:33 a.m.

For the past eight years, the Santa Monica-based nonprofit 18th Street Arts Center has produced its Culture Mapping 90404 project. The community-led, interactive digital map highlights the cultural history of...

Llos Angeles, CA - December 14: Comedian teacher, Lisa Sundstedt has a class called "Pretty Funny Women," and poses for a portrait at her classroom on Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2022 in Llos Angeles, CA. She has been teaching comedy to women since the 1990s. (Dania Maxwell / Los Angeles Times)

Lisa Sundstedt champions Pretty Funny Women in a (still) male-dominated comedy world

December 23, 2022 at 1:01 p.m.

The classroom theater is tiny and DIY-looking, a dimly lit studio tucked behind a Sherman Oaks residence. The stage is modest, a raised platform backed by a plain red curtain...

"Sculptural Group of a Seated Poet and Sirens," Greek, 350–300 B.C.; terracotta with ploychromy

Getty to return illegally excavated Orpheus sculptures, some great antiquities, to Italy

August 11, 2022 at 9:37 p.m.

The J. Paul Getty Museum is returning its Orpheus group of sculptures — a culturally significant group of nearly life-size terra-cotta figures known as “Orpheus and the Sirens,” some of...

A rendering of Sheena Rae Dowling and Yvette Roman’s Memory Dome, "Collective Memory," which will be staged in San Diego’s San Ysidro Community Park.

23 San Diego artists will transform the city’s parks with new public artworks

May 3, 2022 at 11:16 p.m.

San Diego’s park system will serve as a sweeping canvas for local artists starting in May. The city has announced a public arts collaboration, Park Social, in which 23 local...

23 San Diego artists will transform the city’s parks with new public artworks

April 29, 2022 at 3:02 p.m.

San Diego’s park system will serve as a sweeping canvas for local artists starting in May. The city has announced a public arts collaboration, Park Social, in which 23 local...

Los Angeles, CA - September 21: The prosthetic suit worn by actor Doug Jones as the amphibian man in 2018 Oscar-winning film, "Shape of Water," by director Guillermo del Toro, center, is part of the Stories of Cinema exhibit, a multi-room experience entitled "Inventing Worlds & Characters," including, "Encounters," with some of film's most popular creations, photographed at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, in Los Angeles, CA, Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2021. (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)

Fotos de las galerias del Museo de la Academia, desde ‘Oz’ hasta ‘Midsommar’

September 30, 2021 at 11:48 p.m.

El Museo de la Academia de Cinematografía no abre al público hasta el 30 de septiembre, pero Tom Hanks, Anna Kendrick, el productor de "Parasite" Miky Lee, el arquitecto Renzo...

A rendering of the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture

Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art names Maria Esther Fernandez as director

July 14, 2021 at 12:12 a.m.

The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture of the Riverside Art Museum has named María Esther Fernández as its artistic director, the center's top post and the person...

Alex Gallardo ?? ? 033123.CA.0720.ucsd.1.AG ?? San Diego ?? Artist John Baldessari in front of his new artwork READ/WRITE/THINK/DREAM installed at the UC San Diego Library as part of the university's ongoing creation of an art campus.

John Baldessari, radically influential Conceptual artist, dies at 88

January 5, 2020 at 11:26 p.m.

John Baldessari, a gentle giant of Conceptual art whose irreverent questions about the nature of art brought him international acclaim and shaped a generation of younger talent, has died. He...

<p>Experts inspect the damaged Notre Dame cathedral after the fire in Paris.</p>

Notre Dame may take decades to fix. The first concerns are water and soot

April 17, 2019 at 3:54 p.m.

Two holes gape where Notre Dame’s vaulted stone ceiling has collapsed. The cathedral’s 19th century timber spire is gone, as is most of its roof. Portions of the interior walls...

Dissident artist Ai Weiwei lands in L.A. with 3 new exhibitions – but one work nearly didn’t make the journey

September 28, 2018 at 8:27 a.m.

Ai Weiwei is weary from travel.The Chinese artist and human rights activist shuffles into the Marciano Art Foundation’s cavernous Theater Gallery — he arrived in L.A. from Berlin just last...

Los Angeles will be home to George Lucas’ $1-billion museum

January 10, 2017 at 11:00 p.m.

For months, “Star Wars” creator George Lucas held the art world in suspense: Would he put his $1-billion Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles or San Francisco?On Tuesday came the...

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