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Los Angeles’ ascension coincided with the 46-year career of art critic Christopher Knight. In his final column for The Times, he cites three important factors in that rise.

Form propels content in Robert Therrien’s retrospective at the Broad. ‘This Is a Story,’ filled with enlarged plates and tables, cheeky chapels and flowing beards, has a charismatic presence.

For more than 30 years after opening, the Huntington held the best art collection in the L.A. suburbs. With new additions, the museum continues to build its impressive collection of masterpieces.

Auditors have questioned the accounting practices at the Palm Springs Art Museum. Areas of concern include problems with reporting of endowment spending, improper recording of the market value of donated and deaccessioned art, and faulty recording of a…

After an internal candidate was appointed to be director of the Palm Springs Art Museum, the search committee’s leader, upset over the selection process, resigned from the museum’s board.

The most artistically vibrant theaters in Los Angeles and beyond are a proving ground for actors, where even stars such as Tom Hanks and Annette Bening turn up on stage.

Juxtaposing Jim Crow-era Confederate monuments and recent art, “Monuments” challenges white supremacy.

Museum shows of recent acquisitions are fine. LACMA trying to make ‘Grounded’ into a theme show isn’t.

As the shredding of civil society accelerates, Ken Gonzales-Day’s art flips our common understanding of identity.

‘The Kingdom of Pylos: Warrior-Princes of Ancient Greece’ at the Getty Villa gives the first look outside Europe at the ancient Greek Griffin Warrior, whose grave held offerings of incomparable artistry.

Splendid sculpture and painting from LACMA’s permanent collection was packed up about eight years ago. Finally, it’s back on view — but only for a while.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art offers its first public peek inside the new David Geffen Galleries building, whose vast expanses of concrete deliver some lovely moments as well as some groans.

“Queer Lens: A History of Photography” showcases Robert Mapplethorpe, Man Ray and other big names, but the important exhibition is so much more, looking at expressions of gender and sexuality across two centuries.

Noah Davis was a painter’s painter, a deeply thoughtful Black voice heard by other artists until he died at 32. A new L.A. show reveals just how good he was.

Los Angeles artist Guadalupe Rosales reconfigures a dazzling archive of her hometown in the 1990s. It’s a show that should catapult her to prominence.

A foundation announced the groundbreaking for the Joshua Tree Art Museum, but public records reveal a more complicated picture.

As states consider loosening laws that regulate child labor, Lewis W. Hine’s early 20th century photographs, which helped child labor laws get passed, are worth our attention once again.

A revelatory show at the Huntington puts Don Bachardy’s prolific portrait drawings into a welcome new light.

Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel literature laureate and a giant of Latin American letters for decades, has died, his son said Sunday.

Bruce Nauman’s celebrated Conceptual art ripened during the decade he worked in Pasadena. A fine gallery show assembles two dozen examples with political and social dimensions that speak to present day.

Beyoncé, Kendrick Lamar/SZA, Ali Wong, Ricky Gervais, Buddhist art, a queer photography retrospective, the Ojai and Seoul (in L.A.!) music festivals, “Life of Pi” and “Hamlet” highlight our staff’s spring preview picks.

Painter Joe Goode was instrumental in establishing the 1960s L.A. art scene — and challenged conventions along the way.

The high-profile exhibition of large-scale art installations across the Coachella Valley has launched with fewer works this year. Here are the three standouts.

In the wake of the Palisades fire, should Malibu’s Getty Villa and the Getty Center in nearby Brentwood evacuate — for good?

Christian nationalism was a flop when the Puritans tried it. See this famous Augustus Saint-Gaudens sculpture for information.

Unlike Manet, Degas, Renoir and Cassatt, Gustave Caillebotte mostly painted men rather than women — men at work, men in repose, even naked men getting out of the bath.

In 2022, the Riverside Art Museum opened the doors to the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture, which showcases pieces from Marin’s collection.

Few are the corners of L.A. that don’t bear the imprint of Studio-MLA, the landscape architecture firm founded by the energetic Mia Lehrer three decades ago.

Architect Frederick Fisher has worked on cultural projects that include the Getty Villa, the Huntington and MoMA PS1. Now his studio is helping refresh the Natural History Museum.

In 10 years at The Times, I have gotten to immerse myself in a vibrant artistic community that belies every trope about a culture-less L.A.

Frida Kahlo’s story has been told and retold, but there are still pieces left to divulge, as evidenced in the new Prime Video documentary ‘Frida.’

Thanks to Elizabeth Alexander, the Mellon has committed $500 million to preserve, relocate and generate discussion about monuments — and it’s changing the nature of monuments.

‘Barbie’ and ‘Poor Things’ use architecture to conjure fantastical worlds. In ‘The Zone of Interest,’ it channels the banality of evil.

Architecture criticism is not dead yet. The New York Review of Architecture turns its eye to L.A. — from cemetery design to the rising Lucas Museum.

The actor-comedian’s first feature film, ‘Problemista,’ draws inspiration from his own byzantine immigration experience as well as surrealist paintings.

Ed Templeton’s photos from his time as a pro skateboarder also record poignant moments of friendship, love and loneliness — not to mention broken bones.

L.A. artist Joey Terrill’s vibrant canvases, on view at Marc Selwyn Fine Art, chronicle intimate moments of queer Chicano life: heartbreak and love and life with HIV.