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San Francisco Art Institute names former Laguna Art Museum director Charles Desmarais as its director...

Times reporter Ruben Vives writes Friday in the L.A. Now blog about street-art posters that have begun appearing in downtown L.A. that depict disgraced Bell city administrator Robert Rizzo, who was arrested last year as part of a larger crackdown......

A new documentary movie about the Museum of Contemporary Art's exhibition "Art in the Streets" is coming to a website -- and maybe television screens -- near you. "Outside In" is a 30-minute behind-the-scenes look at the making of MOCA's......

In the annals of art controversies, the one involving Boca Raton and Mary Eiland seems downright laughable. This isn't exactly New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani taking on a city-subsidized Brooklyn Museum exhibit which featured a depiction of the Virgin.......

South L.A.'s Watts Towers receives big pledge money...

When French painter James Tissot unveiled his ambitious new depiction of "The Life of Christ" at the Paris Salon of 1894, the epic though still unfinished series of nearly 300 watercolors was a sensation. Standing in the midst of this immense...

The history of visual art in Connecticut usually is traced to the first professional painter, William Johnston of Boston, who began working in the region around 1762. But, as Susan P. Schoelwer notes in the introduction to a new scholarly catalog, "at...

Romie Porter and Holland Hamilton stood in line all day in Times Square for a chance to feel like a New York Yankee. They were two of hundreds of people who got a key to the city today. It's all part of a new citywide public art project called "Key to...

Three years ago I was sitting in a room in New York with some actors, a director and a young Iraqi woman named Wassan who was going over an early draft of my play "Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo" and helping the actors with the Arabic that is peppered...

Most artists aren't in it for money … but if one can walk away with $100,000 thanks to Sarah Jessica Parker, so much the better. As her "Sex and the City 2" sequel to her former HBO series continues its theatrical run, the Emmy-winning actress also is...

-- Slumping: Sotheby's reported a wider third-quarter loss over the same period last year due to continued weakness in global art sales. (Bloomberg) -- New digs: New York's Dia Art Foundation is planning to build a new home on the......