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Ed Ruscha has designed the poster for Alejandro González Iñárritu's new dark comedy Digger, starring Tom Cruise, unveiled at LACMA on September 27. The design sets the film's title vertically in Ruscha's own typeface against an iceberg.
Source date ·The Los Angeles gallery's presentation of P. Staff's "Private Life" runs through October 25, spotlighted among fall's must-see LA gallery shows.
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Image: ArtskThe Los Angeles gallery presents Amol K Patil's "The Piled-Up Traces", his Los Angeles debut following SITE SANTA FE, running September 19–October 31, 2026.
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ICA LA's fall newsletter announces 'Carl Cheng: Nature Never Loses,' the final stop of the international tour surveying the LA artist's six-decade career, on view September 26, 2026 through February 28, 2027.
Image: ArtskArt Recovery LA (ARLA), the conservator-led collective helping Los Angeles communities recover cultural collections damaged in the 2025 wildfires, has hired Jennifer Jameson Merchant as its program manager. A preservation advocate, public folklorist and nonprofit arts administrator, Merchant brings more than 15 years of community-based cultural work in Los Angeles and beyond to the role.
Source date ·The USC Roski School of Art and Design's MA class of 2027 is presenting 'The Very Substance of Ourselves', a curatorial cohort exhibition running 17 September to 25 October 2026.
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Image: ArtskPublished 29 September 2026: the Los Angeles painter's forthcoming solo exhibition of metaphysical hybrid-creature paintings opens 3 October–7 November at KP Projects.
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A conversation with the artist is scheduled for 3 October 2026, announced 28 September.
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The Broad's Yoko Ono exhibition closes October 11, 2026, ending its run of participatory works including the Wish Tree.
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The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles has appointed Jonathan Abbott, the former president and CEO of public media company GBH, as its director and CEO. He succeeds interim director Ann Goldstein, who had led the museum since August 2025.
Source date ·Published 25 September 2026: TASCHEN and the Los Angeles Lakers unveil the 528-page official history, edited by Vikki Tobak with a foreword by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and afterword by Phil Jackson; the global retail release lands 1 October.
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New paintings and animations — including a first collaboration with Nathaniel Mellors — on view 18 September–24 October 2026 in Los Angeles.
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