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Review: Elliott Hundley’s ‘Echo’ exhibition at Regen Projects courts the pure pleasure of looking

The L.A. artist’s retrospective exhibition offers a sensation that’s rare these days: A sense of being cared for.

Los Angeles, CA - January 20: Portrait of Nadya Tolokonnikova at Jeffrey Deitch gallery on Friday, Jan. 20, 2023, in Los Angeles, CA. Nadya has her first art show at the Jeffrey Deitch gallery in LA, "Pussy Riot -- Putin's Ashes." The theme of the show is about the Russian leader who imprisoned Pussy Riot and now wages war against Ukraine. (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)

Pussy Riot founder uses art and ashes as ammo for an anti-Putin exhibit

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Walter Ulloa, media mogul and prolific art collector who elevated Latino communities, dies at 74

Los Angeles, CA - December 12, 2022: Lucas Museum of Narrative Art under construction in , Los Angeles, CA on Monday, December 12, 2022:. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) The $1-billion Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, which is rising in Exposition Park, has pushed back its opening date from 2023 to 2025. The two-year delay, the museum says, is due to pandemic complications, specifically supply chain issues that have made the procuring of certain construction materials difficult. "It's not one thing, it's an accumulation of things," Lucas Museum Director Sandra Jackson-Dumont says in an interview. "It's definitely supply chains, delays in getting materials, manufacturer issues, there are all these pieces that have together created this kind of impact on the schedule." The museum broke ground in March 2018 and "topped out" - the term for setting the final beam within its steel structure in place - in March 2021. In April 2021, the museum pushed its targeted 2022 debut by a year because of pandemic-related delays. COVID-19 health and safety protocols had slowed construction, it said at the time. Now, Jackson-Dumont says, two more years are needed not only for construction, but to also make sure the finished building is suitable to house art. "We wanted to give ourselves time, once the building is complete, to make sure the building goes through the proper readiness and remediation processes, so we can ensure the artwork is safe coming into the building," Jackson-Dumont says, referring to temperature controls and other environmental conditions. "And that process - the mitigation - really takes a period of time." The timeline delay, Jackson-Dumont says, will not affect the projected cost of the building. "The budget - that's where we are and we had a contingency in place," she says. Filmmaker George Lucas and wife Mellody Hobson are "the primary funding source" for the museum. Should the cost go up, Jackson-Dumont s

See the photos: In a galaxy not so far away, Lucas Museum is taking off

A slideshow includes an ice princess, two dancers, two kids and a puppy, and a bell ringer and a woman

Culture Guide: Where to find L.A.’s best events this weekend and beyond

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

This new gallery in L.A. is forging connections between Bay Area and SoCal artists

As storms postpone or cancel arts events across Los Angeles, organizations remain resilient

In a new exhibit, Wayne Thom’s photographs examine buildings as ‘functional sculptures’

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Review: Transcendental Painting Group is one of Modern art’s best kept secrets. This LACMA show proves it

‘Another World: The Transcendental Painting Group’ at LACMA presents an overdue survey of the abstract painting movement started in New Mexico.

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