Fifteen months after the ouster of Hal Nelson, its director of 17 years, the Long Beach Museum of Art finally has a new executive director.

First Fingerprints hip-hop in-store ever with Pigeon John, Quannum signee (Blackalicious, Lyrics Born) and member of L.A. Symphony, with a set also to be recorded live for surely cool future purposes.

‘LBMA After Dark’? Well, duh!

‘COCKFIGHT’ by LORI LAMONT
Look, I don’t know why it took this long for the Long Beach Museum of Art to hold one of these “Evenings at . . .” events. It’s not like it’s a new concept; museums from LACMA to OCMA have been holding these things for years; the kind [...]

According to Ed Fosmire, Long Beach Museum of Art’s director of development, the museum will receive a donation later this winter of around 100 wood sculptures valued around $1 million to $1.5 million.

A ceramic sculpture has neighbors threatening to disown Long Beach Museum of Art

PHOTO by RUSS ROCA
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Long Beach has few areas comparable with, say, Laguna Beach, where you can genuinely fantasize about the plein air masters sitting down to preserve scenes of crisp, fall mornings [...]

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Long Beach has few areas comparable with, say, Laguna Beach, where you can genuinely fantasize about the plein air masters sitting down to preserve scenes of crisp, fall mornings in oil paint on canvas.
Bluff Park Historic District, where scores of Craftsman-era homes and the similarly-designed Museum of Art co-exist, is one of those places: hazy [...]

EYE ON YOU: ABRAHAM LINCOLN STATUE When they built the new City Hall in the mid-1970s, this was supposed to be a redo of the old Lincoln Park, but the new place didn’t come out so well—perhaps because the city didn’t ask Mr. Lincoln. It feels oddly disjointed—and Lincoln relocated seems strangely out-of-place in a [...]

Or something by another dead guy. Just make the Museum of Art good again. Is now too soon?

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Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated?
The Long Beach Museum of Art’s strongest, most varied show in years—of photo-realist street scenes that look like Los Altos; terrifying red clay babies, tall as a man; cool [...]

Fall in love with Long Beach’s coastline at Claire’s at the Museum

PHOTO by ROSHEILA ROBLES
On a sunny day in 1912, Elizabeth Milbank Anderson could exit her 15-bedroom mansion, walk out into her backyard and gaze upon what was arguably the most beautiful oceanfront in all of Southern California: a clear, unobstructed view of Catalina, with [...]