The Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts announced today the appointment of artist Ken Gonzales-Day, museum leader Lisa Mark, and artist Cauleen Smith to its Board of Directors. They join Chair Edward Rada and members Elizabeth Armstrong, Connie Butler, Gianna Drake-Kerrison, Claire Peeps, and Pilar Tompkins Rivas.

Grant takes its name from Mike Kelley’s work Infinite Expansion, underscoring the reverberating impact of artists and arts organizations on their communities.

Manual Arts is excited to present an exhibition of 16 photographs from Mike Kelley’s Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction series (2000–11).

With the video ‘Vice Anglais’ as a foundation and starting point, the works on view reveal the artist’s versatility while underscoring a number of key recurrent themes central to his artistic practice, such as adolescence, class, sexuality and subcultures, as well as his multifaceted engagement with the nature of memory.

A coalition of major arts organizations and philanthropists in Los Angeles announce the creation of the LA Arts Community Fire Relief Fund, an emergency relief fund for artists and arts workers in all disciplines who have lost residences, studios, or livelihoods or have otherwise been impacted by the devastating Los Angeles fires.