LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART
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ABOUT LACMA
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ON VIEW EXHIBITIONS
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LENS WORK: CELEBRATING LACMA’S EXPERIMENTAL PHOTOGRAPHY AT 50
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ISLAMIC ART NOW: CONTEMPORARY ART OF THE MIDDLE EAST
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CHRISTINE CORDAY: PROTOIST SERIES, SELECTED FORMS
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THOMAS DEMAND: PACIFIC SUN
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NATURE AND THE AMERICAN VISION: THE HUDSON RIVER SCHOOL
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LARRY SULTAN: HERE AND HOME
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HAUNTED SCREENS: GERMAN CINEMA IN THE 1920S
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VARIATIONS: CONVERSATIONS IN AND AROUND ABSTRACT PAINTING
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INTRODUCTION The opening of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) in March 1965 was a powerful symbol of the coming of age of a city transformed from a dusty agricultural center with around 2000 residents to a vibrant, international city. These days, its campus is filled with outdoor installations that allow visitors hands-on interaction with the art. It’s also possible to take in museum fare as unexpected as a Tim Burton or Stanley Kubrick exhibit, or a staged reading by director Jason Reitman of the screenplay Reservoir Dogs. For those who wish to stay culturally abreast in L.A., it is, suddenly, very necessary to visit LACMA.
ON GOING EXHIBITIONS
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METROPOLIS II
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LEVITATED MASS
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JAMES TURRELL, BREATHING LIGHT
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COMING SOON
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FROM THE ARCHIVES: ART AND TECHNOLOGY AT LACMA, 1967–1971
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RAKU: THE COSMOS IN A TEA BOWL
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AFRICAN TEXTILES AND ADORNMENT: SELECTIONS FROM THE MARCEL AND ZAIRA MIS COLLECTION
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50 FOR 50: GIFTS ON THE OCCASION OF LACMA’S ANNIVERSARY
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ED MOSES: DRAWINGS FROM THE 1960S AND 70S
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DRAWING IN L.A.: THE 1960S AND 70S
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NOAH PURIFOY: JUNK DADA
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ABOUT TH E MUSEUM The Los Angeles Museum was founded in 1898 by Judge William Bowen, who wanted to eradicate a neighborhood of ill repute just outside the city limits of historic downtown Los Angeles and replace it with a museum for the edification of the public. The new museum opened its doors in 1913 with a donation of memorabilia about early life in California. The museum was founded with no specific plan for an art collection — it neither owned a work of art nor had the funds to acquire one. Over several decades, the campus and the collection have grown considerably. The Anderson Building (renamed the Art of the Americas building in 2007) opened in 1986 to house modern and contemporary art. In 1988, Bruce Goff’s innovative Pavilion for Japanese
THE BROAD CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM AND THE LYNDA AND STEWART RESNICK PAVILION AT LACMA. IMAGE BY NIGEL LO (2014)
Art opened at the east end of campus. In 1994, the museum acquired the May Company department store building at the corner of Wilshire and Fairfax, now known as LACMA West. Most recently, the Transformation project revitalized the western half of the campus with a collection of buildings designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop. These include the Broad Contemporary Art Museum, a three-story 60,000 square foot space for the exhibition of postwar art that opened in 2008. In fall of 2010, the Lynda and Stewart Resnick Exhibition Pavilion opened to the public, providing the largest purpose-built, naturally lit, open-plan museum space in the world, with a rotating selection of major exhibitions. Ray’s restaurant and Stark Bar opened in 2011, invigorating the central BP Pavilion near Chris Burden’s iconic Urban Light. The LACMA campus continues to evolve in order to present an encyclopedic collection of art, special exhibitions, and music, film and educational programs.
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WRESTLERS THOMAS EAKINGS ART OF THE AMERICAS BUILDING, LEVEL 3
RETRATO DE FRIDA KAHLO DIEGO RIVERA ART OF THE AMERICAS BUILDING, LEVEL 4
LA TRAHISON DES IMAGES RENÉ MAGRITTE
WEEPING WOMAN WITH HANDKERCHIEF PABLO PICASSO
AHMANSON BUILDING, LEVEL 2
AHMANSON BUILDING, LEVEL 2
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METROPOLIS II
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Chris Burden's Metropolis II is an intense kinetic sculpture, modeled after a fast paced, frenetic modern city. Steel beams form an eclectic grid interwoven with an elaborate system of 18 roadways, including one six lane freeway, and HO scale train tracks. Miniature cars speed through the city at 240 scale miles per hour; every hour, the equivalent of approximately 100,000 cars circulate through the dense network of buildings. According to Burden, “The noise, the continuous flow of the trains, and the speeding toy cars produce in the viewer the stress of living in a dynamic, active and bustling 21st century city.�
METROPOLIS II CHRIS BURDEN IMAGE BY ED KWON
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LEVITATED MASS Levitated Mass by artist Michael Heizer is composed of a 456-foot-long slot constructed on LACMA's campus, over which is placed a 340-ton granite megalith. The slot gradually descends to fifteen feet in depth, running underneath the boulder. As with other works by the artist, such as Double Negative (1969), the monumental negative form is key to the experience of the artwork. Taken whole, Levitated Mass speaks to the expanse of art history, from ancient traditions of creating artworks from megalithic stone, to modern forms of abstract geometries and cutting-edge feats of engineering.
LEVITATED MASS, MICHAEL HEIZER IMAGE BY JOSH HALPER
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BREATHING LIGHT James Turrell, considered one of the most important artists of the Southern California Light and Space movement, was born in Los Angeles in 1943 and attended Pomona College, where he studied art, art history, mathematics, perceptual psychology and astronomy. He took graduate courses at the University of California, Irvine, and received a master's degree in fine art from Claremont Graduate School. Breathing Light is one of the artist's Ganzfeld pieces: an installation designed to entirely eliminate the viewer's depth perception. James Turrell’s art is a nexus for the worlds of art, science, architecture, astronomy, mathematics, archaeology, and spirituality.
BREATHING LIGH, JAMES TURRELL IMAGE BY FLORIAN HOLZERR
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PACIFIC SUN
STILL OF PACIFIC SUN THOMAS DEMAND
Pacific Sun—made in Los Angeles while Demand was a Scholar in Residence at the Getty Research Institute—derives from security-camera footage, circulated via YouTube, of the chaos inside a cruise ship weathering a storm in the South Pacific: chairs, tables, bottles, cartons, and people careened as the ship lurched. Intrigued by these complex movements, Demand decided to re-create the video, minus the people, by constructing and animating a life-size paper model. The soundtrack, created after the film’s completion, evokes tumbling objects and the rolling sea. Pacific Sun is an ambitious and provocative work examining society’s willing acceptance of mass-media imagery as a substitute for actual experience. Projected at full scale, Demand’s film immerses viewers in a moment that, while seeming familiar, is totally fabricated.
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PROTOIST SERIES, SELECTED FORMS Christine Corday: Protoist Series, Selected Forms is the artist’s first solo presentation at an American museum and the culmination of her work replacing the paintbrush with the heat of a plasma torch. Corday coined the term “protoist” to describe forms in and out of a solid state, and a series of works in which she aims to suspend the moment between sensory perception and definition. Corday draws on her diverse studies in astronomy, cultural anthropology, chemistry, and the science of sensory perception, and her sculptures possess an archeo-astrological quality, as if they were left behind and unearthed. The two artworks on view in the exhibition, UNE and KNOUN, exist as recording devices; every handprint that touches them will appear over time as rust, mapping an intimately individual yet shared public surface.
KNOUN CHRISTINE CORDAY
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THE HUDSON RIVER SCHOOL Nature and the American Vision: The Hudson River School features forty-five outstanding American landscape paintings from the nineteenth-century. Among the artists represented in the exhibition are the heroes of the American landscape movement: Thomas Cole, Asher B. Durand, and Albert Bierstadt, among others. Also included are lesser-known artists, some of whom helped the American landscape achieve recognition through the new democratic medium of prints and portfolios.
THE COURSE OF EMPIRE: DESOLATION THOMAS COLE
Arranged thematically by place, the exhibition is designed as a grand tour of the American landscape. It demonstrates that the movement extends beyond the Hudson River, with work by artists who reflect both realistic and romantic attitudes toward nature in scenes of New England, the American West, and even to South America.
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HERE AND HOME Larry Sultan: Here and Home is the first retrospective of California photographer Larry Sultan (1946–2009). The exhibition includes more than 200 photographs ranging from Sultan's conceptual and collaborative works of the 1970s to his solo works in the decades following. Sultan never stopped challenging the conventions of photographic documentation, exploring themes of family, home, and façade throughout his career. Five major bodies of work are represented including: Evidence (1977), made collaboratively with Mike Mandel; Swimmers (1978–81); Pictures from Home (1982–92); The Valley (1998–2003); and Homeland (2006–2009). The show is augmented by a “study hall,” with documentation and ephemera providing a glimpse of Sultan’s modes of inquiry as an artist and a teacher. MULHOLLAND DRIVE #2, LARRY SULTAN
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HAUNTED SCREENS: GERMAN CINEMA IN THE 20S Haunted Screens: German Cinema in the 1920s explores masterworks of German Expressionist cinema. From the stylized fantasy of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (dir. Robert Wiene, 1919) to the chilling murder mystery M (dir. Fritz Lang, 1931), cinema during the liberal Weimar era was innovative in aesthetic, psychological, and technical terms. The exhibition features over 150 drawings, as well as manuscripts, posters, and set models, the majority gathered by Lotte Eisner, German emigrée film historian and author of the pioneering 1952 text The Haunted Screen. Kino Ektoplasma—a three-screen installation— resurrects lost films of the Expressionist era in mesmerizing film sequences. The exhibition was designed by Amy Murphy and Michael Maltzan with Michael Maltzan Architecture, Inc.
ERICH KETTELHUT SET DRAWING FOR METROPOLIS BY FRITZ LANG
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VARIATIONS
UNTITLED (LIPSTICK URINALS) RACHEL LACHOWICZ
In an attention-compromised age when images are instant and prevalent, abstract painting serves as a contradiction, acting as a conduit for the mark of the original, individual artist. While most of the work in the exhibition has been recently created and acquired, additional paintings culled from LACMA’s collection illustrate how artists have reanimated techniques and forms using other sources that are appropriated from popular culture, photography, and collage, essentially creating a new variation of abstract painting. Variations: Conversations In and Around Abstract painting presents 30 artists whose work reflects the language and style of abstraction, icluding Markus Amm, Mark Bradford, A.K. Burns, Sarah Cain, Rachel Lachowicz, Dashiell Manley, Julie Mehretu, Dianna Molzan and many more.
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AFRICAN TEXTILES AND ADORNMENT
Brilliant color, bold patterns, and intriguing symbols characterize the dress of many societies throughout the African continent. Not only are garments visually compelling, but they are also laden with emblems of power that signify the wealth, status, prestige, or even divinity of the bearer. The body’s seat of intelligence, spirit, and identity is also established by crowning the head with spectacular structures fashioned out of feathers or beads that soar above or surround the head, increasing or expanding a subject’s stature. Featuring over 35 dynamic textiles and commanding headdresses, this exhibition presents the profound visual impact of African textiles. These extraordinary garments and headpieces sculpt the body into iconic form and serve as aesthetic surrogates for power and esteem.
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BOWLS FROM THE BLACK RAKU COLLECTION ABATON RAKU
COSMOS IN A TEA BOWL Raku tea bowls have been revered since their first appearance in 16th-century Japanese tea ceremonies. In the West, the term raku refers to a quick, low-fire technique for making ceramics. Few know that this method traces its history back to a Japanese family of potters or, more specifically, to the originator of the technique, Raku I (ChĹ?jirĹ?), who lived in the 1500s. Since then, a single person named Raku has represented each of the 15 generations, and Raku masters have produced vessels for each generation of Tea Ceremony teachers and their followers. This exhibition comprises nearly 100 Raku masterpieces with examples from each Raku Master. Other works include incense containers and burners, food utensils, water jars, and other objects used in the Japanese Tea Ceremony.
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50 FOR 50 The over 120,000 objects that make up LACMA's holdings are due to the generosity of donors. For the museum's 50th anniversary, that spirit of generosity continues with this exhibition. 50 for 50 will be the first presentation of a selection of highlights from the recent, historic bequest of A. Jerrold Perenchio, a collection of masterpieces from the 19th and 20th centuries by artists including Edgar Degas, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Edouard Vuillard, and others. Spanning centuries and cultures, the exhibition features gifts from over 25 generous donors. Masterpieces on view include works by Claude Monet, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, and Andy Warhol, as well as art from Africa and decorative arts.
LES LIAISONS DANGEREUSES. RENĂˆ MAGRITTE
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DRAWINGS FROM THE 60S AND 70S Ed Moses has been a significant figure in contemporary art in Los Angeles since his first solo exhibition at Ferus Gallery in 1958. Since the very beginning, drawing has been central to Moses’s practice. From his large, all-over graphite drawings of roses from the 1960s to his signature diagonal grids of the 1970s and beyond, Moses’s work has always been grounded in graphic experimentation. The first museum presentation of the artist’s drawings since 1976, Ed Moses: Drawings from the 1960s and 70s is comprised of approximately 100 works from LACMA’s collection, the artist’s own holdings, and those of other museums and private collections.
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DRAWING IN LA Drawing practices in Los Angeles varied tremendously during the 1960s and 1970s. Culled from LACMA’s collection and select local holdings, Drawing in L.A.: The 1960s and 70s features work by nearly 50 artists who approach drawing in numerous media and styles. Works range in technique from charcoal and ink to collage and xerography, and encompass realism, conceptual drawings and abstraction.
WAX EDWARD RUSCHA
The exhibition provides a unique opportunity to see the wide variety of drawings that were being made in Los Angeles at an exciting time in the city's artistic history. The companion exhibition Ed Moses: Drawings from the 1960s and 70s features the work of a significant figure in contemporary art in Los Angeles.
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COURSES APR 7
1:00 PM
Studio Session: Costumed Figure Drawing
APR 11
10:00 AM
Studio Session: Asian Ink Brush Painting (Sumi-e)
APR 11
10:00 AM
Outdoor Session: Photography for Teens
APR 11
10:00 AM
Ages 3 1/2–5: Printmaking Fun
Free Members-Only Screening Clouds of Sils Maria
APR 11
10:00 AM
Outdoor Session: Watercolor in the Sculpture Gardens
12:30 PM
Ages 5+ Family Art: Discover Color
FILM APR 3
7:30 PM
APR 7
1:00 PM
Pierrot le Fou
APR 11
APR 14
1:00 PM
Umbrellas of Cherbourg
APR 11
2:00 PM
Ages 3–4: Art Time
APR 16
7:30 PM
APR 12
10:00 AM
Ages 10–13: Art in the Round: Creating 3-D Sculpture - SOLD OUT
APR 21
1:00 PM
Girl Happy
APR 12
10:00 AM
Gallery Session: Drawing
LACMA 50th Anniversary Screening: The Rules of the Game
APR 12
10:00 AM
Ages 6–9: Art ABCs - SOLD OUT
Free Screening
APR 12
1:30 PM
Studio Session: Encaustic Mixed Media Lab - SOLD OUT
1:00 PM
Studio & Gallery Session: Sketching and Creating
6:00 PM
Studio Session: Impressionistic Japanese Watercolor
APR 21 APR 27
Film Independent at LACMA Live Read Guest Directed by Joe Manganiello
7:30 PM 7:30 PM
APR 28
1:00 PM
Repulsion
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APR 30
7:30 PM
Free Members-Only Screening: Welcome to Me
APR 17
U P C O M I NG E V E N T S MUSIC
TALKS APR 6
7:30 PM
The Director’s Series: Michael Govan and David Adjaye
APR 9
12:30 PM
The Art of Looking: Renaissance Art
APR 9
7:00 PM
Talk: Data as Feminist Protest
APR 12
1:00 PM
Feminist Data Collect-a-thon
APR 18
4:00 PM
Off-Site: EEG AR City Tour Olvera Street
APR 23
7:30 PM
The Director’s Series: Michael Govan and Neil MacGregor
APR 25
1:00 PM
Augmented Reality Workshop
APR 26
1:00 PM
Behind the Image: Art of the Middle East in Context
APR 5
6:00 PM
Chamber Ensembles from the Colburn School
APR 12
6:00 PM
Pianist Qing Jiang
APR 24
6:00 PM
Celebrating Cannonball Adderley
APR 26
6:00 PM
50th Anniversary Celebration: Los Angeles Symphonic Winds
APR 29
7:30 PM
Celebrating Los Angeles
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