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LACMA, Found in Translation: Design in California and Mexico, 1915–1985 is a groundbreaking exhibition and accompanying book about design dialogues between california and mexico. its four main themes—Spanish Colonial Inspiration, Pre-Hispanic Revivals, Folk Art and Craft Traditions, and Modernism—explore how modern and anti-modern design movements defined both locales throughout the twentieth century. half of the show’s more than 250 objects represent architecture, conveyed through drawings, photographs, and films to illuminate the unique sense of place that characterized california’s and mexico’s buildings. the other major focus is design: furniture, ceramics, metalwork, graphic design, and murals. placing prominent figures such as richard neutra, luis Barragán, charles and ray eames, and clara porset in a new context while also high-
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known for his hard-edged, exuberantly colored watercolor drawings and paintings, which frequently depict the everyday spaces of his studio and garden. recurrent motifs such as potted plants in beautiful ceramic vessels made by his wife, ceramicist shio Kusaka, appear against a backdrop of the clarion blue skies of los angeles. wood trains his eye on these lush daily landscapes, often enlarging them to grand proportions that signal his fondness for small domestic pleasures. wood's new work—a new outdoor mural designed specifically to wrap the exterior of moca grand avenue— gleefully exhibits a strong cut-and-paste sensibility through its layering of shapes and forms. meant to be seen by pedestrians or through the windows of moving cars, wood's mural treats the urban architecture of downtown l.a. as a dynamic canvas on which to further explore his playful manipulation of scale, texture, color, and pattern. (ongoing) moca.org
THE BROAD the Broad’s first visiting special exhibition, yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors is the first institutional survey to explore the celebrated Japanese artist’s immersive infinity mirror rooms. this exhibition will embark on the most significant north american tour of her work in nearly two decades, and the Broad will be the only california museum to host the exhibition. “the timing is right for an exhibition that contextualizes the All the Eternal Love I have for Pumpkins, part of Yagoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors, infinity rooms and brings (10/21 - 1/1/18) theBROAD.org Kusama’s contributions to 20th and 21st century art into deeper lighting contributions of less familiar practitionfocus.” says Joanne heyler, Founding director of ers, this exhibition is the first to examine how the Broad interconnections between california and mexico shaped the material culture of each place, influYayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors will provide visitors encing and enhancing how they presented themwith the unique opportunity to experience six of selves to the wider world, (through 4/1/18) Kusama’s infinity rooms—the artist’s most iconic lacma.org kaleidoscopic environments—alongside largescale installations and key paintings, sculptures and works on paper from the early 1950s to the MOCA present, which contextualize the foundational role moca is pleased to present Anna Maria Maiolino, the concept of infinity has played in the artist’s the Brazilian artist’s first major united states muwork over many decades and through diverse seum retrospecmedia. the traveling exhibition marks the north tive. this american debut of numerous new works by the large-scale sur88-year-old artist, who is still actively creating in vey will cover her tokyo studio. these include large-scale, vimaiolino’s exbrantly colored paintings and her most recent intraordinary oeufinity room, All the Eternal Love I Have for the vre from the Pumpkins, 2016. (10/21 - 1/1/18) theBroad.org early 1960s to the present, bringing together expresTHE J. PAUL GETTY sive woodblock The Birth of Pastel Featuring works from the muprints, visceral seum’s permanent collection, this installation excement sculpplores the evolution of pastel paintings out of tures, politicallycolored chalk drawings. charged films artists since the renaissance have worked with dry and performcolored media—natural chalks or fabricated verances, fluid sions consisting of powdered pigment and a binder. drawings, and Happy Birthday Mr. Hockney, is a in the eighteenth century, pastels became extremely monumental in- two part exhibition including selfpopular, especially for portraiture. sold in sets of stallations of portraits and photographs (through countless colors, these sticks offered a promising 11/16) GETTY.edu unfired clay. new alternative to oil paints. they enabled artists to visitors will chart a path through Brazilian art work quickly and spontaneously, yet with refined history and many of the major postwar moveresults.. (through 12/17) getty.edu ments, channeled through maiolino’s intimate Happy Birthday Mr Hockney, david hockney is conand subjective practice exploring her identity as a sidered one of the most important British artists of migrant, mother, and global citizen. anna maria the twentieth century. his work demonstrates an maiolino is part of the getty Foundation’s paenduring curiosity about technique and a distinccific standard time: la/la initiative, hosted by tive, playful style. to celebrate his eightieth birtharts institutions across southern california and day, this focused two-part exhibition includes exploring latino and latin american art in diaself-portraits made over the past sixty-five years logue with the city of los angeles., (through and key photographs from the 1980s that investi12/31) moca.org gate time and perspective, (through 11/16) Jonas Wood: Still Life with Two Owls Jonas wood is getty.edu
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