August 6
December 3, 2017
BCAM, Level 2
Playing with Fire: Paintings by Carlos Almaraz is the first major retrospective of one of the most influential Los Angeles artists of the 1970s and 1980s. Arguably the first of…
January 14
October 29, 2017
Art of the Americas Building, Level 3
Ed Fella works at the intersection of art and design, using his personal projects to examine the conventions and idiosyncrasies of human communication. His meticulously hand-drawn…
May 6
October 22, 2017
Ahmanson Building, Level 2
Form in Fragments: Abstraction in German Art, 1906–1925explores tendencies toward abstraction in German Expressionism, a movement that foregrounded representational approaches to…
June 11
October 15, 2017
BCAM, Level 3: Nathanson Gallery
Organized in collaboration with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Home—So Different, So Appealing features U.S. Latino and Latin American artists from the late 1950s to the…
May 13
September 10, 2017
Pavilion for Japanese Art
Whereas European art often depicts nature as something to be feared—a place of wolves and specters—nature in Japanese art is respected, even revered, as an ideal retreat for those…
March 19
September 10, 2017
Resnick Pavilion
Los Angeles to New York: Dwan Gallery, 1959–1971 presents the storied history of the Dwan Gallery, one of the most important galleries of the postwar period in the U.S., and the…
December 17, 2016
July 23, 2017
Ahmanson Building, Level 2
An Irruption of the Rainbow: Color in 20th-Century Art looks at various ways that modern artists have used color in their work. Artists began to experiment with color in the late…
April 1
July 16, 2017
Ahmanson Building, Level 4
Lovers stealing out for secret trysts under cover of stormy nights, visits to the monsoon retreats of holy men, and divine beings associated with sources of water and rain are…