January 31, 2015
April 10, 2016
Art of the Americas Building, Level 4
In spite of the popular legend of El Dorado, the conquest of Colombia never quite captured public imagination the way the conquest of Mexico or Peru did. The most valuable source…
September 13, 2015
March 20, 2016
Resnick Pavilion
Frank Gehry has revolutionized architecture’s aesthetics, social and cultural role, and relationship to the city. His pioneering work in digital technologies set in motion the…
October 4, 2015
January 18, 2016
BCAM, Level 2
Germany’s Weimar Republic, established between the end of World War I and the Nazi rise to power, was a thriving laboratory of art and culture. As the country experienced…
February 1, 2015
January 3, 2016
Ahmanson Building, Level 4
In recent years, the parameters of Islamic art have expanded to include contemporary works by artists from or with roots in the Middle East. Drawing inspiration from their own…
June 7, 2015
January 3, 2016
BCAM, Level 3: Nathanson Gallery
Noah Purifoy (1917-2004) lived and worked most of his life in Los Angeles and Joshua Tree, California. A founding director of the Watts Towers Art Center, his earliest body of…
April 5
October 12, 2015
Hammer Building, Level 3
Brilliant color, bold patterns, and intriguing symbols characterize the dress of many societies throughout the African continent. Not only are garments visually compelling, but…
April 26
September 13, 2015
Resnick Pavilion
In just 50 years, LACMA has established itself as a world-class museum with one of the strongest encyclopedic collections in the world. The more than 120,000 objects that make up…
July 5
September 7, 2015
Art of the Americas Building, Level 2
Christian Marclay: The Clock is a 24-hour single-channel montage constructed from thousands of moments of cinema and television history depicting the passage of time, excerpted…