November 1, 2012
June 30, 2013
Art of the Americas Building, Level 2
Stanley Kubrick was known for exerting complete artistic control over his projects; in doing so, he reconceived the genres in which he worked. The exhibition covers the breadth of…
March 3
June 2, 2013
Hammer Building, Level 2
This exhibition presents ten masterpieces of early Ming dynasty court painting executed in the 15th and early 16th centuries in the Forbidden City, in addition to a selection of…
April 7
April 4, 2013
BCAM, Level 3: Nathanson Gallery
The origin of Los Angeles-based artist Stephen Prina’s installation As He Remembered It is a memory from the 1980s of walking down La Brea Avenue with fellow artist Christopher…
October 1, 2012
April 1, 2013
Resnick Pavilion
A pioneering figure in the development of minimal, conceptual, land art, and installation art, Walter De Maria has made minimalist horizontal sculptures that occupy entire rooms…
October 6, 2012
March 31, 2013
Ahmanson Building, Level 2
This exhibition features more than 130 pieces from the finest collection of French faience and soft-paste porcelain on the West Coast. The ideal fusion of the useful and the…
October 21, 2012
March 24, 2013
Ahmanson Building, Level 2
The X, Y, and Z Portfolios (published in 1978, 1978, and 1981, respectively) by American photographer Robert Mapplethorpe (1946–1989) summarize Mapplethorpe’s ambitions as a fine-…
September 22, 2012
March 10, 2013
Ahmanson Building, Level 2
Expressionist cinema of the 1920s, so masterfully realized in two iconic examples, Dr. Caligari (1920) and Metropolis (1927), had a lasting impact on visual culture, giving rise…
November 25, 2012
February 24, 2013
BCAM, Level 2
Culling from LACMA’s permanent collection, the exhibition takes as its starting point Gabriel Orozco’s sculpture Lost Line (1993-1996). Orozco describes the piece as “the opposite…