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…
November 11, 2012
February 10, 2013
Resnick Pavilion
Bodies and Shadows: Caravaggio and His Legacy introduces the work of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610), one of the most popular artists of the past, rivaling in fame…
September 22, 2012
January 21, 2013
BCAM, Level 3: Nathanson Gallery
Ed Ruscha's influence can be seen in graphic design, cinema, architectural theory, and urban history. His art depicts everyday objects – gas stations, street signs, billboards,…
September 16, 2012
January 6, 2013
Resnick Pavilion
For more than fifty years, Ken Price, born in 1935 in Los Angeles, California, created remarkable and innovative works that have redefined contemporary sculpture practice. Price…
October 21, 2012
January 6, 2013
BCAM, Level 2
Drawing Surrealism explores the significance of drawing and works on paper to surrealist innovation. Long considered the medium of exploration and innovation, drawing was set free…
July 22
October 14, 2012
BCAM, Level 2
Portraiture has always been motivated by two competing and overlapping desires: the desire to record, and the desire to be recorded. Artists Katy Grannan and Charlie White have…
February 18
September 23, 2012
Ahmanson Building, Level 2
Common Places features three objects from the museum's permanent collection which transform printed works on paper into one-of-a-kind embroideries: a seventeenth-century valance,…
June 4
September 9, 2012
BCAM, Level 2
The newest work by renowned Los Angeles artist Sharon Lockhart (United States, born 1964) is a multimedia meditation on the achievements of Israeli dance composer and textile…