May 8
September 7, 2008
Ahmanson Building, Level 2
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938) was among the founders of German expressionism, and one of the most original printmakers of the twentieth century. A selection of more than forty…
April 6
September 1, 2008
Art of the Americas Building, Level 2
Phantom Sightings: Art after the Chicano Movement is the largest exhibition of cutting-edge Chicano art ever presented at LACMA. Chicano art, traditionally described as work…
April 10
July 6, 2008
Hammer Building, Level 3
Focusing on a rare impression of one of James Ensor’s most important and politically subversive etchings, Doctrinal Nourishment: Art and Anarchism in the Time of James Ensor will…
February 23
June 15, 2008
Art of the Americas Building, Level 3
Nicknamed Mike by his friend Jackson Pollock, Matsumi Kanemitsu was an abstract painter of the New York School during the 1950s. But in 1961, June Wayne, founder and director of…
November 7, 2007
June 8, 2008
LACMA commissioned Los Angeles artists Mark Bradford and Ruben Ochoa to create SWAP in conjunction with Art Programs with the Community: LACMA On-Site, an outreach program that…
April 25
April 27, 2008
During three days, about twenty rectangular enclosures of ice blocks (measuring about 30 feet long, 10 wide and 8 high) are built throughout the city. Their walls are unbroken.…
January 12
April 20, 2008
Ahmanson Building, Level 2
Besides being one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century, Henri Matisse (1869–1954) was also one of its greatest draftsmen. The works on paper in this gallery, covering…
January 12
April 20, 2008
Ahmanson Building, Level 2
This exhibition presents a selection of highlights from the Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies ranging from antecedents in Jugendstil through the Brücke and Blaue…