May 28, 2017
February 4, 2018
Pavilion for Japanese Art
The 1830s marked the beginning of a renaissance in Japanese cloisonné production. Though small objects incorporating enamels were produced in Japan prior to the 19th century, a…
August 19, 2017
January 28, 2018
Ahmanson Building, Level 2
Borders—physical or ideological, fluid and contested—shape the way people experience the world around them. As these boundaries are navigated socially and politically, they also…
October 29, 2016
January 21, 2018
Hammer Building, Level 2
Snuff, a powdered form of tobacco from the Americas, was initially brought to China by European traders in the late 16th century, during the Ming dynasty (1368–1644). It was in…
July 31, 2017
January 7, 2018
Resnick Pavilion
Chagall: Fantasies for the Stage highlights the principal role that music and dance played in Chagall’s artistic practice. The performing arts were a significant source of…
January 1, 2017
January 1, 2018
Smidt Welcome Plaza
Workflow is a project by Art + Technology Lab grant recipient Michael Mandiberg. The artist uses self-tracking technology to understand the changing definition of labor in…
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…