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 9
September 9, 2012
Art of the Americas Building, Level 2
Over the course of twenty-two films covering the life of 007, James Bond, one element has remained constant: the opening credit sequence. Beginning with Dr. No, the opening…
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…
April 7
July 29, 2012
Pavilion for Japanese Art
Photographer Daido Moriyama (Japan, b. 1938) first came to prominence in the mid-1960s with his gritty depictions of Japanese urban life. His highly innovative and intensely…
April 1
July 1, 2012
Resnick Pavilion
Children of the Plumed Serpent: the Legacy of Quetzalcoatl in Ancient Mexico follows the historical trajectory of the life and epic stories of the culture-hero and deity,…
March 11
June 3, 2012
BCAM, Level 2
Since taking up photography in the mid-1960s as a response to the rapidly changing landscape of his native Colorado, Robert Adams has been widely regarded as one of the leading…
October 1, 2011
June 3, 2012
Resnick Pavilion
This exhibition is the first major study of California midcentury modern design. With more than 300 objects—furniture, ceramics, metalwork, fashion and textiles, and industrial…