June 15
November 2, 2008
LACMA West, Level 1
The Cheech Marin collection is notable for classic examples of Chicano art produced from the inception of the Chicano movement to the present, with a concentration in painting…
January 27
November 2, 2008
Ahmanson Building, Level 2
Who defines an avant-garde? African art inspired the early twentieth-century avant-gardes of cubism, Dada, and surrealism. But Africa has always had its own pioneers who keep…
June 22
September 14, 2008
Pavilion for Japanese Art
Hosoe Eikoh (b. 1933) is considered a preeminent contemporary Japanese photographer and filmmaker; he emerged in the experimental arts movement of post-World War II Japan. This…
June 22
September 14, 2008
Pavilion for Japanese Art
The Etsuko and Joe Price Collection is world-renowned for its collection of Japanese paintings of the Edo Period (1615–1868) featuring screens, hanging scrolls, and fan-format…
May 23
September 14, 2008
Ahmanson Building, Level 1
Philip-Lorca diCorcia is one of the most influential photographers of all time. This exhibition features works from his key series of the past twenty years including Hustlers, …
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…