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…
August 19, 2007
March 30, 2008
Hammer Building, Level 2
The myth of California—and particularly of southern California—looms large in the modern psyche. Portrayed in the early years of the twentieth century as the land of gold and…
September 13, 2007
February 19, 2008
Pavilion for Japanese Art
In traditional Chinese aesthetics, scholars considered poetry to be the highest form of communication, followed by calligraphy, which revealed the character of the writer, then by…
September 13, 2007
February 19, 2008
Pavilion for Japanese Art
Japanese writing, composed of Chinese ideographs and kanasyllabary, is pictographic in origin and as such combines seamlessly with pictorial imagery. In prints, paintings and…