August 20, 2011
February 12, 2012
Resnick Lawn
The Zodiac Project is Ai Weiwei's first major public sculpture. For this monumental new work, Ai has recreated the famous twelve bronze animal heads that once adorned the Zodiac…
November 6, 2011
January 29, 2012
Resnick Pavilion
Contested Visions in the Spanish Colonial World examines the significance of indigenous peoples within the artistic landscape of colonial Latin America. The exhibition offers…
October 23, 2011
January 22, 2012
BCAM, Level 2
Glenn Ligon: AMERICA is the first mid-career retrospective of Ligon’s work in the United States. The exhibition includes unknown early material and the reconstruction of…
October 15, 2011
January 22, 2012
Ahmanson Building, Level 2
Sandra de la Loza, founder of the Pocho Research Society of Erased and Invisible History, presents a visual ‘mashup’ by sampling obscure and forgotten details in murals produced…
November 4, 2011
January 15, 2012
Art of the Americas Building, Level 2
Edward Kienholz’s Five Car Stud (1969–72) is a powerful work that depicts the hatred many white Americans expressed toward racial minorities and interracial partnerships in…
October 1, 2011
January 2, 2012
BCAM, Level 3: Nathanson Gallery
Monet/Lichtenstein: Rouen Cathedrals presents a group of Monet’s impressionist Rouen Cathedral paintings together with Lichtenstein’s 1969 appropriation of the same subject…
September 4
December 4, 2011
BCAM, Level 2
Asco: Elite of the Obscure, A Retrospective, 1972–1987 is the first retrospective to present the wide-ranging work of the Chicano performance and conceptual art group Asco.…
May 29
October 31, 2011
Resnick Pavilion
Tim Burton was born in Burbank in 1958. After studying at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), he worked as an animator at the Walt Disney Studios before breaking out…