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Recent Articles
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Volunteers Wanted
You can help recreate Allan Kaprow's Fluids, a multiple-venue ice installation first realized in 1967. |
New Logo Launched
The new look is a collaboration between the design firm 2X4 and artist John Baldessari. |
Modern Galleries
The museum's modern collection reopens January 13, in revamped Ahmanson Building galleries and featuring the newly acquired Janice and Henri Lazarof Collection. |
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Archives
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Sara Cochran
The assistant curator of modern art discusses the intense and mercurial relationship between Salvador Dalí and Hollywood. |
Jay Belloli
The art curator remembers artist Dan Flavin, his longtime friend and colleague. |
Making History
The 2007 Collectors Committee goes nine for nine. |
The Art of Dan Flavin
An essay by Michael Govan, LACMA director and exhibition co-curator. |
Austen Bailly
"How could young America ever begin to compete with the history of art?" The answer is in The Modern West. |
Saito Kiyoshi
The artist who took Japanese printmaking to the next level. |
Renaissance Man
A nearly life-sized statue of Saint John Capistran joins the LACMA collection.
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A Gift of Wrestlers
A former docent presents LACMA with a major work of American realism. |
Magritte Meets the Press
Reviews, coverage, and installation photos. |
Ed Ruscha and René Magritte
Ed Ruscha recalls a 1967 encounter with René Magritte in Venice. |
Robert Gober and René Magritte
An excerpted essay by scholar Pepe Karmel.
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Faces of Battle
Virtue and fatalism in Japanese war prints from the permanent collection. |
A Curator's Eye
A tribute to the late photography curator Robert A. Sobieszek. |
Leslie Jones
How paper became the medium for Richard Pousette-Dart’s “most daring experimentation.” |
Magnificent Eleven
Which LACMA works made the Times 2006 list of the greatest art from the permanent collections of Los Angeles?
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Transformation
The future home of the renovated LACMA is the former home of mammoths and sabertoothed cats. Here’s how we know.
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Stephanie Barron
An inside look at David Hockney Portraits from curator and occasional portrait subject Stephanie Barron. |
Lawrence Weschler
The acclaimed writer traces the "almost defiant affirmation of life" that runs through David Hockney's portraits.
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Barbara Kruger
The artist and Consider This . . . designer talks about doubt, belief, and museums. |
Michael Govan
LACMA's director talks about the cultural momentum that brings him to Los Angeles. |
Ronald T. Labaco
On working with the artist and iconic designer Ettore Sottsass. |
Howard Fox
What the curator learned through his work on the exhibition Glass: Material Matters. |