Munakata Shiko: Japanese Master of the Modern Print

December 5, 2002–March 2, 2003

Munakata Shiko is considered one of the greatest Japanese artists of the 20th century. This will be the first comprehensive retrospective of his work to be held in an American museum. The one-hundred-twenty-eight prints, calligraphies, paintings, and ceramics in the exhibition are borrowed from the Munakata Museum in Kamakuran.

MAKING

November 24, 2002–September 1, 2003

An unprecedented collaboration between the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and five major art schools in Los Angeles has produced the LACMALab exhibition in LACMA’s Boone Children’s Gallery. Art Center College of Design, California Institute of the Arts, Otis College of Art and Design, School of the Arts and Architecture at UCLA, and the USC Program of Museum Studies have assembled teams of students and faculty artists and designers to create participatory installations that investigate the process of making art.

Contemporary Projects 7: Keith Edmier and Farrah Fawcett 2000

November 21, 2002–February 17, 2003

LACMA’s newest Contemporary Projects exhibition features a collaboration incorporating sculptural and video works by, and of, the artists.

Miracles and Mischief: Noh and Kyogen Theater in Japan

November 10, 2002–February 2, 2003

This is the first major, comprehensive presentation of art from the world of noh and kyogen, including evocative carved wooden masks, woven silk and gold costumes, painted fans, and lacquered instruments, dating from the Muromachi (1333–1568). Organized by LACMA.

George Washington: A National Treasure

November 8, 2002–March 9, 2003

See Gilbert Stuart’s iconic “Lansdowne” portrait of George Washington. This exhibition represents Washington’s image as other artists have seen him, and as it has developed (based almost entirely on Stuart’s painting) in the American public consciousness.

Donald Blumberg

September 19, 2002–January 5, 2003

Thematic as opposed to chronological, this exhibition traces the recurring concerns of the artist’s visual, formal, and conceptual investigations against the backdrop of personal and social history. Works from across a broad career coalesce to create concentrated studies of time, space, surface, and the picturesque in photography. Organized by LACMA.

William Kentridge

July 21–October 6, 2002

William Kentridge is internationally renowned for his animated films, drawings, and theatre productions, which focus on the complex and violent history of his native South Africa. Explore the effect that the past and its lingering memories will have on the nation and its people’s future.

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617–1682): Paintings from American Collections

July 14–October 6, 2002

The first exhibition of Murillo’s paintings to be shown in this hemisphere draws on the considerable number of fine examples of the artist’s work found in American collections. The exhibition includes approximately thirty-five paintings. Organized by LACMA.

NewAcquisitions/New Work/New Directions 3

May 9–August 18, 2002

New concepts about photography, novel techniques of picture making, challenging aesthetic approaches to the medium, artists' changing social and psychological concerns, and their evolving personal visions are addressed in this new photography exhibition. More than ninety works by both younger and more established artists, including several works of important German contemporary photography, are featured.

Trends: A New Presentation of LACMA's Collections of European Art

March 16–July 28, 2002

Featured in this exhibition of objects from the collection of European painting and sculpture is the Spanish Pietà, which LACMA acquired in 2000. The rare and almost life-sized eighteenth-century sculpture is one of the few surviving examples of sculpture made from molded linen.

Central European Avant-Gardes: Exchange and Transformation, 1910–1930

March 10–June 2, 2002

This exhibition examines the cross-fertilization among the artistic avant-garde movements in the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the former Yugoslavia during the evolution of modernism between 1910 and 1930. Organized by LACMA.