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EXHIBITIONS: THROUGH 2007
Current as of February 2006. Information is subject to change; please call
323-857-6522 or visit Exhibitions.
Advance Exhibition Schedule(press release)
(Word doc: 681kb)
CONTINUING
Consider This…*
April 9, 2006–January 15, 2007 (T)
Breaking the Mode: LACMA’s Contemporary Fashion Collection
September 17, 2006–January 7, 2007
Masquerade: Role Playing in Self-Portraiture—Photographs from the Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection
October 12, 2006–January 7, 2007
Magritte and Contemporary Art: The Treachery of Images*
November 19, 2006–March 4, 2007 (T)
UPCOMING
The Modern West: American Landscapes, 1890–1950 (working title)
March 4–June 3, 2007
The Arts in Latin America 1492–1820* (working title)
Summer 2007
Dali and Film (working title)
November 18–February 10, 2008
* Exhibitions organized by LACMA
(T) Tentative dates
Museum Hours: Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday noon–8 pm; Friday noon–9 pm; Saturday and Sunday 11 am–8 pm; closed Wednesdays, Thanksgiving and Christmas. Call 323-857-6000, or visit our Web site at www.lacma.org.
General LACMA Admission:
$9, adults
$5, seniors (62+) and students (18+) with ID
Child (17 and under) FREE
Admission (except to specially ticketed exhibitions) is free the second Tuesday of every month, and evenings after 5 pm.
Consider This…*
April 9, 2006–January 15, 2007 (T)
Consider This...is LACMALab`s fifth exhibition. The show will continue the LACMALab mandate to investigate new models for presenting art and engaging audiences through the commission of participatory, "age-free" installations. In addition, it will incorporate the results of the recent critical review commissioned by LACMA and will be designed by the internationally known artist, Barbara Kruger.
LACMALab has commissioned six artists to examine the cultural and social landscape and ask the question: Who are we and who do we want to be? The goal of the exhibition is to fuse analytical thinking and creative expression at a time when there is a heightened need for meaningful discourse.
The artists, Mark Bradford, Dorit Cypis, Margaret Honda, Philip Rantzer, Mario Ybarra, Jr., and Bruce Yonemoto, were chosen for their ability to provide a thoughtful, provocative, and constructive response to the questions posed. As always, the artists represent different generations and work in a wide range of mediums. If they choose, the artists may select objects from LACMA's permanent collections to incorporate into their installations.
Credit: This exhibition was produced by LACMALab, a research and development unit of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Philip Rantzer`s participation in this exhibition was made possible in part by a grant from The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles` Tel Aviv/Los Angeles Partnership.
Curators: Robert Sain, LACMALab and Lynn Zelevansky, Contemporary Art
This exhibition was organized by LACMALab. LACMALab is the experimental research and development unit of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art that investigates new models for presenting art and engaging audiences. The hallmark of LACMALab is the participation of commissioned artists to create new works for all ages through a collaborative process.
LACMALab Manifesto
To quote the poet William Butler Yeats, "Education is not filling the pail: It is lighting the fire."
- It is important to foster visual literacy at a time when visual stimuli increasingly dominate experience. Contemporary art, design, and media offer compelling and useful ways to dissect, understand, and connect with the world.
- Play, the forerunner of culture, is the laboratory in which the imaginary and the everyday are invoked, explored, and transformed.
- Creativity is not, by any means, the exclusive province of art. There is great value, however, in art experiences that are self-defined, flexible, and engaging. Such experiences become translatable and transportable to other areas of life.
- Art making demonstrates the profound idea that each of us has the power to take a concept or a vision and give it concrete form in the world. Creativity builds self-esteem, a necessary ingredient for success.
- Viewers are stimulated by environments open to discovery. LACMALab is committed to raising questions about and eliciting responses to visual experience. Instruction through closed hierarchical systems that use control and intimidation shuts down thinking or produces boredom.
- Understanding and participating in the art-making process heightens the capacity for critical thinking, problem solving, risk taking, and managing ambiguity and paradox.
- Children learn best through art experiences that engage them along with their parents, teachers, and other adults in their lives. Museums are public spaces that should speak simultaneously to multiple generations.
- Varied learning styles and the intuitive function of emotional intelligence can be acknowledged and embraced through meaningful experiences with art and art making.
- Artists, curators, and designers are resources for new models of learning and act as vital forces in the construction of culture.
- In the future, museums will need to reimagine their relationships to art, artists, and audience. LACMALab strives to be in the forefront of that development.
Press Release (Word doc: 994K)
Consider This... Project Studio (Word doc: 39K)
Breaking the Mode: LACMA’s Contemporary Fashion Collection
September 17, 2006–January 7, 2007
Creating clothing, for protection, profession, or spectacle, has undergone dramatic change over the past twenty-five years. A number of designers have introduced subversive elements into the fashion system, examining and deconstructing its entrenched conventions and changing the rules about what is aesthetically pleasing and fashionable. Breaking the Mode: Contemporary Fashion from the Permanent Collection will present designers who found traditional criteria and solutions obsolete – designers who challenged the canons of the body’s fashionable silhouette, revolutionized methods of garment construction, rejected the formulaic use of materials and techniques, and exploited new technology in textile production.
The recent dynamic changes in the forms and surfaces of fashionable dress will be featured in this comprehensive exhibition, which will include over 100 examples of contemporary dress drawn exclusively from LACMA’s collection. Among the contemporary designers whose work will be exhibited are Jean-Paul Gaultier, Rei Kawakubo, Martin Margiela, Issey Miyake, Thierry Mugler, and Yohji Yamamoto, with historical examples by Gilbert Adrian, Christian Dior, and Charles James.
Credit: This exhibition was organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and was supported by the museum’s Costume Council. In-kind support was provided by Neiman Marcus.
Curators: Kaye Spilker and Sharon Takeda, Costume and Textiles.
Press Release (Word doc: 1.09Mb)
Masquerade: Role Playing in Self-Portraiture—Photographs from the Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection
October 12, 2006 –January 7, 2007
The performance aspect of self-portraiture takes on a slightly different cast when the person portrayed is playing a role, in disguise, or otherwise fictionalized. Ultimately of course, every self-portrait is a fiction, a portrait of someone else, and an arena in which another is confronted or an alter-ego encountered.
Robert Sobieszek in “Other Selves in Photographic Self-Portraiture,” The Camera I.
That “slightly different cast,” the pretending, the partial or complete transformation of a person, becomes a visual game when applied to photographic self-portraiture. We want to see the photographer behind the mask, the make-up, the uniform or costume…the truth of the medium behind the fiction of the situation. When does the masquerade tell another kind of truth?
Consisting of some thirty works drawn from LACMA’s permanent collection, Masquerade: Role Playing in Self-Portraiture will explore the way in which photographers – costumed, masked, wigged, made-up or transformed through technique or situation – present their fictional, or “Other Selves.”
Press Release (PDF: 90Kb)
Magritte and Contemporary Art: The Treachery of Images*
November 19, 2006–March 4, 2007 (T)
This exhibition is inspired by LACMA’s Magritte masterpiece––The Treachery of Images (This is not a pipe)––aseminal painting in Surrealism and modern art that has become an instantly recognizable, popular culture icon. It traces the direct and oblique influences that Magritte's work (both the word image paintings and other key images) has had on subsequent generations of artists. While there have been many Magritte survey shows, this exhibition seeks to explore his impact and connection to other artists, by examining the different ways that pop, conceptual and post-modern sensibilities have related to his work. It will present 40-50 Magritte paintings along with an equal number of paintings and sculptures by international artists working over the past 40 years and will include the work of Jasper Johns, Ed Ruscha, Vija Celmins, Joseph Kosuth, Sherrie Levine, Richard Artschwager, Jeff Koons, Martin Kippenberger, Jim Shaw, Raymond Pettibon, Robert Gober and Marcel Broodthaers.
Featuring LACMA's celebrated painting, the exhibition revolves around a very popular, but not fully understood painter and thinker. By revealing his complex influences on and pivotal role for a number of important contemporary artists, the show will contribute to the scholarship of Magritte, Surrealism, and contemporary art.
The show will be accompanied by an illustrated catalogue. The exhibition is organized by LACMA's senior curator of modern art, Stephanie Barron, and Michel Draguet, director Musée Royaux de Bruxelles.
Credit: TBA
Curator: Stephanie Barron, Modern Art
Venues following LACMA: TBA
Press Release (Word doc: 626Kb)
The Modern West: American Landscapes, 1890–1950
(working title)
March 4–June 3, 2007
Western art is often considered to be traditional in both subject and style and unrelated to modernism, a movement rooted in the European avant-garde and, in the United States, centered in New York. Through approximately 100 paintings, watercolors, and photographs by artists including Frederic Remington, Gottardo Piazzoni, Georgia O’Keefe, Edward Weston, Thomas Hart Benton, and Jackson Pollock, the exhibition will question this common perception. Where appropriate, aesthetically and thematically relevant examples of American Indian art will be included.
In considering the historical, cultural, and artistic importance of American western landscapes during the period 1890–1950, The Modern West will examine the various groups and artists that played integral roles in shaping visions of the region and explore the different ways American artists interpreted the West through the use of the landscape––so essential to American culture––to pursue issues of modernity and national identity.
Credit: TBA
Curator: Bruce Robertson and Austen Bailly, American Art
Press Release (PDF: 172Kb)
The Arts in Latin America 1492–1820*
(working title)
Summer 2007
This exhibition, organized by LACMA in collaboration with the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico City, will be an ambitious, multimedia, pan-national exhibition of approximately 250 works of art created in the Spanish viceroyalties of New Spain (which today comprises Mexico and Central America) and Peru (now the countries of Ecuador, Colombia, Chile, Argentina, Bolivia and Peru) and in the Portuguese colony of Brazil during the three hundred years between the discovery of the "New World" by the "Old" and the creation of new, independent nation states. This exhibition will be the first to disregard the national boundaries created in the early nineteenth century, instead exploring both the artistic differences and commonalities throughout colonial Latin America in a new, synthetic context. Spectacular examples of painting, sculpture, feather-work, shell-inlaid furniture, objects in gold and silver, ceramics and textiles will be borrowed from public and private collections throughout the Americas and in Europe.
The encounter between European and indigenous cultures was among the most cataclysmic events in world history. The richly diverse art forms subsequently produced throughout this vast region not only reflected these seismic changes, but they were central to the development of new identities. The exhibition will present magnificent, sometimes startling, and largely unknown works of art in all media, created by European, indigenous and mestizo artists and craftsmen, and outline how the mix of cultures was confidently expressed in the arts in novel mediums and styles.
Credit: TBA
Curator: Ilona Katzew, Latin American Art
Dalí and Film
(working title)
November 18, 2007–February 10, 2008
Organized by the Tate Modern, London, in collaboration with the Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation, this exhibition will be a presentation of works by Salvador Dalí that have been created for or influenced by his involvement with film and cinema. Throughout Dalí’s life and career, he maintained a close connection with film as an artistic medium. He collaborated with filmmakers such as Luis Buñuel, Alfred Hitchcock and Walt Disney and was influenced by Cecil B. De Mille and the Marx Brothers. This exhibition aims to illustrate the cinematic influences and elements that are present in Dalí’s work as well as the contribution he made to cinema. It will bring together a variety of key pieces from Dalí’s oeuvre, incorporating painting, film, photography, sculpture and texts. The exhibition may also include the works of artists and filmmakers that have influenced him.
Credit: TBA
Curator: Ilene Fort, American Art
Venues following LACMA: TBA
About LACMA
Established as an independent institution in 1965, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art has assembled a permanent collection that includes approximately 100,000 works of art spanning the history of art from ancient times to the present, making it the premier encyclopedic visual arts museum in the western United States. Located in the heart of one of the most culturally diverse cities in the world, the museum uses its collection and resources to provide a variety of educational, aesthetic, intellectual, and cultural experiences for the people who live in, work in, and visit Los Angeles. LACMA offers an outstanding schedule of special exhibitions, as well as lectures, classes, family activities, film programs, and world-class musical events. The museum offers free admission to children 17 and under, and after 5 pm every day the museum is open and all day on the second Tuesday of each month. LACMA is Free after Five, sponsored by Target.
* Exhibitions organized by LACMA
(T) Tentative dates
Shiva as Lord of Dance
Chola period, c. 950-1000
India, Tamil Nadu
Anonymous Gift, M.75.1
