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Explore short video features, including artist interviews, talks with director Michael Govan, and exhibition previews.

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Ligon talks about his work, including his response to Mapplethorpe via Notes on the Margin of the Black Book, the coal dust paintings, AMERICA, and the Coloring series.

During a visit to the quarry in Riverside where the monolith that will be part of the artwork Levitated Mass, by Michael Heizer, currently resides, we talked to the crew about the challenges of moving a 340-ton boulder.

Levitated Mass will be completed and open to the public at LACMA in late fall, 2011.

LACMA conservators talk about ongoing restoration work at Watts Towers.
Projects past and present with LACMA's Michael Govan [1:35:41].
Curator Franklin Sirmans provides an overview of Human Nature: Contemporary art from the Collection, on view at LACMA through July 4, 2011 [0:5:37].
On Winter's Bone. [18:15]
LACMA hosted a free community weekend to celebrate the opening of the new exhibition pavilion in October, 2010.