Curator Stephanie Barron on Ken Price Sculpture: A Retrospective

Artist Sandow Birk discusses Caravaggio's influence on his work.

Curator Britt Salvesen talks about working with Katie Grannan and Charlie White on the exhibition The Sun and Other Stars, on view at LACMA through October 14, 2012.

Cal Poly San Luis Obispo botany professor Matt Ritter talks about what he sees in the work of Robert Adams.

Curator Victoria Lyall talks about the legacy of Quetzalcoatl, the extraordinary works of art in the exhibition, and particularly the rare codices on view. View Children of the Plumed Serpent: The Legacy of Quetzalcoatl in Ancient Mexico.

Author Susan Straight reads an original essay and reflects on Adams's work on the occasion of the exhibition Robert Adams: The Place We Live, a Retrospective Selection of Photographs, on view at LACMA through June 3, 2012.

Straight is a lifelong Riverside resident and an award-winning author of seven novels. The Southern California landscape, which Straight has called "the language I knew from birth," figures prominently in her work. Her latest novel, Take One Candle Light a Room, was named one of the best novels of 2010 by the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times.

Curator J. Patrice Marandel talks about the exhibition The Mourners: Tomb Sculptures From the Court of Burgundy, at LACMA May 8, 2011 through July 31, 2011.

Curator Rob Singer talks about the exhibition The Sound of One Hand: Paintings and Calligraphy by Zen Master Hakuin, on view through August 14, 2011.

J. Patrice Marandel, co-curator of the exhibition, talks about the collection and the 2010 presentation at LACMA.

This candid interview with photographer William Eggleston was conducted by film director Michael Almereyda on the occasion of the opening of William Eggleston: Democratic Camera Photographs and Video, 1961-2008 at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Michael Almereyda is director of the film William Eggleston in the Real World (2005).

The Vogue editor talks about Fashioning Fashion, at LACMA October 2, 2010--March 27, 2011.

Behind the scenes during the painting of the murals that accompanied Olmec: Colossal Masterworks from Ancient Mexico on view at LACMA October 2, 2010--January 9, 2011.

Curator Sharon Takeda talks about an installation of Kuba textiles on view at LACMA through April 10, 2011.

Curator Lynne Cooke in conversation with artists Mathias Poledna and Rhea Anastas about the influence of Blinky Palermo, subject of a retrospective exhibition at LACMA October 31, 2010--January 16, 2011.

Curator Franklin Sirmans talks about the 2010 exhibition Steve Wolfe On Paper.

Curator Franklin Sirmans talks about 75 works from the museum's permanent collection, on view in the exhibition Human Nature through July 4, 2011.

Curator Franklin Sirmans talks about Color and Form, on view at LACMA August 9, 2010–June 5, 2011.

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].

While preparing for the exhibition Tim Burton, we had the opportunity to join colleagues from the Museum of Modern Art for an interview with Doris Adams, Burton’s high school art teacher. She can still recall exactly where he sat in her classroom. Ms. Adams says that the young Mr. Burton stood out for his talent and imagination–and that he was a quiet, thoughtful student.

An excerpt from the film David Smith: Sculpting Master of Bolton Landing. Permission courtesy of the David Smith estate and Maureen Granville-Smith, executor of the Estate of Frank O'Hara. Presented in conjunction with David Smith: Cubes and Anarchy on view at LACMA through July 24, 2011.

The director and subject of the exhibition Tim Burton talks about early influences. Excerpted from the full video interview © 2009 The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Filmed by The People's DP Inc, Ed Roy, Carlos Germosen, Keenya Scott, Paul Reed.

Nancy Kienholz talks about Five Car Stud, which she spent several years restoring prior to the exhibition at LACMA.

In conjunction with the Asco exhibition, LACMA commissioned Willie Herrón to create a mural, Asco: East of No West, based on Harry Gamboa Jr.’s photograph of the 1972 Asco performance Walking Mural. Walking Mural was a street performance in which the artists created elaborate costumes and paraded silently along Whittier Boulevard. The new mural recalls and reinterprets that performance. It is part of a series of mural by Herrón in the alley at City Terrace Drive, behind Alvarez Bakery near Cal State LA.

The Aztec cache known as Offering 7, one of many treasures included in the exhibition Contested Visions, is one of some 130 offerings that were discovered within the Aztec’s Templo Mayor. Its contents--largely aquatic material such as seashells, freshwater fish, coral, and reptiles--evoke the layers of the cosmos, from the watery underworld to the surface of the earth.  Here, the Museo del Templo Mayor’s archeaologist Fernando Carrizosa Montfort explains the complex meanings of this remarkable piece during the installation at LACMA.

An interview with curator Stephanie Barron on the occasion of the exhibition Art of Two Germanies, on view at LACMA January 25, 2009--April 19, 2009.