Art-Exhibitions-Upcoming

The Brockman Gallery: Los Angeles, 1967–1990 is the first large-scale exhibition dedicated to the impact of the Brockman Gallery, founded in South L.A. by brothers Alonzo and Dale Brockman Davis in the wake of the Watts Rebellion. Their space became vital for young artists of color, nurturing the early careers of David Hammons, Suzanne Jackson, and Carrie Mae Weems, among others. Featuring rich archival material and over 60 works of...

The most prominent Black American architect of his generation, Paul R. Williams helped shape his native Los Angeles during its rapid growth from the 1920s through the early 1970s. Acclaimed as an architect to the stars, he brought his innovation and rigor to stylistically diverse residential, civic, religious, commercial, and hospitality projects that ranged from ambitious public housing to iconic hotels in Southern California, Las Vegas, and Latin America. LACMA’s...

Roberto Gil de Montes: Water Drops on Burning Rocks is the first major exhibition surveying five decades of production from this essential artist. Gil de Montes has an artistic trajectory that is inflected by his birth and early life in Mexico; his experience as an immigrant and art student in the United States; his many years in Los Angeles as a practicing artist; and his move to a small coastal...

In the first half of the 20th century, artists in Asia and Europe created a web of exchange that reshaped modern art. Expressionisms: Japan, Germany, China traces these connections—German artists inspired by Japanese woodblock prints, Japanese artists embracing bold new forms of self-expression, and Chinese printmakers turning the woodcut into a tool for social change. Bringing together some 200 prints, drawings, paintings, and periodicals, the exhibition recovers a story of...

Los Angeles–based Argentine artist Analia Saban is known for her deft explorations of traditional artistic mediums and new technologies. She uses deconstruction and reconfiguration as creative tools for novel art-making processes that test the boundaries of painting, printmaking, sculpture, weaving, and computing. Analia Saban: Title Date, Medium, the largest presentation of her work to date, surveys two decades of Saban's artistic production including her experiments with paint, marble sculptures, acrylic weavings...

The Rococo is often associated with ornamentation, mythological fantasy, and pastoral escapism. But 18th-century European art involved far more than garden parties. Rococo: Beyond Decadence assembles 200 paintings, sculptures, decorative arts, costumes, textiles, and works on paper to reveal how Rococo art shaped the aspirations of a broad cross-section of society on the eve of dramatic social, cultural, and political change. Masterworks by canonical artists like François Boucher and Jean-Baptiste-Siméon...

Minor Feelings (working title) features artworks by 23 contemporary artists of Korean descent based in cities around the world. With 75 works in diverse media, the exhibition, whose title takes inspiration from Cathy Park Hong’s book Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning (2020), highlights artistic practices that confront and subvert conventional interpretations of ethnicity, nationality, and culture. Exploring how experiences of migration, displacement, and kinship inform and shape artistic expression,...