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In Focus Tour: Deep Cuts

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  • Time: 1 PM – 1:30 PM
  • Location: Resnick Pavilion
  • Price: Free with museum admission
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Join a LACMA docent for a 30-minute tour of Deep Cuts: Block Printing Across Cultures.

Deep Cuts explores the world's oldest and most versatile method of making multiple images. More than 150 works from Asia, Europe, and the Americas present the medium as both a means of creative expression and a vehicle for mass production that enabled images and ideas to circulate widely. Textiles, prints, and books offer intricate patterns and striking imagery that reveal block printing’s global history, from the patterned fabrics of India to the illustrated books of the Kelmscott Press to modern artistic experiments by German Expressionist artists and contemporary makers like Christiane Baumgartner. The exhibition also includes a section developed with Los Angeles–based Block Shop, highlighting how contemporary makers continue to reinterpret this enduring art form.

Please be aware that these tours are volunteer-led and subject to cancellation. Ask a member of our team on the day for details.

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Yoshida Fujio, Myga, c. 1953–54, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Felix Juda, © Yoshida Hanga Academy, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA
Yoshida Fujio, Myga, c. 1953–54, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Felix Juda, © Yoshida Hanga Academy, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Deep Cuts: Block Printing Across Cultures was organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. 

All exhibitions at LACMA are underwritten by the LACMA Exhibition Fund. Major annual support is provided by The David & Meredith Kaplan Foundation, the Blanchard Nesbitt Family, Louise and Brad Edgerton, Edgerton Foundation, Julie Jaffe, Stan and Ann Kroenke, Ezra and Lauren Perlman, The Michael Silver Family, and Marietta Wu and Thomas Yamamoto, with generous annual funding from Mary and Daniel James, Bert Levy Fund, Alfred E. Mann Charities, and Kelsey Lee Offield.

All education and outreach programs organized by LACMA are underwritten by the LACMA Education Fund. 

Major support is provided 

Generous additional support is provided by the Judy and Bernard Briskin Family Foundation, Capital Group, The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation, William Randolph Hearst Endowment Fund for Arts Education, Alfred E. Mann Charities, The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation, Gloria Ricci Lothrop, Flora L. Thornton Foundation, U.S. Bank, and The Yabuki Family Foundation.