This week at LACMA
Events and programs presented by LACMA welcome all audiences with a wide array of offerings—from traditional talks, tours, classes, and film screenings to experimental forms of performance and unexpected experiences designed to cultivate community. In the warmer months, Jazz at LACMA and Latin Sounds create lively gatherings of Angelenos of all ages with free weekly concerts by renowned artists. Programs and events are presented at the main campus on Wilshire and throughout Los Angeles County. Please note the event location in each listing.
Tuesday, October 13
In Focus Tour: Sculpture, Then and Now
David Geffen Galleries Adults, Kids & Families
In Focus Tour: Sculpture, Then and Now
May 5–Aug 11, 2019
Resnick Pavilion
Resnick Pavilion
Get an introduction to the diversity of sculpture on view in the David Geffen Galleries at this 30-minute docent-led tour highlighting three key works from LACMA’s collection, from the historical to the contemporary. Please be aware that these tours are volunteer-led and subject to cancellation. Ask a member of our team on the day for details. Go Metro. The D Line now brings you directly to LACMA (Wilshire/Fairfax Station). Plan...
Boone Children's Gallery
Kids & Families
Boone Children's Gallery
May 5–Aug 11, 2019
Resnick Pavilion
Resnick Pavilion
The whole family is invited to explore the joy of art-making at the Boone Children's Gallery, located inside the W.M. Keck Education Center, LACMA's new home for hands-on learning, creativity, and family programs. This free, hands-on art-making space welcomes everyone. No experience necessary—just drop in, pick up a brush or a pencil, try something new, and create! The Boone Children's Gallery is free and open to all. No membership required...
Gallery Tour: David Geffen Galleries, Pacific Ocean
David Geffen GalleriesAdults
Gallery Tour: David Geffen Galleries, Pacific Ocean
May 5–Aug 11, 2019
Resnick Pavilion
Resnick Pavilion
Get to know the Pacific Ocean galleries, one of four sections in the David Geffen Galleries where you’ll discover visual and thematic connections across time and geography. This docent-led tour will explore seven key artworks in LACMA’s collection, from Diego Rivera’s Flower Day (1927) to Raymond Lowey’s Studebaker Avanti automobile (1961). Please be aware that these tours are volunteer-led and subject to cancellation. Ask a member of our team on...
In Focus Tour: Modern Art
BCAM, Level 3Adults
In Focus Tour: Modern Art
May 5–Aug 11, 2019
Resnick Pavilion
Resnick Pavilion
Join a LACMA docent for a 30-minute tour in the Modern Art Galleries. Please be aware that these tours are volunteer-led and subject to cancellation. Ask a member of our team on the day for details. Go Metro. The D Line now brings you directly to LACMA (Wilshire/Fairfax Station). Plan your trip at Metro.net .
Friday, October 16
A Conversation with Stephanie Shih
David Geffen GalleriesAdults
A Conversation with Stephanie Shih
May 5–Aug 11, 2019
Resnick Pavilion
Resnick Pavilion
Hear from artist Stephanie Shih and LACMA curator Susie Ferrell, who will discuss the artist’s practice and her 梅國 (Still life with chamoy and Dirty T Tamarindo). For this photographic work, which is now on view in the David Geffen Galleries’ presentation The Global Appeal of Blue-and-White Ceramics, Shih incorporated ceramics from LACMA’s permanent collection with decadent floral arrangements and confections. This program is part of Third Weekends at LACMA...
Art & Music: Tonal Variations Featuring Gerald Clayton
David Geffen GalleriesAdults
Art & Music: Tonal Variations Featuring Gerald Clayton
May 5–Aug 11, 2019
Resnick Pavilion
Resnick Pavilion
Exploring the deep kinship between photography and music, this special Art & Music concert will feature Grammy-nominated pianist and composer Gerald Clayton performing a varied program of music responding to the work on view in the David Geffen Galleries presentation Tonal Variations: Photography and Music. The concert, ranging from classical to jazz standards and improvisations, takes its cues from photographers like William Eggleston, Lisette Model, and Ansel Adams, who trained...
Boone Children's Gallery
Kids & Families
Boone Children's Gallery
May 5–Aug 11, 2019
Resnick Pavilion
Resnick Pavilion
The whole family is invited to explore the joy of art-making at the Boone Children's Gallery, located inside the W.M. Keck Education Center, LACMA's new home for hands-on learning, creativity, and family programs. This free, hands-on art-making space welcomes everyone. No experience necessary—just drop in, pick up a brush or a pencil, try something new, and create! The Boone Children's Gallery is free and open to all. No membership required...
Gallery Tour: The Everyday in Art
David Geffen Galleries Adults, Kids & Families
Gallery Tour: The Everyday in Art
May 5–Aug 11, 2019
Resnick Pavilion
Resnick Pavilion
Discover surprising stories behind scenes of daily life, local landscapes, and contemporary events in art and objects from LACMA’s collection. At this docent-led tour, we’ll examine five key works in the David Geffen Galleries exploring the “everyday,” from George Bellows' Cliff Dwellers (c. 1913) to Betye Saar’s I’ll Bend But I Will Not Break (1998). Please be aware that these tours are volunteer-led and subject to cancellation. Ask a member...
Mindful Movement
David Geffen Galleries, Plaza LevelAdults
Mindful Movement
May 5–Aug 11, 2019
Resnick Pavilion
Resnick Pavilion
Experience art in motion! Led by Audrey Sides of L.A. Dance Project, slow down and engage with Tony Smith’s monumental outdoor sculpture Smoke through simple, guided movement as you connect with yourself, each other, and art in a completely new way. All bodies are welcome; no prior movement experience is necessary. This program is part of Third Weekends at LACMA, a monthly line-up of free and ticketed programs inspired by...
Visible and Vibrant: LGBTQ+ Artists in LACMA’s Collection
Adults, Kids & Families
Visible and Vibrant: LGBTQ+ Artists in LACMA’s Collection
May 5–Aug 11, 2019
Resnick Pavilion
Resnick Pavilion
This series of docent-led tours celebrates LGBTQ+ artists in the permanent collection, exploring how personal experiences shaped artworks on view in the Modern Art Galleries. Participants of all ages and identities are invited to join us and discover creativity, community, and surprising stories behind beloved pieces of art. Co-presented by One Institute for Circa: Queer Histories Festival. Go Metro. The D Line now brings you directly to LACMA (Wilshire/Fairfax Station)...
Curator Walkthrough of Home of the Future
Resnick PavilionAdults
Curator Walkthrough of Home of the Future
May 5–Aug 11, 2019
Resnick Pavilion
Resnick Pavilion
How did the designers of the past imagine the world of tomorrow? Explore the exhibition Home of the Future, 1925–1985: Designing Domestic Utopias with curators Grace Converse and Margaret Hanson and discover the stories behind groundbreaking visions that imagined, packaged, and predicted the way we live today, from self-cleaning kitchens and plastic houses assembled in a day to push-button appliances and desktop computers. This program is part of Third Weekends...
In Focus Tour: Coastal Connections, Indian Ocean
David Geffen Galleries Adults, Kids & Families
In Focus Tour: Coastal Connections, Indian Ocean
May 5–Aug 11, 2019
Resnick Pavilion
Resnick Pavilion
Get an introduction to the Indian Ocean galleries, one of four sections in the David Geffen Galleries where you’ll discover visual and thematic connections across time and geography. At this 30-minute docent-led tour, we’ll examine three key artworks in LACMA’s collection to uncover stories and influences across the section’s “coasts.” Please be aware that these tours are volunteer-led and subject to cancellation. Ask a member of our team on the...
Member Previews—The Brockman Gallery: Los Angeles, 1967–1990
BCAM, Level 1Members
Member Previews—The Brockman Gallery: Los Angeles, 1967–1990
May 5–Aug 11, 2019
Resnick Pavilion
Resnick Pavilion
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...
In Focus Tour: Collecting Impressionism at LACMA
Resnick Pavilion Adults, Kids & Families
In Focus Tour: Collecting Impressionism at LACMA
May 5–Aug 11, 2019
Resnick Pavilion
Resnick Pavilion
Join a LACMA docent for a 30-minute tour of Collecting Impressionism at LACMA. Inspired by breakthroughs in industry and technology, visual culture in the final quarter of the 19th century in France expanded well beyond the traditional media of painting, sculpture, and drawing to include advances in printmaking, photography, decorative arts, and fashion. Yet, 150 years later, French Impressionism single-handedly defines this period at American art museums. Unpacking the reasons...
Gallery Tour: Textile Alchemy
Resnick Pavilion Adults, Kids & Families
Gallery Tour: Textile Alchemy
May 5–Aug 11, 2019
Resnick Pavilion
Resnick Pavilion
Join a LACMA docent for a 60-minute tour of Textile Alchemy: The Art of Reiko Sudō and NUNO. Reiko Sudō is a textile alchemist who, for more than 40 years, has pioneered innovative textiles that merge tradition with experimentation and handicraft with technology. Textile Alchemy: The Art of Reiko Sudō and NUNO provides an in-depth survey of the acclaimed Japanese designer’s work created with her textile collective NUNO, often in...
Thursday, October 15
Gallery Tour: Home of the Future and The Kitchen and Its Discontents
Resnick Pavilion Adults, Kids & Families
Gallery Tour: Home of the Future and The Kitchen and Its Discontents
May 5–Aug 11, 2019
Resnick Pavilion
Resnick Pavilion
Join a LACMA docent for a 60-minute tour of Home of the Future, 1925–1985: Designing Domestic Utopias and The Kitchen and Its Discontents. Home of the Future, 1925–1985: Designing Domestic Utopias Between 1925 and 1985, Americans were offered an astonishing array of domestic utopias. Self-cleaning kitchens, plastic houses assembled in a day, push-button appliances, and desktop computers all shaped aspirations about how to live. Through architectural models, drawings, photographs, films...
In Focus Tour: California Stories in the David Geffen Galleries
David Geffen Galleries Adults, Kids & Families
In Focus Tour: California Stories in the David Geffen Galleries
May 5–Aug 11, 2019
Resnick Pavilion
Resnick Pavilion
Uncover some of the diverse narratives that define the Golden State’s past, present, and future through thoughtful conversation and close looking. At this 30-minute docent-led tour, we’ll examine three key artworks in LACMA’s collection that reflect the history, culture, and identity of California and Los Angeles while reflecting on our own local stories. Please be aware that these tours are volunteer-led and subject to cancellation. Ask a member of our...
Gallery Tour: David Geffen Galleries, Atlantic Ocean
David Geffen Galleries Adults, Kids & Families
Gallery Tour: David Geffen Galleries, Atlantic Ocean
May 5–Aug 11, 2019
Resnick Pavilion
Resnick Pavilion
Get to know the Atlantic Ocean galleries, one of four sections in the David Geffen Galleries where you’ll discover visual and thematic connections across time and geography. This docent-led tour will explore nine key artworks in LACMA’s collection, from ancient ceramics from Panama and Colombia to Todd Gray’s new commission Octavia’s Gaze (2025). Please be aware that these tours are volunteer-led and subject to cancellation. Ask a member of our...
Member Previews—The Brockman Gallery: Los Angeles, 1967–1990
BCAM, Level 1Members
Member Previews—The Brockman Gallery: Los Angeles, 1967–1990
May 5–Aug 11, 2019
Resnick Pavilion
Resnick Pavilion
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...
In Focus Tour: Eileen Cowin
BCAM, Level 2 Adults, Kids & Families
In Focus Tour: Eileen Cowin
May 5–Aug 11, 2019
Resnick Pavilion
Resnick Pavilion
Join a LACMA docent for a 30-minute tour of Eileen Cowin: Between Panic and Paradise. Eileen Cowin: Between Panic and Paradise presents the provocative photography and video of the Los Angeles–based artist who has explored romance and rivalry, the personal and the political, and the monotony and mystery of daily life, for more than 50 years. Often blurring the distinction between nonfiction and fiction, Cowin draws on cinema, literature, poetry...
Boone Children's Gallery
Kids & Families
Boone Children's Gallery
May 5–Aug 11, 2019
Resnick Pavilion
Resnick Pavilion
The whole family is invited to explore the joy of art-making at the Boone Children's Gallery, located inside the W.M. Keck Education Center, LACMA's new home for hands-on learning, creativity, and family programs. This free, hands-on art-making space welcomes everyone. No experience necessary—just drop in, pick up a brush or a pencil, try something new, and create! The Boone Children's Gallery is free and open to all. No membership required...
Saturday, October 17
Jazz at LACMA: Dave Tull Quartet
Smidt Welcome PlazaAdults
Jazz at LACMA: Dave Tull Quartet
May 5–Aug 11, 2019
Resnick Pavilion
Resnick Pavilion
Celebrate L.A.'s finest jazz musicians with Jazz at LACMA, presented Friday evenings from May through October. This week, join us for a concert with Dave Tull. Dave Tull has long been known as one of the world’s finest jazz drummers and has also built a reputation as a premiere jazz singer and songwriter. Singing from the drums, Dave brings to the stage a rare combination of joyous songwriting, world-class jazz...
Gallery Tour: Collecting Impressionism at LACMA
Resnick Pavilion Adults, Kids & Families
Gallery Tour: Collecting Impressionism at LACMA
May 5–Aug 11, 2019
Resnick Pavilion
Resnick Pavilion
Join a LACMA docent for a 60-minute tour of Collecting Impressionism at LACMA. Inspired by breakthroughs in industry and technology, visual culture in the final quarter of the 19th century in France expanded well beyond the traditional media of painting, sculpture, and drawing to include advances in printmaking, photography, decorative arts, and fashion. Yet, 150 years later, French Impressionism single-handedly defines this period at American art museums. Unpacking the reasons...
Adult Art Class: Watercolor
LACMAAdults
Adult Art Class: Watercolor
May 5–Aug 11, 2019
Resnick Pavilion
Resnick Pavilion
Learn about the relationship between sunlight and color and how to mix colors, plan out a painting, and use artistic techniques for a successful watercolor painting. All skill levels are welcome. Taught by Shannon Green. This program takes place outdoors at LACMA on Saturday, October 17. Parking validation and supplies are provided. Please note, parking validations are only valid for the Pritzker Parking Garage on 6th Street. For additional art...
Gallery Tour: Modern Art
BCAM, Level 3Adults
Gallery Tour: Modern Art
May 5–Aug 11, 2019
Resnick Pavilion
Resnick Pavilion
Join a LACMA docent for a 60-minute tour in the Modern Art Galleries. Please be aware that these tours are volunteer-led and subject to cancellation. Ask a member of our team on the day for details. Go Metro. The D Line now brings you directly to LACMA (Wilshire/Fairfax Station). Plan your trip at Metro.net .
Boone Children's Gallery
Kids & Families
Boone Children's Gallery
May 5–Aug 11, 2019
Resnick Pavilion
Resnick Pavilion
The whole family is invited to explore the joy of art-making at the Boone Children's Gallery, located inside the W.M. Keck Education Center, LACMA's new home for hands-on learning, creativity, and family programs. This free, hands-on art-making space welcomes everyone. No experience necessary—just drop in, pick up a brush or a pencil, try something new, and create! The Boone Children's Gallery is free and open to all. No membership required...
LACMA Family Tours
Resnick LawnKids & Families
LACMA Family Tours
May 5–Aug 11, 2019
Resnick Pavilion
Resnick Pavilion
Join a LACMA docent for a 30-minute, interactive family tour of outdoor sculptures and highlights from our Modern Art Galleries. These tours meet outdoors on the on the W.M. Keck Plaza. Museum admission is required. Do you live in Los Angeles County? Find out about LACMA's free NexGenLA membership for kids and teens 17 and under. NexGenLA members can visit the museum for free anytime and bring one guest for...
In Focus Tour: Coastal Connections, Mediterranean Sea
David Geffen Galleries Adults, Kids & Families
In Focus Tour: Coastal Connections, Mediterranean Sea
May 5–Aug 11, 2019
Resnick Pavilion
Resnick Pavilion
Get an introduction to the Mediterranean Sea galleries, one of four sections in the David Geffen Galleries where you’ll discover visual and thematic connections across time and geography. At this 30-minute docent-led tour, we’ll examine three key artworks in LACMA’s collection to uncover stories and influences across the section’s “coasts.” Please be aware that these tours are volunteer-led and subject to cancellation. Ask a member of our team on the...
In Focus Tour: Large Scale Art
Adults
In Focus Tour: Large Scale Art
May 5–Aug 11, 2019
Resnick Pavilion
Resnick Pavilion
Join a LACMA docent for a thirty minute thematic tour of some of the most massive sculptures and installations around the museum's campus. Please be aware that these tours are volunteer-led and subject to cancellation. Ask a member of our team on the day for details. Go Metro. The D Line now brings you directly to LACMA (Wilshire/Fairfax Station). Plan your trip at Metro.net .
Chess at LACMA
W.M. Keck PlazaAdults
Chess at LACMA
May 5–Aug 11, 2019
Resnick Pavilion
Resnick Pavilion
Come join other chess lovers as you learn or practice the game of kings at a session inspired by Max Ernst’s chess set on view in the David Geffen Galleries. Representatives from Rookie Chess will be on hand to offer instruction and guidance to those who want it. All levels are welcome. Please note that seating for this event is available on a first-come, first-served basis, and that RSVP does...
Gallery Tour: Home of the Future and The Kitchen and Its Discontents
Resnick Pavilion Adults, Kids & Families
Gallery Tour: Home of the Future and The Kitchen and Its Discontents
May 5–Aug 11, 2019
Resnick Pavilion
Resnick Pavilion
Join a LACMA docent for a 60-minute tour of Home of the Future, 1925–1985: Designing Domestic Utopias and The Kitchen and Its Discontents. Home of the Future, 1925–1985: Designing Domestic Utopias Between 1925 and 1985, Americans were offered an astonishing array of domestic utopias. Self-cleaning kitchens, plastic houses assembled in a day, push-button appliances, and desktop computers all shaped aspirations about how to live. Through architectural models, drawings, photographs, films...
Member Previews—The Brockman Gallery: Los Angeles, 1967–1990
BCAM, Level 1Members
Member Previews—The Brockman Gallery: Los Angeles, 1967–1990
May 5–Aug 11, 2019
Resnick Pavilion
Resnick Pavilion
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...
Gallery Tour: Women Artists in the David Geffen Galleries
David Geffen Galleries Adults, Kids & Families
Gallery Tour: Women Artists in the David Geffen Galleries
May 5–Aug 11, 2019
Resnick Pavilion
Resnick Pavilion
Get to know the work of women artists represented in LACMA’s collection. At this docent-led tour, we’ll examine six key artworks, both historical and contemporary, from Clara Peeters’s Still Life with Cheeses, Artichoke, and Cherries (c. 1625) to Dora De Larios’s Ocean (2009). Please be aware that these tours are volunteer-led and subject to cancellation. Ask a member of our team on the day for details. Go Metro. The D...
Gallery Tour: David Geffen Galleries, Pacific Ocean
David Geffen GalleriesAdults
Gallery Tour: David Geffen Galleries, Pacific Ocean
May 5–Aug 11, 2019
Resnick Pavilion
Resnick Pavilion
Get to know the Pacific Ocean galleries, one of four sections in the David Geffen Galleries where you’ll discover visual and thematic connections across time and geography. This docent-led tour will explore seven key artworks in LACMA’s collection, from Diego Rivera’s Flower Day (1927) to Raymond Lowey’s Studebaker Avanti automobile (1961). Please be aware that these tours are volunteer-led and subject to cancellation. Ask a member of our team on...
Sunday, October 18
Book Launch Party for "The Brockman Gallery: Los Angeles 1967–1990"
Lore Liemert Park
Book Launch Party for "The Brockman Gallery: Los Angeles 1967–1990"
May 5–Aug 11, 2019
Resnick Pavilion
Resnick Pavilion
Please join us at Lore Liemert Park to celebrate the release of The Brockman Gallery: Los Angeles 1967–1990. Come celebrate with us at Lore Liemert Park on October 17, 2026 at 7:00 PM at a gathering in the Brockman Gallery's former space for an evening focused on art, activism, and community. Books will be available for purchase, and light refreshments will be provided. About the book: The first collaboration between...
Film Screening: A Bigger Splash
W.M. Keck PlazaAdults
Film Screening: A Bigger Splash
May 5–Aug 11, 2019
Resnick Pavilion
Resnick Pavilion
Celebrate LGBTQ History Month and the legacy of artist David Hockney with Jack Hazan’s A Bigger Splash (1973). This intimate portrait of the artist captures the aftermath of a major breakup and delves into his practice and a vivid moment in 1970s queer culture. This program takes place outdoors. This program is part of Third Weekends at LACMA, a monthly line-up of free and ticketed programs inspired by our collection...