New Acquisition: Todd Gray Commission
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New Acquisition: Todd Gray Commission
May 03, 2024
Gray’s work imagines, from a personal, 21st-century perspective, what an archive of Afro-Atlantic transit could look like.
LACMA Go
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LACMA Go
Aug 02, 2016
As an Andrew W.
John McLaughlin and the Tamarind Lithography Workshop
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John McLaughlin and the Tamarind Lithography Workshop
Aug 27, 2012
Tamarind Lithography Workshop, founded in Los Angeles in 1960 by artist June Wayne with a Ford Foundation Grant, was a cornerstone of the 1960s…
Out of the (Mail)box
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Out of the (Mail)box
Oct 05, 2015
It’s a strange thing to be invited to rifle through someone else’s mail, to litter it with alphanumeric sequences, to conceive of descriptive titles…
New Acquisition: Geraldo de Barros and Modern Brazilian Furniture Design
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New Acquisition: Geraldo de Barros and Modern Brazilian Furniture Design
May 19, 2020
The Latin American Art department recently acquired a sleek modernist shelving unit by Geraldo de Barros (1923–1998) as part of its design initiative…
New Acquisition: Julie Mehretu's "Epigraph, Damascus"
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New Acquisition: Julie Mehretu's "Epigraph, Damascus"
Apr 24, 2018
Julie Mehretu is a Harlem-based painter known for her large-scale abstract canvases.
In Memoriam: Wallis Annenberg (1939–2025)
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In Memoriam: Wallis Annenberg (1939–2025)
Jul 28, 2025
We are saddened to note the passing of longstanding LACMA trustee Wallis Annenberg this morning. A true luminary who forever changed the face of Los…
Nicolas & Nicolás: Conversation on Labor and Photography
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Nicolas & Nicolás: Conversation on Labor and Photography
May 18, 2017
Nicolás Valdivia was born in 1930 and immigrated to Los Angeles in the 1940s, finally settling in Boyle Heights around 1949. He worked many jobs in…