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Unframed Blog
| Jul 19, 2013
… and More Earlier this summer, LACMA debuted a vision for the future of the Miracle Mile…
Unframed Blog
| Sep 13, 2013
… L.A. Times’ Christopher Hawthorne in Conversation, Arrival of the Altadena Art + Film Lab, and More! This weekend…
Unframed Blog
| Jun 26, 2013
… The History (and Future) of a Museum in a Park In planning The Presence…
Unframed Blog
| May 11, 2018
… This Weekend at LACMA Kick off your weekend with a Jazz at LACMA concert by Alan Pasqua … Shoja Azari, Icon #1–5, 2010, video…
Unframed Blog
| Jun 05, 2013
… for LACMA and Los Angeles County if indeed we proceed with the new museum plan that we have sketched out with Pritzker … architect…
Unframed Blog
| Dec 27, 2010
… The Artist's Library R.B. Kitaj. Towards a Better Life from … 1969. Screenprint, 31 x 23 in. Los Angeles County Museum…
Unframed Blog
| May 25, 2018
… weekend at LACMA with a lively and engaging discussion on the ways museums collaborate with Native American communities when…
Unframed Blog
| Jun 08, 2013
… without LACMA sharing something new. This time, on Sunday, the buzz-worthy exhibition The Presence…
2014 | Inkjet print
past and present. The so-called sheriff seems to reference Mahmud Khan Kalantar Nuri, the mayor of ... the figure stands in front of a historical-looking entrance façade with surveillance cameras both to ... imply the police presence within the Qajar state and remind the viewer that this is a fantasy mixing ...
circa 1933-1934 | Oil on canvas attached to wood board
fond of idealizing the past and aggrandizing the present accomplishments of the country. In fact, the ... a series of drawings and paintings in which the artist was able to convey the strength and ruggedness of ... shoes-characteristic of the rural American laborer. (Speicher thought of him as an independent son of the soil.) He ...
2009 | Neon and black paint
critic has succinctly noted, with the "presence of the past in the present." Ligon draws from ... images of the past few decades. Ligon is one of the most celebrated artists of his generation. LACMA ... Artwork Inscription: Culture Made: Artwork Date(s): 2009 Artwork Credit Line: Gift of the 2010 ...
circa 1862-1872 | Oil on canvas
stylistic source for the clarity and sculptural presence of Roesen’s fruit still-life compositions easily ... presence of a landscape background in the Fruit Still Life with Wine Glass and Coins in a Landscape, dated ... history paintings re-creating the glorious past of the relatively new country. Such idealizations ignored ...
1858 | Oil on canvas
no hint of this past conflict. Yet the 19th-century public would have been well aware of the site’s ... although the haystacks signify the presence of an important industry derived from the marshy swamp area. ... glorious past of the relatively new country. Such idealizations ignored the mounting political and social ...