October 29, 2016
January 21, 2018
Hammer Building, Level 2
Snuff, a powdered form of tobacco from the Americas, was initially brought to China by European traders in the late 16th century, during the Ming dynasty (1368–1644). It was in…
July 31, 2017
January 7, 2018
Resnick Pavilion
Chagall: Fantasies for the Stage highlights the principal role that music and dance played in Chagall’s artistic practice. The performing arts were a significant source of…
January 1, 2017
January 1, 2018
Smidt Welcome Plaza
Workflow is a project by Art + Technology Lab grant recipient Michael Mandiberg. The artist uses self-tracking technology to understand the changing definition of labor in the…
August 6
December 3, 2017
BCAM, Level 2
Playing with Fire: Paintings by Carlos Almaraz is the first major retrospective of one of the most influential Los Angeles artists of the 1970s and 1980s. Arguably the first of…
January 14
October 29, 2017
Art of the Americas Building, Level 3
Ed Fella works at the intersection of art and design, using his personal projects to examine the conventions and idiosyncrasies of human communication. His meticulously hand-drawn…
May 6
October 22, 2017
Ahmanson Building, Level 2
Form in Fragments: Abstraction in German Art, 1906–1925explores tendencies toward abstraction in German Expressionism, a movement that foregrounded representational approaches to…
June 11
October 15, 2017
BCAM, Level 3: Nathanson Gallery
Organized in collaboration with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Home—So Different, So Appealing features U.S. Latino and Latin American artists from the late 1950s to the…
March 19
September 10, 2017
Resnick Pavilion
Los Angeles to New York: Dwan Gallery, 1959–1971 presents the storied history of the Dwan Gallery, one of the most important galleries of the postwar period in the U.S., and the…