Upcoming events
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.
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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...
Gallery Tour: David Geffen Galleries, Contemporary Works in Context
David Geffen Galleries Adults, Kids & Families
Gallery Tour: David Geffen Galleries, Contemporary Works in Context
May 5–Aug 11, 2019
Resnick Pavilion
Resnick Pavilion
Discover contemporary art in LACMA's collection through a historical lens. At this docent-led tour, we’ll examine visual, historical, and stylistic conversations across time and geography between six key artworks and new commissions in the context of their respective presentations in the David Geffen 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...
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...
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 .
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...
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 .
In Focus Tour: Fashion in Art
David Geffen Galleries Adults, Kids & Families
In Focus Tour: Fashion in Art
May 5–Aug 11, 2019
Resnick Pavilion
Resnick Pavilion
Get an introduction to the craft and artistry of fashion, costume, and textiles in the David Geffen Galleries at this 30-minute docent-led tour examining three key objects in LACMA’s collection. 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...
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...
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 .
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...
Personal Connections (In Person)
LACMAAdults
Personal Connections (In Person)
May 5–Aug 11, 2019
Resnick Pavilion
Resnick Pavilion
In this free in-person program, LACMA teaching artist Elonda Norris will guide an in-person tour of art highlights for people living with early stage Alzheimer’s and dementia and their care partners. This program will take place at LACMA. Parking will be provided. Please meet on the Smidt Welcome Plaza, next the Ticket Office. Schedule: 10:30–11 am: Gather and meet 11 am–12 pm: Exhibition tour To RSVP, contact aoh@alza.org.
In Focus Tour: Fashion in Art
David Geffen Galleries Adults, Kids & Families
In Focus Tour: Fashion in Art
May 5–Aug 11, 2019
Resnick Pavilion
Resnick Pavilion
Get an introduction to the craft and artistry of fashion, costume, and textiles in the David Geffen Galleries at this 30-minute docent-led tour examining three key objects in LACMA’s collection. 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...
Gallery Tour: Get to Know the David Geffen Galleries
David Geffen Galleries Adults, Kids & Families
Gallery Tour: Get to Know the David Geffen Galleries
May 5–Aug 11, 2019
Resnick Pavilion
Resnick Pavilion
Discover the David Geffen Galleries, LACMA’s new home for the permanent collection, at a docent-led tour that will cover the expanse of the building’s exhibition level. We’ll explore visual and thematic connections across time and geography through seven key artworks, from ninth-century Assyrian reliefs to Do Ho Suh’s installation Jagyeong Hall, Gyeongbok Palace (2025). Please be aware that these tours are volunteer-led and subject to cancellation. Ask a member of...
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...
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 .
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...