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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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: 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: 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 .
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...
Communities Create LA! Día de los Muertos Calavera
A C Bilbrew LibraryKids & Families
Communities Create LA! Día de los Muertos Calavera
May 5–Aug 11, 2019
Resnick Pavilion
Resnick Pavilion
Sculpt a clay calavera (skull) like the one in Manuel Álvarez Bravo’s Día de Todos Muertos in honor of ancestral traditions. Create a multi-media artwork using clay, tissue paper, and colorful embellishments in remembrance of a loved one. Children under 12 must be accompanied by an adult.
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...
Paul R. Williams and the Idea of Home
East West Bank CommonsAdults
Paul R. Williams and the Idea of Home
May 5–Aug 11, 2019
Resnick Pavilion
Resnick Pavilion
Discover the enduring legacy of the most prominent Black American architect of his generation at a conversation presented alongside the exhibition Paul R. Williams: Architect for Living. Hear from author Karen E. Hudson, Williams’s granddaughter; interior designer Brigette Romanek; and Ford Foundation president Darren Walker, who lives in a historic Los Angeles residence designed by Williams, at a conversation moderated by scholar and curator Sandra Jackson-Dumont. Together, they will consider...
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...
Gallery Tour: David Geffen Galleries, Mediterranean Sea
David Geffen Galleries Adults, Kids & Families
Gallery Tour: David Geffen Galleries, Mediterranean Sea
May 5–Aug 11, 2019
Resnick Pavilion
Resnick Pavilion
Get to know 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. This docent-led tour will explore seven key artworks in LACMA’s collection, from a restored 18th-century reception room from Damascus, Syria, to Lauren Halsey’s sphinx, Untitled (2026). Please be aware that these tours are volunteer-led and subject to cancellation. Ask a member of our...
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: 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...
Curator Walkthrough of The Brockman Gallery: Los Angeles, 1967–1990
BCAM, Level 1Adults
Curator Walkthrough of The Brockman Gallery: Los Angeles, 1967–1990
May 5–Aug 11, 2019
Resnick Pavilion
Resnick Pavilion
Hear from Lauren Hanson, curator of The Brockman Gallery: Los Angeles, 1967–1990, and art historian Charmaine Branch at a focused discussion on the history and impact of the Brockman Gallery as they lead a tour the exhibition. Founded in South L.A. in 1967, the gallery played a pivotal role in championing Black artists in Los Angeles and shaping a vital network for artistic production, exhibition, and cultural visibility. This program...
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...
A Century of The New Yorker Covers
LACMAAdults
A Century of The New Yorker Covers
May 5–Aug 11, 2019
Resnick Pavilion
Resnick Pavilion
For a century, the cover of The New Yorker has amused, provoked, and captured the spirit of the times. As the magazine's art editor for over three decades, Françoise Mouly has guided that iconic format into new territory, treating covers as comments on current affairs and expanding its range with a roster of world-famous illustrators. In her new book, Mouly presents hundreds of covers charting the magazine's visual evolution decade...
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...