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: 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...
Chess at LACMA
W.M. Keck PlazaAdults
Chess at LACMA
May 5–Aug 11, 2019
Resnick Pavilion
Resnick Pavilion
Come join other chess lovers as you learn or practice the game of kings at a session inspired by Max Ernst’s chess set on view in the David Geffen Galleries. Representatives from Highland Park Chess will be on hand to offer instruction and guidance to those who want it. All levels are welcome. Please note that seating for this event is available on a first-come, first-served basis, and that RSVP...
In Focus Tour: Coastal Connections, Atlantic Ocean
David Geffen Galleries Adults, Kids & Families
In Focus Tour: Coastal Connections, Atlantic Ocean
May 5–Aug 11, 2019
Resnick Pavilion
Resnick Pavilion
Get an introduction to the Atlantic 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...
LACMA Family Tours
Resnick LawnKids & Families
LACMA Family Tours
May 5–Aug 11, 2019
Resnick Pavilion
Resnick Pavilion
Join a LACMA docent for a 30-minute, interactive family tour of outdoor sculptures and highlights from our Modern Art Galleries. These tours meet outdoors on the on the W.M. Keck Plaza. Museum admission is required. Do you live in Los Angeles County? Find out about LACMA's free NexGenLA membership for kids and teens 17 and under. NexGenLA members can visit the museum for free anytime and bring one guest for...
Eileen Cowin and Fred Tomaselli on Making Art in Turbulent Times
BCAM, Level 2Adults
Eileen Cowin and Fred Tomaselli on Making Art in Turbulent Times
May 5–Aug 11, 2019
Resnick Pavilion
Resnick Pavilion
In conjunction with the exhibition Eileen Cowin: Between Panic and Paradise, hear from artists Eileen Cowin and Fred Tomaselli, moderated by LACMA curator Rebecca Morse, as they explore Cowin's five-decade career and discuss the intersections of photography and memory, the blurred lines between fiction and reality that define her work, and the universal experience of making art in turbulent times. This program is part of Third Weekends at LACMA, a...
In Focus Tour: Coastal Connections, Atlantic Ocean
David Geffen Galleries Adults, Kids & Families
In Focus Tour: Coastal Connections, Atlantic Ocean
May 5–Aug 11, 2019
Resnick Pavilion
Resnick Pavilion
Get an introduction to the Atlantic 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...
In Focus Tour: Coastal Connections, Mediterranean Sea
David Geffen Galleries Adults, Kids & Families
In Focus Tour: Coastal Connections, Mediterranean Sea
May 5–Aug 11, 2019
Resnick Pavilion
Resnick Pavilion
Get an introduction to 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. 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...
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...
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: The Everyday in Art
David Geffen Galleries Adults, Kids & Families
Gallery Tour: The Everyday in Art
May 5–Aug 11, 2019
Resnick Pavilion
Resnick Pavilion
Discover surprising stories behind scenes of daily life, local landscapes, and contemporary events in art and objects from LACMA’s collection. At this docent-led tour, we’ll examine five key works in the David Geffen Galleries exploring the “everyday,” from George Bellows' Cliff Dwellers (c. 1913) to Betye Saar’s I’ll Bend But I Will Not Break (1998). Please be aware that these tours are volunteer-led and subject to cancellation. Ask a member...
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...
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 .
Pop-Up Poems
Smidt Welcome Plaza Adults, Kids & Families
Pop-Up Poems
May 5–Aug 11, 2019
Resnick Pavilion
Resnick Pavilion
Drop in and let a poet write something just for you. Inspired by the exhibition Home of the Future, 1925–1985: Designing Domestic Utopias, poets from Beyond Baroque will craft personalized concrete poetry in response to your vision of an ideal home and community that you can take home with you. This free program takes place outdoors on the Smidt Welcome Plaza, but museum admission is required if you would like...
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...
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...
An Evening with Catherine Opie
Smidt Welcome PlazaAdults
An Evening with Catherine Opie
May 5–Aug 11, 2019
Resnick Pavilion
Resnick Pavilion
Hear from photographer Catherine Opie in conversation with LACMA curator Britt Salvesen. Reflecting on Opie’s works on view at the museum—including her Freeways photographs and recent curator portraits—they will explore how photography documents identity, place, and the evolving cultural landscape of Los Angeles. This program is part of Third Weekends at LACMA, a monthly line-up of free and ticketed programs inspired by our collection and special exhibitions. Go Metro. The...