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...
Exclusive Members-Only Screening: The Only Living Pickpocket in New York and Post-Screening Conversation
Members
Exclusive Members-Only Screening: The Only Living Pickpocket in New York and Post-Screening Conversation
May 5–Aug 11, 2019
Resnick Pavilion
Resnick Pavilion
LACMA members are invited to join FILM at LACMA for a special advance screening of The Only Living Pickpocket in New York, followed by a conversation with star John Turturro, and writer and director Noah Segan. Harry Lehman (John Turturro) is an aging pickpocket who plies his trade with ever-diminishing returns in a drastically changed New York. Wallets stuffed with cash have been replaced by easily canceled credit cards, and...
Michele and Peter Berton Memorial Lecture on Japanese Art: Lyric Voices for Dark Days
BCAM, Level 1Adults
Michele and Peter Berton Memorial Lecture on Japanese Art: Lyric Voices for Dark Days
May 5–Aug 11, 2019
Resnick Pavilion
Resnick Pavilion
How do we find beauty and hope during challenging times? Professor Tom Hare of Princeton University will explore this question by examining a stunning 18th-century album from LACMA’s collection featuring poems and paintings by Tosa Mitsunari. Join us for an intimate look at this rare album, on view during the presentation, to discover how artists and poets of the past used their work to find solace and inspiration in 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...
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...
Artist Walkthrough: Chase Hall
David Geffen GalleriesAdults
Artist Walkthrough: Chase Hall
May 5–Aug 11, 2019
Resnick Pavilion
Resnick Pavilion
Join artist Chase Hall, who will discuss his artistic practice and residency focused on LACMA’s Blackburn Collection of Oceanic Photography as he leads a tour exploring works from the collection on view in the David Geffen Galleries. 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 D Line now brings you directly...
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 .
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...
Chase Hall, Dhyandra Lawson, and Michael Govan in Conversation
W.M. Keck PlazaAdults
Chase Hall, Dhyandra Lawson, and Michael Govan in Conversation
May 5–Aug 11, 2019
Resnick Pavilion
Resnick Pavilion
Join artist Chase Hall for a conversation inspired by his exploration of LACMA’s Blackburn Collection of Oceanic Photography. Comprising 9,700 rare objects and photographs made between 1840 and 2016 across 10 Pacific Island nations, the collection offers a rich record of beach life, tourism, land ownership, and European conquest in the Pacific. An artist, surfer, and collector of American vernacular photography, Hall focused his research on the archive’s images of...
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...
Andell Family Sundays: Textile Alchemy
W.M. Keck PlazaKids & Families
Andell Family Sundays: Textile Alchemy
May 5–Aug 11, 2019
Resnick Pavilion
Resnick Pavilion
Get inspired by the exhibition Textile Alchemy: The Art of Reiko Sudō & NUNO and make your own art at a drop-in workshop led by artists Gloria Westcott and Julianna Ostrovsky. All ages are welcome. Workshops inspired by Textile Alchemy will take place outside the W.M. Keck Education Center on Sundays, October 4, 11, 18, and 25. More for Families Kids and families can also join a 30-minute docent-led family...
Gallery Tour: David Geffen Galleries, Pacific Ocean
David Geffen GalleriesAdults
Gallery Tour: David Geffen Galleries, Pacific Ocean
May 5–Aug 11, 2019
Resnick Pavilion
Resnick Pavilion
Get to know the Pacific Ocean 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 Diego Rivera’s Flower Day (1927) to Raymond Lowey’s Studebaker Avanti automobile (1961). Please be aware that these tours are volunteer-led and subject to cancellation. Ask a member of our team on...
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...
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...
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...