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: 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: 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, 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...
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...
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: 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...
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...
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...
Visible and Vibrant: LGBTQ+ Artists in LACMA’s Collection
BCAM, Level 3 Adults, Kids & Families
Visible and Vibrant: LGBTQ+ Artists in LACMA’s Collection
May 5–Aug 11, 2019
Resnick Pavilion
Resnick Pavilion
This series of docent-led tours celebrates LGBTQ+ artists in the permanent collection, exploring how personal experiences shaped artworks on view in the Modern Art Galleries. Participants of all ages and identities are invited to join us and discover creativity, community, and surprising stories behind beloved pieces of art. Co-presented by One Institute for Circa: Queer Histories Festival. Go Metro. The D Line now brings you directly to LACMA (Wilshire/Fairfax Station)...
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: 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: 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: 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: David Geffen Galleries, Atlantic Ocean
David Geffen Galleries Adults, Kids & Families
Gallery Tour: David Geffen Galleries, Atlantic Ocean
May 5–Aug 11, 2019
Resnick Pavilion
Resnick Pavilion
Get to know 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. This docent-led tour will explore nine key artworks in LACMA’s collection, from ancient ceramics from Panama and Colombia to Todd Gray’s new commission Octavia’s Gaze (2025). 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...
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 .