October 21, 2012
January 6, 2013
BCAM, Level 2
Drawing Surrealism explores the significance of drawing and works on paper to surrealist innovation. Long considered the medium of exploration and innovation, drawing…
July 22
October 14, 2012
BCAM, Level 2
Portraiture has always been motivated by two competing and overlapping desires: the desire to record, and the desire to be recorded. Artists Katy Grannan and Charlie White have…
February 18
September 23, 2012
Ahmanson Building, Level 2
Common Places features three objects from the museum's permanent collection which transform printed works on paper into one-of-a-kind embroideries: a seventeenth-century…
June 4
September 9, 2012
BCAM, Level 2
The newest work by renowned Los Angeles artist Sharon Lockhart (United States, born 1964) is a multimedia meditation on the achievements of Israeli dance composer and textile…
June 9
September 9, 2012
Art of the Americas Building, Level 2
Over the course of twenty-two films covering the life of 007, James Bond, one element has remained constant: the opening credit sequence. Beginning with Dr. No, the opening…
April 7
July 29, 2012
Pavilion for Japanese Art
Photographer Daido Moriyama (Japan, b. 1938) first came to prominence in the mid-1960s with his gritty depictions of Japanese urban life. His highly innovative and intensely…
April 1
July 1, 2012
Resnick Pavilion
Children of the Plumed Serpent: the Legacy of Quetzalcoatl in Ancient Mexico follows the historical trajectory of the life and epic stories of the culture-hero and deity,…
March 11
June 3, 2012
BCAM, Level 2
Since taking up photography in the mid-1960s as a response to the rapidly changing landscape of his native Colorado, Robert Adams has been widely regarded as one of the leading…