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Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Sundays. This permanent, interactive exhibit includes the original 1919 letter signed by Adolf Hitler that calls for a ruthless government whose “final aim, must be the uncompromising removal of the Jews altogether.” MORE >>
Daily. Wed, Aug 15, 2012-Mon, May 27, 2013. In cooperation with the family of Whitney Houston, this will be the first major museum exhibition to explore the extraordinary career of the six-time GRAMMY Award® winner. Whitney! will provide an in-depth look at all aspects of Houston’s creative life. Bringing together a collection of diverse artifacts, rare photographs and footage, the exhibit features dozens of items from the private collection of the Houston family, including: stage costumes worn by Houston, including her famous white, beaded gown worn at the 1992 GRAMMY Awards, where she won “Album of the Year”; albums and career scrapbooks from Houston’s early career; Houston’s personal Bible; rare photographs of Houston both on and off stage; concert posters, tour books and fan memorabilia and much more. MORE >>
Daily. Tue, Sep 18, 2012-Sat, Aug 31, 2013. The exhibit features the original surfboard featured on the Surfin' Safari album cover, early family photos and high-school yearbooks, Dennis Wilson's snare drum, handwritten lyrics, original 1960s concert posters, Carl Wilson's Gibson ES-335 guitar and much more. MORE >>
Daily. Along with the orbiter, the pavilion will feature video experiences and significant artifacts such as the Spacehab flown in Endeavour's payload bay on shuttle mission STS-118. There will also be the companion exhibit featuring images and artifacts that relate the shuttle program to California, where the orbiters were built. The California Story gallery will also feature components that flew into space with Endeavour, such as Endeavour's potty, galley and the tires from STS-134, Endeavour's final mission. MORE >>
Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Thu, Nov 1, 2012-Sun, Jun 30, 2013. Stanley Kubrick was known for exerting complete artistic control over his projects; in doing so, he reconceived the genres in which he worked. The exhibition covers the breadth of Kubrick’s practice, beginning with his early photographs for Look magazine, taken in the 1940s, and continuing with his groundbreaking directorial achievements of the 1950s through the 1990s. His films are represented through a selection of annotated scripts, production photography, lenses and cameras, set models, costumes, and props. In addition, the exhibition explores Napoleon and The Aryan Papers, two projects that Kubrick never completed, as well as the technological advances developed and utilized by Kubrick and his team. By featuring this legendary film auteur and his oeuvre as the focus of his first retrospective in the context of an art museum, the exhibition reevaluates how we define the artist in the 21st century, and simultaneously expands upon LACMA’s commitment to exploring the intersection of art and film. MORE >>
Daily. 360 Sound: The Columbia Records Story will provide an in-depth look at all aspects of Columbia Records' history and will offer a virtual history of the music industry from its infancy, tracing Columbia's pivotal technological as well as business innovations, including its invention of the LP. The exhibit also reflects on the connection between Columbia's artists and music and sweeping cultural and political changes, from the emergence of mass commercial culture to the rise of the civil rights movement and beyond. Bringing together a collection of diverse artifacts, rare photographs and footage, the exhibit features dozens of items from Columbia artists such as Louis Armstrong, Bob Dylan, Barbra Streisand, Miles Davis, Bruce Springsteen, Robert Johnson, Johnny Cash, Beyonce and many more. MORE >>
Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Fri, Nov 23, 2012-Sun, Nov 17, 2013. Features objects from across Asia that demonstrate the role of the garden as a source of inspiration throughout the centuries. The exhibition includes paintings, prints, lacquerware, sculpture and textiles from throughout East and South Asia. MORE >>
Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Fri, Dec 14, 2012-Sun, Jan 5, 2014. Examines the impact of the veneration of ancestors and lineages on the arts of Asia. In cultures informed by Confucian values, worship of family ancestors has generated countless objects for use in prescribed rituals. In other areas of Asia and the Pacific Islands, elders of prior generations are revered for their accumulated wisdom and ability to guide us through life’s transitions. The exhibition includes paintings and sculpture from East Asia and the Pacific Islands, including China, Korea and Papua New Guinea. MORE >>
Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Sat, Feb 23, 2013-Thu, Jul 18, 2013. Echakhch will reprise her 2007 work À chaque stencil une revolution (For each stencil a revolution) for the Hammer’s lobby wall. After attaching hundreds of sheets of carbon paper to the wall, Echakhch will treat the surface with a solvent that causes the ink to run down the pages and pool on the floor. Her use of carbon paper points to an outmoded duplication technology that was central to the ability of political groups of earlier generations—such as the civil rights and anti–Vietnam War protests of the 1960s—to disseminate information and opinions. The title of the work is a quotation from the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat who was referring to the proliferation of revolutionary groups and protest movements. MORE >>
Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Wed, Mar 20, 2013-Sun, Jun 9, 2013. Sagmeister not only tests the boundary between art and design, but often transgesses it through his imaginative implementation of typography. The Happy Show, a thematic exhibition of film, print, infographics, sculpture, and interactive installations offers visitors the experience of walking into the designer's mind as he attempts to increase his happiness via mediation, cognitive therapy, and mood-altering pharmaceuticals. MORE >>
Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Fri, Apr 5, 2013-Sun, Mar 30, 2014. The renowned Harari Collection of Japanese Edo (1603–1868) and Meiji (1868–1912) era paintings and drawings is one of the most significant groups of works on paper at Pacific Asia Museum. Amassed in London during the 1950s and 60s by Ralph Harari, the collection includes ukiyo-e (“pictures of the floating world”); important prints, paintings and sketches by Hokusai, Hiroshige and their schools; paintings by Kano, Tosa, Nanga, and Shijo schools; and decorative paintings including fans. MORE >>
Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Sun, Apr 7, 2013-Sun, Aug 25, 2013. The exhibition also tackles the history of racial segregation and anti-miscegenation laws that prohibited or even criminalized marriages between White and non-White peoples. Laws that prohibited interracial marriage existed in many states as late as 1967, when they were finally outlawed by the U.S. Supreme Court case, Loving v. Virginia. Today, the Japanese American community continues to explore questions of belonging and identity as Hapa Japanese Americans expand notions of family and community, challenging us to imagine new possibilities for the future. MORE >>
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays. Mon, Apr 15, 2013-Fri, Jun 28, 2013. A multi-faceted project by Los Angeles-based artist Alexandra Grant encompassing a series of public drawing sessions, reading groups, artist collaborations and an installation at 18th Street Arts Center. Co-curated by Pilar Tompkins Rivas and Isabelle Le Normand, this work premiers in Santa Monica and is presented at Mains d’Oeuvres in Saint-Ouen, France this fall. Based on an ongoing exchange with the iconic French author, poet, playwright and philosopher Hélène Cixous, Grant focuses on Cixous’ book Philippinesas a source for imagery, centering on the repeating thematic of the forest as a profound shared space. Drifting between a real and an imagined place, the forest becomes a site for communion with what Cixous terms “the perfect Other.” MORE >>
Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Tue, Apr 16, 2013-Sun, Sep 15, 2013. In the mid-1400s, many celebrated artists, goldsmiths, silversmiths and engravers were attracted by the abundance of wealth in the city of Florence, but the most important factor in this gathering of talent was the presence of the Medici family. For almost three hundred years, generation after generation of Medici dominated city affairs and steered the course of art history. It was the Medici family who funded the workshops of these artists and artisans, who commissioned and collected the masterpieces of art and antiquity. From founding father to the last Grand Duke, the immense power and wealth of this great dynasty was invested in its legendary collections, of which the collection renowned as the Gems of the Medici is perhaps the finest in the world. This world premier exhibition highlights some of the oldest and most unique pieces of the Medici collections including antiquities dating from the 1st Century BCE as well as a cornelian which was part of the Seal of Nero. MORE >>
Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Thu, Apr 18, 2013-Sun, Jun 23, 2013. Windshield Perspective focuses on a short yet dense stretch of Beverly Boulevard from Normandie to Virgil. The windshield is both a lens and a shield; a screen which acts much like a magnifying glass to clarify the view and as a scrim to obscure the sight. A drive along Beverly stands for hundreds, if not thousands, of daily journeys through the city’s landscape. The exhibit is about seeing and not seeing. MORE >>
Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Sat, Apr 20, 2013-Sun, Jul 28, 2013. Cyprien Gaillard's work manifests in a variety of forms from videos and photographs to collages and sculptures. In his work, he reflects upon meanings and memories of monuments and landscapes that have been erased and replaced by the effects of time and social and cultural transformation. The artist investigates time and historical remembrance as demonstrated in forgotten monuments, wrecked ruins, and artifacts. During his residency at the Hammer, Gaillard traveled around California discovering hidden ruins, destroyed landscapes and other remnants of the recent past. This exhibition will feature an installation of recent sculpture and a series of photographs produced during his residency at the Museum. MORE >>
Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Sun, Apr 21, 2013-Sun, Jun 16, 2013. Conceived as notes toward the making of a future film, a new project by London-based collective The Otolith Group treats the format of an exhibition as an exercise in writing, and attempts to give preparatory notes, archival materials and preliminary sketches shape as a form of speculative screenplay or notebook-film. For their first work produced within the U.S., Neophyte is an inquiry into the gradual spiritualization of Capitalism, and the state of California as a test-ground for both the importation of Hindu guru culture and the ideology of post-war production in the 1960s and ’70s. The Otolith Group’s investigation into the cybernetic subcultures, musical presences and sentient entities distributed throughout the spiritual landscapes and industrial parks of Los Angeles and San Francisco proposes a possible future, envisioned through an improbable present. Hypothetically titled Neophyte, the project is the materialization of a cinema that documents its own quest for places, spaces and subjectivities yet to be defined. MORE >>
Mondays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Sun, Apr 21, 2013-Mon, Aug 19, 2013. The first survey in the U.S. of the Swiss-born artist weaves together some of his most memorable and iconic sculptural works while creating an unexpected landscape in both venues. Fischer's world is fluctuating and unpredictable, and the pleasure that we derive from his sculpture and painting is based on our attraction to and simultaneous repulsion by the dreamlike appearances that he constructs. Fischer's work is characterized by an unending diversity of materials, strategies, concepts, and images. Sculptures are created through an elaborate aluminum casting process, roughly hewn in wood, or cast in wax only to melt away during the run of the exhibition. MORE >>
Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Fri, Apr 26, 2013-Mon, Jan 6, 2014. Examines how the great sculptors of the 20th century were influenced by Constantin Brancusi and his groundbreaking use of space and material. Featuring 19 works from the Museum’s renowned collection of post-war art, by sculptors as diverse as Henry Moore, Isamu Noguchi, Barbara Hepworth, Donald Judd, Carl Andre, John McCracken and Robert Irwin, the exhibition demonstrates how sculpture moved from being a self-contained, three-dimensional object to one that engages with its surrounding space. MORE >>
Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Fri, May 10, 2013-Sun, Jan 5, 2014. Explore how a growing Jewish community settled, prospered, and helped shape the economy, politics, and culture of a city—and how the diversity and dynamism of Los Angeles have transformed the local Jewish community for the past 160 years. MORE >>
Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Sat, May 11, 2013-Sun, May 26, 2013. Their first all-female art show features emerging artists and contemporary masters. MORE >>
Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Sat, May 11, 2013-Sat, Jun 1, 2013. Vanity Fair notably lauded her surreal approach, while BULLETT Magazine hailed her as one of the most exciting new visual artists around. After her last exhibition Tony Bennett: Portrait of an Artist at The Morrison Gallery (2012), The Wall Street Journal raved in a feature on Bennett that her impressive portfolio “far exceeds her years.” Bennett’s official West Coast debut will showcase a retrospective of Bennett’s work over the past four years as well as never-before-seen pieces. MORE >>
Daily. Sat, May 11, 2013-Mon, Sep 2, 2013. The exhibit features over 80 photographs highlighting some of the spectacular scenes witnessed during space shuttle Endeavour's flight over California and her 12-mile, 68-hour journey through city streets to its final destination at the California Science Center. MORE >>
Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Sat, May 11, 2013-Sun, Sep 22, 2013. Portraiture Now displays the diversity of contemporary Asian American identity through the groundbreaking work of seven visual artists—CYJO, Zhang Chun Hong, Hye Yeon Nam, Shizu Saldamando, Roger Shimomura, Satomi Shirai, and Tam Tran. MORE >>
Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays, Sundays. Sat, May 11, 2013-Sun, Jun 2, 2013. "I had the phrase seven beauties in my mind for a while when I was approached by Avenue 50 Studio to curate a show. I know seven beautiful female artists whose work is spiritually and intelligently beautiful, and whose work I really admire. These are disciplined artists producing very wonderful art..." - Curator José Lozano
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Daily. Sun, May 12, 2013-Thu, May 1, 2014. The exhibit will illustrate how Rivera used her music and celebrity to abolish female stereotypes that existed in Mexican music for many years. Having sold over 20 million albums worldwide and the winner of various Gold and Platinum records certified by the RIAA, Jenni Rivera was the female leader of the banda genre. Throughout her career, “The Diva of Banda” enjoyed a legion of loyal fans made up of a multi-generational audience that continues to admire her talent and musical integrity. Since her untimely death on December 9, 2012, sales of all her records have tripled. She earned nominations at the 2003, 2008 and 2010 Latin GRAMMYs and became the first female Banda artist to sell-out two back-to-back nights at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles on August 6, 2010 and August 7, 2010. Leveraging her influence in the recording industry as well as her many businesses endeavors, Rivera also expanded her multi-media presence with her reality series “I Love Jenni” on Telemundo’s bilingual cable network, mun2. MORE >>
Daily. Fri, May 17, 2013-Sun, Jun 2, 2013. Few authors are better known than Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, yet, to this day, his Secret Art and his fantastical Hat Collection are virtually unknown to the general public. Throughout his lifetime, Ted Geisel created paintings and collected hats which he secreted away in a hidden closet at the Seuss Estate. In honor of the 75th anniversary of Dr. Seuss’s second book, The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins, a special exhibition has been created that combines these two secret collections. Audrey S. Geisel, the widow of Dr. Seuss, has generously opened up the Estate’s legendary “hat closet” to allow the public a peek at Dr. Seuss’s hat collection. MORE >>
Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays. Sat, May 18, 2013-Sat, Jun 29, 2013. The exhibition title is a nod to Matisse’s well-known 1905 portrait of the artist’s wife and is visually referenced in several of Gordon’s works including large scale still lifes and portraits, along with a selection of smaller works operating as isolated studies. In conjunction with the exhibition, Mörel has published Gordon’s fourth monograph titled Still Lifes, Portraits & Parts, which will be available at the gallery. MORE >>
Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Sat, May 18, 2013-Sun, Jun 16, 2013. The exhibition will serve as the debut of a capsule luggage concept collection and feature three silicone art objects inspired by hiking luggage, tattooed skin and jewelry piercings as the focal point for the exhibit where the limited edition products will be sold for the duration of four weeks. Scion AV has partnered with Hood By Air to produce an entire inventory of limited edition Hood By Air items including, but not limited to, the coveted Hood By Air Classics t-shirt collection in never before seen color-ways, backpacks, posters, water bottles, Emory boards, small accessories and more. MORE >>
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays. Sat, May 18, 2013-Fri, Jun 14, 2013. Without the restraints of an overarching theme, "Point of Departure" allows each artist the opportunity to show their personal vision and most current direction in their work, whether that be in the subject matter, technique or style. The show includes a dynamic selection of work by diverse artists. MORE >>
Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Sun, May 19, 2013-Sun, Jul 7, 2013. Awarded each year by The City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA), the C.O.L.A. (City of Los Angeles) Fellowships honor a spectrum of the City’s most exemplary mid-career artists of international stature. The 2013 C.O.L.A. award recipients in the visual arts are: Lisa Anne Auerbach, Krysten Cunningham, Samantha Fields, Ramiro Diaz-Granados, Judithe Hernández, Carole Kim, Nery Gabriel Lemus, Rebeca Méndez, and Rebecca Morris. The 2013 C.O.L.A. award recipients in the performing arts are: Malathi Iyengar and Michael White. MORE >>
Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Fri, May 24, 2013-Sun, Dec 1, 2013. Several renowned American photographers such as Paul Strand, Edward Weston and Tina Modotti took up residency in Mexico for long periods of time, generating a cultural and artistic exchange with the local artists. Luces y Sombras: Fourteen Travelers in Mexico explores the rich cross-pollination between Mexican and American artists, a relationship that has enriched the field of photography in countless ways. MORE >>
Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Sat, May 25, 2013-Sun, Sep 8, 2013. The first major museum career survey of the Los Angeles-based architect’s work pays special attention to the unique collaborative nature of his practice. Archibald Quincy Jones (1913–1979), who was known as Quincy, practiced architecture in Los Angeles from 1937 until his death in 1979. A quiet modernist and dedicated architecture professor at the University of Southern California, Jones worked to bring a high standard of design to the growing middle class by reconsidering and refining postwar housing and emphasizing cost-effective, innovative, and sustainable building methods. In addition, Jones is among the first architects of this period to view developments as an opportunity to build community through shared green spaces, varied home models, and non-grid site planning. MORE >>
Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Sat, May 25, 2013-Sun, Jan 5, 2014. This exhibition, conformed by works of art from MOLAA’s Collection, explores issues related to nature including the way artists depict its wild beauty and changing state and comment on the effects of human intervention on it. Disrupted Nature will include several recent acquisitions to our collection including works of art by artists such as Alberto Baraya (Colombia, b. 1968) and Florencio Gelabert (Cuba, b. 1961). MORE >>
Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Sat, May 25, 2013-Sun, Aug 25, 2013. Neil Beloufa’s films focus on the slippery line between fiction and reality. He sets up situations in which both amateurs and professional actors explore enigmatic subjects ranging from extraterrestrials to nationalism, terrorism, and the future. During his Hammer residency in 2012, Beloufa produced a new film exploring the iconography of the red bandana. Disparate political movements and subcultures—including gangsters, hippies, rock stars, cowboys, and anarchists—have long adopted the red bandana as a sign of affiliation or camaraderie. In his installation, Production Value (2013) Beloufa uses the red bandana as a vehicle in which to examine such subcultures and how these groups interact with each other and wrestle with existential issues when faced with a great catastrophe. Production Value will be screened in an installation designed by the artist in the Hammer’s video gallery. MORE >>
Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays. Sat, Jun 1, 2013-Sat, Aug 17, 2013. The exhibition’s title invokes the vernacular of “South Park,” framing Joyce Pensato’s visual vocabulary within the cartoon’s sardonic wit and cultural critique. Appropriating iconic American cartoon characters as her point of departure, Pensato’s gestural paintings and drawings flicker in the liminal space between menacing abstraction and comedic representation: Batman is depicted as a hollow, deliquescent mask, Bart Simpson peers through abraded skin, and Felix the Cat is rendered as a decapitated head. MORE >>
Daily. Wed, Jun 12, 2013-Sat, Nov 30, 2013. Ringo: Peace & Love is both the first major exhibit ever dedicated to a drummer and the first to explore the extraordinary career of the 7-time GRAMMY Award® winner. The scope of exhibit spans Ringo's early life growing up in Liverpool, from Raving Texans turned Rory Storm, from The Beatles, to becoming a solo artist and then to the All Starrs with whom he is on tour now - this unique collection brings together diverse artifacts, rare and never before seen photographs, documents, personal letters and footage. MORE >>
Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Sat, Jun 29, 2013-Sun, Sep 22, 2013. This exhibition, composed by images from the Photography Collection of Fundación Televisa, divided into themes such as Rituals; The Mask; Ladies of the Ring; Santo: The Silved Masked Man; and Society of the Spectacle, is a documentary and artistic review of the dual realities and imaginaries of the realm of lucha libre mexicana. These images, produced as a journalistic project, retrospective study, as well as a documentary and artistic venture, cover a period of almost seven decades. MORE >>
Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Sat, Oct 12, 2013-Sun, Feb 23, 2014. The exhibition will presents works of art by several artists from San Pedro and San Juan and will also include new artworks produced specifically for the exhibition, as well as the works of other Guatemalan contemporary artists who do not belong to these rural areas but understand what is occurring in San Pedro and San Juan. The exhibition will be comprised of approximately 45 artworks including objects, installations, photographs and videos, along with a full-color, bilingual catalogue that will include several essays by Guatemalan and international curators/scholars. MORE >>
Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. Sat, Mar 15, 2014-Sun, Jun 8, 2014. A selection of 257 images from the 6,500 which are part of the Blue House archive. These have served as memories to Frida, as work tools or as a means to exorcise solitude. The exhibition is curated by the acknowledged Mexican photographer and photography historian Pablo Ortiz Monasterio, shows the importance of this medium in Frida’s life. Frida Kahlo had a very special relationship with photography. Besides her personal background – both her father, Guillermo Kahlo, and her maternal grandmother were professional photographers – she brought different uses to photography: she collected daguerreotypes and calling cards from the XIX century, she kept photographs that she also intervened upon, cutting things out from them, writing dedications on them and personalizing them as if they were paintings. MORE >>
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