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Opening today, “Abdulnasser Gharem: Pause” marks the first solo presentation by the artist in the U.S. The exhibition features 11 remarkable works of sculpture, prints, and film, and stamp paintings, including this large-scale work called “Camouflage” (2017), now on view in the lobby of LACMA’s Ahmanson lobby. #lacma #AbdulnasserGharem #middleeastart [Abdulnasser Gharem, “Camouflage”, 2017, © Gharem Studio, photo courtesy of Gharem Studio] http://ift.tt/2nSxO79

What does work look like? What does a worker look like? What influences how we view—and how we value—workers? “Labor and Photography,” now in its last month, explores representations of labor, as well as privilege and leisure, through 14 photographs from LACMA’s collection. View the exhibition in the Hammer Building through June 11. #lacma #DorotheaLange #photography http://ift.tt/2rpfbbC

The next time you visit LACMA, be sure to check out Sam Durant’s “Like, man, I’m tired of waiting” (2002) installed on the west facade of the Ahmanson Building. Durant’s electric lightbox, like other works from this series, appropriates the text of a hand-lettered sign pictured in photographs of a civil rights march in 1963, exploring how a phrase can be transformed in different contexts and media. #lacma #SamDurant #LACMAPlusYou #regram via @ mqba [Sam Durant, “Like, man, I’m tired of waiting”, 2002, promised gift of Susan Hancock in honor of the museum’s 50th anniversary] http://ift.tt/2qY7V6i

April showers bring May flowers! This image of a lush bouquet of flowers by the Dutch artist Jan van Huysum (1682-1749) can be downloaded free of charge via LACMA’s collections website. Launched in 2013, the site hosts nearly 30,000 high-quality images of art from the museum’s collection, all available to download and ready to use as you see fit. Visit us in-gallery or online at collections.lacma.org. #lacma #JanvanHuysum #Dutchart #stilllife http://ift.tt/2rObaLt

When the squad goes to #LACMA. 🐶🐶🐶 #regram via @ruffcutzdtla #LevitatedMass #MichaelHeizer #instadog http://ift.tt/2pxkyVq

“When I stand in front of a canvas, I never know what I’m going to do–and nobody is more surprised than I at what comes out."—Joan Miró (1893–1983). Today, we celebrate the singular inventiveness of the Spanish painter and sculptor. Visit his "Animated Forms” (1935), on view in the Ahmanson Building. #lacma #JoanMiro #bornonthisday [Joan Miró, “Animated Forms”, 1935, David E. Bright Bequest] http://ift.tt/2pJyc8a

Looking for a great concert this weekend? Come enjoy art, live music, and warm weather as we kick off 2017’s season of Jazz at LACMA with a performance by Gordon Goodwin’s Big Phat Band starting at 6pm tonight at #UrbanLight! #GordonGoodwin #BigPhatBand #JazzatLACMA #lacma [Photo © Museum Associates/ LACMA, by Brant Brogan Photography] http://ift.tt/2pZQA9b

Now in its final days, “Apostles of Nature: Jugendstil and Art Nouveau” explores the popular late 19th and early 20th century style known as Art Nouveau in France and Jugendstil in Germany. Through a diversity of approaches and materials, Art Nouveau artists across Europe desired to make beautiful things, and to make life more beautiful in turn. The show brings together prints, posters, books, decorative arts, and textiles to illustrate the movement’s efforts to bring aesthetic ideals to bear on everyday modern life. #lacma #artnouveau #Behrens http://ift.tt/2poByh4

#regram via @barbarasmithwilke “Voting on the best Josef Albers color combo at @lacma 🔳🔲” #lacmaplusyou #JosefAlbers #lacma http://ift.tt/2pTTobB

This past weekend, LACMA acquired nine new artworks during the 31st annual Collectors Committee Weekend. “Temple of Nettuno, Paestum, XVIII: October 18, 2015” was created via camera obscura by artist Vera Lutter. Currently, Lutter is in the midst of a highly ambitious residency at LACMA, photographing both interior and exterior views of the buildings on the LACMA campus that are slated for demolition. #lacma #VeraLutter [Vera Lutter, “Temple of Nettuno, Paestum, XVIII: October 18, 2015,” 2015, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, gift of Kelvin Davis through the 2017 Collectors Committee, © Vera Lutter] http://ift.tt/2otir5i

This week, we continue to introduce the nine newly acquired objects through this past weekend’s 31st annual Collectors Committee. ​ – “​La Prose du Transsibérien et de la Petite Jehanne de France, (Prose of the Trans-Siberian and of Little Jehanne of France)​"​, 1913, stands as one of the purest expressions of European modernism—as art, poetry, book making, and as a collaboration between Sonia Delaunay and poet Blaise Cendrars. The book is made up of a single sheet of paper, divided down the center, and folded like an accordion through twenty-two panels to the length of almost seven feet. It is meant to be seen and read at the same time, like a conductor reads an orchestral score​, and is​ celebrated as much for its lyric beauty as for its unmatched composition of colors by Delaunay.​ #lacma #SoniaDelaunay​ #BlaiseCendrars #modernart #2017CollectorsCommittee http://ift.tt/2q7pqy9

Another #2017CollectorsCommittee acquisition: “Kyoto River” by Yamaato Kakurei of the Maruyama School of Painting depicts the tumultuous river Hozugawa with its boulders and swirling vortexes across all 36 feet of two screens. The river is located in the far northwest of Kyoto, in the area known as Arashiyama (Stormy Mountain), one of the legendary scenic sites of Kyoto. #lacma #YamaatoKakurei http://ift.tt/2p8r8kp

This week, we continue to introduce the nine objects newly acquired through the 31st annual Collectors Committee held the weekend of April 21-22. – “Thunderbird House (Xeitl Hít) Screen” is a monumental heraldic screen of Sitka spruce wood panels painted with complex iconographic scenes in natural pigments created by the Tlingit people of the North Pacific Coast. This exceptionally rare and dramatic 24-foot long screen divided public areas from the private quarters of a chief’s house, and the screen’s depictions of chiefly totems formed a clan’s “crest” or heraldic symbol, referring to the clan’s history, identity, and prestige. #2017CollectorsCommittee #NativeAmericanArt #lacma http://ift.tt/2oUWU5D

​This week, we continue to introduce the nine newly acquired objects through the 31st annual Collectors Committee held the weekend of April 21-22. – Mariana Castillo Deball’s piece acquired through the #2017CollectorsCommittee is a mixed-media installation comprised of two works. “El Donde estoy va desapareciendo (The Where I am Is Vanishing)” (2011) is a video animation bringing to light the “unsettled life” of the Codex Borgia, a pre-conquest Mesoamerican religious manuscript. “Vista de Ojos” (2014) is a large floor sculpture that details a series of cartographic renderings of Tenochtitlan (present day Mexico City), just 30 years after the arrival of the Spaniards—making it the earliest depiction of the region post-conquest. Check out the work of Castillo Deball next in “A Universal History of Infamy” (opening August 20, 2017), one of LACMA’s featured exhibitions for Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA. #lacma #pstlala #MariaCastilloDeball http://ift.tt/2pZjeLF

This week, we continue to introduce the nine objects newly acquired through the 31st annual Collectors Committee held the weekend of April 21-22. – This Taihu limestone is the first Chinese spirit stone to enter the museum’s collection and comes from the depths of the Great Lake (Taihu) in Jiangsu Province. As the twelfth century writer Kong Chuan wrote in his preface to Du Wan’s Stone Catalogue of Cloudy Forest, “The purest essence of the energy of the heaven-earth world [the universe] coalesces into stone.” #lacma #2017CollectorsCommittee http://ift.tt/2qFmCIS

This week, we continue to introduce the nine objects newly acquired through the 31st annual Collectors Committee held the weekend of April 21-22. ​– ​This chaopao from the Qing dynasty is composed of indigo-dyed blue silk damask patterned with dragon roundels and clouds that seamlessly transitions into areas of silk satin brocaded with colored silk- and gold-thread five-claw​ ​dragons, mythical creatures symbolizing imperial power and signaling an individual’s rank. Chaopao were restricted to the emperor or highest-ranking male courtiers and were worn for the most important ritual functions. This incredible example is considered the only comparable early 18th-century chaopao outside of the Palace Museum in Beijing’s Forbidden City. The piece is set to be highlighted in a major textiles exhibition organized by LACMA in September 2018. #lacma #2017CollectorsCommittee #chineseart http://ift.tt/2q8buah

Don’t miss “Picasso and Rivera: Conversations Across Time”, now in its final weekend! The exhibition features more than 100 paintings and prints by both artists, in dialogue with one other. With dozens of ancient Greco-Roman, Iberian, and Aztec objects, “Picasso and Rivera” aims to advance the understanding of the artists’ practices, particularly in how their contributions were influenced by the forms, myths, and structures of the arts of antiquity. #lacma #PicassoandRivera #flowerday http://ift.tt/2pjeFaY

Now on view, “Form in Fragments: Abstraction in German Art, 1906-1925” highlights the various ways in which abstraction informed and troubled Expressionist pictures. Comprising over 60 works on paper from LACMA’s collection, the show includes works by Otto Dix, Lyonel Feininger, Erich Heckel, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, and Paul Klee, as well as a selection of early abstract films by Hans Richter. Visit the exhibition in the Ahmanson Building through September 24. #lacma #FranzMarc #abstractart http://ift.tt/2pI8T70

Robert Smithson’s “Gyrostasis” (1967) anticipates his earthwork “Spiral Jetty” (1970) and provides a unique view of Michael Heizer’s “Levitated Mass” (2012) as discovered by @texifornianjames. Come check out the ​views in the ongoing exhibition “Los Angeles to New York: Dwan Gallery, 1959–1971” (through September 10).​ #lacma #RobertSmithson #MichaelHeizer #regram http://ift.tt/2q8ypRL

​LACMA’s Ancient Americas collection features, among other things, ceramic funerary offerings from the West Mexican states of Nayarit, Colima, and Jalisco; exquisite Maya vessels from Mexico and Guatemala; jade masks produced by Olmec artists on the Gulf Coast; and stunning ceramics from the ancient chiefdoms of Panama and Colombia. Explore the collection at your next visit. [Musicians, Mexico, Colima, 200 B.C.-A.D. 500, slip-painted ceramic, The Proctor Stafford Collection, purchased with funds provided by Mr. and Mrs. Allan C. Balch] #lacma #musicmonday #ancientart http://ift.tt/2pVBvII

Loved #HotlineBling? Don’t miss out on the James Turrell “ganzfeld” work that influenced the staging of Drake’s hit video. Turrell’s 2013 LACMA retrospective brought together approximately fifty works tracing five decades of the artist’s career, including “Breathing Light” (2013), shown here. Experience the work in the Resnick Pavilion before it closes on May 29 by making a same-day reservation at the Ticket Office at BP Grand Entrance. #lacma #JamesTurrell #Ganzfeld #BreathingLight http://ift.tt/2qzT1Tb

In its exhibition design for “Moholy-Nagy: Future Present,” architecture firm Johnston Marklee reflected the transparency and dynamism of the László Moholy-Nagy’s work through elements like the dramatic visual “cut” running diagonally through the entire exhibition space. View the exhibition, now in its final month, in the Art of the Americas Building through June 18. #lacma #MoholyNagy #MoholyNagyfuturepresent #architecture http://ift.tt/2pLS23q

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