Celebrate Labor Day weekend with LACMA's latest exhibition, Objects of Desire: Photography and the Language of Advertising, which traces the artistic manipulation of advertising and poses the question: what exactly are these pictures asking of us? Members see it first during Member Previews Thursday–Saturday this week.
Now On View
Conversing in Clay: Ceramics from the LACMA Collection
Park Dae Sung: Virtuous Ink and Contemporary Brush
Archive of the World: Art and Imagination in Spanish America, 1500–1800
The Portable Universe / El Universo en Tus Manos: Thought and Splendor of Indigenous Colombia
Lee Alexander McQueen: Mind, Mythos, Muse
Yassi Mazandi: Language of the Birds
LACMA × Snapchat: Monumental Perspectives (Collection II)
Ai Weiwei: Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads
Mark Bradford: 150 Portrait Tone
Barbara Kruger: Untitled (Shafted)
Monday and Tuesday: 11 am–6 pm
Wednesday: Closed
Thursday: 11 am–6 pm
Friday: 11 am–8 pm
Saturday and Sunday: 10 am–7 pm
Events
Eighth R.L. Shep Triennial Symposium on Textiles and Dress: Lee Alexander McQueen | Cycles of Inspiration in Dance of the Twisted Bull
Tue, Aug 30 | 10 am | Online
Member Previews—Objects of Desire: Photography and the Language of Advertising
Thu, Sep 1–Sat, Sep 3 | 11 am–6 pm | BCAM | LAMCA members only
Jazz at LACMA: Black Nile
Fri, Sep 2 | 6–8 pm | Smidt Welcome Plaza
Communities Create LA! Nature-Inspired Sun Prints
Sat, Sep 3 | 10:30 am–12 pm | South L.A.
Latin Sounds: Ricardo Lemvo & Makina Loca
Sat, Sep 3 | 5–7 pm | Hancock Park