Join us for a special event on Wednesday, October 12, when Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Natasha Trethewey will offer a reading in response to the casta paintings in the exhibition Archive of the World: Art and Imagination in Spanish America, 1500–1800.

The reading will be followed by a lively discussion in the galleries with distinguished scholars Miguel A. Valerio, Assistant Professor of Spanish, Washington University in St. Louis, and IIona Katzew, Curator and Department Head, Latin American Art, LACMA. 

Now On View

Scandinavian Design and the United States, 1890–1980

The Space Between: The Modern in Korean Art

Objects of Desire: Photography and the Language of Advertising

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

Modern Art

Yassi Mazandi: Language of the Birds

LACMA × Snapchat: Monumental Perspectives (Collection II)

Ai Weiwei: Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads

Mark Bradford: 150 Portrait Tone

Robert Irwin: Miracle Mile

Barbara Kruger: Untitled (Shafted)

Richard Serra: Band

Chris Burden: Metropolis II

LACMA Around L.A.

What Would You Say?: Activist Graphics from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
California State University, Northridge

Museum Hours

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

Photo © Museum Associates/LACMA, by Chynna Monforte

Events

Reading with Pulitzer Prize–Winning Poet Natasha Trethewey and Conversation with Miguel A. Valerio and Ilona Katzew
Wed, Oct 12 | 6 pm | Resnick Pavilion | Resnick Pavilion

Art 101—Objects of Desire: Photography and the Language of Advertising
Thu, Oct 13 | 7 pm | Online | LACMA members only

Jazz at LACMA: Ben Williams Band
Fri, Oct 14 | 6–8 pm | Smidt Welcome Plaza

Awards-Contending Documentary Film Series—In Her Hands and Post-Screening Conversation with Tamana Ayazi and Marcel Mettelsiefen
Fri, Oct 14 | 7 pm | Online | LACMA members only

Film Screening—The Space Between: Korea’s Golden Age of Cinema | The Coachmen
Sat, Oct 15 | 3 pm | Korean Cultural Center

Film Screening—The Space Between: Korea’s Golden Age of Cinema | Mother and a Guest
Sat, Oct 15 | 6 pm | Korean Cultural Center

Classes & Camps

Adult Art Class: Painting & Printmaking
Tue, Oct 11 | 1–4 pm | LACMA

Friday Art Night—Fantastic Flag Books
Fri, Oct 14 | 6–9 pm | LACMA