Happy birthday, Sam Francis! With over 60 works, Sam Francis and Japan: Emptiness Overflowing is the first exhibition to explore the artist’s work in relation to ma and other aspects of Japanese aesthetics. Celebrate the artist's birthday and artistic legacy with two days of calligraphy and ikebana demonstrations, workshops, talks, and family activities on Saturday, June 24, and Sunday, June 25.
Now On View
Women Defining Women in Contemporary Art of the Middle East and Beyond
Sam Francis and Japan: Emptiness Overflowing
Light, Space, Surface: Selections from LACMA’s Collection
Coded: Art Enters the Computer Age, 1952–1982
The Five Directions: Lacquer Through East Asia
New Abstracts: Recent Acquisitions
Conversing in Clay: Ceramics from the LACMA Collection
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)
LACMA Around L.A.
Pressing Politics: Revolutionary Graphics from Mexico and Germany
Charles White Elementary School
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
Events
Member Monday: Women Defining Women; Sam Francis; Light, Space, Surface; and More!
Mon, Jun 19 | 6:30–9 pm | Resnick Pavilion and BCAM | LACMA members and invited guests only
Personal Connections (Virtual)
Tue, Jun 20 | 1 pm PT | Online
Members-Only Series Screening—The Peripheral and Previously Recorded Conversation with Featured Actors and Filmmakers
Tue, Jun 20–Mon, Jun 26 | 7 pm PT | Online | LACMA members only
Boone Children's Gallery
Fri, Jun 23 | 11 am–5 pm | LACMA
Jazz at LACMA: Highland Park House Band
Fri, Jun 23 | 6–8 pm | Smidt Welcome Plaza
Boone Children's Gallery
Sat, Jun 24 | 11 am–5 pm | LACMA
Celebrating Sam Francis’s 100th Birthday
Sat, Jun 24 | 11 am–4 pm | LACMA
Latin Sounds: Trombor
Sat, Jun 24 | 5–7 pm | Hancock Park
Celebrating Sam Francis’s 100th Birthday
Sat, Jun 25 | 11 am–4 pm | LACMA
Fiber Maker's Circle
Sun, Jun 25 | 12:30–3:30 pm | LACMA
Andell Family Sundays—Happy Birthday Sam Francis! (In Person)
Sun, Jun 25 | 12:30–3:30 pm | Zev Yaroslavsky Plaza