This Week at LACMA

On Tuesday, July 16, for Artists Take on L.A., Ed Ruscha, Judy Baca, and Vincent Valdez will come together for a screening of Ruscha’s short film Elysian Park and the Stone Quarry Hills and a discussion on the unique aspects of creating art in and about Los Angeles.

The work of these artists, who all take inspiration from the city, are now on view in three exhibitions. ED RUSCHA / NOW THEN underscores the many remarkable contributions Ruscha has made well beyond the boundaries of the art world, including the ways he has transformed Los Angeles culture, landscapes, and architecture into the very subject of his art. For Painting in the River of Angels: Judy Baca and The Great Wall, Baca has transformed the museum into a studio where she and artists from the Social and Public Art Resource Center are expanding their monument to the people of California into the 21st century. Vincent Valdez and Ry Cooder: El Chavez Ravine, meanwhile, explores a crucial part of L.A. history with Valdez’s oil painting on a 1953 Good Humor ice cream truck portraying the forced removal of a predominantly Mexican American community for the construction of Dodger Stadium in the late 1950s.

Now On View

Simone Leigh

ED RUSCHA / NOW THEN

Korean Treasures from the Chester and Cameron Chang Collection

Dining with the Sultan: The Fine Art of Feasting

Vincent Valdez and Ry Cooder: El Chavez Ravine

Painting in the River of Angels: Judy Baca and The Great Wall

Modern Art

New Acquisitions to the Rifkind Center

Artist Selects: Silke Otto-Knapp, The Living We Are Doing, Always Among Others

Yassi Mazandi: Language of the Birds

LACMA × Snapchat: Monumental Perspectives (Collection III)