This Week at LACMA

ED RUSCHA / NOW THEN is the artist's first comprehensive, cross-media retrospective in over 20 years. Ruscha left Oklahoma City in 1968 to study commercial art in Los Angeles, where he drew inspiration from the city’s architectural landscape—parking lots, urban streets, and apartment buildings—and colloquial language. Families can join us on Friday, August 30, for the program Pop Up Art Workshop: Iconic Environments, where visitors of all ages will discuss how to transform our environment and language into visual art, examine Ruscha’s work, and make their own postcard-sized artwork.

This week, on Thursday, July 29, you can also engage with the exhibition Simone Leigh at an Art & Meditation session. Informed by a rigorous attention to a wide swath of historical periods, geographies, and artistic traditions of Africa and the African diaspora, Leigh has developed a body of complex and profoundly moving work, pointing to unacknowledged acts of labor and care, themes we'll explore in slow art-looking exercise. No meditation experience necessary; instruction will be given.

Now On View

Magdalena Suarez Frimkess: The Finest Disregard

Simone Leigh

ED RUSCHA / NOW THEN

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)

Ai Weiwei: Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads

Mark Bradford: 150 Portrait Tone

Robert Irwin: Miracle Mile