Realms of the Dharma: Buddhist Art Across Asia is now open! The exhibition presents an international survey of Buddhism and Buddhist art, beginning with the religion’s origins in India and following its spread. Incorporating 180 masterpieces of pan-Asian Buddhist art, the exhibition introduces key concepts of Buddhist thought and practice viewed through the prism of rare and extraordinarily beautiful Buddhist sculptures, paintings, and ritual objects.
Nancy Baker Cahill’s monumental interactive AR experience Substrate is also now on view at the museum. It invites the viewer to consider connections between knowledge-making organizations by contributing their own descriptions of culturally significant artifacts. On Sunday, May 18, get an introduction to the work from the artist at a live demonstration and viewing.
Now On View
Realms of the Dharma: Buddhist Art Across Asia
Line, Form, Qi: Calligraphic Art from the Fondation INK Collection
Ritual Expressions: African Adornment from the Permanent Collection
Imagining Black Diasporas: 21st-Century Art and Poetics
Digital Witness: Revolutions in Design, Photography, and Film
Mapping the Infinte: Cosmologies Across Cultures
We Live in Painting: The Nature of Color in Mesoamerican Art
New Acquisitions to the Rifkind Center
Ai Weiwei: Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads
Mark Bradford: 150 Portrait Tone
Barbara Kruger: Untitled (Shafted)
Near and Far
Nature on Notice: Contemporary Art and Ecology
Charles White Elementary School
Before You Now: Capturing the Self in Portraiture
Millard Sheets Art Center at the LA County Fair
Act on It! Artists, Community, and the Brockman Gallery in Los Angeles
Lancaster Museum of Art and History
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
Public Programs
Art & Meditation
Fri, May 16 | 10 am | Resnick Pavilion
Jazz at LACMA: Eric Reed Trio
Fri, May 16 | 6 pm | Smidt Welcome Plaza
Boone Children's Gallery: Pop Up Art Workshop
Sat, May 17 | 11 am–5 pm | LACMA
Eco-Expressions: Drop-In Letters and Art-Making Workshops with Michele Lorusso
Sat, May 17 | 1:30–4 pm | Charles White Elementary School
Aspect Ratio Vol. 3: South L.A. Perspectives—Works-in-Progress Screening
Sat, May 17 | 6 pm | Earvin "Magic" Johnson Park
Art + Tech Lab: Substrate AR Demonstration and Viewing with Nancy Baker Cahill
Sun, May 18 | 11 am | Smidt Welcome Plaza
Andell Family Sundays: Ink Dreams
Sat, May 18 | 12:30–3:30 pm | LACMA
Classical Around Town: LACMA
Sun, May 18 | 3:30 pm | Smidt Welcome Plaza
Members Only
Emmy Contenders Series—David Blaine Do Not Attempt and Post-Screening Conversation
Thu, May 15 | 7 pm | Online
Art 101—Imagining Black Diasporas: 21st-Century Art and Poetics
Thu, May 15 | 7 pm | Online
Emmy Contenders Series—Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band and Conversation
Fri, May 16 | 7 pm | Online
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