Installation photograph, Imagining Black Diasporas: 21st-Century Art and Poetics, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, December 15, 2024–August 3, 2025, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

This Week at LACMA

January 5, 2025

Imagining Black Diasporas: 21st-Century Art and Poetics is now open. The exhibition finds aesthetic connections among 60 artists working in Africa, Europe, and the Americas, examining nearly a quarter century of production by Black artists.

On Thursday, January 9, LACMA curator Dhyandra Lawson and artists Edgar Arceneaux and Kambui Olujimi will be part of In Response: Imagining Black Diasporas, where they will discuss the exhibition and how contemporary artists and poets reimagine their cultural heritage, transforming it into vibrant sources of creativity and aesthetic connections. 

Now On View

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

Simone Leigh

Modern Art

New Acquisitions to the Rifkind Center

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

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

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

Evading Capture: Black Women in Cinema Shorts Program
Mon, Jan 6 | Online

Evading Capture: Black Women in Cinema—Diva with Singer Abiodun Koya and Scholar Tiffany Barber
Mon, Jan 6 | 6:30 pm | Academy Museum of Motion Pictures

In Response: Imagining Black Diasporas
Thu, Jan 9 | 7 pm | BCAM

Boone Children's Gallery: Pop Up Art Workshop
Sat, Jan 11 | 11 am–5 pm | LACMA

Andell Family Sundays—Art That Moves (In Person)
Sun, Jan 12 | 12:30–3:30 pm | LACMA

Fiber Maker's Circle
Sun, Jan 12 | 12:30–3:30 pm | LACMA

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