This Week at LACMA

Now on view in the Resnick Pavilion, Collecting Impressionism at LACMA offers a surprising narrative about the people and artists who shaped LACMA, interrogating how trends in “taste” inform the museum’s collection. From early acquisitions of American and California Impressionism to donations of paintings by Edgar Degas and Camille Pissarro from major Hollywood collectors, art was a tool of cultural legitimization that helped the institution grow in tandem with a developing city. Collecting Impressionism at LACMA illuminates the ways in which museum collections are constructed, and by extension, suggests how visitors can read the museum as a site of changing taste and narratives.

On view virtually, john gerrard: SPIRITS is a year-long artwork designed to be experienced on your mobile browser. For SPIRITS, the Irish artist collected 96 plastic sandals and shoes from beaches across the world, each one carrying unknown stories of the people who wore them. By photoscanning the discarded objects into high-resolution “gaussian splats,” gerrard transforms them into sculptural forms, inviting the viewer to overlay them with oil slicks or ocean currents.

LACMA will be closed for Christmas, Thursday, December 25, but is open as usual the rest of the week.

Now on View

Collecting Impressionism at LACMA

Deep Cuts: Block Printing Across Cultures

Diffuse Control by Beeple

Tavares Strachan: The Day Tomorrow Began

Grounded

Realms of the Dharma: Buddhist Art Across Asia

Zheng Chongbin: Golden State

Now Showing: Youssef Nabil’s I Saved My Belly Dancer

Modern Art

Austrian Expressionism and Otto Kallir