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Artist Crys Moore will lead a walk-through of Beatriz da Costa’s ex•pose exhibition, followed by a Q & A session. Crys Moore is an artist, designer, and cultural producer who was the assistant to da Costa until her untimely death from cancer last December. . Beatriz da Costa passed away at age 38 after a long battle with breast cancer. The photos and videos featured in the exhibition (on display...   [more]

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This summer the museum opens a specially-commissioned site-specific installation by Los Angeles-based artist Tanya Aguiñiga. Aguiñiga will transform the museum’s upper level gallery into a forest of kelp, corals, barnacles, and other wonderful natural forms that one would typically find under the sea off Laguna Beach. Every object in the exhibition will be hand-made by the artist and her assis...   [more]

Opening: June 2nd   11:00 AM - 5:00 PM

The fourth show of Laguna Art Museum’s ex·pose series features the last project of Beatriz da Costa, who passed away on December 27, 2012 at age 38. Dying for the Other, a triptych video installation, offers a parallel consideration of mice used in breast cancer research alongside scenes from the artist’s own life. Da Costa suffered from breast cancer and underwent intense medical treatment to c...   [more]

Opening: June 2nd   11:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Los Angeles artists Sandow Birk and Elyse Pignolet are a husband and wife team who, in addition to maintaining successful solo careers, often collaborate on projects. In this joint lecture, Birk and Pignolet will talk about their collaborations, which have included two large-scale, hand-painted murals in Long Beach; Dante’s Inferno, a feature film done with paper puppets; Depravities of War, a series of...   [more]

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Los Angeles artist Matt Merkel Hess will lecture on his works featured in the Faux Real exhibition. Hess cleverly recreates everyday containers like buckets, jugs, and milk crates using glazed clay. In doing so, he allows the viewer to reconsider such familiar things as art objects. . Faux Real is a group exhibition (on display in the museum’s main level galleries June 2-September 29, 2013) that feat...   [more]

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Laguna Beach artist Cheryl Ekstrom shrewdly reproduces icons of design by casting them in steel. The result is an intriguing transformation in which objects cease to be pieces of functional design and become works of art. In order to make the full-scale stainless steel sculpture of an Eames lounge chair and ottoman on display in Faux Real, Ekstrom was given exclusive permission from the Eames Office. Prior to...   [more]

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In this summer’s main-level exhibition, Laguna Art Museum presents a collection of works by contemporary artists who mimic reality with a playful twist, in the process raising questions of authenticity and duplication. Often using off-beat materials, and showing a sly sense of humor, they take as their subject-matter items that anyone might pass over without a second thought, such as food, furnitu...   [more]

Opening: June 2nd   11:00 AM - 5:00 PM

LACMA CEO and Wallis Annenberg Director Michael Govan and Philippe de Montebello, Director Emeritus, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Fiske Kimball Professor, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, rethink the encyclopedic museum. Presented in conjunction with the exhibition The Presence of the Past: Peter Zumthor Reconsiders LACMA.   Bing Theater l Free, tickets required | Tickets: 323 857-6010 or reserve online...   [more]

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In the June Director’s Series, Michael Govan, talks with Pritzker Prize–winning architect Peter Zumthor about his study of LACMA’s complex site and his vision for the encyclopedic art museum in the twenty-first century. This talk is presented in connection with the exhibition The Presence of the Past: Peter Zumthor Reconsiders LACMA, which explores the history of the museum’s campus and presents Zumthor’s concept for addressing challenges raised by the original structu...   [more]

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As part of the Getty’s initiative, Pacific Standard Time Presents: Modern Architecture in L.A., LACMA features The Presence of the Past: Peter Zumthor Reconsiders LACMA, an exhibition about the proposed future of the museum's campus. Swiss architect Peter Zumthor has been commissioned to rethink the east campus, providing new insight into the meaning and function of an encyclopedic museum and the...   [more]

Opening: June 9th   11:00 AM - 8:00 PM

Flux and the Hammer present an exciting array of new film and video work including the L.A. premiere of David Shane’s hilarious new short film Playdate and Kirsten Lepore’s beautiful animated film Move Mountain, plus new music videos for David Bowie, Passion Pit, Gaslamp Killer among others. Special guest filmmakers in attendance include Brian Billow, DANIELS, Hyperballad, Ian and Cooper, Kirsten...   [more]

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Dream Home Resource Center, Olga Koumoundouros's most recent investigation into the realm of home ownership, addresses the immateriality of real estate transactions and the shift from home as emblem of the American dream to house as commodity. Inspired in part by the Hammer Museum's exhibition A. Quincy Jones: Building for Better Living and Jones's vision of modern architecture, Koumoundouros fast-...   [more]

Opening: June 21st   11:00 AM - 8:00 PM

In the summer of 2013, the Hammer Museum will present Richard Artschwager!, a full-scale, major retrospective exhibition of the work of Richard Artschwager (b. 1923). Organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art in association with the Yale University Art Gallery, the exhibition opened at the Whitney in October 2012. Approximately 150 works survey Artschwager’s remarkable exploration of the...   [more]

Opening: June 15th   11:00 AM - 5:00 PM

*The selection of drawings in this exhibition explores the concept of negative space—the unoccupied ground around drawn elements. It elucidates how artists such as Rembrandt, Boucher, and Seurat deliberately left areas of paper blank to create the illusion of light and form, using absence to evoke a sense of presence.   [more]

Opening: July 23rd   10:00 AM - 5:30 PM

Concurrent with the Fowler in Focus exhibition Mandela for President: South Africa Votes for Democracy Fowler Museum director of education and curatorial affairs Betsy Quick recounts South Africa's first free election in 1994 and highlights textiles and art works created in response to the end of apartheid.   [more]

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A notable element in garments featured in the exhibition Resplendent Dress from Southeastern Europe, fringe originates from the notion of female fertility as depicted by string skirts from the Neolithic period. Using this historical precedent as a starting point, FIDM Museum and Galleries curator Kevin Jones traces the evolution of fringe in dress from ancient times through modern and contemporary hi...   [more]

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