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Website. www.lacma.org. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is an art museum located on Wilshire Boulevard in the Miracle Mile vicinity of Los Angeles. LACMA is on Museum Row, adjacent to the La Brea Tar Pits (George C. Page Museum). LACMA was founded in 1961, splitting from the Los Angeles Museum of History, Science and Art.
Mar 8, 2024 · One of the most popular works at LACMA, the installation Urban Light, 2008, by Chris Burden (1946–2015), has become an unofficial symbol of Los Angeles, drawing visitors from all over the world. Envisioned by Burden as an entrance to the museum, the outdoor installation utilizes two hundred and two estored cast iron antique street lamps from ...
- About The La County Museum of Art
- The LACMA’s Permanent Collection
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- American and Latin American Art
- Asian Art
- Greek, Roman, and Etruscan Art
- Islamic Art
- Decorative Arts and Design
- Photography
- Film
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)has its origins in the Los Angeles Museum of History, Science, and Art, which was founded in Exposition Park in 1910. In 1961 it was split out to become a distinct art museum, with a new building being designed by architect Richard Meier. It opened to the public on February 26, 1965, and two years later i...
The approximately 150,000 works in the LACMA collection are organized by region, media, and time period, roughly broken up into the following groups: 1. Modern and Contemporary Art 2. American and Latin American art 3. Asian Art 4. Greek, Roman, and Etruscan Art 5. Islamic Art 6. Decorative Arts and Design 7. Photography 8. Film
Modern and Contemporary Art is housed in the Ahmanson Building and Broad Contemporary Art Museum (BCAM) respectively. The modern collection includes works by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Paul Klee, and Jackson Pollock. The BCAM includes works by Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, and Mark Rothko.
The Art of the Americas Building has American, Latin American, and pre-Columbian collections with galleries for art from North, Central, and South America. The LACMA, along with the PAMMis known for having one of the finest Latin American art collections in the United States.
The Asian art collection includes over 17,000 objects from all major Asian countries and traditions with a focus on Indian sculpture and South East Asia. The Chinese and Koren art is housed in the Hammer Building and the Pavilion for Japanese Art displays art of Japan alongside contemporary art in dialogue with an impressive exhibition space.
The second floor of the Ahmanson Building houses the Greek and Roman Art galleries. These galleries feature art from the Classical Mediterranean and Etruscan civilizations.
The Islamic art galleries are housed in their own building, located just west of LACMA’s main campus at 5905 Wilshire Blvd. The collection features over 11,000 objects that include ceramics, metalwork, glass, jewelry, and other decorative arts from across Western
The decorative arts and design collection span the 13th to 21st centuries. It includes furniture, fashion and textiles, glassware and ceramic objects from Europe, East Asia (China), South Asia (India), and Islamic regions
The photography collection is one of the largest in the world with over 22,000 works ranging from vintage daguerreotypes to contemporary photographs.
The last major collection, film, is also an important component of the LACMA. With over 16,000 works it is the largest collection of film in any museum outside of Europe.
Los Angeles, CA 90036 Contact. 323.857.6000 Website. Opening Hours. Mon, Tue, Thu 11 am–5 pm Wed Closed Fri 11 am–8 pm Sat, Sun 10 am–7 pm Open Days. Open daily except closed on Wednesdays, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Day. Region. Mid City, Westside. Type. Visual Art and Design, Special Interest Features
by Dr. Amy Walsh. October, 2013. This article was first published in the CODART Courant 19 (Winter edition 2009) and in the CODART eZine, no.3 Summer 2013. The opening of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) in March 1965 was a powerful symbol of the coming of age of a city transformed in just 100 years from a dusty agricultural center ...
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Since its inception in 1965, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) has been devoted to collecting works of art that span both history and geography, in addition to representing Los Angeles's uniquely diverse population. Today LACMA is the largest art museum in the western United States, with a collection that includes over 120,000 objects dating from antiquity to the present ...
