OC + LA Art Guide: May Get your art fix in OC and LA this month!
May 2, 2016
ORANGE COUNTY
Museum Exhibitions
The Hilbert Museum of California Art:
Narrative Visions: 20th Century California Art from the Hilbert Collection
Bowers Museum:
April 16, 2016 – August 28, 2016 Once Upon a Time
March 19, 2016 – September 5, 2016 Mummies of the World
December 12, 2015 – May 29, 2016 Popol Vuh: Watercolors of Diego Rivera
Ongoing Mystery from the Tomb: The Face Beneath the Mask
Ongoing Sacred Realms: Temple Murals by Shashi Dhoj Tulachan from the Gayle and Edward P. Roski Collection
Ongoing Spirits and Headhunters: Art of the Pacific Islands
Ongoing Ancient Arts of China: A 5000 Year Legacy
Orange County Museum of Art:
Through July 10, 2016
We Were Here: Absence of the Figure
The Pacific Project: Yuki Kihara
Laguna Art Museum:
Through May 30, 2016
Helen Lundeberg: A Retrospective
Frederick Hammersley: Works on Paper from the Permanent Collection
City Life, Los Angeles: 1930s to 1950s
National Watercolor Society Invitational Plein Air Painting Exhibition
Talks/Lectures/Events
LOS ANGELES
Museum Exhibitions
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
April 10, 2016 – August 21, 2016 Reigning Men: Fashion in Menswear, 1715-2015
March 20, 2016 – July 31, 2016 Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Medium
February 20, 2014 – July 4, 2016 Morris Graves: The Nature of Things
February 13, 2016 – September 5, 2016 Catherine Opie: O
January 24, 2016 – Ongoing Islamic Art Now, Part 2: Contemporary Art of the Middle East
December 20, 2015 – January 2, 2017 Senses of Time: Video and Film-Based Works of Africa
November 1, 2015 – April 24, 2016 Rain Room
September 7, 2013 – Ongoing Miracle Mile
Ongoing Metropolis II
Norton Simon Museum
April 8, 2016 – July 25, 2016 Drawing, Dreaming and Desire: Works on Paper by Sam Francis
March 4, 2016 – August 29, 2016 Duchamp to Pop
Hammer Museum
February 21, 2016 – May 15, 2016 Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933- 1957
February 13, 2016 – May 15, 2016 Still Life with Fish: Photography from the Collection
January 23, 2016 – May 22, 2016 Sculpture from the Hammer Contemporary Collection
January 30, 2016 – May 22, 2016 Hammer Project: Catherine Opie: Portraits
December 3, 2015 – May 22, 206 Hammer Projects: Kenny Scharf
February 6, 2016 – May 15, 2016 Hammer Projects: Oscar Tuazon
January 30, 2016 – June 5, 2016 Hammer Contemporary Collection: David Lamelas, The Desert People
March 19, 2016 – June 18, 2016 Off-Site Exhibition: A Shape That Stands Up
The Museum of Contemporary Art
August 15, 2015 – September 12, 2016 The Art of Our Time
February 21, 2016 – September 12, 2016 Hito Steyerl: Factory of the Sun
January 23, 2016 – May 8, 2016 Catherine Opie: 700 Nimes Road
March 12, 2016 – July 11, 2016 Don’t Look Back: The 1990s at MOCA
The J. Paul Getty Museum
April 12, 2016 – Ongoing The Life of Art: Context, Collecting, and Display
April 5, 2016 – August 28, 2016 In Focus: Electric!
March 15, 2016 – July 31, 2016 Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Medium
March 15, 2016 – July 31, 2016 The Thrill of the Chase: The Wagstaff Collection of Photographs
February 9, 2016 – May 15, 2016 Noir: The Romance of Black in 19th- Century French Drawings and Prints
January 26, 2016 – June 26, 2016 Traversing the Globe through Illuminated Manuscripts
December 15, 2015 – May 1, 2016 Woven Gold: Tapestries of Louis XIV
The Getty Villa
March 30, 2016 – September 12, 2016 Roman Mosaics across the Empire
October 8, 2010 – Ongoing Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity
Annenberg Space for Photography
April 23, 2016 – August 21, 2016
Gallery Highlights
Talks/Lectures/Events
