Ending SoonJasper Johns: Between the Clock and the Bed
Until Apr 3
Rare crosshatch paintings and drawings from Johns's defining 1973–83 period
The United States runs the largest art market in the world and has built institutional infrastructure to match. The scale is hard to overstate: MoMA and the Met in New York, the Getty in Los Angeles, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Smithsonian's sprawling constellation across Washington D.C. — and then hundreds of serious regional museums beyond that. The American model has been driven by private philanthropy, but the civic ambition behind it is real. New York and Los Angeles are the twin poles. New York dominates in market terms and institutional prestige; LA has become increasingly powerful as a…
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Wifredo Lam: When I Don't Sleep, I Dream
Until Apr 11
First US retrospective of Cuban modernist Wifredo Lam's transformative vision
Louise Bourgeois. Gathering Wool
Until Apr 18
Rare late works exploring Bourgeois's abstract language and symbolic vocabulary
Chuck Close: On Paper
Until Apr 25
Watercolors, Polaroids, and prints spanning five decades of Close's portraiture
Ending SoonMichael Heizer: Negative Sculpture
Until Mar 28
Two new monumental steel earth-liner sculptures by land art pioneer Heizer
Ending SoonLeiko Ikemura: Riding Horizon
Until Mar 28
Ikemura's first LA show: bronze and tempera exploring body and nature
Ending SoonLauren Quin: Eyelets of Alkaline
Until Mar 28
Tonal paintings exploring color detox through layered abstraction
Ending SoonTavares Strachan: The Day Tomorrow Began
Until Mar 29
First LA museum show exploring overlooked cultural narratives
Ending SoonSeeing Silence: The Paintings of Helene Schjerfbeck
Until Apr 5
First US show of Finnish modernist Schjerfbeck's 60 pared-down paintings
Ending SoonRobert Therrien: This is a Story
Until Apr 5
The largest ever Therrien survey — 120 works spanning five decades of scale and memory
Studio Visit
Until Apr 11
26-artist group show curated by Anicka Yi and Josh Kline on studio life today
Glenn Ligon. late at night, early in the morning, at noon
Until Apr 11
New and historic works on paper meditating on blue, Baldwin, and perception
Zhang Huan: Ash Paintings and Performances
Until Apr 11
First NYC solo in a decade: ash paintings and rare 90s performance films
How to Be a Guerrilla Girl
Until Apr 12
The Guerrilla Girls' 40-year fight for equity in the art world
The Bold and the Beautiful: 16th-Century Prints and Drawings from the Myron Miller Collection
Until Apr 13
70 ambitious Renaissance prints and drawings from a major new collection gift
Merrill Wagner: Marking Time
Until Apr 18
Six decades of Wagner's process-based sculptures, paintings, and photographs
Isa Genzken: VACATION
Until Apr 18
Survey of Genzken's rarely seen film, photography, and sculpture, 1970s–2010s
Cinga Samson
Until Apr 18
Nocturnal oil paintings exploring spiritual alertness and South African identity
Qiu Xiaofei. The Theater of Wither and Thrive
Until Apr 18
New paintings drawn from undiscovered family photographs found after father's death
Beginnings: The Story of Creation in the Middle Ages
Until Apr 19
Medieval manuscripts and contemporary paintings on the story of Creation
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ENDING SOON
Ending SoonLeiko Ikemura: Riding Horizon
Until Mar 28
Ikemura's first LA show: bronze and tempera exploring body and nature
Ending SoonLauren Quin: Eyelets of Alkaline
Until Mar 28
Tonal paintings exploring color detox through layered abstraction
Ending SoonMichael Heizer: Negative Sculpture
Until Mar 28
Two new monumental steel earth-liner sculptures by land art pioneer Heizer
Ending SoonTavares Strachan: The Day Tomorrow Began
Until Mar 29
First LA museum show exploring overlooked cultural narratives
Ending SoonJasper Johns: Between the Clock and the Bed
Until Apr 3
Rare crosshatch paintings and drawings from Johns's defining 1973–83 period
Ending SoonRobert Therrien: This is a Story
Until Apr 5
The largest ever Therrien survey — 120 works spanning five decades of scale and memory
Ending SoonSeeing Silence: The Paintings of Helene Schjerfbeck
Until Apr 5
First US show of Finnish modernist Schjerfbeck's 60 pared-down paintings
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Coming SoonKohei Nawa: Photon Camp
Starting Apr 11
Japanese artist's first LA solo with PixCell and Prism sculptures
Coming SoonDavid Hammons and Jannis Kounellis
Starting Apr 30
First two-person show of Hammons and Kounellis in over 30 years
Coming SoonLiu Xiaodong: Host
Starting Apr 15
Figurative paintings from a Detroit residency focused on one man's world
Coming SoonLisa Yuskavage
Starting May 14
Tenth solo show — jewel-toned studio paintings and new collage drawings
Coming SoonHelen Frankenthaler: The Moment and the Distance
Starting Apr 30
Four-decade survey of Frankenthaler's largest paintings, 1960–1992
Coming SoonGerhard Richter: Landschaften
Starting May 7
Richter's photorealist landscapes paired with Abstrakte Bilder, 1960s–2000s
Coming SoonLife with P. Philip Guston: Paintings and Drawings 1964–1978
Starting Apr 21
Rare intimate Guston works on his marriage to poet Musa McKim
Coming SoonCollection in Focus | Zidane, a 21st Century Portrait
Starting Jun 11
Real-time two-channel video portrait of Zidane during a single 2005 match
FEATURED ARTISTS
Ending SoonJasper Johns: Between the Clock and the Bed
Until Apr 3
Jasper Johns
Rare crosshatch paintings and drawings from Johns's defining 1973–83 period
Wifredo Lam: When I Don't Sleep, I Dream
Until Apr 11
Wifredo Lam
First US retrospective of Cuban modernist Wifredo Lam's transformative vision
Louise Bourgeois. Gathering Wool
Until Apr 18
Louise Bourgeois
Rare late works exploring Bourgeois's abstract language and symbolic vocabulary
Chuck Close: On Paper
Until Apr 25
Chuck Close
Watercolors, Polaroids, and prints spanning five decades of Close's portraiture
Coming SoonHelen Frankenthaler: The Moment and the Distance
Starting Apr 30
Helen Frankenthaler
Four-decade survey of Frankenthaler's largest paintings, 1960–1992
Coming SoonGerhard Richter: Landschaften
Starting May 7
Gerhard Richter
Richter's photorealist landscapes paired with Abstrakte Bilder, 1960s–2000s
Coming SoonLife with P. Philip Guston: Paintings and Drawings 1964–1978
Starting Apr 21
Philip Guston
Rare intimate Guston works on his marriage to poet Musa McKim
MUSEUMS & GALLERIES
LACMA
Miracle Mile, Los Angeles
Museum of Fine Arts Boston
Fenway, Boston
The Getty Center
Brentwood, Los Angeles
Guggenheim New York
Upper East Side, New York
Hammer Museum
Westwood, Los Angeles
Museum of Modern Art
Midtown, New York
Pace Gallery New York
Chelsea, New York
White Cube New York
Chelsea, New York
Lisson Gallery Los Angeles
Hollywood, Los Angeles
Pace Gallery Los Angeles
Mid-City, Los Angeles