The Kindness of Friends: A Selection of Gifts of Drawings and Prints, 1919–2001

December 13, 2001–April 7, 2002

This exhibition highlights notable prints and drawings that have been given or bequeathed to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art since its founding, and celebrates the people who made those contributions. It is also a chronicle of twentieth-century collecting taste in Los Angeles. Organized by LACMA.

SEEING

November 18, 2001–September 2, 2002

This exhibition explores the concept of "seeing" by raising questions and challenging notions of expectation, perception, and viewpoint, drawing upon LACMA's permanent collection as a resource for visitor engagement. Organized by LACMA.

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Luca Giordano 1634–1705

November 4, 2001–January 20, 2002

This retrospective exhibition, devoted to one of the greatest painters of the Baroque, comes to LACMA, its only North American venue, on an international tour that begins in Naples and then moves to Vienna. More than one hundred works are included, borrowed from galleries, churches, and museums around the world. Organized by LACMA.

Jasper Johns to Jeff Koons: Four Decades of Art from the Broad Collections

October 7, 2001–January 6, 2002

More than one hundred paintings, sculptures, and photographs by twenty-four artists are represented in this first large-scale exhibition of objects from the collections of Eli and Edythe Broad. The works exemplify important trends from the second half of the twentieth century, including American neo-dada and pop art, conceptually based work, U.S. painting from the 1980s, German neo-expressionism, and current art from Los Angeles.

Contemporary Projects 6: Los Carpinteros’s Transportable City

September 27, 2001–January 13, 2002 | Wilshire Green

The sixth in LACMA's Contemporary Projects series of exhibitions highlights Transportable City by the Cuban artists' collaborative Los Carpinteros. This outdoor installation includes ten tents in iconic building shapes in a portable city, underscoring the migratory nature of modern existence. On Wilshire Green; organized by LACMA.

Color, Myth, and Music: Stanton Macdonald-Wright and Synchromism

August 5–October 28, 2001

About sixty oil paintings and other works make up the first comprehensive exhibition to explore both Macdonald-Wright’s synchromism and his crucial role in the dissemination of modernism in Los Angeles, with a focus on the synchromist years in Europe and New York and the first two decades of the twentieth century in California.

Winslow Homer and the Critics: Forging a National Art in the 1870s

June 10–September 9, 2001 | LACMA West

With more than fifty paintings, watercolors, and related drawings and prints, this exhibition presents the first major scholarly evaluation of Winslow Homer’s career during the 1870s, when he emerged in the New York art world as a significant painter of quintessentially American subjects.

The Road to Aztlan: Art from a Mythic Homeland

May 13–August 26, 2001 | Hammer Building

Through about two-hundred-fifty archaeological artifacts and works of art from pre-Columbian to contemporary times, this exhibition explores the art derived from and created about the legendary area that encompasses the American Southwest and Mesoamerica, and examines the nature of the relationship between the two regions. Organized by LACMA.

L’Esprit Nouveau: Purism in Paris, 1918–1925

April 29–August 5, 2001 | Anderson Building

This exhibition focuses on the work of Charles-Edouard Jeanneret (better known as Le Corbusier) and Amédée Ozenfant, founders of the Purist movement, and on the work of their closest colleague, Fernand Léger. Organized by LACMA.

Shifting Tides: Cuban Photography after the Revolution

April 15–July 1, 2001 | Hammer Building

The work of three generations of photographers provides insight into the evolution of art making in Cuba, as well as into the trajectory and character of the revolution that spawned it. Organized by LACMA.

Made in California—Now

September 7, 2000–September 3, 2001

Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000, a landmark exhibition, addresses the relationship between the arts in California and the state's evolving image over the past century. The exhibition goes beyond a standard presentation of California art to offer a revisionist view of the state and its cultural legacy. It considers both "booster" images of California and other coexisting and at times competing images, reflecting the wide range of interests and experiences of the state's diverse constituencies. An unprecedented collaboration among nine curatorial and programmatic departments, Made in California is the largest exhibition LACMA has ever organized or hosted.

It features approximately eight hundred works of art in a wide range of media, including painting, sculpture, photography, graphic art, decorative art, costume, and video, as well as several period rooms. About twenty percent of the art in the exhibition was drawn from LACMA's permanent collection. Also included were approximately three-hundred-fifty cultural documents such as tourist brochures, rock posters, labor pamphlets, and documentary photographs from important public and private collections across the nation, that convey California's fascinating history and changing popular image. Installed throughout the exhibition are sixteen specially commissioned film and multimedia stations, two music stations, and three mural reconstructions to further enrich this examination of the fine arts and popular conceptions of the state.

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A Century of Fashion, 1900–2000

December 14, 2000–January 5, 2003 | Ahmanson Building

An array of costumes serves to examine how fluctuations in fashionable dress expressed the changing role of women in twentieth-century society. Organized by LACMA.

Music for the Eyes: The Fine Art of African Musical Instruments

October 24, 1999–May 14, 2000

Part of The Heritage of African Music, a collaborative effort with the UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History and the California African-American Museum, bringing a comprehensive presentation of the music of Africa and the African diaspora to the Los Angeles community.

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