The Los Angeles County Museum of Arts in Downtown Los Angeles announced its advance exhibition schedule. Below are the exhibitions currently on view.
Alfonso Gonzalez Jr.: In Between Stops
Feb. 22 – Dec. 1, 2026
Alfonso Gonzalez Jr.: In Between Stops features 12 benches designed by the Los Angeles–based artist installed along LACMA’s Kendall Concourse. A second-generation sign painter, Gonzalez draws on rotulismo mexicano — the tradition of Mexican hand-painted signage — to continue a craft increasingly displaced by digital graphics and urban clean-up efforts. His benches feature personal or socially conscious messages in place of typical bus stop advertisements and, at times, incorporate elements from LACMA’s history and collection, generating a dialogue between the museum and the commercialized cityscape. In doing so, Gonzalez engages with a long tradition of Los Angeles artists who have turned public spaces into places to experience art.
Village Square: Gifts of Modern Art from the Pearlman Collection to the Brooklyn Museum, LACMA, and MoMA
Feb. 22 – July 19, 2026
Village Square brings together nearly 50 paintings, sculptures and works on paper from the Henry and Rose Pearlman Collection in a celebration of art and community. The exhibition showcases expressive landscapes and striking portraits by Cézanne, Degas, Manet, Modigliani, Sisley, Soutine, Toulouse-Lautrec and others. Many of these bold, dynamic works grew out of close friendships among artists, and on occasion with Henry Pearlman himself. Village Square honors the Pearlmans’ belief in art’s power to create shared experiences and foster connections. This is the final opportunity to see the collection before it is gifted to museums across the country; six important works will remain at LACMA, strengthening its modern and Impressionist holdings
Fútbol Is Life: Animated Sportraits by Lyndon J. Barrois, Sr.
Feb. 15 – July 26, 2026
Celebrating the arrival of the World Cup in Los Angeles, Fútbol Is Life presents works by award-winning animator and visual-effects artist Lyndon J. Barrois, Sr. Crafted from gum wrappers, glue, paint and other materials, his miniature “sportraits” capture iconic moments in women’s and men’s soccer. Barrois brings a playful yet emotional energy to his meticulously handmade sculptures and stop-motion animations, which showcase the game’s grace and power. Fútbol Is Life highlights the artist’s inventive approach to storytelling and animation through his unique vision of the world’s most beloved sport.
Collecting Impressionism at LACMA
Dec. 21, 2025 – Jan. 3, 2027
Inspired by breakthroughs in industry and technology, visual culture in the final quarter of the 19th-century in France expanded well beyond the traditional media of painting, sculpture and drawing to include advances in printmaking, photography, decorative arts and fashion. Yet, 150 years later, French Impressionism single-handedly defines this period at American art museums. Unpacking the reasons why, Collecting Impressionism at LACMA offers a surprising narrative about the people and artists who shaped LACMA, interrogating how trends in “taste” informs the museum’s collection. From early acquisitions of American and California Impressionism to donations of paintings by Edgar Degas and Camille Pissarro from major Hollywood collectors, art was a tool of cultural legitimization that helped the institution grow in tandem with a developing city. Collecting Impressionism at LACMA illuminates the ways in which museum collections are constructed, and by extension, suggests how visitors can read the museum as a site of changing taste and changing narratives.
Deep Cuts: Block Printing Across Cultures
Nov. 9, 2025 – Sept. 13, 2026
Deep Cuts explores the world’s oldest and most versatile method of making multiple images. More than 150 works from Asia, Europe and the Americas present the medium as both a means of creative expression and a vehicle for mass production that enabled images and ideas to circulate widely. Textiles, prints and books offer intricate patterns and striking imagery that reveal block printing’s global history, from the patterned fabrics of India to the illustrated books of the Kelmscott Press to modern artistic experiments by German Expressionist artists and contemporary makers like Christiane Baumgartner. The exhibition also includes a section developed with Los Angeles–based Block Shop, highlighting how contemporary makers continue to reinterpret this enduring art form.
Deep Time Cinematography
Sept. 14, 2025 – Ongoing
Deep Time Cinematography is a site-specific conceptual artwork by Jonathon Keats that will create a 10-frame zoetrope movie of the Hollywood Hills over the next 10,000 years. The work utilizes a handcrafted pinhole camera, installed on the third-floor escalator landing of BCAM, to capture 10 millennia-spanning portraits of Los Angeles’s evolving landscape. Through its radical temporality, Deep Time Cinematography is Keats’s powerful call to the imagination and to action, raising the question: What can we do now to make sure this 10,000-year documentary is one that we would want future generations to see? Keats was the recipient of a LACMA Art + Technology Lab grant in 2015.
Realms of the Dharma: Buddhist Art Across Asia
May 11, 2025 – July 12, 2026
Realms of the Dharma: Buddhist Art Across Asia presents an international survey of Buddhism and Buddhist art, beginning with the religion’s origins in India and following its spread through mainland and island Southeast Asia (Myanmar [Burma], Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam and Indonesia), the Himalayas (Kashmir, Nepal and Tibet) and East Asia (China, Korea and Japan). Incorporating 180 masterpieces of pan-Asian Buddhist art, Realms of the Dharma introduces key concepts of Buddhist thought and practice viewed through the prism of rare and extraordinarily beautiful Buddhist sculptures, paintings and ritual objects. Drawn from LACMA’s permanent collection, with several significant loans from private collections, the exhibition explores the life of the Buddha, the role of the bodhisattva or Buddhist savior, Buddhist cosmology, and such key concepts as dharma, karma, nirvana, mantra, mudra and mandala.
Ai Weiwei: Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads
March 26, 2022 -Ongoing
Ai Weiwei’s Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads references a long and ongoing story of cross-cultural exchange and collision between China and the West, beginning with a mid-18th century fountain at Yuanmingyuan, the Old Summer Palace in Beijing. The fountain, commissioned by Emperor Qianlong and designed by Jesuit priests promoting Catholicism in China, was used to tell time: 12 zodiac animal sculptures each spouted water for two hours (or one shichen) each day. During the Second Opium War in 1860, the waterspouts were looted from Yuanmingyuan by French and British forces. Over the past 35 years, a number of the original waterspouts have appeared in auctions, including a 2009 auction that spurred controversial repatriation efforts and discussions of ownership, due to the European origin of the original designers. At present, seven of the original waterspouts have been located and returned to China, while the locations of the other five remain unknown
Modern Art Collection
June 13, 2021-Ongoing
LACMA’s Modern art collection, which primarily features European and American art from 1900 to the 1960s, returns to public view with examples of work from the museum’s American, Decorative Arts and Design and Latin American art holdings. As in the past, several galleries are dedicated to the Janice and Henri Lazarof Collection — including concentrations of work by Pablo Picasso and Alberto Giacometti — and others are devoted to the museum’s renowned German Expressionist holdings of paintings, sculpture and works on paper. The installation presents Michael McMillen’s immersive environment “Central Meridian (The Garage)” (1981) and recent acquisitions by Josef Albers, Judy Chicago, Theo van Doesburg, Maren Hassinger, Jacob Lawrence, Anne Truitt and others are displayed for the first time. The Modern art galleries have been redesigned in collaboration with Gehry Partners, LLP, and include n new interpretive texts, a series of thematic audio tours and an installation soundtrack.