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25/6/2010

John Baldessari

Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA, Los Angeles

John Baldessari is one of the most influential American artists working today. This long overdue retrospective will feature more than 150 works spanning the artist's career from 1962 to the present day, and include works on canvas, photography, videos and artist's books. Baldessari's text and image paintings from the mid-1960s are widely recognized as among the earliest examples of Conceptual Art, while his 1980s photo compositions derived from film stills rank as pivotal to the development of appropriation art and other practices that address the social and cultural impact of mass culture. Throughout and continuing today, Baldessari's interest in language, both written and visual, raises questions about the nature of communication.
The exhibition is curated by LACMA's Leslie Jones, Prints and Drawings, with Jessica Morgan, Contemporary Art, at Tate Modern. It will also feature a special installation conceived just for this retrospective.

LACMA's presentation will be the only West Coast showing and feature the greatest number of works of any venue on the show's major international tour.

Over the years, John Baldessari has collaborated with LACMA on a number of projects, including the unique installation design for the 2006 exhibition Magritte and Contemporary Art: The Treachery of Images, where he turned the galleries topsy-turvy, most memorably placing Magritte-inspired cloud carpet on the floor and papering the ceiling with freeway images. In December 2007, LACMA debuted its new logo, designed by the firm 2X4 in collaboration with Baldessari, using an image with a pencil and palm tree originally made by the artist in the 1960s. Baldessari also contributed the inaugural work to adorn the Wilshire Boulevard façade of the Broad Contemporary Art Museum (BCAM) when the building opened in February 2008. And most recently, in conjunction with Pure Beauty, he has created new banners for the Wilshire façade of BCAM, featuring a giant nose and ear—themes commonly seen in his work.

This exhibition was organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in association with Tate Modern, London.
Additional support for the Los Angeles presentation was provided by LACMA's Wallis Annenberg Director's Endowment Fund and the Jamie and Steve Tisch Foundation Inc.
This exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities. In-kind media support provided by KCRW.


Fallen Fruit Presents EATLACMA
June 27, 2010 – November 11, 2010

EATLACMA is a year-long investigation into food, art, culture and politics. Fusing the richness of LACMA's permanent collection with the ephemerality of food and the natural growth cycle, EATLACMA's projects consider food as a common ground that explores the social role of art and ritual in community and human relationships. EATLACMA unfolds seasonally, with artist's gardens planted and harvested on the museum campus, hands-on public events, and a concurrent exhibition, Fallen Fruit Presents The Fruit of LACMA (June 27-November 7, 2010). It culminates in a day-long event (November 7, 2010) in which over fifty artists and collectives will activate, intervene, and re-imagine the entire museum's campus and galleries. EATLACMA is curated by Fallen Fruit—David Burns, Matias Viegener and Austin Young—and LACMA curator Michele Urton.

EATLACMA was organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and made possible by a Museum and Community Connections Grant from MetLife Foundation. Additional support was provided by the Ralph M. Parsons Fund and Paramount Citrus.


Until August 16, 2010
Myths, Legends, and Cultural Renewal: Wagner's Sources

Reinvented and passed on by each generation, myths, legends, and fables have continued to fascinate artists into the modern era. Many of the operatic works of Richard Wagner are deeply rooted in the German and Nordic traditions of folk tales and legends, Goethe drew upon German folklore for his description of the Walpurgisnacht, and the Brothers Grimm drew upon folk traditions in their retelling of popular fairy tales. This exhibition, organized by Timothy O. Benson, curator of LACMA’s Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, explores Germanic myths and legends in various embodiments in the modern era.

This exhibition was organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.


Until September 6, 2010
Cell Phone Stories

Commissioned by LACMA, Cell Phone Stories is conceived of by artist Steve Fagin. It uses mobile phone technology to circulate thought-provoking narrative works about the museum and its audience. Cell Phone Stories involves the voices and texts of artists, actors, and writers who take the participant on a journey through the museum highlighting and reinterpreting the experience in novel ways.

Featuring personalities as diverse as actor Rainn Wilson, artist Kianga Ford, writer Barry Yourgrau, and fashion designers Kate and Laura Mulleavy of Rodarte, Cell Phone Stories is designed to unfold entirely via mobile phone. Please text "LACMA" to 67553 to receive weekly text messages that will direct you to the various components of this project, which will include text stories, links to videos, graphics, and audio experiences.

The cell phone numbers gathered here will never be shared or used for any purpose other than to distribute content related to Cell Phone Stories. Standard text messaging rates apply.


Image: (Self) #1 as Control + 11 Alterations by Retouching and Airbrushing, 1974, twelve color photographs with airbrushing on museum board, 14 x 10 3/4 in. (35.6 x 27.3 cm) each, Glenstone, © 2009 John Baldessari, photo courtesy of Marian Goodman Gallery, NY.

Sunday, June 27 | 2:00 pm
Conversations with Artists: John Baldessari
Join artist John Baldessari in conversation with curator Leslie Jones, in conjunction with the exhibition Pure Beauty. Baldessari will speak about the retrospective at LACMA, new work, and his career as an influential artist and teacher.

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Preview before it opens to the public June 26 8–11 pm

Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is located on Wilshire Boulevard between Fairfax and Curson avenues—midway between Downtown Los Angeles and Santa Monica
Open every day 12 noon–8 pm, on Friday 12 noon–9 pm, Wednesdays closed
Admission
Adults $12; students 18+ with ID and senior citizens 62+ $8; children 17 and under are admitted free.
Admission (except to specially ticketed exhibitions) is free the second Tuesday of every month and on Target Free Holiday Mondays.

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