Los Angeles County Museum
of Art and J. Paul Getty Museum Combining their considerable forces and resources, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and the J. Paul Getty Museum are collaborating in order to highlight one of the 20th Centuries most provocative and influential artists. The exhibit,Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Medium, reflects Mapplethorpe’s desire to “capture the perfect form” through his work. That perfection could be captured in anything, from a flower petal’s essence, his images of the artists, musicians and socialites he knew, to pornographic film stars and members of the S & M underground. LACMA’s featured exhibition,Physical: Sex and the Body in the 1980s, is “a focused installation of work by other artists drawn from LACMA’s permanent collection that helps place Map- plethorpe in conversation with the art of the 1980s.” The J. Paul Getty’s companion exhibit explores Mapplethorpe’s “disciplined studio practice and his fascination with classical form and the fine photographic print.”Both exhibits run through July 31 and are open to the public, but as they say, “This exhibition contains sexually explicit content that may not be suitable for all audiences.” For tickets and more information, go to
lacma.org.
ONE National Gay
& Lesbian Archives Part of the USC Libraries, the ONE Archives Foundation organizes a range of exhibitions on queer art and culture. New to ONE Archives in April are two exhibits, concurrently running through July 2016: At their Plummer Park location in West Hollywood isCock, Paper, Scissors, showing intergenerational works from 15 queer artists who “explore the collaged page or the scrapbook with diverse, erotically inclined tactics. The exhibition draws from both archival collections and contemporary practices, focusing on how these artists reuse the pieces of print culture for world making projects ranging from the era of gay liberation to the present.” Inside the ONE Archives at the USC Library isM. Lamar: Funeral Doom Spiritual, also opening in April, featuring works of M. Lamar. For more information on both, go to
one.usc.edu.
The Broad The latest installment to the Los Angeles art scene and a stunning architectural gem befitting its neighbor, the Walt Disney Concert Hall, The Broad promises to redefine the arts in downtown L.A. Opened in September 2015 and designed by renown architectural wizards, Diller Scofidio + Renfro in collaboration with Gensler, The Broad is home to more than 2,000 postwar and contemporary art and considered one of the most prominent worldwide. Works on display during their inaugural exhibition feature art world masters such asBaldessari, Basquait, Deibenkorn, Giacometti, Haring, Matisse and Miro. Also on display, isYayoi Kusama’s Infinity Mirrored Room, the dazzling, mirror-lined chamber that features a “seemingly endless LED light display.” For more information go to
thebroad.org.
coat, france, c. 1800 photography courtesy of LACMA
APRIL 2016 | RAGE monthly 29
Some Other Examples of the SoCal Museum SCENE
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