This exhibition features Michael Light's work in Los Angeles, taking aerial views of the city at night and during the day. His work pursues themes of mapping, vertigo, human impact on the land, and various aspects of geologic time and the sublime.
Undesign the Redline is an interactive exhibit exploring reframed opportunities from a shared value perspective, and grounds discussions about race, wealth, opportunity, and power, in an honest context.
Lo que comenzó como pinturas de árboles y plantas nativas se convirtió lentamente en exploraciones de múltiples capas de la tierra misma. El jardín de Ramirez aparece con frecuencia en sus pinturas, proporcionando el telón de fondo mágico frente al cual se desarrollan las historias del artista.
The Department of Aging (LADOA) presents an art exhibit featuring older adults as part of the celebration for the Older Americans Month in May. The theme for the art show this year is “Connect, Create, Contribute”.
The collection is a rare look through the lens of Ansel Adams as a commercial photographer. In contrast to the striking landscapes which made Ansel Adams a legend, this exhibition gives us the chance to observe his portrayal of people in the built environment.
Award-winning photographer Andrew D. Bernstein has captured the championship-winning seasons of the Los Angeles Lakers, Dodgers, and Kings. All Access features images of NBA players from the past three decades taken by Bernstein.
The exhibit and accompanying book explore the social impact of the serial killings and serial crimes committed by Richard Ramirez and the reaction of residents who bolted doors, locked windows and took up arms in the heat of just a single summer.
Radical Kinship: Celebrating 30 Years of Homeboy Industries commemorates the founding of this vibrant and vital Los Angeles entity, now the largest gang intervention, rehabilitation and re-entry program in the world.
21 Collections: Every Object Has a Story is an exhibition that examines the role collections play in telling our stories and those of our communities and Los Angeles at large.
The exhibit features images taken by photographer Boghos Boghossian during Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright William Saroyan's visit to Armenia shortly before his death in 1981.
The images from the Library's photo collection used for this exhibit capture every aspect of our national pastime: famous players and anonymous weekend warriors; changes in uniform style and ballpark architecture; and the timeless essence of a game roiled by social change.
In 2014, the Library acquired the Los Angeles Resistance Collection and its materials related to the Vietnam-era draft resistance. This exhibit highlights the collection, chronicling the non-violent anti-draft activities of the L.A. chapter of the Resistance.
War is Only Half the Story is a 10-year retrospective of the work of the groundbreaking documentary photography program, The Aftermath Project. Drawing on work from over 50 photographers, the exhibit tells the post-war stories of people coming together to rebuild and heal.
For the large-scale photographs in this exhibition, Los Angeles photographer Robert Weingarten established a single viewpoint, looking southeast over Santa Monica Bay, from which every photograph in the series would be made at precisely the same time of day—6:30 a.m.
This exhibition, titled after the Chosen Few Motorcycle Club's motto, evolved from a long-term relationship between photographer Gusmano Cesaretti and the oldest integrated motorcycle club in the United States.
For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights examines the major role imagery played in the fight for racial and social equality from the 1940s through the 1970s.
From Lucy to ALF, from game shows to talk shows, from local news to the made-for-TV movie, this exhibit showcases four decades in the life of the medium that dominated American culture, yet for Angelenos, was just another part of daily life.
Journalist Ruxandra Guidi and photographer Bear Guerra have documented a year-long multimedia storytelling project to find out how our city is changing and what makes life worth living—as we grow old in Los Angeles.
Murals from the Oaxacan artist collective, Tlacolulokos, explore language and culture as a key lifeline sustaining the shared experience between Mexico, Los Angeles, and beyond, exploring how migration and the socio-political environment shape identity and cultural traditions.
Brought to you by the Library and the Consulate General of Mexico, this exhibition shows paintings by renowned Mexican artists that have been used as covers for textbooks published by the Mexican Education System since 1959.
This collaborative exhibition features portraits of 32 Angelenos standing with angelic wings as a backdrop. Photographer Gary Leonard and artist Colette Miller capture the sublime reminder that in each individual is the capacity for great goodness.
Curated by J. Eric Lynxwiler, Board Member and Neon Historian at the Museum of Neon Art in Glendale, this exhibit of historic photographs tells the story of Los Angeles as the City of Neon.
America's Shakespeare examines the playwright's continuing influence on our language, literature, and media today through collections of state and local resources to show Shakespeare’s presence in the West.
