Free Day

Tickets are required for Free Day. Reserve your free ticket online, or by calling 800-838-3006 on the first day of each month preceding the month you wish to visit.

Hours on Free Day:  10:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

Central Ave

Central Avenue and Beyond: The Harlem Renaissance in Los Angeles

Oct. 24, 2009 - Feb. 8, 2010
Library, West Hall

“Central Avenue and Beyond” focuses on the extraordinary artistic, cultural, and intellectual expressions and accomplishments of African Americans on Central Avenue in South Los Angeles. Learn more...

Color Explosion

The Color Explosion: Nineteenth Century American Lithography from the Jay T. Last Collection

Oct. 17, 2009-Feb. 22, 2010, MaryLou and George Boone Gallery

More than 200 examples of 19th-century American lithography from the Jay T. Last Collection will be presented, including advertising posters, art prints, children’s books, color-plate illustrations and more...

Drawn to Satire

Drawn to Satire: John Sloan’s Illustrations for the Novels of Charles Paul de Kock

Oct. 24, 2009–March 29, 2010
Scott Galleries, Chandler Wing

From 1903 to 1905, American artist John Sloan created 53 etchings to illustrate comic novels by French author Charles Paul de Kock. The books—satires of French society in the first half of the 19th century, full of slapstick violence—were a perfect subject for Sloan’s lively etching style of short, expressive lines and loose cross-hatching. More...