Museum Blockbusters in Los Angeles

February 1, 2010 on 10:06 am | In California, Los Angeles, Museums | Comments Off

2010 promises to be a banner year for larger-than-life exhibits at LA’s premiere museums. Here’s a sampling:

Collections: MOCA’s First Thirty Years
MOCA Grand Avenue and The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA
Through May 3

The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) celebrates its 30th birthday, with its largest installation ever. More than 500 works created during the past 70 years are displayed in chronological order throughout the museum’s two facilities.
www.moca.org

Renoir in the 20th Century
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Feb. 14-May 9

The study offers an unprecedented look at the last three decades of Renoir’s career, when he abandoned impressionism and turned to art that was decorative and classical. His paintings from this period have never before been studied, and the exhibit serves to bridge the divide between art of the 19th and 20th centuries.
www.lacma.org

Leonardo da Vinci and the Art of Sculpture: Inspiration and Invention
The Getty Center
March 23-June 20

The first display of works by Leonardo da Vinci in Los Angeles in decades, this major exhibition features original drawings by Leonardo and important works by artists who inspired him — and were inspired by him.
www.getty.edu

The Aztec Pantheon and the Art of Empire
The Getty Villa
March 24-July 5

Organized to celebrate the bicentennial of Mexican independence, this exhibit showcases masterworks of Aztec sculpture.

In the 16th century, European colonization of the Americas coincided with the Renaissance rediscovery of classical antiquity and parallels were routinely drawn between the Aztec and Roman empires.

www.getty.edu

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