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The life and legacy of the art collector and businessman who used his fortune to create an institution dedicated to the arts.  Details 

Photography by 23 Los Angeles-area high school students.  Details 

Experience three medieval manuscripts containing sacred texts: a Torah and a Christian Bible from Northern Europe, and a North African Qur’an.  Details 

Enjoy a selection of eighteenth-century portraits from the museum’s pastel collection.  Details 

Trace the controversial representation of the nude, from its emergence to artistic prominence across Europe between 1400 and 1530.  Details 

Asking powerful questions about history, identity, race, and religion, the exhibition demonstrates how the legacy of the South continues to permeate American experience.  Details 

This exhibition investigates various paradigms of monumentality, prompting viewers to consider why certain monuments endure and others fall.  Details 

Discover what we know and don't know, what we'd like to know, and what we may never discover about these intriguing works of art and their world.  Details 

Explore the fantastic art of the written word in manuscripts created from England to Ethiopia over nearly one thousand years.  Details 

Discover a groundbreaking altarpiece by Pontormo, the Visitation, and explore his achievements as a religious and portrait painter.  Details 

Explore, through a recently acquired drawing, the close collaboration between Swiss late Renaissance designers and glass painters.  Details 

Explore artists’ use of photography to emphasize their personal relationships with the sites they depict.  Details 

Explore the first major retrospective of the work of one of the most experimental photographers of the Victorian era.  Details 

Understand how contemporary artists use reenactment as a tool to critique the narratives of personal, political, and art histories.  Details 

Get a close look at an extraordinary French chandelier designed to hold water for small goldfish.  Details 

Explore the awe-inspiring cosmos and the realm of angels and demons through medieval manuscripts of faith and science.  Details 

Experience the vast throng of animals that inhabit the bestiary, or book of beasts, and escape its pages into a glittering array of medieval artworks.  Details 

Explore illustration as a branch of artistic production from the Enlightenment through the Romantic age.  Details 

Explore the remarkable evolution of the camera through the Museum’s collection of historic cameras and photographs.  Details