This section showcases works that invite us to reflect on our interdependence on a multitude of animate and inanimate matter, including galaxies, insects, cephalopods, beavers, minerals, plant life, and forests. Posthuma…

Strange Weather assembles works of art that represent the extreme climatic events taking place all around us. We live in a time distinguished by increasingly strange weather—a phenomenon atmospheric scientist Katharine H…

The Sixth Extinction identifies the precarious period we presently inhabit. Elizabeth Kolbert’s Pulitzer Prize–winning book of the same name inspires the title. In her masterful opus, Kolbert charts Earth’s previous five…

Alfonso Gonzalez Jr.: In Between Stops features 12 benches designed by the Los Angeles–based artist installed along LACMA’s Kendall Concourse. A second-generation sign painter, Gonzalez draws on rotulismo mexicano—the tr…

The enduring stories of objects Vest worn by Sgt. Joseph Richardson, Revolutionary War. Object #3952.00 In the summer of 1776, representatives to the Second ...

We tend to forget that not everyone wanted “Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness,” nor have the goals of the Declaration of Independence ever been fully achieved. Tories, including John Wickham , free Black reside…

The Academy Museum celebrates the many arts and sciences that contribute to the landscape of motion pictures. This exhibition introduces the 19 branches within the academy, ranging from cinematography to marketing and pu…

Several of the exhibition’s themes coalesce in Pierre Huyghe’s riveting nineteen-minute video Human Mask (2014): interspecies relationships, extreme weather, and extinction. Huyghe (b. 1962) sets his moving-image work in…

This Vital Earth encourages an ethical recentering in human consciousness of the approximately 4.5-billion-year-old “pale blue dot” (as scientist Carl Sagan described the Earth). In the mere 300,000 years that Homo sapie…