"Turning Corners," now on display at the museum, explores how artistic innovation and experimentation redefine "contemporary" art.
One of the first of its kind in the country, the museum explores the struggles of blacks in America.
Prior to this exhibition, the museum explored New Zealand's beloved practice of spotting and Otago University's ongoing marijuana activism and protest smoke-ups.
Using these stories, the museum explored evolutionary concepts of adaptation (e.g., the evolution of blood feeding), coevolution (e.g., the "arms race" between host and vector), and variation and selection (e.g., antibiotic resistance) among others.
Often art exhibitions focus on a single artist, but sometimes a museum explores an idea.
The museum explores two centuries of immigration to France, including mass migrations of workers from Southern and Central Europe during the industrial revolution, the settling of people from France's former African colonies and of boat people from Southeast Asia.
The museum explores the differences among religions and cultures in marking death, pointing out that slaves held funerals deep into the night because many plantation owners refused to give them a break from work during the day.
"Many of the world's great religions have links to the mountains, so one museum explores these spiritual links; another is situated near the foot of a large glacier and is dedicated to ice, while the one soon to open celebrates the culture and way of life of mountain people around the world.
The museum explores death-related customs in different cultures.
A response to Robert Mapplethorpe's X Portfolio (1978), the O Portfolio, shown at LACMA in its entirety for the first time in a Los Angeles museum, explores the tension between private desire and the public face.
