This Week in LA: Aug. 28→Sept. 3
From Fashion Legacy to Cyberpunk Futures...
As August draws to a close, Los Angeles galleries and museums offer a rich tapestry of cultural reflection and artistic evolution. This week brings us from the final days of Diane von Furstenberg's revolutionary fashion legacy at the Skirball Cultural Center to cyberpunk futures at the Academy Museum, where science fiction reshapes our understanding of what's possible. Whether you're drawn to Takako Yamaguchi's decades-long exploration of cultural identity at MOCA or the ancient Mata Ortiz pottery traditions bridging archaeological fragments with contemporary forms at AMOCA Museum, there's a profound sense of artists grappling with heritage and transformation. Time to embrace the richness of late summer's offerings...
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Skirball Cultural Center | Los Angeles
Diane von Furstenberg: Woman Before Fashion
On view through August 31, 2025
The US debut exhibition coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the iconic wrap dress, featuring over sixty pieces from DVF archives along with ephemera and insights into her biography as the daughter of a Holocaust survivor.
Fowler Museum at UCLA | Westwood
Ex-Change
On view through November 2, 2025
Works from the Fowler's collection highlighting how makers worldwide utilize minted coins, counters, and tokens in diverse arts, exploring their functional properties, spiritual mediation, symbols of wealth, and representations of historical exchanges.
Academy Museum of Motion Pictures | Miracle Mile
Cyberpunk: Envisioning Possible Futures Through Cinema
On view through April 12, 2026
An examination of cyberpunk's global impact on cinema culture featuring an immersive multiscreen installation, production materials, and props from iconic films exploring themes of Afrofuturism, Latinxfuturism, and Indigenous Futurism.
Babst Gallery | Fairfax District
Nora Berman: Creatrix
On view through August 30, 2025
Oil paintings, works on paper, ceramics, and video sculptures informed by the artist's experimental livestreaming practice, where she broadcasts immersive performances from her studio while painting and co-existing with viewers.
Make Room | Hollywood
Group Exhibition: Into the Woods
On view through August 30, 2025
Artists exploring unique notions of the woods through fragments of abstraction, capturing the sublime feeling of leaving urban society for the mystery and homecoming found in the cathedral of trees and the emotional identity of natural spaces.
S P O N S O R E D
839 Gallery | Hollywood
Vanessa Wallace-Gonzales: Echoes
On view through October 18, 2025
The artist's first LA solo exhibition bringing together cyanotypes, sculptural vessels, and multimedia installation exploring transformation, ancestry, and the interplay between human and natural forms through the recurring color blue as a site of memory and rootedness.
The Broad | DTLA
Jean-Michel Basquiat
On view through October 4, 2025
An in-depth installation featuring works by the artist from the Broad collection, including Untitled (1981) and Beef Ribs Longhorn (1982), showcasing the museum's dedication to the full arc of artists' careers.
MOCA | DTLA
Takako Yamaguchi: MOCA Focus
On view through January 4, 2026
The artist's first solo museum show in LA featuring archly stylized oil-and-bronze-leaf seascapes that synthesize motifs developed over forty years, incorporating Eastern and Western-influenced vocabulary to challenge rigid notions of ethnic identity and cultural ownership.
AMOCA Museum | Pomona
In Their Hands: The Evolution of Mata Ortiz Pottery
On view through November 23, 2025
Tracing the remarkable development of Mata Ortiz pottery from ancient shards to contemporary vessels, exploring how a small Mexican village transformed archaeological fragments into a thriving ceramic movement that bridges ancient Mogollon techniques with modern designs.
Benton Museum of Art Pomona College | Claremont
An Unruly Assembly: Selections from the Culley Collection of Woodblock Prints
On view through January 4, 2026
The first exhibition devoted to the largely unseen Culley Collection featuring 85 early twentieth-century relief prints showcasing the medium's resurgence in European and American avant-garde movements by artists including Josef Albers, Rockwell Kent, Käthe Kollwitz, and Emil Nolde.
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