“Circularity” relates to a needed systemic overhaul in the way that we produce and dispose of materials. Instead of making an item to be used only once or twice and then tossed in the garbage—to sit in a trash dump for e…

Playlist: INTO THE TIME HORIZON: 101 Songs for the Environment Once Upon a Time in the West, Dire Straits A Piece of Ground, Miriam Makeba Earth Crisis, Steel Pulse Under Pressure, Queen & David Bowie I Love You Earth (T…

Exhibition on view Feb 21, 2026 - Jan 09, 2028.

The British Empire developed elaborate trade networks by the close of the seventeenth century, importing exotic plant species from around the world—from the Americas to Asia. Only affluent collectors had the means to acq…

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 objectsVest worn by Sgt. Joseph Richardson, Revolutionary War. Object #3952.00In the summer of 1776, representatives to the Second Continental Congress adopted the final draft of the […] \n