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Schedule Of Free Museum Days In Los Angeles For August

The intent of this “cheat-sheet” is to denote specific free days in any given month where Los Angeles museums that normally charge an admission waive their entry fees (not including parking). For this post we’re detailing August, 2018.

Remember if you can’t make it to one of the free days listed below there are over two dozen museums in and around Los Angeles that offer free admission ALL the time which are not listed here.

And as for the rest of the freebies listed below… enjoy!

[AUGUST 2] Japanese American National Museum (from 5 to 8 p.m.)

[AUGUST 2] MOCA Grand & MOCA Geffen (from 5 to 8 p.m.)

[AUGUST 2] Skirball Cultural Center (noon to 5 p.m.)

[AUGUST 2] Huntington Library (note that you have to reserve passes for the free day in advance, and it books up fast. For this reason we’d suggest you take a look at the free day for September and start planning when you need to be online to grab the tix)

[AUGUST 2] Long Beach Museum of Art (3 to 8 p.m.)

[AUGUST 3] Norton Simon Museum (5 to 8 p.m.)

[AUGUST 3] Pasadena Museum of California Art (noon to 5 p.m.)

[AUGUST 3] Free late-nights at La Brea Tar Pits Museum (5 to 8 p.m.)

[AUGUST 5] Museum of Latin American Art

[AUGUST 5 ] Craft and Folk Art Museum (pay what you can)

[AUGUST 7] Kidspace Museum (4 to 8 p.m.)

[AUGUST 9] Japanese American National Museum (from 5 to 8 p.m.)

[AUGUST 9] MOCA Grand & MOCA Geffen (from 5 to 8 p.m.)

[AUGUST 9] Skirball Cultural Center (noon to 5 p.m.)

[AUGUST 9] Long Beach Museum of Art (3 to 8 p.m.)

[AUGUST 9] Santa Monica History Museum

[AUGUST 10] Free late-nights at La Brea Tar Pits Museum (5 to 8 p.m.)

[AUGUST 12] Museum of Latin American Art

[AUGUST 12] ] Craft and Folk Art Museum (pay what you can)

[AUGUST 14] Los Angeles County Museum of Art (also free for L.A. County residents with valid I.D. after 3:00pm on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays & Fridays all month long)

[AUGUST 14] Autry Museum of the American West

[AUGUST 16 Pasadena Museum of California Art (from 5 to 8 p.m.)

[AUGUST 16] Japanese American National Museum (all day)

[AUGUST 16] MOCA Grand & MOCA Geffen (from 5 to 8 p.m.)

[AUGUST 16] Skirball Cultural Center (noon to 5 p.m.)

[AUGUST 16] Long Beach Museum of Art (3 to 8 p.m.)

[AUGUST 17] Free late-nights at La Brea Tar Pits Museum (5 to 8 p.m.)

[AUGUST 19] Museum of Latin American Art

[AUGUST 19] ] Craft and Folk Art Museum (pay what you can)

[AUGUST 21] Los Angeles County Arboretum (note: the tram doesn’t run on this day)

[AUGUST 21] South Coast Botanic Garden

[AUGUST 21] Descanso Gardens

[AUGUST 23] Japanese American National Museum (from 5 to 8 p.m.)

[AUGUST 23] MOCA Grand & MOCA Geffen (from 5 to 8 p.m.)

[AUGUST 23] Skirball Cultural Center (noon to 5 p.m.)

[AUGUST 23] Long Beach Museum of Art (3 to 8 p.m.)

[AUGUST 23] Museum of Latin American Art (5 to 9 p.m.)

[AUGUST 24] Free late-nights at La Brea Tar Pits Museum (5 to 8 p.m.)

[AUGUST 26] Museum of Latin American Art

[AUGUST 26] Craft and Folk Art Museum (pay what you can)

[AUGUST 30] Japanese American National Museum (from 5 to 8 p.m.)

[AUGUST 30] MOCA Grand & MOCA Geffen (from 5 to 8 p.m.)

[AUGUST 30] Skirball Cultural Center (noon to 5 p.m.)

[AUGUST 30] Long Beach Museum of Art (3 to 8 p.m.)

[AUGUST 31] Free late-nights at La Brea Tar Pits Museum (5 to 8 p.m.)

As a reminder, it’s ALWAYS good to verify the status of free days before you visit, so be sure to check the official museum websites to verify visiting hours, parking costs, and any other pertinent details. Keep in mind free admission days may not include specially ticketed exhibitions. 

Schedule provided by We Like LA.

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The Broad To Revamp First Floor Gallery

The Broad will present a new, free exhibit beginning June 30, showcasing over 50 pieces from over 20 different artists. While some have been on display in the past, about half have never been seen by Broad visitors before.

A Journey That Wasn’t will feature a host of postwar and contemporary works, organized as “complex representations of time and its passage,” according to a release from the museum. Works include Sharon Lockhart’s 60-piece After Russell Lee: 1-60 (2016) photo series, which is one of 24 new pieces recently acquired by The Broad, and Sharon Lockhart’s Pine Flat Portrait Studio series (2005). Some artists, including Iraqi mixed-media artist Toba Khedoori and Australian sculptor Ron Mueck, will receive their Broad debut via the exhibit. This will also be the first time L.A. artist Ed Ruscha’s “Azteca/Azteca in Decline” (2007) has been shown in Los Angeles. The 27-foot-long diptych is a recreation of a mural Ruscha observed in Mexico City.

Ragnar Kjartansson, The Visitors, 2012. Nine channel HD video projection. The Broad Art Foundation. Commissioned by the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich. © Ragnar Kjartansson; Pierre Huyghe, A Journey That Wasn’t, 2006. Super 16 mm film and HD video transferred to HD video, color, sound. The Broad Art Foundation. © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris; Ed Ruscha, Azteca / Azteca in Decline, 2007. Acrylic on canvas, diptych, 48 x 330 in. The Broad Art Foundation. © Ed Ruscha.

The exhibit will also see the return of Icelandic performance artist Ragnar Kjartansson’s “The Visitors” (2012), which was last at The Broad two years ago. The video installation consists of nine screens, one of which features Kjartansson playing a guitar in a bathtub. He sings the line, “Once again, I fall into my feminine ways.” Soon, he is joined by eight other musicians, each one performing in a different area of an estate located in upstate New York. The entire piece is over an hour in length.

The exhibit derives its title from French artist Pierre Huyghe’s 2006 short film, “A Journey that Wasn’t,” taken from a trip Huyghe took to Antarctica to find a rare albino penguin. Footage from the expedition is interspersed with footage from a performance in Central Park.

“A Journey That Wasn’t brings forth the rich array of artworks in the Broad collection that capture the passage of time by including artists who use devices such as rhythm, repetition, duration, artifice and appropriation to investigate and distort our perceptions, memories and emotions,” Joanne Heyler, founding director of The Broad, said via a release. “The exhibition provides viewers space in which to reflect on their own malleable experiences of time, illusion and memory.”

A Journey that Wasn’t opens June 30 in The Broad’s first floor galleries, and will be on display through February 2019. To see it, guests must reserve a free ticket to The Broad online, as per usual. Reservations to see Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama’s infinity mirror rooms, of which The Broad now boasts two, must be reserved separately at kiosks inside the museum.

Article courtesy of We Like LA.

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