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my parents' signatures my signature
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This baby Jesus sculpture at LA Museum of Art looks like Mark Zuckerberg
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"i hope this email finds you well!" how this email finds me:
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🎨 ⊂_ヽ   \\ we    \( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)     > ⌒ヽ    /   へ\    /  / \\ have    レ ノ   ヽ_つ   / /   / /|  ( (ヽ  | |、\art  | 丿 \ ⌒)  | |  ) / ノ )  Lノ (_/ and AC And we're open Labor Day!
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About last night... Did you know that the limited edition exhibition catalogue for "Yoshitomo Nara" includes a vinyl LP with original music and covers by American indie rock band @TheRealYLT ? Find the catalogue online: @michinara3
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Big thanks to @Patron for sponsoring tonight's opening for "Guillermo del Toro: At Home with Monsters." #GDTatLACMA
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Happy birthday to Guillermo del Toro @RealGDT ! See "At Home with Monsters" #GDTatLACMA
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If you've been enjoying our tweets with @MerriamWebster , check out this Twitter Moment for a chronological list!⚡️
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Me trying to maintain a social life, keep my plants alive, work out more often and look cute all the time
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"Everyone discusses my art & pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love." — Monet
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We are deeply saddened to note the passing of Chris Burden, whose impact on art and on LA has been profound. http://t.co/xQQSCLjeEP
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Dear @rAndomHQ , it's your call—you created #RainRoom after all. Tomorrow, LACMA will have #PurpleRain in memory of Prince 💜☔️
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General Public tix are on sale for "Guillermo del Toro: At Home with Monsters!" #GDTatLACMA
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Ben Barcelona is LA's most devoted museum-goer. Ben, we know Thursdays are your LACMA days, and that this work is a favorite, so this one's #ForBen . We hope it gets to you, and we can't wait to welcome you back. ♥️
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In memory of Prince @rAndomHQ artists decided to make #PurpleRain in #RainRoom @LACMA today:
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Learn about how @RealGDT ’s collections are essential to his working process: #GDTatLACMA
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Happy Birthday to Alphonse Mucha, born in 1860. His 1896 print, "Zodiac" in our collection:
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We are deeply saddened by the events unfolding in Paris. Our thoughts are with friends, colleagues, & all Parisians.
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"Black American Portraits" opens at LACMA on November 7.
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A serene and snowy late night collection highlight 🌌 Kawase Hasui, "Snow, Nakayama-shichiri Road, Hida," color woodblock print, 1924, © Estate of Kawase Hasui, photo © Museum Associates / LACMA.
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8 years
Join us and @filmindependent for an evening with @SarahKSilverman this Thursday! Details:
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Chris, we're leaving the lights on in your honor. RIP 💔 http://t.co/QH2Ga4Gv76
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Happy birthday to celebrated American landscape photographer, Ansel Adams, born in 1902!
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We're all about super bowls! Here are some of our favorites. #SuperBowl
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I'm here live, I'm not a cat.
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To celebrate @realGDT ’s bday visitors left 1,200+ cards w/ illustrations & personal messages
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We are proud to announce that Yoshitomo Nara's 25 foot 7 inch tall, 4,446 pound bronze sculpture "Miss Forest (LACMA Version)" is now in our permanent collection. Read more about this exciting acquisition:
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To @metmuseum , we thought instead of a #MuseumBouquet , we'd gift you a whole field of California poppies to send a little west coast cheer your way. 🌼
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Happy birthday to Chris Burden, born on this day in 1946. Thank you for creating #UrbanLight
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We're holding A Very Del Toro Book Drive next Sunday! More info: @RealGDT #GDTatLACMA
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if you then you don't love don't deserve me at my me at my
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Cactoid Labs curator and co-founder @LadyCactoid recently sat down with artist @emilyxxie to explore her process & the work she is creating in dialogue with LACMA’s permanent collection for the project "Remembrance of Things Future" ✨ Learn more →
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Happy birthday to Eadweard Muybridge, father of motion-picture projections:
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It's #catsgiving ! Here's a purr-fectly accurate artwork of cats ignoring us. We're ready to see some paw-some pieces from other museums today! 🐱
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Happy birthday to Andy Warhol, born in 1928! Enjoy his Pop Art works in our collection:
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"I love the silent hour of night. For blissful dreams may then arise." – Anne Brontë. Pictured here: "Tunnel of Night," Shinsaku Izumi, Japan, circa 1931
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RIP Muhammad Ali. Depicted here by Warhol in our collection:
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Just announced! BØRNS @bornsmusic will perform at tonight's #ArtandFilm gala ⚡️ Follow us & @gucci on Snapchat today
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Thanks to your enthusiastic interest in #RainRoom we're extending available tickets to 11/22! Buy online or at LACMA
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Learn more about LACMA's acquisition of the first and largest collection of artworks minted on blockchain to enter an American art museum, gifted by collector Cozomo de' Medici ➡️
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me on sept 30 me on oct 1
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"The Last Prussian Conjurer" by Thomas Kuntz, on view in #GDTatLACMA through 11/27
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Wishing you a happy and safe holiday season 🌨 A reminder that LACMA is closed today for the Christmas holiday, and will reopen tomorrow during normal hours. Takahashi Hiroaki, "Plum Tree in Snow," color woodblock print, before 1936.
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"This month LACMA’s Tuesday Matinee series is dedicated to Dorothy Arzner, one of the few female directors to carve out a sizable career during the era of the Hollywood studio system." 🎥 Catch our next matinee screening tmrw at 1pm! via @THR
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For Mark Rothko, color was the key to a spiritual realm, evoking transcendental truths:
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Explore rare early ukiyo-e prints from Japan in our "Living for the Moment" exhibition:
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Winding down with a late night collection highlight 🌕 Takahashi Hiroaki, "Edo River," color woodblock print, before 1923.
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well well well how the turntables
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Me: Sorry I can't make it, I have a lot to do tonight Also me:
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LACMA will be reopening on April 1, with Member Previews starting March 26! We can’t wait to welcome you back to our galleries. (1/6)
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In regard to the recent destruction of antiquities in Syria, we are sharing #PalmyraArtworks : http://t.co/h9tL7fDQ2y http://t.co/jKsq4LUmS1
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Each day this month, we’re sharing an object or view from #GDTatLACMA on Instagram!
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As promised, @MerriamWebster , here’s one last artwork for you to mull over tonight… send us the word tomorrow!
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A lucky little mouse has blessed your feed 🐁 Tsukioka Kōgyō, "Mouse and Radish" circa 1900, color woodblock print in an album.
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The goat is dead. #WorldSeries
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A collection highlight for a rare rainy L.A. evening 🌧 Franz Skarbina, "Cab in the rain," lithograph, 1896.
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✨ Exhibition Update! We are happy to share that the closing date for "Yoshitomo Nara" at LACMA has been extended until January 2, 2022. ✨ Visit to reserve your tickets to see it (or see it again) soon!
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Take some relaxing breaths to help reduce anxiety 🌕 -Breathe in quietly through your nose for 4 seconds -Hold for 7 seconds -Exhale forcefully through your mouth, pursing your lips, for 8 seconds -Repeat up to 4 times
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Who else is ready for halloween? 👻 💀 🔮
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Happy #WorldTurtleDay ! We've had a turtle visitor twice this year: |
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LACMA hosted its eighth annual Art+Film Gala on Saturday, November 3, 2018, honoring photographer Catherine Opie and filmmaker Guillermo del Toro. See highlights from the evening here: Photo by Stefanie Keenan/Getty Images for LACMA
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Its a monstrosity! Explore @RealGDT 's collection—including a larger-than-life Frankenstein:
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Friday, see @RealGDT ’s “The Devil’s Backbone,” including an intro by the director himself:
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Trying to stay awake at work after a three-day weekend like
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“Weeping Woman with Handkerchief” represented Picasso's public and private agony. On view in the Ahmanson building.
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please. keep. making. these. #acnh
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We're absolutely stuck on the @USPS 's new Forever Stamps featuring the ethereal wire hangings of pioneering Japanese American artist #RuthAsawa ! 💌 Head to to add the stunning new stamps to your home collection.
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How much do you know about the history of 3D? To celebrate #LACMA3D we’re sharing the biggest moments in 3D’s history. Keep your 👀 on this thread to learn about optical illusions, 3D devices & the popularity of 3D over the centuries. “3D: Double Vision” is on view now!
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"Guillermo del Toro: At Home with Monsters" is sold out today—get tix for the last 2 days:
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we love #acnh
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LACMA has partnered with Yoshitomo Nara and @TheSkateroom to create limited edition skate decks inspired by Nara's unmistakable work. This collaboration supports social skate projects and empowers youth around the world through skateboarding and education.
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"Playing with Fire: Paintings by Carlos Almaraz" is the 1st major retrospective of the artist's work. Opening Aug 6
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me: finally gets 8 hours of sleep my neck:
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Here's to 2022 and another incredible year of art with you ✨ 📸: @christineanneho on Instagram
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❗️ Museum alert ❗️ LACMA will close to the public at 1 pm today, Saturday, November 6, for a private event. The Pritzker Parking Garage will remain open to ticketed LACMA guests until 1 pm. Normal hours will resume on Sunday, November 7.
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Painting portraits is hard.
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*waves* 👋 "Woman’s Kimono with Sea Eagle, Ocean Waves, and Rocks," Japan, silk plain weave, paste-resist dyed (yūzen) with gilt-paper-wrapped-silk embroidery, applied metallic foil, Taishō period (1912 – 1926)- early Shōwa period (1926 – 1989), first half 20th century.
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me: *wondering why my back's hurting all the time* also me:
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"The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel." — Piet Mondrian
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"You’ll be fine, just be yourself." First of all, I don’t even know who I am.
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Happy birthday to Wassily Kandinsky, born in 1866! Explore his work in our collection:
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Did you know LACMA offers free online art classes? 🔍 In this introductory course on Chinese painting, LACMA curator Stephen Little will guide you as you observe handscrolls, hanging scrolls, album leaves, and fans from the museum's collection.
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Lucky you! This sweet sable kitty has crossed your feed on #NationalBlackCatDay 🐾
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What a game! Pictured here: “Eagle Flying in the Snow” Ohara Shōson, 1933 #SuperBowl52
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Cactoid Labs curator @LadyCactoid sat down with artist @williamapan to discuss his art on view at our Stark Bar screens, and the work he is creating in dialogue with our permanent collection for the project "Remembrance of Things Future." →
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July 18 at LACMA: Visual artist and singer/songwriter Solange Knowles ( @SaintRecords ) presents an extended directors cut featuring new scenes and musical arrangements of her interdisciplinary performance art film “When I Get Home”. Learn more:
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Wrapping up the week with a serene late night collection highlight 🌕 Kawase Hasui, "Moon at Matsushima," color woodblock print, circa mid-1930s. © Estate of Kawase Hasui, photo © Museum Associates / LACMA.
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"Woman n°001" (2021) by Yam Karkai is part of the recent gift to LACMA from collector Cozomo de' Medici, the first and largest private collection of blockchain artworks to enter an American art museum. Learn more about the Cozomo de' Medici collection ➡️
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Happy 170th, Vincent Van Gogh 🎈 Van Gogh was born #onthisday 1853—and while he became known for self-portraits, that's not him ↓ it's "The Postman Joseph Rulin," one of his muses.
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Which painting describes your mood? 🎨
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Okay I'm only going to say hi and stay for a little Me two hours later:
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y’all are so talented it’s hard to handle sometimes. #acnh
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My take on Urban Light at @LACMA 💛 #ACNH
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When you're just trying to be a good boy and don't actually understand what's going on... 🐶
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A late night collection highlight ✨ Kobayashi Kiyochika, "Fireflies at Ochanomizu," circa 1880.
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the answer is always yes.
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This Blue Period portrait was made when the 23 year old Picasso first made his way to Paris:
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