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PST: The 20 most popular exhibitions
1 - California Design, 1930-1965: Living in a Modern Way
Average visitors per day: 1,731
2 - Crosscurrents in L.A. Painting and Sculpture, 1950-1970
Average visitors per day: 1,731
3 - In Focus: Los Angeles, 1945-1980
Average visitors per day: 1,107
4 - Mural Remix: Sandra de la Loza
Average visitors per day: 989
5 - Asco Elite of the Obscure, A Retrospective, 1972-1987
Average visitors per day: 875
6 - From Start to Finish: De Wain Valentine’s Gray Column
Average visitors per day: 825
7 - Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles 1960-1980
Average visitors per day: 815
8 - Artistic Evolution: Southern California Artists at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 1945-1963
Average visitors per day: 650
9 - Edward Kienholz: Five Car Stud 1969-1972, Revisited
Average visitors per day: 618
10 - Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974-1981
Average visitors per day: 438
11 - Art Along the Hyphen: The Mexican-American Generation
Average visitors per day: 432
12 - San Diego’s Craft Revolution: From Post-War Modern to California Design
Average visitors per day: 420
13 - Pasadena to Santa Barbara: A Selected History of Art in Southern California, 1951–1969
Average visitors per day: 408
14 - Greetings From L.A.: Artists and Publics, 1950-1980
Average visitors per day: 390
15 - The House That Sam Built: Sam Maloof and Art in the Pomona Valley, 1945-1985
Average visitors per day: 389
16 - Places of Validation, Art & Progression
Average visitors per day: 370
17 - Phenomenal: California Light, Space, Surface
Average visitors per day: 264
18 - Trouble in Paradise: Music and Los Angeles: 1945-1975
Average visitors per day: 232
19 - Proof: The Rise of Printmaking in Southern California
Average visitors per day: 223
20 - Beatrice Wood: Career Woman— Drawings, Paintings, Vessels, and Objects
Average visitors per day: 203
1 - California Design, 1930-1965: Living in a Modern Way
Where: LACMA | Total show attendance: 363,589 | Number of days on view: 210
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Installation view, California Design, 1935-1960, “Living in a Modern Way.” Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Credit: Los Angeles County Museum of Art. |
2 - Crosscurrents in L.A. Painting and Sculpture, 1950-1970
Where: Getty | Total show attendance: 143,180 | Number of days on view: 107
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A detail of David Hockney’s “A Bigger Splash,” 1967, British, acrylic on canvas. Unframed: 242.5 x 243.9 x 3 cm (95 1/2 x 96 x 1 3/16 in.) from Crosscurrents in L.A. Credit: J. Paul Getty Trust. |
3 - In Focus: Los Angeles, 1945-1980
Where: Getty | Total show attendance: 130,571 | Number of days on view: 118
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“Backyard, Diamond Bar, California” by Joe Deal. Gelatin silver print, Image: 28.4 x 28.6 cm (11 3/16 x 11 1/4 in.) Credit: © Joe Deal. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. |
4 - Mural Remix: Sandra de la Loza
Where: LACMA | Total show attendance: 83,078 | Number of days on view: 84
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Installation view, “Mural Remix: Sandra de la Loza,” Oct. 15, 2011 through Jan. 22, 2012, Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Credit: © 2011 Museum Associates/LACMA. |
5 - Asco Elite of the Obscure, A Retrospective, 1972-1987
Where: LACMA | Total show attendance: 68,228 | Number of days on view: 78
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“Instant Mural,” 1974, color photograph by Harry Gamboa Jr. Credit: Courtesy of Harry Gamboa Jr., Asco Photo © Harry Gamboa Jr.; photo courtesy UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Archive |
