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- 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM
LACMA Member Monday: Five Resnick Pavilion Exhibitions on Nov. 16
The five exhibitions at this Member Monday link design to the lives and institutions around it: who shapes a city, whose work sustains craft, how kitchens are designed and used, and how a museum’s collection acquires its story. The evening takes place in LACMA’s Resnick Pavilion on November 16.
Paul R. Williams beyond the “architect to the stars” label
Paul R. Williams: Architect for Living follows the work of one of his generation’s most prominent Black American architects as his native Los Angeles expanded from the 1920s into the early 1970s. Williams worked across residential, civic, religious, commercial, and hospitality design, from public housing to hotels in Southern California, Las Vegas, and Latin America.
That range makes this more than a survey of celebrity homes. Drawings and photographs from Williams’s archive that have not been exhibited before add evidence of a varied practice and show how his work reached well beyond private residences.
Further reading: Paul R. Williams: Architect for Living | LACMA ↗
When the promised home meets the work of living
Home of the Future, 1925–1985: Designing Domestic Utopias looks at American visions of domestic life across six decades. Its architectural models, drawings, photographs, films, and objects—from sinks to television sets—trace ideas such as self-cleaning kitchens, plastic houses assembled in a day, push-button appliances, and desktop computers. The show also asks who packaged these visions, who was expected to benefit, who was excluded, and who imagined alternatives.
The Kitchen and Its Discontents brings that broad inquiry into focus through two designs: Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky’s 1926–30 kitchen for Germany’s New Frankfurt social housing program and Charlotte Perriand and Le Corbusier’s 1948–50 kitchen for L’Unité d’Habitation in Marseille. Both applied modern principles of efficiency and modularity with the stated aim of improving women’s lives. Photographs, prints, and advertisements complicate that aim, considering the kitchen as a place shaped by women’s labor, everyday mess, and competing ideas about domestic life. LACMA presents the kitchen exhibition alongside Home of the Future, making the two a natural pairing for visitors interested in how design ideals meet lived conditions.
Further reading: Home of the Future, 1925–1985: Designing Domestic Utopias | LACMA ↗ · The Kitchen and Its Discontents | LACMA ↗
A textile practice built through collaboration
Textile Alchemy: The Art of Reiko Sudō & NUNO surveys more than 40 years of work by the Japanese designer and her textile collective. More than 100 limited-edition textiles appear with drawings, sketches, raw materials, tools, mock-ups, and prototypes, giving visitors a view of both finished work and the stages around it.
Sudō often works with independent artisans and workshops across Japan, and her textiles have been used by celebrated architects. LACMA connects those collaborations to the preservation of regional crafts and historic production centers, as well as to sustainability issues. For a visit focused on how design is made—not only what it looks like—the materials and prototypes are a useful part of the exhibition’s story.
Further reading: Textile Alchemy: The Art of Reiko Sudo & NUNO | LACMA ↗
How collecting made one story stand for an era
The exhibition places French Impressionism within a late-19th-century moment when industrial and technological change helped bring more kinds of visual expression into view. Alongside painting, sculpture, and drawing, audiences encountered printmaking, photography, decorative arts, and fashion. It asks how French Impressionism came to serve as the dominant shorthand for that period in American museums.
The display traces LACMA’s holdings from early acquisitions of American and California Impressionist works to paintings by Edgar Degas and Camille Pissarro donated by prominent Hollywood collectors. These choices helped shape the museum’s identity as Los Angeles developed, and show how art collecting can help confer cultural standing on an institution. Visitors can read the collection as evidence of changing institutional tastes and stories.
Further reading: Collecting Impressionism at LACMA | LACMA ↗
Before you go
Monday, November 16, 2026
The event runs from 6:30 to 9 p.m. This listing confirms this date and edition.
Member Monday | Paul R. Williams, Home of the Future, Textile Alchemy, and More! | LACMA ↗
For LACMA members
Member Monday is exclusive to LACMA members. Sign in to your membership account before adding tickets to the cart; the ticketing site may return an error if you are not logged in as a member. The event listing does not state an event-specific ticket price or ticket availability.
Member Monday | Paul R. Williams, Home of the Future, Textile Alchemy, and More! | LACMA ↗
Resnick Pavilion at LACMA
The event’s five exhibitions are in the Resnick Pavilion at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 5905 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90036. BCAM and the David Geffen Galleries will be closed for this edition.
Member Monday | Paul R. Williams, Home of the Future, Textile Alchemy, and More! | LACMA ↗ · Member Monday | Paul R. Williams, Home of the Future, Textile Alchemy, and More! | LACMA ↗
Check event-specific arrangements
The event listing gives no age policy or event-specific accessibility details. LACMA provides downloadable large-print labels for Home of the Future, The Kitchen and Its Discontents, and Textile Alchemy. For access questions, contact LACMA at 323-857-6000.
Member Monday | Paul R. Williams, Home of the Future, Textile Alchemy, and More! | LACMA ↗ · Home of the Future, 1925–1985: Designing Domestic Utopias | LACMA ↗ · The Kitchen and Its Discontents | LACMA ↗ · Textile Alchemy: The Art of Reiko Sudo & NUNO | LACMA ↗
Getting to the Resnick Pavilion
Metro
The Metro D Line serves LACMA at Wilshire/Fairfax Station. The event destination is the Resnick Pavilion at LACMA, 5905 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90036.
Visit-Plan Your Visit | LACMA ↗ · Member Monday | Paul R. Williams, Home of the Future, Textile Alchemy, and More! | LACMA ↗
Parking
LACMA lists the Pritzker Parking Garage on 6th Street, just east of Fairfax Avenue. The garage is listed as open daily from 5 a.m. to 10 p.m.; additional parking is available in nearby garages and on the street. The visitor information provided does not give parking rates or space availability.
Before you make a plan
Who can attend Member Monday?
The event is exclusive to LACMA members. Log in to your membership account before adding tickets to the cart.
Member Monday | Paul R. Williams, Home of the Future, Textile Alchemy, and More! | LACMA ↗
What time is the November 16 event?
Monday, November 16, 2026, from 6:30 to 9 p.m.
Member Monday | Paul R. Williams, Home of the Future, Textile Alchemy, and More! | LACMA ↗
Is an event-specific ticket price listed?
No event-specific ticket price or ticket availability is stated in the listing.
Member Monday | Paul R. Williams, Home of the Future, Textile Alchemy, and More! | LACMA ↗
How can I get to LACMA by transit?
The Metro D Line serves LACMA at Wilshire/Fairfax Station.
Location & Google Maps
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
5905 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90036
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