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Upcoming Exhibitions
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Anida Yoeu Ali: The Buddhist Bug
EXHIBITION DATES: 09/26/2026 – 05/22/2027
Anida Yoeu Ali’s The Buddhist Bug is an expansive performance project that brings together myth, humor, spiritual inquiry, and the lived experience of displacement. At its center is a monumental saffron-colored creature, nearly 328 feet in length, with a human face tightly framed in cloth at one end and a pair of feet at the other. Activated through performance, photography, and video, The Buddhist Bug moves through markets, temples, streets, rural landscapes, and other social spaces across Cambodia.
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Form and Function in the Ancient Americas
Our ongoing permanent exhibition
Form and Function in the Ancient Americas highlights the wide range of cultures represented in our Ancient American collection. Cultures from the Nayarit-Jalisco-Colima region of West Mexico (2000 – 1000 BCE) to the Chimú of Peru (900-1500 CE) are featured.
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November 21, 2026
opening reception for end-of-year Exhibitions
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☠️ THIS FRIDAY! ☠️ Join us as we celebrate our first and greatest patron, horror icon Vincent Price. Come in costume, enjoy the Museum after hours, and dance the night away at the spookiest museum in East L.A.! Then, catch a flick, grab a drink, eat a snack, and commemorate the evening forever with a photo keepsake... 🕷️
🎥 Screening Schedule - Seating is first-come, first-serve
5:00pm “The Last Man on Earth”
6:30pm “House on Haunted Hill”
🥂 Open bar by @chicasontherocks
🌮 Hosted eats by @foodfiestacarts
🎶 Music by @frythm
🕸️ Haunted decor by @elac_tech Theater Club
📸 Photobooth courtesy of @xlaphotobooth
⚰️ Special collections display by @vpam_arts
Grab tickets while they last at the link in bio! 🎟️🎟️
“Museum on Haunted Hill: A Celebration of Vincent Price” is coming up soon! 🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇
☠️ During the evening of Friday, Oct. 23, don’t miss a special collections display that VPAM staff have prepared exclusively for the event. For one night only, guests are invited to experience a selection of personal objects belonging to Vincent Price himself, including paper ephemera and archives rarely presented for public view. ☠️
Grab tickets to the spookiest party in East LA at the link in bio!
Image description: Gloria, Curatorial Assistant, pulling materials from the archives. 🖤
“The Buddhist Bug” has taken over VPAM, lobby and all. Have you made plans to visit yet? 🐛
MUSEUM HOURS:
Tuesday–Friday: 12PM–4PM
Saturday: 11AM–5PM
Learn more at VPAM.org! 🧡
Images: Installation view, “Anida Yoeu Ali: The Buddhist Bug,” on view at Vincent Price Art Museum at East Los Angeles College, September 26, 2026–May 22, 2027. Photo by Paul Salveson.
Opening Nov. 21 and presented as part of @lacma’s Local Access initiative, “California Collectives: Asian American Moderns, 1924-1965” features more than fifty paintings, drawings, watercolors, prints, and photographs by American artists of Asian descent.
Drawn from LACMA’s collection, including several new acquisitions, the exhibition examines the wide-ranging influence of Asian American artistic networks in California during the Exclusion Era (1882–1965)—a period that witnessed the spread of anti-immigration and anti-Asian laws, notably the Asian Exclusion Act (1924) and Executive Order 9066 (1942), authorizing the incarceration of Japanese Americans.
Yet amidst xenophobia and racial discrimination, American artists of Asian descent created thriving networks of artistic exchange, forming collectives and staging high-profile exhibitions across the Golden State—from San Francisco’s Bay Area to Los Angeles’s Little Tokyo, including the East West Art Society, the Shaku-Do-Sha, the Japanese Camera Pictorialists of California, and the Los Angeles Oriental Artists’ Group, among several others.
Details at the link in bio! RSVP for our opening reception on Saturday, Nov. 21! 📆
Image: Tokio Ueyama, “Creeping Shadows,” 1924, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, gift of 2025 Collectors Committee, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA
Michi Yoshida Hashimoto, “Self Portrait,” c. 1924, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, gift of Nanayo Kuno, Yotaro Hashimoto, and Chimie Hashimoto, © Estate of Michi Yoshida Hashimoto, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA, by Jonathan J. Urban
Matsusaburo Hibi, “Self Portrait,” c. 1943–1945, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, purchased with funds provided by Hilary and Max Michael, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA, by Jonathan J. Urban
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All exhibitions are underwritten by the Vincent Price Art Museum Foundation and East Los Angeles College.
Cover Photo credit: Monica Orozco.