The California African American Museum Wednesday joined the list of institutions announcing reopening plans thanks to an easing of restrictions imposed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Exposition Park museum will reopen Saturday, with capacity limited to 25% due to continuing COVID guidelines and advance reservations required at caamuseum.org. Admission is free.
“This has been a long, hard year for many in our community,” Executive Director Cameron Shaw said. “As CAAM is an important space of reflection and affirmation, we are pleased to welcome visitors back. Most of the exhibitions on view have never been seen by the public in person since they were initially slated to open during our extended, pandemic-related closure, so all of the artists, curators and the entire CAAM staff are excited to share them.”
The museum’s current exhibitions are:
— “Sula Bermúdez-Silverman: Neither Fish, Flesh nor Fowl,” the first L.A. solo exhibit of the locally based artist, exploring social structures through a conceptual and multidisciplinary practice that examines economic, racial, religious and gendered systems of power”;
— “Nikita Gale: Private Dancer,” in which the Los Angeles-based artist “takes the common, shared experience of music concerts as a starting point for questioning more abstract ideas of spectacle, desire, and refusal”;
— “Men of Change: Power. Triumph. Truth,” profiling “revolutionary men” such as Muhammad Ali, James Baldwin and Kendrick Lamar who have altered history and culture;
— “Sanctuary: Recent Acquisitions to the Permanent Collection,” exploring “concepts of safety and refuge as they relate to the African-American experience; and
— “Enunciated Life,” in which “Black spiritual beliefs … operate as a point of departure for considering modes of surrender.”