When I last visited LA, I was taken to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art by my lovely west coast twin, Emily. They had an exhibit running featuring set pieces and costumes and relics from Kubrick films, which is why we went, but I found so much other extremely interesting pieces that were so different from the collections in the Met or the MoMA.
Here are some of my favorites:
1-4: Kubrick exhibit; 5: Matisse ceramics; 6: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner; 7: Picasso; 8: detail of painting by Joan Brown (my favorite piece); 9: Pollock; 10: detail of painting by Morris Louis; 11: Kusama; 11: Burden installation outside the museum