Although artists around the world are increasingly challenging it as a format, the fundamental
appeal of the retrospective exhibition is that it offers viewers the chance to see and assess in person a coherent representation of an artist's practice otherwise dispersed across time and space.
For PST, LACMA will host five
exhibitions, including a
retrospective of the Chicano artist Carlos Almaraz, «Painted in Mexico, 1700 — 1790: Pinxit Mexici,» and «Home — So Different, So
Appealing,» a thematic
exhibition that takes the concept
of home as a starting point and organizing principle.