Funding Cuts Force LACMA to Trim Hours

Because of reduced county funding, the L.A. County Museum of Art will close some of its galleries on an alternating schedule beginning Tuesday.

Major exhibitions, including “Parallel Visions: Modern Artists and Outsider Art,” which opens Sunday, and the upcoming shows, “Art of the Persian Courts: Selections From the Art and History Trust” (Nov. 5-Jan. 24) and “When Art Became Fashion: Kosode in Edo-Period Japan” (Nov. 15-Feb. 7), will not be affected.

Also remaining open at all times will be the galleries of pre-Columbian art and Chinese and Korean art. In addition, all museum galleries will be open on Saturdays and Sundays, and all galleries except the Pavilion for Japanese Art will be open on Friday evenings.

On Tuesdays through Fridays, however, the remaining galleries will be open in either the morning or the afternoon, with the special exhibitions, “War Babies: Prints of the Sixties From the Collection” (through Jan. 17), “A Mirror of Nature: Dutch Paintings From the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Edward William Carter” (Thursday through Jan. 17) and the photography show “Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort” (Nov. 12-Jan. 24), open only during the schedule set for their corresponding galleries.

The schedule for each gallery is as follows, with mornings shifts running from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and afternoons from 1:45 to 5 p.m.

Ancient, Egyptian, Greek and Roman art; and European paintings, sculpture and decorative arts: open Tuesday mornings, Wednesday mornings, Thursday afternoons and all day Friday.

American paintings, sculpture and decorative arts; and Gilbert collections of silver and mosaics: all day Tuesday, Wednesday afternoons, Thursday mornings and Friday afternoons.

Photography; Prints and drawings; Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings and sculpture; and German Expressionist prints and drawings: Tuesday mornings, Wednesday mornings; all day Thursday and Friday afternoons.

Indian and Southeast Asian art; Islamic art; and Costumes and Textiles: Tuesday afternoons, Wednesday mornings; all day Thursday and Friday afternoons.

20th-Century art from 1900-1960: Tuesday mornings, Wednesday mornings, Thursday mornings and all day Friday.

Contemporary art: Tuesday afternoons, Wednesday afternoons, Thursday afternoons and Friday mornings.

Japanese art: Tuesday afternoons, Wednesday afternoons, all day Thursday and Friday mornings.