Danse Macabre: Death in Print from Durer to Dix

Death has wings in Marco Dente's engraving The Skeletons (1518 to 1525). A skeleton stands over a body laid on the ground, holding an open book, while a crowd of emaciated men and women looks on. It comes from LACMA's own collection, and it's the image the museum picked for this show.

The display is small, a single room on BCAM Level 3, but it covers five centuries. You'll find Albrecht Dürer in the late 1400s, with plague still in living memory, and Otto Dix in the early Weimar years. Between them hang James Ensor, working in the decades after the Paris Commune, and the symbolist Félicien Rops. The writer Alexander Billet proposed a blunter title: "Five centuries of European skulls in art." It also crosses the Atlantic, to Mexican calavera prints made against the rise of fascism.

There's no separate ticket: it's included with general admission. LACMA is closed on Wednesdays and open until 8pm on Fridays. The show closes on 6 December.