lacma MEMBERS MAGAZINE November | December 2011
lacma MEMBERS MAGAZINE November | December 2011
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Talks<br />
Lecture: Reflection on Buddhist Art of Mainland<br />
Southeast Asia, 1800–1900<br />
<strong>November</strong> 3 | 6:15 pm<br />
M. L. Pattaratorn Chirapravati, director of the Asian<br />
Studies program at California State University–Sacramento,<br />
examines offerings to Buddhist temples in<br />
Thailand and Myanmar in the nineteenth to twentieth<br />
centuries.<br />
Brown Auditorium | Free, no reservations<br />
Sponsored by the Southern Asian Art Council.<br />
International Architecture Lecture Series: Irish<br />
Architecture Now<br />
<strong>November</strong> 8 | 7:30 pm<br />
Three of Ireland’s top architects—Yvonne Farrell of<br />
Grafton Architects, Sheila O’Donnell of O’Donnell +<br />
Tuomey, and Tom dePaor of dePaor architects—discuss<br />
their work and critical issues facing Irish architecture.<br />
Bing Theater | $12 general admission; $10 <strong>lacma</strong> and aia<br />
members; $5 seniors and students with ID | Tickets: 323 857-6010<br />
or <strong>lacma</strong>.org<br />
Presented by <strong>lacma</strong> and AIA/LA Irish Architecture Now, this<br />
discussion is part of Imagine Ireland, Culture Ireland’s year of<br />
Irish arts in America in <strong>2011</strong>. Imagine Ireland is curated by<br />
Raymund Ryan, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, produced by<br />
Irish Architecture Foundation, Dublin, and funded by Culture<br />
Ireland.<br />
Lecture and Book Signing: Van Gogh: The Life<br />
<strong>November</strong> 19 | 2 pm<br />
Authors Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith discuss<br />
their new book, which examines the life of one of the<br />
world’s most beloved and iconic artists. A book signing<br />
follows the lecture.<br />
Bing Theater | Free, no reservations<br />
Lecture: Darius III, the Last of the Achaemenids<br />
<strong>November</strong> 20 | 2 pm<br />
French Iranologist Pierre Briant discusses the last king<br />
of the Achaemenid Empire, who confronted the Macedonian<br />
invasion.<br />
Bing Theater | Free, no reservations<br />
Sponsored by the Farhang Foundation.<br />
Lecture: Daoism and the Arts of China<br />
<strong>November</strong> 29 | 7 pm<br />
Stephen Little, curator of Chinese and Korean art,<br />
examines the origins of Daoist philosophy, its transformation<br />
into an organized religion, and the role of<br />
landscape as a symbol of cosmic structure and process.<br />
Brown Auditorium | Free, no reservations<br />
Sponsored by the East Asian Art Council.<br />
Symposium: Contested Visions in the Spanish<br />
Colonial World<br />
<strong>December</strong> 2 | 7 pm<br />
<strong>December</strong> 3 | 8:45 am (Fowler Museum at ucla)<br />
<strong>December</strong> 4 | 8:45 am<br />
<strong>lacma</strong> and ucla co-sponsor this major international<br />
three-day symposium in conjunction with the exhibition<br />
Contested Visions in the Spanish Colonial World. Visit <strong>lacma</strong><br />
.org for a complete list of speakers and times.<br />
Bing Theater | Free, no reservations<br />
above: Allegory of the Church (Alegoría de la Iglesia), 18th c., Colección<br />
Barbosa-Stern, photo © D. Giannoni<br />
24th Annual Michele Berton Memorial Lecture on<br />
Japanese Art<br />
<strong>December</strong> 4 | 3:30 pm<br />
Lynne K. Miyake, professor of Japanese, Asian studies,<br />
and Asian American studies at Pomona College, traces<br />
the incredible cultural journey of The Tale of Genji to<br />
its current influence on manga comics.<br />
Brown Auditorium | Free, reservations required: call 323 857-6565<br />
by <strong>November</strong> 28. Seating is limited. | More info: <strong>lacma</strong>.org<br />
Panel Discussion: Ai Weiwei<br />
<strong>December</strong> 5 | 7:30 pm<br />
Stephen Little, curator of Chinese and Korean art;<br />
Franklin Sirmans, Terri and Michael Smooke Curator<br />
and Department Head of Contemporary Art; and<br />
Christina Yu, assistant curator of Chinese and Korean<br />
art, discuss the work of Chinese artist Ai Weiwei.<br />
Bing Theater | Free, no reservations<br />
Performance: Oh, Wild West!<br />
<strong>December</strong> 9 | 4 pm<br />
Recently banned by the attorney general of Arizona,<br />
Los Angeles’s favorite satirical sons, Culture Clash, read<br />
and perform from their new book, Oh, Wild West!<br />
Art Catalogues, Ahmanson Building | Free, no reservations.<br />
Seating is limited. | More info: <strong>lacma</strong>.org<br />
Yeongsanjae Buddhist Ceremony<br />
<strong>December</strong> 11 | 2 pm<br />
Korean Buddhist monks perform the Yeongsanjae, an<br />
ancient ceremony reenacting the Buddha’s delivery of<br />
the Lotus Sutra on Vulture Peak in India more than<br />
2,600 years ago, in conjunction with the unveiling of the<br />
recently restored painting Buddha Seokamoni (Shakyamuni)<br />
Preaching to the Assembly on Vulture Peak.<br />
Los Angeles Times Central Court | Free, no reservations<br />
Pacific Standard Time events<br />
Unless otherwise noted, all events are free, no<br />
reservations. For event details, visit <strong>lacma</strong>.org.<br />
ASCO: ELITE OF THE OBSCURE, A RETROSPECTIVE,<br />
1972–1987<br />
Asco: Chicano Cinema and Agnes Varda’s Mur Murs<br />
<strong>November</strong> 11 | 7:30 pm<br />
<strong>lacma</strong> curator Rita Gonzalez joins filmmaker Jesse<br />
Lerner to present film-related work by Asco, including<br />
slides of their No-Movies, Super-8 films documenting<br />
performances, single-channel videos, and fotonovelas,<br />
followed by a screening of Agnes Varda’s Mur Murs (1981),<br />
which features a performance by Asco.<br />
Bing Theater<br />
This is a co-presentation with Los Angeles Filmforum as part of its<br />
Pacific Standard Time contribution, Alternative Projections.<br />
Asco Mural Tour<br />
<strong>November</strong> 19 | 10 am–5 pm<br />
Enjoy curator-led tours of Mapping Another L.A.: The<br />
Chicano Art Movement at the Fowler Museum and Asco:<br />
Elite of the Obscure at <strong>lacma</strong>. Asco artist Willie Herrón<br />
also gives a short talk at the site of his newly commissioned<br />
mural.<br />
Starts and ends at the Fowler Museum at ucla | Free, reservations<br />
required | Tickets: 323 857-6010<br />
Co-sponsored by the Chicano Studies Research Center (ucla), with<br />
support from the Getty Research Foundation and laxaart.<br />
“Those People Over There”: Gronk and Marisela Norte<br />
on Asco and Cinema<br />
<strong>November</strong> 28 | 7:30 pm<br />
Artist Gronk and writer Marisela Norte discuss the ways<br />
in which film influenced the work of Asco as well as its<br />
impact on their own individual practices.<br />
Brown Auditorium<br />
CALIFORNIA DESIGN, 1930–1965: “LIVING IN A<br />
MODERN WAY”<br />
Exhibition Discussion: The Legacy of the California<br />
Design Exhibitions<br />
<strong>November</strong> 12 | 10 am–4 pm<br />
This all-day program explores the rich history of<br />
California design. A concurrent exhibition, The Golden<br />
State of Craft: California 1960–1980, is also on view across<br />
the street at the Craft and Folk Art Museum.<br />
Bing Theater<br />
Presented by <strong>lacma</strong> and the Craft and Folk Art Museum and the<br />
Craft in America Study Center.<br />
MURAL REMIX: SANDRA DE LA LOZA<br />
Discussion: Chicanos and Counter-Culture<br />
<strong>November</strong> 13 | 1 pm<br />
Artist and activist Sandra de la Loza discusses the<br />
influence of Chicanos and countercultural production<br />
with Louie Perez of Los Lobos and Tomas Carrasco of the<br />
political satire group Chicano Secret Service.<br />
Bing Theater<br />
GALLERY TOURS, DISCUSSIONS, AND<br />
COURSES<br />
Point-of-View Gallery Talk: <strong>lacma</strong> History and<br />
Architecture<br />
<strong>November</strong> 3 | 12:30 pm<br />
Museum educator Mary Lenihan offers a look at <strong>lacma</strong>’s<br />
campus and discusses the history of the site and buildings.<br />
BP Grand Entrance | Free, no reservations<br />
Gallery Discussion: The Art of Looking<br />
<strong>November</strong> 10 and <strong>December</strong> 8 | 12:30 pm<br />
Museum educators offer one-hour facilitated gallery discussions<br />
looking in depth at the permanent collection.<br />
BP Grand Entrance | Free, no reservations<br />
Gallery Conversations: Modern and Contemporary Art<br />
<strong>November</strong> and <strong>December</strong> | 1–4 pm<br />
Gallery educators facilitate informative and informal<br />
conversations about modern and contemporary works of<br />
art. From September 4 through January 15, gallery<br />
educators will also be present at the special exhibition<br />
Five Car Stud 1969–1972, Revisited.<br />
Saturdays and Sundays | bcam and Ahmanson Building | Free, no<br />
reservations<br />
Visit <strong>lacma</strong>.org for up-to-date gallery course information.<br />
FILM<br />
Film INDEPENDENT AT LACMA<br />
Presenting sponsor<br />
La Terra Trema<br />
<strong>November</strong> 3 | 7:30 pm<br />
In his 1948 film about a fishermen’s village on the<br />
Sicilian coast, director Luchino Visconti employs a<br />
documentary-like intimacy to tackle one of his recurring<br />
themes: the destruction of a family by unfettered<br />
ambition.<br />
Screening in conjunction with the series Days of Glory: Masterworks<br />
of Italian Neo-Realism (October 15–<strong>November</strong> 16), presented by the<br />
ucla Film & Television Archive and the Istituto Italiano di<br />
Cultura in Los Angeles. Visit the Archive’s website for more<br />
information: http://cinema.ucla.edu.<br />
Shame<br />
<strong>November</strong> 7 | 7 pm<br />
In director Steve McQueen’s follow-up to his award-winning<br />
debut, Hunger, star Michael Fassbender plays a sex addict<br />
whose compulsion for physical intimacy inexorably<br />
grinds away at the borders of his personal and professional<br />
worlds.<br />
Film Independent, <strong>lacma</strong> Film Club, and New York Times Film<br />
Club members only (free). Limit two tickets per membership. Visit<br />
<strong>lacma</strong>.org for more information.<br />
Co-presented with The New York Times Film Club.<br />
Corman’s World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel<br />
<strong>November</strong> 10 | 7:30 pm<br />
Director Alex Stapleton’s fascinating and entertaining<br />
documentary about producer-director Roger Corman,<br />
one of the American cinema’s most compelling figures,<br />
explores Corman’s vast body of work and offers insight<br />
from luminaries who flourished under Corman’s<br />
tutelage. In person: Roger Corman and Alex Stapleton.<br />
Other guests to be announced.<br />
The Descendants<br />
<strong>November</strong> 16 | 7 pm<br />
After an eight-year absence, director Alexander Payne<br />
returns to the big screen with an adaptation of Kaui<br />
Hart Hemmings’s novel about a father, played by George<br />
Clooney, who has to collect the floating wreckage of his<br />
family after his wife is involved in a tragic boating<br />
accident. In person: Alexander Payne, stars George<br />
Clooney and Shailene Woodley, and producer Jim Burke.<br />
Live Read, Directed by Jason Reitman<br />
<strong>November</strong> 17 and <strong>December</strong> 15 | 7:30 pm<br />
The next installments in the series of director Jason<br />
Reitman’s readings of canonical film scripts will once<br />
again feature surprise casts revisiting screen classics.<br />
Details to come!<br />
Spotlight on Studio Ghibli<br />
<strong>November</strong> 26 | 4:30 pm and 7:30 pm | New 35mm prints!<br />
Founded in 1985 by directors Hayao Miyazaki and Isao<br />
Takahata and producer Toshio Suzuki, Japan’s Studio<br />
Ghibli has produced some of the most renowned<br />
animated films of all time. Infused with fantastical<br />
folklores, Miyazaki’s spectacular adventures are almost<br />
always told from the point of view of an itinerant child,<br />
though they also bear deeply felt emotions and adult<br />
concerns. The double bill features Castle in the Sky and<br />
Spirited Away.<br />
Spotlight on Aki Kaurismaki<br />
<strong>December</strong> 8 | 7:30 pm<br />
Corman’s World<br />
Spirited Away<br />
The delectably sardonic and bittersweet films of Finnish<br />
writer-director Aki Kaurismaki remain little seen in the<br />
United States (with the exception of his Oscar-nominated<br />
2002 film The Man Without a Past). Kaurismaki’s films are<br />
equal parts Beckettian comedy, kitchen-sink melodrama,<br />
and inebriated Nouvelle Vague lyricism. The double<br />
bill features La Vie de Bohème (1992) and Drifting Clouds (1996).<br />
Awaara<br />
<strong>December</strong> 10 | 7:30 pm<br />
In 1951, Awaara (The Vagabond) was a global sensation for<br />
actor and director Raj Kapoor, who was one of the first<br />
Hindi directors to receive wide recognition and acclaim<br />
outside of India. Kapoor is synonymous with the rise of<br />
Bollywood and is revered throughout the world for the<br />
films he made during the Golden Age of Indian cinema.<br />
Awaara marks the first appearance of Kapoor’s iconic<br />
tramp alter ego—a sly, charming street urchin who stands<br />
in for India’s downtrodden—and boasts a twelve-minute<br />
surrealist dream sequence of staggering proportions.<br />
New 35mm print available thanks to Raj Kapoor and The Golden<br />
Age of Indian Cinema, curated by Noah Cowan, artistic director,<br />
tiff Bell Lightbox, and organized by tiff, iifa, and rk Films with<br />
the support of the government of Ontario.<br />
Also sponsored by<br />
The series is also made possible by grants from the Hollywood<br />
Foreign Press Association ® and the Academy of Motion Picture<br />
Arts and Sciences.<br />
Film tickets: $10 general admission; $7 for <strong>lacma</strong> members,<br />
seniors (62+), and students with valid ID; $5 for <strong>lacma</strong> Film Club,<br />
Film Independent, and New York Times Film Club Members. Film<br />
Club members-only pre-sale for <strong>December</strong> screenings begins<br />
<strong>November</strong> 17. For details and tickets, visit <strong>lacma</strong>.org or call 323<br />
857-6010.<br />
TimesTalks at <strong>lacma</strong><br />
<strong>November</strong> 4 and 5<br />
The New York Times brings its conversation series to<br />
<strong>lacma</strong>, where Times journalists talk with celebrated<br />
actors and filmmakers. <strong>November</strong> 4: screening of J. Edgar<br />
and conversation with Clint Eastwood, Leonardo<br />
DiCaprio, Armie Hammer, Naomi Watts, and Dustin<br />
Lance Black. <strong>November</strong> 5: conversations with Viola Davis<br />
and with John C. Reilly and Christoph Waltz.<br />
For information and tickets please visit <strong>lacma</strong>.org.<br />
NEXGEN<br />
This work of art is<br />
made up of 202 L.A.<br />
street lights.<br />
Artist Chris Burden<br />
bought the first lamp at<br />
a flea market and soon<br />
after started collecting<br />
them!<br />
Save the<br />
date!<br />
SPECIAL EVENTs<br />
Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty<br />
<strong>November</strong> 9 | 10:30 am<br />
<strong>lacma</strong>’s Costume Council presents Andrew Bolton,<br />
curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume<br />
Institute, who discusses the phenomenal exhibition<br />
Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty and the creative and<br />
complex fashion designer who combined otherworldly<br />
artistic genius with technical expertise.<br />
Bing Theater | $50 general admission; tickets: 323 857-6010 | Free<br />
for Costume Council members and $35 for their guests; rsvp by<br />
<strong>November</strong> 2 to 323 857-6555 or costumecouncil@<strong>lacma</strong>.org.<br />
At family days in <strong>November</strong> you can learn more<br />
about this and other big sculptures at <strong>lacma</strong>!<br />
Join NexGen—LACMA’s award-winning free youth membership<br />
program for everyone 17 and under! NexGen members<br />
get free admission to the museum and can get an<br />
adult guest in free, too. For more info, visit <strong>lacma</strong>.org.<br />
The Boone Children’s Gallery<br />
Don’t be fooled by the name—this gallery is not just for<br />
kids. Everyone is invited to paint in this family-friendly<br />
space located in the Korean art galleries. Join us on<br />
Mondays and Fridays at 2 pm as gallery staff read picture<br />
books and folk tales.<br />
Andell Family Sundays<br />
Join NexGen for artist-led workshops, sketching in<br />
the galleries, and interactive bilingual tours.<br />
All events: 12:30–3:30 pm | Free | Children 12 and younger plus<br />
family<br />
Music<br />
Fridays: Jazz at LACMA<br />
All concerts: 6 pm | latcc | Free<br />
<strong>November</strong> 4: Vinny Golia Quintet<br />
<strong>November</strong> 11: Ark Sano Trio<br />
<strong>November</strong> 18: Bruce Eskovitz Jazz Orchestra<br />
<strong>November</strong> 25: Kevin O’Neal Group featuring<br />
Patrice Quinn<br />
In-kind media support for Jazz at <strong>lacma</strong> is provided by kjazz 88.1 fm.<br />
SUNDAYS LIVE<br />
All concerts: 6 pm | Bing Theater | Free<br />
<strong>November</strong> 6: Young Musicians Foundation Debut<br />
Orchestra<br />
<strong>November</strong> 13: Movses Pogossian (violin), Michele<br />
Zukovsky (clarinet), and Antoinette Perry (piano)<br />
<strong>November</strong> 20: Capitol Ensemble<br />
<strong>November</strong> 27: Pianist Maria Demina<br />
<strong>December</strong> 4: Violinist Phillip Levy and pianist<br />
François Chouchan<br />
<strong>December</strong> 11: Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra<br />
<strong>December</strong> 18: Cellist Ruslan Biryukov and pianist<br />
Armen Guzelimian<br />
L.A. Print: Edition 2<br />
<strong>December</strong> 10 | 12 pm<br />
The Prints and Drawings Council and <strong>lacma</strong> Muse host<br />
this annual event and print fair focusing on current<br />
trends in printmaking and print publishing in L.A.<br />
Attendees connect with artists, curators, and printers<br />
and can purchase art directly through artists or dealers<br />
specializing in prints, photographs, editions, zines, and<br />
artist books.<br />
The artist has described<br />
Urban Light as “a building<br />
with a roof of light.”<br />
<strong>lacma</strong> West | Free, no reservations<br />
What do you collect?<br />
How do you display your<br />
collections?<br />
Think BIG<br />
<strong>November</strong> 6, 13, 20<br />
Check out large sculptures that are big in size and also<br />
big on ideas. Experience optical illusions by looking at<br />
Tony Smith’s Smoke from different angles, weave through<br />
202 cast-iron street lamps that make up Chris Burden’s<br />
Urban Light, create art in artist-led workshops, and think<br />
big about art on interactive bilingual tours.<br />
note: Andell Family Sundays will go on break after <strong>November</strong> 20.<br />
Join us when we return on January 8, 2012. Visit the Boone<br />
Children’s Gallery for family art making during the break.<br />
Free, tickets are required—available at the box office. Children must be<br />
accompanied by an adult. | Hours: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and<br />
Friday, 12–5 pm; Saturday and Sunday, 11 am–5 pm; Story Time: Mondays<br />
and Fridays, 2 pm | Closed Wednesdays<br />
Chris Burden, Urban Light, 2008, made possible by the Gordon Family<br />
Foundation’s gift to Transformation: The LACMA Campaign, © Chris<br />
Burden
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