Visit the museum this long weekend for your art and culture fix. Check out the continuation of this month’s movies series, Haunted Screens: Expressionism in the German Cinema and Its Influence on Friday night and The Perfect Match: Hollywood Costume Collaborations on Saturday evening. Friday, Nosferatu, the quintessential vampire flick, haunts the big screen at 7:30 pm, followed by a new restoration of the 1979 adaptation from Werner Herzog, Nosferatu the Vampyre, at 9 pm. Then on Saturday, see the legendary comedy trio of Chevy Chase, Steve Martin, and Martin Short in ¡Three Amigos! at 5 pm and the novel mix of comedy and terror in An American Werewolf in London at 7 pm.
Around the galleries, exhibitions such as Art Deco Textiles and Kimono for a Modern Age (closing after Sunday) demonstrate how art isn’t just bound to frames. Get more insight on Japanese art during a 20-minute tour on Saturday at 1 pm, or switch gears and learn about Marsden Hartley: The German Paintings 1913–1915 on Sunday at 2 pm. As is the norm, free docent-led tours happen daily and span the museum’s diverse array of interests. A final note, Haunted Screen: German Cinema in the 1920s is now on view and well worth a visit—the Los Angeles Times writes, “Once you enter, it may be hard to leave this show.”
For your listening pleasure, stop by Jazz at LACMA on Friday at 6 pm, this week presenting the Erskine-Pasqua-Oles Trio. And then at Sundays Live pianist Norman Krieger, violinist Lyndon Taylor, and cellist Gloria Lum take center stage in the weekly, free classical concert series. A special performance takes place on Saturday during the California Beat Scene, happening at 2 pm in the Bing Theater, featuring the Eric Reed Trio. Sunday also brings two lectures to campus: architect Bart Prince (recognized for, among other things, his work on the Pavilion for Japanese Art) speaks at 1 pm and contemporary American artists Allen Ruppersberg and Allan McCollum make an appearance at Art Catalogues starting at 4 pm. Last of all, Andell Family Sundays, taking place at 12:30 pm, hosts special guest Hervé Tullet, New York Times best-selling picture-book author, for a giant collaborative floor mural. And, yes, the museum is open on Monday, so we’ll see you here.