Join a special conversation with British artist Tacita Dean and LACMA’s Director, Michael Govan, this Saturday at 2 pm. Following a screening of Dean’s Manhattan Mouse Museum, Govan and Dean talk about her work and interests in land art, time, the desert, and film as a medium. Part of the Director’s Series, this event is free and open to the public. Sunday, partake in the discussion between Mark Ruwedel and Tyler Green at Art Catalogues at 4 pm as they discuss Ruwedel’s new book, PICTURES OF HELL, and the West. This event is also free.
Returning to the big screen, Street Clothes: Contemporary Costuming in New Hollywood film series presents Jane Fonda (in a Oscar-winning performance) in Klute, followed by Network, featuring an Oscar winning screenplay, starting at 7:30 pm on Friday. Then in Saturday’s series, Two Sides of a Costume Designer, see James Dean in East of Eden at 5 pm and director Francis Ford Coppola’s epic The Godfather at 7:30 pm.
In the galleries, only two weeks remain to see Samurai: Japanese Armor from the Ann and Gabriel Barbier-Mueller Collection, alongside Pierre Huyghe and Nature and the American Vision: The Hudson River School. Reserve your tickets for this extraordinary trio of exhibitions. Also highly recommended, Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist examines one of the preeminent artists from the Harlem Renaissance, best recognized for his strong and solemn portraits, as well as his vivid and colorful dancehall scenes. Also check out our newest installation, Faces of America: LACMA Collects, opening on Saturday. Tours of the collection happen daily; check out the 20-minute Rembrandt and Hals tour on Saturday, early American art on Sunday, and a tour of Japanese art on Monday, just to name a few.
Sunday, our regular installments of Andell Family Sunday at 12:30 pm and Sundays Live at 6 pm are punctuated with the LACMA9 Community Day, offering free general admission for participants of the roving Art+Film Lab, which concluded its tour of the Southland late last year. See the Lab’s commissioned video portrait series Believing Is Seeing by artist Nicole Miller at 12:30 pm in the Bing for a look into the lives of area residents. Lastly, we celebrate and honor the birthday of civil-rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. on Monday with a free day at the museum, courtesy of Target. Enjoy bilingual tours, free programs, art-making activities, and live music by Minyo Station at 12:30 and 2:45 pm.