Begin your weekend at LACMA with the debut of the film series Let There Be Fright: William Castle Scare Classics in the Bing Theater, presented by Academy @ LACMA. Every Friday night in September be thrilled and chilled by films from one of the most popular and prolific directors in cinema history, beginning with The Tingler at 7:30 pm and Hollywood Story at 9 pm. One ticket gets you into both features. Stop by earlier for a free outdoor concert from the Dave Fielder Quartet at 6 pm during this week’s Jazz at LACMA.
At the final two days of the Torrance Art+Film Lab see part two of the LACMA9 Shorts Program on Friday at 8 pm with eight all-ages friendly shorts. On Saturday, drop by the lab and contribute to the Oral History project, accessible in English, Spanish, and Korean, before this public work wraps up!
Sign up with the kiddos for the latest session of Family Dynamic, a series of hands-on classes with contemporary artists (you can find their work in our collection, too) and their children, starting this Saturday at 10 am. Learn from Ingrid Calame and Shelby Roberts as they toy with found objects and clay, as inspired by their seven-year-old daughter, Willa, in this three-part workshop. Taking place on Saturday and Sunday join art historians as they convene at LACMA for a two-day symposium, Locating Expressionism. Centered around Van Gogh to Kandinsky, this event includes scholars from across the country and is free to the public. Learn more about LACMA’s galleries during free docent-led tours, like the popular Highlights of the Museum tour on Saturday at 2 pm or an in-depth walk-through of Marsden Hartley: The German Paintings 1913–1915 on Sunday at 2 pm. Then check out more movies from Academy @ LACMA with Why Be Good? (newly restored) at 7:30 pm, featuring a Vitaphone soundtrack chock-full of hot jazz and 1920s dance music.
Sunday, bring the family to Andell Family Sundays for a look at our significant collection of textiles from different cultures at 12:30 pm. Visit the galleries and see our latest exhibitions such as Variations: Conversations in and around Abstraction or African Cosmos: Stellar Arts. And before it’s all over, enjoy a classical music concert at Sundays Live, this week with violinist Endre Balogh and guitarist Brian Head at 6 pm.