Utagawa Kunisada (Tokyokuni III), The Monk Mongaku Shōnin, c. mid-1830s, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, promised gift of Barbara S. Bowman

This Weekend at LACMA

December 4, 2015
Katie Antonsson, USC Annenberg Journalism Fellow

Member shopping days are this weekend! Enjoy extra discounts in the LACMA Store, a selection at Art Catalogues, dinner at Ray's & Stark Bar, and the LACMA Café. Hours for shopping days are 11 am–8 pm on Friday and 10 am-7 pm on Saturday and Sunday.

Saturday night, Kathak artist Farah Yasmeen Shaikh performs The Twentieth Wife, based on the novel by Indu Sundaresan. The performance is a combination of dance, live music, multimedia, and narration. Directed by Matthew Spangler, the show tells the story of Noor Jahan, the twentieth wife of Emperor Jahangir, whose influence is undeniable but whose power is indefensible. The show starts at 8 pm in the Bing Theater. Purchase your tickets in advance!

Sunday afternoon features the 28th annual Michele and Peter Berton Memorial Lecture on Japanese Art in the Brown Auditorium. Andreas Marks, Head of the Japanese and Korean Art Department and Director of the Clark Center at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, presents "More Than Just a Moment of Success: Utagawa Kunisada, Japan's Most Prolific Print Designer." The lecture gives a glimpse into Kunisada's prints, among 15,000 designs in his body of work, with examples from the Barbara S. Bowman Collection that is currently on view. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Sundays Live features the return of the Colburn Youth Orchestra with Maxim Eshkenazy as conductor. The 70-member orchestra is composed of students age 13 and up. The group will perform Copland's An Outdoor Symphony, Ravel's Pavane pour une infante defunte, and Bizet's Carmen Suites Nos. 1 and 2. The performance begins at 6 pm in the Bing Theater.