Illustration by Stephen Powers

This Weekend at LACMA

June 24, 2016
Myra Hassaram, Marketing Coordinator

June Gloom got you down? LACMA’s got the perfect solution to shake off that hazy feeling. This Saturday, rise and shine for LACMA Local’s most anticipated event of the season, Local: Break. Meditate around Michael Heizer's iconic sculpture Levitated Mass, or join others as they bend into their favorite asanas. Modo Yoga’s Carolina Phipps will lead an optional yoga flow at 5:15 am to help you salute the sunrise. Local members will enjoy coffee and tea post-flow, energized and ready to greet the day.

Also on Saturday, The Grove is celebrating the Reigning Men exhibition from 1–4 pm with free family fun including kids' fashion shows, activity stations, and ice cream treats. Walk through Reigning Men and get to The Grove just in time to see kids' costumes replicated from the exhibition. A complimentary shuttle is running between The Grove and LACMA. For more information, visit LACMA's Ticket Office.

LACMA’s summer concerts bring forth an eclectic crowd each weekend night. Enjoy the sounds of legendary vocalist Barbara Morrison, who we profiled yesterday on the blog, as she returns to Jazz at LACMA on Friday with her quartet, and come back the next day for Grammy Award-winning band Quetzal. Quetzal pushes the boundaries of Chicano music and fuses Afro-Cuban rhythms with jazz, blues, and rock music. If it's classical tunes that you’re into, visit the Bing Theater on Sunday for Inna Faliks—one of the most committed and poetic pianists of her generation. 

Bring your kids to Andell Family Sundays—Mesmerizing Abstraction: Agnes Martin. Meet at 12:30 pm on the Zev Yaroslavsky Plaza to explore how Martin used simple grids on her abstract canvases to produce mesmerizing artworks—then make your own inspired art in an artist-led workshop.

Check out some docent-led tours this weekend, including Revealing Creation: The Science and Art of Ancient Maya Ceramics (20 minutes), Islamic Art Now: Contemporary Art of the MIddle East (50 minutes), and Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Medium (20 minutes).