LACMA Public Programs February 2013

Gallery Discussion: The Art of Looking

Thursday, February 14 | 12:30 pm

BP Grand Entrance | Free with museum admission, no reservations

Join museum educator Elizabeth Gerber for a one-hour facilitated gallery discussion exploring the exhibition Lost Line: Contemporary Art from the Collection.

Observatories and Green Stones: Exploring the Origins of the Maya Calendar

Saturday, February 16 | 1 pm

Brown Auditorium | Free, tickets required | Tickets available at Ticket Office one hour before the start of the event

Much of the current popular interest in ancient Maya civilization centers on the calendar. But most of the calendric records we have are from centuries after the calendar’s invention. This presentation by Gerardo Aldana, PhD, professor of Chicano Studies and Mesoamerican studies at the University of Santa Barbara, explores the origins of the Maya Long Count, avoiding interpretations that rely on mystery or surprisingly advanced technologies. .

The Accidental Collector: MaryLou Boone in Conversation

Tuesday, February 19 | 7 pm

Brown Auditorium | $20 general admission; $15 members; free to DADC memebers and students with ID | Tickets: 323 857-6528 or decartscouncil@lacma.org.

Orchha and Beyond: Design at the Court of Raja Bir Singh Dev Bundela

Thursday, February 21 | 7 pm

Brown Auditorium | $10 general admission; $5 LACMA members; free for SAAC members and students with ID | Tickets: 323 857-6010 or purchase online.

Art historian Edward L. Rothfarb, PhD, will speak on his recently published study of this compelling and relatively little-known Indian court.

The Provincial Capital of the Assyrian Empire: Ziyarat Tepe Archaeological Project

Thursday, February 28 | 6 pm

Brown Auditorium | Free, no reservations required

MUSIC Programs

Sundays Live

Sundays Live is an ongoing series and includes free classical music concerts presented by LACMA in cooperation with Friends of Sundays Live. These concerts take place in the Bing Theater and feature mid-career professionals and student virtuosos taking center stage.

Bing Theater | Free, no reservations

Pianist In Young Huh

Sunday, February 3, 2013 | 6 pm

Performing Bach-Busoni: “Nun komm der Heiden Heiland”, Bach-Hess: “Jesu”, “Joy of Man's Desiring”, Schubert: “Four Impromptus”, D. 935, and Rachmaninoff: Sonata No. 2, Opus 36

Pianist Svetlana Smolina

Sunday, February 10, 2013 | 6 pm

Performing works by Schubert, Schumann, Rachmaninoff, Chopin and Bolcom.

USC Thornton Chamber Ensembles

Sunday, February 17, 2013 | 6 pm

USC Thornton Guitar Ensemble

Sunday, February 24, 2013 | 6 pm

Art & Music

The Ballet "Caravaggio" with Los Angeles Contemporary Dance Company, Choreographer Matteo Levaggi, Balletto Teatro di Torino

Wednesday, February 6 | 7:30 pm

Resnick Pavilion and Bing Theater | $25 general admission; $18 LACMA members and seniors; $5 students with ID | Tickets: 323 857-6010 or purchase online.

In conjunction with Bodies and Shadows: Caravaggio and His Legacy, LACMA’s Art & Music concert series presents a musical-and-ballet celebration of the great Italian master.

Film Programs

Series: Kubrick Encore Screenings

Back by popular demand! LACMA asked our social media followers to vote on which Stanley Kubrick films they would like us to bring back after our complete retrospective of the director’s work. In February and March we’ll be presenting the second and first place winners: A Clockwork Orange and 2001: A Space Odyssey.

A Clockwork Orange

Saturday, February 2 | 7:30 pm

Bing Theater | $10 for the general public; $7 for LACMA members, seniors (62+), and students with valid ID; $5 LACMA Film Club members with valid ID. | Tickets: 323 857-6010 or purchase online.

Tuesday Matinees

Every Tuesday, LACMA screens a Hollywood classic on 35mm.

Bing Theater | Tickets: $2 seniors; $4 for general admission

Harvey

Tuesday, February 5 | 1 pm

A wealthy eccentric prefers the company of an invisible six-foot rabbit to his family.

Desert Fury

Tuesday, February 12 | 1 pm

The daughter of a Nevada casino owner gets involved with a racketeer, despite everyone's efforts to separate them.

Shanghai Express

Tuesday, February 19 | 1 pm

A beautiful temptress rekindles an old romance while trying to escape her past during a tension-packed train journey.

The Birds

Tuesday, February 26 | 1 pm

In a California coastal area, flocks of birds unaccountably make deadly attacks on humans.

Series: The Naked City: New York Noir and Neorealism

Starting in 1945, Stanley Kubrick produced thousands of negatives for the biweekly magazine Look. Though his published photographs varied in subjects and locales, many of his images depict the uncanny everyday life in the streets and spaces of his native New York. When Kubrick decided to try his hand at motion pictures, his filmmaking debut, Day of the Fight (1951), was a cinematic adaptation of his own 1949 pictorial essay “Prizefighter” for the magazine about a Big Apple boxer.

Tickets: 323-857-6010 or purchase online.

The Naked City

Friday, February 8 | 7:30 pm

Bing Theater | $10 for the general public; $7 for LACMA members, seniors (62+), and students with valid ID; $5 LACMA Film Club members | Price includes both films on double-bill

Inspired by Weegee’s seminal warts-and-all 1945 tabloid pictorial on life and death on the streets of the Big Apple, similarly titled Naked City, Jules Dassin’s policier is a bravura portrait of his native New York rendered with the crispness and authenticity of a newsreel.

Kiss of Death

Friday, February 8 | 9:15 pm

Bing Theater | Included with admission to The Naked City | $5 for this film only

1947/b&w/98 min.| Scr: Ben Hecht, Charles Lederer; dir: Henry Hathaway; w/ Victor Mature, Brian Donlevy, Coleen Gray, Richard Widmark

Where the Sidewalk Ends

Friday, February 15 | 7:30 pm

Bing Theater | $10 for the general public; $7 for LACMA members, seniors (62+), and students with valid ID; $5 LACMA Film Club members | Price includes both films on double-bill

The Thief

Friday, February 15 | 9 pm

Bing Theater | Included with admission to Where the Sidewalk Ends. | $5 for this film only

In a tour-de-force performance, Ray Milland plays as an American nuclear physicist caught up in a spy ring smuggling top-secret U.S. schematics straight from Washington, D.C., to unknown whereabouts overseas. But when one of his couriers is hit by a New York taxi and found to be carrying microfilm with confidential information, the heat, quietly but surely, comes down on Milland and his conspirators.

Little Fugitive

Saturday, February 16 | 7:30 pm

Bing Theater | $10 for the general public; $7 for LACMA members, seniors (62+), and students with valid ID; $5 LACMA Film Club members | Price includes both films on double-bill

The Window

Saturday, February 16 | 9 pm

Bing Theater | Included with admission to Little Fugitive. | $5 for this film only

One hot summer night, notorious fibber Tommy (Bobby Driscoll, on loan from Disney) climbs onto the fire escape of his Lower East Side tenement for a cool breeze. But he gets much more than he bargained for when he witnesses a murder in the apartment above.

On the Waterfront

Friday, February 22 | 7:30 pm

Bing Theater | $10 for the general public; $7 for LACMA members, seniors (62+), and students with valid ID; $5 LACMA Film Club members | Price includes both films on double-bill

Force of Evil

Friday, February 22 | 9:30 pm

Bing Theater | Included with admission to On the Waterfront. | $5 for this film only

Killer’s Kiss

Saturday, February 23 | 7:30 pm

Bing Theater | $10 for the general public; $7 for LACMA members, seniors (62+), and students with valid ID; $5 LACMA Film Club members | Price includes both films on the double bill

The Glass Wall

Saturday, February 23 | 8:45 pm

Bing Theater | Included with admission to Killer's Kiss. | $5 for this film only

Other PUBLIC PROGRAMs

Story Time in the Boone Children's Gallery

February 1, 4, 8, 11, 15, 18, 22, 25 | 2 pm

Hammer Building, Level 2 | Free, no reservations

Join Boone Children's Gallery staff for story time in the Korean art galleries every Monday and Friday at 2 pm.

Free Family Tours

February 2, 9, 16, 23 | 11 am

BP Grand Entrance | Free, no reservations

Get tips for a fun family museum visit, explore artworks that are popular with children, and engage in playful observation and discussion in Spanish and English.

Free family tours are led by museum educators and are offered every Saturday; tours last approximately forty-five minutes.

Target Free Holiday Mondays: Presidents' Day

Monday, February 18, 2013 | 11 am

LACMA | *Free, general admission ticket required | More information: 323 857-6010

*Does not include admission to Stanley Kubrick or Bodies and Shadows: Caravaggio and his Legacy.

Visitors of all ages are invited to a free day at the museum, with bilingual tours, free programs, art-making activities, and live music by Triple Chicken Foot at 12:30 and 2:45 pm. Triple Chicken Foot is an old-time trio playing early American fiddle and banjo songs.

About LACMA

Since its inception in 1965, LACMA has been devoted to collecting works of art that span both history and geography and represent Los Angeles's uniquely diverse population. Today, the museum features particularly strong collections of Asian, Latin American, European, and American art, as well as a contemporary museum on its campus.

With this expanded space for contemporary art, innovative collaborations with artists, and an ongoing Transformation project, LACMA is creating a truly modern lens through which to view its rich encyclopedic collection.

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Hours: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday: 11 am–5 pm; Friday: 11 am–8 pm; Saturday, Sunday: 10 am-7 pm; closed Wednesday

General Admission: Adults: $15; students 18+ with ID and senior citizens 62+: $10

Free General Admission: Members; children 17 and under; after 3 pm weekdays for L.A.

County residents; second Tuesday of every month; Target Free Holiday Mondays

Press Images:

Left:Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Portrait of Maffeo Barberini, c. 1596-97, private collection, Florence.

Center left:Ingrid Calame, ffwsptffwsptffwspt, 2000, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Purchased with funds provided by the Marvin B. Meyer Family Endowment in memory of Nan Uhlmann Meyer, © Ingrid Calame

Center right: Pianist In Young Huh

Right: The Birds, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, 1963.

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