Talks & Courses

Gallery Conversations

April 22, 28, 29, | 1 pm

BCAM and Ahmanson Building | Free with general admission, no reservations | Discussions between 1 pm and 4 pm

Drop by the modern and contemporary art galleries for informative and informal conversations about works of art with Gallery Educators.

Drawing & Painting: Adult Studio Session

Tuesdays: April 24, May 1, 8 | 1:30 pm

$190; Nexgen members $180 | Tickets 323 857-6010 or purchase online. Art materials and parking fees included in tuition; limited enrollment.

Learn basic drawing and painting skills while experimenting with various materials and techniques. Bring your personal photos, sketches, and ideas to realize in a finished painting or come and be inspired by LACMA's world class collection. All skill levels welcome. With artist Rosanne Kleinerman.

Watercolor in the Sculpture Gardens

Saturdays: April 21, 28, May 5, 12 | 11 am

$175; members $155 | Tickets 323 857-6010 or purchase online, Art materials and parking fees included in tuition; limited enrollment.

Adult: Outdoor Class

Saturdays: April 21, 28, May 5, 12 | 11 am–1:30 pm

Using the museum’s permanent collection of indoor and outdoor sculpture, students focus on form and shape and how to translate them onto paper. Students sketch and paint three-dimensional sculpture, as well as low relief, and bring them to life using watercolor strokes. With artist Michael Wright.

Costumed Life Drawing: Teen Studio Session

Saturdays: April 21, 28, May 5, 12 | 11 am–2 pm

$175; members $155 | Tickets 323 857-6010 or purchase online

Art materials and parking fees included in tuition; limited enrollment.

Develop your drawing and painting skills while working from a costumed figure model. Work with a variety of materials on paper, including inks, acrylic paints, and pastels in this fun and lively class. Taught by artist Rosanne Kleinerman.

Reading: Black Clock 15

Sunday, April 29 | 2 pm

Brown Auditorium | Free, no reservations

In an issue like no other, Black Clock takes you to the movies of the imagination. Published by the California Institute of the Arts and edited by Steve Erickson, Black Clock has become one of America’s leading literary journals since its inception in 2004. Work appearing in Black Clock has been anthologized in best-of-the-year collections and nominated for O. Henry and Pushcart prizes, and two excerpted novels have gone on to win the National Book Award.

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

Hausman and Aiana String Quartets

Sunday, April 22 | 6 pm

Performing Mendelssohn: String Quartet No. 1 in E flat major, Opus 12; Mozart: String Quartet No. 17 in B-flat major K. 458, "Hunt." The last movement of "Hunt" will be jointly performed by both quartets.

Pianist Jerome Lowenthal and Nadia Shpachenko

Sunday, April 29 | 6 pm

Performing Debussy: Petite Suite; Fauré: Dolly Suite, Opus 56 for piano four-hands; and solo piano pieces by Liszt and Debussy.

Jazz at LACMA

Featuring the art of jazz as practiced by leading Southern California artists, these free concerts are presented at the BP Grand Entrance every Friday evening from April to November. Friday Night Jazz is made possible by K-JAZZ 88.1.

BP Grand Entrance | Free, no reservations

Kenny Burrell & Los Angeles Jazz Orchestra Unlimited

Friday, April 27 | 6 pm

Jazz at LACMA is proud to kick off its twenty-first season with legendary guitarist Kenny Burrell and the Los Angeles Jazz Orchestra Unlimited. The concert marks the premiere of the Los Angeles Jazz Orchestra Unlimited (LAJOU), which features some of the finest jazz musicians in Los Angeles and will showcase new music by LAJOU co-directors Kenny Burrell, Charley Harrison, and Dr. Bobby Rodriguez. A special highlight of the concert will be a tribute to the great Duke Ellington in honor of his birthday, April 29. Burrell, who has worked with such prominent musicians as Oscar Peterson, Dizzy Gillespie, and Milt Jackson, has served as director of Jazz Studies at UCLA since 1998 and lectures around the world on the music of Ellington.

Film Programs

Series: Film Independent at LACMA

Film Independent, the non-profit arts organization that produces the Spirit Awards and the Los Angeles Film Festival, and LACMA celebrate the launch of the Film Independent at LACMA Film Series, presented by The New York Times. The program presents classic and contemporary narrative and documentary films, artists and their influences, emerging auteurs, international showcases, special guest-curated programs, in addition to conversations with artists, curators and special guests.

Bing Theater | Tickets: 323 857-6010 or purchase online.

My Way

100 Years of Paramount Pictures: Animation

100 Years of Paramount Pictures: Animation

Thursday, April 26, 2012 | 7:30 pm

$10 for the general public, $7 for LACMA members, seniors (62+), and students with valid ID. $5 for Film Independent, LACMA Film Club, and New York Times Film Club members. Price includes both films in double-bill

South Park 1999/color/81 min.

Scr: Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Pam Brady; dir: Trey Parker; w/ Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Mary Kay Bergman, Isaac Hayes, George Clooney, Minnie Driver, Eric Idle, Steward Copeland, Mike Judge.

The April edition of the celebration of Paramount Pictures’ archives focuses on the studio’s landmark collection of animation. First, at 7:30 pm we'll screen the Oscar-nominated 1999 feature-length film, South Park: Bigger, Longer, & Uncut, written and directed by—and featuring the voices of—South Park series creators Matt Parker and Trey Stone. Following at 9 pm, we’ll screen a group of animated short classics from Paramount’s golden era.

Series: Tuesday Matinees

Bing Theater | $2 general admission; $1 seniors 62+

Every Tuesday in April at 1 pm, LACMA screens a classic film from the Univeral Pictures library.

Hold Back The Dawn

Tuesday, April 24, 2012 | 1 pm

1941/b&w/116 min.

Scr: Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder; dir: Mitchell Leisen; w/Charles Boyer, Olivia de Havilland, Paulette Goddard.

A gigolo flees Nazi occupation and sets his sights on a shy schoolteacher who happens to be a U.S. citizen.

Series: Adventures in Wonderland: Alice and Other Lost Girls in Fantastic Worlds

Series: Adventures in Wonderland: Alice and Other Lost Girls in Fantastic Worlds

In conjunction with the exhibition In Wonderland, LACMA is screening a series of mind-bending fairy tales and fantasies that draw from Lewis Carroll’s “Alice” stories either directly or in spirit. Nearly twenty-five years into his career as a filmmaker, renowned Czech artist and “militant surrealist” Jan Svankmajer made his feature film debut with 1988’s Alice, a haunting re-envisioning of the Carroll original that mixes live-action with stop-motion animation.

This series is co-presented by The Cinefamily. For screenings at The Cinefamily, please visit http://www.cinefamily.org.

Bing Theater | Tickets 323 857-6010 or purchase online

Series: Design in Motion: Oskar Fischinger and Abstract Animation

Design in Motion: Oskar Fischinger and Abstract Animation

Friday, April 27, 2012 | 7:30 pm

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

In conjunction with the exhibition California Design 1930–1965: Living in a Modern Way, LACMA and the Center for Visual Music present two programs of landmark, avant-garde filmmaking: “Optical Poetry: An Oskar Fischinger Retrospective” and “Color and Form: Modernist Animation in California.” The German-born Fischinger emigrated to Los Angeles in 1936 and is often called “cinema’s Kandinsky.” This retrospective features 35mm preserved prints of his classics, including Allegretto, American March, Muratti Greift Ein, Studies 6, 7 and 8, his masterpiece Motion Painting no. 1 (1947), plus many more. The evening’s second program, “Color and Form: Modernist Animation in California,” includes Fischinger's delightful and rarely seen advertisement for Muntz TV (1952), as well as films by some of the many California filmmakers whom he inspired.Design in Motion: Oskar Fischinger and Abstract Animation

Family programs

Storytelling in the Boone Children's Gallery

April 23, 27, 30 | 2 pm

Hammer Building, Level 2 | Free, no reservations

Join us in the Boone Children's Gallery for storytelling every Monday and Friday at 2 pm.

Art Moves! Intergenerational Classes for Students Ages 5 and up

aturdays: April 21, 28, May 5, 12 | | 11 am–1 pm

Child plus one adult $165, $55 per additional family member; NexGen members plus one adult $155, $50 per additional family member | Tickets: 323 857-6010 or purchase online. Art materials and parking fees included in tuition; limited enrollment.

Kids and parents make art and experience the museum together in this fun intergenerational class. Through playful in-galleries activities that spark art discussions among families, you and your child can move and groove to kinetic works of art. Create individual projects or work as a team. With artist Peggy Hasegawa.

Colors and Shapes

Saturdays: April 21, 28, May 5, 12 | 2pm

Children Ages 3 1/2 to 5 and Their Family Members

Child plus one adult $130, $55 per additional family member; NexGen members plus one adult $120, $50 per additional family member | Tickets: 323 857-6010 or purchase online. Art materials and parking fees included in tuition; limited enrollment. Proof of age for children may be requested. Proof of age for children may be requested.

Young artists and their family members learn how shapes and color come together to make vibrant works of art. Families explore art together in the galleries and then create their own works in the studio. With artist Peggy Hasegawa.

Art of the Ancient World

Five Sundays: April 22, 29, May 6, 13 | 11 am

$110; Nexgen members $100 | Tickets: 323 857-6010 or purchase online.

Art materials and parking fees included in tuition; limited enrollment.

Children Ages 6 to 9

Explore the world and discover the art of the past by examining symbols of power and cultural clues.

Texting in Art

Sundays, April 22, 29, May 6, 13 | 11 am–1 pm

Children Ages 10 to 13

$110; Nexgen members $100 | Tickets: 323 857-6010 or purchase online

Art materials and parking fees included in tuition; limited enrollment.

Students are introduced to a variety of artworks in the museum that incorporates text across the globe and throughout different time periods. Students explore, discuss the significance of text in art, and create different works of art that incorporates text. With artist Jesus Mascorro.

Andell Family Sundays—Recycle, Transform, Make Art

Sunday, April 22 | 12:30 pm

North Piazza | Free, with museum admission | 12:30–3:30 pm

Join us on Sunday for programs designed especially for families. Make art, look at art, and talk about art together in workshops and bilingual gallery tours.

Children must be accompanied by an adult.

Other PUBLIC PROGRAMS

Earth Day: Because Earth without Art is Just “Eh”

Sunday, April 22 | 12 pm

BP Grand Entrance | General museum admission is required; free museum admission will be granted to those with a bike helmet or bike parking receipts, or those who have traveled by alternative transportation.

Celebrate Earth Day with a day of programs and activities designed for children and adults, including artist-led workshops, bike-related films, tours of the collection for families and adults, storytelling, sketching from nature, and a guided walk through the natural art on campus. Join a community-led bike ride to LACMA.

Guy de Cointet's Five Sisters

Friday, April 27 | 8 pm

Art of the Americas Building, Level 2 | Free, tickets required and available one hour before the event.

Dutch art production company If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want to Be Part of Your Revolution presents Five Sisters, the last performance staged during Guy de Cointet’s lifetime (1934–1983). The play revolves around five women busying themselves with the problems and pleasures of modern life on a Sunday afternoon. Elements of camp and soap-opera, as well as predictable speculations on health and beauty, inform the musings of the sisters.

56th Annual Art + Architecture Tour

Sunday, April 29 | 10 am

All-shuttle tour with check-in and convenient parking at the shuttle sites | Choose from five tour packages | Tickets on sale beginning March 21 | For more information call 323 857-6287 or email amc@lacma.org | 10 am–4 pm

Homes are not handicap accessible. Children under the age of twelve are not permitted on the tour.

Don’t miss Southern California’s original and most exclusive home tour. Each home is chosen for its art collection and architectural design. Docents provide unique details of each home’s art and architecture and four homes will be featured on all tours.

LACMA

Location and Contact: 5905 Wilshire Boulevard (at Fairfax Avenue), Los Angeles, CA, 90036 | 323 857-6000 | lacma.org

Hours: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday: noon-8 pm; Friday: noon-9 pm; Saturday, Sunday: 11 am-8 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 5 pm weekdays for L.A. County residents; second Tuesday of every month; Target Free Holiday Mondays