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Schedule of Public Programs
FILM PROGRAM
Tuesday Matinee
The Last Run
Tuesday, November 17 | 1 pm
An aging gangster insists on pulling one more job for the mob.
1971/color/100 min./Panavision | Scr: Alan Sharp; dir: Richard Fleischer; w/ George C. Scott, Tony Musante, Trish Van Devere, Colleen Dewhurst.
Bing Theater | $2 general admission; $1 seniors 62+
TALKS & COURSES
The Art of Wine and Food: Spain in the Time of Luis Meléndez
Wednesday, November 18 | 7 pm
This evening of food and wine features a buffet inspired by the still lifes of Luis Meléndez, which were commissioned to show off the abundant food produced in eighteenth-century Spain. Wine historian Barbara Baxter of Planet Wine will discuss the rich selection of Spanish wine. The evening begins with an overview of the exhibition. The galleries will be open for private viewing of the exhibition Luis Meléndez: Master of the Spanish Still Life.
Wayne Foyer, second floor Ahmanson Building | Tickets: $75 | For reservations, call 323 857 6010
TALKS & COURSES
Masters of Architecture Lecture Series: Peter Zumthor—SOLD OUT
LACMA and the American Institute of Architects/Los Angeles
Thursday, November 19 | 7:30 pm
In naming Peter Zumthor the 2009 Pritzkr Architecture Prize Laureate, the jury noted that "All of Peter Zumthor's buildings have a strong, timeless presence. He has a rare talent of combining clear and rigorous thought with a truly poetic dimension, resulting in works that never cease to inspire." The son of a cabinet-maker who apprenticed to a cabinet-maker before studying in Switzerland and New York, Zumthor began his career as an architect working for the Department of Preservation of Monuments of Canton of Graubünden, Switzerland. He established his own practice in 1979 in Haldenstein, Switzerland. Zumthor has been professor at the Academy of Architecture Università della Svizzera Italiana, Mendrisio (1996-2008) and a visiting professor at the University of Southern California, SCI-ARC, the Technische Universität in Munich, and the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. Among his many awards are the Praemium Imperiale from the Japan Art Association (2008), the Carlsberg Architecture Prize (1998), the Mies van der Rohe Award for European Architecture (1999), the DAM Preis für Architektur in Deutschland (2008) and the Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (2008). His works include the Protective Housing for Roman Excavations, Chur, Graubünden (1986); the Homes for Senior Citizens, Chur, Masans, Graubünden (1993); the Sogn Benedetg Chapel, Sumvitg, Graubünden (1988); the Thermal Bath Vals, Switzerland (1996); the Spittelhof Estate, Biel-Benken, Baselland (1996); the Kunsthaus Bregenz, Vorarberger Landesgalerie, museum and administration buildings, Bregenz, Austria (1997); the Brother Klaus Field Chapel, Wachendorf, Eifel (2007); the Kolumba, Art Museum of the Cologne Archdiocese (2007).
Bing Theater | Tickets: $12; $10 AIA & LACMA members; $5 seniors 62+ and students with ID | Ticket Sales: 323 857-6010.
FILM PROGRAM
Weekend Series—Hitchcock: The British Thrillers
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Friday, November 20 | 7:30 pm
While on holiday in Saint Moritz, the teenage daughter of a British couple is kidnapped by members of a terrorist group and spirited off to London. The couple’s desperate attempts to locate their child while preventing the assassination of a foreign dignitary leads to a tense shootout in Albert Hall. With his popping eyes and baleful stare, Peter Lorre—whom Hitchcock nicknamed “the Walking Overcoat,” a reference to Lorre’s character in Lang’s M—infuses his character with an aura of perfect villainy. “A small, tightly woven film which includes a generous portion of Hitchcockian humour and a more than adequate amount of suspense…A smashing financial and critical success, the film has garnered unanimous praise as one of the best British films and best thrillers ever.”—Richard A. Harris, Michael S. Lasky, The Complete Films of Alfred Hitchcock.
1934/b&w/75 min. | scr: Edwin Greenwood, A.R. Rawlinson, Charles Bennett, D.B. Wyndham Lewis; w/ Peter Lorre, Leslie Banks, Edna Best
Bing Theater | $7 members, seniors 62+, students w/ID; $10 nonmembers, $5 second film only of a double-feature; no advance purchase.
FILM PROGRAM
Weekend Series—Hitchcock: The British Thrillers
Murder!
Friday, November 20 | 9 pm
Seductive, intelligent Herbert Marshall is a juror bent on proving that a young actress accused of killing her friend is innocent of the crime and proceeds to retrace the police’s investigation on his own. Under the influence of German cinema’s rich expressionistic stylizations, Hitchcock offers a London closer in spirit to Murnau’s Berlin. “[The film] has not only withstood the test of time, but it is one of his most successful—or, at any rate, one of the best films of his English period.”—Eric Rohmer and Claude Chabrol.
1930/b&w/92 min. | Scr: Alfred Hitchcock, Alma Reville, Walter C. Mycroft; w/ Herbert Marshall, Norah Baring
Bing Theater | $7 members, seniors 62+, students w/ID; $10 nonmembers, $5 second film only of a double-feature; no advance purchase.
TALKS & COURSES
Gallery Course
Luis Melendez: Master of the Spanish Still Life
Saturday, November 21 | 9 am
Mary Lenihan presents this behind-the-scenes look at the special exhibition Luis Melendez: Master of the Spanish Still Life. After an introductory lecture, enjoy a private gallery tour of paintings that are rarely seen outside Europe.
Refreshments and parking fees included in tuition.
Brown Auditorium | Members $30; non-members $35 | For reservations: 323 857-6010
FILM PROGRAM
Weekend Series—Hitchcock: The British Thrillers
Sabotage
Saturday, November 21 | 7:30 pm
In this adaptation of Joseph Conrad's novel The Secret Agent, a movie theater manager's wife suspects her husband, Homolka, may be involved with a gang of anarchists plotting to destroy London. Two of the film's most celebrated sequences, a murder scene played in silence, and the journey of a teenage boy who unknowingly carries a time bomb across the English capital on a bus, are among the best of Hitchcock's career. "Ripe for reevaluation as the masterpiece of Alfred Hitchcock's British period."—Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader.
1936/b&w/76 min. | Scr: Charles Bennett, Jesse Lasky, Ian Hay, Helen Simpson, E.V.H. Emmett; w/ Sylvia Sydney, Oscar Homolka.
Bing Theater | $7 members, seniors 62+, students w/ID; $10 nonmembers, $5 second film only of a double-feature; no advance purchase.
FILM PROGRAM
Weekend Series—Hitchcock: The British Thrillers
Secret Agent
Saturday, November 21 | 9 pm
In this adaptation of Somerset Maugham’s Ashenden, set during World War I, a novelist and undercover intelligence agent (Gielgud) travels to Switzerland where he is joined by the flirtatious Carroll posing as his wife, and trigger-happy, scene-stealing Lorre (“Me touchy all I vant!”). His mission: to eliminate a spy whose identify he does not know. “I said to myself, ‘What do they have in Switzerland? They have milk chocolate, the Alps, village dances, and lakes… (so) we used lakes for drownings, the Alps to have characters fall into crevasses, and a chocolate factory for the chase.’”—Alfred Hitchcock.
1936/b&w/86 min. | Scr: Alma Reville, Charles Bennett, Ian Hay, Jesse Lasky, Campbell Dixon; w/ John Gielgud, Peter Lorre, Madeleine Carroll, Robert Young
Bing Theater | $7 members, seniors 62+, students w/ID; $10 nonmembers, $5 second film only of a double-feature; no advance purchase.
PUBLIC PROGRAM
Artist-Led Exhibition Walkthroughs: New Topographics
Sunday, November 22 | 2 pm
Join artist Shannon Ebner for a fresh perspective on the exhibition New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape.
BCAM Level 2 | Free, tickets required | Available one hour before the program
MUSIC PROGRAM
Sundays Live
Sunday, November 22 | 6 pm
The Mojave Trio—Sara Parkins (violin), Margaret Parkins (cello), and Genevieve Feiwen Lee (piano)—perform Dvorak: Trio in F minor, Opus 65, and selections to be announced.
Bing Theater | Free, no reservations
FILM PROGRAM
Tuesday Matinee
Knights of the Round Table
Tuesday, November 24 | 1 pm
King Arthur establishes the greatest reign England has ever seen, and along for the ride are his indispensable Knights of the Round Table.
1953/color/116 min./Scope | Scr: Talbot Jennings, Jan Lustig, Noel Langley; dir: Richard Thorpe; w/ Ava Gardner, Robert Taylor, Mel Ferrer.
Bing Theater | $2 general admission; $1 seniors 62+
TALKS & COURSES
Performance: Imaginary Knots
Tuesday, November 24 | 7 pm
Celebrate the cultural origins of Persian Carpets with Hamid Saeidi, Mamak Khadem, and Shida Pegahi. Three of Iran’s most creative and cutting-edge artists present an evening celebrating their rich Persian heritage and the musical roots they draw upon—a classical tradition as timeless and as beautiful as the Ardabil and Coronation Carpets in LACMA’s collection.
Bing Theater | Free, tickets required | Available one hour before the program
Project Management by SoCiArts Productions. Video Art by Afshin Javadi.
FILM PROGRAM
Weekend Series—Hitchcock: The British Thrillers
The 39 Steps
Friday, November 27 | 7:30 pm
This civilized thriller follows the escapades of Donat, a secret service agent who is implicated in a murder. Police and members of an occult spy ring relentlessly pursue him across the Scottish moors as he tries to clear himself by finding the real killers. The film builds to one of Hitchcock’s finest climaxes: a music hall where “Mr. Memory” answers riddles on stage while the heavies stalk Donat through the audience. “Hitchcock rates The 39 Steps as one of his favorite films. He feels that its tempo is perfect. There is no dead footage, and the audience’s absorption in the web of intrigue creates the impression of extremely fast pace. Hitchcock once commented, ‘What I liked were the sudden switches and the jumping from one situation to another with such rapidity. Donat leaping out of the window of the police station with half a handcuff on, and immediately walking into a Salvation Army Hall... ‘Thank God you’ve come, Mr. so-and-so,’ they say and put him on a platform. Then a girl comes along with two men and takes him by car to the police station, but it’s not really to the police station…. The rapidity of the switches, that’s the great thing about it.”—Richard A. Harris, Michael S. Lasky, The Complete Films of Alfred Hitchcock.
1935/b&w/87 min. | Scr: Charles Bennet, Alma Reville, Ian Hay; w/ Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll
Bing Theater | $7 members, seniors 62+, students w/ID; $10 nonmembers, $5 second film only of a double-feature; no advance purchase.
FILM PROGRAM
Weekend Series—Hitchcock: The British Thrillers
Number 17
Friday, November 27 | 9:10 pm
An old dark house where a rogue’s gallery of baddies gathers is the starting point for a rapid flow of dramatic entrances, mysterious strangers, impersonations, reverses and reveals. Along the way we discover a handcuffed corpse, a stolen necklace, a prowling detective and a female crook who falls for him. At the climax, as a train hurtles through a station en route to destiny, Hitchcock cuts to a close-up of a wooden sign that reads: “Stop Here for Dainty Teas!” Hitchcock’s seventeenth feature film is “deliriously and irresistibly comic… a charming film to the extent that it shows us a grownup child playing with his favorite toys.”— Eric Rohmer and Claude Chabrol.
1932/b&w/62 min. | Scr: Alfred Hitchcock, Alma Reville, Rodney Ackland; w/ Leon M. Lion, Anne Grey
Bing Theater | $7 members, seniors 62+, students w/ID; $10 nonmembers, $5 second film only of a double-feature; no advance purchase.
FILM PROGRAM
Weekend Series—Hitchcock: The British Thrillers
The Lady Vanishes
Saturday, November 28 | 7:30 pm
When dotty old Miss Froy vanishes from a trans-European train that is snowbound in the Balkans, a poor musician and a beautiful heiress team up to uncover a nest of spies while falling in love. The final and snappiest of Hitchcock’s British thrillers, it blends wit, invention, suspense and charm in a way that only Graham Greene has matched on the printed page. "Some of the finest examples of Hitchcock's touches . . . directed with such skill and velocity that it has come to represent the quintessence of screen suspense."—Pauline Kael.
1938/b&w/96 min. | scr: Sidney Gilliat, Frank Launder; w/ Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Dame May Whitty
Bing Theater | $7 members, seniors 62+, students w/ID; $10 nonmembers, $5 second film only of a double-feature; no advance purchase.
FILM PROGRAM
Weekend Series—Hitchcock: The British Thrillers
Young and Innocent
Saturday, November 28 | 9:15 pm
A young man, accused of murder, is pursued by the police as he and his lovely companion search the Cornish countryside for the real killer. The chase is played out against the gentle charm of the rural surroundings, but as the couple’s panic mounts and terror lurks at every turn, the seemingly serene landscape grows ugly and threatening. “This underrated thriller … takes a common plot, a young man wrongly accused of murder who tries to discover the real murderer, and adds a great script, great acting, and of course great directing by the master of suspense himself.”—Britmovie.
1937/b&w/82 min. | Scr: Charles Bennett, Edwin Greenwood, Anthony Armstrong, Gerald Savoury, Alma Reville; w/ Nova Pilbeam, Derrick De Marney
Bing Theater | $7 members, seniors 62+, students w/ID; $10 nonmembers, $5 second film only of a double-feature; no advance purchase.
MUSIC PROGRAM
Sundays Live
Sunday, November 29 | 6 pm
Program to be announced
Bing Theater | Free, no reservations
FILM PROGRAM
Tuesday Matinees
Top Hat
Tuesday, December 1 | 1 pm
A woman thinks the man who loves her is her best friend's husband.
1935/b&w/101 min. | Scr: Dwight Taylor, Allan Scott; dir: Mark Sandrich; w/ Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers.
Bing Theater | $2 general admission; $1 seniors 62+
TALKS & COURSES
Conversations with Artists: Natalie Bookchin
Tuesday, December 1 | 7 pm
In conjunction with The Sum of Myself: Photographic Self-Portraits from the Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection, currently on view, join Los Angeles-based artist Natalie Bookchin for a conversation about contemporary web-based self-portraiture.
Brown Auditorium | Free, tickets required-available one hour before the program
TALKS & COURSES
Special Exhibition Lecture: The Remarkable Tale of the Ardabil Carpets
Saturday, December 5 | 2 pm
The spectacular Ardabil Carpet, on view beginning November 14, is exhibited only rarely due to its size and sensitivity to light. Renowned carpet expert Dr. Jon Thompson, University of Oxford, speaks about the history of LACMA's Ardabil Carpet and its mate, which is in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Bing Theater | Free, no reservations
This lecture is made possible by LACMA's Art of the Middle East Council.
TALKS & COURSES
Machine Project Book Launch
Saturday, December 5 | 7–9 pm
To celebrate the publication of Machine Project: A Field Guide to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, drop in at the LACMA West penthouse suite for an evening of performances, games, and book buying.
LACMA West, fifth floor | Free, tickets required-available one hour before the program.
PUBLIC PROGRAM
Artist-Led Exhibition Walkthroughs
Sunday, December 6 | 2 pm
Join artist Kim Stringfellow for a fresh perspective on the exhibition New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape.
BCAM Level 2 | Free, tickets required | Available one hour before the program.
TALKS & COURSES
The Twenty-Second Annual Michele Berton Memorial Lecture on Japanese Art
Tokyo Tower: From Pagodas to the Tower as Landmark Lighting Monument
Sunday, December 6 | 3:30 pm
Miya Elise Mizuta, adjunct professor of East Asian languages and cultures and art history, USC, will discuss the dramatic lights of Tokyo over the last century, going back to the rooftop neon towers of Tokyo's Ginza district in the 1930s.
Brown Auditorium | Free, tickets required-RSVP by calling 323 857-6565 by November 30.
MUSIC PROGRAM
Sundays Live
Sunday, December 6 | 6 pm
The Danali String Quartet-Sarah Thornblade (violin), Joel Pargman (violin), Alma Lisa Fernandez (viola), and Timothy Loo (cello)-perform Haydn: String Quartet in G major, Opus 76, No. 3, "Emperor."
Bing Theater | Free, no reservations
FILM PROGRAM
Tuesday Matinees
Stage Fright
Tuesday, December 8 | 1 pm
An acting student goes undercover to prove a singing star killed her husband.
1950/b&w/113 min. | Scr: Whitfield Cook; dir: Alfred Hitchcock; w/ Jane Wyman, Marlene Dietrich, Michael Wilding.
Bing Theater | $2 general admission; $1 seniors 62+
TALKS & COURSES
Gallery Discussion: The Art of Looking
Thursday, December 10 | 12:30 pm
Join LACMA educators for a one-hour facilitated gallery discussion focusing on the permanent collection. LACMA Educator Elizabeth Gerber will discuss "Modern Art in the Modern World."
BP Grand Entrance, by the ticket window | Free, no reservations
TALKS & COURSES
Conversations on the Culture of Korean Buddhism
Saturday, December 12 | 2 pm
Venerable Hyon Gak, an American-born Buddhist monk, joins curator Hyonjeong Kim Han, in conversation about the use of icons in Korean Buddhism. Following the conversation, Hyon Gak will sign copies of the book Wanting Enlightenment Is a Big Mistake: Teachings of Zen Master Seung Sahn.
Bing Theater | Free, no reservations
This program is made possible by a grant from the Korean Buddhist Promotion Foundation.
PUBLIC PROGRAM
Artist-Led Exhibition Walkthroughs
Sunday, December 13 | 2 pm
Join artist Catherine Opie for a fresh perspective on the exhibition New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape.
BCAM Level 2 | Free, tickets required-available one hour before the program
MUSIC PROGRAM
Sundays Live
Sunday, December 13 | 6 pm
The Lyris String Quartet-Alyssa Park (violin), Shalini Vijayan (violin), Luke Maurer (viola), and Timothy Loo (cello)—perform Janácek: String Quartet No. 2, "Intimate Letters"; Beethoven: String Quartet No. 11 in F minor, Opus 95, "Serioso"; and Webern: Langsamer Satz.
Bing Theater | Free, no reservations
FILM PROGRAM
Tuesday Matinees
To Have and Have Not
Tuesday, December 15 | 1 pm
A skipper-for-hire's romance with a beautiful drifter is complicated by his growing involvement with the French resistance.
1945/b&w/101 min. | Scr: Jules Furthman, William Faulkner; dir: Howard Hawks; w/ Humphrey Bogart, Walter Brennan, Lauren Bacall.
Bing Theater | $2 general admission; $1 seniors 62+
MUSIC PROGRAM
Sundays Live
Sunday, December 20 | 6 pm
Pianist Daniel Schlossberg performs Jean-Henri d'Anglebert: Prelude from Suite III; Brahms: 16 Waltzes, Opus 39; and Enescu: Sonata No. 3, Opus 24.
Bing Theater | Free, no reservations
FILM PROGRAM
Tuesday Matinees
Giant
Tuesday, December 22 | 1 pm | Free Holiday Matinee
A Texas ranching family fights to survive changing times.
1956/color/198 min. | Scr: Fred Guiol, Ivan Moffat; dir: George Stevens; w/ James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, Dennis Hopper.
Bing Theater | $2 general admission; $1 seniors 62+
Sound Artist Residency Program
Thursday through Sunday | December & January | 3–8 pm
Artist-in-residence Emily Lacy will perform at LACMA throughout December and January. Lacy creates meditative, improvised sound works blending folk and electronic influences and utilizing an intricate colony of delay pedals and amplifiers. She will perform in the Pavilion for Japanese Art and in a mobile "Hermit's Cabin" located in and around BCAM. Lacy is associated with Machine Project, a confederacy of artists based in Los Angeles. She produces environments and experiences investigating audience, performance, desire, and fantasy.
Japanese Pavilion | Free, no reservations
Gallery Conversations: Modern and Contemporary Art
Saturdays & Sundays | November & December | 1–4 pm
LACMA introduces a new way to experience the museum with Gallery Conversations, every weekend. Drop by the modern and contemporary art galleries for informative and informal conversations about works of art with gallery educators. PLEASE NOTE: September 12 through Oct 11 gallery conversations will be offered in the modern art galleries only
BCAM Level 3 & Ahmanson Building Level 2 | Free, no reservations
Portions of BCAM Level 3 galleries subject to closure.
LACMA Multimedia Tour
LACMA has created a dynamic multimedia visitor tour offering a wealth of audio, video, still images, and text to enrich your knowledge of artworks from the museum's collection. The tour is available now via personal digital assistants (PDAs)—with full—color screens and simple controls-that can be checked out free of charge from the museum's welcome centers.
Available for checkout at the BP Grand Entrance Welcome Centers with valid ID | Free | Available in English, Spanish, and Korean
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EDUCATION
tel 323-857-6512
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Education programs at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art are supported in part by the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs and the William Randolph Hearst Endowment Fund for Arts Education.
For more information on education programs, please contact the Education Department at 323-857-6512 or educate@lacma.org(English and Spanish).
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