Explore short video features, including artist interviews, talks with director Michael Govan, and exhibition previews.
In the early morning hours just before dawn on March 10th, 2012, the transporter carrying the megalith that will be part of Michael Heizer's Levitated Mass at LACMA arrived at the museum. The transporter traveled through four counties (Riverside, San Bernardino, Orange, and Los Angeles) and twenty-two cities in a carefully orchestrated journey that attracted thousands of bystanders. At 340 tons, the boulder is one of the largest megaliths moved since ancient times.
Levitated Mass is expected to open to the public in early summer, 2012. Learn more
Author Susan Straight reads an original essay and reflects on Adams's work on the occasion of the exhibition Robert Adams: The Place We Live, a Retrospective Selection of Photographs, on view at LACMA through June 3, 2012.
Straight is a lifelong Riverside resident and an award-winning author of seven novels. The Southern California landscape, which Straight has called "the language I knew from birth," figures prominently in her work. Her latest novel, Take One Candle Light a Room, was named one of the best novels of 2010 by the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times.
The installation of Tony Smith's monumental sculpture, Smoke, in the atrium of the Ahmanson Building at LACMA.
Ligon talks about his work, including his response to Mapplethorpe via Notes on the Margin of the Black Book, the coal dust paintings, AMERICA, and the Coloring series.
From September 2010 to August 2011 visitors were able to observe the conservation of a large eighteenth-century Korean Buddhist painting, Buddha Seokamoni (Shakyamuni) Preaching to the Assembly on Vulture Peak. Work on this delicate painting on silk is taking place in public view, in the newly-installed Korean Art galleries in the Hammer Building at LACMA.
Michael Govan talks with National Endowment for the Arts chairman Rocco Landesman about the NEA's agenda, including the Our Town grants that provide more than $6.5 million in funding to support the arts as an integral part of revitalizing communities. The discussion explores the NEA’s recent research on arts engagement, the impact of declining art education on public participation in the arts, and Chairman Landesman’s interest in theater and country music. The NEA is the largest national annual funder of the arts in the U.S.
Curator Franklin Sirmans provides an overview of Human Nature: Contemporary art from the Collection, on view at LACMA through July 4, 2011 [0:5:37].
On Winter's Bone. [18:15]
To kick off the series Through the Mic, 3MG reunites for their first performance together in more than five years. 3MG’s Murs, Eligh, and Scarub met as students at Los Angeles’s Hamilton High and released Gypsy’s Luck before joining forces with The Mystik Journeymen and The Grouch to form The Living Legends. 3MG went back to the studio in 2005 to record Grand Caravan to the End of the World and have since been on hiatus to work on solo projects. The local trio returns to the stage less than four miles from where it all began.
3MG: Murs, Eligh, and Scarub
Thursday, May 17, 2012 | 8 pm
BP Grand Entrance | $10 LACMA Members | $15 General Admission | Tickets: 323 857-6010 or purchase online.
Dumbfounded with Medusa and Gizzle
Thursday, June 21, 2012 | 8 pm
BP Grand Entrance | $10 LACMA Members | Member Presale: Monday, May 14 | $15 General Admission | Public onsale: Thursdsay, May 17.
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