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LACMA Public Programs MAY 2013

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Talks & Courses

Dance Camera West 12th Annual DCW Dance Media Festival May 3, 2013 | 3 pm Bing Theater and Wilshire Stair Fountain | 3–9 pm | General admission: $15 | Tickets: 323 857-6010 or purchase online Dance Camera West's 2013 festival theme, Get Wet , promises an exhilarating celebration of screen dance, live dance, and water.

Prints and Drawings Council Lecture: Rembrandt's Sub-Plots and Diversions May 4, 2013 | 2 pm Brown Auditorium | Free, no reservations required Peter Parshall will discuss Rembrandt's innovative and engaging storytelling. Whether it is an illustration of a biblical text, a brief sketch executed in the studio, or a fully imagined moment, Rembrandt's ability to convey the human subtleties of an event is legendary, and uncovering the strategies he employed offers an oblique view of his artistic character. Parshall was curator of Old Master Prints at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, from 1999 until 2010, and has written and lectured widely on the art of northen Europe and the Renaissance.

The Art of Wine: Monet to Matisse & French Cafe Society May 4, 2013 | 6 pm LA Times Central Court | $95, $85 LACMA members | Tickets: 323 857-6010 or purchase online. Enjoy a wonderful evening exploring French art and fine French wine. First you will tour the French art galleries with museum educator Mary Lenihan and learn how the end of outmoded laws and regulations after the French Revolution enabled the flourishing Parisian café and restaurant culture. You'll then enjoy a wine tasting of five French wines along with entertaining commentary by Barbara Baxter of Planet Wine. Featured will be a Vintage Cru Classe from the renowned Château Brane-Cantenac, beautifully paired with cheese and pâté. Curator Walkthrough: Japanese Prints - Hokusai at LACMA May 5, 2013 | 2 pm Pavilion for Japanese Art | Free with museum admission, no reservations Robert T. Singer, department head and curator of Japanese art, will lead a tour of Japanese Prints: Hokusai at LACMA . On display will be a range of works by Katsushika Hokusai including color woodblock prints, surimono, drawings, and pages from woodblock printed books. This exhibition was made possible through the recent gift by Max Palevsky of the complete set of Hokusai’s legendary series A Tour of Waterfalls in the Provinces and through generous loans from the Barbara Bowman Collection.

Gallery Discussion: The Art of Looking May 9, 2013 | 12:30 pm BP Grand Entrance | Free with museum admission, no reservations Join museum educator Jennifer Reid for a one-hour facilitated gallery discussion exploring the unique medium of printmaking through the work of renowned Japanese printmaker Katsushika Hokusai and American printer Jack Stauffacher. Examine two very different approaches to the printing press: the 19th-century woodblock print, and modern typography, and the creative potential of each. This discussion will focus on the exhibitions Japanese Prints: Hokusai at LACMA and Jack Stauffacher: Typographic Experiments .

Cur-ATE: Latin America May 13 and 14, 2013 | 6:30 pm BP Grand Entrance | $100, $90 LACMA members; tickets include parking, tour, and dinner | Tickets: 323 857-6010 or purchase online. Trace the history of Mexico’s art and cuisine, from 16th century colonization by the Spanish to the 19th century wars of independence, with food historian Maite Gomez-Rejón. The tour of LACMA's rich collection of Latin American art will conclude with a dinner by Ray’s Chef Kris Morningstar, featuring Latin American dishes. A wine menu by sommelier Paul Sanguinetti will be available for pairing at additional cost.

Indian Dance Performance May 18, 2013 | 7 pm Bing Theater | $25 general admission; $20 LACMA members and seniors (62+); $10 SAAC members and students with ID | Tickets: 323 857-6010 or purchase online. With powerful imagery and captivating movement, the Shakti Dance Company's Davadasi: The Eternal Dancer transports the audience into the world of ancient Indian temple tradition. This classical Bharata Natyam production created by master choreographer Viji Prakash and accompanied by live music brings to the American stage for the first time the story of the devadasis , dancers to the gods.

MUSIC Programs

Art & Music

An Afternoon with Composers Stewart Copeland & Michael Gordon Presented by LACMA & Long Beach Opera May 4, 2013 | 2 pm Bing Theater | $25/$40 VIP; $20/$30 VIP for LACMA and LBO members; $5 for students with ID (VIP includes a small individual bottle of wine from LACMA’s Plaza Café) | Tickets: 323 857-6010 or purchase online. 2

Composers Stewart Copeland, founding member of The Police, and Michael Gordon, cofounder of the Bang on the Can Festival, discuss their operas The Tell-Tale Heart and Van Gogh with Andreas Mitisek, artistic and general director of the Long Beach Opera. Members of the Long Beach Opera will perform excerpts from both works. Copeland, former drummer and founder of the rock band The Police , is the recipient of the Hollywood Film Festival's first Outstanding Music Award. Michael Gordon's music merges subtle rhythmic invention with incredible power embodying, in the words of The New Yorker' s Alex Ross, "the fury of punk rock, the nervous brilliance of free jazz, and the intransigence of classical modernism."

Steve Reich & Friends May 7, 2013 | 7:30 pm Bing Theater | $30 general admission; $25 LACMA members and seniors; $5 for students with ID | Tickets: 323 857-6010 or purchase online. In celebration of James Turrell: A Retrospective , Pulitzer Prize–winning composer Steve Reich comes to LACMA for an evening of performances devoted to his music by the Lyris Quartet, pianists Vicki Ray and Joanne Pearce Martin, and a percussion ensemble led by CalArts’ David Johnson. New and old works on the program include Different Trains , WTC 9/11 , Sextet , Piano Phase , and Clapping Music .

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. Please note: Sundays Live concerts can be heard live via streaming audio at lacma.org, or by delayed broadcast the following Wednesday at noon on KCSN, 88.5 FM. Bing Theater | Free, no reservations

The Colburn School Orchestra, Maxim Eshkenazy, Conductor May 5, 2013 | 6 pm Perfoming Dvo řák: Symphony No. 9, New World , and Wieniawski: Violin Concerto No. 2.

The Lyris Quartet May 12, 2013 | 6 pm Performing Beethoven: Quartet F major, Op. 59, No.1, Rasumovsky , and Gerard Schurmann: String Quartet No. 2.

The Crossroads Orchestra, Alexander Treger, Conductor May 19, 2013 | 6 pm Performing Dvorak: Serenade and works by Mozart and Bartok.

Emerging Artists from the Colburn School Sunday, May 26, 2013 | 6 pm Performing works to be announced.

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 3

Charles Owen Quintet May 3, 2013 | 6 pm World-class tenor sax, soprano sax, and flute player Charles Owens is a fearless virtuoso with his own distinctive musical voice. A featured soloist with the Clayton Hamilton Orchestra, he also serves as conductor of the Luckman Jazz Orchestra. Over the years, he has worked with Horace Tapscott, the Gerald Wilson Orchestra, James Newton, John Carter, and Patrice Rushen.

Greg Reitan Trio May 10, 2013 | 6 pm Pianist and composer Greg Reitan is the leader of an award-winning trio that placed second in the 1996 Hennessy Jazz Search in New York. Reitan was also a finalist in the 1995 Great American Jazz Piano Competition and the recipient of the inaugural 2002 ASCAP Young Jazz Composer Award. In 2000, he joined forces with prominent record producer Orrin Keepnews (Bill Evans, Thelonious Monk) to work on projects, including his latest release, Antibes .

Wolfgang Schalk Quartet May 17, 2013 | 6 pm Hailed by critics in the U.S. and Europe as “one of the best jazz guitarists,” Wolfgang Schalk delivers hard-swinging and emotive compositions in the vein of the patriarchal jazz-guitarist lineage while highlighting his membership in the elite club of today’s creative voices. A guitarist with impeccable chops, Schalk's musicianship is illuminated on both electric and nylon-string guitar. Recalling the sounds of esteemed fret-board masters Wes Montgomery, George Benson, Pat Martino, and Pat Metheny, Schalk expands on the tradition by playing dynamic music expressing thoughtfulness and original artistic abilities as one of today's authentic jazz guitarists.

Sandra Booker May 31, 2013 | 6 pm Sandra Booker is regarded as one of the emerging and important voices in modern jazz vocal music, and was selected as finalist last fall in the Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition. Highly respected by her contemporaries for her virtuosic scat ability, impeccable timing, crystalline tone, and irrepressible musicality, the New Orleans native has a style that is familiar and completely new, all at the same time. She has performed with many jazz luminaries and rising stars including Lalo Schifrin, Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, Harry Connick Jr., the New Orleans Jazz Messengers, Patrice Rushen, and Karen Briggs.

Latin Sounds Relax in Hancock Park as world-renowned artists play the hottest sounds from Brazil, Argentina, Peru, Mexico, Cuba, and Los Angeles. The concerts are every Saturday 5 pm–7 pm, May through September at the Dorothy Collins Brown Amphitheater at LACMA, in Hancock Park north of the museum. Free; no tickets or reservations required.

BombaChante May 25, 2013 | 5 pm BombaChante is an explosive ensemble of nine that features some of the finest musicians in the Los Angeles area. Their tight rhythm section sets

4 the foundation for the band’s screaming horn section. BombaChante features Gabriel Gonzalez on lead vocals, whose credits include performing with Stevie Wonder, Los Lonely Boys, Juan Gabriel, Francisco Aguabella, and Los Van Van. Directed by bassist/producer Ernesto Molina, BombaChante continues to make its presence felt in the L.A. scene while spreading its reach to Northern and Southern California.

Film Programs

Film: Hans Richter: Everything Turns May 5, 2013 | 1 pm Bing Theater | Free; tickets required | Tickets available at the LACMA box office one hour before the screening. Hans Richter was successful as a painter, printmaker, filmmaker, teacher, collaborator and provacateur. After settling in New York in the 1940s, he taught in the Institute of Film Techniques at the City College of New York (CCNY) and became part of the New Cinema movement. Fittingly, filmmaker and current CCNY documentary and MFA film program director David Davidson has chosen Richter as the subject of his latest film. In conjunction with the opening weekend of LACMA's special exhibition, Hans Richter: Encounters , enjoy the West Coast premiere of this insightful look into the Richer's essential and unique contributions of modernism.

Art21—Art in the Twenty-First Century Screening May 12, 2013 | 2 pm Brown Auditorium | 2 –4 pm | Free, no reservations required In the back back-to-back screenings of Art in the Twenty-First Century , the Peabody Award–winning documentary series on PBS, the question of identity creates a backdrop against which notions of portraiture, stereotypes, self-awareness, and what it means to be an artist in today's world are investigated. The first episode, “Identity,” explores these questions through the work of artists William Wegman, Kerry James Marshall, Maya Lin, Louise Bourgeois, and Bruce Nauman (whose work For Beginners is on view at LACMA now). The second screening, "William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible," gives an in-depth look at the unique creative process behind the South African artist's work. Kentridge is known for his dynamic charcoal drawings, animations, video installations, shadow plays, mechanical puppets, tapestries, sculptures, live performance pieces, and operas.

Art21—Art in the Twenty-First Century Screening Sunday, May 19, 2013 | 2 pm Brown Auditorium | 2–4 pm | Free, no reservations required The idea of place and spirituality are central themes in the two back-to- back screenings of Art in the Twenty-First Century , the Peabody Award– winning documentary series on PBS. The first episode, “Place,” explores the process behind contemporary artist Richard Serra’s monumental sculptures. Known for creating massive metal works, Serra redefines space, and his work requires the visitor to not only look at it but also to interact with it, walk around it, and, at times, inside of it. Serra’s sculpture Band , which is located in BCAM, is one example. Other artists featured in this episode include Laurie Anderson, Sally Mann, Barry McGee, Margaret Kilgallen, and Pepón Osorio. The second episode, “Spirituality,” features the work of Light and Space artist James Turrell, whose retrospective opens at LACMA on May 26. Just 5 as Serra’s sculptures redefine a space with their monumentality, Turrell’s brilliant light installations also transform space, capturing the ethereal properties of light, and create a unique sensory experience for the viewer. Other artists featured in this episode include Beryl Korot, Ann Hamilton, John Feodorov, and Shahzia Sikander.

Series: Young Woman Filmmakers from Mexico—Special Screening Organized with AMBULANTE AMBULANTE, a non-profit organization established in 2005 by Gael García Bernal, Diego Luna, and Pablo Cruz, supports and promotes documentary film as a tool for social and cultural transformation. The program includes a selection of award-winning films by young women filmmakers from Mexico, followed by conversations with some of the directors. This special film program, which celebrates the newly reinstalled Latin American art galleries at LACMA, is hosted by AMBULANTE, the Consulate General of Mexico in Los Angeles, and the Latin American art department at LACMA. Bing Theater | Tickets: 323 857-6010 or reserve online.

El General (The General) May 10, 2013 | 7 pm Mexico, USA/2008/90min/Color/Spanish with English Subtitles| Dir: Natalia Almada Free, Ticket required | Ticket includes admission to Intimidades de Shakespeare y Victor Hugo The film will be followed by a conversation with the director. El General tells the story of one of Mexico’s most controversial figures, Plutarco Elías Calles—alternately known as “The General,” “Nun- Burner” and “The Dictator”—as told by director Natalie Almada, his granddaughter. The film is both a journey into Almada’s family history, and an intimate portrait of Mexico a century after the Revolution of 1910, touching on the socio-economic injustice that has prevailed for the duration.

Intimidades de Shakespeare y Víctor Hugo (Shakespeare and Victor Hugo’s Intimacies) May 10, 2013 | 9:30 pm México/2008/Color/83min/Spanish with English Subtitles| Dir: Yulene Olaizola Free, Ticket required | Included with admission to El General , otherwise tickets available for this film only The lodging house owned by Rosa Carbajal at the corner of Shakespeare and Victor Hugo streets in Mexico City hides an intimate and passionate story. Twenty years ago, Rosa met Jorge Riosse, a charismatic young tenant who became her closest friend. But after his sudden death, a darker portrait emerged. The film is a profound sketch of two lonely characters whose lives become strongly and strangely entwined.

El lugar más pequeño (The Tiniest Place) May 11, 2013 | 5 pm Mexico/2011/140min/Color/Spanish with English Subtitles| Dir: Tatiana Huezo Free, Ticket required | Ticket includes admission to Mi vida dentro The film will be followed by a conversation with the director. Five families walk through the jungles of El Salvador for several days; they arrive in their village to find nothing left. The characters—farm 6 laborers from a guerrilla town—struggle to resume living amidst the nightmares and wounds inflicted by civil war. They begin to organize themselves, collecting the remains of the dead, sowing the soil and looking after their animals. Forced to give up their weapons, they commit to the memory of what has happened.

Mi Vida Dentro (My Life Inside) May 11, 2013 | 8 pm Mexico/2007/Color/120min/Spanish with English Subtitles| Dir: Lucia Gaja Free, Ticket required | Included with admission to The Tiniest Place (El lugar más pequeño) The film will be followed by a conversation with the director. Mi Vida Dentro tells the story of Rosa, who, at the age of 17, migrated illegally from Mexico to Austin, Texas. In January 2003, she was detained for suspected murder, and then put on trial more than eighteen months later. The film provides powerful insight into the life of Mexican immigrants in the United States through one woman's struggles in the judicial system.

Series: Tuesday Matinees Every Tuesday at 1 pm, LACMA screens a classic film from the Universal Pictures library. Bing Theater | $4 general admission; $2 seniors (62+) and LACMA members

Written on the Wind May 14, 2013 | 1 pm 1956/color/99 min. | Scr: George Zuckerman; dir: Douglas Sirk; w/ Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone A young woman marries into a corrupt oil family, then falls for her husband's best friend.

Dishonored May 21, 2013 | 1 pm 1931/b&w/91 min. | Scr: Josef von Sternberg, Daniel Nathan Rubin; dir: Josef von Sternberg; w/ Marlene Dietrich, Victor McLaglen, Gustav von Seyffertitz During World War I, a lady spy betrays enemy officers, until she falls in love with one.

Family Plot May 28, 2013 | 1 pm 1976/color/120 min. | Scr: Ernest Lehman; dir: Alfred Hitchcock; w/ Karen Black, Bruce Dern, Barbara Harris, William Devane A phony psychic takes on a pair of kidnappers.

Series: Film Independent at LACMA Film Independent, the nonprofit 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 inclusive series offers unique film experiences, bringing together Film Independent’s large community of filmmakers and wide spectrum of audiences with LACMA’s commitment to presenting cinema in an artistic and historical context. The program presents classic and contemporary narrative and documentary films, artists and their influences, emerging auteurs, international showcases, special guest– curated programs, and conversations with artists, curators, and special 7 guests. Film Independent at LACMA is under the curatorial leadership of esteemed film critic Elvis Mitchell in collaboration with LACMA assistant curator Bernardo Rondeau and Film Independent’s programming team. Bing Theater

Free Screening: Stories We Tell Thursday, May 2, 2013 | 7:30 pm 2012/color and b&w/108 min. | Scr/dir: Sarah Polley; w/ Sarah Polley, Rebecca Jenkins, Peter Evans, Alex Hatz Followed by a Q&A with writer/director/star Sarah Polley. Tickets are free | Two ticket limit In her documentary directorial debut, Academy Award®-nominated filmmaker and indie icon Sarah Polley returns to one of her favorite subjects: the intimacies and mysteries of family life. But the family in question here just happens to be Polley’s own. The youngest child of show business parents, Polley was a film actress by age six, and by 18, she was the lead in the Cannes multiple-award-winner The Sweet Thereafter. Later, she began directing and cemented her stature behind the camera with 2006’s acclaimed Away From Her . Turning the camera on herself and her immediate family—her father even narrates the film—in Stories We Tell , Polley takes a frank look at the personal histories they share, and, in the process, uncovers some astounding revelations. Combining first-person testimonials with Super 8 footage and documentary flourishes that seamlessly blend past and present, Stories We Tell is a touching, unpredictable look at how we become who (we think) we are.

Roberto Rossellini Restored: Journey to Italy Thursday, May 9, 2013 | 7:30 pm 1954/b&w/97 min.| Scr: Roberto Rossellini, Vitaliano Brancati, Antonio Pietrangeli; dir: Roberto Rossellini; w/ Ingrid Bergman, George Sanders, Maria Mauban, Anna Proclemer, Paul Muller $5 for Film Independent, LACMA Film Club and The New York Times Film Club members | Price includes both films in double bill: Journey to Italy and Stromboli | Limit two tickets per membership $7 for LACMA members, students with valid ID and seniors (62+); $10 for the general public | $5 admission for second film, Stromboli , only available at the door In Journey to Italy , family business calls George Sanders and Bergman on a trip to Naples, and the English stringency of one hardens under the Mediterranean sun while it seems to melt away from the other. Somewhere between the gurgling lava fields of Vesuvius and the catacombs of Fontanelle, the dire state of the couple’s marriage suddenly becomes evident. Journey to Italy ably renders a clash of cultures and behaviors— both that of its characters as well as the behind-the-scenes struggle between the improv-minded Rossellini and his stars, both of whom were more accustomed to tightly-scripted roles. Under the glistening surface of its minimal plot, Rossellini’s film amasses subtle details and small moments that build towards one of postwar cinema’s most enigmatically poignant conclusions. A massive influence on the soon-to-be-filmmakers at Cahiers du Cinema (Jacques Rivette even wrote, “If there is a modern cinema, this is it”), Journey to Italy ranked as the third best film of all time, behind F.W. Murnau’s Sunrise and Jean Renoir’s The Rules of the Game, in a 1958 poll of French critics.

Roberto Rossellini Restored: Stromboli Thursday, May 9, 2013 | 9:20 pm 8

1950/b&w/107 min. | Scr: Sergio Amidei, Gian Paolo Callegari, Renzo Cesana, Art Cohn; dir: Roberto Rossellini; w/ Ingrid Bergman, Mario Vitale, Renzo Cesana, Mario Sponzo $5 for Film Independent, LACMA Film Club and The New York Times Film Club members | Price includes both films in double bill: Journey to Italy and Stromboli . | Limit two tickets per membership $7 for LACMA members, students with valid ID and seniors (62+); $10 for the general public | $5 admission for second film, Stromboli , only available at the door The film where Rossellini met Bergman, Stromboli—like Voyage to Italy —is a semi-autobiographical portrait of its star’s stanger-in-a-strange-land predicament. Bergman plays a Lithuanian war refugee who marries a fisherman on the remote Sicilian island of Stromboli in order to escape an internment camp. Foreshadowing Antonioni’s L’Aventurra (1960), Rossellini’s film contrasts the island’s desolate, volcanic landscapes with its leading lady’s emotional turmoil. The barren, sulfurous rock proves a formidable and unpredictable rival for Bergman’s ferocious will. Long available only in butchered, poor-quality prints, Stromboli is ready to be rediscovered thanks to Cinecittà’s new digital restoration of a film which Martin Scorsese has called “an intensely moving exploration of sainthood and spirituality."

Valley Girl—30th Anniversary Screening Thursday, May 16, 2013 | 7:30 pm 1983/color/99 min. | Scr: Wayne Crawford, Andrew Lane; dir: Martha Coolidge; w/ Nicolas Cage, Deborah Foreman, Elizabeth Daily, Michael Bowen, Cameron Dye, Fredric Forrest, Colleen Camp Includes a conversation with director Martha Coolidge Get into the '80s spirit and dress up! Costume contest and reception to follow the screening. $5 for Film Independent, LACMA Film Club and The New York Times Film Club members | Limit two tickets per membership $7 for LACMA members, students with valid ID and seniors (62+); $10 for the general public Director Martha Coolidge's landmark 1983 comedy marks its thirtieth anniversary this year. Nicolas Cage makes his leading-man debut as Randy, the amiable punk who falls for Julie (Deborah Foreman) when he and his best friend Fred (Cameron Dye) crash a San Fernando Valley party. Coolidge boils down Romeo and Juliet to a power-pop confection about the class tensions between Los Angeles proper and the suburban wonderland on the other side of the hill. Coolidge packs the film with a talented and eccentric cast that includes Elizabeth Daily (her baby-smoky voice would provide a counterpoint to Paul Reuben’s determined arrested development in Pee Wee’s Big Adventure and propel several animated series, including Rugrats ), Quentin Tarantino repertory player Michael Bowen and, as Julie’s parents who refuse to let the sun go down on the ’70s, Fredric Forrest and Colleen Camp. For this group, as Modern English noted in a song that functions as the unofficial Valley Girl theme, “The future’s open wide.”

Special Double Bill: Before Sunrise Friday, May 17, 2013 | 7:30 pm 1995/color/105 min. | Scr: Richard Linklater, Kim Krizan; dir: Richard Linklater; w/ Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy Richard Linklater’s romantic comedy about the intoxicating power of talk is also the first in the series of films featuring Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and 9

Céline (Julie Delpy) tentatively but volubly making their way towards love. Linklater began his collaboration with fellow Texan Hawke on Sunrise —a relationship that would yield two additional installments in the Before trilogy, not to mention a cameo by Jesse and Céline in the animated feature Waking Life, and other Linklater features starring Hawk, such as The Newton Boys and Tape . Working with co-writer Kim Krizan—who turned up in the director’s epochal 1991 film Slacker and had a small part in his equally potent Dazed and Confused —Linklater brings the swagger of verbal confidence to the story of this pair of young people who meet as they’re traveling by train from Budapest en route to their final destinations: back to the States for Jesse, Paris for Céline. The ability to express a thought, whether philosophical or primal, minor or evanescent, is what draws the Texan and the Parisienne towards each other.

Special Double Bill: Before Sunset Friday, May 17, 2013 | 9:30 pm 2004/color/80 min. | Scr: Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke; dir: Richard Linklater; w/ Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy $5 for Film Independent, LACMA Film Club and The New York Times Film Club members | Price includes both films in double bill: Before Sunrise and Before Sunset . | Limit two tickets per membership $7 for LACMA members, students with valid ID and seniors (62+); $10 for the general public | $5 admission for second film, Before Sunset, only available at the door In this 2004 sequel to Before Sunrise, Céline (Julie Delpy) and Jesse (Ethan Hawke) reunite. Spoiler alert—though they didn’t end up together, their first encounter impacted both of their lives, and both are still recovering from (and savoring) that impact. Jesse (Ethan Hawke) is now a successful writer, touring in support of his bestselling novel, This Time , inspired by his tryst with Céline. As he sits being interviewed by a group of journalists in Paris—who debate the origin of the novel before him—Jesse looks up and sees Céline (Julie Delpy). Sunset is about opportunities—and love—lost. Céline and Jesse are now older, wiser, and a little sadder. Linklater plays the film for rueful laughs, and as he slowly turns up the heat, the glamour of onscreen romance returns, as does the light in the star-crossed lovers’ eyes.

Free Members-Only Screening: Before Midnight Tuesday, May 21, 2013 | 7:30 pm 2013/color/108 min.| Scr: Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke; dir: Richard Linklater; w/ Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy Followed by a conversation with co-writer/director Richard Linklater, co- writer/star Julie Delpy and co-writer/star Ethan Hawke Tickets are free | Limit two tickets per membership Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy and Richard Linklater revisit their roles as Jesse and Céline, the couple we first met in 1995’s Before Sunrise . In the previous films—Before Sunrise and its sequel, 2004’s Before Sunset —Jesse (Hawke) and Céline (Delpy) were circling each other at different points in their lives. In each of the films, the possibility of commitment loomed, as imminent and out of reach as the states of the sun mentioned in the titles. In Midnight , they’re a married couple living in France, tending to their twin daughters and trying to keep a bond intact with Jesse’s son, Hank, who spends most of his time in the United States with his mom. It’s the departure of Hank for the States that sets this latest installment into motion. Linklater, who wrote the script with Delpy and Hawke, 10 continues with the series’ tradition of being one of the most present- tense comedies ever made. Like its predecessors, Midnight has the couple laboring to concentrate on the moment at hand, though they can’t help theorizing about the immediate future—endangering their enjoyment of life even as it happens.

Free Screening: Pussy Riot—A Punk Prayer Tuesday, May 28, 2013 | 7:30 pm 2013/color/86 min. | Scr/dir: Mike Lerner, Maxim Pozdorovkin Tickets are free | Limit two tickets per membership Three young women, two of them new mothers, face years in remote Russian prison camps for performing forty seconds of a satirical song inside a Moscow cathedral. Their bizarre trial and harsh treatment becomes fodder for national debate and an international scandal. Filmed over the course of six months and featuring never-before-seen footage, HBO Documentary Films’ Pussy Riot—A Punk Prayer tells the story of Nadia, Masha and Katia— the three members of the underground activist group Pussy Riot arrested for the performance in the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour. A portrait of the real women behind the colorful balaclavas, as recounted by some of the people that know them best, A Punk Prayer also depicts how these guerilla art provocateurs came, somewhat unwittingly, to test the very limits of their country’s democracy. Winner of the World Documentary Jury Award at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival.

Free Screening: The East Thursday, May 30, 2013 | 7:30 pm 2013/color/116 min./Scope | Scr: Zal Batmanglij, Brit Marling; dir: Zal Batmanglij; w/ Brit Marling, Alexander Skarsgård, Ellen Page, Toby Kebbell, Shiloh Fernandez, Patricia Clarkson, Julia Ormond Bing Theater | Includes a conversation with co-writer/director Zal Batmanglij Tickets are free | Limit two tickets per membership In his second collaboration with writer/actress Brit Marling (their first, which they co-wrote, was the low-fi thriller The Sound of My Voice ), writer/director Zal Batmanglij creates a psychological thriller that examines the alluring power of outsized personality. A loner finds herself subsumed by the need for family—an appetite that has gone ignored for maybe far too long. Marling (who also authored this script with Batmanglij) plays Sarah, who works for a security firm brought in to shield corporations. Her job is to gather information on the shadow organization “The East”, a group whose goal is to carry out activities that Sarah was trained to thwart. Batmanglij and Marling have created a noir about people with similar skills on entirely different missions, asking us to judge not only who is right, but who is righteous. Things are further complicated when Sarah begins to question herself and her mission, and begins to see the allure of The East and its charismatic leader, Benji (Alexander Skarsgård).

Special events

Mother's Day Brunch & Dinner at Ray's and Stark Bar May 12, 2013 | 11:30 am Ray's and Stark Bar | Lunch: 11:30 am–3 pm | Dinner: 5–10 pm | For information and reservations, call 323 857-6180 This Mother’s Day, Ray’s and Stark Bar offer a special array of menu 11 items. Starters include green eggs and ham, manila clams, and marinated bay scallops. Entrees include wood grilled lobster, the benedict burger with a sunny egg, sausage stuffed quail, and more.

Other PUBLIC PROGRAMs

Story Time in the Boone Children's Gallery May 3, 6, 10, 13, 17, 20, 24, 27, 31 | 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 May 4, 11, 18, 25 | 11 am BP Grand Entrance | Free family tours are led by museum educators and are offered every Saturday | Tours last approximately forty-five minutes. 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. Whether the art is miniature cars zooming through a futuristic city, a mummy from ancient Egypt, a 340-ton boulder that you can walk under, or animal avatars from ancient Mexico—your family will learn about and experience the best the museum has to offer. Works of art change weekly. Be sure to pick up your NexGen or general admission tickets and finish any snacks before the tour starts.

Andell Family Sundays—East Coast Meets West Coast May 5, 12, 19, 26 | 12:30 pm LATCC | Free, with museum admission | 12:30–3:30 pm Travel from the East Coast to the West Coast without leaving the room! Take a tour of Compass for Surveyors: 19th Century American Landscapes and create your own scenic art —you can even make a compass! While you're here, cruise on over to BCAM to see more than a thousand miniature cars zooming through Chris Burden's kinetic sculpture, Metropolis II , which is in action every Sunday at the following times: 10:30–11:30 am; 12:30–1:30 pm; 2:30–3:30 pm; 4:30–5:30 pm.

Shinique Smith: Firsthand—Family Day May 11 | 10 am Family Day at Charles White Elementary School welcomes visitors of all ages to discover the LACMA Education exhibition Shinique Smith: Firsthand through free family-friendly tours, surprising scavenger hunts, and creative art projects. Charles White Elementary School ǀ FREE | 2401 Wilshire Boulevard ǀ Visitors can enter the gallery on Family Day via the corner of Park View and Wilshire Boulevard ǀ For more information, please contact 323 857- 6211.

Teen Event: After Dark May 11, 2013 | 7 pm LACMA | Free, tickets required | Teens only; bring your middle or high school ID | Tickets: 323 857-6010 Join this special party just for teens. See some art and dance under the stars to teen DJs.

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Art Museum Day Discounted Admission May 18, 2013 | 10 am LACMA | $5 off general admission | Some events are subject to separate ticketing; please select individual events above for more details. Programs and Tours Include: Free Family Tours 11 am | BP Grand Entrance Free Docent-Led Tour: Highlights of the Museum 1 pm | LA Times Central Court Free In Focus Tour : Ming Masterpieces from the Shanghai Museum 1 pm | L.A. Times Central Court Indian Dance Performance 7 pm | Bing Theater

Target Free Holiday Mondays: Memorial Day May 27, 2013 | 11 am LACMA | *Free, general admission ticket required 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 the Music of China Ensemble at UCLA. Performances at 12:30 and 2:45 pm.

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, and innovative collaborations with artists, LACMA is creating a truly modern lens through which to view its rich encyclopedic collection.

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

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 : Steve Reich & Friends, photo by Wonge Bergmann Center, Left : Image: Katsushika Hokusai (Japan, 1760–1849), Amida Falls on the Kiso Highway , circa 1833, Gift of Max Palevsky. Center, Right: Image courtesy of Jorge Vismara. Right: Dishonored , 1931, directed by Josef von Sternberg

Press Contact: For additional information, contact LACMA Communications at [email protected] or 323 857-6522

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