^ Los Angeles County Museum of Art 5905 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles California 90036 Periodicals |VOLUME 53 ISSUE 4 APRIL 2014 |Member calendar CoNNECT

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Montebello Art+Film Lab James Turrell: A Retrospective David Hockney: The Jugglers The Color of Life: Montebello City Park Through April 6 Through April 20 Japanese Paintings April 4–May 4 from the Price Collection Through April 20

Shaping Power: Luba Kaz Oshiro: Chasing Ghosts AGNÈS VARDA IN CALIFORNIALAND Modern Japanese Prints: Masterworks from the Royal Charles White Elementary School Through June 22 The Juda Family Legacy Museum for Central Africa Through June 7 Through June 22 Through May 4

four abstract classicists Helen Pashgian: Light Invisible John Divola: As Far as I Could Get Visions of the South Through June 29 Through June 29 Through July 6 Through July 13

Fútbol: The Beautiful Game CALDER AND ABSTRACTION: FROM The Painted City: Hassan Hajjaj: My Rock Stars Through July 20 AVANT-GARDE TO ICONIC Art from Teotihuacan Experimental, Volume 1, 2012 Through July 27 Through December 7 Ongoing

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MEMBERS ONLY EXHIBITIONS 01 04 05 06 01 Calder and Abstraction: OPENING: Montebello Art+Film Lab Gallery Course: Free Day at LACMA for TALKS & COURSES From Avant-Garde to Iconic Montebello City Park Renaissance and Baroque Art Monterey Park–area Residents 11:30 am | Resnick Pavilion Open house | 6–8 pm 8:30 am | Brown Auditorium 10 am | Museum-wide TOURS Live music by Viento Callejero | 7 pm $30 LACMA members; John Divola: As Far as I Could Get Calder and Abstraction Film: La Bamba | 8 pm $35 general public 1 pm | L.A. Times Central Court 11:30 am | Resnick Pavilion FILM More info: lacma.org/artfilmlab Tickets: lacma.org or 323 857-6010 Tuesday Matinee: Animal Crackers O!-Site: Public Hours— Story Time in the Galleries Highlights of the Museum 1 pm | Bing Theater Kaz Oshiro: Chasing Ghosts 2 pm | Hammer Building Noon | L.A. Times Central Court MUSIC $2 LACMA members and seniors Take part in CicLAvia's Iconic (62+); $4 general public Academy @ LACMA Helen Pashgian: Light Invisible Wilshire Boulevard route FAMILIES The Decline of Western Civilization 1 pm | L.A. Times Central Court event and discover the exhibition Highlights of the Museum Part II: The Metal Years, with special Kaz Oshiro: Chasing Ghosts 3 pm | L.A. Times Central Court The Painted City: guest Penelope Spheeris, plus more along the way. EVENTS Art of Teotihuacan to be announced. Noon–4:30 pm | Charles White 1:30 | L.A. Times Central Court Elementary School All events free, no reservations required, unless otherwise noted. 7:30 pm | Bing Theater $3 LACMA Film Club members, Art and Music—Songs Andell Family Sundays Academy members, and students; in the Key of California 12:30 pm | North Piazza $5 LACMA members and general 3 pm | Brown Auditorium public | Tickets: lacma.org or Nicole Miller: Believing Is Seeing Young Directors Night 323 857-6010 12:30–2:30 pm | Bing Theater LACMA Muse Presents Celebrate the best in local film. Elvis Mitchell hosts an evening showcasing Shaping Power: Luba short films by L.A.-based filmmakers. Masterworks the 13th-Annual Young Directors Night 7:30 pm | Bing Theater 2:30 pm | L.A. Times Central Court $25 LACMA Muse and Film Club Sundays Live: Afro-American Saturday, April 5 | 7:30 pm | Bing Theater members; $35 LACMA members; Chamber Music Society $45 general public Orchestra Tickets required: lacma.org/muse 6 pm | Bing Theater

07 08 09 (closed weDNEsDAYS) 11 12 13 Story Time in the Galleries Calder and Abstraction: Academy @ LACMA Story Time in the Galleries Highlights of the Museum Calder and Abstraction: 2 pm | Hammer Building From Avant-Garde to Iconic Grey Gardens, with special guest 2 pm | Hammer Building Noon | L.A. Times Central Court From Avant-Garde to Iconic 11:30 am | Resnick Pavilion Albert Maysles 11:30 am | Resnick Pavilion MEMBER MONDAY Art & Music: Meredith Monk Helen Pashgian: Light Invisible 7:30 pm | Bing Theater After-hours access for members Highlights of the Museum with Katie Geissinger 1 pm | L.A. Times Central Court Highlights of the Museum $3 LACMA Film Club members, to selection exhibitions. Noon | L.A. Times Central Court 7:30pm | Bing Theater Noon | L.A. Times Central Court Academy members, and students; The Social Self: Selfies, 6–10 pm | BCAM $18 LACMA members and seniors John Divola: As Far as I Could Get $5 LACMA members and general Self-Documentation, and Andell Family Sundays and Resnick Pavilion (62+); $5 students with ID; $25 1 pm | L.A. Times Central Court public | Tickets: lacma.org or Self-Portraiture 12:30 pm | L.A. Times Central Court Info: lacma.org/members general public 323 857-6010 A half-day symposium exploring Tuesday Matinee: Tickets: lacma.org or 323 857-6010 The 8th-Annual Distinguished self-portraiture alongside new The Andromeda Strain Lecture on South and Southeast technologies, social media, and 1 pm | Bing Theater Asian Art contemporary art. $2 LACMA members and seniors Robert Linrothe, associate professor 1 pm | Brown Auditorium (62+); $4 general public of art history at Northwestern Tickets: lacma.org or 323 857-6010 Wrapped Up—Korean Bojagi University, presents this talk titled Workshop “The Three-Story ‘Heap of Jewels’: 10 2 pm | Boone Children’s Gallery A Buddhist Shrine at Alchi in the Gallery Discussion: Reservations: lacma.org or Western Himalyas.” The Art of Looking—French Art 323 857-6010 2 pm | Brown Auditorium 12:30 pm | BP Grand Entrance Shaping Power: Luba Masterworks from the Royal Museum for Central Africa 2:30 pm | L.A. Times Central Court Sundays Live: Pianist Svetlana Smolina 6 pm | Bing Theater 14 15 18 19 20 The Painted City: Calder and Abstraction: Story Time in the Galleries Highlights of the Museum Calder and Abstraction: Art of Teotihuacan From Avant-Garde to Iconic 2 pm | Hammer Building Noon | L.A. Times Central Court From Avant-Garde to Iconic 1:30 pm | L.A. Times Central Court 11:30 am | Resnick Pavilion 11:30 am | Resnick Pavilion Jazz at LACMA: Pete Escovedo Helen Pashgian: Light Invisible Story Time in the Galleries John Divola: As Far as I Could Get Latin Jazz Orchestra 1 pm | L.A. Times Central Court Highlights of the Museum 2 pm | Hammer Building 1 pm | L.A. Times Central Court Save 6 pm | BP Grand Entrance Noon | L.A. Times Central Court The Painted City: Tuesday Matinee: Going My Way Academy @ LACMA Art of Teotihuacan Shaping Power: Luba 1 pm | Bing Theater the date With special guest Penelope Spheeris, 1:30 | L.A. Times Central Court Masterworks from the Royal $2 LACMA members and seniors plus more guests to be announced. Museum for Central Africa Art & Music: TAIKOPROJECT (62+); $4 general public Bing Theater | Tickets: lacma.org 2:30 pm | L.A. Times Central Court and Ryutaro Kaneko: LifeRhythm Tickets: lacma.org or 323 857-6010 or 323 857-6010 (World Premiere) Sundays Live: Chamber 7:30 pm | The Decline of Western Highlights of the Museum Member 7:30 pm | Bing Theater Ensembles from the Colburn Civilization 3 pm | L.A. Times Central Court $18 LACMA members and seniors School 9:40 pm | The Decline of Western (62+); $25 general public 6 pm | Bing Theater Shopping Civilization: Part III Tickets: lacma.org or 323 857-6010 $3 LACMA Film Club members, days: Academy members, and students; $5 LACMA members and May 2–5 general public

Members enjoy an additional 10% 21 22 o! most items! 25 26 27 Story Time in the Galleries Calder and Abstraction: Story Time in the Galleries Highlights of the Museum Calder and Abstraction: 2 pm | Hammer Building From Avant-Garde to Iconic 2 pm | Hammer Building Noon | L.A. Times Central Court From Avant-Garde to Iconic 11:30 am | Resnick Pavilion 11:30 am | Resnick Pavilion Discussion and Book Jazz at LACMA: Mark Winkler Helen Pashgian: Light Invisible Signing: Living and Sustaining John Divola: As Far as I Could Get and Cheryl Bentyne 1 pm | L.A. Times Central Court Highlights of the Museum a Creative Life 1 pm | L.A. Times Central Court 6 pm | BP Grand Entrance Noon | L.A. Times Central Court Panelists discuss how artists can Tuesday Matinee: Morocco Andell Family Sundays sustain a creative practice over time. 1 pm | Bing Theater 12:30 pm | L.A. Times Central Court 7 pm | Brown Auditorium $2 LACMA members and seniors Shaping Power: Luba Masterworks (62+); $4 general public from the Royal Museum Tickets: lacma.org or 323 857-6010 Expressionism in for Central Africa Highlights of the Museum 2:30 pm | L.A. Times Central Court 3 pm | L.A. Times Central Court Germany and France: Sundays Live: Pianist Marina Lozamov From Van Gogh to 6 pm | Bing Theater Kandinsky

Opens June 8 28 29 Member Priority-Ticketing Dates Story Time in the Galleries Calder and Abstraction: From 2 pm | Hammer Building Avant-Garde to Iconic April 23 | Director's Circle, Curator's Circle, 11:30 am | Resnick Pavilion and leadership donors The Director’s Series: Michael Govan and Helen Pashgian John Divola: As Far as I Could Get April 30 | Friend, Supporter, Avant-Garde, 7:30 pm | Bing Theater 1 pm | L.A. Times Central Court and Partner members Free; tickets required Tuesday Matinee: Border River May 7 | Student, Individual, and Dual-level members Tickets: lacma.org or 323 857-6010 1 pm | Bing Theater May 28 | General public $2 LACMA members and seniors (62+); $4 general public To reserve, visit lacma.org/members or call Tickets: lacma.org or 323 857-6010 855-LACMA-55, from 10 am–5 pm, every day.

MEMBER MONDAY: FILM INDEPENDENT AT LACMA Free Daily Tours Family Art Every Day April 7 | 6–10 pm Every month, Film Independent and LACMA and Talks Drop by the Boone Children’s Gallery and o!er classic and contemporary films and make art together as a family. Painting activities Only members may visit after hours to see: documentaries, drawing on L.A.’s film commu- LACMA o!ers free 15–50 minute gallery are available everyday. On weekdays, add nity. Screenings often feature Q&As with and exhibition tours every day at 1, 1:30, to a community textile project to make a giant ý Agnès Varda in Californialand directors, actors, artists, and more. 2, and 3 pm. Drop in to learn more about bojagi, or Korean wrapping cloth. ý Calder and Abstraction: Visit lacma.org/film for a complete listing. works in our vast collection, from the ancient to the present. From Avant-Garde to Iconic SPRING Art Classes ý David Hockney: The Jugglers LACMA FILM CLUB Make art inspired by LACMA’s collection. Add Film Club to your LACMA membership ý Fútbol: The Beautiful Game Enroll now in Acrylic Painting (Studio Session), (Individual level and above) to get invites Painting for Tweens (Studio Session), colorful ý Helen Pashgian: Light Invisible to exclusive members-only screenings, ticket creations for families, sketchbook for teens, presales for popular events such as Jason and more. Visit lacma.org/art-classes for Learn more at lacma.org/members. Reitman’s Live Reads, and discounts on all a complete list of o!erings. Film Independent at LACMA events. Learn more at lacma.org/filmclub.

Kaz Oshiro, Dumpster (Yellow with Blue Swoosh) Miguel Calderón, Mexico vs. Brasil (detail), 2004, ABOVE (TOP TO BOTTOM): image Credits (detail), 2010, gift of Steven Hull and Tami Damree, courtesy of the artist and kurimanzutto, Mexico City, PRODUCTION Hassan Hajjaj, Boubacar Kafando in My Rock Stars Yasmine Benyamini, and Samuel Kashani © Miguel Calderón OVERLEAF (LEFT TO RIGHT, TOP TO BOTTOM): Experimental, Volume 1 (detail), 2012, purchased Vol. 53, no. 4, Connect (ISSN 1551-0654) is published monthly Agnès Varda, Viva!—Rado—Ragni in LIONS Installation photograph, Calder and Abstraction: From with funds provided by Art of the Middle East: by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 5905 Wilshire Blvd., LACMA9 Art+Film Lab, 2014, photo LOVE (…AND LIES) (detail), 1968, © Max Raab / Avant-Garde to Iconic, November 24, 2013–July 27, CONTEMPORARY, courtesy of Rose Issa Projects Los Angeles, CA 90036. by Duncan Cheng Agnès Varda 2014, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, © Calder Foundation, New York, Artists Rights Society (ARS), Vincent van Gogh, The Poplars at Saint-Rémy James Turrell, Raemar Pink White, 1969, Shallow Yoshihara Hideo, The Other Side of the Bridge Periodicals postage paid at Los Angeles, CA. New York, photo © Fredrik Nilsen (detail), 1889, the Cleveland Museum of Art, Space, collection of Kayne Gri!in Corcoran, Los (detail), 1965, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Felix Juda LACMA is accredited by the American Alliance of Museums. bequest of Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. (1958.32), Angeles, installation view at Gri!in Contemporary, Mexico, basin of Mexico, Teotihuacan, Teotihuacán, © 2014 Museum Associates dba Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Lorser Feitelson, Hardedge Line Painting (detail), photo © the Cleveland Museum of Art Santa Monica, California, 2004, © James Turrell, Tripod Vessel Depicting a Warrior’s Shield, A.D. All rights reserved. Unless otherwise noted all photographs 1963, anonymous gift through the Contemporary photo by Robert Wedemeyer, courtesy Kayne Gri!in 400–700, gift of Constance McCormick Fearing © 2014 Museum Associates/LACMA. Art Council, © The Feitelson / Lundeberg Art Corcoran, Los Angeles Foundation Hassan Hajjaj, Mr M. Toliver (detail), 2013, courtesy Postmaster: Send address changes to Connect, Membership David Hockney, still from The Jugglers (detail), June of the artist and GUSFORD | los angeles Department, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 5905 Wilshire Helen Pashgian, Untitled, 1968–69, purchased 24th 2012, 2012, courtesy of and © David Hockney. Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90036. with funds provided by the Hillcrest Foundation Shinsaku Izumi, Tunnel of Night (detail), c. 1931, All rights reserved. and the Modern and Contemporary Art Council Los Angeles County Fund Editor: Linda Theung Ito- Jakuchu-, Mandarin Ducks and Snow-Covered Acquisitions Endowment Graphic designer: David Karwan, LACMA Graphic Design Liang Kai, The Poet Li Bai Chanting a Poem on a Reeds (detail), 18th century, Etsuko and Joe Price John Divola, As Far as I Could Get (R02F33), Stroll (detail), Southern Song dynasty, 13th century, Printer: COP Communications Collection 10 Seconds (detail), 1996–7, courtesy of and Tokyo National Museum, Important Cultural Property, Printing: 60lb Smooth Opaque O!set on a Hantscho press Democratic Republic of the Congo (Luba Peoples), © John Divola image courtesy of TNM Image Archive Questions or comments about Connect? Figure Holding Bold, collection the Royal Museum Emil Nolde, Dancer (detail), 1913, the Robert Please email Linda Theung at [email protected]. for Central Africa Tervuren, photo R. Asselberghs, Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist RMCA Tervuren © Studies, © Estate of Emil Nolde