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^ 5905 WILSHIRE BOULEVARD | CALIFORNIA 90036 | LACMA.ORG periodicals Tickets, Hours, & More hours Monday, Tuesday, Thursday: 12–8 pm Friday: 12–9 pm Saturday, Sunday: 11 am–8 pm Closed Wednesday lacma.org/exhibitions restaurants All restaurants: Closed Wednesday Ray’s: Lunch 12–3 pm; dinner 5–10 pm Reservations: 323 857-6180 Stark Bar: 11 am–11 pm Plaza Café: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday: 12–7 pm Friday: 12–8 pm Saturday, Sunday: 11 am–8 pm museum stores In Wonderland Open during regular museum hours lacmashop.org Director’s Note The Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists Art Catalogues: 323 857-6587 in Mexico and the Gift Shop: 323 857-6146 In the fall it seemed as if there was a new exhibition, program, or special event every single week at lacma, from the admission opening of our Pacific Standard Time exhibitions and the closing ofTim Burton, to the launch of our Film Independent at General: $15 adults; $10 seniors and students lacma film series, and finally our first annual Art+Film Gala—a spectacular success, raising nearly3 $ million for the Free general admission: after 5 pm, Monday–Friday, for L.A. museum. County residents, children under 18, and on the second Tuesday of each month. Tickets: lacma.org or 323 857-6010 Many of the exhibitions on view during our busy fall are coming to a close this January, including Edward Kienholz’s Five in wonderland tickets Car Stud, Glenn Ligon: AMERICA, and the groundbreaking exhibition Contested Visions in the Spanish Colonial World. Curator Includes general admission Ilona Katzew has devoted ten years to this exhibition, breaking entirely new ground in terms of scholarship around the Adults: $20 | Free for members and for children under 18 Reserve your free members-only tickets: lacma.org or 877 522-6225 persistence of pre-Columbian cultures in colonial Peru and Mexico. Contested Visions is on view through January 29. parking Staying in Mexico but jumping ahead to the twentieth century, January sees the opening of In Wonderland: The Surrealist Available in the Pritzker Parking Garage, located on Sixth Street Adventures of Women Artists in Mexico and the United States, which features a striking array of works by the likes of Frida just east of Fairfax Avenue, or in the lot at Wilshire Boulevard and Spaulding Avenue. Kahlo and Remedios Varo, as well as artists working north of the border such as Louise Bourgeois and Dorothea Tanning. membership The Latin American theme continues into the spring with Children of the Plumed Serpent: The Legacy of Quetzalcoatl in Ancient To renew or for questions about your membership: lacma.org Mexico, opening in April. or 323 857-6151 I am also extremely pleased to note the approximately forty objects from our Chinese collection that went on view in lacma on the web lacma.org twitter.com/lacma December for the first time in more than five years. Stephen Little, curator and department head of Chinese and Korean

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January 29–May 6 | Resnick Pavilion surrealist works by forty-seven women artists, This exhibition was organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico. It was made Member Preview Days: January 26–28 including paintings, sculpture, photography, possible through a generous grant from the Terra Foundation and other works on paper. During wartime, for American Art. The organizers are grateful for the special news & highlights collaboration of the National Council for Culture and the Arts Driven by an impulse for independence and the geographic landscapes of Mexico and the (conaculta), Mexico, and National Institute of Fine Arts (inba), Art+Film Gala Raises $3 Million lacma Hires Curator of African Art self-expression, women surrealist artists such Mexico. The Los Angeles presentation was made possible in part United States allowed these artists to freely by The Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Horowitz Foundation for the as Frida Kahlo, Louise Bourgeois, Leonora Arts and is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council On November 5, lacma hosted its inaugural Art+Film lacma has named Dr. Mary (Polly) Nooter Roberts delve deep into their subconscious and dreams on the Arts and the Humanities. Gala, which honored actor and filmmaker Clint Eastwood consulting curator of African art. Dr. Roberts is profes- Carrington, and others were masters at using to create art that shocks, delights, and amazes. and artist John Baldessari. Co-chaired by actor Leonardo sor of world arts and cultures at ucla and holds a PhD art to subvert traditional notions of gender, In Wonderland journeys through their fantastical DiCaprio and lacma trustee Eva Chow, and sponsored in art history from Columbia University. She was senior sexuality, and motherhood. The first large-scale by Gucci, the evening brought together luminaries from curator of the Museum for African Art in New York worlds—where the uncanny trumps logic—and survey of its kind, In Wonderland brings together both the art and film worlds, including artists Doug from 1984 to 1994 and deputy director and chief curator bears witness to their relentless self-discovery. Kay Sage, Danger, Construction Ahead, 1940, Yale University Art Gallery, Aitken, Mark Bradford, Chuck Close, Barbara Kruger, of the Fowler Museum at ucla from 1999 to 2008. approximately one hundred and seventy-five New Haven, Connecticut, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh J. Chisolm Jr., BA 1936, © Estate of Kay Sage Tanguy, photo © Yale University Art Gallery Catherine Opie, Ed Ruscha, and Julian Schnabel, and Historic Publications Added to Reading Room entertainment industry leaders such as Drew Barrymore, lacma has added eight publications to its free online , Jerry Bruckheimer, , Nick Cassa- Reading Room, coinciding with the regionwide Pacific vetes, Cameron Diaz, Ron Howard, , Standard Time initiative. Additions include books on , , Gus Van Sant, Harvey R. M. Schindler and a guide to Southern California Weinstein, and more. The evening raised $3 million, architecture published in 1965; two books—Los Four and with proceeds going to support lacma’s initiative to Chicanismo en el Arte—documenting lacma’s early make film more central to the museum’s curatorial pro- engagement with Chicano artists; and the 2001 exhibi- gramming, while also funding lacma’s broader mission. tion catalogue for Made in California: Art, Image, and Restored Korean Masterpiece on View Identity, 1900–2000. The eight books join ten previously Originally acquired by lacma in 1998, the eighteenth- available publications on Southern California art in the century Korean Buddhist painting Buddha Seokgamoni 1960s and ’70s. To browse the Reading Room, go to (Shakyamuni) Preaching to the Assembly on Vulture Peak has lacma.org. never been on display due to its fragile condition. In Alphabet Exhibition at Charles White 2011 the museum commissioned Professor Park Chi- Elementary School Sun, chief conservator at Jung-Jea Conservation Center Since 2008, lacma has programmed exhibitions in a in Korea, to collaborate with lacma’s conservation Major Florentine Sculptures Added to Collection gallery at the Charles White Elementary School, near department on the restoration of this rare masterpiece. On view now in the European galleries are two new MacArthur Park, as part of the museum’s ambitious The complicated process was performed in the Korean acquisitions made possible by The Ahmanson Founda- education initiative Art Programs in the Community: art galleries, in view of the public, from September 2010 tion—Giovanni Baratta’s life-size marble sculptures, lacma On-Site. On view through March 30, A is for Zebra to August 2011. As of December, the newly restored Wealth and Prudence (1709). The sculptures were origi- features works by John Baldessari, Mel Bochner, and painting is now on display. Restoration of the painting : Prints and Paintings nally commissioned by Niccolò Maria Giugni (1672–1717) others, as well as facsimiles of Francisco de Goya’s was sponsored by CJ E&M America. for the gallery in his palazzo on the Via degli Alfani in Caprichos and the Aztec codex Tira de la Peregrinación. The Rodarte Collection Installed in European Galleries Florence. They are an important addition to lacma’s museum also commissioned new works by Michele January 22–April 22 | bcam Paintings is the first exhibition to focus on prints, including selected works from his On view now is an installation of gowns by fashion extensive grouping of late seventeenth- and early Dizon and Camilo Ontiveros, Kirsten Mosher, and Member Preview Days: January 19–21 Kelly’s prolific print practice since 1988. forty-year collaboration with the legendary designers Rodarte, a promised gift to lacma by the eighteenth-century Florentine sculpture, including Stephanie Taylor. For more about the exhibition, visit Working in a variety of media, Ellsworth Kelly Organized thematically, the exhibition explores Los Angeles print workshop Gemini G.E.L. designers and several generous donors. Inspired by the bronzes by Montauti and Piamontini, as well as a gilded lacma.org. his major motifs: curves, contrasts, and grids, This exhibition was organized by the Los Angeles County Renaissance paintings of Fra Angelico, the collection terra-cotta, a wax relief, and medals by Massimo has established himself as a master of pure Museum of Art. Buddha Seokgamoni (Shakyamuni) Preaching to the Assembly on Vulture Peak bringing together more than one hundred will be on view in the European galleries through Soldani-Benzi, among other notable works. (detail), Joseon dynasty (1392–1910), dated 1755, Far Eastern Art Acquisi- color and shape. Ellsworth Kelly: Prints and Ellsworth Kelly, Purple/Red/Grey/Orange, 1988, lacma, Graphic Arts February 5. tion Fund Council Discretionary Fund, © 2011 Ellsworth Kelly Members bring guests for free in january January february mon tue (closed wed) thu fri sat sun mon tue (closed wed) thu fri sat sun

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Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Girl with a Basket of Fish (detail), National Gallery of BA membership Art, Washington, D.C., photo © Washington, D.C. NP lacma.org/programs lacma.org/programs type of creativity in this difficult economic climate. A TALKS screening of Shadows, the writing and directing debut MUSIC SPECIAL Events of John Cassavetes, follows the discussion. Preview Reception for photo l.a. Here & There: Artistic Exchange Between Germany Mural Remix Tour Live Read, Directed by Jason Reitman ART & MUSIC January 12 | 6 pm and California in the 1970s January 21 | 10 am January 19 and February 16 | 7:30 pm Eclipse String Quartet & Vocalist Perla Batalla Celebrate the twenty-first anniversary of photo l.a. with January 10 | 2:30 pm This daylong tour highlights 1970s Chicano and The year’s first installments of Jason Reitman’s Live February 4 | 7:30 pm honorary guest host, photographer and musician Moby. 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Target Free Holiday Mondays Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Cosponsored by the Chicano Studies Research Center (UCLA), with The Messenger (2009), comes another tale about a veteran Bing Theater | $25 general admission; $18 members/seniors; $5 for Martin Luther King Jr. Day, January 16 | 12–8 pm support from the Getty Research Foundation and LAXART. grappling with a new battlefront. stars students with id | Tickets 323 857-6010 or lacma.org January 11 | 7 pm President’s Day, February 20 | 12–8 pm as Dave Brown, a combative patrolman in L.A. during In-kind media support for Art & Music is provided by Classical California Design Now Visitors of all ages are invited to a free* day at the Nonie P. Gadsden, curator of American decorative arts the heat of the Rampart scandal in 1999, whose uniquely kusc fm 91.5. January 31 | 7 pm museum, with live music by Inca (January 16) and and sculpture at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, shares hostile approach to his professional and civilian worlds Rhythm Child (February 20) at 12:30 and 2:45 pm. an insider’s perspective on that museum’s new Art of the The Decorative Arts and Design Council hosts its third disrupts the lives of all those around him. SUNDAYS LIVE Americas wing. annual contemporary design panel, featuring several Los Free | *Does not include admission to In Wonderland This film screening is open to Film Independent, lacma, and New All concerts: 6 pm | Bing Theater | Free | More info: Brown Auditorium | $20 general admission; $15 members; free for Angeles designers and architects discussing the impact York Times Film Club members only | Free; two-ticket limit lacma.org dadc members and students with id | Tickets: 323 857-6528 or and lasting legacy of California’s modern design heritage 100 Years of Paramount Pictures January 8: Pianist Joel Fan [email protected] on their current work. Frances Anderton, Los Angeles January 26 | 7:30 pm Art Rental & Sales Gallery Spring Opening Made possible by the Elsie de Wolfe Foundation. editor of Dwell magazine, moderates the panel. January 15: The Triple Helix Trio Throughout the spring, Film Independent at lacma is February 25 | 5 pm Brown Auditorium | $20 general admission; $15 members; free for January 22: Chamber Ensembles from the dadc members and students with id | Tickets: 323 857-6528 or celebrating the centenary of Paramount Pictures with Crossroads School Join the Art Rental and Sales Gallery at lacma for its [email protected] screenings of animated shorts, trailers, and features spring opening. The arsg represents a select group of January 29: Brasil Guitar Duo Made possible by the Elsie de Wolfe Foundation. from the studio’s illustrious library. dynamic Southern California artists who explore a wide Genuine or Fake? Establishing Authenticity in February 5: Pianist Bruce Brubaker range of styles in paintings, prints, and photographs. Presenting sponsor Traditional Chinese Painting February 12: Lincoln Trio Art of the Americas Building | More info: 323 857-6501 or [email protected] February 12 | 3 pm awareness, issues that were also central to women Premier sponsor February 19: Pianist Svetlana Smolina How does one determine a real Chinese painting from a The series is also made possible by grants from the Hollywood surrealist artists. February 26: The usc Thornton Guitar Orchestra fake? What determines the difference between a copy Foreign Press Association® and the Academy of Motion Picture Bing Theater | Free, no reservations and Ensembles and a forgery? Stephen Little, curator and head of the Arts and Sciences. Chinese and Korean Art Department, examines some GALLERY TOURS, DISCUSSIONS, AND Bing Theater | All films, unless otherwise noted: $10 general admission, $7 for lacma members, seniors (62+), and students key issues and techniques involved in the connoisseur- COURSES ship of Chinese painting. with valid id; $5 for Film Independent, lacwma Film Club, and New York Times Film Club members. For details, tickets, and NEXGEN Brown Auditorium | $10 general admission; $5 members; free Point-of-View Talk: Chinese Art additional listings, visit lacma.org or call 323 857-6010. for East Asian Art Council members | Tickets: 323 857-6010 or January 5 | 12:30 pm lacma.org Christina Yu Yu, assistant curator of Chinese art, leads 2012 is the Year of Sponsored by the East Asian Art Council. EXHIBITION FILM SERIES this tour of the newly reinstalled Chinese art galleries the Dragon. Contested Visions in Latin America through Film Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970–1990 and shares the inside story of the installation process. January 21 | 1 pm February 21 | 7 pm BP Grand Entrance | Free, no reservations This dragon is just one of January 22 | 12:30 pm twelve animals that make Glenn Adamson, deputy head of research and head of Gallery Discussion: The Art of Looking graduate studies at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, Hosted by Edward James Olmos, actor, producer, direc- up the Chinese zodiac. January 12 and February 9 | 12:30 pm discusses the V&A’s exhibition Postmodernism: Style and tor, and community activist, and curated by Marlene Museum educators offer one-hour facilitated gallery dis- Subversion 1970–1990, the first in-depth survey of the Dermer, co-director of the Los Angeles Latino Interna- cussions looking in depth at the permanent collection. subject. tional Film Festival, this two-day film program explores BP Grand Entrance | Free with museum admission, no Brown Auditorium | $20 general admission; $15 members; free for themes from Contested Visions in the Spanish Colonial World reservations dadc members and students with id | Tickets: 323 857-6528 or through cinema. Saturday’s programming includes [email protected] Gallery Course: California Design award-winning feature films, includingLa Teta Asustada Made possible by the Elsie de Wolfe Foundation. January 14 | 9 am (The Milk of Sorrow), the first Peruvian film ever to be New Narratives for “Living in a Modern Way”: Get a behind-the-scenes look at California Design. An nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and the Mexican feature El Violín, which Director’s Series: Michael Govan and Rodarte Founders California Design at Mid-century introduction and refreshments are followed by a private Chinese artist Ai Weiwei Guillermo del Toro called “one of the most amazing Kate and Laura Mulleavy February 24 | 10 am, 7 pm keynote gallery tour before the galleries open to the public. re-created the famous Mexican films in many a year.” Sunday’s screenings twelve bronze animal Presented by the Costume Council February 25 | 10 am BP Grand Entrance | $35 general admission; $30 members | Tickets: 323 857-6010 highlight short films and documentaries, includingLa heads that once adorned January 18 | 7:30 pm Chaired by California Design co-curators Wendy Kaplan Pequeña Semilla en el Asfalto (The Little Seed in the Asphalt), a a fountain in an ancient palace in Beijing. lacma ceo and Wallis Annenberg Director Michael and Bobbye Tigerman, this two-day symposium exam- compelling portrait of four young people who leave their Govan talks with fashion-world superstars Kate and ines the exhibition’s themes. The event explores the FILM communities in Chiapas to follow their dreams in the Laura Mulleavy about how art history and literature interconnectedness of mid-century architecture and Come see all the zodiac city. The program also includes roundtable discussions animals and find out have influenced their work since founding Rodarte in design and includes a keynote panel that considers the Film Independent at LACMA and conversations with some of the directors and actors. which animal represents Los Angeles in 2005, in particular a group of extraordi- impact and legacy of modern California design on Bing Theater | Free, tickets required | Tickets: 323 857-6010 or the year you were born. nary gowns inspired by the work of Renaissance artist contemporary practice. A Conversation with Glenn Close lacma.org Fra Angelico on display in lacma’s Italian Renaissance Bing Theater | Tickets: Two-day pass: $25 general admission; $15 January 6 | 7:30 pm The film program was made possible with the support of galleries through February 5. members; free to students with id. One-day pass: $15 general Tony and Emmy Award–winning actress Glenn Close Paul and Herta Amir, JoAnn Busuttil, Darrel Couturier, cars to Barbie and Ken! Check out clean and cool designs admission; $10 members; free to students with id. All symposium Join LACMA’s award-winning free youth membership Bing Theater | $25 general admission; $15 members | Tickets: 323 William Escalera, and Francisco George. in beachwear, ceramics, jewelry, and even a vintage tickets include museum general admission | Tickets: 323 857–6010 discusses her ambitious and fascinating career path program for everyone 17 and under! NexGen Members get 857-6010 or lacma.org | Free for Costume Council members and or lacma.org | More info: lacma.org through film, television, and stage—from the wryly Airstream trailer in the exhibition California Design. Then $15 for one guest | Costume Council members rsvp by January 9 SPECIAL SCREENING free admission to the museum and can get an adult guest to 323 857-6555 or [email protected] Women, Surrealism, California, and Beyond predatory Patty Hewes in Damages to the compellingly in free too. For more info visit lacma.org. create your own “California look” in artist-led work- deluded Norma Desmond in the Broadway production of The Other Conquest and Q&A shops. Director’s Series: Michael Govan and Rocco Landesman February 24 | 9:30 am Sunset Boulevard to her latest—the big-screen realization January 27 | 7:30 pm Andell Family Sundays are supported by Andrew and Ellen February 23 | 7:30 pm Andell Family Sundays Martica Sawin, noted authority on surrealist artists of one of her stage characters in Albert Nobbs. A screening Hauptman and the Hauptman Family Foundation. The Other Conquest (La Otra Conquista) is a Mexican feature Join NexGen for artist-led workshops, sketching in Michael Govan talks with National Endowment for during the 1940s, chairs this panel discussion in con- of Albert Nobbs follows the conversation. junction with the exhibition In Wonderland: The Surrealist film about the aftermath of the Spanish conquest of galleries, and interactive bilingual tours. the Arts chairman Rocco Landesman about the nea’s This event is open to Film Independent, lacma Film Club, lacma, The Boone Children’s Gallery Mexico in the 1520s, told from the perspective of the All events: 12:30–3:30 pm | Free | Children 12 and younger research on arts engagement and the impact of declin- Adventures of Women Artists in Mexico and the United States. and New York Times Film Club members only. plus family Don’t be fooled by the name—this gallery is not just for Cosponsored by the College Art Association, the pro- indigenous Aztec people. Receiving wide critical acclaim ing art education on public participation in the arts. Cassavetes’ Shadow: Film Independent Spirit Awards kids. Everyone is invited to paint in this family-friendly gram explores the new perspectives that the exhibition during its run in the United States, the film was ranked Circle of Animals Bing Theater | Free, tickets required | Tickets: 323 857-6010 or Nominee Discussion and Screening space in the Hammer Building. Join us on Mondays and lacma.org highlights, demonstrating the unique role geography as one of the Los Angeles Times’s top ten films of 2000. A January 8, 15, 22, 29 | 12:30 pm January 12 | 7:30 pm Q&A with director Salvador Carrasco, Damián Delgado, Fridays at 2 pm as gallery staff read picture books and and gender played in this international movement. Celebrate the Year of the Dragon and discover which and local scholars follows the screening. folk tales. Brown Auditorium | Free, no reservations The John Cassavetes Award, presented at the Film zodiac animal belongs to you! Circle of Animals/Zodiac Free, tickets required and available at the Ticket Office. Children above: Kate and Laura Mulleavy for Rodarte, Gown (detail), spring/ Independent Spirit Awards since 2002, is a distinction Bing Theater | Free, tickets required | Tickets: 323 857-6010 or Heads by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei will inspire you to must be accompanied by an adult. | Hours: Monday, Tuesday, summer 2012 couture, Fra Angelico Collection, promised gift of Rodarte Cortney Andrews: In Wonderland Today lacma.org | In Spanish and Nahuatl with English subtitles reserved for filmmakers who have delivered a film that Thursday, and Friday, 12–5 pm; Saturday and Sunday, 11 am–5 pm (Kate and Laura Mulleavy), Maria Arena Bell, Susan Casden, Eva Chow, February 26 | 2 pm make masks, hats, and other animal-inspired art. dna Boutique, Allison Sarofim, Karyn Silver, Christine Suppes, Lizzie cost half a million dollars or less to make. The 2012 John | Closed Wednesday | For more info: 323-857-6128 or lacma.org California Cool Tisch, Dasha Zhukova, and an anonymous donor The work of Brooklyn-based performance artist Cortney Cassavetes Award nominees discuss how they managed Ai Weiwei: Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads, August 20, 2011–February 12, above right: Bridget Tichenor, Self Portrait (Autorretrato), undated, Andrews focuses on constructing narratives and identity February 5, 12, 19, 26 | 12:30 pm 2012, lacma, © Ai Weiwei private collection, © Bridget Tichenor Estate to bring their dreams to the big screen, a lesson in every by exploring themes of gender, sexuality, and self- California has its own unique style, from furniture and enrich your experience! see an exhibition ENROLL IN A Course LACMA.ORG/EXHIBITIONS LACMA.ORG/PROGRAMS Edward Kienholz: Five Car Stud 1969–1972, Revisited Enroll in Through January 15 | Art of the Americas Building Adult Art Courses art courses Maria Nordman FILMROOM: SMOKE, 1967–Present weekend art classes online! Through January 15 | Art of the Americas Building Drawing from Sculpture—Gallery Session Glenn Ligon: AMERICA Five Saturdays: February 25, March 3, 10, Through January 22 | bcam 24, 31 | 11 am–1:30 pm With artist Michael Wright Mural Remix: Sandra de la Loza Through January 22 | Ahmanson Building $165; members $155 Contested Visions in the Spanish Colonial World Digital Photography—Outdoor Session Through January 29 | Resnick Pavilion Five Sundays: February 26, March 4, 11, 25, April 1 | 11 am–2 pm Ai Weiwei: Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads Through February 12 | North Piazza With photographer-artist Loretta Ayeroff $170; members $160 California Design, 1930–1965: “Living in a Contested Students must bring their digital camera and memory card. Modern Way” visions in the Through June 3 | Resnick Pavilion spanish weekday art classes Ellsworth Kelly: Prints and Paintings Figure Drawing—Studio Session colonialClosing world January 22–April 22 | bcam Five Tuesdays: February 28, March 6, 13, 20, 27 | JANUARY 29 In Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women 1:30–4:30 pm Artists in Mexico and the United States With artist Rosanne Kleinerman January 29–May 6 | Resnick Pavilion $200; members $190 Places: Printing, Embroidery, and the Art of Global Mapping Classes for Youth and Families February 18–May 13 | Ahmanson Building Children Ages 3½ to 5 and their Family Members Installations Art 101 for the Little Ones Five Saturdays: February 25, March 3, 10, 24, 31 | 2–3:30 pm Rodarte: Fra Angelico Collection Through February 5 | Ahmanson Building With artist Marylene Camacho Child plus one adult $130, $55 per additional family member; Edward Biberman NexGen members plus one adult $120, $50 per additional family Through March 18 | Ahmanson Building member “Color-fornia” Textile Designs by Elza Sunderland children ages 6 t0 9 Through March 25 | Art of the Americas Building Exploring Mythical Creatures Tsushima Festival Screen Five Sundays, February 26, March 4, 11, 25, April 1 | Through April 1 | Pavilion for Japanese Art 11 am–1 pm Buddha Seokgamoni (Shakyamuni) Preaching to With artist Rogelio Acevedo the Assembly on Vulture Peak $110; NexGen members $100 Through July 15 | Hammer Building top: Demonstration of the Indian’s Dance (Mitote) (Demostración de la danza de children ages 10 t0 13 los indios [mitote]), Mexico, c. 1780, Museo de América, Madrid, photo Coming Soon courtesy of Museo de América, Madrid; bottom: Mask (Máscara), Mexico, Travel the World through Art and Food Robert Adams: The Place We Live, a Retrospective Aztec-Mixtec, c. 1325–1521, Museo Nazionale Preistorico-Etnografico Five Sundays, February 26, March 4, 11, 25, April 1 | “Luigi Pigorini,” photo © S-MNPE “L.Pigorini,” Roma-EUR, on concession Selection of the Ministry for the Assets and the Cultural Activity, further 11 am–1 pm Opens March 11 reproduction forbidden by any means (MPE 4213), by Laboratorio With artist-chef Maite Gomez-Rejon Fotografico S-MNPE $110; NexGen members $100 w teens SHOP LACMA’S STORE Designer’s Workshop—Studio Session Lacmashop.org | 323 857-6146 Five Saturdays: February 25, March 3, 10, 24, 31 | In Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women 11 am–2 pm Artists in Mexico and the United States offers a fresh With artist Hadley Holiday perspective on surrealism, spotlighting the $170; NexGen members $160 important role that women artists played in the note: Art classes do not meet on March 17 and 18. movement. This volume, thematically arranged, Enroll in classes online, in person at the Ticket Office, over features the work of forty-seven women artists the phone at 323 857-6010, or by mail (print the enrollment form at lacma.org/art-classes). Enrollment is limited; art and includes two hundred and fifty full-color materials & parking are included in tuition. images, along with several essays exploring the effects of geography and gender on the move- Spring Art Camp 2012 ment. The artists and works depicted here are Spend a week exploring the museum and its collec- both significant and extraordinary in their tion! Taught by artists, each day brings new adven- tures, fun gallery activities, and creative studio art explorations of personal and universal truths. projects. $60 | Member price $54 Ages 6–9 and 10–13 April 2–6 | Monday–Friday | 10 am–3 pm - Tuition: $300/week; NexGen members $275/week Members’ Guests Are Free in January Visit lacma.org for details and to enroll online. USE YOUR BENEFITS Seriously! We are truly grateful for your year-round For more information about classes listed here, contact LACMA.ORG/MEMBERSHIP support and hope that you enjoy this special little perk. the Education Department at 323 857-6139 or email As a member, every time you visit lacma during Reserve Your Free Tickets to In Wonderland [email protected]. January, you can bring up to two additional adult guests As a member, you receive two tickets to In Wonderland. with you for free! Don’t forget that admission for all Tickets are available starting Wednesday, January 4, for children seventeen and under is always free. Thank you members and Wednesday, January 18, for the general and Happy New Year! public. As always, we encourage members to reserve their tickets early to secure prime dates and times. Make Upgrade for Additional Benefits! your experience even more exclusive by seeing the As an Active-level member, you receive great perks like exhibition during Member Preview Days or select two free tickets to In Wonderland—but you can get even Members-Only Viewing Days. more by upgrading! Member Preview Days: January 26–28 (tickets required) • Patron-level members and above receive an invitation to an exclusive opening party Members-Only Viewing Days: February 7, February 28, March 6, March 27, and April 3 (tickets required) • Supporting-level members and above receive the In Wonderland exhibition catalogue Visit a Ticket Office or call 877 522-6225 to reserve your tickets | Indie members receive only one free ticket