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Lacma MEMBERS MAGAZINE January | February 2012 lacma MEMBERS MAGAZINE january | february 2012 periodicals 5905 WILSHIRE BOULEVARD | LOS ANGELES CALIFORNIA 90036 | LACMA.ORG LOS ANGELES CALIFORNIA 90036 | 5905 WILSHIRE BOULEVARD | ^ 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 United States 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 facebook.com/lacma twitter.com/enlacma art, and assistant curator Christina Yu Yu have assembled a beautiful variety of objects spanning from Neolithic times to On the Cover: the nineteenth century. Stephen has also been busy in the Korean art galleries overseeing the installation of Buddha Frida Kahlo, Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird (Autorretrato con collar de Seokgamoni (Shakyamuni) Preaching to the Assembly on Vulture Peak, a masterpiece of the Joseon dynasty that has been under- espinas y colibrí), 1940, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin, © 2011 Banco de México Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, going conservation at lacma for much of last year. These objects and much more are on view now—as ever, there is México, D.F./ Artists Rights Society (ars), New York, reproduction of Frida Kahlo always more to discover. governed by Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura (inba) Vol. 51, no. 1, Connect (issn 1551-0654) is published bimonthly by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 5905 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90036. Ten dollars of membership dues goes toward one year’s subscription to Connect. Periodicals postage paid at Los Angeles, CA. lacma is accredited by the American Association of Museums. © 2012 Museum Associates dba Los Angeles County Museum of Art. All rights reserved. Public programs photography, courtesy of Brant Brogan and Jennifer Huxta. Unless otherwise noted, all works lacma; all photographs © 2012 Museum Associates/lacma. Michael Govan postmaster: Send address changes to Connect, Membership Department, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 5905 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90036. ceo and Wallis Annenberg Director editors: Scott Tennent and Jenny Miyasaki | graphic designer: Jin Son Printed by on 60lb Smooth Opaque Offset on a Hantscho press Questions or comments about Connect? Please e-mail Scott Tennent at [email protected]. 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 Jack Black, Jerry Bruckheimer, Steve Carell, Nick Cassa- Reading Room, coinciding with the regionwide Pacific vetes, Cameron Diaz, Ron Howard, Jason Reitman, Standard Time initiative. Additions include books on Benicio Del Toro, Uma Thurman, 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 Ellsworth Kelly: 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.
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