LACMA

The region's largest encyclopedic art museum, with adult art classes, gallery tours, talks, film screenings and sound baths in the new David Geffen Galleries.

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Oct23Jazz at LACMA: Marina PacowskiFriday, 6:00 PMFrench-born, LA-based jazz vocalist Marina Pacowski, who has shared stages with players such as John Clayton and Peter Erskine, performs a free Friday-evening set in the closing weeks of the Jazz at LACMA season. The concert is on the Smidt Welcome Plaza at LACMA, 5905 Wilshire Blvd, a stop on Metro bus 20, with food trucks on site. It runs Friday, Oct 23 from 6 to 8pm and is free. LACMA's Third Weekends programs follow in November.Free
Nov19A Century of The New Yorker CoversThursday, 7:00 PMFrançoise Mouly, art editor of The New Yorker for more than thirty years, walks through a hundred years of the magazine's covers decade by decade, drawing on her new book, with Art Spiegelman and Kadir Nelson joining the conversation. The talk is in LACMA's East West Bank Commons, 5905 Wilshire Blvd, reachable on Metro bus 20 along Wilshire. It runs Thursday, Nov 19 from 7 to 8pm; tickets are $18, or $15 for members. The same Third Weekends program brings a figure-drawing class on Nov 20, a sound bath on Nov 21 and a film on Nov 23.$18, Members: $15
Nov20Modern Dance Figure DrawingNov 20 – Nov 20An adult drawing workshop where a live modern dancer poses and moves among the works in the Modern Art Galleries while participants sketch, thinking about motion, space and how dance and painting speak to each other. It meets on BCAM Level 3 at LACMA, 5905 Wilshire Blvd, near Metro bus 20 on Wilshire. The class is Friday, Nov 20 from 2 to 4pm and costs $40, or $35 for members. The evening before, LACMA hosts a talk on a century of New Yorker covers.$40; Members: $35
Nov21Sound Bath in the David Geffen GalleriesSaturday, 9:00 AMBefore the museum opens to the public, sound artists Jahna and Michael Perricone lead a restful sound bath among works from LACMA's permanent collection in the new David Geffen Galleries. LACMA is at 5905 Wilshire Blvd, served by Metro bus 20. The session is Saturday, Nov 21 from 9 to 10am, with tickets at $20, or $15 for members. Two days later LACMA screens Addams Family Values on Keck Plaza.$20; Members: $15
Nov23Addams Family ValuesMonday, 7:30 PMA Thanksgiving-week outdoor screening of Barry Sonnenfeld's 1993 comedy, in which the Addams clan welcomes a new baby, tries to save Uncle Fester from a murderous bride and sends Wednesday and Pugsley off to summer camp. It plays on W.M. Keck Plaza at LACMA, 5905 Wilshire Blvd, on the Metro bus 20 line. Showtime is Monday, Nov 23 from 7:30 to 9pm; tickets are $10, or $8 for members. It closes out a Third Weekends run that also includes a New Yorker covers talk on Nov 19 and a sound bath on Nov 21.$10, Members: $8

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