This weekend, the Tim Burton exhibition at LACMA comes to a close. To help usher out this fantastic show in true Burton style, the museum is screening six of Vincent Price’s ghoulish classics back-to-back in honor of his centenary.
A Window on the Past – Downtown Los Angeles in the 1940s
October 11, 2011 2:45 pm By
As a longtime center of the film industry, Los Angeles has served as backdrop and central character in countless movies. This rich celluloid history helps us understand what Los Angeles and its environs were like in decades past.
Pacific Standard Time: Telling the Story of Art in LA, 1945-1980
September 27, 2011 4:51 am By
As LA Times Art Critic Christopher Knight pointed out in a recent article, “…retrospective knowledge [of the early years of post-World War II art in Los Angeles] is broad but shallow, a surface barely scratched.” Recognizing the dearth of knowledge and understanding of this formative period in the city’s cultural development, the Getty Foundation and the Getty Research Institute set out to uncover, document and reclaim the historical record of art in Southern California.
String Theory Live with Special Guest David Poe
September 13, 2011 1:34 am By
Each week I receive dozens of press releases and emails about upcoming events around the Los Angeles area. Many of these happenings sound enticing, but it’s the rare event that truly captures my attention and stands out from the crowd. The upcoming performance of String Theory at the Ford Amphitheatre is one that jumped out at me.
ArtWalk 2011 – Experience the Miracle Mile Art Scene
May 13, 2011 11:06 pm By
With its many museums and art galleries, the Miracle Mile and surrounding mid-Wilshire neighborhood is one of several important centers of LA’s vibrant art scene. Home to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the Architecture+Design Museum, and the Craft and Folk Art Museum, as well as numerous galleries, visitors to this part of the city can easily spend several days exploring the area’s wealth of art venues.
Celebrating Orphan Films: Bringing the Obscure to Light
May 12, 2011 4:24 pm By
We are very fortunate to live in a city that is home to some of the finest film preservation and screening organizations in the country. This month, two of these local film institutions, the UCLA Film & Television Archive and Los Angeles Filmforum, in cooperation with NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, present a program called Celebrating Orphan Films, an eclectic mix of screenings and discussions at the Billy Wilder Theater.
Black Talkies on Parade Presents – Imitation of Life
April 20, 2011 1:00 am By
On the last Saturday of every month, the African American Cinema Society (AACS), which is part of The Mayme A. Clayton Library and Museum, presents rare and historically significant films by and/or about African Americans. This weekend the AACS is hosting a screening and discussion of Imitation of Life (1934). Directed by John M. Stahl, the film tells the story of the friendship between Bea Pullman (Claudette Colbert) and Delilah Johnson (Louise Beavers) as they start a business together that earns them a fortune. Although Delilah has financial success, her teenage daughter, Peola, rebels and uses her light skin to pass as white and experience a different life.
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