January at LACMA: Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists, Metropolis II, Ellsworth Kelly, and more

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EXHIBITIONS + INSTALLATIONS
	IN WONDERLAND: THE SURREALIST ADVENTURES OF WOMEN ARTISTS IN MEXICO AND THE UNITED STATESJAN 29–MAY 6 In Wonderland is the first large-scale survey of its kind, bringing together forty-seven women surrealist artists, including masters such as Frida Kahlo, Louise Bourgeois, and Leonora Carrington. Driven by an impulse for independence and self-expression, these women used their art to subvert traditional notions of gender, sexuality, and motherhood, delving freely and deeply into their subconscious and dreams to create art that shocks, delights, and amazes.  Learn more_
	_ ELLSWORTH KELLY: PRINTS AND PAINTINGS JAN 22–APR 22  In a career spanning four decades, Ellsworth Kelly has established himself as a master of pure color and shape. Ellsworth Kelly: Prints and Paintings is the first exhibition to focus on Kelly’s prolific print practice since 1988. Organized thematically, the exhibition explores his major motifs: curves, contrasts, and grids, bringing together more than one hundred prints, including selected prints from his forty-year collaboration with the legendary Los Angeles print workshop Gemini G.E.L. Learn more
	METROPOLIS II OPENS JAN 14 Metropolis II is an intense and complex kinetic sculpture that features hundreds of miniature cars speeding through an elaborate roadway system and trains hustling along on intricately placed tracks. Towering nine feet high and spread across more than five hundred square feet, Metropolis II is massive and, according to artist Chris Burden, “produces in the viewer the stress of living in a dynamic, active, and bustling twenty-first-century city.” Learn more_
	_ EXHIBITIONS AND INSTALLATIONS--CLOSING SOON! Ai Weiwei: Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads Contested Visions in the Spanish Colonial World Edward Kienholz: Five Car Stud 1969–1972, Revisited Glenn Ligon: AMERICA Mural Remix: Sandra de la Loza RODARTE: Fra Angelico Collection _
TALKS + COURSES
	_ HERE & THERE: ARTISTIC EXCHANGE BETWEEN GERMANY AND CALIFORNIA IN THE 1970S JAN 10 | 2:30 PM The artistic exchange between artists in California and Germany in the 1970s greatly influenced the ways that the dissemination of the work of Californian artists throughout Germany. In a one-day symposium presented by the Goethe-Institut Los Angeles at LACMA, artists, critics, and art historians examine this vital transatlantic artistic period. Learn more
	_ THE NEW MFA: THE ART OF THE AMERICAS WING JAN 11 | 7 PM Nonie P. Gadsden, curator of American decorative arts and sculpture at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, shares an insider's perspective on that museum's new Art of the Americas wing. Learn more and purchase tickets
	_ GALLERY COURSE: CALIFORNIA DESIGN JAN 14 | 9 AMGet a behind-the-scenes look at the special exhibition that features hundreds of objects highlighting the inventive spirit of California designers during the mid-century. An introduction and refreshments are followed by a private gallery tour before the galleries open to the public. Learn more and purchase tickets _
	_ THE DIRECTOR'S SERIES: MICHAEL GOVAN AND RODARTE FOUNDERS KATE AND LAURA MULLEAVY PRESENTED BY THE COSTUME COUNCIL JAN 18 | 7:30 PM LACMA CEO and Wallis Annenberg Director Michael Govan talks with fashion-world superstars Kate and Laura Mulleavy about how art history and literature have influenced their work since founding Rodarte in Los Angeles in 2005, and in particular a group of extraordinary gowns inspired by the work of Renaissance artist Fra Angelico on view now in the European galleries. Learn more and purchase tickets _
	_ MURAL REMIX TOUR JAN 21 | 10 AM This day-long tour highlights the Chicano murals of the 1970s and features a curator-led tour of the exhibition Mapping Another L.A.: The Chicano Art Movement at the Fowler Museum, a conversation with Sandra de la Loza in the LACMA exhibition Mural Remix: Sandra de la Loza, and a short talk with artist Willie Herrón III at the site of his newly commissioned mural. The tour starts and ends at the Fowler Museum at UCLA. Learn more _ _
	_ CALIFORNIA DESIGN NOW JAN 31 | 7 PM The Decorative Arts and Design Council hosts its third annual contemporary design panel. Coinciding with the exhibition California Design, 1930-1965: "Living in a Modern Way," the evening features several Los Angeles designers and architects discussing the impact and lasting legacy of California's modern design heritage on their current work. Frances Anderton, host of DnA: Design and Architecture on 89.9 KCRW and Los Angeles editor of Dwell magazine, moderates the panel. Learn more and purchase tickets
FILM
	_ CASSAVETES' SHADOW: FILM INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARDS NOMINEE DISCUSSION AND SCREENING JAN 12 | 7:30 PMThe John Cassavetes Award, presented at the Film Independent Spirit Awards since 2002, is a distinction reserved for filmmakers who have delivered films on a budget of less than half a million dollars. The 2012 John Cassettes Award nominees discuss how they managed to bring their dreams to the big screen. Following the discussion, we will screen Shadows, the writing and directing debut of the man who changed the independent film landscape and after whom the award is named—John Cassavetes.Learn more and purchase tickets _ _ LIVE READ, DIRECTED BY JASON REITMAN JAN 19 | 7:30 PM Standby only The year’s first installment of Jason Reitman’s Live Read. With a surprise—and celebrated—cast and title to be announced. Learn more _ _  100 YEARS OF PARAMOUNT PICTURES JAN 26 | 7:30 PMThroughout the spring, Film Independent at LACMA is celebrating the centenary of Paramount Pictures with screenings of animated shorts, trailers, and features from the studio’s illustrious library. Learn more and purchase tickets _
	_ FREE FILM SERIES: CONTESTED VISIONS IN LATIN AMERICA JAN 21–22 Hosted by Edward James Olmos and curated by Marlene Dermer, co-director of the Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival (LALIFF), this two-day film program explores themes from Contested Visions in the Spanish Colonial World through cinema. Learn more and view full schedule _
	_ SPECIAL FILM SCREENING: THE OTHER CONQUEST JAN 27 | 7:30 PM The Other Conquest (La Otra Conquista) is a powerful drama about the aftermath of the Spanish conquest of Mexico in the 1520s, told from the perspective of the indigenous Aztec people. Receiving wide critical acclaim during its run in the United States, the film was ranked as one of the Los Angeles Times's top ten films of 2000. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the director Salvador Carrasco, the film’s protagonist Damián Delgado (as Topiltzin), and local scholars. Learn more and purchase tickets _
	JANUARY FREE DAY
	_ TARGET FREE HOLIDAY MONDAYS: MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. DAY JAN 16 | 12–8 PM This Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, LACMA is offering free general admission, plus family activities and performances, gallery tours, and more! Learn more _
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	In Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists in Mexico and the United Stateswas organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico. It was made possible through a generous grant from the Terra Foundation for American Art. The organizers are grateful for the special collaboration of the National Council for Culture and the Arts (Conaculta), Mexico, and National Institute of Fine Arts (INBA), Mexico. The Los Angeles presentation was made possible in part by The Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Horowitz Foundation for the Arts and is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities. Metropolis II is presented courtesy of the Nicolas Berggruen Charitable Foundation.
	Film Independent at LACMA is presented by The New York Times. Ovation is a premier sponsor and the series is made possible by grants from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association® and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Image credits: Frida Kahlo, Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird (Autorretrato con collar de espinas y colibrí) (detail), 1940, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin, © 2011 Banco de México Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, México, D.F./ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, reproduction of Frida Kahlo governed by Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura (INBA); Bridget Tichenor, Autorretrato (Self Portrait) (undated), private collection, © Bridget Tichenor Estate; Ellsworth Kelly, Colors on a Grid, 1976, © Ellsworth Kelly and Tyler Graphics, Ltd; Chris Burden, Metropolis II, 2010, long-term loan courtesy of the Nicolas Berggruen Charitable Foundation, © Chris Burden, photo courtesy of E. Koyama; Eleanor Antin, Move on, 1971–1973, purchased with funds provided by the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation, the Modern and Contemporary Art Council, the Nathan B. Cooper Memorial Fund, Sherry and Michael Kramer, and David and Suzanne D. Booth; MFA image: © Chuck Choi; Julius Shulman (1910–2009), photographer, Pierre Koenig, architect, Stahl House (Case Study House #22), Los Angeles, 1960 © J. Paul Getty Trust. Used with permission. Julius Shulman Photography Archive, Research Library, Getty Research Institute; Kate and Laura Mulleavy for Rodarte, Gown(detail), spring/summer 2012 couture, Fra Angelico Collection, promised gift of Rodarte (Kate and Laura Mulleavy), Maria Arena Bell, Susan Casden, Eva Chow, DNA Boutique, Allison Sarofim, Karyn Silver, Christine Suppes, Lizzie Tisch, Dasha Zhukova, and an anonymous donor; Sandra de la Loza, study for Raza Mural Remix installation, 2010, © Sandra de la Loza ; Buff, Straub, & Hensman,Recreation pavilion, Mirman House, Arcadia, 1958, photo by Julius Shulman, 1959, © J. Paul Getty Trust, used with permission, Julius Shulman Photography Archive, Research Library at the Getty Research Institute; La teta asustada (The Milk of Sorrow), Peru/Spain, 2009. Los Angeles County Museum of Art 5905 Wilshire Blvd (at Fairfax), Los Angeles CA 90036 323 857-6000 | lacma.org Directions, Hours, and Parking