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Ambassador to the Arts
As a native Angeleno, I am enormously proud of how our crazy, sprawling, polyglot city has emerged in recent years as one of the world’s most vibrant performing arts centers. It, of course, wasn’t Photo: David Johnston so long ago that L.A. was often dismissed as a cultural lightweight, much more focused on the “Entertainment Industry” than the arts. That stereotype was always flawed; but now, with the building of the Walt Disney Concert Hall and the innovative programming of all of the major companies in town, it can truly be said that L.A. is a shining light in the arts. Our world-class organizations and venues – large and small – reflect the wild diversity and energy of the region. I proudly join my fellow L.A. arts leaders Gustavo Dudamel, Plácido Domingo, James Conlon, Michael Ritchie, and Jeffrey Kahane, along with all of our esteemed colleagues, in inviting you to partake in all that this amazing city has to offer!
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Ambassador’s Note
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Sponsors
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Publisher’s Note
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Ahmanson Theatre
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Broad Museum
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Geffen Playhouse
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J. Paul Getty Museum
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Kirk Douglas Theatre
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Los Angeles Ballet
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Los Angeles County Museum of Art
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Los Angeles Master Chorale
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Los Angeles Opera
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The Los Angeles Philharmonic
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Mark Taper Forum
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Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
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The Pasadena Playhouse
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The Pasadena Symphony and POPS
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Contact Information
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Ahmanson Theatre
FOR OVER 40 YEARS the Exterior Ahmanson Theatre Ahmanson Theatre has prePhoto: Alex Pitt sented a wide variety of dramas, musicals, comedies, and classic revivals. The Ahmanson continues to present Broadway hits such as the exclusive Los Angeles engagements of the Tony Award-winning productions of Doubt, Jersey Boys, and John Doyle’s revolutionary production of Sweeney Todd, as well as Cameron Mackintosh/National Theatre of Great Britain’s award-winning production of My Fair Lady. For excellence in all phases of production, the Ahmanson has been honored with over 50 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards. It currently enjoys the largest theatrical season ticket base on the West Coast in a year-round season from early fall through late summer.
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DECEMBER 9, 2014 – JANUARY 18, 2015 BLITHE SPIRIT By NOËL COWARD Directed by MICHAEL BLAKEMORE Featuring ANGELA LANSBURY, CHARLES EDWARDS & JEMIMA ROOPER FOLLOWING THE INTERNATIONALLY acclaimed sold-out engagements on Broadway and London’s West End, theatre legend, Oscar-recipient, and five-time Tony Award winner Angela Lansbury returns to the stage this winter in her Tony Awardwinning role as Madame Arcati, in Michael Blakemore’s revival of Noël Coward’s smash-hit comedy Blithe Spirit. Researching for his new novel, Charles Condomine invites the implausible medium Madame Arcati to his house for a séance. While consumed in a trance, Madame Arcati unwittingly summons the ghost of Charles’s dead wife, Elvira. Appearing only to Charles, Elvira soon makes a play to reclaim her husband, much to the chagrin of Charles’s new wife, Ruth. Now, if he wants his latest marriage to stand a ghost of a chance, he’d better conjure up a solution quickly. One husband, two feuding wives, and a whisper of mischief in the air – who will win in Coward’s unworldly comedy? JANUARY 24 – MARCH 15, 2015 DAME EDNA’S GLORIOUS GOODBYE Directed by SIMON PHILLIPS “IT’S THE END OF AN ERA,” cries the London Daily Telegraph, but Barry Humphries and his most famous creation Dame Edna Everage aren’t going out with a whimper. They’re going out with a rapid-fire explosion of convulsive laughter and cheers! On the pink and purple high heels of the pair’s
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Dame Edna in “Dame Edna’s Glorious Goodbye – The Farewell Tour.” Courtesy of Ahmanson Theatre
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2009 triumphant Ahmanson engagement and celebratory, soldout seasons across the UK and Broadway, Australia’s greatest entertainment export returns for more take-no-prisoners comedy and hijinks, and no one in the audience is safe from the Dame’s wicked tongue. You dare not miss the spectacular side-splitting historic finale of Barry Humphries and global gigastar Dame Edna Everage celebrating a 50-year career of sold-out venues, command performances for the Royal Family, television specials, and around-the-world tours. MARCH 17 – APRIL 26, 2015 CINDERELLA Music by RICHARD RODGERS Lyrics by OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II Directed by MARK BROKAW RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN’S CINDERELLA is the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical from the creators of The Sound of Music and South Pacific that’s delighting audiences Cinderella with its contemporary Courtesy of Ahmanson Theatre take on the classic tale. This lush production features an incredible orchestra, jaw-dropping transformations, and all the moments you love – the pumpkin, the glass slipper, the masked ball, and more – plus some surprising new twists! Be transported back to your childhood, as you rediscover some of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s most beloved songs, including “In My Own Little Corner,” “Impossible/It’s Possible,” and “Ten Minutes Ago,” in this hilarious and romantic Broadway experience for anyone who’s ever had a wish, a dream... or a really great pair of shoes.
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MAY 29 – JULY 12, 2015 MATILDA THE MUSICAL Book by DENNIS KELLY Music and Lyrics by TIM MINCHIN Choreographed by PETER DARLING Directed by MATTHEW WARCHUS FROM THE BRILLIANTLY batty creator of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Fantastic Mr. Fox comes the Tony Awardwinning Matilda The Musical, the story of an extraordinary girl who dreams of a better life. Armed with a vivid imagination and a sharp mind, Matilda dares to take a stand and change her own destiny. Rolling Stone calls the show “hands down the best musical of the season.” Based on the beloved novel by Roald Dahl, Matilda has won 47 international awards, and continues to thrill sold-out audiences of all ages on Broadway and in London’s West End.
Matilda The Musical Courtesy of Ahmanson Theatre
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TICKETS & CONTACT Ahmanson Theatre 135 N. Grand Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90012 (213) 628-2772 www.centertheatregroup.org
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Broad Museum
Architects’ rendering of the new Broad
THE BROAD IS a Museum’s exterior. Image courtesy of The Broad and Diller new contemporary Scofidio + Renfro art museum built by philanthropists Eli and Edythe Broad on Grand Avenue in downtown Los Angeles. The museum, which is designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, will open to the public in late 2015. The museum will be home to the nearly 2,000 works of art in The Broad Art Foundation and the Broads’ personal collections, which are among the most prominent holdings of postwar and contemporary art worldwide. With its innovative “vault-and-veil” concept, the 120,000-square-foot, $140 million building will feature two floors of gallery space to showcase The Broad’s comprehensive collections and will be the headquarters of The Broad Art Foundation’s worldwide lending library. OPENING FALL 2015 CONTACT The Broad Art Foundation 3355 Barnard Way Santa Monica, CA 90405 (310) 399-4004 www.thebroad.org
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Geffen Playhouse
Geffen Playhouse exterior. FOUNDED BY THEATER, film, Photo courtesy of Ronald Frink and television luminary Gil Cates, Architects the Geffen Playhouse has been an integral part of Los Angeles theater since opening its doors in 1995. Noted for its intimacy and celebrated for its commitment to the development of new plays, the Geffen Playhouse continues to present a body of work that garners national recognition. Named in honor of entertainment mogul and philanthropist David Geffen, who made the initial donation to the theater, the organization is currently helmed by Artistic Director Randall Arney, Managing Director Ken Novice, and Chairman of the Board Frank Mancuso. An active member of the community, the Geffen Playhouse has a groundbreaking education and outreach program that targets students, seniors, and everyone in between who otherwise would not have access to live theater.
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FEBRUARY 3 – MARCH 15, 2015 Gil Cates Theater THE NIGHT ALIVE By CONOR MCPHERSON Directed by RANDALL ARNEY TOMMY OWES MORE than he earns. When he is unexpectedly compelled to help Aimee, a young woman with much harder luck than his own, the taste of turmoil he suffers becomes a full-blown meal. With his trademark humor and humanity, Conor McPherson (The Seafarer, The Weir) makes Phoenix Park, Dublin a place where anyone can rise from the ashes. MARCH 3 – APRIL 12, 2015 Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater SWITZERLAND By JOANNA MURRAY-SMITH PATRICIA HIGHSMITH, MASTER of the macabre, is racing to finish her novel when an attractive young man arrives representing her impatient publisher. Anxious Joanna Murray-Smith. Photo: Grant Sparkes-Carroll to be rid of him and return to self-imposed exile, she attempts to terrorize him into fleeing. But he has a dark agenda of his own and will not leave until the final chapter is written. In this new Geffen Playhouse commission, Joanna Murray-Smith (The Female of the Species), with her unique brand of humor and mystery, brings to life this literary giant best known for Strangers on a Train and The Talented Mr. Ripley.
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APRIL 7 – MAY 17, 2015 Gil Cates Theater THE POWER OF DUFF By STEPHEN BELBER Directed by PETER DUBOIS CHARLIE DUFF’S NIGHTLY newscast makes him a voice to be heard, so why isn’t his teenage son listening? When an on-air prayer for his father goes viral, Duff finds himself at the center of a firestorm over God’s place in the newsroom. When his prayers turn prophetic, Duff suddenly has the power to reach everyone – except his own son. Stephen Belber’s sharp new play asks if there is anything more vital than the faith we have in one another. MAY 27 – JULY 7, 2015 Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater MURDER FOR TWO Book and Music by JOE KINOSIAN Book and Lyrics by KELLEN BLAIR Directed by SCOTT SCHWARTZ OFFICER MARCUS MOSCOWICZ is a small town policeman with dreams of making it to detective. One fateful night, shots ring out at the surprise birthday party of Great American Novelist Arthur Whitney and the writer is killed … fatally. With the nearest detective an hour away, Marcus jumps at the chance to prove his sleuthing skills – with the help of his silent partner, Lou. Everyone is a suspect in Murder For Two, a hilarious musical murder mystery with a twist. One actor investigates the crime. The other plays all the suspects. And they both play the piano. JUNE 9 – JULY 19, 2015 Gil Cates Theater BAD JEWS By JOSHUA HARMON Directed by MATT SHAKMAN IN THE FEYGENBAUM FAMILY, Daphna is the most devout. Just ask her. But her cousin Liam has the rights of the first-born grandchild. Just ask him. When their grandfather dies leaving
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a treasured family heirloom, a battle ignites, escalating to Old Testament proportions. Hailed as one of the funniest plays of the year, Bad Jews can’t resist pointing out the worst in all of us.
Joshua Harmon’s Bad Jews comes to the Geffen. Photo: Joan Marcus
TICKETS & CONTACT Geffen Playhouse 10886 Le Conte Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90024 (310) 208-5454 www.geffenplayhouse.com
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J. Paul Getty Museum
The East Pavilion at the THE J. PAUL GETTY Getty Center MUSEUM seeks to inspire curiosPhoto: David McNew/Getty Images ity about, and enjoyment and understanding of, the visual arts by collecting, conserving, exhibiting, and interpreting works of art of outstanding quality and historical importance. To fulfill this mission, the Museum continues to build its collections through purchase and gifts, and develops programs of exhibitions, publications, scholarly research, public education, and the performing arts that engage our diverse local and international audiences. All of these activities are enhanced by the uniquely evocative architectural and garden settings provided by the Museum’s two renowned venues: the Getty Villa and the Getty Center.
The J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center in Los Angeles houses European paintings, drawings, sculpture, illuminated manuscripts, decorative arts, and European and American photographs.
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THE GETTY CENTER WORLD WAR I: WAR OF IMAGES, IMAGES OF WAR NOVEMBER 18, 2014 – APRIL 19, 2015 THE FIRST MAJOR war of the 20th century, World War I (1914– 1918) unleashed modern technologies of killing and devastation never before seen. The final toll was staggering: 20 million dead, 21 million wounded, incalculable damage to the landscape, towns, and cities of Europe. With the downfall of three empires, the map of Europe, and indeed the world, was redrawn. In this first war fought by an entire generation of modern artists, culture was enlisted as an integral part of the conflict. Nations waged war over who would lead Europe – politically, economically, and above all culturally – through the 20th century. In the decades before the war, modern art had been a truly international phenomenon, with people, artworks, and ideas moving freely across national borders. But this energetic artistic exchange quickly closed down, and battle lines were drawn not simply between nations but between cultures. JOSEF KOUDELKA: NATIONALITY DOUBTFUL NOVEMBER 11, 2014 – MARCH 22, 2015 AN AERONAUTICAL ENGINEER by training, Josef Koudelka (Czech, naturalized French, born 1938) became intensely committed to photography by the mid-1960s and quickly emerged
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as one of the most influential, iconoclastic photographers of his generation. This exhibition – the first U.S. retrospective devoted to Koudelka since 1988 – traces his legendary career with more than 140 works produced over five decades. It marks the first time that the work of one contemporary photographer will fill the Center for Photographs at the Getty. GIVE AND YE SHALL RECEIVE: GIFT GIVING IN THE MIDDLE AGES DECEMBER 16, 2014 – MARCH 15, 2015 IN THE MIDDLE AGES, gift exchange helped people define their relationships to family and friends, to acquaintances and strangers, to God and to church. This exhibition, drawn from the Museum’s permanent collection, examines models for giving found in scripture and in the lives of the saints, explores how gift giving functioned in medieval society, and highlights the special role of the medieval book as a gift. IN FOCUS: PLAY DECEMBER 23, 2014 – MAY 10, 2015 THE INTRODUCTION OF photography in 1839 coincided with major social and economic changes spurred by the Industrial Revolution and a burgeoning culture of leisure. In addition to documenting historic events, this new medium was used to record the everyday, including the many ways people spent their free time. With the advent of faster film and handheld cameras, dancing and carousing were captured with the same enthusiasm as moments of respite and quiet contemplation. This exhibition traces the development of play as a photographic subject through the works of artists such as Eugène Atget, Roger Fenton, Lauren Greenfield, Bill Owens, and Larry Sultan, among others. ZEITGEIST: ART IN THE GERMANIC WORLD, 1800–1900 FEBRUARY 10 – MAY 17, 2015 BETWEEN 1800 AND 1900, the Germanic world underwent profound intellectual, social, economic, and political changes. The
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Industrial Revolution, the formal unification of Germany into a nation state, and the invention of psychoanalysis shaped modern life and its representations in art. This exhibition – which includes the works of Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840), Philipp Otto Runge (1777–1810), and Gustav Klimt (1862–1918) – brings together paintings, drawings, and prints from the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Getty Research Institute, and distinguished local private collections to examine this pivotal moment in Germanic history. J. M. W. TURNER: PAINTING SET FREE FEBRUARY 24 – MAY 24, 2015 EXTRAORDINARILY INVENTIVE AND enduringly influential, J. M. W. Turner (1775– 1851) produced his most important and famous pictures after the age of sixty, in the last fifteen years of his life. DemonstratJoseph Mallord William Turner, The Burning of ing ongoing radicalthe Houses of Lords and Commons, October ism of technique and 16, 1834, Oil on canvas, 36 1/4 x 48 1/2 in. Philadelphia Museum of Art: The John Howard ever-original subject McFadden Collection, 1928. matter, these works Image courtesy of the Getty show Turner constantly challenging his contemporaries while remaining keenly aware of the market for his art. Bringing together over sixty key oil paintings and watercolors, this major international loan exhibition is the first to focus on the unfettered creativity of Turner’s final years. RENAISSANCE SPLENDORS OF THE NORTHERN ITALIAN COURTS MARCH 31 – JUNE 21, 2015 THE RENAISSANCE COURTS of northern Italy, among the wealthiest and most sophisticated in Europe, attracted innovative
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artists who created objects of remarkable beauty. Princes and other nobles offered painters and illuminators favorable contracts and social prestige in return for lavishly decorated panels and books. These works prominently displayed their owners’ scholarly learning, religious devotion, and elite status. Drawn from the Getty Museum’s permanent collection of manuscripts, this exhibition celebrates the magnificent illuminations that emerged from this courtly context – an array of visual riches fit for the highest-ranking members of Renaissance society. LIGHT, PAPER, PROCESS: REINVENTING PHOTOGRAPHY APRIL 14 – SEPTEMBER 6, 2015 AT A TIME WHEN digital technologies offer increasingly sophisticated options for producing, storing, and disseminating images, a number of artists have turned their attention to exploring the essence of photography, distilling it to its basic components of light-sensitive emulsions and chemical development. These artists may use hand-coated or expired papers, archival negatives, or custom-built cameras, or they may eschew the use of a camera or film altogether. All employ a variety of darkroom techniques that shift our understanding of photography from a medium that accurately records the world to one that revels in the medium’s materials and process. IN FOCUS: ANIMALIA MAY 26 – OCTOBER 18, 2015 PHOTOGRAPHS OF ANIMALS have circulated since the early history of the medium, initially focusing on those that were tame, captive, or dead. Advancements in camera and film technologies enabled precise recordings of beasts in motion and, eventually, in their natural habitats. Spanning the history of photography, this exhibition examines the expanding tradition of animal representation through the works of artists such as Horatio Ross, William Henry Jackson, Alfred Stieglitz, Frederick Sommer, William Wegman, Pieter Hugo, and Taryn Simon.
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A KINGDOM OF IMAGES: FRENCH PRINTS IN THE AGE OF LOUIS XIV, 1660–1715 JUNE 16 – SEPTEMBER 6, 2015 COMMEMORATING THE 300TH anniversary of King Louis XIV’s (1638–1715) death, A Kingdom of Images features nearly 100 works from the Getty Research Institute and the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris. During Louis XIV’s reign, the French strategically deployed prints to promote their culture, art, and style, and prove to the world that the center of creativity resided in Paris and Versailles. From grand royal portraits to satiric views of everyday life, and from small-scale fashion prints decorated with actual Workshop of Hyacinthe Rigaud, Portrait of Louis fabrics to monumental XIV, French, probably Paris, after 1701, Oil on canvas, 114 x 62 5/8 in. panoramas of Versailles Image courtesy of the Getty and the Louvre, this exhibition explores the rich variety of prints that came to define French supremacy in the era of the Sun King.
THE RENAISSANCE WORKSHOP IN ACTION: ANDREA DEL SARTO JUNE 23 – SEPTEMBER 13, 2015 THIS MAJOR LOAN exhibition celebrates the transformation of the art of drawing by Andrea del Sarto (1486–1530), one of the greatest Florentine Renaissance artists. Moving beyond the graceful harmony and elegance of his elders and peers, such as Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, and Fra Bartolommeo, Sarto brought unprecedented realism and immediacy to his art through the rough and rustic use of red chalk and the creation of powerful life
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and compositional studies. Comprising rare drawings and panel paintings from key international collections, the exhibition fully illuminates Andrea del Sarto’s inventiveness, creative process, and workshop practice. THE LIFE OF ART: CONTEXT, COLLECTING, AND DISPLAY ONGOING LOOK CLOSELY AT a work of art and you are likely to uncover clues to a fascinating past and present: an object’s intimate connection to people, places, institutions, and cultures. This exhibition takes four objects from the Museum’s decorative arts collection – a silver fountain, a wall light, a side chair, and a lidded bowl – and encourages you to explore their “lives” through an interactive presentation.
THE GETTY VILLA ANCIENT LUXURY AND THE ROMAN SILVER TREASURE FROM BERTHOUVILLE NOVEMBER 19, 2014 – AUGUST 17, 2015 ACCIDENTALLY DISCOVERED BY a French farmer in 1830, the spectacular hoard of giltsilver statuettes and vessels known as the Berthouville Treasure was originally dedicated to the Gallo-Roman god Mercury. Following four years of meticulous conMercury, Roman, A.D. 175–225, silver and gold. servation and research Image courtesy of the Getty at the Getty Villa, this exhibition allows viewers to appreciate their full splendor and offers new
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insights about ancient art, technology, religion, and cultural interaction. The opulent cache is presented in its entirety for the first time outside Paris, together with precious gems, jewelry, and other Roman luxury objects from the royal collections of the Cabinet des Médailles at the Bibliothèque nationale de France. DANGEROUS PERFECTION: FUNERARY VASES FROM SOUTHERN ITALY NOVEMBER 19, 2014 – MAY 11, 2015 THIRTEEN ELABORATELY DECORATED Apulian vases provide a rich opportunity to examine the funerary customs of peoples native to southern Italy and the ways they used Greek myth to comprehend death and the afterlife. Displayed following a six-year conservation project at the Antikensammlung Berlin and the Getty Villa, these monumental vessels also reveal the hand of Raffaele Gargiulo, one of the leading restorers of 19th-century Naples. His work exemplifies what one concerned antiquarian described as “dangerous perfection” as such interventions – especially the painted decorations – could be so effective it became difficult to identify what was ancient and what was modern. The vases on view offer a window into the ongoing debate concerning the degree to which ancient artworks should be repaired and repainted. RELIEF WITH ANTIOCHOS AND HERAKLES MAY 23, 2012 – MAY 4, 2015 ON LOAN FROM the National Archaeological Museum in Athens, a stele honoring Prokleides, a military officer in the Athenian army, is on view at the Getty Villa in a gallery (208) devoted to Religious Offerings. Carved in relief above a public decree are figures of Antiochos, the mythical founder of the tribe Antiochis, and his father, the Greek hero Herakles. Wearing a dignified mantle and resting on his staff (no longer visible, but probably added in pigment), Antiochos faces Herakles, who is depicted as an athletic nude holding a club and lion skin. Both stand inside a small temple that crowns the stele. Their squat proportions, their exaggerated facial features, and the stiff drapery folds are characteristic of reliefs dating to the late 300s. On the lower part of the slab is an inscription recording the honors bestowed on the taxiarch (commander)
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Prokleides by his loyal soldiers. This is the reference referring to the select infantry corps called the epilektoi, a group of men bound together by their military service, participation in sacrifices and theatrical performances, and membership in the Athenian Council. MOLTEN COLOR: GLASSMAKING IN ANTIQUITY ONGOING OVER 180 ANCIENT glass objects from the collection of Erwin Oppenländer are featured in this exhibition. The Oppenländer collection, which the Getty acquired in 2003, is remarkable for its cultural and chronological breadth. It includes works made in Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Greek world, and the Roman Empire, and spans the entire period of ancient glass production, from its origins in Mesopotamia in about 2500 B.C. to Byzantine and Islamic glass of the eleventh century Unknown, Greek, 400–200 B.C., A.D. Also notable in the Glass, 6 1/2 in. high. Oppenländer collection Image courtesy of the Getty is the variety of ancient glassmaking techniques, such as casting, core forming, mosaic, inflation, mold blowing, cameo carving, incising, and cutting. All these techniques are still used by glass artists today. TICKETS & CONTACT The J. Paul Getty Museum 1200 Getty Center Drive Los Angeles, CA 90049 (310) 440-7300 www.getty.edu
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Kirk Douglas Theatre THE KIRK DOUGLAS Theatre Photo: Craig Schwartz in Culver City is the newest and most intimate of Center Theatre Group’s family of theatres. The 317-seat venue, located in a newly renovated historic theatre opened in October 2004. Artistic Director Michael Ritchie has selected a wide range of productions, including co-productions with other Los Angeles theatre companies, special events, world premieres of new plays, and musicals.
JANUARY 27 – MARCH 1, 2015 CHAVEZ RAVINE By CULTURE CLASH Directed by LISA PETERSON SPORTS STADIUMS, EMINENT domain, Cuban outfielders, and the fight for what’s best for the City of Angels – it’s time for a return to The Ravine. Celebrating 30 years of theatremaking, Culture Clash – Richard Montoya, Ric Salinas, and Herbert Siguenza – delivers new insights with their signature satirical eye as they perform their revised take on Chavez Ravine twelve years after its world premiere at the Mark Taper Forum. Energized with new material and music from The Rodarte Brothers, Culture Clash returns to one of their most beloved plays and reexamines the constantly changing landscape of Los Angeles in the still Wild West.
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MAY 21 – 31, 2015 THROW ME ON THE BURNPILE AND LIGHT ME UP Written and Performed by LUCY ALIBAR Directed by NEEL KELLER
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A LECHEROUS GOAT, Pentecostals on the radio, a house full of dogs, cats, and Febreze and Daddy’s .38 special. These are just some of the ingredients in a delicious and magical stew of stories about a singular childhood in Grady County, written and performed by Lucy Alibar, the Oscar-nominated screenwriter of the hit film Beasts Of The Southern Wild. See a landscape you won’t soon forget.
JUNE 17 – 28, 2015 HOW TO BE A ROCK CRITIC Based on the writings of LESTER BANGS By JESSICA BLANK AND ERIK JENSEN Performed by ERIK JENSEN Directed by JESSICA BLANK MANIC. IMPOSSIBLY CREATIVE. Dead of an overdose at 33. Gonzo journalist Lester Bangs was America’s greatest rock critic and the first missionary of the movement he dubbed “punk.” His faith was shattered as the rebel ethos of the ’70s gave way to the corporate pop of the ’80s. Through his own words, this solo play sheds light on a groundbreaking, pioneering voice in music.
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JULY 12 – AUGUST 9, 2015 GIRLFRIEND Book by TODD ALMOND Music and Lyrics by MATTHEW SWEET Directed by LES WATERS NEBRASKA, THE 1990S. Two teenage boys – one a social outcast, the other the quintessential jock – explore a relationship during a summer of self-discovery between high school graduation and the rest of their lives. Set to irresistible songs from Matthew Sweet’s landmark pop album of the same name, this rock musical gives voice to those of us who grew up in small towns, those of us who didn’t quite fit in and learned we were somehow different, and anybody who remembers the terror and thrill of first love. TICKETS & CONTACT Kirk Douglas Theatre 9820 Washington Boulevard Culver City, CA 90232 (213) 628-2772 www.centertheatregroup.org
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FOUNDED IN 2004 by Artistic Performing Arts Center Directors Thordal Christensen and Colleen Neary and Executive Director Julie Whittaker, Los Angeles Ballet is now in its 9th Season. Known for its superb stagings of the Balanchine repertory, stylistically meticulous classical ballets and its commitment to new works, LAB has become recognized as a world-class ballet company. At the end of Season 8, LAB presented 24 productions encompassing 50 works, including 15 commissioned world premieres. Los Angeles Ballet ‘tours’ throughout LA County, regularly appearing at seven venues.
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FEBRUARY – MARCH 2015 THE SLEEPING BEAUTY: TCHAIKOVSKY TRILOGY THE SLEEPING BEAUTY is a world premiere choreographed by LAB Artistic Directors Colleen Neary and Thordal Christensen. While offering a re-imagining that is fresh and new, this Beauty remains steeped in the beloved tradition introduced by Marius Petipa in 1890. MAY – JUNE 2015 DIRECTORS’ CHOICE: CONTEMPORARY WORKS LOS ANGELES BALLET Artistic Directors present masterworks by 20th Century choreographers – contemporary and classical pieces to challenge and delight dancers and audience alike. Included is Balanchine’s elegant Theme and Variations.
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Members of the Los Angeles Ballet perform George Balanchine’s Serenade. Photo: Reed Hutchinson
TICKETS & CONTACT Los Angeles Ballet Offices & Studios 11755 Exposition Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90064 (310) 998-7782 www.losangelesballet.org
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The new Renzo Piano designed WITH 100,000 OBJECTS Resnick Pavilion at LACMA. dating from ancient times to Photo: Alex Verticoff/LACMA the present, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is the largest art museum in the western United States. A museum of international stature as well as a vital part of Southern California, LACMA shares its vast collections through exhibitions, public programs, and research facilities that attract nearly a million visitors annually. LACMA’s collections encompass the geographic world and virtually the entire history of art. Among the museum’s special strengths are its holdings of Asian art, housed in part in the Bruce Goff-designed Pavilion for Japanese Art; Latin American art, ranging from pre-Columbian masterpieces to works by leading modern and contemporary artists including Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, and José Clemente Orozco; and Islamic art, of which LACMA hosts one of the most significant collections in the world.
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DELACROIX’S GREECE ON THE RUINS OF MISSOLONGHI NOVEMBER 16, 2014 – FEBRUARY 15, 2015 PAINTED IN 1826 by Eugène Delacroix, the leading French Romantic painter of the day, Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi is one of the most celebrated French paintings of the 19th century. It was executed shortly after the event it commemorates: In 1825, during the Greek war of independence from Ottoman occupation, Turkish troops besieged the city of Missolonghi. The Greek population, already decimated by famine and Eugène Delacroix, Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi, 1826, Musée epidemics, attempted a heroic des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux. liberation that ended in tragedy Photo © Musée des Beaux-Artswhen the Turks killed most of the Mairie de Bordeaux, Cliché F. Deval population of the city. Delacroix, like many European artists and intellectuals, was a fervent supporter of the Greek cause. Most of the painting is dedicated to the figure of Greece herself, represented as a young woman wearing traditional costume. Her posture and expression recall traditional religious images of the Virgin weeping over the body of Christ. The image of suffering Greece succeeded in conveying the plight of the Greeks to the French public. Now kept in the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Bordeaux, sister city to Los Angeles, this monumental painting has seldom traveled. The exhibition is a rare opportunity to see a masterpiece by one of the great French artists of the 19th century.
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LARRY SULTAN: HERE AND HOME NOVEMBER 9, 2014 – MARCH 22, 2015 LARRY SULTAN: HERE AND HOME is the first retrospective of California photographer Larry Sultan (1946–2009). The exhibition includes more than 200 photographs ranging from Sultan’s conceptual and collaborative works of the 1970s to his solo works in the decades following. Sultan never stopped challenging the conventions of photographic documentation, exploring themes of family, home, and façade throughout his career. Five major bodies of work are represented including: Evidence (1977), made collaboratively with Mike Mandel; Swimmers (1978–81); Pictures from Home (1982–92); The Valley (1998–2003); and Homeland (2006–09). The show is augmented by a “study hall,” with documentation and ephemera providing a glimpse of Sultan’s modes of inquiry as an artist and a teacher. ART OF THE SAMURAI: SWORDS, PAINTINGS, PRINTS, AND TEXTILES NOVEMBER 1, 2014 – MARCH 1, 2015 ART OF THE SAMURAI: SWORDS, PAINTINGS, PRINTS, AND TEXTILES showcases Japanese swords, samurai robes, battle screens, and woodblock prints depicting legends and battles. This installation in the Pavilion for Japanese Art complements the exhibition Samurai: Japanese Armor from the Ann and Gabriel Barbier-Mueller Collection at LACMA. The East Wing features paintings and textiles from LACMA’s collection, including elaborate painted screens and hanging scrolls that exemplify the kind of objects that the Samurai possessed or commissioned, or imagery and subjects that would have held special meaning for the warrior class. The Helen and Felix Juda Gallery showcases sword blades and related fittings, as well as other weapons and woodblock prints. All of the prints are from LACMA’s collection and present warriors in action, sporting armor and weapons, and images of popular Samurai legends.
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LANDSCAPES OF DEVOTION: VISUALIZING SACRED SITES IN INDIA OCTOBER 25, 2014 – ONGOING LONG BEFORE THE boundaries of India were delineated on a map, they were understood to encompass a vast sacred geography. The features of this landscape marked the abodes and activities of gods, the paths of spiritual teachers, and places associated with epic and religious texts. Over the course of several millennia, circuits of pilgrimage linked these various sites, reinforcing for India’s inhabitants the concept of a uniShiva’s Family on the March, India, fied land. Landscapes of DevoHimachal Pradesh, Chamba, ca. 1800, Opaque watercolor and gold on tion: Visualizing Sacred Sites in paper, Gift of Jane Greenough Green in memory of Edward Pelton Green, India explores the various ways in AC1999.127.38. which this sacred geography was Image courtesy of LACMA imagined and documented in the 18th and 19th centuries. The exhibition consists of Indian courtly and temple paintings and colonial-era photographs drawn from LACMA’s collection. The photographs in the exhibition correlate in subject matter with several of the paintings. They suggest the visual appeal of India to late 19th-century British photographers, who pursued their own kind of pilgrimage as they documented its sacred places and practices. SAMURAI: JAPANESE ARMOR FROM THE ANN AND GABRIEL BARBIER-MUELLER COLLECTION OCTOBER 19, 2014 – FEBRUARY 1, 2015 TRAVEL BACK IN time and discover remarkable objects that illuminate the life, culture, and pageantry of the samurai, the
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revered and feared warriors of Japan. The Samurai Collection of Ann and Gabriel Barbier-Mueller, one of the finest and most comprehensive collections in the world, presents a treasure trove of battle gear made for high-ranking warriors and daimyo (provincial governors) of the 14th through 19th centuries. The exhibition illustrates the evolution of samurai equipment through the centuries, featuring more than 140 objects of warrior regalia, with full suits of armor, helmets and face guards, weapons, horse trappings, and other battle gear. ARCHIBALD MOTLEY: JAZZ AGE MODERNIST OCTOBER 19, 2014 – FEBRUARY 1, 2015 ARCHIBALD MOTLEY: JAZZ AGE MODERNIST presents a full-scale survey of one the most important artists of the Harlem Renaissance, featuring the painter’s visual examination of African American culture during the Jazz Age. The exhibition covers Motley’s entire career, including periods in Chicago, Paris, and Mexico. Motley received his formal training at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and went on to create strong and somewhat solemn portraits of his community, as well as vividly hued, lively scenes of crowded dancehalls that reflect the colorful spirit of the Harlem Renaissance. The exhibition features a number of paintings depicting the black communities of Chicago and Paris just before and after the Great Depression, and concludes with introspective moments of quotidian life in Mexico made during the artist’s travels during the 1950s. HAUNTED SCREENS: GERMAN CINEMA IN THE 1920S SEPTEMBER 21, 2014 – APRIL 26, 2015 HAUNTED SCREENS: GERMAN CINEMA IN THE 1920S explores masterworks of German Expressionist cinema. From the stylized fantasy of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (dir. Robert Wiene, 1919) to the chilling murder mystery M (dir. Fritz Lang, 1931), cinema during the liberal Weimar era was innovative in aesthetic, psychological, and technical terms.���������������������� Organized by La Cinémathèque française, Paris, the exhibition features over 150 drawings, as well as manuscripts, posters, and set models. Kino Ektoplasma – a three-screen installation created for the exhibition
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CLOSE-UP AND PERSONAL: EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY GOLD BOXES FROM THE ROSALINDE AND ARTHUR GILBERT COLLECTION SEPTEMBER 6, 2014 – MARCH 1, 2015
CAPTIVATING DETAIL AND astonishing craftsmanship has ensured the eternal appeal of these exquisite containers so fashionable in 18thcentury Europe. Gold boxes were essential accessories and preferred gifts for elite men and women. Created to hold snuff (a scented powder of tobacco), they are constructed with precious metal, painted with enamel, set with exotic materials, and encrusted with jewels. Few collectors could afford them in quantity, but King Frederick II of Prussia (1712-1786) amassed more than three hundred. One of the finest collections of antique gold boxes was assembled by British-born Los Angeles residents Sir Arthur Gilbert (1913–2001) and his first wife, Rosalinde (1913–1995). The exhibition presents a special selection of 28 boxes from their collection, including two particularly magnificent snuffboxes associated with Frederick the Great himself. The closer you look, the more these tiny treasures communicate the spirit and imagination of the day.
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VARIATIONS: CONVERSATIONS IN AND AROUND ABSTRACT PAINTING AUGUST 24, 2014 – MARCH 22, 2015 IN AN ATTENTION-COMPROMISED age when images are instant and prevalent, abstract painting serves as a contradiction, acting as a conduit for the mark of the original, individual artist. While most of the work in the exhibition has been recently created and acquired, additional paintings culled from LACMA’s collection illustrate how artists have reanimated techniques and forms using other sources that are appropriated from popular culture, photography, and collage, essentially creating a new variation of abstract painting. PIERRE HUYGHE NOVEMBER 23, 2014 – FEBRUARY 22, 2015 THIS EXHIBITION MARKS the first major retrospective of the work of Pierre Huyghe (b. 1962, Paris). Huyghe creates films, installations, and events that blur fact and fiction, reinvent rituals of social engagement, and use the exhibition model as a site for playful experimentation. Organized thematically, the exhibition covers more than two decades of Huyghe’s career, with a focus on cinema as both model and matrix. In keeping with the artist’s desire for a non-hierarchical presentation, the exhibition is designed as a single, extraordinary environment, like a park or garden: a public sphere where a visitor can walk, reflect, and take in a variety of attractions through participation, thoughtful immersion, or simply as a passer-by. NATURE AND THE AMERICAN VISION: THE HUDSON RIVER SCHOOL DECEMBER 7, 2014 – JUNE 7, 2015 DRAWN ENTIRELY FROM the premier collection of The New-York Historical Society, Nature and the American Vision: The Hudson River School features approximately forty-five outstanding American landscape paintings from the nineteenth-century. Arranged thematically by place, the exhibition is designed as a grand tour of the American landscape. The full range of the
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exhibition demonstrates that the movement extends beyond the Hudson River, with work by artists who reflect both realistic and romantic attitudes toward nature in scenes of Thomas Cole, The Course of Empire: The Consummation of Empire, New England, the American 1836, Oil on canvas, 51 1/4 x 76 in. New-York Historical Society, Gift of West, South America, and The New-York Gallery of the even the Arctic.������������ The exhibiFine Arts, 1858.3. tion culminates with Thomas Cole’s masterpiece, the five large-scale paintings that constitute The Course of Empire (1834–36), a visual feast and meditation about civilization and the potential challenges facing the young country. CHRISTINE CORDAY: PROTOIST SERIES, SELECTED FORMS DECEMBER 13, 2014 – APRIL 5, 2015 CHRISTINE CORDAY: PROTOIST SERIES, SELECTED FORMS is the artist’s first solo presentation at an American museum and the culmination of her work replacing the paintbrush with the heat of a plasma torch. Corday coined the term “protoist” to describe forms in and out of a solid state, and a series of works in which she aims to suspend the moment between sensory perception and definition. Corday draws on her diverse studies in astronomy, cultural anthropology, chemistry, and the science of sensory perception, and her sculptures possess an archeo-astrological quality, as if they were left behind and unearthed. The two artworks on view in the exhibition, UNE and KNOUN, exist as recording devices; every handprint that touches them will appear over time
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as rust, mapping an intimately individual yet shared public surface. THOMAS DEMAND: PACIFIC SUN DECEMBER 13, 2014 – APRIL 12, 2015 THE WORK OF GERMAN artist Thomas Demand (b. 1964) achieves a disquieting balance between the convincingly real and the strangely artificial. Initially a sculptor, Demand first took up the camera to record his ephemeral paper constructions. In 1993, he began making constructions for the sole purpose of photographing them. Starting with an image culled from the media, Demand builds a full-scale model using colored paper and cardboard, photographs the scene, and destroys the model. Pacific Sun – made in Los Angeles while Demand was a Scholar in Residence at the Getty Research Institute – derives from security-camera footage, circulated via YouTube, of the chaos inside a cruise ship weathering a storm in the South Pacific: chairs, tables, bottles, cartons, and people careened as the ship lurched. Intrigued by these complex movements, Demand decided to re-create the video, minus the people, by constructing and animating a life-size paper model. The soundtrack, created after the film’s completion, evokes tumbling objects and the rolling sea. Pacific Sun is an ambitious and provocative work examining society’s willing acceptance of massmedia imagery as a substitute for actual experience. Projected at full scale, Demand’s film immerses viewers in a moment that, while seeming familiar, is totally fabricated. THE LANGUAGE OF XU BING DECEMBER 20, 2014 – JULY 26, 2015 XU BING’S FIRST solo presentation in Los Angeles explores the artist’s two-decade-long career. One of the most active and influential Chinese artists living today, Xu Bing received his training in the Printmaking Department at the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in Beijing. Book from the Sky, an installation of books and scrolls printed with more than 4,000 fake Chinese characters, captivated the burgeoning art community in China in the mid1980s. Since then, Xu has been investigating the significance and meaning of language. This exhibition highlights works such as the
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video The Character of Characters, the artist’s magnum opus and a personal account of the significance of Chinese language and characters through history, culminating with their significance to Chinese society today. The installation Square Word Calligraphy Classroom, composed of tracing books with Xu Bing’s invented calligraphy, was created to help English speakers understand the language and the art of Chinese calligraphy. LOUISE NEVELSON IN L.A.: TAMARIND WORKSHOP LITHOGRAPHS FROM THE 1960S JANUARY 17 – MAY 17, 2015 SCULPTOR LOUISE NEVELSON, known for her monochromatic wall assemblages made of wood, came to Los Angeles from New York in 1963 and again in 1967 to make prints at the Tamarind Lithography Workshop. This installation of works from LACMA’s collection Louise Nevelson, Untitled, 1967, Edition of 20, Lithograph, Los features a selection of lithographs Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum Purchase with County Funds from a total of 42 works made (67.8.73),Image courtesy of Kehinde by the artist at this historic print Wiley, and Roberts & Tilton, Culver City, California. workshop during a period of © Louise Nevelson Estate/Artists unprecedented artistic innovation. Rights Society (ARS), New York Nevelson’s prints demonstrate a creative use of everyday materials (such as lace, rags, and cheesecloth) and irregularly shaped paper, while exploiting the nature of prints as multiples to make “constructions” that explore notions of seriality and reflection. ANCIENT COLOMBIA: A JOURNEY THROUGH THE CAUCA VALLEY JANUARY 31 – DECEMBER 31, 2015 IN SPITE OF the popular legend of El Dorado, the conquest of Colombia never quite captured public imagination the way the 58
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conquest of Mexico or Peru did. The most valuable source of information, apart from the diverse archaeological remains, comes from Spaniards who looked beyond gold to see the marvels of the New World. Some wrote accounts, while others collected letters and reports by conquistadors for compilation into publications. This exhibition follows the 16th century journey of Pedro Cieza de Léon, one of the most important chroniclers of the conquest, who landed on the north shore of what is now Colombia in 1533, through the Cauca River Valley. Throughout the exhibition, quotes from his descriptions are used to compare and contrast the views of 16th-century Spaniards with the insights of recent scholarship that pertain to the objects on view. ISLAMIC ART NOW: CONTEMPORARY ART OF THE MIDDLE EAST JANUARY 31, 2015 – ONGOING IN RECENT YEARS, the parameters of Islamic art have expanded to include contemporary works by artists from or with roots in the Middle East. Drawing inspiration from their own cultural traditions, these artists use techniques and incorporate imagery and ideas from earlier periods. LACMA has only recently begun to acquire such work within the context of its holdings of Islamic art, understanding that the ultimate success and relevance of this collection lies in building creative links between the past, present, and future. Islamic Art Now marks the first major installation of LACMA’s collection of contemporary art of the Middle East. FROM THE ARCHIVES: ART AND TECHNOLOGY AT LACMA, 1967–1971 MARCH 14 – OCTOBER 18, 2015 THE ART AND TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM at LACMA – or A & T as it came to be known – was a forward-thinking initiative run by the museum from 1967 to 1971. The brainchild of curator Maurice Tuchman, A & T paired artists with corporations in the areas of aerospace, scientific research, and entertainment. Although some of the matches (such as James Turrell and Robert Irwin’s well-known collaboration with Garrett Corporation) did not result in completed artworks, other partnerships led to ambitious projects
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that were exhibited at the 1970 World Exposition in Osaka, Japan, and at LACMA in 1971. This installation features photographs, correspondence, and ephemera documenting the original Art and Technology Program at LACMA. DRAWING IN L.A.: THE 1960S AND 1970S MAY 10 – AUGUST 2, 2015 DRAWING PRACTICES IN Los Angeles varied tremendously during the 1960s and 1970s. Culled from LACMA’s collection and select local holdings, Drawing in L.A.: The 1960s and 1970s features work by nearly 50 artists who approach drawing Wallace Berman, Untitled, 1968, Verifax collage and paint, Michael in numerous media and and Dorothy Blankfort Bequest, styles. Works range in © Wallace Berman technique from charcoal and ink to collage and xerography, and encompass realism, conceptual drawings and abstraction. The exhibition includes drawings by well-known artists, and others who have long been neglected. The exhibition provides a unique opportunity to see the wide variety of drawings that were being made in Los Angeles at an exciting time in the city’s artistic history.
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ED MOSES: DRAWINGS FROM THE 1960S AND 1970S MAY 10 – AUGUST 2, 2015 ED MOSES HAS been a significant figure in contemporary art in Los Angeles since his first solo exhibition at Ferus Gallery in 1958. Since the very beginning, drawing has been central to Moses’s practice. From his large, all-over graphite drawings of roses from the 1960s to his signature diagonal grids of the 1970s and beyond, Moses’s work has always been grounded in graphic experimentation. The first museum presentation of the artist’s drawings since 1976, Ed Moses: Drawings from the 1960s and 70s is comprised of approximately 100 works from LACMA’s collection, the artist’s own holdings, and those of other museums and private collections. NOAH PURIFOY: JUNK DADA JUNE 7 – SEPTEMBER 2015 NOAH PURIFOY (1917–2004) lived and worked most of his life in Los Angeles and Joshua Tree, California. A founding director of the Watts Towers Art Center, his earliest body of sculpture, constructed out of charred debris from the 1965 Watts Rebellion, was the basis for 66 Signs of Neon, a landmark group exhibition about the riots that traveled to nine venues between 1966 and 1969. In line with the postwar period’s general fascination with the street and its objects, Purifoy’s 66 Signs of Neon constituted a Duchampian approach to the fire-molded alleys of Watts, a strategy that profoundly impacted artists such as David Hammons, John Outterbridge�������������������������������� , and Senga Nengudi. The exhibition explores a pivotal yet under-recognized figure in the development of postwar American Art whose effect is only beginning to be fully understood. FRANK GEHRY SEPTEMBER 13, 2015 – JANUARY 3, 2016 FRANK GEHRY HAS revolutionized architecture’s aesthetics, social and cultural role, and relationship to the city. His pioneering work in digital technologies set in motion the practices adopted by the construction industry today. Frank Gehry presents a
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comprehensive examination of his extraordinary body of work from the early 1960s to the present, featuring over 200 drawings, many of which have never been seen publicly, and 65 models that illuminate the evolution of Gehry’s thinking. Tracing the arc of his career, the exhibition focuses on two main themes: urbanism and the development of new systems of digital design and fabrication, including his use of CATIA, a software tool used in the aeronautics and automobile industries, which allows the digital manipulation of 3-D representations. This retrospective offers an opportunity to reflect on the development of Gehry’s work and to understand the processes of one of the great architectural minds. NEW OBJECTIVITY: MODERN GERMAN ART IN THE WEIMAR REPUBLIC, 1919–1933 OCTOBER 4, 2015 – JANUARY 17, 2016
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GERMANY’S WEIMAR REPUBLIC, established between the end of World War I and the Nazi rise to power, was a thriving laboratory of art and culture. As the country experienced unprecedented and often tumultuous social, economic, and political upheaval, many artists rejected Expressionism in favor of a new realism to capture this emerging society. Dubbed Neue Sachlichkeit – New Objectivity – its adherents turned a cold eye on the new Germany: its desperate prostitutes, crippled war veterans, and alienated urban landscapes, but also its emancipated New Woman, modern architecture, and mass-produced commodities. New Objectivity:
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Modern German Art in the Weimar Republic, 1919–1933 is the first comprehensive exhibition in the United States to explore the dominant artistic trends of this period. Organized around five thematic sections and featuring 150 works by more than 50 artists, the exhibition mixes painting, photography, and works on paper to bring them into a visual dialogue. TICKETS & CONTACT LACMA 5905 Wilshire Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90036 (323) 857-6000 (General) (323) 857-6010 (Tickets) www.lacma.org
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GIVING A VOICE to Walt Disney Grant Gershon and the LA Master Chorale Concert Hall, the GrammyPhoto: Lee Salem nominated Los Angeles Master Chorale is led by Music Director Grant Gershon. The New York Times calls the choir “inspired,” and The New York Observer declares it “a superb vocal ensemble.” The Chorale is currently in its 51st season as a resident company of The Music Center of Los Angeles County and its 12th as the resident chorus at Disney Hall. Presenting its own concert series each season, it performs choral music from the earliest writings to the most recent contemporary compositions. To date, the choir has commissioned 45 and premiered 92 new works, of which 62 were world premieres, and has been awarded three ASCAP/Chorus America Awards for Adventurous Programming, as well as Chorus America’s prestigious Margaret Hillis Award for Choral Excellence. JANUARY 31 & FEBRUARY 1, 2015 BACH: ST. MATTHEW PASSION With MUSICA ANGELICA BAROQUE ORCHESTRA & LOS ANGELES CHILDREN’S CHORUS J.S. BACH, Passion According to St. Matthew BACH’S MAGNIFICENT St. Matthew Passion is inarguably one of the greatest works of music ever composed – a towering 64
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masterpiece representing the ultimate expression of redemption and transcendence. Reprising our celebrated collaborations with Musica Angelica from previous seasons, we welcome back this critically-acclaimed baroque orchestra and the LA Children’s Chorus for two historically informed performances of Bach’s masterpiece, sung with all the vigor and passion you’d expect from the best musicians at the top of their craft. MARCH 8, 2015, 7:00 P.M. SONGS OF ASCENT With LOS ANGELES CHAMBER CHOIR SHAWN KIRCHNER, Songs of Ascent NACK-KUM PAIK, World Premiere TWO EPIC PILGRIMAGES to opposite ends of the earth set the stage for brand new works, including LAMC’s next installment of LA is the World. Shawn Kirchner, LAMC’s Swan Family Composer in Residence, creates his grandest composition to date with Songs of Ascent, a lyrical seven-movement work for voices and strings set to psalms that were sung by pilgrims on their journey to Jerusalem. We then travel farther east with distinguished Korean composer Nack-Kum Paik, who will create a new work for double choir in collaboration with the Los Angeles Chamber Choir. APRIL 11 & 12, 2015 THE WATER PASSION TAN DUN, Water Passion After St. Matthew A WATERSHED MOMENT for the LA Master Chorale! First performed by the Chorale in 2005, this has been one of its most talked-about concerts ever since. Oscar and Grammy-Award winning composer Tan Dun creates a transformative sensory experience for choir, chamber ensemble, and 10 water bowls illuminated from below and positioned onstage in the shape of a cross. Water drips, flows, bubbles, gurgles, ripples, splashes, hisses and is stirred and struck, recalling the ancient Chinese water rituals from the village where Tan Dun grew up. Newsday calls the Water Passion “a work of captivating visual music and sound meticulously disposed in space. Tan plays with watery symbols of baptism, creation and rebirth.”
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MAY 16 & 17, 2015 MUSIC OF WHITACRE & PÄRT ERIC WHITACRE, Lux Aurumque, Sleep, Water Night, The City and the Sea, Sainte Chapelle ARVO PÄRT, Morning Star, Missa Syllabica, Cantate Domino, Veni Creator, Solfeggio ERIC WHITACRE, who grew up in Nevada with no formal music training before college, exploded onto the choral music scene in the new millennium with the release of his internationally acclaimed album Cloudburst. As a pioneer who embraced the artistic potential of social media, Whitacre has created a phenomenon with his Virtual Choir series, layering audio from thousands of singers around the world into ecstatic online choral performances. Arvo Pärt, raised in Estonia behind the Soviet Iron Curtain, developed his own pure musical style: a reflective, chant-like approach to composition he calls “tintinnabuli,” more popularly referred to as “mystic minimalism.” What do they share in common? A sensuous love of the human voice and a boundless gift of harmonic imagination! TICKETS & CONTACT Los Angeles Master Chorale 135 North Grand Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90012 (213) 972-3110 (General) Walt Disney Concert Hall 111 South Grand Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90012 (213) 972-7282 (Tickets) www.lamc.org
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The Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. IN JUST OVER a quarter-cenPhoto: Ron Niebrugge tury of existence, LA Opera has become, under the leadership of Eli and Edythe Broad General Director Plácido Domingo, the United States’ fourth largest opera company, and “...stands out as a newly important force in American Opera.” (Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times). LA Opera created a sensation with its inaugural production of Verdi’s Otello, starring Plácido Domingo, in October 1986. Under the leadership of Founding General Director Peter Hemmings and subsequently under Plácido Domingo, LA Opera has grown to become a company of international stature.
FEBRUARY 7 – MARCH 1, 2015 THE GHOSTS OF VERSAILLES Music by JOHN CORIGLIANO Libretto by WILLIAM M. HOFFMAN Conducted by JAMES CONLON Directed by DARKO TRESNJAK Featuring PATRICIA RACETTE, PATTI LUPONE, CHRISTOPHER MALTMAN & ROBERT BRUBAKER TRAPPED IN THE spirit world, the ghost of Marie Antoinette bitterly reflects on her final suffering. Her favorite playwright tries to entertain the melancholy queen with the continuing adventures
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of his beloved characters from The Barber of Seville and The Marriage of Figaro. But sneaky Figaro refuses to play by the script, breaking free from the opera-within-the-opera in a surprise bid for a better life. LA Opera proudly presents the first full-scale production in this century of John Corigliano’s grand opera buffa, one of the most acclaimed operas of our time. Extravagantly scaled, gloriously tuneful, supremely touching and yet uproariously entertaining, The Ghosts of Versailles turns history on its head as love attempts to alter the course of destiny. FEBRUARY 28 – MARCH 22, 2015 THE BARBER OF SEVILLE By GIOACHINO ROSSINI Conducted by JAMES CONLON Directed by TREVORE ROSS Production by EMILIO SAGI Featuring RODION POGOSSOV, ELIZABETH DESHONG, RENÉ BARBERA & ALESSANDRO CORBELLI DASHING COUNT ALMAVIVA has lost his heart to the spunky Rosina, whose doddering guardian is determined to marry her himself. It’s Figaro to the rescue, as the resourceful barber conjures up wacky schemes and strateEmilio Sagi’s production of gies to unite the young lovers. A The Barber of Seville. topnotch cast sails through the Photo: Cory Weaver score’s bel canto glories, thrilling the audience as characters that are just as vivid today as when they first took the stage. Rossini’s razor-sharp musical wit glints through every scene of this delicious comedy, one of the most playful and popular in the entire operatic repertoire.
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MARCH 21 – APRIL 12, 2015 THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO By WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Conducted by JAMES CONLON Directed by IAN JUDGE Featuring ROBERTO TAGLIAVINI, PRETTY YENDE, RYAN MCKINNY & GUANQUN YU CHANGE IS IN the air and Figaro’s world is turning upside down. On the eve of the wily barber’s marriage to Susanna, Count Almaviva’s wandering eye has landed on the lovely bride-to-be. Servant and master go head to head, and even the Countess herself must spring into battle when she learns of her husband’s plans. Or is she embroiled in a liaison of her own? From the breathless opening notes of the overture to the touching final curtain, Mozart’s comic masterpiece brilliantly bucks the conventions of his time to deliver an ageless message of love and forgiveness. APRIL 23 – 26, 2015 HERCULES VS VAMPIRES Composed and Adapted by PATRICK MORGANELLI Original Film Directed by MARIO BAVA Conducted by CHRISTOPHER ALLEN Featuring KIHUN YOON, JOSHUA GUERRERO, NICHOLAS BROWNLEE & SUMMER HASSAN BUCKLE YOUR SEATBELTS for our most offbeat presentation ever! Hercules vs. Vampires combines opera and midcentury pop culture, synchronizing live music with cult fantasy film Hercules in the Haunted World, a 1961 sword-and-sandal epic. When the actors projected on the silver screen open their mouths to speak, the audience will hear their lines sung by our cast of singers from the Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program, accompanied by a 26-piece orchestra. Directed by the great Italian filmmaker Mario Bava, the film itself is fantastic in every sense of the term, swaddled in glorious early-1960s Technicolor. Action-packed and wildly operatic in scope, the film follows Hercules on a heroic journey to rescue his beloved from a fiendish mastermind of terror (played onscreen by horror legend Christopher Lee). Fresh and full of fun, an atmospheric new operatic score by L.A.-based
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composer Patrick Morganelli provides the perfect accompaniment to Bava’s gorgeously gaudy world. JUNE 11 – 14, 2015 DOG DAYS Music by DAVID T. LITTLE Libretto by ROYCE VAVREK Conducted by ALAN PIERSON Directed by ROBERT WOODRUFF Featuring LAUREN WORSHAM, JOHN KELLY, JAMES BOBICK & MARNIE BRECKENRIDGE LA OPERA LAUNCHES an exciting initiative to present new operas at REDCAT with a deeply unsettling 2012 work that blends classical vocalism with dark heavy metal influences. In the aftermath of an unimaginable catastrophe, a family struggles to keep together. The teenage daughter clings to hope, unwilling to accept her dire situation, until a stranger shows up at the doorstep, a reminder of just how bad things have gotten.
Based on a powerful short story by Judy Budnitz, and hailed by The Wall Street Journal as “one of the most exciting new operas of recent years” Dog Days is a shocking reminder of contemporary opera’s raw power. “It’s only a matter of time before this riveting show is confirmed as a groundbreaking American classic.” (New York Times) TICKETS & CONTACT LA Opera Dorothy Chandler Pavilion 135 North Grand Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90012 (213) 972-7219 (General) (213) 972-8001 (Tickets) www.laopera.org
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Music Director Gustavo Dudamel and THE LOS ANGELES PHILmembers of the LA Philharmonic. HARMONIC is reinventing the Photo: Nohely Oliveros concept of a 21st-century orchestra under the vibrant leadership of Gustavo Dudamel. Now in its 96th season, the Philharmonic is recognized as one of the world’s outstanding orchestras and is received enthusiastically by audiences and critics alike. Both at home and abroad, the Philharmonic is leading the way in innovative programming and re-defining the musical experience. Inspired to consider new directions, Dudamel and the Philharmonic aim to find programming that remains faithful to tradition, yet also seeks new ground, new audiences, and new ways to enhance the symphonic music experience.
JANUARY 9 – 11, 2015 MTT @ 70: BEETHOVEN’S MISSA SOLEMNIS MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS, Conductor JAMES DARRAH, Director JOÉLLE HARVEY, Soprano BRANDON JOVANOVICH, Tenor LOS ANGELES MASTER CHORALE BEETHOVEN, Missa Solemnis (staged, with video)
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JANUARY 11, 2015, 7:30 P.M. ORGAN RECITAL: ANTHONY NEWMAN CLARKE (ARR. NEWMAN), The King’s March DANDRIEU (ARR. NEWMAN), Trumpet Voluntary DANDRIEU (ARR. NEWMAN), Rondeau CHARPENTIER (ARR. NEWMAN), Prelude from Te Deum MOURET (ARR. NEWMAN), Rondeau from Suites de Symphonies, premier suite, fanfares PURCELL (ARR. NEWMAN), Trumpet Tune in D NEWMAN, Fantasia on Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex NEWMAN, Fantasia and Fanfare on Stravinsky’s Canticum Sacrum BACH, Toccata, Adagio, and Fugue in C, BWV 564 NEWMAN, Adagio, Toccata, and Fugue in D MOZART, Three Sonatas, K. 263, K. 67, K. 278 BACH, Fugue in G “a la gigue”, BWV 577 JANUARY 13, 2015, 8:00 P.M. GREEN UMBRELLA: THEATER OF THE OUTRAGEOUS JOHN ADAMS, Conductor NATHAN MEDLEY, Countertenor ZORN, For Your Eyes Only NEUWIRTH, Hommage a Klaus Nomi (nine songs for countertenor and ensemble) GRUBER, Frankenstein!!
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JANUARY 14, 2015, 8:00 P.M. KREMER & TRIFONOV IN RECITAL GIDON KREMER, Violin DANIIL TRIFONOV, Piano MOZART, Violin Sonata in E-flat, K. 481 SCHUBERT, Fantasy in C, D. 934 RACHMANINOFF, Trio élégiaque No. 2 in D minor, Op. 9
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JANUARY 16 – 18, 2015 SIBELIUS & GÓRECKI ANDREY BOREYKO, Conductor NIKOLAJ ZNAIDER, Violin TANSMAN, Stele in memoriam Igor Stravinsky SIBELIUS, Violin Concerto GÓRECKI, Symphony No. 4 JANUARY 22 – 24, 2015 EMANUEL AX PLAYS CHOPIN MIGUEL HARTH-BEDOYA, Conductor EMANUEL AX, Piano LISZT, Mephisto Waltz No. 1 CHOPIN, Piano Concerto No. 2 PROKOFIEV, Suite from Cinderella JANUARY 30 – FEBRUARY 1, 2015 LATE MASTERWORKS OF MOZART & BRUCKNER HERBERT BLOMSTEDT, Conductor RICHARD GOODE, Piano MOZART, Piano Concerto No. 27, K. 595 BRUCKNER, Symphony No. 9 FEBRUARY 6 – 8, 2015 BRILLIANT BRASS: HAYDN & MOZART ANDREW MANZE, Conductor THOMAS HOOTEN, Trumpet ANDREW BAIN, Horn MOZART, Symphony No. 35, “Haffner” HAYDN, Trumpet Concerto MOZART, Horn Concerto No. 4, K. 495 HAYDN, Symphony No. 104, “London” Andrew Bain. Photo: Cameron Murray
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FEBRUARY 12 – 15, 2015 MARTHA ARGERICH PLAYS SCHUMANN JURAJ VALCUHA, Conductor MARTHA ARGERICH, Piano BRITTEN, Four Sea Interludes SCHUMANN, Piano Concerto STRAUSS, Death and Transfiguration FEBRUARY 18, 2015, 8:00 P.M. LATE MASTERWORKS WITH ANDRÁS SCHIFF, PIANO HAYDN, Piano Sonata in C, Hob. XVI: 50 BEETHOVEN, Piano Sonata No. 30 in E, Op. 109 MOZART, Sonata in C, K. 545 SCHUBERT, Piano Sonata in C minor, D. 958 FEBRUARY 19 – 21, 2015 CHINESE NEW YEAR: FROM TCHAIKOVSKY TO TAN DUN XIAN ZHANG, Conductor JIAN WANG, Cello NING FENG, Violin HOACHEN ZHANG, Piano HUANZHI, Spring Festival Overture SAINT-SAËNS, Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso CHOPIN, Andante Spianato and Grande Polonaise TCHAIKOVSKY, Rococo Variations TAN DUN, The Triple Resurrection FEBRUARY 27 & 28, 2015 ALICE IN WONDERLAND SUSANNA MÄLKKI, Conductor NETIA JONES, Director/Video Artist RACHELE GILMORE, Soprano DIETRICH HENSCHEL, Mezzo-soprano LOS ANGELES CHILDREN’S CHORUS CHIN, Alice in Wonderland (staged with video) MARCH 1, 2015, 2:00 P.M. STRAVINSKY & BEETHOVEN MIRGA GRAŽINYTE-TYLA, Conductor MOZART, The Abduction from the Seraglio Overture
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MARCH 4, 2015, 8:00 P.M. LATE MASTERWORKS WITH ANDRÁS SCHIFF, PIANO MOZART, Sonata in B-flat, K. 570 BEETHOVEN, Sonata in A-flat, Op. 110 HAYDN, Sonata in D, Hob. XVI:51 SCHUBERT, Sonata in A, D. 959
MARCH 5 – 8, 2015 DUDAMEL & MAHLER 6 GUSTAVO DUDAMEL, Conductor MAHLER, Symphony No. 6
MARCH 10, 2015, 8:00 P.M. GREEN UMBRELLA: DUDAMEL CONDUCTS GUSTAVO DUDAMEL, Conductor JENNIFER KOH, Violin SCELSI, Anahit MARCH 12 & 13, 2015 DUDAMEL’S NEW WORLD GUSTAVO DUDAMEL, Conductor ADAMS, City Noir DVORÁK, Symphony No. 9, “From the New World” MARCH 21, 2015, 8:00 P.M. HERBIE HANCOCK & CHICK COREA MARCH 22, 2015, 7:30 P.M. LANG LANG IN RECITAL MARCH 29, 2015, 7:30 P.M. GIL SHAHAM PLAYS BACH BACH, Six Solos
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APRIL 7, 2015, 8:00 P.M. CHAMBER MUSIC: ALL-MOZART MOZART, Clarinet Quintet in A major, K. 581 MOZART, Divertimento in E-flat for Violin, Viola, and Cello, K. 563 APRIL 10 – 12, 2015 VIVALDI & HANDEL EMMANUELLE HAÏM, Conductor NATALIE DESSAY, Soprano STÉPHANE-MARIE DEGAND, Violin VIVALDI, Selections from The Four Seasons HANDEL, Selections from Giulio Cesare APRIL 14, 2015, 8:00 P.M. HÉLÈNE GRIMAUD IN RECITAL BERIO, Wasserklavier LISZT, St. Francois de Paule marchant sur les flots LISZT, Les jeux d’eau a la villa d’Este SCHUBERT/LISZT, Auf dem Wasser zu singen RAVEL, Les jeux d’eau RAVEL, Ondine ALBÉNIZ, Almería (from Iberia) TAKEMITSU, Rain Tree Sketch II JANÁCEK, In the mists 1, 4 FAURÉ, Barcarolle No. 5 DEBUSSY, La cathédrale engloutie DEBUSSY, The snow is dancing DEBUSSY, Étude XI “pour les Arpeges composés” DEBUSSY, Poissons d’or DEBUSSY, L’isle joyeuse
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APRIL 17 – 19, 2015 BRAHMS’S FOURTH NEEME JÄRVI, Conductor MARTIN CHALIFOUR, Violin BRAHMS, Tragic Overture SUK, Fantasy BRAHMS, Symphony No. 4 APRIL 19, 2015, 7:30 P.M. ORGAN RECITAL: OLIVIER LATRY DUPRÉ, Cortège et Litanie FRANCK, Prière GUILMANT, Finale from Sonata No. 1 COCHEREAU, Berceuse à la mémoire de Louis Vierne COCHEREAU, Boléro VIERNE, Symphony No. 2 APRIL 25 & MAY 2, 2015, 11:00 A.M. TOYOTA SYMPHONIES FOR YOUTH: PETER AND THE WOLF MAY 1 & 2, 2015 BEETHOVEN & STRAUSS VASILY PETRENKO, Conductor LISE DE LA SALLE, Piano WEBERN, Im Sommerwind BEETHOVEN, Piano Concerto No. 3 STRAUSS, Ein Heldenleben MAY 5, 2015, 8:00 P.M. CHAMBER MUSIC: BRAHMS WITH BRONFMAN BRAHMS, Trio in A minor, Op. 114 SMETANA, String Quartet No. 1, “From My Life” BRAHMS, Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34 MAY 7 – 10, 2015 DUDAMEL, BRONFMAN & BRAHMS GUSTAVO DUDAMEL, Conductor YEFIM BRONFMAN, Piano BRAHMS, Piano Concerto No. 1
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BACH (ARR. WEBERN), Ricercar, from “The Musical Offering” BACH, Orchestral Suite No. 3 BACH (ARR. STOKOWSKI), Toccata and Fugue in D minor MAY 14 – 17, 2015 DUDAMEL CONDUCTS RAVEL GUSTAVO DUDAMEL, Conductor GERALD FINLEY, Baritone JEAN-YVES THIBAUDET, Piano RAVEL, Le Tombeau de Couperin SAARIHO, True Fire RAVEL, Concerto for the Left Hand RAVEL, Bolero MAY 19, 2015, 8:00 P.M. CHAMBER MUSIC: ALL-AMERICAN BROUGHTON, Three American Portraits ANDRES, Some Connecticut Gospel PEREIRA, Strophe HARBISON, Quintet for Winds MAY 21 – 24, 2015 FALLA & FLAMENCO WITH DUDAMEL GUSTAVO DUDAMEL, Conductor ANGEL ROMERO, Guitar SIUDY GARRIDO BALLET FLAMENCO FALLA, Suite No. 2 from The Three-Cornered Hat RODRIGO, Concierto de Aranjuez FALLA, El amor brujo MAY 26, 2015, 8:00 P.M. GREEN UMBRELLA: JOHN ADAMS CONDUCTS JOHN ADAMS, Conductor HILA PLITMANN, Soprano CERRONE, New work for soprano & ensemble FRIAR, New work MATTINGLY, New work
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MAY 28 – 31, 2015 DUDAMEL, MACKEY & MORE GUSTAVO DUDAMEL, Conductor ENSEMBLE SIGNAL BRAD LUBMAN, Music Director MACKEY, Mnemosyne’s Pool GORDON/LAND/WOLFE, Shelter (with video)
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TICKETS & CONTACT LA Philharmonic Walt Disney Concert Hall 111 South Grand Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90012 (323) 850-2000 www.laphil.org
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Mark Taper Forum. SINCE IT OPENED in Photo courtesy of Center Theatre Group 1967, the Mark Taper Forum has been honored for its development of new plays and voices for the theatre, and for its continuing commitment to serve the broadest possible audience. It has received virtually every theatrical award including the 1977 special Tony Award for theatrical excellence. With Michael Ritchie as its Artistic Director and Gordon Davidson its Founding Artistic Director, the 739-seat Mark Taper Forum is one of the top resident theatres in the country. The theatre has guided and developed an impressive number of Tony Award-winning and Pulitzer Prize-winning plays, including Children of a Lesser God, The Shadow Box, The Kentucky Cycle, and Angels in America.
FEBRUARY 11 – MARCH 22, 2015 THE PRICE By ARTHUR MILLER Directed by GARRY HYNES Featuring KATE BURTON & ALAN MANDELL TWO ESTRANGED BROTHERS meet in their deceased father’s apartment to dig through his belongings, finally unearthing the hidden motives for events that long ago fractured their relation-
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ship. An American classic, The Price asks the timeless question: how do we measure the value of our lives? In celebration of Arthur Miller’s centennial, Tony Award winner Garry Hynes directs this provocative revival with Kate Burton and Alan Mandell. APRIL 22 – JUNE 7, 2015 IMMEDIATE FAMILY By PAUL OAKLEY STOVALL Directed by PHYLICIA RASHAD THE BRYANT FAMILY reunion takes a comedic turn when the middle son brings home his Swedish boyfriend and tosses him into a stew of family dysfunctions. Race, sexuality, and religion are on the menu as Modern Family meets Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner in this “timely and important American play” (���� Chicago Tribune),���� ��� directed by Tony Award winner Phylicia Rashad. Phylicia Rashad directs Immediate Family. Photo: The Washington Post
JULY 15 – AUGUST 23, 2015 BENT By MARTIN SHERMAN Directed by MOISÉS KAUFMAN MARTIN SHERMAN’S PROFOUND love story takes audiences into the deepest, darkest moments of two gay men’s struggle to survive in Nazi Germany. In the first major U.S. revival since its
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Broadway premiere in 1979, Moisés Kaufman directs this startling and moving play that illustrates how love can transcend persecution, no matter the cost. SEPTEMBER 23 – NOVEMBER 1, 2015 APPROPRIATE By BRANDEN JACOBS-JENKINS Directed by ERIC TING AFTER THEIR FATHER dies in the decaying plantation mansion the family has held for generations, the three grown Lafayette children return to Arkansas to battle over their inheritance. Soon after uncovering a gruesome relic buried deep in the recesses of their father’s haunted past, decades of family resentment burst through centuries of historical sin in this outrageous and entertaining family drama.
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DECEMBER 2, 2015 – JANUARY 10, 2016 THE CHRISTIANS By LUCAS HNATH Directed by LES WATERS ON THE ANNIVERSARY of the megachurch he himself founded, Pastor Paul feels called to deliver a new message, though he knows it will shake the foundation of everything he has built. No
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matter your faith, or lack thereof, The Christians – a play with a full, live choir – compels a conversation that attempts to bridge the seemingly insurmountable distance between us. Do you have the courage to change your heart? TICKETS & CONTACT Mark Taper Forum 135 N. Grand Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90012 (213) 628-2772 www.centertheatregroup.org
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Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
MOCA Pacific Design Center, FOUNDED IN 1979, MOCA is Photo by Marissa Roth the only museum in Los Angeles devoted exclusively to contemporary art. It is committed to the collection, presentation, and interpretation of work produced since 1940 in all media, and to preserving that work for future generations. In a remarkably short time, MOCA has developed one of the nation’s most renowned permanent collections. Now numbering over 5,000 works and steadily growing, this invaluable cultural resource provides extensive opportunities for education and enjoyment to thousands of national and international visitors. Today the museum is housed in three unique facilities: MOCA Grand Avenue, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, and MOCA Pacific Design Center.
ANDY WARHOL: SHADOWS SEPTEMBER 20, 2014 – FEBRUARY 2, 2015 IN 1978–79, ANDY WARHOL produced Shadows, a monumental, 102-part series of silkscreened canvases. The work’s internal compositions are culled from photographs of shadows taken in The Factory, the artist’s New York City studio. In Shadows, Warhol extended his long-standing interest in seriality and repetition while forgoing the cultural icons and commodity forms that most often populate his art. MOCA’s presentation will feature the full collec-
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Andy Warhol, Shadows, 1978–79, Dia Art Foundation. © 2014 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
tion of paintings from Dia Art Foundation. Installed edge to edge, the series of abstract panels – once referred to by Warhol as “disco décor” – create a haunting, environmental ensemble.
CONCRETE INFINITY SEPTEMBER 20, 2014 – ONGOING CONCRETE INFINITY INCLUDES a selection of works from MOCA’s Permanent Collection by John Altoon, Lynda Benglis, Robert Gober, Rachel Harrison, Richard Hawkins, Alfred Jensen, Andrew Lord, Catherine Opie, Adrian Piper, George Segal, and John Sonsini. Presented alongside Andy Warhol: Shadows, this small exhibition imagines the space revealed in Warhol’s dark corners, emphasizing the pleasure and loss attached to representations of the human figure.
THE SOCIAL LANDSCAPE: SELECTIONS FROM THE RALPH M. PARSONS FOUNDATION PHOTOGRAPHY COLLECTION SEPTEMBER 20, 2014 – ONGOING THE SOCIAL LANDSCAPE: SELECTIONS FROM THE RALPH M. PARSONS FOUNDATION PHOTOGRAPHY Collection presents works by Diane Arbus, Danny Lyon, and Garry Winogrand. A 1994 gift to The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the collection includes over 2,000 works assembled by Robert Freidus, a leading New York dealer and collector. Included in the
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forty-one black-and-white photographs currently on display is a selection of prints from Winogrand’s series Women are Beautiful (c. 1975), shot in and around New York City. SELECTIONS FROM THE PERMANENT COLLECTION FEBRUARY 8, 2014 – ONGOING ORGANIZED BY MOCA Curator Bennett Simpson, Selections from the Permanent Collection presents a chronological installation�������� of significant works from MOCA’s holdings from the 1940s to the present. Representing Selections from the Permanent important historical Collection, on view at MOCA Grand Avenue. movements such as abstract Photo: Brian Forrest expressionism, minimalism, pop art, conceptual art, and postmodernism, the exhibition includes works by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Hanne Darboven, Jorg Immendorff, Franz Kline, Barry Le Va, Cady Noland, Claes Oldenburg, Jackson Pollock, Robert Rauschenberg, Charles Ray, Mark Rothko, Jim Shaw, Cindy Sherman, Kara Walker, and others. WHEN FASHION SHOWS THE DANGER THEN FASHION IS THE DANGER: BERNHARD WILLHELM AND JUTTA KRAUS. 3000 FEBRUARY 7 – MAY 17, 2015 SINCE 1999, WHEN he premiered his first collection of clothes in Paris, Bernhard Willhelm has been “moving in-between chaos and diversity.” He and his team, headed by long-term collaborator Jutta Kraus, recently decamped from their Parisian atelier and relocated to Los Angeles. This site-specific work at MOCA’s PDC gallery functions as a sculptural installation with a fashion sensibility and includes video, photography, and displays of ephemera and objects curated by Willhelm. Described by Willhelm as a
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meditation on the future of commerce and a “thinking-forward exhibition,” he sees this installation as his response to the uniformity of fashion in the 21st century and a forecast of the fashion experience in the 22nd century. WILLIAM POPE.L: TRINKET MARCH 21 – JUNE 28, 2015 WILLIAM POPE.L: TRINKET is an exhibition of new and recent work by the Chicago-based artist, an essential figure in the development of performance and body art since the 1970s. The exhibition will be installed in the soaring spaces of the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA and is comprised of large-scale installations, and features a new performance and sculpture work made specifically for the exhibition. The centerpiece of the show is Trinket, a monumental, custom-made American flag (approximately 50 x 20 feet) hanging on a pole in the middle of the Geffen. During the museum’s public hours, the flag will be blown continuously by four large-scale industrial fans – the type used on Hollywood film sets to create wind or rain effects – and will be illuminated from below by a bank of custom theatrical lights. Over time, the flag will appear to fray at its ends due to the constant whipping of the forced air, a potent metaphor for the rigors and complexities of democratic engagement and participation. This is the largest museum presentation of Pope.L’s work to date.
STURTEVANT: DOUBLE TROUBLE MARCH 21 – JULY 27, 2015 STURTEVANT: DOUBLE TROUBLE is the first comprehensive survey in America of Sturtevant’s (American, b. 1924, d. 2014) 50-year career and the only institutional presentation of her work organized in the United States since 1973. Sturtevant has been “repeating” the works of her contemporaries since 1964, using some of the most iconic artworks of her generation as a source and catalyst for the exploration of originality, authorship, and the interior structures of art and image culture. Beginning with her versions of works by Jasper Johns and Andy Warhol, Sturtevant initially turned the visual logic of Pop art back on itself, probing uncomfortably at the workings of art history in real time. Her 90
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chameleon-like embrace of other artists’ art has also resulted in her being largely overlooked in the history of postwar American art. As a woman “repeating” the work of better-known male artists, she has passed almost unnoticed through the hierarchies of mid-century modernism and postmodernism.
Sturtevant, Johns Target with Four Faces (study), 1986, Encaustic collage on canvas with objects, 33 1/4 x 26 1/8 x 2 5/8 in., The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Gift of Ron and Kelly Meyer
KAHLIL JOSEPH: M.A.A.D MARCH 21 – JULY 27, 2015 KAHLIL JOSEPH’S DOUBLE-SCREEN projection m.A.A.d is a lush portrait of contemporary Los Angeles. From barbershops to marching bands, from homeboys drinking in the streets to the iconic carpet of shimmering lights, the camera in m.A.A.d sinuously glides through predominantly African American neighborhoods in Los Angeles catching a dizzying array of quotidian moments suffused with creativity, joy, and sadness. m.A.A.d crosses the wires of literary magical realism – at one point a young boy on horse back gallops down a Los Angeles street – with the neo-realism of African American auteur cinema from the late 1970s and early 1980s, specifically the legendary films of Billy Woodberry (Bless Their Little Hearts) and Charles Burnett (Killer of Sheep). Joseph’s film is accompanied by a thick booming soundtrack provided by emerging hip-hop star Kendrick Lamar, and indeed m.A.A.d is part of the title of Lamar’s highly acclaimed second album Good Kid m.A.A.d. City. The intensity of the music and the deeply evocative nature of Joseph’s imagery present the viewer with a quandary: Is this a film, a music video, or some third, as yet undefined genre? www.GuidefortheArts.com
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PERMANENT COLLECTION FALL 2015 – FALL 2016 FOR THE FIRST time in five years the entirety of MOCA Grand Avenue will be dedicated to an installation from the permanent collection. Chief Curator Helen Molesworth will install an exhibition highlighting the affinities between artists and art works in an attempt to rethink the now conventional chronological installation of art. By exploring connections that emerge through artists’ friendships, the history of art schools, and artists’ own stated interest in other artists’ work, this presentation of MOCA’s esteemed collection of post-1945 art will highlight iconic works alongside lesser known material drawn from the nearly 7,000 objects in MOCA’s collection. Recently acquired work will be on view, gesturing towards MOCA’s newly invigorated collecting. Considered to be among the most important collections of post-war art in the world, this installation aims to reintroduce its richness and depth, as well as to signal a new era of scholarship and a renewed commitment to collecting at the institution
MATTHEW BARNEY: RIVER OF FUNDAMENT SEPTEMBER 13, 2015 – JANUARY 31, 2016 NEARLY 7 YEARS IN the making, Matthew Barney: RIVER OF FUNDAMENT is Barney’s largest filmic undertaking since his renowned five-part epic The CREMASTER Cycle (1994 to 2002). The film has been co-produced by Matthew Barney and the Laurenz Foundation. The eponymous exhibition brings together 14 large-scale sculptures weighing up to 25 tons, drawings, photographs, and vitrines that were inspired by or made in conjunction with the film. MOCA’s presentation of the exhibition will include new works made since the film’s premiere, which exemplify Barney’s continued exploration of its themes. These works serve as physical manifestations and remnants of the ideas and
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performances throughout the titular symphonic film collaboration with composer Johnathan Bepler. Matthew Barney: RIVER OF FUNDAMENT is largely inspired by Norman Mailer’s epic novel Ancient Evenings from 1983, and draws its fantastical imagery from a wide range of sources, including Mailer’s life and work, ancient Egyptian mythology, and the rise and fall of the American auto industry. TICKETS & CONTACT MOCA 250 South Grand Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90012 (213) 626-6222 www.moca.org
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The Pasadena Playhouse
Pasadena Playhouse exterior. THE PASADENA PLAYHOUSE Photo: Bret Hartman/The Los was established in 1917 and is Angeles Times the official State Theatre of California. In recent years, The Playhouse has become instrumental Playhouse has become instrumental in launching new works and landmark revivals for the American Theatre. The Playhouse has displayed a commitment to cultural and theatrical diversity, which is reflected in seasons featuring Tony Award and Pulitzer Prizewinning plays.
FEBRUARY 3 – MARCH 1, 2015 THE WHIPPING MAN By MATTHEW LOPEZ Directed by MARTIN BENSON STAGE AND TELEVISION star Charlie Robinson plays Simon in this Obie Award-winning drama The New York Times proclaimed “haunting and powerful.” The Civil War has ended, leaving destruction in its wake. As a raging storm illuminates what’s left of a once majestic plantation home, three Jewish men prepare for Passover: the owner’s son, and his family’s former slaves. Only one of them, Simon, remains strong in his faith, but it is threatened with truths about what happened in this house – and in their lives – during its antebellum days.
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MARCH 17 – APRIL 12, 2015 PYGMALION By GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Directed by JESSICA KUBZANSKY IN THIS FRESH interpretation of Pygmalion, first presented on stage in 1912, phonetics professor Henry Higgins bets that after he finishes transforming Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle, her flawless speech and delicate façade will allow her to pass for a duchess at an ambassador’s garden party. This classic favorite perfectly skewers the rigid British class system and continues to serve as an insightful commentary on women’s independence. MAY 29 – JUNE 28, 2015 WATERFALL: THE MUSICAL Book and Lyrics by RICHARD MALTBY JR. Music by DAVID SHIRE Choreographed by DAN KNECHTGES Directed by TAK VIRAVAN WATERFALL IS AN epic love story, set in Bangkok and Tokyo between the turbulent years of 1933 and 1939, as a monarchy falls in Thailand and Japan is on the brink of war. A young Thai student falls in love with the American wife of a Thai diplomat, and the story of their forbidden love parallels history as the new democracy of Siam moves into the vortex of the increasingly antiAmerican Japan. With a gloriously romantic score, Waterfall is a modern love story of timeless scale. TICKETS & CONTACT The Pasadena Playhouse 39 S. El Molino Avenue Pasadena, CA 91101 (626) 356-7529 www.pasadenaplayhouse.org
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Pasadena Symphony and POPS
The Pasadena Symphony performing. THE PASADENA SYMPHONY Photo: Lawrence K. Ho/The Los ASSOCIATION was founded Angeles Times in 1928 by conductor Reginald Bland, and was funded entirely by the City of Pasadena. Because of the tremendous support it continually received from the local community, the Pasadena Symphony grew into a nationally recognized, fully professional orchestra. The Pasadena Symphony Association officially fused The Pasadena Symphony and POPS in 2007. The mission of the Pasadena Symphony and POPS is to provide orchestral performances of the highest quality and to benefit the community through its music, community engagement, and education programs.
JANUARY 17, 2015 MCGEGAN’S BRAHMS NICHOLAS MCGEGAN, Conductor ESTHER KEEL, Piano MIHYANG KEEL, Piano DAVIES, An Orkney Wedding, With Sunrise POULENC, Concerto for 2 Pianos BRAHMS, Symphony No. 2
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FEBRUARY 14, 2015 BEETHOVEN 7 DAVID LOCKINGTON, Conductor DYLANA JENSON, Violin SHECKMAN, Enter Light SHOSTAKOVICH, Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN, Symphony No. 7
David Lockington. Photo courtesy of the Grand Rapids Symphony
MARCH 21, 2015 BEETHOVEN 6 NICHOLAS MCGEGAN, Conductor GENEVA LEWIS, Violin RAMEAU, Ballet Suite from Naïs MOZART, Violin Concerto No. 3 BEETHOVEN, Symphony No. 6
MAY 2, 2015 ROMEO AND JULIET DAVID LOCKINGTON, Conductor GABRIELLA MARTINEZ, Piano ROUSE, Rapture GRIEG, Piano Concerto PROKOFIEV, Romeo and Juliet, Suites 1 & 2 (excerpts) JUNE 20, 2015 BIG BAND SWING MICHAEL FEINSTEIN, Conductor JULY 11, 2015 CLASSICAL MYSTERY TOUR: MUSIC OF THE BEATLES WITH A SPECIAL TRIBUTE TO SGT. PEPPER’S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND MARTIN HERMAN, Conductor
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AUGUST 1, 2015 THE SINATRA PROJECT MICHAEL FEINSTEIN, Soloist LARRY BLANK, Conductor
Michael Feinstein performs in The Sinatra Project. Photo: Zach Dobson
AUGUST 22, 2015 TO ELLA & NAT WITH LOVE MICHAEL FEINSTEIN, Conductor SEPTEMBER 12, 2015 A NIGHT AT THE OSCARS! MICHAEL FEINSTEIN, Conductor TICKETS & CONTACT Pasadena Symphony Association 2 North Lake Avenue, Suite 1080 Pasadena, CA 91101 (626) 793-7172 www.pasadenasymphony-pops.org
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Contact Information AHMANSON THEATRE: (213) 628-2772 BROAD MUSEUM: (310) 399-4004 GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE: (310) 208-5454 J. PAUL GETTY MUSEUM: (310) 440-7300 KIRK DOUGLAS THEATRE: (213) 628-2772 LOS ANGELES BALLET: (310) 998-7782 LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART: (323) 857-6000 LOS ANGELES MASTER CHORALE: (213) 972-3110 LOS ANGELES OPERA: (213) 972-7219 LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC: (323) 850-2000 MARK TAPER FORUM: (213) 628-2772 MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, LOS ANGELES: (213) 626-6222 THE PASADENA PLAYHOUSE: (626) 356-7529 PASADENA SYMPHONY AND POPS: (626) 793-7172
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