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Friday night, get yourselves ready for the legendary drummer Peter Erskine. His latest album Dr. Um takes his classic fusion sound right into the 21st century. John Beasley, Bob Sheppard, and Benjamin Shepherd will join Peter Erskine onstage for a night of music that will bring nostalgia to all Weather Report fans.

The recent gift to LACMA by Dorothy Lichtenstein on the occasion of the exhibition The Serial Impulse at Gemini G.E.L.brings to the museum a series of color woodcuts done in 1980 that, in part, owes its very existence to works that are now in LACMA’s collection.  

Short films, international filmmakers, and movie lovers from all walks of life—they’re coming together at LACMA this weekend, on September 24!

The Farhang Foundation Short Film Festival, which complements LACMA’s commitment to the art of film, is host to the foundation’s competition for Iranian-themed short films, and is meant to inspire and cultivate interest in Iranian culture through the creativity of movie making. 

Unframedis taking a look behind the scenes to profile the creative, dedicated people who make LACMA special. We sat down with senior education coordinator Alicia Vogl Saenz to chat about encouraging families to engage with art, leading a meditation session in the galleries, and making up corny jokes. 

A stela is a flat slab or pillar of stone designed for a commemorative purpose and usually marked with text or images (a tombstone, for example, is a type of stela). This Egyptian version was created during the reign of King Amenhotep III in the middle of the Eighteenth Dynasty (1391–1353 BC), a stable and prosperous period considered the height of ancient Egyptian artistic production.

Today, Friday, September 16, marks the first birthday of the Study Center for Photography and Works on Paper! To celebrate, we're mounting a public viewing of work from the collection all day today.

Nearly one full year has flown by since the opening of LACMA’s Study Center for Photography and Works on Paper, a main point of access to the museum’s holdings of about 30,000 works on paper. Our eventful year in numbers:

Gemini G.E.L. simply smells like a print shop. The front gallery is clean and stark, the walls decorated with the latest show on view. I meet with Renee Coppola, the director of sales for Gemini, for a quick tour of the workshop. I’ve been told, time and time again, that I can’t truly begin to write about Gemini G.E.L. until I’ve visited the workshop and seen the activity, the mess, the experimentation that translate so beautifully and cleanly into prints.

This Wednesday, September 14, is #AskACurator Day—an annual “holiday” for museum social media professionals. And by holiday, I mean that we take the full day to work with curators in our respective museums to answer questions from the public on Twitter and other social media platforms. In the last few years, the initiative has become an extremely popular event, with more than 1,200 museums participating worldwide this year.

Since June of this year, visitors walking through the doors of LACMA’s Ahmanson Building have been greeted by a new installation: a grid of 60 large-scale photographs of palm tree trunks and other sculptural details that one can encounter on the LACMA campus. The installation is a collaboration between artist Robert Irwin and photographer Philipp Scholz Rittermann. Today, on Irwin’s birthday (Happy birthday, Bob!), we offer Unframed readers a glimpse behind the scenes of how the work came into being.