Jump-start your weekend at LACMA with double shot of vintage scares during the continuation of Let There Be Fright: William Castle Scare Classics film series. This Friday evening see Mr. Sardonicus, a gothic-period horror, at 7:30 pm and The Night Walker, a trippy spookfest seldom seen, at 9:10 pm. Earlier in the evening, the Angel City Jazz Festival takes over Jazz at LACMA and presents cutting-edge jazz acts, including the Roberto Miranda Band at 6 pm. This weekly concert series is always free and open to the public.
New in our galleries, Haunted Screens: German Cinema from the 1920s reanimates film from the German Expressionist era. Within the expertly mounted exhibition, drawings, manuscripts, posters, and set models exemplify the aesthetically and psychologically innovative masterworks from directors Fritz Lang (The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, 1919), Robert Wiene (Metropolis, 1927), and others. Members see it first (and for free!) Friday and Saturday; the exhibition opens to the general public on Sunday. Also opening this weekend, A Taste for the Antique: Neoclassical Drawings from the Permanent Collection, includes works on view for the first time since joining the museum’s collection.
Saturday, take a full-length tour of Treasure from Korea: Arts and Culture of the Joseon Dynasty, 1392–1920 at noon or join the popular Highlights of the Museum: Ancient to Modern tour, taking place at 3 pm, to explore some of the best objects in our collection. In the Bing Theater, Academy @ LACMA presents The Color of Pomegranates (Sayat Nova) at 7:30 pm. Featuring a new digital restoration, this biopic uses stunning, dreamlike imagery to tell the story of an 18th-century Armenian troubadour.
You’ll have plenty to chose from on Sunday, including exhibitions you may have yet to see, such as Playthings: The Uncanny Art of Morton Bartlett and Princely Traditions and Colonial Pursuits in India. Inglewood-area residents are welcomed for their Free Day at the museum, as part of the Art+Film Lab. See their stories during Nicole Miller’s specially commissioned film Believing Is Seeing at 12:30 pm in the Bing Theater. Andell Family Sundays take a look at LACMA’s collection of textiles also at 12:30 pm. In the afternoon at 4 pm, Daniel Joseph Martinez stops to speak at Art Catalogues and Pianist Yung-Chiu Wang performs at this week’s Sundays Live.