Pack a picnic, lay out your blankets, and sip on a specialty cocktail from Stark Bar for Friday night’s Jazz at LACMA to celebrate the musical stylings of living jazz legend Hubert Laws. Laws is the recipient of this year's LA Jazz Treasure Award, which recognizes an artist who’s made an indelible mark on jazz and has given back to the community.
If you missed the chance to join Yearbook Club in high school, join LACMA Local just in time for its Saturday morning event. At Local: Yearbook, Locals will take part in a superlative scavenger hunt and search through artworks to find LACMA’s very own Class Clown and Best Dressed. In typical high school fashion, Local members are encouraged to bring or buy a lunch after their yearbook “class.”
Don’t miss the last Latin Sounds performance of the year! Ricardo Lemvo and his band Makina Loca will fill the Hancock Park’s amphitheater with their blend of Afro-Cuban rhythms and pan-African styles that the Los Angeles Times has dubbed as “seamless and infectious.” Lemvo is the embodiment of the Afro-Latin diaspora which connects back to Africa via the Cuban clave rhythm, and will be the perfect closing act for the summer.
For a more classical evening, join The Emerson Trio, featuring violinist Endre Balogh, cellist Antony Cooke, and pianist Donna Coleman, as they perform classical music in the Bing Theater Sunday night.
For some family fun, bring your kids to Andell Family Sundays and start a collection of art! Tour Alternative Dreams: 17th-Century Chinese Paintings from the Tsao Family Collection and discover works by scholars, officials, and Buddhist monks. Then, create your own paintings in workshops led by LACMA’s teaching staff and add works made by friends and family.