There’s plenty to do and see and LACMA this weekend. In the Bing Theater, things start getting a little creepy in anticipation of Halloween during this week’s installment of the film series The Perfect Match: Hollywood Costume Collaborations. First at 5 pm, Tim Burton’s Sleepy Hollow puts a modern flare on the classic Washington Irving ghost story with Johnny Depp as Ichabod Crane. The film not only features exquisite costume design but also striking cinematography. Then at 7:30 pm Edward Scissorhands has Burton and Depp teaming up in this delicate, fantasy romance (with a Danny Elfman score to boot!). Both films should be good sources of motivation for next week’s LACMA Costume Ball: The Living Museum, taking place on October 31, where guests are invited to come dressed as an artist or work of art.
Around the galleries, take advantage of free, docent led tours, including Women Artists of the Russian Avant-Garde at 1 pm or 50-minute walk-through of our South and Southeast Asian galleries on Saturday at 2 pm. Sunday tours include a walk-through of one of our latest exhibition Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist at noon, as well as a tour of our large European art gallery at 3 pm. Also entering its second week on view, Samurai: Japanese Armor from the Ann and Gabriel Barbier-Mueller Collection displays samurai regalia the likes of which you’ve not seen before. Finally, new this weekend, Landscapes of Devotion: Visualizing Sacred Sites in India centers on courtly and temple paintings and photographs of India’s expansive and storied geography.
On Sunday at 12:30 pm, Andell Family Sundays pays close attention to drawing, including different materials and techniques in this free, artist-led workshop. In the evening at Sundays Live, the Chamber Ensembles from the American Youth Symphony perform at 6 pm in the Bing Theater. See you at the museum.