It’s quite the haunted weekend at the museum, beginning with Friday night’s LACMA Costume Ball: The Living Museum. Mingle with masterpieces in our 11th-annual Halloween party, where this year you’re invited to attend as a work of art. The best costumes will be entered into the costume contest (judged by acclaimed Hollywood designers) for a chance to win spooky prize packages. Cut a rug with sounds from Oneohtrix Point Never and fellow musicians from creative label Warp Records out on the plaza and then head into the galleries for more enchanted melodies from local producers. Explore the twisted halls of Haunted Screens: German Cinema in the 1920s and Art of the Samurai along with live horror installations from Zombie Joe’s Underground Theatre, all happening on one dreary night. Tickets are still available, get yours now!
Saturday, the museum closes early—at 3 pm—for a special event and select galleries (BCAM, Resnick Pavilion, and Ahmanson Building, Level 1) close earlier at 1 pm. Still, plenty of free tours, like a walk-through of Samurai: Japanese Armor from the Ann and Gabriel Barbier-Mueller Collection and Mexico: Modern Art, Ancient Spirit, make a visit worthwhile. Also, in light of the early closures, we’re offering free general admission from noon to 3 pm.
On Sunday, things get back to normal with our weekly installment of Andell Family Sundays at 12:30 pm, taking inspiration from Edward Biberman, Abbot Kinney and the Story of Venice and The Painted City: Art from Teotihuacan in November. Docent-led tours on Sunday include a walk-through of Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist at noon and African Cosmos: Stellar Arts at 1 pm. For more on this special exhibition, join the 2 pm lecture Art and Life in the Yoruba Cosmological Model with Dr. Babatunde Lawal, Virginia Commonwealth University, speaking on the interconnections of art and life among Yoruba people of West Africa. To end the weekend, see the Alma Quartet at Sundays Live at 6 pm.