Your weekend wouldn’t be complete without a visit to LACMA. Friday evening The Art of the Costume Designer: Spotlight on James Acheson celebrates the career of the three-time Oscar-winning costume designer. Acheson talks with Hollywood Costume curator Deborah Nadoolman Landis about his body of work, including costumes found in the films Time Bandits and The Last Emperor. This special event begins at 7:30 pm. Two Sides of a Costume Designer concludes on Saturday with the 1944 musical tearjerker Meet Me in St. Louis, starring Judy Garland, at 5 pm and the theatrical version of the acclaimed stage musical West Side Story at 7:30 pm.
In the galleries, Art of the Samurai: Swords, Paintings, Prints, and Textiles completes its run on Sunday, which features prints from LACMA’s collection alongside swords and fittings in the Pavilion for Japanese Art. Entering its final weeks, Variations: Conversation in and around Abstract Painting demonstrates how artists, many from L.A., have reanimated techniques and forms to create novel painting practices. See Close-up and Personal: 18th-Century Gold Boxes from the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Collection, a special selection of 28 exquisite containers, before it also closes after Sunday. A dozen free tours help uncover even more from the collection.
From our Art + Technology Lab, artist John Craig Freeman presents EEG AR: Things We Have Lost, a project that mixes brainwave sensing tech with augmented reality. Saturday at noon, attend the Clinic Drop-in Session and conjure your own virtual objects. Then on Sunday at 3 pm, travel around the plaza with mobile devices and find some of these virtual objects. Freeman will be present to talk about the project. Also taking place on Sunday, Andell Family Sundays at 12:30 pm explores the exhibition Ancient Colombia: A Journey through the Cauca Valley and at 6 pm at Sundays Live violinist Martin Chalifour, cellist Timothy Loo, and pianist Nadia Shpachenko perform in the Bing Theater. The weekend’s here, make it count!