The archive is now available to researchers. The archive spans the artist’s career from his student days at Pratt Institute in the 1960s through his more well-known photographs from the 1980s. The archive includes sculpture and assemblages, collages, cut-outs, early drawings and paintings, Polaroids, and examples of large-format photographic prints of flowers, portraits, nudes, and sadomasochistic subjects.
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Guided Public Tour at MOLAA
Fifty-minute Docent guided tours available with paid admission or free for members. Parties meet in lobby. See website for ticket prices and event times.
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MADLab First Look Reading Series
MADLab: First Look Readings September 28 to 29, and October 5 to 6, 2024. New Play Development Program for Los Angeles Artists L.A. BORN – L.A. BRED – L.A. BUILT Program Director : Dana Schwartz The mission of Moving Arts’s MADLab is to foster new and producible scripts by creating a unique environment of support and collaboration with professional Los Angeles playwrights, dramaturges, directors, and actors. Moving Arts is paving the way for MADLab to become the most well respected…
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MADLab First Look Reading Series
MADLab: First Look Readings September 28 to 29, and October 5 to 6, 2024. New Play Development Program for Los Angeles Artists L.A. BORN – L.A. BRED – L.A. BUILT Program Director : Dana Schwartz The mission of Moving Arts’s MADLab is to foster new and producible scripts by creating a unique environment of support and collaboration with professional Los Angeles playwrights, dramaturges, directors, and actors. Moving Arts is paving the way for MADLab to become the most well respected…
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Cine de Oro: El Rebozo de Soledad
LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes celebrates Cine de Oro/The Golden Age of Mexican Cinema and its contributions to film by presenting El Rebozo de Soledad, a 1952 Mexican film directed by Roberto Gavaldón and starring Stella Inda, Arturo de Córdova, and Pedro Armendáriz. In this melodrama, Dr. Alberto Robles, an idealistic city physician living in a rural community ruled by macho customs and feudalistic landowners, falls for Soledad, a farmworker. Enjoy an evening under the stars with music, food,…
$5 – $10
Film Series: Beware the Elements! Natural Disasters on Film
The Acadmy Museum presents the Film Series Beware the Elements! Natural Disasters on Film Following a summer of record-breaking heatwaves, extreme wildfires, historic floods, and a truly unprecedented “hurriquake,” we find the perilous realities of climate change increasingly impacting our daily lives. This screening series considers natural disasters through our planet’s primary elements—earth, wind, water, and fire—and seeks to highlight key moments in the history of the disaster film genre as a source of entertainment and portrayal of science, and…