• Film Screening: Two Videos by Matthew Barney
• Conversations with Artists: Allen Ruppersberg & Allan McCollum
• Berton Memorial Lecture on Japanese Art
• Decorative Arts and Design Council Lecture Series
  Hearst's Estate at San Simeon: Inside and Out
• Shibata Zeshin: His World in Painting and Lacquer

Film Screening: Two Videos by Matthew Barney
Thursday, November 20 | 7:30 pm
Cremaster 4 (1994) and Drawing Restraint 10 (2005) both demonstrate Matthew Barney's career-long interest in incorporating the materials and imagery of sports into his practice as an artist. This film screening is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Contemporary Projects 11: Hard Targets -Masculinity and Sport on view through January 18, 2009.
Bing Theater | Free, no reservations

Conversations with Artists: Allen Ruppersberg & Allan McCollum
Thursday, December 4 | 7:00 pm
A conversation between the artists Allen Ruppersberg and Allan McCollum will touch on the artists' different approaches to image-making, reflections on creating work in Los Angeles and New York in the 1970s versus today, as well as their recent collaboration in Italy.
Brown Auditorium | Free; tickets required-available at the box office one hour before the program.

Berton Memorial Lecture on Japanese Art
Sunday, December 7 | 3:30 pm
Akira Mizuta Lippit presents the twenty-first lecture in this series of annual presentations. His program, The Image of Japan (in Hollywood) and the Return to War highlights the recent spate of American films that feature Japan and Japanese culture. Looking at some aspect of Japanese life from the outside, these films represent a contemporary moment in Hollywood cinema, but one that is also bound to Japanese cinema itself.
Mizuta is professor of film, comparative literature, and Japanese culture at the University of Southern California.
Brown Auditorium | Free; reservations required. To RSVP, call 323 857 6565 by December 1. Seating is limited.

Decorative Arts and Design Council Lecture Series
Hearst's Estate at San Simeon: Inside and Out
Monday, December 8 | 7:00 pm
Victoria Kastner, Historian, Hearst San Simeon State Historic Monument
Kastner will present a detailed look at William Randolph Hearst's favorite house—his estate at San Simeon. She will examine Hearst as a collector, focusing on San Simeon's decorative arts collection and garden sculpture. This event is in conjunction with the exhibition Hearst the Collector.
Brown Auditorium | Tickets: Free for Decorative Arts and Design Council members and students; $15 LACMA members; $20 non-members | For tickets: 323 857-6528
This series is made possible with the generous support of the Elsie de Wolfe Foundation.

Shibata Zeshin: His World in Painting and Lacquer
Sunday, December 14 | 3:00 pm
Japanese art expert Sebastian Izzard will discuss the work of lacquer artist and painter Shibata Zeshin (1807-1891). Renowned as the quintessential lacquer artist of the 19th century, Zeshin also invented a technique, now lost, that allowed him to paint in lacquer on paper, painting scrolls without the lacquer cracking. Izzard is the former head of Christie's Japanese and Korean art division in New York and recently authored the exhibition catalogue The Genius of Shibata Zeshin: Japanese Masterworks from the Catherine and Thomas Edson Collection.
Brown Auditorium | Free, no reservations
This lecture was made possible by the East Asian Art Council.

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