Taking LACMA To a New Culinary Artistic Level: Ray’s and Stark Bar
If you haven’t been to the sleek and ultra-modern Ray’s and Stark Bar yet, you’re missing a multi-sensory experience at LACMA. Designed by famed architect Renzo Piano, the restaurant is named after Ray Stark, the late film producer and LACMA trustee. The restaurant and bar sit on the museum’s plaza with a great view of its famous streetlight installation. Super talented executive chef Kris Morningstar collaborated with the...
Lights, Cameras and Action: LACMA Muse’s 10th Annual Young Directors Night
There can never be enough support for emerging artists, but for film directors, LACMA pulls out a lot of stops with its Young Directors Night program. For the tenth year running, the museum showcases—and then celebrates– the emerging talent of LA’s film community in a night that provides cinema, audience participation and a late-night afterparty to mix and mingle with the filmmakers. A sold out crowd at the Bing Theater...
Cineastes Unite: Save Film at LACMA!
It’s looking more and more likely that the much-deserved outrage raining down upon LACMA’s Michael Govan for his decision to shut down the museum’s film program may result in its rebirth. That’s my optimistic take on this controversy at this moment–and my fervent hope. Between Martin Scorsese’s pointed editorial in today’s Los Angeles Times and the new and growing by the minute Facebook group,...