More music on the Miracle Mile! You probably know about LACMA’s free Friday night jazz series on it outdoor plaza. But now there’s a new concert series in town that showcases the Los Angeles independent rock scene.
It was the brainchild of LACMA Muse director Jason Gaulton, who oversees a series of events, like Young Director’s Night, for the younger crowd of art enthusiasts that belong to Muse, one of the museum’s support groups.
The concert series kicked off with a pair of powerhouse performances by The Silent Comedy and Saint Motel, who took the stage in front of the Urban Light installation at LACMA’s BP Grand Entrance, with the glow of Chris Burden’s 202 street lamps behind them.
“This new celebration of music further expands Muse’s goal of celebrating art in all its forms while providing a platform for emerging artists,” says Gaulton.
Not only that, all guests were treated to a private after-hours viewing of the acclaimed Tim Burton exhibit at the Resnick Pavilion, which runs through Halloween– along with a limited edition poster commemorating the event by artist Patrick Haemmerlein.
It was a very successful template for a summer night at the museum. Gaulton says concerts in this series will combine music with after-hours access to exhibitions, visual programming, and a limited-edition print by a local artist.
The must-see Burton show explores the full range of his creative work as a director of live-action and animated films, and as an artist, illustrator, photographer, and writer. It features more than 700 drawings, paintings, photographs, moving-image works, storyboards, puppets, concept artworks, maquettes, costumes, and cinematic ephemera, allowing viewers to trace Burton’s development as an artist from the time he was a high school student in Burbank in the 1970s.
More info: www.lacma.org
