Public Programs
SMMoA’s lectures and conversations feature innovative and distinctive thinkers in all fields to connect audiences with current and cutting-edge ideas.
A Collection of Ideas
SMMoA presents conversations with some of today's most innovative and creative minds to examine the important socio-cultural and political issues of our time.
Crossfader*
Exploring music as a magnet to attract, mix, and connect diverse communities, Crossfader presents a series of insightful lectures and conversations that engage innovators in the world of art and music, organized by SMMoA’s Resident Collector Josh Kun.
*The crossfader is the toggle on a DJ mixer that allows you to move between the music on one input and the music on another. It lets you mix without erasing; combine without destroying—to juggle and sustain difference.
Monday, Jun 3, 2013
7:30pm–8:30pm
iCal
General Admission:
Free
Walkthrough Joyce Pensato: I KILLED KENNY with acclaimed Los Angeles painter Laura Owens and Pensato herself. This auspicious exhibition tour will offer new insights about painting and an intimate look at Pensato’s singular lifework. Limited space available, RSVP to secure your place.
About the artists:
Laura Owens was born in Euclid, Ohio in 1970 and currently lives and works in Los Angeles. She received her B.F.A. at the Rhode Island School of Design and her M.F.A at the California Institute of Arts. She has had major solo exhibitions at such international venues as the Kunstmuseum Bonn; Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht; Kunsthalle Zürich; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Her work is in the collections of the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum of Art, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, among many others.
Joyce Pensato was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, where she continues to live and work. Her work has recently been shown at Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York; Capitain Petzel Gallery, Berlin; Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris; and Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago. She has also been included in exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the St. Louis Art Museum, and the Frac des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou. Her work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; the Dallas Museum of Art; and the FRAC des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, France.
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A Collection of Ideas… Crossfader: Listening Like a Sonidero -
A Collection of Ideas… You Haven’t Lived Until You Die: Perspectives on the End of Life -
Pattern and Perception: Peter Shire, Samira Yamin, and the Work of Miriam Wosk -
CROSSFADER: The Art of the Crossfade—The Fundamentals with Josh Kun and DJ J. Period -
Artist on Artist: Monica Majoli on Michael Queenland -
Talking about Mickalene Thomas -
Conversation with Mickalene Thomas: ”Beauty, like truth, is relative…” Gustave Courbet -
Visions of India in California: Bringing South Asia to the Sunshine State -
Gallery Talk: Adam Berg and Lisa Melandri -
Vulcan God: Lucio Fontana and Ceramics -
Ménage a Trios: An Evening with Garth, Mark and Beato -
Wood and Bourgeois, by Jenni Sorkin -
Not the Mama of Dada: Beatrice Wood’s Early Career in the Arts in New York, by Francis Naumann -
Line: Al Taylor – Between Sculpture and Drawing -
About Al Taylor -
The Donkey Show Conversation and Party -
Trust Your Instincts 101 -
Burri in Our Midst: An Artist, A Permanent Sculpture, and UCLA with Cynthia Burlingham and Lisa Melandri -
Italian POWs in the United States: Creative Expression and Community Building with Laura E. Ruberto -
Irving Blum Speaks -
A Collection of Ideas: Mel Chin: So I guess it has to be this way… -
John Kelly: Aesthetic Octopus -
Opulence and Entertainment: Los Angeles Historic Theaters with Robert Berger and Hillsman Wright -
Being and Time: Pulling a Rabbit Out of a Hat with Helen Varola -
A Collection of Ideas: A Tribute to Howard Zinn -
Between Science and Magic with Diana Thater -
Sacred Life/Secular World Panel Discussion -
67 Bows and Loop: Nira Pereg and Paul Young -
Table of Contents: Allen Ruppersberg and Christophe Cherix -
A Collection of Ideas: Building the Love House: Using Art for Social Change in Watts -
An Evening with Patti Smith -
Generation Next: Mickalene Thomas and the Legacy of Barkley L. Hendricks -
Cutting a Figure: Barkley L. Hendricks and Black Portraiture -
The Way You Look Tonight/What’s Goin’ On with Barkley L. Hendricks and Ernest Hardy -
Oedipus in Ethiopia: Further Reflections on the Sacred Stravinsky Across an 18-Year Collaboration Esa-Pekka Salonen and Peter Sellars -
Africa in the World: Curating African Contemporary Art in an International Arena with Simon Njami -
A Collection of Ideas: Hip Hop Saves Lives -
A Collection of Ideas: Captains of Artistry: Creative Capital and the Business of Supporting Artists -
Mixing It in the Mud: Artistic Fermentation in the 21st Century