Public Programs

Lectures + Conversations

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.

Crossfader—The Art of the Crossfade with DJ J.Period, Courtesy the Santa Monica Museum of Art
Crossfader: The Art of the Crossfade with DJ J.Period, 2012
Zinn Sellars Huerta
Tribute to Howard Zinn with Peter Sellars and Dolores Huerta, 2010
Name That Tune
Name That Tune with Josh Kun and Leonard Nimoy, 2009
Hip Hop Saves 1
A Collection of Ideas: Hip Hop Saves Lives with the Minneapolis High School for the Recording Arts, 2009
Hip Hop Saves Lives
A Collection of Ideas: Hip Hop Saves Lives with the Minneapolis High School for the Recording Arts, 2009
Asher Book Club
SMMoA Book Club during Michael Asher with Stephan Pascher on Inside the White Cube by Brian O’Doherty, 2008
Benjamin Buchloh for Asher
Benjamin Buchloh lecture during Michael Asher, 2008
Heavyweight Lecture Musicale with Martin Kersels, 2008
Heavyweight Lecture Musicale with Martin Kersels, 2008
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Exhibition Related
Artist on Artist: Laura Owens on Joyce Pensato

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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