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LYNNE TILLMAN AND KERRY TRIBE

“Joseph Beuys is a controversial figure in art history, in large part because of his constructed biography: Beuys often recanted his dramatic origin story, a swirl of truth and lies.”*

In an Un-Private Collection talk this week at The Broad, Lynne Tillman and Kerry Tribe will “explore the ways that Beuys, Tillman and Tribe each raise questions about how identity shapes public reception and perception,” in a conversation moderated by artist Shana Lutker, co-organizer of this series for X-TRA.

LYNNE TILLMAN AND KERRY TRIBE ON JOSEPH BEUYS, Thursday, May 17, at 7:30 pm.

OCULUS HALL, THE BROAD, 221 South Grand Avenue, downtown Los Angeles.

* thebroad.org/lynne-tillman-kerry-tribe-joseph-beuys

Lynne Tillman in New York City, 1990. Photograph by Bob Berg.

JASPER JOHNS — SIXTY YEARS OF WORK

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In collaboration with London’s Royal Academy, JASPER JOHNS—SOMETHING RESEMBLING TRUTH brings six decades of iconic work to the Broad in Los Angeles, the only American venue for the exhibition.

The flags, the targets, the sculptures, the combines and collages, the “luscious paint handling” are all on view throughout the entire ground floor of the museum through mid-May.*

JASPER JOHNS—SOMETHING RESEMBLING TRUTH, through May 13.

THE BROAD, 221 South Grand Avenue, downtown Los Angeles.

thebroad.org/jasper-johns-something-resembling-truth

*Joanne Heyler, Broad founding director, during press introduction.

Jasper Johns, from top:

Untitled (2016), the most recent work in the show; Watchman; Souvenir; Field Painting.

Photographs by Sandy Miller for PARIS LA.

FLUXUS AT THE BROAD

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Japan’s influence on Jasper Johns and John Cage is brought to light in a music and performance program at The Broad featuring Yoko Ono’s FLUXUS works “Lighting Piece” and “Wall Pice for Orchestra to Yoko Ono.”

Pianist Adam Tendler will play “Seven Haiku,” “Electronic Music for Piano,” and “Cheap Imitation” all by John Cage; and “Music for Piano,” “Piano Distance,” and “Corona,” by Toru Takemitsu.

USUYUKI—JOHNS IN JAPAN

ADAM TENDLER—

COMPOSITIONS and FLUXUS PERFORMANCE PIECES

Wednesday, March 14, at 8 pm.

JASPER JOHNS—

SOMETHING RESEMBLING THE TRUTH

Through May 13.

The Broad

221 South Grand Avenue, downtown Los Angeles.

Above: Toru Takemitsu.

Below: Yoko Ono.

JULIE DASH AND AVA DUVERNAY IN CONVERSATION

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See Julie Dash’s groundbreaking film DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST, and stay for a post-screening conversation with Dash and Ava DuVernay.

This is an Array event, an arts collective founded in 2010 by DuVernay, “dedicated to the amplification of films by people of color and women filmmakers.”*

DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST and JULIE DASH AND AVA DUVERNAY IN CONVERSATION, Thursday, November 16, at 8 pm.

THEATRE AT ACE HOTEL, 933 South Broadway, downtown Los Angeles.

thebroad.org/programs/array-broad-daughters-dust

*thebroad.org/programs/series/array-at-the-broad

Daughters of the Dust.

MARK BRADFORD AND SHARON LOCKHART IN CONVERSATION

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At this year’s VENICE BIENNALE, Los Angeles-based artists Sharon Lockhart and Mark Bradford found themselves in the position of “representing” two counties whose federal governments have, to varying degrees, fallen into the hands of nationalist, reactionary forces: the United States in Bradford’s case, Poland in Lockhart’s. (See the recent fate of Pawel Machcewicz, below.*)

This week at the Orpheum Theatre, curator/critic Katy Siegel and the Broad Museum’s Un-Private Collection program welcome Bradford and Lockhart for a conversation about community engagement and their recent work for the biennale.

MARK BRADFORD, SHARON LOCKHART + KATY SIEGEL, Wednesday, August 16, at 7:30 pm.

ORPHEUM THEATRE, 842 South Broadway, downtown Los Angeles.

thebroad.org/programs/un-private-collection-mark-bradford-sharon-lockhart-katy-siegel

2017 ART + FILM GALA HONORING MARK BRADFORD AND GEORGE LUCAS, Saturday, November 4.

LACMA, 5905 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles.

lacma.org/sites/default/files/LACMA-2017-Art%2BFilm-Gala-Announcement-8.1.17-final_0.pdf

MARK BRADFORD: TOMORROW IS ANOTHER DAY, UNITED STATES PAVILION.

SHARON LOCKHART: LITTLE REVIEW, POLISH PAVILION

VENICE BIENNALE, through November 26.

labiennale.org/en

*See, Rachel Donadio, “What Poland Did in the War: Museum Becomes a Cultural and Political Battlefield,” New York Times, November 10, 2016; and Julia Marchalska, “Director of Poland’s Second World War Museum Dismissed,” The Art Newspaper, April 11, 2017:

theartnewspaper.com/news/museums/director-of-poland-s-second-world-war-museum-dismissed/

Top: Mark Bradford, Tomorrow is Another Day installation view, 2017 Venice Biennale.

Bottom: Mark Bradford, Spoiled Foot (prototype for Venice Biennale, photographed at Bradford’s studio in Los Angeles), 2017. Images courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth