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Mindful Awareness Meditation

Thursdays, 12:30–1 PM PDT

Mindful Awareness Meditation will be ONLINE ONLY on May 1, May 8, & May 15. Free weekly drop-in sessions are open to all who are interested in learning how to live more presently.

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Hedi El Kholti & Reynaldo Rivera

Made in L.A. 2020 artists Hedi El Kholti and Reynaldo Rivera play records and discuss music that has had a profound influence in their lives.

Tue Jul 13 7:00 PM

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Special Programs

Teaching for Healing and Transformation through the Arts: An Institute for 4th–8th Grade Teachers

In this free teacher program, you will explore strategies for helping teachers and students use art to process a year of individual and collective trauma

Wed Jul 14 9:00 AM

Women gather around a table and work on crafts

Special Programs

Teaching for Healing and Transformation through the Arts: An Institute for 4th–8th Grade Teachers

In this free teacher program, you will explore strategies for helping teachers and students use art to process a year of individual and collective trauma

Fri Jul 16 9:00 AM

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Buck Ellison & Shamus Khan

Made in L.A. 2020 artist Buck Ellison and professor of sociology and American studies at Princeton University Shamus Khan discuss their intimate portraits of privilege, power, and the implications for American inequalities.

Thu Jul 22 7:00 PM

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Lunchtime Art Talk on Larry Johnson

Made in L.A. 2020 cocurator Lauren Mackler leads a live online discussion of Made in L.A. artist Larry Johnson's work.

Wed Jul 28 12:30 PM

Mindful awareness meditation

Special Programs

Special Mindful Awareness Meditation with Tibetan Singing Bowls

Diana Winston leads a special guided meditation with Tibetan singing bowls and vocal toning by Michael and Jahna Perricone.

Thu Aug 12 12:30 PM

Brian Jungen, The Evening Redness in the West, 2006 (detail), baseballs, softballs, leather furniture, home theater system and DVDs, dimensions variable.

Lunchtime Art Talk on Brian Jungen

Curatorial assistant Nicholas Barlow leads an in-person discussion of Brian Jungen's work.

Wed Aug 25 12:30 PM

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Lunchtime Art Talk on Jean Dubuffet

Curatorial assistant Matthieu Vahanian leads an in-person discussion of Jean Dubuffet's work.

Wed Sep 1 12:30 PM

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Conversations Readings

Maggie Nelson & Hari Kunzru

Online book launch with “one of the most electrifying writers at work in America today” (The Guardian)

Wed Sep 8 12:00 AM

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Lunchtime Art Talk on Ruth Asawa

Curatorial assistant Ikechukwu Onyewuenyi leads an in-person discussion of Ruth Asawa's work.

Wed Sep 8 12:30 PM