**LACMA LECTURES

Go see these if at all possible! great stuff for free:

May 4th & June 1st 2PM
Phantom Sightings
@ Brown Auditorium

These intergenerational conversations between artists from the exhibition: Phantom Sightings: Art after the Chicano Movement offer insights into the changes in attitudes toward Chicano identity politics in relation to place.

May 4:
Sandra de la Loza and Harry Gamboz Jr.

June 1: Danny Jauregui and Ruben Ortiz-Torres

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May 13, 7PM - Tuesday,
PROCESS, CONTENT, AND DISSEMINATION: PHOTOGRAPHY AND MUSIC
@ Brown Auditorium
Taking into account how new technologies have radically reshaped the recording, editing, and distribution of music in the past decade, this panel explores how that technological paradigm may change the making, publishing, and dissemination of photography in the future.

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May 23, 7PM Friday
SERIALITY
Photography Department Study Room,
@Hammer Building

This informal discussion about the importance of the series in our understanding of photography starts with an evaluation of work on display by Sophie Calle and Duane Michals, then considers other notable photographic series from LACMA's collection


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June 5, 7PM Thursday
THE VALUE OF PHOTOGRAPHS
@Brown Auditorium
In light of the approaching obsolescence of analog prints, this panel discussion examines how the way we look at photography has changed, and how that affects our understanding of the history of the medium as well as the value we assign to contemporary photographic print.

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June 10, 7PM
PHILIP - LORCA diCorcia
@bing auditorium

In conversation with LACMA curator Charlotte Cotton, the influential photographer Philip-Lorca diCorcia expands on the nature and meaning of his art. In the summer of 2008, LACMA hosts a monographic exhibition of diCorcia's photography. The exhibition demonstrates his long-term agendas and presents one thousand of his Polaroid pictures together for the first time.