Documentary Screening and Exhibition Walkthrough with Collector Robert Lemelson (Indonesia)

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Batara Kala Devours the Moon and Causes an Eclipse, July 29, 1937. I Dewa Kompiang Ketut Kandel, Bali, Indonesia, 1909–1972. Ink, color pastel, and wash on paper. On loan from Robert Lemelson, formerly from the Bateson-Mead Collection. Photo: LACMA, cropped.


In connection with the exhibition "Storytelling in Bali: Paintings from the Bateson-Mead Collection," drawn from Dr. Lemelson's collection, please join us for an evening that brings together art and anthropological research.

Thursday, May 11, 2017
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Ahmanson Building, Level 4
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
5905 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90036
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Dr. Lemelson will screen his award-winning 2010 film "Shadows and Illuminations," in which the paintings on view at LACMA provide a stylistic frame for a psychological study. The accompanying walkthrough and conversation promise to highlight the ways in which art provides alternative windows into a complex humanity.

Robert Lemelson is a Research Anthropologist at the UCLA Semel Institute of Neuroscience and an adjunct professor of Anthropology at UCLA. He has been conducting psychological and visual anthropological research in Indonesia for the past 25 years.

RSVP to (323) 857-6260 or patronevents@lacma.org by Thursday, May 4. Complimentary parking is available in the Pritzker Parking Garage, located on Sixth Street, just east of Fairfax Avenue.


Cost : Free and open to the public but RSVP required for museum entry.

Sponsor(s): Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)