American Cinematheque at the Aero Theatre Presents…

Sunday, April 13 – 3:00 PM

THE FERUS GALLERY: A PLACE TO BEGIN

Co-presented with Los Angeles Art Weekend and C magazine.

Part of Los Angeles Art Weekend, a new visual art festival highlighting the city’s vast array of creative talent, this program is hosted by Kristine McKenna, widely published art critic and journalist for the Los Angeles Times, Artforum, The New York Times, Artnews, Vanity Fair, The Washington Post and Rolling Stone Magazine. Andy Warhol’s “Tarzan and Jane Regained…Sort of” (1963, Andy Warhol Museum) and other short films by artists will be shown.

Screenings include a clip from Andy Warhol’s TARZAN AND JANE (5 min) featuring brief appearances by artist Wallace Berman, Dennis Hopper, Claes Oldenburg, and John Altoon (a southern Calif. artist who died young and is revered by those who knew him). Andy Warhol’s “Elvis at Ferus” (1967, 4 min); “Marcel Duchamp: A Game of Chess” (1963, 56 min) about his 1963 retrospective at the Pasadena Art. As well as “The Work” (2008, 47 min). Jackson Price and Bryan Law’ s work in progress is a cohesive film featuring artists Ed Moses, Tony Berlant, Ken Price, Ed Ruscha, Chris Burden and Larry Bell.

Discussion to follow with Kristine McKenna and various artists to be announced.

The Aero is located at 1328 Montana Avenue at 14th Street in Santa Monica.