Surrealist Adventures @ LACMA

LACMA (Photo: sailko/Wikimedia Commons)

Anyone who happens to be in LA between now and next Monday might want to check out an exhibition showcasing works by surrealist women artists from Mexico and the United States at LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art), which I would REALLY like to visit if I ever go to LA (which I, alas, never do - but I hope to visit LACMA someday!).

The exhibition's title is pretty cool: "In Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists in Mexico and the United States."

Screenings of female surrealist animation and female surrealist cinema round out this program at LACMA.

Frida Kahlo is, of course, included in this exhibition.

Women Artists @ NMWA

Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1653):
Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting (Wikimedia Commons)

The National Museum of Women in the Arts is well worth a visit, and can be combined with any number of other dining, shopping or cultural offerings in DC's once half dead and now always bustling Penn Quarter/Chinatown neighborhood.

Right now the following exhibition sounds particularly cool at the NMWA:

ROYALISTS TO ROMANTICS: Women Artists from the Louvre, Versailles and Other French National Collections

Vive la France et Vive les Femmes!

(I once, incidentally, saw a film called "Artemisia," about a female artist trying to paint - and avoid being branded a scarlet woman - in male-dominated, 17th-century Italy. It attempted to chronicle the little-known life of Artemisia Gentileschi, who has fascinated many art lovers and artists over the centuries.)