Psycho Love Beast: Anthony Perkins Picture Show

Strange Love : KUBRICK + LACMA = ♥

Matthew Modine, Gold Wire Rimmed P3 eyeglasses, Full Metal Jacket (1987)

The Stanley Kubrick Retrospective at LACMA covers the breadth of his practice, beginning with his early photographs for Look magazine, taken in the 1940s, and continuing with his groundbreaking directorial achievements of the 1950s through the 1990s.

Costume and props from A Clockwork Orange at the Stanley Kubrick Retrospective at LACMA (Photo from GALLIVANT)

His films are represented through a selection of annotated scripts, production photography, lenses and cameras, set models, costumes, and props. In addition, the exhibition explores Napoleon and The Aryan Papers, two projects that Kubrick never completed, as well as the technological advances developed and utilized by Kubrick and his team.

Sue Lyon bespectacled and bowtied in Lolita (1962)

By featuring this legendary film auteur and his oeuvre as the focus of his first retrospective in the context of an art museum, the exhibition reevaluates how we define the artist in the 21st century, and simultaneously expands upon LACMA’s commitment to exploring the intersection of art and film.

Sue Lyon photographed by Bert Stern in Lolita glasses (1960)

Ghost twins costume from The Shining (1980) at Los Angeles County Museum of Art

The exhibition highlights scenes in his movies that were directly influenced by works of art — the spectral twins in "The Shining" that were inspired by the photographs of Diane Arbus, and numerous shots in "Barry Lyndon" that were based directly on 18th century paintings by Thomas Gainsborough, William Hogarth, George Stubbs and others. - L.A. Times

Star Baby embryo from 2001 Space Odyssey (1968)

Strangelove's War Room also is re-created as one of several highly detailed, miniature models in the exhibit, many of them from the innovative production of 2001, including the Discovery spaceship and the museumlike Baroque Room of the finale, with its unnerving light emanating from the floor. 

Seeing the physical models allows the viewer to move back and forth and study these movie spaces in three shifting dimensions. The most fascinating is a model of 2001's spacecraft centrifuge, a rotating stage with trap doors that allowed Kubrick to film from strategic vantage points.  - L.A. Weekly

 STANLEY KUBRICK + LACMA is open through June 30, 2013

Venetian Mask from Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

The Sweet Life 1960

Sixties tourist in cateye sunglasses at the Fountain of Trevi, Rome.

Follow The White Rabbit : Playboy 1960

Either I'm Crazy or You Are

It goes without saying (and it went!)

Andy Warhol by Phil Stern, 1960

Andy Warhol photographed by Phil Stern, 1960.

Tonight the Los Angeles Theatre Center will host an exhibit of never before seen images of the JFK inaugural gala as photographed by Phil Stern.

In 1960, John F. Kennedy put Frank Sinatra in charge of setting up the inaugural gala and engage all its celebrity entertainers. Sinatra chartered 2 TWA aircrafts, one from NYC and the other from Hollywood. He packed them with the biggest names of the era: Nat King Cole, Ella Fitzgerald, Gene Kelly, Tony Curtis, Bette Davis and more.

Hotel De Ville Vintage Eyewear will be there alongside Clever Vintage Clothing to host a vintage fashion show for attendees of the 60's Soiree. To attend this one night only exhibition and wine tasting, click here.

Escape with IN Gear | Carnaby Street 1960

Once upon a time, just a year or two ago, fashion originated in the haute couture salons of Paris, then spread downwards through society in ever cheapening copies with one predominant theme. Shops such as this would have interpreted the mode. No more. Now, they originate and so do a dozen others in a dozen styles owing nothing to Paris or anyone else.

Spain 1960

Now With Wings | Unusually Elaborate Eyewear of 1960

Satisfied women model ornate eyeglasses for a fashion show, 1960.

République d'Haïti | 1960

Donate to the Red Cross for the preservation of the Haitian Lifestyle

Leopard Fur Sunglasses

Model June Pickney sporting leopard fur coat & huge leopard fur rimmed sunglasses, Chicago, 1960. Photographed by Stan Wayman.

Sixties Mod Eyewear | Black & White

Sophia Loren Circa 1960

Jean Seberg Eyeglasses in BREATHLESS