{"id":512,"date":"2006-04-11T08:09:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-11T08:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=512"},"modified":"2006-04-11T08:09:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-11T08:09:00","slug":"meet-the-artist-lecture-with-jonas-mekas-at-the-hirshhorn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=512","title":{"rendered":"\u201cMeet the Artist\u201d lecture with Jonas Mekas at the Hirshhorn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.matthewlangley.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/jonasmekas-757246.jpg\"><img style=\"cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.matthewlangley.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/jonasmekas-750375.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Hirshhorn Museum is having a \u201cMeet the Artist\u201d lecture with Jonas Mekas, pioneer of avant-garde cinema, creator of the Film Culture journal, and founder of Anthology Film Archives.<\/p>\n<p>The week prior to Mr. Mekas\u2019 talk, the Hirshhorn Musuem will be screening a selection of his groundbreaking diary films. On May 4, the program will include Walden, 1964-1969 and Happy Birthday to John, 1999, drawn from footage of a 1972 celebration of John Lennon\u2019s birthday. The second screening, on May 5, Reminiscence of a Journey to Lithuania, 1972, runs 180 minutes. <\/p>\n<p>Above image: Andy Warhol, myself, c. 1974. From SCENES FROM THE LIFE OF ANDY WARHOL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hirshhorn Museum is having a \u201cMeet the Artist\u201d lecture with Jonas Mekas, pioneer of avant-garde cinema, creator of the Film Culture journal, and founder of Anthology Film Archives. The week prior to Mr. Mekas\u2019 talk, the Hirshhorn Musuem will be screening a selection of his groundbreaking diary films. On May 4, the program will include Walden, 1964-1969 and Happy Birthday to John, 1999, drawn from footage of a 1972 celebration of John Lennon\u2019s birthday. The second screening, on May 5, Reminiscence of a Journey to Lithuania, 1972, runs 180 minutes. Above image: Andy Warhol, myself, c. 1974. From SCENES&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=512\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u201cMeet the Artist\u201d lecture with Jonas Mekas at the Hirshhorn<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}