Monday, December 15, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Academy Museum, Los Angeles
French American self-taught multidisciplinary artist Niki De Saint Phalle’s sculptures, action paintings, and colorful screenprints offer a whimsical, childlike vision of the world. Her values and hand-hewn aesthetic bridge to her works on film, including her first solo directorial effort, the feminist fairytale Un rêve plus long que la nuit. “I identified with the fool,” Saint Phalle once said of the film, ""who takes risks, who goes out into the world not knowing what he’s doing but on a quest.” Casting her own daughter (Laura Duke Condominas) as a princess, Saint Phalle's personal yet universal allegory rips the rug out from under adolescence to expose the violence and chaos waiting in adulthood.