Z Berg- I Fall For The Same Face Every Time
Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (9/27-9/30/18)-
Thursday
Hammer Museum celebrates the restaging of David Antin’s Sky Poems (taking place on Saturday over LACMA and Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego) with a convening of a group of poets, artists, and scholars, including Blaise Antin, Eleanor Antin, Julien Bismuth, Steve Kado, Aram Moshayedi, Marjorie Perloff, Jerome Rothenberg, and Hamza Walker, to discuss Antin and his legacy.
LACMA has a free screening of The Old Man & The Gun, and a post-screening conversation with writer David Lowery moderated by Gregory Ellwood.
Ukranian quartet DakhaBrakha are performing at The Theatre at Ace Hotel
Wye Oak is opening for Ben Howard at the Shrine Auditorium
For MOCA Music at MOCA Grand Avenue, Danke and Yialmelic Frequencies will be performing (free)
HOLYCHILD are playing at the Moroccan Lounge with Jen Awad opening
Friday
Ai WeiWei will be speaking about his work at LACMA with LACMA CEO and Wallis Annenberg Director Michael Govan (free but standby line only- get there early)
Beck is playing at the Hollywood Bowl with St. Vincent DJ’ing
The Van Nuys Arts Festival returns for its second year with art installations, live music, art making workshops and more (free)
The Presets are playing at The Fonda Theatre with Blood Red Shoes opening
The Beths are playing at The Roxy Theatre with Ariel View opening
Gateway Drugs are opening for The Pink Slips at The Hi Hat
Friday through Sunday
Ohana Festival is taking place all weekend at Doheny State Beach in Dana Point with bands that include Norah Jones, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Plague Vendor, Beck, Johnny Marr, and more
Saturday
DUBLAB is celebrating its 19th Anniversary with an all evening (until 2am) fundraising party at Zebulon featuring live music by performers that include The Pantones, Linafornia, Prophet, and Ann Magnuson, DJs, video artists, and more
Artist Nina Chanel Abney will be in discussing her solo exhibition at The California African American Museum with curators Jamillah James and Naima Keith (free but register)
Pop-Up Magazine’s live magazine night returns to The Theatre at Ace Hotel with “photography, film, radio, and original music mixed together and performed live onstage by a cast of talented people”
The Broad’s final Summer Happenings event, A Journey That Wasn’t, Part 2, “will explore how artists manipulate time through memory, appropriation and repetition” with performances by Kim Gordon and YoshimiO, The Banjee Ball creating a “vogue opera” with performances by the LA ballroom dance community, and more
The Range of Light Wilderness are playing at the Bootleg Theater with Luke Temple of Here We Go Magic opening
The New Division and Nite are playing at Union nightclub
Saturday and Sunday
Music Tastes Good returns to Marina Green Park in Long Beach with lots of great bands including New Order, Joey Bada$$, Santigold, Lil B, Big Thief, Cherry Glazerr, Janelle Monáe, Ezra Furman, De Lux, and more
Sunday
Z Berg is playing at the Bootleg Theater with Benmont Tench, Ethan Gruska, Natalie Bergman, Bobcat Goldthwait, Joseph Keefe, Paige Anderson and special guests
CicLAvia is partnering with the LA Philharmonic for its centennial celebration and closing off streets between the Walt Disney Concert Hall and Hollywood with six hubs that will have live music, dance performances, art and more along the route. Also make sure to check out WDCH Dreams, media artist Refik Anadol’s projections on the concert hall (starting Friday and running until 10/6)
The Watts Towers Jazz Festival is a free day of music and art and a chance to see the famous sculptures
Curators Cynthia Burlingham and Allegra Pesenti will be at the Hammer Museum to discuss the background of the exhibition Stones to Stains: The Drawings of Victor Hugo