Los Angeles Weekend Planner 7-24-14

 Los Angeles Weekend Planner, Music
Jul 242014
 

White Fence- Like That

Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (7/24-7/27/14)-

Thursday

White Fence are playing the Echo with Dream Boys and The Abigails

REDCAT’s New Original Works Festival begins (through 8/9)

Cayucas are playing Santa Monica Pier with Papa (FREE)

Wolfmother are playing at the House of Blues Los Angeles

Friday

REDCAT presents the video work Apotome, by artists Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla. For the opening on Friday there will be an artist talk as well as a performance that goes along with the video

The Internet (the soul band on Odd Future Records) is playing Figat7th Downtown Festival (free)

Second chance to catch White Fence at the Echo, this time with Tomorrow’s Tulips

Saturday

Mike Kelley’s show at MOCA is closing this weekend- check it out free from 6-10pm and there is a closing party from 7-10

ForYourArt event– Instagram Mini Marathon with Hans Ulrich Obrist at the Million Dollar Theatre (use FYAFRIEND for free tickets)

Installations and performances by Machine Project artists at the Central Library

GRMLN are playing at Los Globos

Saturday and Sunday

Renegade Craft Fair is at Grand Park (free)

Sunday

Super Duper Yard Sale at HM157 (Historical Monument 157), promises food, drinks, haircuts and super cheap finds in Lincoln Heights

Los Angeles Weekend Planner 7-17-14

 Los Angeles Weekend Planner, Music
Jul 172014
 

Melpo Mene- I Adore You

Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (7/17-7/20/14)-

Thursday

Melpo Mene is opening for Figs Vision at the Bootleg

An evening with Genesis Breyer P- Orridge at the MOCA book store- a book signing, screening, talk, and performance by DJMREX

Francisco Goldman discusses his latest book The Interior Circuit: A Mexico City Chronicle at the Central Library downtown

Made in L.A. Music: An Evening of Community Music hosted by Alex Ebert (of Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros) at the Hammer

Friday

No Age is hosting Friday Night Flights at the Getty– They are presenting assorted installations, three experimental performances that will culminate with “an altered concert experience” of their latest album An Object, and a curated program of videos by filmmakers and artists

Masters of Ceremony Hip Hop Reunion is at the Nokia Theater with DMX, EPMD, Rakim, Big Daddy Kane, Naughty by Nature, Slick Rick, Special Ed and more

Jonathan Wilson and Mystic Braves are playing as part of the free weekly FIGat7th Downtown Festival

Saturday

MOCA curator Bennett Simpson discusses the Mike Kelley exhibit and afterwords there is an Extended Organ Music Event (an experimental band Mike Kelley was once a part of) -both free

The Autry’s outdoor movie this weekend is American Psycho and yOya are playing

Blue Velvet is playing at Hollywood Forever cemetery

Saturday and Sunday

Viva Pomona is two days of great music at The Glass House in Pomona- some of the bands include- !!!, Thee Oh Sees, Fuzz, Crystal Antlers, Porter, So Many Wizards, and more- 20$ each day

Sunday

Closing reception for the exhibition “Phantom Color” at CB1 Gallery downtown features a talk with the artists (Eric Beltz, Brian Scott Campbell and Nathan Hayden), wine, DJs from the band Gardens and Villa and a dance performance

Jimmy Cliff is at the Hollywood Bowl

Los Angeles Mural and Art Show- Jean Andre for HVW8 Gallery

 Art, Art Shows by Location, Artists, California Art Shows, Drawing, Los Angeles Art Shows, Los Angeles Street Art, Painting / Painters, Street Art
Jul 102014
 

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This mural was created by Jean André for his exhibition Gauloise at HVW8 Gallery.

Los Angeles Weekend Planner 7-10-14

 Los Angeles Weekend Planner, Music
Jul 102014
 

Cults- Go Outside

Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (7/10-7/13/14)-

Thursday

Cults are playing at Santa Monica Pier (FREE)

Downtown ArtWalk has a digital art theme

Made in LA Music: The Do-Over at the Hammer with De Lux and KCRW DJs (FREE)

Helen Pashigan: Transcending the Material documentary followed by a conversation with the artist at the Getty (FREE)

Outfest LGBT Film Festival begins (running through 7/20)- http://www.outfest.org/

Wye Oak  are playing at the El Rey Theatre

Friday

Cinema at the Edge Indie Film Festival begins (running through Sunday)

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds with Warpaint at The Shrine

X is playing at the Roxy-all original members performing a different album each night- (also Saturday and Sunday)

Summer Nights in the Garden at the Natural History Museum– music, garden tours, food and drink, activities (FREE)

Saturday

Art Center College of Design in Pasadena is showing two of Mike Kelley’s Mobile Homestead videos and the curator of MOCA’s exhibition will be part of a panel discussion (FREE)

Jurassic 5 are playing at the Greek Theatre

Chinatown Summer Nights– live music (headliner is Eastern Conference Champions), DJs, food, vendors

Sunday

New Order with La Roux at the Greek Theatre

World Cup Germany v Argentina- Hammer Museum is showing the game (as well as on Saturday- Netherlands v Brazil )

Los Angeles Weekend Planner 7-3-14

 Los Angeles Weekend Planner, Music
Jul 032014
 

Phantogram- Mouthful of Diamonds

Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (7/3-7/6/14)-

Thursday

Dublab presents Peaking Lights and Pharoahs at Levitt Pavillion MacArthur Park (free)

San Pedro ArtWalk

Friday (July 4th)

Fireworks, bands, outdoors and FREE- check out the “Altimate 4th of July Block Party” in Grand Park. Bands include Phantogram, Brick +Mortar, Semi Precious Weapons, Wild Cub and Echosmith

Want fireworks but a bit more mellow?- Steve Martin is playing with the Steep Canyon Rangers featuring Edie Brickell at the Hollywood Bowl (also Thursday and Saturday)

If you are heading to Long Beach the Aquarium of the Pacific is staying open late with a BBQ and views of the fireworks there

Cinefamily is offering a 4th of July celebration with a picnic, America related short films, a surf band and a screening of Hell Angels Forever

Angel City Brewery in the Arts District is throwing a party too

Saturday

Still watching the World Cup despite America’s recent loss and want to see the Made In LA show at the Hammer Museum? You can do both!

Peter Murphy is playing at El Rey Theatre

Jaws is playing outside of the Autry Museum

Stones Throw Picnic featuring Peanut Butter Wolf at California Plaza downtown as part of Grand Performances

Sunday

Street artist Pastey Whyte is having an ice cream social (free ice cream!) for his art show at Gold Haus Gallery in Highland Park from 3-6

The Fresh & Onlys at the Echo

Amen Dunes is playing for free at Origami Vinyl

Los Angeles Art Shows- Mark Ryden at Kohn Gallery

 Art, Art Shows by Location, Artists, Los Angeles Art Shows, Los Angeles Art Shows, Painting / Painters, Sculptors / Sculpture
Jun 282014
 

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There’s a lot going on at Mark Ryden’s show at the Kohn Gallery– The Gay 90s:West. The paintings are incredibly detailed as are the frames. In one room there is a diorama-like sculpture that for a penny becomes an active parade through an intricately created town. There are also listening booths for a record created for the show in which several pop artists, including Katy Perry, Tyler the Creator and Nick Cave recorded versions of Daisy Bell (Bicycle Built for Two).

From the press release:

In the inaugural exhibition Mark Ryden, underscores his aesthetic forays into cultural kitsch through his exploration of the lost but not forgotten “Gay 90s”. Employing the visual trappings of the formally idealized 1890s in America—women dressed in satin skirts with large bows, large wheeled bicycles, Main St. USA, vaudevillian stages—Ryden recreates scenes from this marginalized slice of pop culture. This important new body of work—which includes paintings, works on paper, installations, and sculpture—negotiates the aesthetic value of clichéd nostalgia through the lens of polished neoclassic painting, and will include Ryden’s largest and most ambitious work to date, The Parlor (Allegory of Magic, Quintessence and Divine Mystery): a 96 x 120 inch painting with a wooden frame hand-carved in bas-relief.

It’s hard to tell what it all means, but it is certainly worth checking out for the spectacle. This show closes 6/28/14.

Los Angeles Art Shows- Gabriel Kuri at Regen Projects

 Art, Artists, Los Angeles Art Shows, Los Angeles Art Shows, Sculptors / Sculpture
Jun 282014
 

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For Gabriel Kuri’s current sculpture show at Regen Projects, he has taken ordinary objects and combined them in interesting and often humorous ways.

From the press release:

Regen Projects is pleased to announce its first exhibition with Gabriel Kuri. Bringing together the artist’s recent explorations into the form, function, and materiality of everyday utilitarian objects, the show will feature a series of new sculptures composed of consumer materials and found elements that touch upon the relationship of value and exchange in contemporary global society.

He is also a part of Made in L.A. 2014 at the Hammer Museum. His show at Regen Projects closes 6/28/14.

Los Angeles Weekend Planner 6-26-14

 Los Angeles Weekend Planner, Music
Jun 262014
 

Shannon and the Clams- Rip Van Winkle

Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (6/26-6/29/14)-

Thursday

A.L. Steiner speaks with Tyler Green for a live podcast recording at The Hammer

World premiere of Petra Cortright’s commission for MOCAtv “Tags for Likes” at MOCA Grand Avenue– Free with RSVP

Fuck Buttons are playing at El Rey

Friday

Friday Night Flights at the Getty– hosted/curated by Ooga Booga (who run interesting art centered shops in Chinatown and at 356 Mission), they are bringing in artists and musicians for installations and performances around the museum

LACMA is presenting Do the Right Thing (25th Anniversary Screening and Conversation) moderated by John Singleton with director Spike Lee, actor Roger Guenveur Smith, musician Chuck D, and others

Bleached and the Zig Zags are playing at the Echo

Saturday

Lolipalooza at the Echo with Missing Persons, Shannon and the Clams, The Lovely Bad Things and many more-full list here

Artist’s Tag Sale at Center for the Arts Eagle Rock- everything is 50$ or less and there are some great artists on the list

Three Acts, Two Dancers, One Radio Show Host– One night only at UCLA’s Royce Hall, Ira Glass of This American Life will tell stories while the dancers from Monica Bill Barnes & Company perform. The link has a video that gives you an idea of what looks like a pretty interesting show.

Citizen Kane is playing at the Orpheum Theatre through Last Remaining Seats

Sharon Van Etten is playing at El Rey

Sunday

Symposium: The Improper- Mike Kelley’s Dissent– art historians Thomas Crow, Amelia Jones and John C. Welchman discuss Kelley’s work at MOCA Grand Avenue

King Khan and The Shrines are playing at the Troubadour

Los Angeles Art Shows- Augusta Wood at Angles Gallery

 Art, Artists, Los Angeles Art Shows, Los Angeles Art Shows, Photographers / Photography
Jun 212014
 

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Augusta Wood- The Last Autumn, Self Portrait with Andy Sleeping

For her show at Angles Gallery, Whether it happened or not, Augusta Wood has combined photos from old family slides, and sometimes more recent ones she has taken herself, to form singular images all taking place in and around the house she grew up in. The result is images that question the nature of memory and personal history.

From the press release:

Whether it happened or not is an act of organizing chaos and composing a view that asserts the way things exist in the artist’s mind. These are works that reflect what she remembers and wants to stabilize, complete, and believes should not be forgotten. Wood is resisting loss. This happened, this is real, and these images exist now, whether it happened or not.

This show closes on 6/28/14.

Los Angeles Weekend Planner 6-19-14

 Los Angeles Weekend Planner, Music
Jun 192014
 

Anamanaguchi- Meow

Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (6/19-6/22/14)-

Thursday

Nightmares on Wax is playing Amoeba Hollywood (free) and at the Fonda on Sunday

Award winning shorts from the Cinematographers Guild at the Egyptian

Friday

Anamanaguchi at El Rey

Dwell on Design begins at the LA Convention center (through 6/22)

Design Hooky West– a free self guided tour around shops and galleries with a focus on design, ending in a party at Chalk LA

Saturday

Culver City Artist Tour– Artists at various galleries will be speaking about their work, demonstrating specific techniques and participating in workshops with visitors

Cal Arts post-graduate exhibition at Cirrus/HYPERHYPER

The Ice Age Hair Ball at the Page Museum- elaborate wig/hair contest, djs, cocktails, tarpits and more

Kitten is playing at El Rey

Opening night at the Hollywood Bowl begins with The Go Go’s, Kristen Chenowith, Pink Martini and fireworks

Saturday and Sunday

Artists and Fleas Market on Mateo St. in the Arts District

Sunday

A discussion of Abstract Painting and the art of JonMarc Edwards at Coagula Curatorial Gallery with Andi Campognone (director of MOAH), Shana Nys Dambrot (arts writer), Jamie Brooks (gallerist) and the artist himself

Janelle Monáe is playing at the Hollywood Bowl

USA play Portugal in the World Cup at 3pm Los Angeles time so it should be easy to find a bar to cheer them on!

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