Los Angeles Weekend Planner 9-24-15

 Los Angeles Weekend Planner, Music
Sep 242015
 

Glass Animals- Hazey

Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (9/24-9/9/27/15)-

Thursday

Pop Up Magazine is an evening of music, true stories, photography, documentary film,radio, and more presented live onstage at the Ace Hotel Theater and sponsored by LA TImes California Sunday Magazine

Echo Park Film Center is showing The Exiles, a film about young Native Americans in Bunker Hill in the late 1950s, at Union Station (free)

Cut Chemist are playing in Venice at the Del Monte Speakeasy for $3 if you RSVP with Redbull Sound Select

OOFJ are headlining a show at Arts At Play II

Friday

Glass Animals are playing at the Wiltern

Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, of Throbbing Gristle (who is also performing on Saturday), will be speaking with writer Simon Reynolds at the Hammer Museum (free)

The Rooftop Film Experience is showing Pulp Fiction on the roof of the Montalban Theater in Hollywood. $17 gets you a chair, headphones and blanket (although that last item will probably not be necessary)

Mew are playing with The Dodos at the Fonda Theatre

Saturday

Museum Day Live!, hosted by the Smithsonian Magazine offers free admission to several museums around the country with a ticket. In Los Angeles The Grammy Museum, Museum of Latin American Art, Autry Muesum, and more are included (sign up for your ticket)-

Titus Andronicus are playing a free “stripped down, intimate, brunch set” at Permanent Records at noon before their sold out Roxy show-

Tarfest is back at the La Brea Tarpits with bands, performances and live painting by artists including Greg “Craola” Simkins (free)-

Chinatown’s 77th Annual Mid-Autumn Moon Festival has a moon viewing (with telescopes from Griffith Park Observatory), artisans, cooking demos, food trucks, a beer garden and bands including Funeral Party

Shamir is performing at the El Rey Theatre

Saturday and Sunday

ALL THE INSTRUMENTS AGREE: an exhibition or a concert is “back-to-back live performances by local, national, and international sound artists, music collectives, art bands, and visual artists whose practices extend to the production of sound” alternating between two outdoor stages in the Hammer courtyard. Participating artists include industrial music pioneer Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Cairo-based artist Hassan Khan, whose live-mixed multi-track work Taraban will be performed for the first time in the U.S.; and GLITTERBUST, a new project by Kim Gordon and Alex Knost

Two events at Watts Towers– The 34th Annual Watts Towers Day of the Drum Festival (Saturday) & The 39th Annual Simon Rodia Watts Towers Jazz Festival (Sunday) with food, vendors and activities as well as the musical performances (free)-

Sunday

A supermoon full eclipse is happening tonight (not to happen again until 2033) and Griffith Park Observatory is hosting a viewing party with live piano music

Or you could check out the eclipse in Frogtown at the Bowtie Project on the LA River while picnicking, eating s’mores (provided) and listening to “slightly spooky stories” at Reading By Moonrise. Telescopes will also be provided ($5)

Gehry and Art: Irving Lavin and Frank Gehry in Conversation at LACMA is sold out but there will be a standby line starting at 12pm (free)

Abbot Kinney’s annual festival is on

As of today there are still seats at the Hollywood Bowl for the Grace Jones and Future Islands show

Los Angeles Art Shows- Mark Bradford at the Hammer Museum

 Art, Artists, Los Angeles Art Shows, Los Angeles Art Shows, Painting / Painters
Sep 202015
 

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Mark Bradford- Dead Hummingbird, 2015 (image via Hammer Museum)

Today (9/20/15) is the last day to see the majority of artist Mark Bradford’s exhibition Scorched Earth at the Hammer Museum.

From the museum’s site:

Comprising a suite of new paintings (on view through September 20), a multimedia installation (on view through September 27), and a major painting on the Lobby Wall (on view through November 15), this new body of work by the Los Angeles–based artist Mark Bradford refers to formative moments in his life and ruminations on the body in crisis. As an artist who has long been interested in strategies of mapping and the psychogeography of the city he calls home, Bradford uses his characteristic painting style to excavate the terrain— emotional, political and actual—that he inhabits. Examining the moment and afterlife of the 1992 uprisings in Los Angeles, which he experienced from his studio in Leimert Park, Bradford has translated the outrage and lasting wounds of the riots into these new paintings. Scorched Earth is Bradford’s first solo museum exhibition in Los Angeles.

For more on Mark Bradford, his life and work, this LA Times article is an excellent portrait of the artist.

Get out of the heat and check it out- it’s free!

Los Angeles Art Shows- “A Perfect Likeness” at the Hammer Museum

 Art, Artists, Los Angeles Art Shows, Los Angeles Art Shows, Photographers / Photography
Sep 122015
 

Perfect Likeness: Photography and Composition, organized by UCLA art department professor Russell Ferguson and currently at the Hammer Museum, is an engaging exploration into the concept of creating a photograph.

From the museum:

When we say of a portrait that it is a perfect likeness, we mean not just that it accurately delineates its subject. There is a further implication that the image penetrates beyond surface appearance to give us some deeper sense of the person depicted. The same logic can be applied more broadly. There was a time when it seemed a plausible goal for the artist to resolve a picture so conclusively that the result of his or her work would potentially transcend simple representation to reveal the essence of the subject. Today such a project might seem naïve.  We are glutted with images. What single picture might separate itself from this flood? Any such attempt to make such a work will lead inevitably to the question of composition. This issue is perhaps most urgent for artists working in in photography, a medium that now pervades every corner of daily life. The exhibition Perfect Likeness: Photography and Composition looks at artists’ work with carefully composed photographic images.

The images chosen for the exhibition are often not exactly what they seem on first glance. Thomas Demand’s Diving Board is actually a model created in cardboard and paper. Florian Maier-Aichen’s La Brea Avenue in the Snow was inspired by a historical photo which he then created by drawing in snow on to his photo of Los Angeles houses and adding cars from different eras. Catherine Opie’s portrait of artist Lawrence Weiner appears at first like a Rembrandt painting but it’s the details within the image that draw you in for another look.

There are so many incredible images in the exhibition, it’s hard not to want to talk about them all. Check it out this weekend for free with two exhibition tours given by Russell Ferguson on Sunday (it closes 9/13/15).

(images via Hammer Museum and Art in America)

Los Angeles Weekend Planner 8-6-15

 Los Angeles Weekend Planner, Music
Aug 062015
 

Django Django- First Light

Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (8/6-8/9/15)-

Thursday

Django Django are playing the El Rey Theatre with Beat Connection

Various Small Fires (VSF) is hosting Subject to Change, a panel discussion “addressing work that escapes its intended institutional frame, and the question of the unforseen audience response” with Andrea Fraser, Amelia Jones,Vanessa Place and Hamza Walker-

Ben Browning (of Cut Copy) and DMA’s are at the Santa Monica Pier for Australia Rocks The Pier (free)

Friday

The Natural History Museum is having an adults only sleepover that for $95 includes a scavenger hunt, DJs, movie screening, open craft beer and wine bar, midnight munchies, and more. It also includes their Summer Nights in the Garden program with access to the VIP lounge

The New Division are playing at Los Globos

For Stones Throw 45 Live at Fig at 7th, Peanut Butter Wolf, Dam-Funk, and Mayer Hawthorne will be spinning all 45s and there will be a live performance by Mild High Club (free)

Saturday

If you missed it last time you have a second chance to see the 24 hour screening of Christian Marclay’s The Clock at LACMA but make sure to check their twitter for wait times, they can be long

As part of Sundance Next Fest Rick Alverson’s film Entertainment will be screening at the Ace Hotel Theater and Sharon Van Etten will be performing ($25)

At Pasadena Museum of California Art there will be a docent tour of Someday is Now: The Art of Corita Kent and screenprinting demonstration (free with museum admission) or check out the exhibition for free all day Friday

Campfireball is happening at The Frog Spot in Frogtown and will have food, drinks, music (starts at 5pm), art, performance and more at 7pm and really that’s as specific as it seems to get (free)

Also in Frogtown at WCCW– What Trickles Down, What Accumulates: Frogtown- Art and Organizing Against The System is a series of performances, presentations, artwork and an album listening pre-release of WHAT’S WORKING IS BROKEN, “an audio piece composed of personal testimonials of police violence and sounds recorded at protests against LAPD murders”. This event runs from 2:30-9pm with a $10 suggested donation for Youth Justice Coalition

The Low End Theory Festival still has tickets available for a lineup that includes Flying Lotus, Earl Sweatshirt, Thundercat and more-

Yuna and Aloe Blacc are performing for this week’s Grand Performances at California Plaza (free)

Millionyoung are headlining the Dreamgaze festival at Los Globos

Saturday and Sunday

Unique’s Annual Summer Market is back at the California Market Center downtown. $10 gets you entrance for both days and a bunch of amenities

Sunday

Sundance Next Fest continues at the Ace Hotel Theater with a screening of Turbo Kid and DJ sets by Toro y Moi and Neon Indian (limited tickets left)

The Hammer Museum is hosting The Watts Rebellion: 50 Years Later, a discussion of race relations past and present in the US with Gerald Horne, Brenda E. Stevenson, Johnie H. Scott

To Live and Dine in LA: A Live Mixtape is a “DJ-driven, multidimensional journey through the menu collection of the
Los Angeles Public Library and shine a light on the issues of food insecurity currently facing the city” with chef Roy Choi, artist Rakaa Iriscience (Dilated Peoples), and USC professor Josh Kun ($20)

Ciclavia is back- this time its Culver City to Venice

Los Angeles Weekend Planner 7-9-15

 Los Angeles Weekend Planner, Music
Jul 092015
 

Son Lux- Lanterns Lit

Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (7/9-7/12/15)-

Thursday

Son Lux are playing at the El Rey Theatre

The theme for this month’s DTLA Artwalk is Street Art and Performance

The Hammer and KCRW’s event Summer of Soul begins tonight. For four nights this summer there will be a happy hour bar, DJ set, and band- tonight it’s Breakestra (free)

Jurassic 5 are back in the US and playing at the Nokia Theater

Morris Day is performing with Dam Funk at the Santa Monica Pier for the first of the weekly free summer concerts-

Friday

Active Child is performing at The Cathedral Sanctuary at Immanuel Presbyterian

Trans Am are playing at The Satellite

Saturday

NELA Art Gallery Night is every second Saturday of the month and is a great way to check out the Highland Park/ Eagle Rock art scene

No Age is headlining Runaway 2015 at Jewels Catch One- a lineup that includes Mean Jeans, The Lovely Bad Things, No Parents and loads more

Back to the Future is being shown at Centennial Square in front of Pasadena City Hall with band YoYa playing beforehand

Silverlake Flea Market is on

It’s 7-11 Day so grab a free small slurpee at a 7-Eleven store near you

Saturday and Sunday

Renegade Craft Fair is back and at Grand Park- a great way to support independent makers (free)

Sunday

Hammer Museum is having an event combining lecture, performance,and spoken word with a wide variety of contributors for Hip-hop Logic: The Role of Hip-hop in 21st Century Education & Poetics

*Starting 7/9 and running through the 19th of this month is Outfest, the LGBT Film Festival

Los Angeles Weekend Planner 6-25-15

 Los Angeles Weekend Planner, Music
Jun 252015
 

Basement Jaxx- Where’s Your Head At

Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (6/25-6/29/15)-

Thursday

MOCA Grand Avenue is screening Take None, Give None, a documentary about the nation’s first racially integrated motorcycle club (free)

Nosaj Thing is performing a free set and signing his new album Fated at Amoeba Records in Hollywood

Griffith Park’s free Shakespeare in the Park festival begins tonight. This year it’s Romeo and Juliet and Much Ado About Nothing

Friday

Miwa Matreyek is performing two shows for free at Union Station of her multimedia work which involves her shadow interacting with projected animation

Lucky Dragons are the artists/performers for this session of Friday Flights at the Getty Center

The Echo is having a pre-party for Lolipalooza 2 with a lineup including Tropical Popsicle, and The Memories- $12 or free with Lolipalooza 2 ticket

Gardens & Villa are playing at the Center for the Arts Eagle Rock 

The Lovely Bad Things are at The Smell

Saturday

MOCA Grand Ave is having a panel and book signing in conjunction with the release of Both Sides of Sunset: Photographing Los Angeles, with artists Zoe Crosher, Bettina Hubby, Michael Shields, and Ed Templeton and moderated by David L.Ulin of the Los Angeles Times. The artists will “share their distinct visions of the city’s visual landscape”. (free)

Lolipop Records and the Echo present Lolipalooza 2 with a list of bands that includes White Fence, Cosmonauts, Corners, Winter, So Many Wizards and more

Roses, Dunes, Sandlot, and DYGL are all playing a house show downtown for $5 with free beer

The Roots are at Club Nokia with Erykah Badu

Chinatown Summer Nights returns with live music from The Janks as well as other bands, cooking demonstrations, acrobatic shows, a beer garden, DJs, and more

Tijuana Panthers are headlining Summer and Music a free festival in Long Beach

Sunday

Basement Jaxx are at the Hollywood Bowl with Bootsy’s Rubber Band featuring Bootsy Collins and Tuxedo opening

For the panel discussion Photography and Composition at the Hammer Museum, Thomas Demand, Elad Lassry, and Catherine Opie will discuss themes in the exhibition Perfect Likeness with curator Russell Ferguson

Devendra Banhart is talking with Zach Pennington, the head writer of the awesome LA app 5 Every Day, at LACMA’s Art Catalogues. There will be a DJ for the reception and a performance with Banhart’s band as well as a book signing (free)

All weekend–

The BET Experience is taking place at LA Live with a mix of free (including a Janelle Monae performance) and ticketed events-

Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND) has events all weekend to celebrate the culmination of The Manifest Destiny Billboard Project, which had different artists putting up billboards along Interstate 10. Events include film screenings, artist talks, bus tours of the city, workshops and more

Los Angeles Weekend Planner 6-4-15

 Los Angeles Weekend Planner, Music
Jun 042015
 

Hanni El Khatib- Moonlight

Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (6/4-6/6/7/15)-

Thursday

Artist Andrea Fraser will be discussing William Pope L.’s exhibition at MOCA (Geffen Contemporary)

UCLA’s award winning student poets are reading at the Hammer Museum

Friday

Hanni El Khatib headlines the Natural History Museum’s First Fridays with a concert outdoors this time

Palma Violets are playing at the newly opened Teragram Ballroom

Martin Solveig is at Create Nightclub in Hollywood for Noize Fridays

Saturday

Make Music Pasadena is a huge FREE music festival- this year’s lineup includes Kishi Bashi, Sir Sly, How to Dress Well, and tons more

Harold and Maude is the movie this week at Hollywood Forever Cemetery

MOCA is screening Marlon Rigg’s documentary Tongues Untied in conjunction with his new exhibition

Saturday and Sunday

If you like the idea of being in a horror movie, The Great Horror Campout is back in Griffith Park with different levels of intensity, including a Chicken Zone where you just watch horror movies without creatures disturbing you throughout the night

Ooga Booga has cool stuff and this weekend is having a warehouse sale

Catcon describes itself as ComicCon for cat people ($25)

The biannual Parachute Market which focuses on design is downtown at One Santa Fe ($10)

Sunday

Venice Art Block is having its fifth open studio tour

Nick Brandt is at Art Catalogues at LACMA to talk about art and activism with Kathryn Bigelow, and to sign books (free)

Cinespia is showing Disney’s Fantasia and Fantasia 2000 to benefit the Los Angeles Historic Theater Foundation at the TCL Chinese Theater (formerly Grauman’s Chinese Theater) with drinks in between shows ($35)

Los Angeles Weekend Planner 5-28-15

 Los Angeles Weekend Planner, Music
May 282015
 

Diarrhea Planet- Platinum Girls

Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (5/28-5/31/15)-

Thursday

The Hammer is having its Open Projector Night (free)

Photographer Sally Mann is speaking to David Ulin at The Attic in Hollywood- tickets are $38 and include her book

ACME Gallery is hosting a launch party for Merkel Magazine- The Pit Gallery’s artist book

King Tuff is playing the Del Monte Speakeasy (basement of Townhouse in Venice) for $3- RSVP here

Robert DeLong is playing for free at Lure in Hollywood

Friday

Diarrhrea Planet are at the Echo with Lovely Bad Things and Left & Right

The Getty’s Friday Night Flights continues with Total Freedom (Ashland Mines who co-produced the party Wildness with Wu Tsang)-

Sea Lions are playing at Ham and Eggs Tavern with Fungi Girls for $5

Friday- Sunday

It’s a big weekend for design with Dwell on Design back at the LA Convention Center and the Los Angeles Design Festival which has events around the city

Saturday

There is a closing party for A+D Museum’s exhibition Beyond Graffiti 2 and it is the last day at its current location on Wilshire

It’s Atlas Obscura Day and all around the world are events celebrating “curious places”

LAMAG in Barnsdall Park is having an artist talk with Harold Greene, Alan Nakagawa, Baumgartner + Uriu (B +U) who are in the current exhibition

Spoon are at the Wiltern

Wire are playing at the Echo

Sunday

The biannual vintage design marketplace Downtown Modernism is today ($5)

CicLAvia is in Pasadena this time

Los Angeles Weekend Planner 5-14-15

 Los Angeles Weekend Planner, Music
May 142015
 

Ex Hex- Don’t Wanna Lose

Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (5/14-5/17/15)-

Thursday

Corners are playing the Echoplex with Tropical Popsicle

Or you could check out Woods at the Echo

Cinefamily is showing John Waters’ film Desperate Living with Mink Stole in attendance to introduce

Hammer Museum is showing the film The River Ran Red about the search for survivors of the Armenian genocide-

Downtown Artwalk is on and afterwards you could listen to CalArts MFA writing grads read from their work at REDCAT (free)

Friday

Ex Hex are at the Roxy with The Shivas

LA Live’s Dark Nights event includes live entertainment, street artists, and discounts on food, drink, and this time the Grammy Museum

Fartbarf are playing El Cid

UK band Fat White Family are at the Troubadour

Saturday

Cathedrals are playing as part of the Getty Center’s free music night Saturdays off the 405

The Beverly Hills Art Show is back and is a nice way to see art work while enjoying the day in Beverly Gardens Park (also Sunday)

Sewing Rebellion is having a free sewing workshop at Thank You For Coming in Atwater

Sunday

Once a year Museums of the Arroyo Day gives free admission to Heritage Square, The Gamble House, The Autry, Lummis Home, The LA Police Museum, and the Pasadena Museum of History from noon-5pm

Complex in Glendale is having an afternoon/evening BBQ Synth Party with a list of bands including Cold Showers

Los Angeles Weekend Planner 4-30-15

 Los Angeles Weekend Planner, Music
Apr 302015
 

Doldrums- She is the Wave (feat. Guy Dallas)

Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (4/30-5/3/15)-

Thursday

Doldrums are at the Echo with Moon King

LA Weekly’s event Artopia takes place at the Container Yard and promises art, street art, performances, DJs, drinks and more ($40)

At MOCA Grand Ave, Bruce Hainley, author of Under the Sign of [sic]: Sturtevant’s Volte-Face (Semiotext(e), 2013), joins MOCA’s Chief Curator Helen Molesworth for a discussion on Sturtevant: Double Trouble or you could go to MOCA Geffen for a performance of Migrant (2015) made for the William Pope L. exhibition

Artist Thomas Heatherwick is speaking at the Hammer

The Soft Moon are playing the Roxy

Friday

Artist Pedro Reyes is speaking at the Hammer Museum

First Fridays are at the Natural History Museum– bands this time are Kinky and Salt Petal

Mikal Cronin is at Center for the Arts Eagle Rock with Wand

Terry Malts is at La Cita with Hard Left as part of La Cita’s all weekend long Cinco de Mayo Fiesta

They Might Be Giants are playing the Regent Theater

Friday through Sunday

Paris Photo Los Angeles is back at the Paramount Studios

Photo Independent will also be back nearby at Raleigh Studios

Saturday

If you missed Coachella but still want to go to a festival out in the desert, this weekend is Desert Daze where $55 gets you a lineup that includes Dan Deacon, Warpaint, DIIV, RJD2, Fever the Ghost, Mini Mansions, and more

John Zorn is performing at LACMA for free (with museum admission)

Manic Street Preachers are at The Fonda

OK Go are at the Wiltern with Kitten

Sunday

HomeLA, the artist/dance troupe that performs in various residences will be be at the J.B. Merrill House

If you are up early Luis de Jesus Gallery is having an informal breakfast and artist talk with Ken Gonzales-Day

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