Los Angeles Weekend Planner 11-6-14

 Los Angeles Weekend Planner, Music
Nov 062014
 

King Tuff- Alone & Stoned

Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (11-6-11/9/14)-

Thursday

King Tuff are at the El Rey Theatre

The Hammer is hosting Love Has Many Faces- An Evening with Joni Mitchell where they will be screening The Fiddle and the Drum- a film of the eponymous ballet set to her songs followed by a Q & A with the artist and a celebration of her birthday

Artist Analia Saban discusses her work with curator Nancy Myer in the Broad gallery at LACMA

The Black Keys are playing at The Forum with Jake Bugg

Friday

We Were Promised Jetpacks are at The Fonda with The Twilight Sad

Yacht are playing at The Regent

Saturday

Two screenings and discussions at MOCA Grand Ave– Larry Clark’s Passing Through and Wu Tsang’s Wildness. Both directors will speak after the films. Free with admission to the museum

There is an artist talk with Robert Hale and curator jill moniz at Reginald Ingraham Gallery in Culver City

NELA Art Second Saturday Gallery Night is a great way to check out the northeast Los Angeles

Silverlake Art Craft and Vintage Flea Market

Pharell Williams along with the members of OFWGKTA and others are at the Park at the LA Coliseum for the 3rd Annual Camp Flog Gnaw

Saturday and Sunday

DesignerCon is in Pasadena and showcases toys, art and apparel amidst several events- only $5 per day- http://www.designercon.com/

Sunday

Slowdive is at the Theatre at the Ace Hotel– the Ace website says sold out but there are still tickets available on the Ticketmaster site

All weekend (through the 13th) is AFI Fest– all tickets for films are free

Los Angeles Weekend Planner 10-16-14

 Los Angeles Weekend Planner, Music
Oct 162014
 

The Bots- 5:17

Things to do in and around Los Angeles this weekend (10/16-10/19/14)-

Thursday

The Bots are playing a free show at Amoeba Hollywood

Of Montreal are performing at the Mayan Theater

Jim Hodges’ collaborative film Untitled, being shown at The Hammer, is a montage of clips from news organizations, and pop entertainment footage which looks at queer activism and the AIDS epidemic. There will be other showings at the Hammer but this is the only one in the evening

Paradise Magazine is having a free event (with free wine) and performances at Akbar

Massive Attack are at the Greek Theater

Thursday- Saturday

Culture Collide Festival is at various venues and includes bands from around the world including Clap Your Hands and Say Yeah; Cloud Nothings; Fractures; Quantic; and Monokino; among numerous others

Friday

The New Pornographers are playing along with The Pains of Being Pure at Heart at the Wiltern

Friday and Saturday

All you can eat free pancakes at Pancakes & Booze Art Show- there will also be, as the name suggests- booze and art, as well as live painting, music and a free photo booth, not bad for $5

Saturday

Nas is performing Illmatic (for its 20th anniversary) at The Orpheum theater

We’re getting closer to Halloween and Barnsdall Art Park is showing Carrie

The Moon Block Party is an all day music festival in Pomona- acts include Spoon, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Black Lips and more

Saturday and Sunday

The Beverly Hills Art Show

Saturday night and Sunday afternoon Santa Monica Art Studios is having its 10th annual Open Studios event

Sunday

Nicole Miller: Believing is Seeing, the artist’s video project is showing at LACMA

Los Angeles Weekend Planner 10-9-14

 Los Angeles Weekend Planner, Music
Oct 092014
 

Tacocat- Bridge to Hawaii

Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (10/9-10/12/14)-

Thursday

Downtown Art Walk is hosting the first day of the weekend long Plein Air Festival, (which is free and worth registering for if you are an artist) as well as other art shows

MOCA’s Chief Curator is speaking at MOCA Grand Avenue (free)

The Weeknd is at the Hollywood Bowl with Schoolboy Q and Jhené Aiko

Sun Kil Moon is playing The Fonda

Friday

Pasadena’s ArtNight is back! The event features shuttles to all the museums and galleries, live music and much more (all free). If you take the Metro make sure to check their website for giveaways at the event.

The Thurston Moore Band is at the Echo with Sebadoh

Nosferatu double feature at LACMA– first the original Nosferatu (1922) and then Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) a film collaboration by Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski

Friday through Sunday

If you love independent video games then check out IndieCade in Culver City

Saturday

Tacocat at the Bootleg

Peaking Lights are at Los Globos to celebrate their new album with a huge lineup including Nite Jewel and an Animal Collective DJ set

During the day the Music Center is hosting Pop-Ups! where you can design and make a print, take dance lessons ($1 per lesson), check out the museum or take in a food lecture

Also downtown during the day is The Ryman Arts’ Big Draw LA flagship event- “Make Your Mark in the Park”- taking place in Grand Park

Sunday

Damien Jurado at the Bootleg

Venice Artblock Open Studios

Allen Ruppersberg and Allan McCollum are speaking at Art Catalogues at LACMA to celebrate the publication of Allen Ruppersberg Sourcebook: Reanimating the 20th Century

Brentwood Art Festival

Los Angeles Weekend Planner 10-2-14

 Los Angeles Weekend Planner, Music
Oct 022014
 

Slow Club- Beginners

Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (10/2-10/5/14)-

Thursday

Mark Mothersbaugh is speaking at MOCA Grand Avenue with Adam Lerner, Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver. He will be discussing his art and music before DEVO through the present day- which includes being a composer for film and television (he most recently did the original score for The LEGO Movie). He will also be signing his new book Mark Mothersbaugh: Myopia. Admission is free to this event and to the museum, where Andy Warhol’s Shadows is currently on display.

LACMA is screening Aberdeen, the newest film from Hong Kong director Ho-cheung Pang (free)

Friday

Bombay Bicycle Club are playing The Wiltern with Milo Greene

Blitzen Trapper are at The Troubadour

LA Live is doing Dark Nights again- $5 food and drink specials at several restaurants, $5 parking and free entertainment (musicians and artists) from 5-9pm

Baauer, Boyz Noise and Spank Rock are at Club Nokia

DJ Shadow with Cut Chemist at the Hollywood Palladium

Saturday

It’s the last of MOCA’s Step and Repeat nights- this one features Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, Neil Hamburger, Heather Lawless, and more

Slow Club are at The Echo with Roses

Barnsdall Art Park is having outdoor movie nights on the lawn of the Hollyhock House.  This week it’s Rock ‘n’ Roll High School starring The Ramones. It’s $10 for the movie, $25 if you want to add 3 drinks (beer and wine)

Glass Animals are playing a free show at Origami Vinyl at 1pm before their sold out show at the Troubadour

Stromae at The Fonda

Sunday

The Drums are at the Mayan Theater for their new album Encyclopedia

Dr. Christine Mullen Kreamer, curator of African Cosmos: Stellar Arts, is giving a lecture on “the historical legacy of African cultural astronomy and its intersection with both traditional and contemporary African arts”

Ciclavia is back this Sunday creating car free streets from Echo Park to Downtown to East LA

Los Angeles Weekend Planner 9-25-14

 Los Angeles Weekend Planner, Music
Sep 252014
 

Temples- Shelter Song

Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (9/25-9/28/14)-

Thursday

Temples, Wampire and Fever the Ghost play are at the Fonda Theatre

We Open Art Houses (WOAH) presents Bring Your Own Beamer (BYOB): the work of experimental animators, video artists, and musical performers at downtown art space Werkartz- you must RSVP and there is a $5 suggested donation (and free beer)

The Kooks are at The Wiltern

Simian Mobile Disco (performing Whorl) at the El Rey

Friday

Wu-Tang Clan are playing The Forum

Saturday

As part of the AxS Festival, Machine Project has organized various programs at the famous Gamble House (of Procter & Gamble) in Pasadena until 10/5. This Saturday they are all free, including dance performances, a secret restaurant conveyor belt, poetry and video installations; or just go to see the contemporary art in various places around the house

Art, music, and performance art come together for the third Step and Repeat at MOCA. This event includes performances by Le1f, Yung Jake, and Barbara T. Smith

Panel Discussion: Women in Graffiti and Street Art at Flower Pepper Gallery in Pasadena. Artists attending- Sand One, ShadowMonsterBear, Jennifer Korsen, and Cindy Love

Die Antwoord are at the Hollywood Palladium

Sunday

Don Bachardy is speaking at LACMA and signing his book Hollywood

The Pixies are playing the Hollywood Bowl along with Gogol Bordello and Cat Power

It’s the 30th Anniversary of the Abbot Kinney Festival

Los Angeles Art Shows- “Expressionism in Germany and France: From Van Gogh to Kandinsky” at LACMA

 Art, Art Shows by Location, Artists, Los Angeles Art Shows, Los Angeles Art Shows, Painting / Painters
Sep 142014
 
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Kees van Dongen– “Modjesko, Soprano Singer (Modjesko, chanteur soprano)”, 1908

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Franz Marc– “Sketch- Nudes on Vermilion (akte auf Zinnober, Skizze)”, 1909-10

Cuno Amiet– “Mutter und Kind im Garten (Mother and Child in Garden)”, circa 1903

Today is the last day to see Expressionism in Germany and France: From Van Gogh to Kandinsky at LACMA. Make sure to download their app and use their free wifi to get some additional information about several of the paintings in the exhibition.

Los Angeles Weekend Planner 9-4-14

 Los Angeles Weekend Planner, Music
Sep 042014
 

Allah-Las- Buffalo Nickel

Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (9/4-9/7/14)-

Thursday

John Baldessari and Meg Cranston are speaking at USC (free)

OK Go is playing with the Allah-Las at the Santa Monica Pier for the last show of the season (free)

Parisian agency Louis Creative Workshop is having its US Launch party at the W Hotel in Hollywood. The celebration will include live painting by street artists, an art exhibition and the first 50 guests will receive a signed print (free with RSVP).

It’s the last farmers market of the year at Yamashiro Hollywood

Friday

Allah-Las are also playing a free set at Amoeba Records Hollywood

Abbott Kinney First Fridays

The Rentals are at The Fonda with We Are Scientists

Saturday

Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre has a one night performance of Dancing at Dunbar, taking place at the historic Dunbar hotel

Saturday and Sunday

LACMA is having a two day symposium on the topic of Expressionism, coinciding with their current show

Sunday

It’s the 40th anniversary of John Waters’ Female Trouble and it is showing at the Aero Theatre. Fred Armisen and Harper Simon will be there to discuss it.

MOCA Grand Avenue presents Sunday Studio: Moving Images that Break the Mold– where people of all ages can try making experimental films with technical assistance from MOCA educators before projecting them in mini-screening tents

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 Weekend Planner 6-5-14

 Los Angeles Events, Los Angeles Weekend Planner, Music
Jun 052014
 

Tobacco- Hawker Boat

Things to do this weekend in Los Angeles (6/5-6/8/14)-

Thursday

Cut Chemist is playing at Amoeba Hollywood (free)

Friday

Tobacco headlines Natural History Museum’s First Fridays first indoor/outdoor set with DeLux

On the Waterfront screening for the 60th Anniversary at LACMA with special guest Eva Marie Saint

Friday and Saturday

If you are missing the scares of Halloween you can spend the night at the old zoo in Griffith Park for the Great Horror Campout, which has varying levels of scares including a “chicken” tent area for the more faint of heart

Saturday

Make Music Pasadena’s free music festival has a great line up including a bunch of bands mentioned in the past on this site including Surfer Blood, Moses Sumney, and So Many Wizards

Eat/See/Hear presents Rushmore outside at the Autry

Modernica’s 25th Anniversary Factory Sale with loads of cool furniture and hidden coupons on the showroom floor

Saturday and Sunday

The Aero theatre is showing the works of Fritz Lang- Saturday it’s a double feature of M and The Testament of Dr. Mabuse and on Sunday Metropolis

Sunday

The Faint (also Friday and Saturday) are playing along with Reptar at the Roxy

All Weekend (Friday through Sunday)

LA Pride Festival in Weho- art installations, music (Azealia Banks, The Bangles, Jennifer Hudson and more) and a roller disco

Dance Camera West’s festival includes film shorts and live performances and takes place at the Music Center, MOCA, and Grand Park and REDCAT

Los Angeles Weekend Planner 5-29-14

 Los Angeles Weekend Planner, Music
May 292014
 

Le1f- BOOM

Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (5/29-6/1/14)-

Thursday

Thee Oh Sees are playing at the Echo (moved from Church on York)

MOCAtv presents a Jogging screening of four films made by the collective just for MOCA (free)

Die Antwoord are playing at the Fonda

Friday

Friday Flights at the Getty hosted by Liars

Takashi Murakami’s film Jellyfish Eyes is screening at the Ace Hotel’s historic theater

Pink Mountaintops are playing at the Echo

Eagulls are playing at the Satellite

Saturday

Le1f is at the Echo

Sunset Boulevard is on at the Million Dollar Theatre

Saturday and Sunday

The Big Parade LA is two days of organized walking around Los Angeles including about 80 public stairways (free)

Sunday

Dance, art, music, and poetry combine with the backdrop of Northeast LA’s historic buildings for Lummis Day at Lummis Home and Heritage Square (free)

Doug Aitken and Philippe Vergne speak at LACMA

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