Los Angeles Weekend Planner 5-21-15

 Los Angeles Weekend Planner, Music
May 212015
 

Wallburds- Hourglass

Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (5/21-5/24/15)-

Thursday

Audiodrome at Cinefamily (co-presented by WOAH and Tigerbeat6) combines live music,“forward thinking A/V remixes” and this time will feature a record release party for Kid606

Fahrenheit Gallery downtown is screening a Len Lye film retrospective (free)

Honor Fraser Gallery is presenting ATTACK, SUSTAIN, RELEASE, DECAY, a performance collaboration joining performance and media collectives Mutant Salon, Experimental Half Hour, and Project Rage Queen

In December The Autry Museum held a contest for artists to submit designs for a banner for the back wall of the museum and tonight they are having the High Five Art Launch Party (free with reservation) to celebrate the artists and winner

Friday

Wallburds are opening for Girl Tears and Crocodiles at The Satellite– my vote for best show of the weekend and it’s only $12

Artist and musician Dorian Wood will be performing for the closing of his and Craig Calderwood’s exhibition at Last Projects in Hollywood

It’s the first ever night for The Odd Market, on The Autry Museum’s south lawn, with cocktails, shopping, crafts, DJs and food

Roses are playing at the Bootleg Theater with Dunes

Gothic Tropic, Crown Plaza, and Life Size Maps are at the Echo

Saturday

LACMA is offering a free printmaking workshop inspired by the current exhibition The Language of Xu Bing– advanced tickets are sold out but there will be a standby line

Electric Dusk Drive In downtown is showing Rear Window (only astroturf seating is available, no tickets left for cars)-

Ceremony are headlining at the Echo with a list of bands that includes Mrs.Magician

Sunday

Artists from Pasadena City College and Art Center College of Design will be selling their work at the annual Art+Design Open Market at One Colorado in Old Pasadena

It is the final weekend for Experience 15: SPARK! Explore SPARK at ESMoA museum in El Segundo, which creates a world of fantasy with interactive exhibits that are great for kids- especially today as there is a family fun day with art making projects and a fairy tale scavenger hunt. There is also a talk with Jeff Guess, the current artist in residence

Space15Twenty in Hollywood is having a flea market

Films to Watch- Works by Artist Len Lye

 Art, Artists, Collage, Films, Video and Film
Dec 182013
 

Len Lye’s A Colour Box (1935)

If you missed the show at Roberts & Tilton, here is one of the works from it. This piece, by New Zealand artist Len Lye, was the first direct film screened to a general audience. Set to La Belle Créole by Don Baretto and his Cuban Orchestra, it was made by painting directly on the celluloid.

Los Angeles Art Shows- Betye Saar at Roberts & Tilton

 Art, Artists, Los Angeles Art Shows, Los Angeles Art Shows, Mixed Media, Painting / Painters, Sculptors / Sculpture, Video and Film
Dec 132013
 

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From Betye Saar’s :The Alpha & Omega-The Beginning & The End 

Betye Saar’s installation at Roberts & Tilton contains many objects all coming together to contemplate time, identity, nature and the world around us.  Unlike her previous show at the gallery, Red Time, which challenged the viewer with both its imagery and the power of the color itself; The Alpha and Omega, creates a feeling of calm, both in its color palette of blues and grays but also in the objects chosen like clocks and ships.  In both shows, history is an important theme. This can be seen most clearly in The Challenges of Fate, a sculpture within the work, made up of a black bird perched on a cage housing a ship, which is above a globe resting on a glass box of bones, all set upon a stack of books.

Also at the gallery is Projections Part II: Film As Painting, curated by Aaron Rose. Multiple films by various artists are presented through different projections and monitor displays. The films are very different in content but work together to present the concept of film as not just film, but moving painting. There are thirteen films within the show and their creation dates range from the earliest, Len Lye’s A Colour Box (1935) to Rose’s own The Dress (2013). One standout is Marie Menken’s Go! Go! Go! (1962-4) a frantic speeding up of footage of life in the 1960’s in New York.

Both shows close tomorrow, 12/14.