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 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 8-7-14

 Los Angeles Weekend Planner, Music
Aug 072014
 

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah- As Always

Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (8/7-8/10/14)-

Thursday

Jagwar Ma are playing at the Santa Monica Pier with Fascinator (free)

REDCAT’s New Original Works Festival 2014: Program 3- presents two new dance works-(until 8/9)

JazzPOP: Beep at the Hammer Museum (free)

Myron & E are playing Levitt Pavillion Macarthur Park (free)

Clap Your Hands and Say Yeah are playing at the Troubadour

Arctic Monkeys are playing with Black Rebel Motor Cycle Club at the Staples Center

Thursday through Sunday

Sundance Next Fest takes place at Hollywood Forever Cemetery and the Ace Hotel. There are still tickets available for some of the events including a film screening with panelist Werner Herzog on Friday and on Sunday Warpaint will provide music for another screening

Friday

It’s the last of the Friday Flights at the Getty– this time with Mikael Jorgenson of Wilco and his wife, artist Cassandra C. Jones. Several projects and performances are part of the program as well as a solo electronic music performance by Passion Pit’s Xander Singh

Gardens & Villa are playing Figat7th

Saturday

Crocodiles are playing Los Globos with Tweens

Tif Sigfrids gallery is having variety show hosted by Denver Smith that will include magic, music, comedy and a cirque du soleil style act beginning at 4pm

NELA Art Gallery Night in Highland Park and Eagle Rock

The Outsiders is the movie at this week’s Hollywood Forever cemetery screening

It’s the last of the Chinatown Summer Nights music and cultural festival- bands include The Peach Kings and Moving Units

Permanent Records in Highland Park is having a record release party for the band Roses (free)

Sunday

FAME FEST: BIKE FEST and Scavenger Hunt– is a street-long treasure hunt and art show along Melrose Avenue, plus food trucks and live music

MOCA Senior Curator Alma Ruiz is giving a walkthrough of the Cinema Vezzoli exhibition on its last weekend

Glen Hansard, Iron and Wine, and The Head and the Heart are playing at the Hollywood Bowl

Unique USA is having their 6th annual LA Summer Market (also Saturday), $10 gets you entrance for both days, drinks and snacks and there are also free workshops

Los Angeles Art Shows- Mike Kelley at MOCA

 Art, Art Shows by Location, Artists, Los Angeles Art Shows, Los Angeles Art Shows, Mixed Media, Painting / Painters, Sculptors / Sculpture
Jul 262014
 

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 Tonight (7/26/14) is the closing party for Mike Kelley’s exhibition at MOCA. It is free from 6-10pm. There will be DJs, food trucks and a cash bar.

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 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- Jacob Hashimoto at MOCA Pacific Design Center

 Art, Art Shows by Location, Artists, Installation Art, Los Angeles Art Shows, Los Angeles Art Shows, Mixed Media, Painting / Painters, Printmaking, Sculptors / Sculpture
Jun 082014
 

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Today (6/8/14) is the last day to see Jacob Hashimoto’s stunning Gas Giant at MOCA Pacific Design Center. Thousands of paper sculptures in color and black and white (on the first floor) combine to create the feeling of walking into another world.

From the artist’s website about the work-

In its third and final edition at MOCA Pacific Design Center, Gas Giant begins its voyage subverting the grid of the white cube on the first floor by tangling the black and white elements of the installation while directing the viewer to the second floor, where an open, atmospheric, and colorful emphasis on the verticality of the space is the climax of the piece. Influenced by ample sources that range from sacred architecture, post-war abstract painting, the Light and Space movement from the 1960s in Southern California, and the 1990s generation of Los Angeles painters, Hashimoto expands painting and collage strategies in an ongoing exploration of abstraction and landscape through color, repetition, association, and even simple marks and gestures that when combined together, result in the infinite layers of complexity that characterize his work. Becoming a mirror of human experience, Gas Giant is a metaphor of possibility and temporality—the viewer encounters the beauty of an encompassing landscape, through vastness and detail in equal manner, but also with the idea of loss, since the work also reflects on the intensity of human labor in its creation, and considers the temporality of the viewing experience, and of the piece itself. This exhibition marks Hashimoto’s first solo museum exhibition in California.

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

Los Angeles Weekend Planner 5-22-14

 Los Angeles Weekend Planner, Music
May 222014
 

Holy Fuck- Red Lights

Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (5/22-5/26/14)-

Thursday–

Creativity: The Perfect Crime– Philippe Petit (who walked a tightrope between the towers of the World Trade Center) speaks about creativity at the Central Library Downtown (free/ standby tix only)

Holy Fuck is playing at the Roxy

Ericka Beckman presents three of her films at MOCA

Yamashiro Farmer’s Market is back!

And so is the one on the Sunset Strip

Friday–

designLAB event at the Pacific Design Center- 14 galleries having receptions for shows

Superhumanoids are at the Echo (free)

Saturday–

Los Angeles Poverty Department is having a parade/performance/brass band- Walk the Talk-and Mike Kelley’s Mobile Homestead will be a part of it- a PDF with a full description of the event is available on their site

The Big Lebowski on the lawn at the Autry

Protomartyr are playing at Permanent Records (free)

Sunday–

Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon at the Egyptian Theatre

Tony Molina, Big Eyes are playing at the Roxy

Monday (Memorial Day)–

Target Free Mondays at LACMA

Also this weekend- Lightning in A Bottle Festival

Los Angeles Weekend Planner 5-15-14

 Los Angeles Weekend Planner, Music
May 152014
 

Maximo Park- Brain Cells

Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (5/15-5/18/14)-

Thursday

Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club), Chelsea Cain and Willy Vlautin host a night at the Echo with readings, music and gifts- Vlautin’s book is included in the ticket price and there are extra presents for people in pajamas

Artopia LA Weekly Event at Grand Central Market

New Young Pony Club are playing at the Bootleg

Friday

Maximo Park are playing with Eternal Summers at the Troubadour

Triple feature at the Egyptian Theatre– Dystopia Gone Wild: Thirty Years after 1984- Nineteen Eighty-Four/Logan’s Run/ Spacedisco One

Kishi Bashi at the Fonda

Friday and Saturday

Thirteen Torches for a Burn– two nights featuring bands from Copenhagen at the Church on York– Friday’s headliner is Iceage

Saturday

A Landing Site for Madeline Gins– Poets, artists and architects read from the late artist’s writings at LACMA (free)

Continuing that night at LACMA is International Museum Night– the galleries stay open for activities and viewing- ticket includes two glasses of wine (20$ members/30 $non)

Saturday and Sunday

Annual Santa Fe Art Colony Open Studios

Beverly Hills Art Show

Sunday

Ann Magnuson hosts a one hour “mini-carnival in the spirit of Mike Kelley” (free) at MOCA

Damien Jurado is playing at the Bootleg

Lykke Li is playing at the Roxy

Tyvek are playing at The Smell

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