Sugar Candy Mountain- Eye on You
Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (1/25-1/28/18)-
Thursday
designLAb is having an art opening at the Pacific Design Center with numerous galleries showing work
The Wombats are playing at the Fonda Theatre with Future Feats and Nation of Language opening
Co-curator of A Universal History of Infamy, Pilar Tompkins Rivas, is giving a walkthrough of the exhibit at LACMA
The Love Language are playing at Harvard & Stone
Artist and Seeld Library co-founder Thomas Hutton is giving a free guided tour along the periphery of MOCA Grand Avenue
Sean Gadd is playing at the Moroccan Lounge with Blackpaw and Pavo Pavo opening
Friday
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE) is hosting a Welcome Party for the 2018 PEN Emerging Voices fellows with short readings by the authors
Anna Meredith is playing at the Bootleg Theater with Silentshout opening
The Mynabirds are playing at the Moroccan Lounge with Doe Paoro and Hayley Coupon opening
The High Curbs, The Ombres, Ariel View and The Chonks are all playing at The Smell
Sun Seeker are opening for Jessica Lea Mayfield at The Echo
Saturday
Night on Broadway is a great annual free arts and music event starting at 3pm with many of the theaters opening their doors for performances and art installations as well as outdoor stages on Broadway and musical performances that include- The B-52s, War, La Santa Cecilia, Madame Gandhi, Buyepongo, Combo Chimbita + tons more things to see and do
As part of Night on Broadway’s free programming- the Orpheum Theatre has a great list of bands playing including Sugar Candy Mountain, Morgan Delt, Frankie and the Witch Fingers and The Entire Universe
Lyle Ashton Harris will be signing his book as well as having a discussion with Walead Beshty, Charles Gaines and Naima J. Keith at Arcana Books
Hammer Museum is having an opening celebration for its Winter Exhibitions (free but register)
Facial and dimber are opening for Piebald for The Hi Hat’s 2nd Anniversary
Lawrence Rothman is playing at the Lodge Room
Sunday
It’s SoCal Museums Free-For-All Day and a good chance to check out participating museums that include the Grammy Museum, MOCA, LACMA, and Descanso Gardens
Artist Skip Arnold will be giving a free talk at the Institute of Contemporary Art in conjunction with his exhibition Truffle Hunt
Curatorial Associate Rebecca Matalon is leading a walkthrough of Welcome to the Dollhouse, the current exhibition at MOCA Pacific Design Center
There are still tickets to Ty Segall’s show at the Teragram Ballroom with Lamps opening
Boy Harsher are playing with High-Functioning Flesh and DIN at the Echoplex
Here Lies Man are opening for Combo Chimbita at Resident
All Weekend
Art Los Angeles Contemporary Art Fair returns to Barkar Hangar and while you are there check out Santa Monica Art Studio’s open studios event More Art Here across the street
stARTup Art Fair returns to Los Angeles- this time the independent artists will take over rooms at The Kinney Hotel in Venice Beach