Neighborhood Public Radio - Thursday, April 7, @ MOCA Grand.

MOCA is pleased to announce the artist-run radio project Neighborhood Public Radio (NPR) as the spring 2011 participants in Engagement Party, MOCA’s program presenting new works by innovative Southern California–based artist collectives and collaborators. Harnessing the airwaves, NPR will create three interactive sound projects for MOCA visitors to experience on the first Thursday evenings of April, May, and June 2011.

For their first Engagement Party project, NPR will transmit a collection of radio programs on local frequencies. MOCA visitors may tune in via hand-held personal transistor radios they either bring to or buy at the event.

For FMemory, NPR will broadcast interviews with downtown Los Angeles’s communities of residents, workers, and art professionals and patrons about their most memorable MOCA experiences and their perceptions of Bunker Hill’s evolving landscape.

Small Audience (for Large Ensemble), a large-scale polyphonic voice ensemble, will provide an unexpected space for museum-goers to perform on-air together.

For Silent Disco Party, NPR will transmit live performances of original music and remixed dance classics for those who feel like dancing. In addition to these programs, students from NPR member Lee Montgomery’s broadcast class at the University of New Mexico will be operating their own radio station from the plaza.

THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 7–10p
MOCA GRAND AVENUE

Visitors are encouraged to bring small radios and headphones. A limited number of radios with headphones will be available for sale for $2.

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BILL CUNNINGHAM NEW YORK opens 3.25. @ The Nuart.

The “Bill” in question is 80+ New York Times photographer Bill Cunningham. For decades, this Schwinn-riding cultural anthropologist has been obsessively and inventively chronicling fashion trends and high society charity soirées for the Times Style section in his columns “On the Street” and “Evening Hours.” Documenting uptown fixtures (Anna Wintour, Tom Wolfe, Brooke Astor, David Rockefeller—who all appear in the film out of their love for Bill), downtown eccentrics and everyone in between, Cunningham’s enormous body of work is more reliable than any catwalk as an expression of time, place and individual flair. In turn, Bill Cunningham New York is a delicate, funny and often poignant portrait of a dedicated artist whose only wealth is his own humanity and unassuming grace.

About Bill:
William J. Cunningham (born 1928/9) is a fashion photographer for The New York Times, known for his candid street photography.

Bill dropped out of Harvard University in 1948 and moved to New York, where he initially worked in advertising. Not long after, he quit his job and struck out on his own, making hats under the name “William J.” After being drafted and serving a tour in the U.S. Army, he returned to New York and got a job writing for the Chicago Tribune. During his years as a writer, he contributed significantly to fashion journalism, introducing American audiences to Azzedine Alaia and Jean-Paul Gaultier. While working at the Tribune and at Women’s Wear Daily, he began taking photographs of fashion on the streets of New York. As the result of a chance photograph of Greta Garbo, he published a group of his impromptu pictures in the Times in December 1978, which soon became a regular series. His editor, Arthur Gelb, has called these photographs “a turning point for the Times, because it was the first time the paper had run pictures of well-known people without getting their permission.”

Bill photographs people and the passing scene in the streets of Manhattan every day. Most of his pictures, he has said, are never published. Designer Oscar de la Renta has said, “More than anyone else in the city, he has the whole visual history of the last 40 or 50 years of New York. It’s the total scope of fashion in the life of New York.” Though he has made a career out of unexpected photographs of celebrities, socialites, and fashion personalities, many in those categories value his company. According to David Rockefeller, Brooke Astor asked he be invited to her 100th birthday party, the only member of the media so honored.

In 2008 Bill was awarded the title chevalier dans l’ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture.

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Bill Cunningham New York Trailer from Gavin McWait on Vimeo.

Tonight @ the HAMMER - Tom Morello & Sam Durant in Conversation

Tom Morello is the Grammy Award-winning guitarist of the rock bands Rage Against the Machine, Audioslave, and Street Sweeper Social Club, and a solo project, The Nighwatchman. A widely recognized political activist, Morello co-founded Axis of Justice, an organization whose purpose is to bring together musicians, music fans, and grassroots political organizations to fight for social justice.

Sam Durant is a multimedia artist whose work engages a variety of social, political, and cultural issues, while often referencing American history. Durant has exhibited widely in the U.S. and internationally, and teaches art at the California Institute of the Arts.

ALL HAMMER PUBLIC PROGRAMS ARE FREE. Tickets are required, and are available at the Billy Wilder Theater Box Office one hour prior to start time. Limit one ticket per person on a first come, first served basis. Hammer members receive priority seating, subject to availability. Reservations not accepted, RSVPs not required.

Starts @ 7p

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Sunday 12.12. @ the FOWLER MUSEUM - Fowler on the Town: Adam Silverman and Heath Ceramics

Fowler on the Town: Adam Silverman and Heath Ceramics

Heath Ceramics is one of the few remaining mid-century American potteries still in existence today. At Heath Los Angeles, an extension of the Sausalito-based company, studio director and potter Adam Silverman continues the company’s designer/maker tradition by producing one-of-a-kind and custom-made small works. Take a tour of Life in Ceramics, then join Silverman at Heath for an informal tour and Q & A about his own work creating functional wares and art.

Sunday, December 12, 2010 1–4 p

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Paul McCarthy ‘Three Sculptures’ @ L & M Arts in VENICE - now through November 6, 2010.

Three Sculptures by Paul McCarthy, is the artist’s first exhibition in his hometown in a decade. L&M Gallery will be featuring new large-scale sculptures, both indoor and outdoor, of all different mediums; these represent the culmination of several major themes that have run throughout McCarthy’s work for many years.

Train, Mechanical (2003-2010) is a fully automated tour-de-force that features a George Bush/pirate hybrid mounting a pig from behind, while another pig humps the same pig’s skull, finding aural penetration. This scenario then repeats itself in a figurative “train.” The work finds visual precedent in earlier sculptures with the same cast of characters and related configurations, such as Train, Mechanical, Pig Island (2007), Mountain (2009) and Static (2004-2009).

All of these works stem from Pig Island; this perpetual work in progress, inspired by the Disney ride Pirates of the Caribbean, emphasizes process as sculpture. Many sculptures were spawned from this fertile environment full of political satire, cultural commentary, and playful experimentation with various modes of art production.

In Train, Mechanical, McCarthy has also found inspiration from an ongoing fascination with carnival rides and mechanized mannequins, first seen in his seminal work The Garden (1991-1992). Train, Mechanical takes this early interest to new heights. Here, one experiences fully articulated body parts, right down to the male figure’s pursed lips and the pigs heaving chest – all in the service of a mesmerizing tableau that redefines sculptural form.

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@ MOCA Tonight ... AND NOW WE ALL DANCE! - HEFFINGTON MOVES MOCA

@ The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA

...AND NOW WE ALL DANCE!
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 7–10p

For their first Engagement Party event, HEFFINGTON MOVES MOCA will present …AND NOW WE ALL DANCE!, an all-encompassing dance environment that will offer open classes as well as feature performances and video collaborations. The work will literally move the audience, who will be invited to participate in freestyle dancing as well as choreographed routines. The convergence of music, art, and dance at MOCA will be electrifying! The event will include dance classes taught by Ryan Heffington; performances by the Sweaty Sunday Dancers and the Fingered Dancers; and video collaborations by Heffington, Jessica Hundley, Kristen Leahy, Nicole McDonald, Nina McNeely, Steven Synstelien, and Andrew Tonkery. Costumes will be designed by Ryan Heffington, KK Karnaky, and Zoey Nissman. Music by DJ Trident.

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Sunday (10.3.) @ MOCA Grand

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1–3:30p

MOCA GRAND AVENUE
250 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, 90012

Explore works from MOCA’s permanent collection and discover how artists have been inspired by Los Angeles. Meet and work with guest artist Vincent Valdez to create your own Los Angeles artwork with family and friends.

FREE!

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Genre-Bending Artist Laurie Anderson Returns to UCLA Live with ‘Delusion’ Oct. 21

Laurie Anderson returns to UCLA Live’s Royce Hall Thursday Oct. 21 with the Los Angeles premiere of her newest multimedia stage work, titled Delusion.

Marking Anderson’s sixth appearance at UCLA Live, Delusion employs the genre-defying exploits audiences have come to expect from the groundbreaking multimedia artist, combining violin, electronic puppetry, music and visuals. Conceived as a series of short mystery plays, Delusion encompasses Anderson’s colorful and poetic language to tell stories ranging from the mystic origins of the Russian space program to theories of time and speed, tales of mythic ancestors, silence and animals. Backed by a trio of musicians, Anderson performs Delusion’s two main characters, herself and Fenway Bergamot. “The electronically altered voice I’ve used for many years, the one that turns my voice into a male voice, has been gradually evolving onto a more nuanced one,” Anderson says of her Bergamot character. “I’ve written Delusion as a conversation between that voice and my own.” Two pieces from Delusion are drawn from Anderson’s critically acclaimed record, Homeland, released in June 2010. Anderson is known for her innovative use of technology and multimedia as a writer, director, vocalist and visual artist whose works span the worlds of theater, art and experimental music.

Her visual work has been presented in major museums around the world. Delusion was originally commissioned by the Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad, Vancouver and Barbicanbite 10, London. The piece debuted February 17, 2010 at the Olympics in Vancouver. Anderson opened BAM’s 2010 Next Wave Festival in New York this week with Delusion, where it will run through Oct. 3.

Single tickets are on sale now. UCLA Live at Royce Hall, Thursday, October 21 at 8 p.m.

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Last Week for John Baldessari at LACMA - Now on View through September 12, 2010

Currently on view at LACMA is “Pure Beauty,” a retrospective of work by John Baldessari. The exhibition features one hundred and fifty objects produced by one of the most influential living American artists, representing over five decades of his storied career. The show is curated by LACMA’s Leslie Jones, with Jessica Morgan, curator of Contemporary Art at the Tate Modern.

@ GIANT ROBOT - Bryan Lee O'Malley Event and Game Night 2 Saturday, August 21, 2010.

Giant Robot Presents:
Signing and Game Night 2 with Bryan Lee O'Malley

Saturday, August 21, 2010, 5-7p signing 7 - 10p Gaming

GR2
2062 Sawtelle Blvd. 90025
gr2.net
310.445.9276

In conjunction with the Attract Mode videogame culture shop, Giant Robot is proud to host Game Night, a new event that takes place at GR2 every two months. Each evening will feature a different developer and its games in a relaxed, community-building setting.

For Game Night 2, Giant Robot is pleased to present artist Bryan Lee O'Malley, who will be celebrating the sixth and final installment of his Scott Pilgrim comic-book saga (adapted into a movie directed by Edgar Wright for Universal) and playing the brand new Scott Pilgrim video game (published by Ubisoft with art direction by Paul Robertson and music by Anamanaguchi).

O'Malley will sign volumes of Scott Pilgrim from 5p - 7p

Games will be played from 7p - 10p

Bryan Lee O'Malley is also featured as the cover artist of the July-August issue of Giant Robot magazine. Giant Robot was born as a Los Angeles-based publication about Asian, Asian-American, and new hybrid culture in 1994, but has evolved into a full-service pop culture provider with shops and galleries in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York City, as well as an online equivalent.

Game Night 2 will take place on August 21 from 5p - 10p

REDCAT ANNOUNCES FALL 2010 SEASON OF CONTEMPORARY VISUAL, PERFORMING AND MEDIA ART.

Yesterday Executive Director Mark Murphy and Gallery Director Clara Kim announced REDCAT's Fall 2010 Season. Kicking off on September 16, 2010 with projects in both the theater and gallery, REDCAT gathers artists of diverse backgrounds and disciplines from around the world, encouraging exploration and discovery among its artists as well as its patrons. The season opening features a world premiere by legendary Indonesian choreographer Sardono W. Kusumo in collaboration with renowned lighting designer Jennifer Tipton; and the Los Angeles debut presentation of two pioneers of video art in China, Zhang Peili and Zhu Jia.

"We are launching our most international and daring program yet," remarks Mark Murphy, "The work embodies the spirit of interdisciplinary collaboration that is the core of our mission, including new premieres and collaborations that celebrate the inventive partnership of great creative minds. We treasure artistic integrity and understand the importance of dialogue and exchange, particularly in challenging times."

REDCAT's eighth season spans the globe, bringing together diverse cultural traditions and new innovations, while highlighting artists pushing the boundaries of genre and artistic expression. A complete list of offerings this fall grouped by primary discipline follows:

ART
Sep 17-Nov 21 | Not Only Time: Zhang Peili and Zhu Jia
A focused, parallel examination of work from the early 1990s to present day, including new commissions, by the pioneers of video art in China.

Dec 7-Jan 30 | Decolonizing Architecture, A project by Sandi Hilal, Alessandro Petti and Eyal Weizman
A research project using architecture as an arena of speculation that investigates the complex spatial dynamics of the West Bank.

CONVERSATION
Oct 28 | Alfred Brendel: On Character in Music
The legendary pianist gives a lecture-demonstration featuring musical examples from the Beethoven sonatas.

Oct 31 | Mark Danielewski: The Fifty Year Sword
In the spirit of Halloween, the critically acclaimed author creates a special treat for the occasion.

DANCE
Sep 16-19 | Sardono Dance Theater and Jennifer Tipton: Rain Coloring Forest
Evocative movement, music and visuals evoke universal themes in this world premiere multimedia performance.

Oct 8-10 | Traditions Engaged: An International Festival of Classical Indian Dance & Music
Leading Indian classical artists and emerging practitioners gather for three days of unparalleled performances and discussions.

Oct 14-17 | Tere O'Connor: Wrought Iron Fog
O'Connor's richly layered choreography highlights unexpected shifts in rhythm and mood while building complex relationships.

Nov 10-14 | Ralph Lemon/Cross Performance: How Can You Stay in the House All Day and Not Go Anywhere
A multimedia work inspired by a 102-year old former Mississippi Delta sharecropper and his spaceship.

Dec 17-18 | CalArts Winter Dance
The centerpiece of this rich program is a restaging of Trisha Brown's 1983 masterpiece Set and Reset.

Jan 13-16 | The A.W.A.R.D. Show!
The Joyce Theater Foundation brings its wildly successful dance event to Los Angeles.

FILM/VIDEO
Sep 20 | Nina Menkes: Hitparkut (Dissolution)
Winner of the Anat Pirchi Award for Best Drama at the 2010 Jerusalem International Film Festival.

Sep 27 | The Best of Ottawa 2009
A selection of 12 outstanding films from the Ottawa International Animation Festival 2009.

Oct 4 | Erie By Kevin Jerome Everson
A new film consisting of single-take, 16mm sequences filmed in and around communities near Lake Erie.

Oct 11 | Lewis Klahr: Dreaming over the Flux of Things Past
Master collagist Lewis Klahr returns with a new series, Prolix Satori.

Oct 23 | Between Displacement and Nostalgia: Conflicted Memories of Cuba
Cuban novelist Edmundo Desnoes is on hand to discuss two films inspired by his writings.

Oct 25 | Revelations of the Everyday: Films and Videos by Vincent Grenier
A collection of works from one of the most significant bodies of experimental films and videos.

Nov 1 | Spectacles of Light: Films and Videos by Peter Rose
Works on this program propose an annotated, nocturnal portrait of a vanished culture.

Nov 22 | Thom Andersen: Out of the Car and into the Music of the Streets
These three sad, funny, beautiful works take you through Los Angeles, 2009; and Munich, 1967/1968.

MUSIC
October 2 | Henry Grimes and Friends
Legendary jazz bassist Henry Grimes makes first L.A. appearance since moving to New York in 2003.

October 3 | Robert Henke: Monolake Live
The co-creator of the Ableton Live software gives a special Monolake Live performance.

Oct 22 | California E.A.R. Unit: Champ Vital (Life Field)
Los Angeles' fearless new music ensemble returns with works by David Rosenboom and E.A.R. Unit members.

Nov 2 | Wayne Horvitz Gravitas Quartet
Hailed as harbingers of modern music, the quartet explores texture, sonority, rhythm, and ensemble fluidity.

Nov 5 | SCREAM Festival: Noisefold
A powerful synaesthetic experience where noise, music and image interact on a symphonic scale.

Jan 28-30 | CEAIT Festival: Iannis Xenakis: Now and Tomorrow
Three scintillating concerts by the legendary pioneer of music and architecture and composers he inspired.

THEATER
Sep 23-26 | Radoslaw Rychcik/Stefan Zeromski Theatre: In the Solitude of Cotton Fields
Two seductive frontmen have more than singing on their minds in this theatrical tour de force.

Oct 21 | Reverend Billy and the Life After Shopping Gospel Choir
Alpert Award-winning artist Billy Talen takes to the pulpit as Reverend Billy accompanied by his joyous 25-voice choir.

Nov 17-21 | Wunderbaum: Venlo
The daring Dutch theater ensemble returns to premiere a new work created while in residence at REDCAT.

Dec 1-12 | The Wooster Group: Vieux Carré
U.S. Premiere of The Group's multimedia staging of Tennessee Williams' memory play set in a boarding house in New Orleans.

Jan 19-23 | Betontanc and Umka.lv: Show Your Face!
Virtuosic puppetry, physical theater, dance, and music combine to tell the tale of a modern-day Everyman.

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THE RISE OF RAD: The Influence of Skate Culture On Contemporary Art @ The Torrence Art Museum

Now on View Through September 4, 2010 - Erupting from the Californian surf scene of the 1960s and branching out into music, language, street art and street clothing, skateboard culture has spanned the globe with its focus on individuality, freedom and a transgressive mixture of sport and play. This exhibition’s focus is on contemporary art that can trace its roots to this sub-culture-gone-mainstream, exploring urban architecture, resistance, and the core values of the skate phenomenon through the matrix of urban theory and politics.

It utilizes theoretical, historical, sociological and contemporary art facets to fully explore how a Californian children’s toy went through technological advances that led to a revolution throughout youth culture and, in turn, spread to the world and impacted culture from the street to the museum.

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John Baldessari: Pure Beauty @ LACMA opens Sunday, June 27

John Baldessari : Pure Beauty

June 27, 2010–September 12, 2010

John Baldessari is one of the most influential American artists working today. This long overdue retrospective will feature more than 150 works spanning the artist's career from 1962 to the present day, and include works on canvas, photography, videos and artist's books. Baldessari's text and image paintings from the mid-1960s are widely recognized as among the earliest examples of Conceptual Art, while his 1980s photo compositions derived from film stills rank as pivotal to the development of appropriation art and other practices that address the social and cultural impact of mass culture. Throughout and continuing today, Baldessari's interest in language, both written and visual, raises questions about the nature of communication. The exhibition is curated by LACMA's Leslie Jones, Prints and Drawings, with Jessica Morgan, Contemporary Art, at Tate Modern. It will also feature a special installation conceived just for this retrospective.

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Louise Bourgeois December 25, 1911 – May 31, 2010

Louise Bourgeois, the French-born American artist who gained fame only late in a long career, when her psychologically charged abstract sculptures, drawings and prints had a galvanizing effect on the work of younger artists, particularly women, died on Monday in Manhattan, where she lived. She was 98.

One of the world’s most respected artists by the time of her death, Bourgeois had an exceptionally broad career that was notable for its slow beginnings. Born in Paris to French tapestry restorers in 1911, she worked as an assistant for the artist Fernand Leger before moving to New York in 1938. She did not have her first solo exhibition until June 1945, when she was shown at New York's Bertha Schaeder Gallery, three months before the end of World War II. After experimenting with painting early on, Bourgeois devoted herself to sculpture in 1949, though she occasionally also produced prints and drawings. Of her decision to abandon painting for sculpture, she told the critic Amei Wallach, “When you go from painting to this, it means you have an aggressive thought. You want to twist the neck of a person. I became a sculptor because it allowed me to express … what I was embarrassed to express before.”

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Tonight in Eagle Rock - Mike Kelley & MIchael Smith 'A Voyage of Growth and Discovery'

West of Rome presents...

A Voyage of Growth and Discovery, a collaborative video installation by artists Mike Kelley and Michael Smith. The installation includes a six-channel video featuring Michael Smith's character Baby IKKI. Filmed at a festival in the Black Rock desert in 2008, the related sculptures fill the 15,500 square foot space surrounding a 30-foot tall junk sculpture of Baby IKKI.

The installation reflects the fantasy-oriented environment of the festival, which is both grand and folksy-an odd mixture of fairground, playground, hippie commune, and the futuristic architectural aesthetics of R. Buckminster Fuller. Resembling an abandoned festival site of the post-"new age" era. This project is the first collaboration between Mike Kelley and Michael Smith, artists who have been friends since 1975.

Mike Kelley, born in Detroit in 1954, lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. Kelley's work embraces performance, installation, drawing, painting, video, sound works, and sculpture. Referencing both high art and vernacular traditions, his works draw from historical research, mass cultural references, and psychological theory.

Michael Smith, born in Chicago in 1951, lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and Austin, Texas. Smith's 30-year artistic career includes live performance, video works, commercial and cable television skits, puppet shows, exhibition installations, comic publications, and drawings.

Opens Tonight May 26 7–9p runs through August 26 , 2010

FREE! @ The Farley Building 1669 Colorado Blvd. Eagle Rock, 90042

TIM HAWKINSON @ Blum and Poe now through 6.26.10

Blum & Poe is pleased to announce their first solo exhibition of new work by Tim Hawkinson.

Tim Hawkinson’s practice is known for its sprawling surrealistic self-portraiture in which the body, through intense introspection, becomes an alien landscape open to radical redefinition and transformation. This artistic agenda is mirrored materially by Hawkinson’s use of familiar and ubiquitous consumer packaging and household objects in highly unconventional ways. The new work continues these refrains, while also exploring more pointedly temporality, mortality, and the cyclic.

Hawkinson works in a range of media, involving sculpture, painting, photography, and installation. The exhibition will present this wide array, including such pieces as, Orrery, a towering eight foot tall sculpture of a woman at a spinning wheel atop a platform that is itself made up of a series of rotating concentric circles depicting tire treads. This piece references the mechanical models and devices used to illustrate the motions of the planets and their moons in our solar system. A sculptural collage of water bottles, plastic shopping bags, recouped ordinary hardware, and odds and ends; every part of this piece is interconnected and eternally spinning, from her head, hands, eyes, and ears, to the optical pattern on her dress, which is a motion illusion called “Rotating Snakes” designed by Japanese Psychology Professor Kitaoka Akiyoshi. With wheels upon wheels, this hyperkinetic sculpture resembles a Whirling Dervish, a hypnotic mystical dancer forever cycling between the material and cosmic worlds.

A sympathetic sculpture, also approaching eight feet tall, is a giant foam candle. This dramatic increase in scale turns a once knowable and homey object into a caustic, volcanic landscape. A central wick appears to erupt in flames, sending a cascade of casts of Hawkinson’s heels and toes pouring down the side like a revolving wax waterfall. A small door on its side reveals a chamber lined with a golden emergency blanket that bathes the piece’s handcrafted motor in an orange glow, altogether evoking Earth’s fiery recycling processes. The burning candle also references vanitas paintings and their reflection on mortality.

In another piece, Hawkinson takes large self-portrait photos printed in the negative and collages them together to resemble a fleshy and precarious motorcycle. Suspended on an empty backdrop, Hawkinson reconfigures his body so that arms become handles, legs the spokes, and fingers multiplied and braided together to become tires. Eerie structural correspondences and analogous traits between the body’s composition, its locomotion, its internal cycles, and mass-produced two-wheeled motor vehicles give way to a sense of the “self” as “other”, a subject that is explored throughout Hawkinson’s practice.

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This Saturday Night 5.22.@The Fowler Museum - SOUNDSUITS AFTER DARK

SOUNDSUITS AFTER DARK

For one night only, the Fowler Museum at UCLA team up to present a free, all-ages night of music, art and dancing on the UCLA campus. The event will include pop-up performances by dancers clad in “Soundsuits,” which are fantastic, costume-like works of art by visionary Chicago-based artist Nick Cave.

Live DJ sets by Jason Bentley and Garth Trinidad outdoors on Wilson Plaza; enjoy special after-hours museum access, pop-up poetry readings, art workshops where you can create your own Soundsuit-inspired apparel, cocktails from the Fowler’s amphitheatre and terrace bars, as well as some of L.A.’s most popular food trucks will be on hand.

This very special evening is part of the grand finale for the Fowler Museum’s 2010 exhibition “Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth” -- the largest presentation of the artist’s Soundsuits -- on display through May 30.

If you've been in a cave since February, this exhibition features thirty-five 10-foot tall multilayered, mixed-media suits extraordinarily decorated with ordinary items from everyday life, everything from vintage toys and sequins to buttons and pot holders. The materials create unusual sounds when they are worn and performed, hence the name Soundsuits.

Live DJ sets start at 8pm and there will be multiple opportunities to catch the Soundsuits outdoors in action before the night ends at 11pm.

Make your own Soundsuit on the Fowler Museum Terrace - bring your own article of clothing to embellish with pom-poms, sequins, buttons and more - or be one of the first 750 guests and receive socks to decorate courtesy of American Apparel.

This event is free and open to the public.

The Fowler Museum - 310.825.4361

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This Weekend - Silverlake Art* Craft & Vintage

Silverlake Art* Craft & Vintage continues the last weekend of every month from 10am-4pm in the heart of Silverlake. Located at the Micheltorena Street Elementary School.This flea market has local vendors selling their hand-made items, vintage gems, and all the of the antiques and collectibles that you are looking for at great recession proof prices. The Kogi Truck comes by most Saturdays. Live reggae from time to time.

Food Truck Block party comes to Silverlake Art* Craft & Vintage the last weekend of every month!

FOOD TRUCK SCHEDULE:

Gastrosbus

Lee's Philly Truck

Don Chow Tacos

The Greasy Weener

Uncle Lau's BBQ Truck

Del's Lemonade Truck

Barbie's Q Truck

Kabob Express

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TONIGHT: BANKSY's US Premiere 'Exit Through the Gift Shop' @ the Los Angeles Theater

Banksy's 'Exit Through The Gift Shop' is a guerrilla documentary which debuted at Sundance earlier this year. It's billed as "the world's first street art disaster movie" and centers on a dude named Banksy, Planet Earth's most infamous practitioner of politically charged urban art. Judging from the initial trailer we assumed Exit Through The Gift Shop would be a fly on the wall look at how Banksy conceives and executes his work but in a new five minute trailer, the incognito poster boy for the global street art movement offers a slightly different take: "The film's the story of what happened when this guy tried to make a documentary about me." he says "But he was actually a lot more interesting than I am so now the film is kind of about him." - Pedestrian TV

Monday 12th April 2010.

Doors Open at 7pm - Film starts 8pm

Film Duration 88 mins.

After show drinks in the Theatre Ballroom.

Los Angeles Theatre, 615 South Broadway, LA, 90014 213.629.2939 - cross street 6th. Passenger Drop Off outside Theatre.

Nearest Parking Pershing Square Parking Lot, 532 South Olive Street, LA, CA 90013 - cross street 5th street.

Theatre will be sign-posted from Pershing Square Parking lot.

Click here to see the walking directions from car park to theatre.

Must See - IFC Films' THE ART OF THE STEAL -

"'The Art of the Steal' is a documentary that chronicles the long and dramatic struggle for control of the Barnes Foundation, a private collection of Post-Impressionist and early Modern art valued at more than $25 billion." Actually, it's $25-$35 billion. The value is really incalculable. Albert C. Barnes (1872-1951) was a Philadelphian of working-class origins who used his fortune from an antiseptic compound called Argyrol to collect: 181 Renoirs, 69 Cezannes, 59 Matisses (including his commissioned, unique, Art of the Dance murals), 46 Picassos, 21 Soutines, 18 Rousseaus, 16 Modiglianis, 11 Degas, 7 Van Goghs, 6 Seurats, 4 Manets and 4 Monets. And these are quality, not just quantity: they include some of the named artists' best works. For Renoir, Cezanne, and Matisse, this collection is unique, and there may be no other private collection of such work of this magnitude.

Barnes was a great collector. He was also famously cranky and opinionated. He deeply and lastingly resented the fat cats of the city of Philadelphia who mocked the work in his collection when it was first shown. He chose to keep the collection away from those Philadelphian fat cats. A friend of the philosopher and educational theorist John Dewey, he built a museum in Merion, Pennsylvania (five miles from Philadelphia) on his own land, a 12-acre Arboretum, and restricted visits, running the Foundation as a teaching institution, which was his main focus in life from the Twenties till his death in a car accident in 1951. The collection was displayed as in a house, arranged with furniture and decorations, in aesthetically pleasing (if rather overly-symmetrical) groupings, rather than in the contemporary museum's open space, white wall style.

Barnes' will specified that the collection must never be loaned out or sold. His will put Lincoln University, a small black college, in charge of the collection after his death.

For a long time the Foundation was run by a close follower of the Barnes spirit, Violette de Mazia. But after she died in 1988, gradually, and recently quite rapidly, the will has been abrogated, the trust broken. In the Nineties, an ambitious man named Richard H. Glanton, who was then in charge loaned the collection to various major venues, including the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, and ending, ironically, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, ostensibly to raise money. More recently a powerful nexus of politicians (the governor and the mayor of Philadelphia), the Annenbergs, the Philidelphia Museum, and rich charitable organizations, mainly the Pew Foundation, have worked not only to get control away from Lincoln University but to move the whole collection to a new building in the city of Philadelphia, where Barnes emphatically did not want his collection to be.

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The Art of the Steal from Pia Arvisu on Vimeo.