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Fri
6/28
1:00 AM
Art
Forensics: The Cultural Power of Art and Real Estate
Mid-Wilshire
Join Susanna Phillips Newbury for her lecture Forensics: The Cultural Power of Art and Real Estate. Los Angeles has long invested in contemporary art and real estate development as a long-term strategy for cultural growth. More than 70 years into intensive plans to incentivize arts infrastructure as an engine of its global and local economy, "Forensics" looks back on its uneven path, asking how artists, museums, cities and regions might plan for different futures.
Art
Sat
6/29
2:00 AM
Misc
Currant Jam presents: Currantly Showing
Highland Park
Currant Jam magazine presents Currantly Showing: a night of dramatic sketches, stand-up comedy, and short film screenings. This multi-disciplinary showcase features stand-up by Chiara Montali, Jasmyn Carter, Kel Cripe and Tarek Ziad; a dramatic performance written and directed by Siena Foster-Soltis; and a smattering of short films by Sandy Honig, Kerry O’Neill, Christina Fidler, Kat Ball, Amy Hewett, Tiger Ji and Jordan Michael Blake.
Misc
Sat
6/29
2:00 AM
Film
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar @Vidiots
Eagle Rock
Grab your wigs and heels and hit the road with Patrick Swayze, John Leguizamo, and Wesley Snipes for the original drag race! Two New York drag queens win a place in the finals of a prestigious drag competition in Los Angeles. They pick up a young queen and head West in a rush to make it to California in time for their crowning glory.
Film
Sat
6/29
3:30 AM
Misc
Primera Generación Dance Collective (Fri)
Downtown
With eclectic, multilingual, Latinx aesthetics, Los Angeles and Riverside-based Primera Generación Dance Collective exposes “el desmadre” (the messiness) that is their first-generation Mexican American experience. Rooted in popular Latine music, movement, and moments, their newest evening-length multimedia dance work, NOStalgia POP, pays homage and cheeky critique to the recuerdos romanticos that link Latine bodies together. A collage of ‘80s pop en Español, the “Latin Explosion” of the ‘90s, and millennial Mexican core weave together with media depictions of gente Latina. Four captivating dancers tell the story of how messy, fruitful, joyful, and painful the development of an ever-growing Latin Pop culture memory has been and the ways in which mainstream media shapes and is (re)shaped by Latine nostalgia.
Misc
Sat
6/29
7:30 PM
Misc
Nikkei Wine Summit 2024 – American Wine with Japanese Soul
Little Tokyo
Join Japanese American winemakers, proprietors, and wine professionals of the Nikkei Wine & Vine Group at the inaugural Nikkei Wine Summit 2024 – American Wine with Japanese Soul. The Summit aims to promote awareness of Nikkei winemakers and wine growers and the discovery of our Nikkei wine heritage in America. By continuing to introduce fine wines to our audience, JACCC seeks to build a community with wine enthusiasts interested in the growing diversity of the U.S. wine industry.
Misc
Sun
6/30
1:30 AM
Film
Face/Off @Vidiots
Eagle Rock
FBI agent Sean Archer (John Travolta) must go undercover to investigate the location of a lethal biological weapon planted by his arch-rival, the sadistic terrorist Castor Troy (Nicolas Cage). After undergoing a radical surgical procedure, Archer literally takes Troy’s face to assume his identity and carry out the mission. But things go awry when Troy, emerging from a coma, undergoes his own face transplant to transform into Archer. Action master John Woo directs this bombastic classic of the ’90s.
Film
Sun
6/30
3:30 AM
Misc
Primera Generación Dance Collective (Sat)
Downtown
With eclectic, multilingual, Latinx aesthetics, Los Angeles and Riverside-based Primera Generación Dance Collective exposes “el desmadre” (the messiness) that is their first-generation Mexican American experience. Rooted in popular Latine music, movement, and moments, their newest evening-length multimedia dance work, NOStalgia POP, pays homage and cheeky critique to the recuerdos romanticos that link Latine bodies together. A collage of ‘80s pop en Español, the “Latin Explosion” of the ‘90s, and millennial Mexican core weave together with media depictions of gente Latina. Four captivating dancers tell the story of how messy, fruitful, joyful, and painful the development of an ever-growing Latin Pop culture memory has been and the ways in which mainstream media shapes and is (re)shaped by Latine nostalgia.
Misc
Sun
6/30
6:30 PM
Art
Residencies in Dialogue
Mid-Wilshire
Join Susanna Phillips Newbury for her lecture Forensics: The Cultural Power of Art and Real Estate. Los Angeles has long invested in contemporary art and real estate development as a long-term strategy for cultural growth. More than 70 years into intensive plans to incentivize arts infrastructure as an engine of its global and local economy, "Forensics" looks back on its uneven path, asking how artists, museums, cities and regions might plan for different futures.
Art
Mon
7/1
2:00 AM
Misc
Agape Lodge Poetry Society
Downtown
Agape Lodge Poetry Society featuring Vanessa Matic, Isa Beatty, David J. Haskins, Michael Oblowitz, Parker Love Bowling, Bil Brown, Joey Camello, Ghetto Wolf, JD Mata.
Misc
Sat
7/13
11:00 PM
Art
Deluge Vol. IV
West Hollywood
Join Jia Yi Gu, Director of the MAK Center for Art and Architecture and organizer of the exhibition, on a tour of VALIE EXPORT: Embodied. She will discuss EXPORT’s early artist explorations, expanding on the production of meaning and materiality in film, photography, and performance, while challenging the social function of women and the ideologies of space and the built environment.
Art
Sat
7/20
12:00 AM
Art
Saint No: Down for the Ride
Silver Lake
Opening reception at Worklife Studios. Come shop clothes, prints, skate decks, and large format pieces.
Art
Sun
7/21
1:00 AM
Music
Off the 405: Helado Negro
Brentwood
Born in South Florida to Ecuadorian immigrant parents, the world-building multi-instrumentalist Roberto Carlos Lange stitches together memories, impressions, and atmospheres to make detailed dreamscapes as Helado Negro. He produces, engineers, and mixes his own songs, creating and populating his own sonic world. Lange has a degree in Computer Art and Animation from Savannah College of Art and Design and works extensively with video, sculpture, sound, and performance. He brings that toolbox to whatever he makes, and there's a seeming effortlessness to the complexity. His songs are awash with vibrant melodies, sharp lyrical vignettes, and subtle, even whispered hooks.
Music
Sun
7/21
10:00 PM
Art
Constantin Werner's 'World in Ashes'
Lincoln Heights
Artist and filmmaker Constantin Werner invites you to his latest solo exhibition, "World in Ashes," at Wonzimer Gallery, Los Angeles. Following his 2020 show, "Dead Souls," Werner returns with a visceral exploration of human impact on the planet. "World in Ashes" serves as an artist’s reaction to the unraveling fabric of our world, capturing the devastation wrought by war, global warming, flooding, and the destruction of the rainforest. Through his conceptual, neo-expressionist oil paintings, watercolors, and charcoals, Werner invites viewers to confront the harsh realities of our time.
Art
Sun
7/28
1:00 AM
Music
Off the 405: Julia Holter
Brentwood
Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter and composer Julia Holter is known for her experimental and avant-garde approach to music, which showcases her unique songwriting style and ethereal vocals. Just released this March, her sixth studio album, Something in the Room She Moves, was celebrated by Pitchfork as "fluid, sonorous, and free." Holter's past work has often explored memory and a dreamlike future, but her latest album resides more in presence: "There's a corporeal focus, inspired by the complexity and transformability of our bodies," she says. Her production choices and arrangements form a continuum of fretless electric bass pitches in counterpoint with gliding vocal melodies, while glissing Yamaha CS-60 lines entwine warm winds and reeds. "I was trying to create a world that's fluid-sounding, waterlike, evoking the body's internal sound world," Holter says of her flowing harmonic universe.
Music
Sun
8/25
1:00 AM
Music
Off the 405: Woods
Brentwood
Formed in Brooklyn in 2004, Woods have matured into a true independent institution, reliably emerging every few years with new music that "grows towards the latest sky." Woods is made up of co-founders Jeremy Earl and Jarvis Taveniere, joined by John Andrews, and a striking extended family of collaborators. Their music is characterized by its rustic and psychedelic sound, blending elements of folk, rock, and lo-fi indie. Their latest record, Perennial, is the sound of a band on the edge of their 20th anniversary and still finding bold new ways to sound like (and challenge) themselves.
Music
Sat
9/14
12:00 AM
Art
Echoes of Voynich
Lincoln Heights
Echoes of Voynich ’is a group show inspired by the heretical Voynich Manuscript. This extraordinary 15th-century herbarium delves into medieval ideas of natural science. It presents a closely observed world using intricate drawings imbued with imagined spirits and anthropomorphized powers, alongside elaborately coded text that has never been deciphered. In a similar spirit, these eight contemporary artists push back on established orders of classification offering worlds of subjective structures, where closely observed nature is conflated or indistinguishable from highly personal systems. Through painting, drawing, photography, artist books and installation work, “Echoes of Voynich” offers a multi-faceted view of artworks making connections and dissolving boundaries between Flora,Fauna and (Un)earthly Matter. The exhibit will run concurrently with the Getty Institute’s Pacific Standard Time series of exhibits focusing on the theme of “Art + Science: Collide”. The accompanying catalog will feature an essay by the renown artist and scholar Johanna Drucker focusing on the Voynich Manuscript’s enduring fascination for artists, cryptographers, medievalists and anyone who enjoys a literary and artistic mystery.
Art
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