PLAN For Your Art

October 23, 2008 - October 29, 2008

Each week, ForYourArt highlights select cultural offerings throughout the week ahead to help you Plan ForYourArt.

THURSDAY OCTOBER 23
Wolfgang Tillmans half page
Regen Projects and Regen Projects II, 6–8pm
New video and photography from German artist Wolfgang Tillmans

Art Talk with Susanne Kippenberger
MOCA Grand Avenue, Ahmanson Auditorium, 6:30pm
In conjunction with Villa Aurora, MOCA presents a special evening with Susanne Kippenberger, Berlin-based writer and author of Kippenberger. Der Künstler und seine Familien (Kippenberger: the Artist and His Family), an acclaimed 2007 biography of Martin Kippenberger, her brother

Young Literati's 2nd Annual Toast: An evening to benefit the Los Angeles Public Library
Track 16, 7–11pm
Tickets $150, RSVP to 213.228.7500
"Sip cocktails and sample small plates at this party amidst the work of artist Robbie Conal, who will be present at the event. Throughout the evening, celebrity actors, authors and musicians will read from their favorite authors."

Vlatka Horvat reception and artist talk
Outpost for Contemporary Art, 7–8:30pm
During her residency at Outpost, Vlatka Horvat will lay the groundwork for a public art project, using the residency as a research period to familiarize herself with Los Angeles, and explore ways in which to intervene within the city

Holy Sh*t: Scatology and Longing in the Art of James Ensor
LACMA, Bing Theater, 7pm
Kevin Salatino, curator of the prints and drawings department, examines Ensor's most outrageous scatological images in their historical and cultural context

FRIDAY OCTOBER 24
Chora Prints 2008: New Political Posters From TJ2LA
Under Spring, 7–10pm
Chora, Self-Help Graphics and Casa Del Tunel: Art Center team up with two-dozen artists to produce posters about what they consider to be the key North American political issues of the day

Friedrich Kunath EMOH
Blum & Poe, 6–8pm
Painting, sculpture and photography are featured in Kunath's third solo exhibition at the gallery

SATURDAY OCTOBER 25
Dee-Dee Does Utopia Reception and Booksigning
MOCA (at the Pacific Design Center), 3–5pm
RSVP required artcatalogues@moca.org
Artist Deborah Lawrence will discuss her new book with featured essayist and Los Angeles art critic Peter Frank

Louise Bourgeois Member's Opening
MOCA Grand Avenue, 7–11pm
MOCA members receive free admission for two. Tickets for two additional guests can be purchased at the door for $25 each. Not a member? Call 213.621.1794, visit any MOCA Box Office, or log on to moca.org/members to become a MOCA member today

Bob Zoell: I Wish I Was Happy
WAL-ART, 7–10pm
Retrospective of aluminum parking sign serigraphs by Los Angeles-based artist

Naomi Harris: America Swings
M+B, 7–9pm
Color photographs documenting the artist's five year exploration of the American "swingers" community

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26
Vanity Fair Portraits: Photographs 1913–2008
LACMA
The first major exhibition to bring together the magazine archive of rare vintage prints along with its contemporary photographs opens today

2008 California Biennial
Orange County Museum of Art
Opens today with special events including a talk with guest curator Lauri Firstenberg, meet and greet with the artists and live performances

Pretty Things
LACMA, 1pm
Filmmaker Liz Goldwyn introduces her documentary which examine the demise of burlesque in America

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29
3 from 33 1/3
Hammer Museum, 7pm
Join Hayden Child, Kim Cooper and Scott Plagenhoef, three authors of "33 1/3", a series of books about rock and pop albums, for special readings and multimedia presentations

Filed Under: See Events Greater L.A.

Posted by: Bettina Korek on October 23, 2008

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