PLAN For Your Art

October 30, 2008 - November 02, 2008

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

SAVE THE DATE
High Desert Test Sites California Biennial 2008
November 7–9, 2008

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30
East of the 5, South of the 10
Cottage Home, 8pm
Performance of the myth of Persephone, retold for 21st-century Los Angeles by Margaret Weatherford, dramatized by Robyn Palmer and Fred Thompson. Also featuring music by the Chapin Sisters and paintings by Mary Weatherford

The RED & the BLUE, Art and Politics
Weingart Art Gallery at Occidental College, 6–9pm
Group show featuring Kim Aberles, Shepard Fairey, Wendy Heldmann, the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest and Richard Serra

The Best of Fall 2008 Benefittng Hollywood Arts
The Spider Club inside Avalon Hollywood, 7pm
Every year thousands of young people end up on the streets of Los Angeles- some have run-away, others have aged out of foster care with no where to go. Hollywood Arts offers 15 arts-based classes a week, at no cost, to young people in need, helping to break the cylce of poverty through education.
Join Los Angeles' top style makers for a night of fun and philanthropy as they host a private cocktail party and silent auction featuring the Best of Fall 2008

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31
Halloween in Hades
Hammer Museum, 7pm
Celebrate Halloween at the Hammer with performance groups Discount Cruise to Hell, Hecuba and We Are the World, as well as a costume contest and special spooky screening

Faculty Talk: Peter Zellner Between Jobs
SCI-Arc, 1pm

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1
Tijuana California Biennial 2008 Events
Tijuana, B.C. Mexico, 4:30pm – 10pm
Located at the juncture between Mexico and the United States, at one of the most trafficked border crossings in the world, the city of Tijuana is recognized as an important laboratory for the exploration of contemporary art practices, architecture, urbanism, and popular culture. CB08 crosses this international border and partners with Estación Tijuana, Lui Velazquez, and EL CUBO, the new museum addition to Centro Cultural de Tijuana (CECUT), three venues critical to the city’s cultural infrastructure to stage a series of binational exchanges and collaborations

When It's A Photograph
Bolsky Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design, 6–8pm
Exhibition examining contemporary photography's fascination with altered states of the traditional photograph. Curated by Soo Kim, Artist and Otis Interim Program Director of Photography and featuring works by Doug Aitken, John Bock, Wolfgang Tillmans and James Welling

LACMA Muse Costume Ball
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 8:15pm–12am
Celebrating Halloween in style with Vanity Fair Portraits: Photographs 1913-2008, the fifth annual bash includes live music, costume contests, complimentary appetizers, and open bars featuring Pernod Absinthe cocktails
For more information and tickets, visit the Costume Ball page or call 323.857.6010

Tom Wesselmann
Honor Fraser, 6–8pm

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2
Sunday Salon Series
OCMA, 2pm
Art and Activism Panel with Andrea Bowers, Sam Durant, Enrique Morones, Marcos Ramirez ERRE and Reverend Alexia Salvatierra

SATURDAY & SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 1 & 2
The Brewery Fall 2008 Artwalk
Brewery Arts Colony, 11am–6pm
Twice annual open studio weekend at the worlds largest art colony

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Posted by: Bettina Korek on October 30, 2008

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