PLAN ForYourArt

May 21, 2009 - May 27, 2009

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

THURSDAY, MAY 21
Los Angeles Film Festival Passes Now on Sale
Los Angeles Film Festival, June 18–28 (Westwood Village)
Passes are now available for the fifteenth annual Los Angeles Film Festival, which showcases new American and International cinema. Tickets for individual screenings will be available beginning on May 29. Purchase online, or call 866.FILMFEST (345-6337).

LACE Benefit and Art Auction
LACE, 8pm (Hollywood)
For this year’s Benefit Art Auction, LACE invited a select group of artists, curators and creative professionals to each organize their personal “visual playlist.” The resulting array of mini-exhibitions will reflect the multitude of styles and interests that make Los Angeles’ contemporary art world what it is. If you missed last night's live auction, make sure to catch the silent auction tonight. Contact LACE for tickets, 323-957-1777x12

Hammer Conversations: Li Edelkoort and Murray Moss
Hammer Museum, 7pm (Westwood)
Conversation between Li Edelkoort, who was named by Time Magazine as one of the 25 most influential people in fashion in 2003 and curates design exhibitions around the world; and Murray Moss who transformed a former Soho gallery space into MOSS with a determination to transform the public perception of industrial product design. Tickets are free, first come, first served

FRIDAY, MAY 22
Raymond Pettibon and Yoshua Okon's video collaboration
Armory Center for the Arts, 7–9pm (Pasadena)
This video collaboration between Raymond Pettibon and Yoshua Okon explores the subculture of hippies and beach bums from Venice Beach. The video centers on an alternative tight-knit group of men who have been living on the beach for more than 30 years.The piece was originally influenced by the artists’ visit with a past-life therapist who revealed that one of the artists was a hippie-cult leader in a previous life. On view until August 31

Wes Jones Meet the Nelsons
LA Forum for Architecture and Urban Design, 7pm (Hollywood)
Opening reception for the six-week exhibition of Wes Jones’ original artwork from the cartoon strip he designed for the seminal ANY magazine. Sixteen issues of the magazine are featured, including the last one published. There will be a gallery talk with the artist on May 24th at 4pm. On view until July 5

Travelogue
g727, 7pm (Downtown)
A screening of films by Bill Brown and a video installation by Bia Gayotto presented in association with the exhibition Photocartographies. On view until June 30

SATURDAY, MAY 23
Encounters: Fred R. Parker
Norton Simon Museum, 11am–12pm
Curator Gloria Williams Sander talks with artist Fred R. Parker, a painter and photographer who specializes in the process of cliché verre.The artist speaks about his portfolio Connotations, composed of 10 word-image prints created with this method and featured in the exhibition Exceptionally Gifted: Recent Donations to the Norton Simon Museum

Keith Tyson
Blum and Poe, 6–8pm (Culver City)
British Artist Keith Tyson's first solo show in Los Angeles includes three recent bodies of work, entitledNature Paintings, Operator Paintings, and Studio Wall Drawings, respectively. Tyson's collection of paintings borrow methodologies from science, cosmology and mathematics, and attempt to breech the subject of the complex interconnectedness of human systems. On view until June 27

Bruce LaBruce: Untitled Hardcore Zombie Project
Peres Projects, 6–9pm (Culver City)
Presenting the work of Bruce LaBruce including his most recent film project Otto; Or, Up With Dead People, which premiered at the Sundance and Berlin film festivals. There will be a performance at 8:30pm during the opening reception. On view until June 27

Phoebe Unwin: Making an Outside Space Theirs
Honor Fraser, 6–8pm (Culver City)
The debut U.S. exhibition by London-based artist features diverse paintings marked by intense and voracious use of color. Exhibition is on view through July 3. In addition, there will be a discussion, Is Conviction in Painting Possible?, with the artist and writers, critics and curators; Ed Schad, Andrew Berardini, Liat Yossifor, and Jens Hoffman at 4pm

Scott McFarland
Regen Projects II, 6–8pm (West Hollywood)
Exhibition of new work by Canadian artist Scott McFarland features photographs including three large panorama works, smaller photographs from the Hampstead series and, introducing, the new Niagara series. On view until July 3

BROODWORK
Center for the Arts Eagle Rock, 3–6pm (Eagle Rock)
Opening reception for BROODWORK, an exhibition curated by Rebecca Niederlander and Iris Anna Regn that examines the creative practices of contemporary artists, designers and architects after becoming a parent. Including work by Barbara Bestor, Lucas Reinerr, Patrick Wilson and Lauren Bon and The Metabolic Studio. On view until June 21

In the Darkness
Phil, 8–11pm (Highland Park)
Opening reception for In the Darkness, feature works by Tom Friedman, Matthew Grover, Wade Guyton, Peter Hujar, Patrick Lee and Hedi Slimane

A night of serious diversion...Not my Job
workspace, 7pm (Lincoln Heights)
Part of the Five Points Reading Series, the presentations feature John Chase, Jessica Hundley, Sarah Kessler, Tibby Rothman and Catherine Taft

SUNDAY, MAY 24
MexiCali Biennial
King King, 8pm–2am (Hollywood)
This event is the official launch of the MexiCali Biennial and will feature live bands, DJs, video art projections, performances and artworks. Works by local and international artists will be raffled off throughout the night. $8 at the door

WEDNESDAY, MAY 27
40 + Years with Gemini G.E.L.
Getty Center, 7:30pm (Brentwood)
The lithography workshop Gemini G.E.L. has changed the notion of printmaking over the past 40 years working with such artists as John Baldessari, David Hockney, Jasper Johns, Edward Kienholz, Ellsworth Kelly, Bruce Nauman, Ed Ruscha and Richard Serra. For this program cofounders, Sidney Felsen and Stanley Grinstein discuss its history with a few surprise guests

The Isle (by Pages)
MAK Center, Schindler House, 7–9pm (West Hollywood)
The opening reception for a new installation, The Isle, by artists Nasrin Tabatabai and Babak Afrassiabi, which focuses on the contemporary circumstances of Kish, an island located in the Persian Gulf. The partners who make up the collaborative team called Pages will explore notions of "geopolitical indecisiveness" as it relates to this island. On view until August 23

Filed Under: See Exhibitions Greater L.A.

Posted by: Bettina Korek on May 21, 2009

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