PLAN ForYourArt

March 11, 2010 - March 17, 2010

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

THURSDAY, MARCH 11
Miller Updegraff
Michael Benevento (West Hollywood)
6–8pm
The opening reception for a solo exhibition of paintings by artist Miller Updegraff, who uses imagery sourced from the 1930s to explore issues of ethnography and the problematics of representation. Exhibition on view until May 1.

De LaB: Fat Fringe at the Fix
Fix Gallery (Downtown)
6–10pm
The opening reception at the Fix Gallery, a new art and design space, for a collaborative project that explores large scale, high volume paper cutting in the form of an elaborate paper canopy. RSVP.

How Many Billboards? Film and Video screenings
MOCA (Downtown)
6:30pm
In conjunction with the MAK Center for Art and Architecture’s exhibition How Many Billboards?, MOCA will screen a two-part series of films and videos exploring advertising, media and popular culture. With work by Eileen Cowin, David Lamelas, Allan Sekula and Kerry Tribe. Free. How Many Billboards? Art In Stead is on view at the MAK Center and on billboards throughout Los Angeles.

Salon Panel Discussion: Art in the Domestic Setting
Marine (Santa Monica)
7pm
A salon discussion that looks at the history of art in the domestic setting, the way it’s being reinterpreted in the contemporary art world, the possible challenges it poses to artists/dealers and why it is both a viable and important model for looking at art.

Conversations with Artists: Robin Rhode and Leslie Jones
LACMA (Miracle Mile)
7pm
LACMA curator Leslie Jones hosts a conversation with artist Robin Rhode in conjunction with the exhibition Contemporary Projects 12: Robin Rhode, on view until June 6th. Rhode will talk about his experience growing up in South Africa and the site-specific performance created at LACMA for the exhibition.

Ring Festival: The Challenges of Singing Wagner
Hammer Museum (Westwood)
7pm
Wagnerian singers Linda Watson (soprano, Brünnhilde) and John Treleaven (tenor, Siegfried) discuss the joys and difficulties of singing the composer’s works and the unique technical equipment operatic singers require. Discussion moderated by UCLA music professor Mitchell Morris. Free, tickets required and are available one hour prior.

FRIDAY, MARCH 12
Jack Pierson: Some Other Spring
Regen Projects (West Hollywood)
6–8pm
The opening reception for the artist’s seventh solo show at the gallery, which includes a selection of works on paper, photographs and sculptures. Exhibition on view until April 17.

J.B. Blunk
Blum and Poe (Culver City)
6–8pm
The opening reception for an exhibition that spans the artist's work, which includes sculpture, furniture and installation, from the 1960s to the 1990s. The exhibition includes a catalog with new texts by Glenn Adamson, Head of Graduate Studies in the Research Department at Victoria and Albert Museum, London and by Los Angeles based artist Charles Ray. Exhibition on view until May 15.

Mother of Hedone
Jaus (West L.A.)
7–10pm
The opening reception for an exhibition featuring four artists working in ink and watercolor on paper and focusing on the tropes of surrealism and nostalgia. Exhibition on view until April 25.

Erik Madigan Heck and Acura ZDX Launch Party
W Hollywood (Hollywood)
7–10pm
The launch party for the new Acura ZDX featuring an exhibition by photographer Erik Madigan Heck. With cocktails, hors d’oeuvres and music by DJ Ariel Collin Stark-Benz. RSVP required, visit website to RSVP.

Brazilian Films of the 1950s
Billy Wilder Theatre (UCLA)
7:30pm
This screening series focuses on the nationalist and economic growth in Brazil in the 1950s, which facilitated in a period of optimism and the resurgence of Brazilian film industry. A double screening of Carnaval Atlântida (directed by José Carlos Burle and Carlos Manga, 1952) and O Cangaceiro (directed by Lima Barreto, 1953). Tickets $10.

Who Was Walter Rutman?
Echo Park Film Center (Echo Park)
8pm
Stefan Droessler of the Munich Film Museum, which has an ongoing program for the restoration of film works, will present the issues and process involved in the restoration of Walter Ruttmann’s work, followed by a presentation of the classic poetic documentary masterwork Berlin: Symphony of a City. Tickets $10.

SATURDAY, MARCH 13
Rebus Reconstructing Panel Discussion
Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock (Eagle Rock)
4–6pm
A panel discussion that focuses on the merging of the contemporary with the historical in art and architecture. Rebus Reconstructuring documents the work of 25 Los Angeles-based artists who participated in an exhibition, in conjunction with the Sistema Museo in the Umbria region of Italy, which juxtaposed contemporary works alongside the archeological artifacts in the museum’s collection that served as their source of inspiration. Exhibition on view until March 25.

Kohei Yoshiyuki: The Park
M+B (West Hollywood)
6–8pm
The west coast premiere of Japanese artist Kohei Yoshiyuki’s The Park, a series of black and white photographs capturing couples meeting up for clandestine trysts and, more provocatively, the voyeurs who came out to watch them. First exhibited in 1979 at Komai Gallery in Tokyo, the uproar surrounding his methods caused these photographs to be hidden from the public for the next 28 years. Exhibition on view until April 17.

Robert Melee
David Kordansky Gallery (Culver City)
6–9pm
The opening reception for an exhibition by artist Robert Melee, who blends elements of modernism and classical formalism into his own kitsch-inspired visual language. Exhibition on view until April 17.

The Armory's 20th Birthday Bash
Armory Center for the Arts (Pasadena)
6:30pm
The Armory Center for the Arts hosts a 20th birthday celebration with live and silent auctions, cocktails and hor d'oeuvres and live art-making. Tickets $125. Email celebrate@foryourart.com by Thursday, March 11 for a chance to win a pair of tickets.

Fence Ditch Repeat: Iterations of the Border at Juárez/El Paso
Center for Land Use Interpretation (Culver City)
7:30pm
Artist Sarah Cowles leads and a talk and presentation of the CLUI Independent Interpreter exhibition Fence Ditch Repeat: Iterations of the Border at Juárez/El Paso, which features the work of Cowles and Alan Smart.

SUNDAY, MARCH 14
World Water Day L.A.
Natural History Museum (Exposition Park)
9:30am–3:30pm
A day of presentations, activities, talks and exhibitions that focuses on the pertinent issues of water and water conservation in Los Angeles and beyond. A water bottle-free event. Admission $9.

Artist’s Choice Artist’s Voice: Malik Gaines
Fowler Museum (UCLA)
2pm
Malik Gaines, a member of the experimental theater group My Barbarian, examines a group of Nick Cave’s Soundsuits, linking the works to his own experiences as an artist and a scholar of theater and performance. Free, no reservation required.

MONDAY, MARCH 15
Maria Callas and Richard Wagner: A Surprising Couple
Italian Cultural Institute (Westwood)
6:30pm lecture; 7:30 opening
In the context of the LA Ring Festival, LA Opera's Music Director James Conlon, who will be honored with the IIC's Lifetime Achievement Award for outstanding lifelong activity and dedication to the arts, will present a lecture on Maria Callas and Richard Wagner. In conjunction with the opening reception for the exhibition Maria Callas: A Woman, a Voice, a Myth anod the book release of The Young Maria Callas. Exhibition on view until April 23. RSVP by Thursday, March 11 to assistant@trentpr.com.

TUESDAY, MARCH 16
Opulence and Entertainment: Los Angeles Historic Theaters with Robert Berger and Hillsman Wright
SMMoA (Bergamot Station)
7pm
Robert Berger, architectural photographer and co-author of The Last Remaining Seats: Movie Palaces in Tinseltown and Hillsman Wright, co-founder and executive director of the Los Angeles Historic Theatre Foundation, reveal the riches of Los Angeles’ downtown Broadway theater district. Free.

Legacy: Black and White in America
Getty Center (Brentwood)
7–9:30pm
A screening of the documentary, Legacy: Black and White in America, followed by a panel discussion on the legacy of race and civil rights in contemporary art and museum practice. Moderated by Lawrence Weschler with artists Kerry James Marshall and Daniel Joseph Martinez and scholar Nizan Shaked. RSVP.

Filed Under: See Exhibitions Greater L.A.

Posted by: Bettina Korek on March 09, 2010

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