PLAN ForYourArt

March 24, 2011 - March 30, 2011

Each week, ForYourArt highlights select events to help you PLAN ForYourArt. SEE, KNOW, COLLECT, and ENJOY the best of Los Angeles art and culture.

THURSDAY, MARCH 24
FA 450: Pluto was a Planet
USC Helen Lindhurst Fine Arts Gallery (Downtown)
5–7pm
The opening reception for an exhibition commemorating the culmination of the 2011 Roski Senior students' artistic achievements. The exhibition title pays homage to Pluto’s history and mystique despite having been stripped of planetary recognition, suggesting that change does not necessarily induce loss. Many of the artworks convey this concept by emphasizing shifts in identity, dreams and memory, and the flux of language.

Emanuele Arciuli: Transcending Nature
REDCAT (Downtown)
8:30pm
Emanuele Arciuli has established himself as one of the most original pianists on the new concert scene, with a repertoire that reaches from Bach to contemporary music, and a sustained interest and commitment to Native American culture. This concert centers on the monumental Concord Sonata by Charles Ives, pairing it with James Tenney's meditation on the sonata Essay, Frederic Rzewski's Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues, and works by Native American composers, with Barbara Croali's Gichi-Gamling (Lake Superior) and Raven Chacon's Nichi'Shada'ji Nalaghali (Winds that Turns on the Side from the Sun).

William E. Jones Book Signing
Ooga Booga (Chinatown)
6–8pm
A book signing with, Los Angeles-based artist and filmmaker, William E. Jones. Jones' films include Is It Really So Strange (2004), a feature-length documentary about L.A.'s Latino Morrissey fans, and he currently teaches film history at ARt Center College of Design. Jones will be signing his books, including: Is It Really So Strange? (2006), Tearoom (2008), Selections from the Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton (2008), Heliogabalus (2009) and "Killed": Rejected Images of the Farm Security Administration (2010). Jones' exhibition at David Kordansky Gallery is on view through March 26.

AIA | LA Arch IS_Awards
A+D Museum (Mid-Wilshire)
7pm
The Arch Is_ competition invites young architects and designers to share their portfolios and philosophies with an esteemed panel of judges. Two winners are awarded a public forum and the opportunity to share their perspective on what architecture is with the design community, as well as a cash award. Please RSVP to info@aialosangeles.org.

ALOUD: David Brooks
Mark Taper Auditorium Central Library (Downtown)
7pm
As part of the ongoing ALOUD lecture series, the Library Foundation of Los Angeles presents New York Times Op-Ed columnist and author David Brooks in conversation about his new book The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement.

FRIDAY, MARCH 25
Surface Truths: Abstract Paintings in the Sixties
Norton Simon Museum (Pasadena)
Noon–9pm
The opening day for Surface Truths: Abstract Paintings in the Sixties, an exhibition featuring the work of 17 artists who responded to the painterly character of Abstract Expressionism. The exhibition considers the directions artists such as Larry Bell, Thomas Downing, Helen Frankenthaler, Stephen Greene, Kenneth Noland, Frank Stella, Ellsworth Kelly, Agnes Martin and others took as they moved toward an aesthetic that sought to expunge gesture, pictorial depth, and illusion.

Film Program: More and Trash
LACMA (Mid-Wilshire)
7:30pm and 9:40pm
LACMA presents a screening of More, written and directed by Barbet Schroeder. More, his directorial debut, largely improvised and set to a Pink Floyd score, traces the relationship between a German student and his American girlfriend as they commit themselves to a life of hedonism in Ibiza. At 9:40, a screening of Paul Morrissey's Trash, which was originally made and released in a trilogy along with Flesh and Heat, under the banner of "Andy Warhol Presents." Morrissey introduced narrative and editing into Warhol films, fundamentally changing their aesthetic, and in this film, takes the idea "that drug people are trash" to its extreme. Now on view at LACMA: Human Nature: Contemporary Art from the Collection and Vija Celmins: Television & Disaster 1964-1966.

Bill Cunningham: New York
Nuart Theatre (Westwood)
7:30 and 9:45pm
Bill Cunningham, the Schwinn-riding cultural anthropologist, has been chronicling fashion trends and high society soirees for the New York Times style section in his columns "On the Street" and "Evening Hours" for decades. Cunningham captured uptown fixtures and downtown eccentrics alike in an immense body of work, and in turn, this documentary is portrait of the dedicated artist and man behind the camera. Director Richard Press and producer Philip Gefter will be in person for the evening's screening. Bill Cunningham: New York will screen at the Nuart for one week.

My Taste In Men
Gayle and Ed Roski Master of Fine Arts Gallery (Downtown)
6–10pm
The closing reception for an exhibition by Onya Hogan-Finlay, featuring a range of previously "unseen" holdings from the ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, including paintings, drawings, photos, videos, fanzines, banners, as well as FBI files on blacklisted artists. The closing reception will include free, queer literature distributed by The Miracle Bookmobile, an exhibition walkthrough with ONE archivist Loni Shibuyama anad Visual Art Collections curator Mia Locks, and ukelele musical interpretations of vintage Vaudevillian songs originally sung by male impersonators by "All-American Jewish Lesbian Folksinger" Phranc.

Offending the Audience
The Panorama Theater (Downtown)
8pm
Emily Mast presents the opening night of an "anti-play," originally written by Austrian novelist and playwright Peter Handke in 1966. In this adaptation, seven children between the ages of six and twelve allow the audience to experience the piece emphatically, with a lack of pretense, contrasting the self-conscious critical discourse in a conceptual gestured staged in a conventional theater.

SATURDAY, MARCH 26
Folk Art Everywhere: Highland Park Art Walk
Various Locations (Highland Park)
11:30am–2:30pm
Folk Art Everywhere promotes exploration of Los Angeles' many cultures and neighborhoods by bringing art into the spaces of daily life. This art walk, led by writer and cultural planner Maryam Hosseinzadeh begins and ends at the Highland Park stop along the Metro Gold Line, and includes a visit to Figueroa Produce and a picnic at La Tierra de la Culebra Park. The four will loosely follow the historic Route 66 and the Arroyo, as walkers learn about hidden gems from historic signage and architecture, unique public spaces, independent businesses, and more.

Art Access: The Desert
Laguna Art Museum/Palm Desert
11:30am–4pm and 7–10pm
Join the Laguna Art Museum's Board of trustees for an all-day extravaganza in the desert. Featuring private art tours, food trucks, and an elegant dinner, this event and fundraiser for the museum will include a sneak preview of an exhibition of works by Ed Mises and Dale Chihuly, Kogi Korean BBQ , a tour of the home of Mary Anne Turley-Emett, an exclusive dinner, and other activities.

Cali(fer)nication
(fer) Studios (Inglewood)
1:30–3:30pm
(fer) Studio, the architects behind Father's Office in Culver City and Zen Zoo in Hollywood, are currently working on a revitalization plan for Inglewood's underutilized Market Street. Join principals Christopher Mercier and Douglas Pierson in a a studio tour and talk about their recent projects and proposals for Inglewood's master plan, centering on a proposed MTA stop and explores the possibility of an urban agriculture zone, adaptive re-use zoning, and a green belt and water reservoir.

The Avenues 14th Annual Art and Design Walk
The Avenues (West Hollywood)
3–7pm
The 14th Annual Art & Design Walk in West Hollywood will feature cocktail receptions, product launches, trunk shows, live music and entertainment, food trucks and more. Parking is available in the new West Hollywood Library Garage.

Convergence: Art, Memory, and Science
Edward Cella Art + Architecture (Mid-Wilshire)
4pm
Join artists Deborah Aschheim, Laurie Frick, George Legrady, and Brad Miller for a discussion about select recent projects and an engaging dialogue about the function of artistic inquiry within the cognitive sciences. This special exhibition program will explore roles of personal experience, data collection, and research in artistic practice.

Edward del Rosario: Fable
Richard Heller (Santa Monica)
4–6pm
The opening reception for an exhibition of work by New York-based painter Edward del Rosario. Rosario's background as a performance artist adds a sense of theatrical staging in his cast of children, reptiles, and animal-human hybrids.

Liza Lou
L&M Arts (Venice)
6–8pm
The opening reception for an exhibition featuring the work of Liza Lou. Lou has maintained a studio in Durban, South Africa for the last six years, working with Zulu artisans whose families have worked with beads for generations. Lou's work for this exhibition reflects her travels, meditates upon process, the impossibility of perfection, and what Lou terms "the culpability of craft."

Lifelines: A Retrospective Exhibition of Performance, Installation, Sculpture, Painting and Drawing by John M. White and Scoli Acosta: Rippling: An Earnest Moire Effect
Armory Center for the Arts (Pasadena)
7–9pm
The opening reception for two new exhibitions at the Armory Center for the Arts. In the Caldwell Gallery, Lifelines: A Retrospective Exhibition of Performance, Installation, Sculpture, Painting and Drawing by John M. White features the oeuvre of the innovative painter, sculptor, installation and performance artist and inspirational teacher. In the Pasadena Art Alliance Gallery, Scoli Acosta presents Rippling: An Earnest Moire Effect, an organic accumulation of imagery from a two month stay in the countryside of France, with works inspired by the rippling effect of water via raindrops.

SUNDAY, MARCH 27
Kim Schoenstadt: Painted Over/Under Part 4
LACE (Hollywood)
1–4pm
The opening reception and unveiling of the final chapter of Kim Schoenstadt's year-long interactive project. The revealed line-drawing will snake across five gallery walls, based on the mismatched color patterning created by "graffiti maintenance" on freeways and walls in the city. Within each part of the project, works have beeen written or drawn on the walls, and then painted over with Schoenstadt's color palette, creating a layered, abstracted painting out of the past projects and their partial erasures.

TUESDAY, MARCH 29
Spirit of an Age: Drawings from the Germanic World, 1770–1900
Getty Center (Brentwood)
10am–5:30pm
The opening day of an exhibition featuring about forty German and Austrian drawings and watercolors, recent acquisitions that reflect a new area of the museum's collection. Reflecting the profound intellectual, social, and political changes the Germanic world underwent from 1770–1900, these drawings capture the spirit of the age and evolve dramatically over the course of this period.

Critical Conversations: Sabine Breitwieser
USC Graduate Fine Arts Building (Downtown)
12–1:30pm
Sabine Breitwieser, Chief Curator of the Media and Performance Art Department at the Museum of Modern Art, presents a lecture for the USC Masters of Public Arts Studies Critical Conversations series.

Programming the iPhone 101
Machine Project (Echo Park)
7–10pm
The first in a four-session workshop led by instructor Chandler McWilliams, currently the technical editor for the forthcoming book iPhone User Experience and is writing FORM + CODE in Design, Architecture, and Art due next year. To participate, you must have an Apple computer running the latest Mac OSX with the latest iPhone SDK installed, as well as some knowledge of Objective-C programming language.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30
Vince Aletti in Conversation with Britt Salvesen
USC Roski Graduate Fine Arts Building (Downtown)
12–2pm
Vince Aletti, a New York-based photography critic and music journal, joins Britt Salveson, the curatorial head of both Photography and Prints & Drawings for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, in a conversation for USC's MFA Lecture Series.

Sudan: The Next Killing Fields
Hammer Museum (Westwood)
7pm
Scholars Amal Hassan Fadlalla, Lako Tongun, and Sondra Hale engage in a conversation on the future of Sudan, as a new nation is formed from the recent division of Africa's largest country.

Filed Under: See Exhibitions Greater L.A. Mel Bochner Arts Los Angeles Norton Simon LACMA Bill Cunningham Highland Park Armory Center For The Arts L&M Arts LACE

Posted by: Bettina Korek on March 21, 2011

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