LA FILM FEST REVIEW: Attack the Block
From the producers of Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, Attack the Block immediately caught my eye in the film guide. Producers Nira Park and James Wilson out-did themselves with Attack the Block. If you’re a freak or geek like me, every second of this movie is pure entertainment- thrilling, hilarious, heroic and bloody. [...]
MAY @Artwalk: Crewest Gallery Celebrates 9 Years
With the fairly recent explosion street art in the art buying industry, the Crewest Gallery is “OG,” when it comes to galleries formally displaying this urban art form. Located on the brink of the Old Bank District, Crewest features a variety of underground artists seeking to expose the raw beauty of street art and graffiti. [...]
Lucinda Childs Dance: An Assault at UCLA Royce Hall
Lucinda Childs Dance was staged last night at Royce Hall, bringing together Phillip Glass music and Sol Lewitt video for a full-frontal assault on the audience and the performers. The performance is intelligent; Lucinda Childs makes powerful commentary of the impact that mechanization has on humanity, which unfolds through a three-part narrative structure. This is [...]
Incognito 2011 @ SMMOA
The Santa Monica Museum of Art’s annual fundraiser, Incognito 2011 lived up to it’s reputation as a unique and viable arts awareness event. Santa Monica Museum of Art’s highly anticipated annual art exhibition and benefit, INCOGNITO, returned for its seventh year on Saturday, April 30, with original works by 500 contemporary artists. From sophisticated art [...]
13th Annual Brazilian Street Carn-E-VAL! – Los Angeles
There’s no celebration like a Brazilian Carnival celebration, especially when it’s the 13th annual Brazilian Independance Day Carnival! The Long Beach Promenade hosts this year’s Rio-style carnival, a Trio-Electrio parade, food, bands, and more color than you can shake a stick at! Headlining the entertainment for this year’s event is SambaLa Samba School, Made in [...]
OBD-X LA block party
Downtown LA, it’s time to party. OBD-X is a huge block party happening in the Old Bank District on 4th Street between Spring and Main Streets and Main between 3rd and 5th Streets this Saturday, August 21st from 4PM to 1AM. Admission is free! Think Art Walk. The street celebration will include food and drinks, art [...]
Nisei Week is GO! – Los Angeles
Ladies and Gentlemen, Nisei Week is go! If you haven’t been to Little Tokyo yet to check out all the Japanese goodness, strap on your jetpack and go! Saturday boasts such OMG fanfare as the Queen’s Coronation Dinner, a car show (not just any car show, a Show Off Car Show – if you ain’t [...]
Bloomfest 2010 – Los Angeles
Bloomfest 2010 is a celebration of all things Downtown Arts District, and features open studios, live bands, food trucks, vendors, and all the famous and infamous art that Downtown LA is known for. A little like the Downtown LA Artwalk, but this one strikes us as awesome. Happening on August 14th, downtown LA will fling [...]
Michael Pukac: A Dreampunk Review – Los Angeles
Now’s about high time you go check out fast-emerging LA artist Michael Pukac. Relevant, timely and timeless, and beautifully executed, Pukac is well-situated in the current steampunk art movement, while distancing his work through content and tone. This Friday the 13th, the Imaginary Light Bulb Factory proudly presents Pukac’s solo show, “A Dreampunk Review”, at [...]
Porn in the USA meets Beverly Hills
Looks can be deceiving, which seems to be the central theme for Jonathan Yeo’s “Porn in the USA” collage exhibition in Beverly Hills. Our chance encounter with the work began with three little words: Viewer Discretion Advised. Seeing that statement on the doors of what appeared to be an enormous flash gallery space on Beverly [...]
Circassians, Curiosities, & Conspiracies – Los Angeles
Thought you could just sit at home and watch reality shows on this random Tuesday evening? You thought wrong! Enrich your life with art from young local emerging artists at the Circassians, Curiosities, and Conspiracies show at the Daydream Republic tomorrow night. Circassians, by the way, are the original inhabitants of Caucasus. You life is [...]
Visit an Imaginary Land
Visit an imaginary land during a performance of this contemporary opera. Overtone Industries presents Songs & Dances of Imaginary Lands a site-specific opera that follows the journey of two people searching for what they have lost. The show follows Tom and Sue as they search for their lost identities by visiting imaginary places that hold the [...]
Old Pasadenda Film Festival: Free Flicks Al Fresco
Seen Annie Hall Lately? Beginning July 8 the Old Pasadena Film Festival kicks off with the classic Woody Allen epic flick, screened outdoors under the summer sky. Check out the whole series at the bargain price of FREE. Old Pasadena Management presents the Old Pasadena Film Festival, a free four-week movie series that unites film [...]
J’Adore Bastille Day – Los Angeles
Who doesn’t love Bastille Day? No one doesn’t love Bastille Day, that’s who. Not only is Bastille Day an excuse to wear your most questionable of fashions and get chocolate wasted on a vat of red wine, you, but you can enjoy a day of all that is wonderful about France. Spend a languid summer’s [...]
Dzi Croquettes Will Leave You Dizzy
Dance Camera West (DCW) presents an outdoor screening of Dzi Croquettes, a lively Brazilian documentary exploring the outrageous all-male cabaret group, Dzi Croquettes, who used an empowering sexuality to counter Brazil’s military dictatorship and revolutionize the gay movement worldwide during the 1970′s. Directed by Tatiana Issa and Raphael Alvarez, this revealing documentary explores the legacy [...]
Grease Sing-Along! Free at Arclight June 16 only!
This just in from our friends at Paramount Pictures: Free screening of a new digitally restored, all-new, sing along version of Grease (the musicial). If you still got the hots for Travolta or Olivia, then this actually sounds like a pretty cool night out at the Arclight Theater to see this new print for free. [...]
Hori Smoku is Sailor Jerry: A Film Screening
Would you let that guy tattoo you? All unsanitary with his tobacco pipe, pronounced lack of sanitary gloves, and insistent use of a rotary phone? Yes, you would in a heartbeat. He’s Norman K. Collins, king of tattoo art, and man behind the infamous Sailor Jerry Spiced Rum art. Ed Hardy is remedial compared to [...]
Environmentally friendly digital art show at the A&I Gallery
A&I Gallery in Hollywood HostsCommon Ground 2010An International Touring Digital Art ExhibitionAt the Intersection of Art + Technology + Environmental Stewardship Presented by Hewlett-Packard & FujiFilm Exhibition Runs from July 8 through August 13, 2010 Eco-Friendly Opening Reception – Thursday, July 8, 2010 Mark your calendar for Common Ground 2010 — an environmentally-friendly digital art [...]
Nick Cave | Meet Me at the Center of The Earth NOW.
THIS IS IMPORTRANT. Really Important. Like, it’s really really important that you make plans RIGHT NOW to get to UCLA’s Fowler Musuem to see the Nick Cave exhibit: Soundsuits. Consider this a best visual experience, not to be missed if that’s at all possible. Textile arts are not nearly as well represented as they should [...]
Dance Camera West’s Weekend of Films
Dance Camera West (DCW), presents “Weekend at the Hammer” during the second weekend in June – Saturday, June 12 and Sunday, June 13, 2010 – during its month-long Dance Media Film Festival. The Hammer Museum will host Dance Camera West’s weekend presentation – three programs over two days; curated by Lynette Kessler, artistic director DCW. [...]
Two Exhibitions to Open at FIDM in May
FIDM has long been a place where young creative designers come to hone their chops in the heart of the cutthroat city of fashion that is LA. This month, they continue to explore the craft, process, and impact of costume design in film with two new exhibits, The Art of Costume Illustration, which covers a [...]
Put on your 3-D glasses!
Have you caught the 3-D movie bug? Do you refuse to see a movie unless it’s in 3-D? For all you out there who love the recent 3-D craze here is a fun event to check out! This Saturday May 15, 2010 is the 7th Annual LA 3-D Movie Festival presented by the Los Angeles [...]
Absinthe, Opium, and Magic, Oh My!
Join Absinthe, Opium, and Magic for eleven of the most mysterious and magical nights in Culver City! The show runs Thursday thru Saturday from now until May 29. The winners of the LA Times Critic’s Choice and LA Weekly Go! are back in Venice at the Ivy Substation, presenting the famed Absinthe, Opium, and Magic [...]
Cupcakes! Cocktails! Comedy! Oh My!
The Daydream Republic is hosting the “Don’t Quit Your Daydream” show this Saturday, May 7th from 8:30pm – 11pm. It’s an all-lady show, featuring five hilarious comediennes, over 20 lady artists, and more estrogen than you can shake a stick at. Because the list of comediennes is as-yet-unnamed, we can only imagine that there will [...]
