Symbiotic Form For the Holidays!
There’s a new chunk of stores opening up in Downtown LA on Main & 7th, at 111 W 7th St. All the ground floors are barely bigger than a large walk-in closet, some are packed to the gills with stuff, others are more sparsely designed, giving a delicate, couture feel to their stores. Symbiotic Form [...]
Luminosity by Sean Sobczak
See what downtown LA is talking about: A one-of -a kind Sculpture Show – LUMINOSITY – featuring the illuminated works of Sean Sobczak! It was born at Burning Man – and evolved into a spectacular art form! This show features new sophisticated and delicate works, and also the amazing fantastical creatures that have made this [...]
Arias With A Twist: Drag Diva Takes Redcat
“Arias with a Twist” is a whacked-out show that demands your attention by employing quick wit fused with extremely imaginative staging. This is all held together by the soaring song stylings of this demented (and very talented) singer.
Spilt Society Brings in the New Art
Spilt Society’s first multimedia art show last night was easily one of the most conceptually fulfilling shows I’ve seen in a long, long time. The idea behind the show was to track the creative process from the point of conception to the finished work. Causecast donated the space – an interesting multi-room affair built to [...]
Spilt Society, One Night Only!
Spilt is essentially a live art event in which the artists choose how they present the process and product of their work. A crushingly simple, direct, and unique concept, Split asks the artists, “Do your thing.” Nothing more, nothing less, no molding their works into the confines of a prescribed exhibition format. The artists, expressing [...]
the fantastic mr fox @ afi fest
i lucked into some tickets for the opening nite of the afi fest and the premier screening of wes anderson’s new animated flick the fantastic mr fox. and it was, in a word, fantastic. it’s based on the roald dahl book and has all the hallmarks of an anderson movie – quirk and poignance, silliness [...]
R. Crumb Terrifies You With The Bible
In the late ’60s, R. Crumb’s psychedelic comics—including the characters Fritz the Cat, Mr. Natural, Devil Girl and the popular Keep on Truckin’ cartoon— propelled him overnight to celebrity status in San Francisco’s burgeoning underground scene. His charming “bigfoot” style fused with overt sexual images were very well received in the free-love capital—but also led [...]
Liberate the Arts!
Arts organization Create:Fixate will host “Liberate the Arts,” an eclectic art- and music-filled fundraiser, on Thursday, November 5, 2009 from 7:00pm to 11:00pm. An inspired lineup of visual artists, DJs, and musicians will activate the party space at WAL*ART (1639 S. La Cienega, Los Angeles, CA 90035). Presale admission is $60 ($80 admission plus Create:Fixate patron membership) and includes a hosted [...]
Free Ticket Giveaway!
It’s ON, people! Rachel Rosenthal’s 83rd Birthday Bash at Track 16 Gallery in Bergamot Station is quite possibly the biggest event at Bergamot Station this year. Rachel Rosenthal is a legendary interdisciplinary artist, merging performance art, dance, theatre, and visual art effortlessly in provokingly. And she’s having a party! Eighty-three artist works are being donated [...]
Hofesh Shechter Dance: Powerhouse Transformative Performance
The buzz in LA today is unquestionably Hofesh Shechter Dance Company, who delivered a stellar performance tonight at Royce Hall. There are transformative performances that represent those truly immersive moments when something brilliant, inventive and relevant unfolds onstage. In dance for me it was Sankai Juku, but I felt the same with Brain Eno, Talking [...]
Save the Date – Rachel Rosenthal’s 83rd Birthday!
It’s Rachel Rosenthal’s 83rd Birthday! Join the festivities at Track 16 gallery on Saturday, Nov. 7. Who’s Rachel Rosenthal, you ask? She’s one of this century’s most intriguing and innovative performance artists, challenging the border between art and theatre, infusing her performances with elaborate costuming, dramatic lights and sets, and touching on such issues as [...]
Cannibal Flower 9 Yr Anniversary Show
August 29! It’s always an exciting time with Cannibal Flower! Michael Pukac again will be live painting and exhibiting work for this awesome show! Time: 9pm-1am Featured Artist: Kelly Berg Live Performance Ephemme Body Suspension / Performance Art Fashion Show Ceramic Corsets by Nicole Moan Live Painting Mear One John Parks Prince Parise Michael Pukac Live Body Painting Brian [...]
Kaboom is Tonight!
Presented by A Little Birdy Told Me: Opening Reception for my duo show w/ Mear One on Friday, August 28th, 2009 – 6-10pm There will be live painting and exhibiting brand new never-before-seen work! Michael Pukac will be presenting my new DJ painting Series! – See the previous post about his sheer awesomeness. The Gas [...]
Snap – FLASH! C:F’s 6th Annual Photo Show
“SnapFlash,” C:F’s 6th annual ‘All Photography Show’ will take place on Sat. Sep. 26, 2009. Expect all the same great experiences you’ve come to enjoy – over 40 creative humans (photographers, DJs, musicians, & other artisans), multi-area indoor/outdoor warehouse space, food & fashion vendors, a killer soundtrack pumping from different sound systems, eclectic Angelenos taking [...]
Garden of Earthly (Visual) Delights
Ah, the Garden of Earthly Delights on Saturday night. Located in a previously unknown gallery, Daydream Republic, in a previously and currently forgotten part of town (West Adams for a night on the town? Anyone?…..Hello?), The Garden of Earthly Delights sprung up from literally nowhere to display some of the coolest art I’ve seen in [...]
In the Garden of Earthly Delights…
What a sexy-sounding party. And what’s more, it’s happening at the Daydream Republic, on Saturday, Aug. 22 – sure to be a sultry day. Blind Tiger and Cannibal Flower explore the senses with culinary license and artistic redolence. Experience smell, memory and recognition of the subliminal at the second in the series of wine and cheese [...]
Santa Monica’s Black Box Theatre Goes Visual
Santa Monica’s Black Box Theatre staged their first art exhibition gala in their space this weekend, and by all accounts, the event was a success. A carnival theme pervaded the air, as the works of talented local artists displayed their most recent and best works. The artists featured were Frank Rozasy, Melissa May Curtis, Jason [...]
Summer Carnival is Here!
Tomorrow night is a Summer Carnival at the Black Box Theatre in Santa Monica. It benefits the Black Box Theatre, and there’s a ton of amazing artists – not to be missed! See the flyer for all the info you need, see you there!
my imaginary friends @ Hyperion Tavern tonight
The record company suits might call My Imaginary Friends alternative country rock, but you’ll call ‘em irresistible. Erin Armstrong writes songs that sound like your best friend is just plain talkin’ to ya… except you’re surrounded by a soundscape as real and familiar as your favorite streach of sun-dappled country road. If these songs don’t [...]
Words, Words, Words
Last night marked the fourth birthday of the UNKNOWN THEATER and the launch of a new weekly event organized by Dramaturgy, Elemonopy, and the Unknown Theater
The Chardi Kala Jatha in LA !!??!!
For those of you wondering who or what the Chardi Kala Jatha is, I will let you know right now that they are not terrorists, or religious fanatics. The word that describes them best would be “Inspirational”. “Chardi Kala” in Punjabi(A language of India, one of the 27) means “High Spirits” and “Jatha” means “Band” [...]
Will Koffman Bleaches Your Thoughts White
Will Koffman is a surprisingly normal guy. I mean, given that he bleaches stretched black fabric into a carny-esque ladies in curious yet intriguing poses, with maps of tiny, etched drawings not unlike those found an a high school detention room’s desks scrawled around their female forms. It’s almost as if pop culture threw up [...]
Create:Fixate Gets their Eyes Stuck
Create:Fixate‘s Build party was this past weekend, and they have, once again, managed to find the best of the best in young and emerging artists from wide and far in Los Angeles. I’d never been to a Create:Fixate party, but I’d sure as heck heard of them, something like they were these ubercool undergroundish all [...]
