Jack Pierson Phil Spector 2007
Excited to see his show at Regen tonight!
hyde or die
I love the Machine Projects, Artist in Residence program at the Hammer Museum, it is tooooo cool. A few weeks ago I had a private concert in the coat closet. The musicians played a song called Dreamweaver and I haven’t posted it yet because I haven’t gotten the pictures off of my camera, but it was awesome. Don’t believe me, this weekend you can have your own personal soundtrack:
LIVE PERSONAL SOUNDTRACK
Saturday, March 13, 1-4PM
Eric Klerks
Visitors to the Permanent Collection and Luisa Lambri’s Being there will be presented with the option to “check out” guitarist Eric Klerks to walk with them through the exhibitions. He will follow the visitor around, playing live music into headphones through which only that visitor can hear. This event will happen intermittently on Saturdays throughout the year, in various galleries and exhibitions. Curated by Chris Kallmyer.
Throughout history artists have lent their creative expression to the ideas and issues that shape life in our communities, our country and our world. The MANIFESTEQUALITY Gallery gathers together a diverse array of hundreds of the nation’s most talented visual artists under one roof to celebrate that role and join with our gay (LGBT) friends, family members and co-workers to demand full and equal rights for all Americans.
The MANIFESTEQUALITY Gallery, issues an inspiring, visual call-to-action, with hundreds of artists motivating public energy toward true reform on a local, state and national level.
MANIFESTEQUALITY will be open to the public, Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010 through Sunday, March 7th, 2010 between the hours of 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM with extended hours Friday - Sunday.
This is truly amazing. Definitely put this on your schedule if you have even a minute free time.
Some downtowners are upset that local artist Emmeric Konrad’s window mural at the Down and Out bar is set to be removed today by the city. Apparently someone complained about the mural, leading the city—which has various and complicated rules regarding window signage and graphics—to order it removed. Via Blogdowntown: “Konard, a 1992 Graduate of Otis Parsons School of Fine Arts, has been Downtown-based artist for over a decade and known for frantic male and female forms with crazed eyes and tight skirts––satirical grit made from caricatures of strangers.” One local wrote in last night to Curbed saying a “protest” was planned in front of the mural, located at 501 S Spring Street. She writes: “The mural is set to be removed today, Thursday February 25th….people are gathering to protest…Please, please get the word out. Tell Angelenos so they know that not only are ‘uncommissioned’ public art works being torn down, but commissioned ones as well. Is this legal? Is this the city we want to live in? Is this the “vibrant art scene of Los Angeles?” Over at the Eastern Columbia, residents last year managed to rally and convince the city to hold off on removing the “artwork” covering the storefront windows in the building. Meanwhile, what are the merits of this mural? Is this some sort of R. Crumb-like work, or is this just hideous? Blogdowntown has another angle of the piece. via…
The MAK Center for Art and Architecture’s new project How Many Billboards? Art in Stead is starting to take shape, with the official opening next weekend.
The MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House is pleased to present its most ambitious project to date: How Many Billboards? Art in Stead. This large-scale urban exhibition debuts 21 newly commissioned works by leading contemporary artists, presented simultaneously on billboards in Los Angeles in February and March 2010.
Billboards are a dominant feature of the landscape in Los Angeles. Thousands line the city’s thoroughfares, delivering high-end commercial messages to a repeat audience. Given outdoor advertising’s strong presence in public space, it seems reasonable and exciting to set up the possibility for art to be present in this field. The sudden existence of artistic speech mixed in with commercial speech provides a refreshing change of pace. Commercial messaging tells you to buy; artistic messaging encourages you to look and to think.
I can’t wait to see these going up around town.
