Frances Stark, Push (2006)

The Ephemera of Art and Life
The Hammer Museum – Los Angeles, CA
1/30 thru 4/24/11

All of this and nothing is the sixth in the Hammer Museum’s biennial invitational exhibition series, which highlights work of Los Angeles-based artists, both established and emerging, alongside a number of international artists. All of this and nothing features more than 60 works, much of it created for the exhibition, by fourteen artists: Karla Black, Charles Gaines, Evan Holloway, Sergej Jensen, Ian Kiaer, Jorge Macchi, Dianna Molzan, Fernando Ortega, Eileen Quinlan, Gedi Sibony, Paul Sietsema, Frances Stark, Mateo Tannatt and Kerry Tribe.  →

Our Childhood Idealized on Canvas
Corey Helford Gallery – Culver City, CA
1/29 thru 2/9/11
On January 29th, Corey Helford Gallery will unveil “In The Nursery”, its first major group exhibition of 2011. Following in the tradition of CHG’s renowned Bristol Museum exhibition, “Art From The New World” in 2010 and the star-studded paint-by-numbers exhibition in 2007, “Charity By Numbers”, this unique new group show continues the exploration and re-interpretation of Americana by twenty-six internationally acclaimed artists. →

Check Yo’ Ponytail 2 (feat. Yelawolf and Das Racist)
The Echo – Los Angeles, CA
2/1/11

Los Angeles’ bi-weekly dance party Check Yo’ Ponytail returns with a lineup of next-gen hip-hop artists set to perform at The Echo. Alabama native Yelawolf garnered attention with his collaboration with Big Boi on last year’s critically acclaimed Sir Luscious Left Foot. He’s now bracing for a new record after being signed to Eminem’s Shady Records. The past year saw Das Racist releasing two well-received mixtapes which showed off their high and low culture-laden witticisms. Himanshu Suri and Victor Vazquez, along with their hype man Dap, will bring their joker-intellectual raps to Los Angeles, along with three-time DMC champion DJ Craze and local glam rappers ’87 Stick Up Kids. →

This Filthy World Goes Hollywood (feat. John Waters)
UCLA Royce Hall – Los Angeles, CA
2/23/11

Baltimore native John Waters has toured film festivals, comedy clubs and college campuses across the country with brilliant and world-wise reflections on his film career, lifelong obsessions and professional relationships–the sum of which was documented in the 2006 film The Filthy World. →

Downtown L.A. is a vibrant city during the day. Broadway Ave is full of vendors and the foot traffic is constant. It”s interesting observing new faces all in the struggle to get by.

Music by Kevin E. Craft - http://kemetsurfer.blogspot.com

The Digital Revolution: reGeneration2
Aperture Gallery – NY, NY
1/21 thru 3/17/11

Aperture Foundation, in collaboration with the Musée de l’Elysée in Lausanne, Switzerland, and with the support of Pro Helvetia and the Consulate General of Switzerland in New York, is pleased to announce reGeneration2: Tomorrow’s Photographers Today. As the digital revolution continues its relentless advance, it demolishes longstanding practices in every domain of the photographic field. →

Mark Twain’s Autobiography Unleashed to the Public
The Hammer Museum – West L.A., CA
2/8/11

At the time of his death in 1910, Samuel Clemens (better known as Mark Twain) left his last major literary work—an autobiography—unpublished and stipulated that the entire unexpurgated work should not be issued for at least a hundred years after his death. In November 2010, the year that marked the centenary of Twain’s death, UC Press issued the first volume of a complete three-volume critical edition of the autobiography, edited by the staff of the Mark Twain Project.   →

EXPERIMENTAL COMPOSITION IN POPULAR MUSIC
1/12 thru 1/29/11

Outpost proudly presents a long-distance nine-day course taught by its Artist-in-Residence, Octávio Camargo (in Los Angeles) and renowned Brazilian composer, Chico Mello (in Curitiba).  These exciting courses are open to Los Angeles-based composers, conductors, instrumentalists, new media artists, actors, singers, poets, performers and visual artists.  The classes are being offered through Outpost for Contemporary Art’s residency program in collaboration with Occidental College. →

Downtown L.A. is a foreign planet at times. The short is in tribute to Ray Bradbury’s “The Martian Chronicles” and the wonderful film, “Fantastic Planet.”

Music by Kevin E. Craft – http://kemetsurfer.blogspot.com

A Real Hard, Look at New York in the 50′s
Nuart Theatre – Santa Monica, CA
1/21 thru 1/27/11

Hailed as the best documentary filmmaker by John Cassavetes, Lionel Rogosin captures the subtleties and bleakness of New York’s economically depressed areas. ON THE BOWERY is a foreboding slice of cinéma vérité shot in the late 50′s; its themes and poignant images still resonate today.  As economic opportunities dwindle, the pervasive malaise over America’s current workforce proves dispiriting for those with or without a job.  Major media outlets project grim statistics as our country slowly lumbers through economic recession.  The feeling of disappointment and, at times anguish, experienced by the characters in the film channel the same feelings that Americans have toward the current job market. →