A review of Waiting for Godot at the Mark Taper Forum
DTLA, CA
3/22/12

This inaugural theater coverage serves to be my most bizarre entry because the editor in chief initially took me into Evil Monito as a theatre specialist; bizarre in the sense that this happens to be my first theatre coverage piece seeing as how I’ve kept myself occupied in the past with previous music events. →

Rosson Crow’s second solo exhibition in Los Angeles
Honor Fraser – LA, CA
2/25 thru 3/31/12

Exploring the intimate psychological and emotional dimensions of nationalistic collective memory, Crow creates a series of works that take as a point of departure the exuberance and sobering aspects of past and recent gilded eras. Known for her theatrical and lush paintings that often feature decadent interiors, this new investigation marks a shift in the artist’s artistic process, tensely negotiating representational depictions and mnemonic interplay in painting. Rather than reproducing imagery associated with particular temporal and locational circumstances, the artist taps into mythologizing narratives, personal memories, and familial anecdotes →

Where Literature Coincides with Art
The Hammer Museum – Santa Monica, CA
3/4 thru 3/6/12

East L.A.’s favorite bookstore/lending library, Libros Schmibros, is back at the Hammer Museum with a free monthly book club led by co-directors David Kipen and Colleen Jaurretche. Convenings will focus on books related to the museum’s exhibitions and programs. →

Trouble in Paradise: Music and Los Angeles 1945-1975
The GRAMMY Museum – LA, CA
2/22 thru 4/3/12

As part of the exciting statewide Pacific Standard Time Initiative, this pictorial exhibition explores the pop music scenes of Los Angeles, and their related culture, politics, and popular art, during the years of 1945-1975.

In addition to a wide-range of iconic images from the period, the exhibit will also feature a cross-section of ephemera (album art, handbills, concert posters, etc.), music, and filmed interviews with key figures of the scene. The exhibition, co-curated by GRAMMY Museum Executive Director Robert Santelli and USC Professor Josh Kun, zeroes in on the tensions between alluring myths of Southern California paradise and the realities of social struggle that characterized the years following WWII. →

Os Gemeos’ First Solo Exhibition in Los AngelesPRISM Gallery – LA, CA
February 25 – March 24, 2012

PRISM is pleased to present Miss You, an exhibition of new paintings and sculptures within an immersive installation by famed Brazilian street artists and twin brothers, Gustavo and Otavio Pandolfo.

The artists play with quixotic notions of magical realism. Their visual tableaux explores the quotidien sublimated into dreams, sentiments, surrealism, realizations, relationships, love, hate and their intrinsic curiosity to question everything around them. →

Harry Smith’s Heaven And Earth Magic w/ Live Score by Flying Lotus
The Cinefamily – LA, CA
2/28/12

Cinefamily brings you two screenings of Harry Smith’s classic triumph of experimental animation: one with its original soundtrack, and another re-scored live by Flying Lotus (of Warp Records)!

Reprising an unforgettable show commissioned for the Ann Arbor Film Festival, L.A.’s own Flying Lotus joins Animation Breakdown for a unique screening of animator/folk music archivist/string figure enthusiast/culture hound extraordinaire Harry Smith’s 66-minute animated collage film, Heaven and Earth Magic. →

L.A. Record proudly hosts the L.A. Zine Fest
The Last Book Store – Downtown LA, CA
2/19/12

This year, the L.A. Zine Fest has an exciting lineup for the literary minded. KXLU DJs will provide the apt soundscapes and L.A. Record will be hosting a lively afterparty featuring a live silkscreening by Hit + Run! All workshops and discussion panels will take place at The Last Bookstore this Sunday followed by  a free afterparty with the Allah Las, Cold Showers and Neverever! →

Major retrospective of Polish artist travels to the Hammer
The Hammer Museum – Santa Monica, CA
2/5 thru 4/29/12

Alina Szapocznikow: Sculpture Undone, 1955 – 1972 opens at the Hammer Museum this winter and will be on view February 5 – April 29, 2012. This is the first major museum survey of the artist’s work in the U.S. While regarded in her native Poland as one of the country’s foremost sculptors of the postwar era, Alina Szapocznikow (1926-1973) has only recently begun to receive significant international recognition. →

Ming Wong Recreates Polanski’s Seminal Neo-Noir Classic
REDCAT – Los Angeles, CA
2/5 thru 4/1/12

For his first solo exhibition in Los Angeles, Berlin-based Singaporean artist Ming Wong creates a series of videos and scenic backdrops that center around the making of Roman Polanski’s seminal 1974 film Chinatown. Shot on location in the Gallery at REDCAT, Wong’s reinterpretation, Making Chinatown, transforms the exhibition space into a studio backlot and examines the original film’s constructions of language, performance and identity. →

Representing Emerging and Under-represented Artists in LA
Barnsdall Art Park – Los Angeles, CA
6/3 thru 11/2/12

The Hammer Museum presents Made in L.A., the first in an ongoing series of exhibitions focused on artwork created in the Los Angeles region. Made in L.A. 2012, organized by the Hammer Museum in collaboration with LA><ART, will be presented at the Hammer Museum, LA><ART and the L.A. Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Art Park from June 3 – September 2, 2012. Building upon the tradition of Hammer Invitational exhibitions, Made in L.A. 2012 will feature roughly 60 artists with an emphasis on emerging and under-recognized artists. The Hammer is also pleased to announce that Wells Fargo has come on board as Made in L.A 2012’s Presenting Sponsor, an important and substantial commitment to this inaugural citywide event.  →