Astrology Orchestra instruments at the Venice Beach Biennial

Reach for the stars in Katie Grinnan’s illuminating Art Performance
The Integratron (and local participating venues) – Joshua Tree, CA
11/16 thru 11/18/12
In accordance with the LAND (Los Angeles Nomadic Division Project), Katie Grinnan and her Astrology Orchestra will be planning a stimulating art/music experience at beautiful Integratron.  There will be a welcome Karaoke night on  November 16th at the Joshua Tree Salon to open up the Integratron event and live performance on the 17th.  Finally, the event will conclude on the 18th with a mind-cleansing sound bath at the Integratron. →

Scott Belcastro’s Latest Artistic Vision
The Gallery – Venice, CA
10/20/12

On October 20th, The Gallery in Venice and curator Stephanie Chefas will present Trying to be Neither, a collection of new works by surrealist painter Scott Belcastro. The latest exhibition reflects the artist’s most personal work to date. “These paintings are my inner most thoughts and a way of expressing how I’m feeling most of the time,” states Belcastro →

Rob Sullivan Art Lecture on L.A.’s Most Notorious Crime
Machine Project – Echo Park, CA
6/30/12

The ghosts of the past and the traces of history are inscribed on the streets of L.A., conjuring images of shattered dreams and grotesque crimes. The hills and flats of this city are haunted with acts of infamous criminality as well as the anonymous remains of the banality of lives spent in total obscurity.  On Saturday, June 30th at 8pm, Rob Sullivan will present Haunted Geographies of L.A., →

Robert Barry, Inert Gas Series, 1969; Helium (2 cubic feet), 1969, gelatin-silver print

Art Talk with Robert Barry
MOCA – Downtown Los Angeles, CA
6/28/12

Join the MOCA and artist Robert Barry for a discussion of his work featured in Ends of the Earth: Land Art to 1974, particularly in regard to his time spent in California.  The American artist captured the imagination with his pithy statement: “Nothing seems to me the most potent thing in the world.” →

WOLFGANG GANTER’S SOLO EXHIBITION
Eli Ridgeway Gallery – San Francisco, CA
6/30 thru 7/28/12

Featuring KCRW DJs & live shows by Allah-Las + Chicano Batman
The Hammer Museum – Santa Monica, CA
6/28 thru 8/9/12 (every Thursdays)

Celebrating the Los Angeles biennial exhibition Made in L.A. 2012, the Hammer Museum and the talented music tastemakers from Los Angeles public radio KCRW (89.9 FM and KCRW.com) present Made in L.A. Music Thursday evenings this summer. KCRW DJs take up residence in the Hammer’s outdoor courtyard, selecting sets inspired by the idea of Made in L.A. and representing the wide array of music created in this city. The free, all ages events take place on Thursdays from June 28 to August 9 and begin at 7pm, with the museum staying open late night. →

The Sixth Annual Art Meets Water Conservation Exhibition
Riverside Municipal Auditorium – Riverside, CA
6/30/12

The Sea No Evil Art Show announces  the return of its massive, sixth annual art exhibition and silent auction to take place at the Riverside Municipal Auditorium on Saturday, June 30, 2012 to benefit the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society.

This year’s line-up of globally renowned exhibiting artists include Gary Baseman, Jeff Soto, Shepard Fairey, Lola, Ana Bagayan, Tim Biskup, Amy Sol, Dave Kinsey, Tara McPherson, Travis Louie, Hydro74 and more – with music by DJ Juice. →

Gina Osterloh’s New Large-Scale Art Installation
LACE – LA, CA
6/28 thru 9/16/12

LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions) presents Group Dynamics and Improper Light, a new large-scale installation by artist Gina Osterloh on view June 28 – September 16, 2012 curated by Carol A. Stakenas and Robert Crouch. Osterloh constructs life-size room environments and activates them through still serial performances, paper-maché models, and cardboard cutouts. Group Dynamics and Improper Light will explore the relationships between abstraction and identity, the space between individuals, and what determines “a group” within a social context. →

KAWS TO CREATE BALLOON FOR 2012 MACY’s THANKSGIVING PARADE
Honor Fraser Gallery is pleased to announce that KAWS will produce a balloon for the 2012 Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade. Translating one of the characters KAWS has developed over the past years, COMPANION, into a monumental inflatable sculpture, KAWS joins a list of artists that includes Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami, and Tim Burton, who have also produced works for the parade in the past. →

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. →