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. →

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. →

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! →

The Un-Grammys: 2011 Music in Review
The Crawford Family Forum – Pasadena, CA
2/8/12

Will this year’s GRAMMY’s really be “music’s biggest night”? Or will it just replay 2011’s most offensive industry hypes? Across all genres and through all 70+ categories, who really deserves recognition… and which acts would be better axed for the love of musical posterity? →

Art and Black Los Angeles
The Hammer Museum – Santa Monica, CA
10/2/11 thru 1/9/12

The Hammer Museum proudly presents Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles 1960–1980, a comprehensive exhibition that examines the vital legacy of the city’s African American visual artists. Now Dig This! comprises 140 works from 35 artists that have rarely been shown in a museum setting and includes early pieces by now well-established artists.

The exhibition expands the art historical record by presenting an array of artists, some not widely recognized by a broad public, and connecting their work to the movements, trends, and ideas that fueled the arts in Los Angeles during this period. The work of these African American practitioners was animated to an extent by the civil rights and Black Power movements →

A Forum on Edgar Orlaineta’s Solar Nothing
Steve Turner Contemporary – LA, CA
10/3/11

It’s great to see that our friends at Big City Forum are back with another scintillating forum on the issues that matter most to us.  BCF in conjunction with Steve Turner Contemporary presents a panel focusing on the myth and impact of Southern California Design.  The discussion will be moderated by Marissa Gluck and will focus around the solo exhibition Solar Nothing by Mexico City-based artist Edgar Orlaineta →

Mali Artists, Amadou & Mariam, Fight Hunger ‘Round the World
The award-winning musicians are the first The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) Ambassadors dedicated to raising awareness among the European public of the scourge of global hunger and efforts to tackle it by WFP and the European Commission’s Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection Department (ECHO). →

Transformer Display for Community Fundraising
Outpost HQ – Highland Park, CA
7/29 thru 9/10/11

Join Outpost for a reception for the artist from 6-9pm on July 29.  The project will be featured at Outpost HQ through September 10, 2011. This version of the Transformer Display for Community Fundraising features the following organizations from the Northeast region of Los Angeles County: Carlos Montes Defense Fund, Culebra Art Park, Los Angeles Food Bank, Market Makeovers, Planned Parenthood Los Angeles, and The Urbanwild Network. →

Co-op Communities for the Modern Angeleno
The Cinefamily – LA, CA
5/22/11

Cinefamily’s friends at Process Media are back, with another evening celebrating our country’s rich progressive cultural heritage! Back to the Land. Urban communes. Sustainable cooperatives. Thirty years ago, alternative communities swept the nation. Today, with sustainability, peak oil and retirement concerns, people of all ages are reviving and expanding notions of cooperative living as new communities form and thrive. →