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By ForYourArt | March 6, 2009
Elana Mann, Shifting, 2008 at g727
FRIDAY, MARCH 6
Young Directors Night
LACMA / A+D Museum, 6pm–Midnight
A celebration of film featuring eight shorts. A co-presentation with LACMA and the A+D Museum, each movie competes for the Art of Film award determined by a panel committee and audience. The evening begins at 6pm with cocktails and hors d’oeuvres, followed by screening at LACMA’s Bing Theater at 7:30pm and finished with the reception and award presentation at the A+D at 10:30pm. $20/ $30
Brush with Life
Barnsdall Gallery Theatre, 7:30pm
Featuring the documentary Brush with Life: The Art of Being Edward Biberman as a benefit screening for the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery Associates and Barnsdall Municipal Gallery. Silent auction and reception to follow, $25
Beautiful Losers
CSUN Art Galleries, 8pm
Directed by Aaron Rose, Beautiful Losers “celebrates the spirit behind one of the most influential cultural moments of a generation.” The film tells the story of a group of artists–Barry McGee, Shepard Fairey, Mark Gonzales, Margaret Kilgallen and Harmony Korine–who found common ground in a small NYC storefront gallery in the 1990s
Science Fiction readings with Mark von Schlegell, Claire Phillips and Anthony McCann
Machine Project, 8pm
Join author Mark von Schlegell (visiting from Germany) and author of Venusia, Claire Phillips author of Blackmarket Babies, Anthony McCann and other book-friendly folk. Machine has pulled together an evening of fiction, poetry, film and other “mechanical oddities” for your enjoyment
SATURDAY, MARCH 7
Young Directors Night
Korean Cultural Center Art Gallery, Last Chance, Closing
Presented by the Women’s Caucus for Art with the Korean Cultural Center of Los Angeles the show Women Artists on Immigration: Crossing Borders, Confronting Barriers, Bridging Identities, features numerous artists including Mariana Barnes, Yvonne Beatty, Alejandra Chaverri, Ching-Ching Cheng, Gilda Davis, among many others
Elliott Hundley: Hekabe
Regen Projects II, 6–8pm
Los Angeles-based artist, Hundley’s show features sculpture and lightbox photographs. The title of the show derives from the Greek tragedy Hekabe where the wife of the King of Troy grieves over the death of her daughter and son
Thomas Hirschhorn, Andrew Lord, Lari Pittman
Regen Projects, 6–8pm
A group exhibition of Hirschhorn’s Tattoo series, Lord’s sculptures and his Senses series and Pittman’s paintings. On view until April 4
Soundcapes
g727, 7pm
g727 presents its first 2009 exhibition Soundscapes curated by Tiffany Barber, featuring new works by Camilo Ontiveros, Felipe Zuñiga, Giacomo Castagnola and Nina Waisman as CUBO, among others. The exhibition “invites 11 L.A. and Tijuana-based artists to demonstrate the various ways of listening to place and the overlaps of memory.”
Art and the City
Los Angeles Art Association / Gallery 825, 7pm
Sarah Schrank signs her book, Art and the City: Civic Imagination and Cultural Authority in Los Angeles which explores the contentious relationship between politics and culture in L.A. at Gallery 825 followed by a reception for the author
Saturday Performance Happy Hour
Phyllis Stein Gallery, 7:30–10pm
Artists in residence Sarah Paul Ocampo of Advanced Beginner and Mecca Vazie Andrews of The Movement Movement perform with special guests Kate Rigg and Sister Mantos. The program is presented in conjunction with Deborah Martin’s exhibition America, which closes March 7
M83–Los Angeles Philharmonic
Walt Disney Concert Hall, 9pm
France’s astro-pop group M83 co-perform with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. For tickets, 323.850.2000
SUNDAY, MARCH 8
Nine Lives: Visionary Artists from L.A.
Hammer Museum, 11am–5pm
Nine Lives features over 125 works (paintings, drawings, photography, textile, sculpture) by nine Los Angeles-based artists: Lisa Anne Auerbach, Julie Becker, Llyn Foulkes, Charles Irvin, Hirsch Perlman, Victoria Reynolds, Kaari Upson, Jeffrey Vallance, and Charlie White
Jedediah Caesar: Gleaners Stone
Marcasel Avenue and Washington Boulevard, 1–3pm
Meet the artist and celebrate Caesar’s first public sculpture, which is installed at the corner of Marcasel and Washington in Culver City, and presented in conjunction with the California Biennial as an off-site project produced with LA><ART Public Art Initiatives, ForYourArt and the City of Culver City
Susan Sironi: Altered Books
Offramp Gallery, 2–5pm
For her solo exhibition, Sironi transforms a book by carefully slicing through layers of images and text to create her own unique work, which comprising her Flower Arrangement Books series. Carlo Marcucci’s minimal, geometric, wall-mounted sculptures and Joyce Dallel’s Wave open concurrently
TUESDAY, MARCH 10
Convergence of Art + Economy
Sotheby’s Los Angeles, 6:30pm
Moderated by MOCA assistant curator Bennett Simpson, as a part of the Art Panel Series 2009, MOCA Contemporaries poses the questions “How can contemporary art thrive in an economic downturn?” Panelists include Andrea Fraser, Richard Telles and Stephen G. Rhodes. Advance ticket reservations are suggested, 213.633.5320. $55
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