There has never been more worldwide attention on the creative culture of Los Angeles.
Each Week, ForYourArt highlights select cultural offerings throughout the week ahead to help you PLAN ForYourArt.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23
Safe/Vanish
LAXART (Culver City)
6-8pm
The opening reception for Glenn Kaino's exhibition, Safe/Vanish.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24
MISERICORDIA
Prism LA (West Hollywood)
6-8pm
The opening reception for a new exhibition, MISERICORDIA, featuring works by Marina Abramovic;, Joseph Beuys, Monica Bonvicini, Louise Bourgeois, Chris Burden, James Lee Byars, Lucio Fontana, Terence Koh, Anders Krisár, Giovanni di Marco, Jonathan Meese, Giovanni Battista Naldini, Olaf Nicolai, Jen DeNike, Angel Otero, Antonio di Pietro, Sterling Ruby, Katharina Sieverding, Bill Viola, and xhafabdessemed (Sislej Xhafa and Adel Abdessemed). Each artist's work will engage the theme of religious mercy.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25
LACMA Resnick Gala Avant-Garde After Party
LACMA Lynda and Stewart Resnick Pavilion (Mid-Wilshire)
10pm-midnight
Join LACMA Avant-Garde at the after party for the Lynda and Stewart Resnick Exhibition Pavilion Opening Gala. The Inaugural Exhibitions; Eye for the Sensual: Selections from the Resnick Collection, Fashioning Fashion: European Dress in Detail, 1700-1915 and Olmec: Colossal Masterworks of Ancient Mexico will be open for viewing, along with a live performance by The Chapin Sisters, Champagne from Moet & Chandon, Cocktails by Ultimat Vodka and Hors d'Oeuvres and Dessert by Joachim Splichal. Tickets and details.
Eva Hesse: Spectres 1960 and Mark Manders: Parallel Occurrences/Documented Assignments
Hammer Museum (Westwood)
11am-6pm
The opening day of Eva Hesse: Spectres 1960, an exhibition of seminal and rarely seen paintings by the artist, organized by E. Luanne McKinnon. The nineteen semi-representational oil paintings contrast her well known minimalist structures and assemblage sculptures, but provide insight into the progression of Hesse's art practice. Also opening, Parallel Occurrences/Documented Assignments, an exhibition of Dutch sculptor Mark Manders' work.
Superclogger
Hammer Museum (Westwood)
1pm
Los Angeles-based artist Joel Kyack brings his first large scale public project, Superclogger, to the Hammer Museum. Superclogger aimed its weekly interventions at commuters stuck in afternoon traffic jams this summer, presenting a captive audience with various puppet shows housed in the back of a nondescript white pickup truck and broadcasting soundtracks discretely to the viewer's car stereo. During this special showing, museum visitors are invited to follow the show in their own cars or sign up for a chauffeured ride around the neighborhood.
GLOW: Dusk & Beyond 2010
Santa Monica Beach, Pier and Palisades Park
7pm-3am
Santa Monica's GLOW festival reimagines the beach, pier and palisades as a playground for thoughtful and participatory contemporary art works. This year's festival will feature works by John Carpenter; Jerry Digby and Alex Deutschman; Robert Chapin, Jessica Cail, Ian Forrest and team; Anne Herlihy, Joshua Howell and Aaron Zeligs; Gil Kuno; Corey Madden, Bruno Louchouarn and Keith Mitchell; Pentti Monkkonen; Christopher O'Leary; Hadrian Predrock and John Frane; Syyn Labs, Celeste Boursier-Mougenot; Rafael Lozano-Hemmer; Steve Roden; and Klutch Stanaway as well as projects with 18th Street Art Centers, Freewaves, LAND and Machine Project.