Exactly a month ago today THIS, Los Angeles opened the doors to their Highland Park gallery/artist space for their inaugural show These Friends, which featured the work of their amazing artist friends. Tomorrow night they close their doors on These Friends ready to welcome some new ones.
Click here to view and purchase pieces from These Friends.
The Cinefamily’s continuing Comedy Death Ray series continues to kill. This time young Michael Cera presents Freebie and the Bean starring Alan Arkin and James Caan in what Cera says “has to be the best buddy-cop film of 1974″.
Walking by art and dancing to music go hand in hand in Hollywood next Monday as the Hollywood Artwalk presents it’s eighth art and music showcase. The group art show features local up and coming artists as well as the body rocking sounds of our pal DJ Bryan D among other resident DJs.
Click here or flyer below for details.
Last week (March 3-7) Los Angelenos were treated to Manifest Equality, the massive group art show in support of equal rights awareness. Throughout the week the gallery was open to the public where the works of over 200 artists were on view, Aaron Rose taught a Make Something!! DIY workshop, musical performances by Ben Lee, Seawolf and Modest Mouse and more rocked the opening and closing night parties where stirring speeches were delivered by activists such as Cleve Jones and actors Marissa Tomei and Heather Graham among others.
Click here or on photos to view entire Manifest Equality set on Flickr.
Jesse Spears in the Make Something!! workshop room
Also…read more on Yosi Sergant’s Manifest Equality brainchild from our Gelatobaby friend Alissa Walker in her article for Fast Company.
Not much more you need to know other than it’s your favorite characters from Star Wars (spelled with a “z”), it’s burlesque and cabaret and it’s almost completely nude. George Lucas must be so proud. Presented by Courtney Cruz and Devil’s Playground and performing at The Music Box at the Henry Fonda Theater.
Non-pornographic photos of Japanese people getting some in a public park during the seventies never looked as mysterious or beautiful as Kohei Yoshiyuki’s The Park, reintroduced to contemporary audiences by West Hollywood’s M+B.
See a provocative preview of the show here.
And read more from M+B here:
“M+B is pleased to present the West Coast premiere exhibition of Japanese photographer Kohei Yoshiyuki’s The Park. Shot in three Tokyo parks during the early seventies, The Park is a series of black and white photographs capturing couples meeting up for clandestine trysts and, more provocatively, the voyeurs who came out to watch them. First exhibited in 1979 at Komai Gallery in Tokyo, the uproar surrounding his methods caused these photographs to be hidden from the public for the next 28 years.”
Art and video games have always gone hand in hand as evidenced by the group show Game Over 3! at Giant Robot’s San Francisco branch.
Click here for full list of artists.
From the Giant Robot gamers:
“Giant Robot is proud to present Game Over III, a group show that pays homage to the continuous evolution of videogames and their massive influence on popular culture. The impact and inspiration of videogames will be represented through a wide assortment of styles and genres provided by top artists in the fields of illustration, painting, sewing, indie comics, and videogames.”
Mother’s Day comes early this year as Giant Robot’s continuing Film Matters series treats you to a free screening of Bong Joon-Ho’s (The Host, Tokyo) latest award-winning film, Mother (in select theaters March 12).
RSVP for the free screening here.
More from the Giant Robots:
“The South Korean filmmaker is known to most American moviegoers for his post-modern monster movie, The Host, but before that he directed the much darker works, Barking Dogs Never Bite and Memories of Murder. Since contributing the otaku-themed “Shaking Tokyo” segment of the Tokyo! omnibus (along with Michel Gondry and Leos Carrax), Bong has gone on to direct Mother, which competed at Cannes in 2009 and has gone on to win accolades for his unrelenting direction and lead actress Kim Hye-ja’s gritty performance.
Trust us: (1) The less you know about the plot about a single mother’s relentless efforts to defend her obtuse son from a murder charge, the better, and (2) you’ll want to see this harsh-but-human movie in a theater.”
MANIFESTEQUALITY, one of the biggest and most important contemporary art shows to come to Los Angeles in recent memory, holds it’s closing night party tonight in Hollywood. The massive show, which features works from over 200 artists in the name of equal rights, held it’s opening night’s party on Wednesday (coverage to come) and is worth checking out and supporting. That is, of course, if you enjoy art and supporting other human beings.
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