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New York based artist Robert Lazzarini heads west to the Honor Fraser Gallery with Guns, Knives, Brass Knuckles. Lazzarini will also talk with ArtReview editor Jonathan TD Neil on Saturday, April 10th from 5-6pm.

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So it seems that the end of Summer not only makes way for Fall, but also the beginning of the art season. If you live in the LA area, love art, like mingling with people who also love art, and enjoy drinking free alcohol while looking at said art then you’re in luck because this weekend is chock full of openings and all those things.

• The British artist collective known simply as The London Police respond to a call at the Carmichael Gallery on La Brea bringing with them Brothers in Arms, an exhibition of all new Hollywood-themed paintings, video and photography.

• Los Angeles photographer extraordinaire Doug Aitken migrates to Regen Projects on Santa Monica with a series of new text-based light boxes along with the west coast debut of the film Migration. *Also, the large-scale cinematic installation will be presented to the public on Santa Monica Boulevard projected onto the courtyard of Regen Projects II; visible only at night from sunset to sunrise. Check out some beautiful production stills from the film here.

• Cartoon master painter Kenny Scharf comes home to the Honor Fraser Gallery on La Cienega with Barberadise, a showcase of new paintings that integrate familiar icons from Scharf’s visual lexicon and implies a utopian world that is at once nostalgically comic and vibrantly cosmic.

• Camille Rose Garcia comes to the Merry Karnowsky Gallery on La Brea and brings with her The Hydra of Babylon, her latest paintings on wood and paper which explore the converging ecological and human catastrophes and the healing power of nature.

• And Then The Wind Changed so says Australian artist Anthony Lister as he brings his solo show to the venerable New Image Art Gallery on Santa Monica.

• Philip Lumbang brings his friendly faced bears and found mediums to a warehouse space in LA and transforms it all into a gallery space as he opens his show, Hug Life. Special musical guests DJ Diabetic (Shepard Fairey) and Intricate Machines will keep the show rocking all night long.

• The super successful Scion Installation 5 Tour comes to a close with Scion Art Tour: Self Portrait at the Scion Space in Culver City. Among the artists whose portraits will be auctioned off for the charity Creative Capitol include Blek Le Rat, David Choe, Ron English, Mark Mothersbaugh, Retna, Souther Salazar, Jeff Soto, Sage Vaughn and many more. Click here to take a look at the art for auction.

• Flock to the Flock Shop in Chinatown as they celebrate their 2 year anniversary with a show of Patrick Hruby’s new serigraph work in CMY Not?

• Cinespia’s second to last screening of the season brings Tim Burton’s 1985 classic comedy Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure to both the dead and undead at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery.

• And finally for all you music lovers and beat heads out there, spend your Sunday diggin the crates with fellow record collecting connoissieurs at the Beat Swap Meet at the Grand Star Jazz Club in Chinatown.

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Films about an inspirational pop art nun (including ours), a Karaoke dance party, Muppets and more Muppets, and of course art openings highlight this weekends highlights.

• Pocket wallet pioneers Poketo take over Royal/T’s this summer with their storefront pop-up shop. Tonight they transform the joint into a Karaoke Dance Party with our fun Fluxer friends Jonathan and Meg Wells on an esteemed panel of judges.

• The Cinefamily at the Silent Movie Theater on Fairfax has Muppets on the mind once again as they bring back last year’s sold out showings of Jim Henson’s mind-blowing collection of shorts, crazy commercials, and other rarities including the not-be-to-be-missed Oscar winning Time Piece. Bonus: midnight screening of Henson’s feature film The Dark Crystal!

• With the Lotus Festival on hiatus this year the Echo Park Community Fest has come in to save the day, or weekend rather. Fun for all with carnival attractions, International foods, and the music of the lovely LA Ladies Choir with the Chili Pepper’s Flea (responsible for some songs from our Sister Corita film-more on that below)

• Giant Robot offers up prints to take home when the group show of 50 plus artists titled Printed Matter opens at GR2 on Sawtelle Saturday night. Featuring Bigfoot, Buff Monster, La Merde, Saelee Oh, Deth P. Sun, Albert Reyes, Andrew Jeffrey Wright and many more. Preview here.

• Constantly bringing the goods with their carefully curated shows, the Constant Gallery opens Desert Sexy “a survey of artists originating from and inspired by California’s low desert scene. Along with work by Logan/The Date Farmers, Anthony Lepore, and Peter Sutherland, we’ll be having an opening night musical performance by stoner rock progenitors Yawning Man (pre-Kyuss).” Check the preview here.

• Girls go wild as the Honor Fraser Gallery opens Bitch is the New Black, an all women art show featuring “fourteen Los Angeles-based women who are all emerging or established artists from roughly the same generation and are bright lights on the local scene.”

• Another Muppety evet at the Silent Movie Theater Saturday this time screening a matinee of Muppet Music Moments which, as you may have guessed, is a collection of musical performances from The Muppet Show.

• And finally end your weekend inspired as our short film (Become a Microscope: 90 Statements on Sister Corita) about the life and art of Sister Corita Kent will be screening at the Silent Movie Theater Sunday night alongside two other films by Corita’s friends, Mary’s Day (1964) by Baylis Glascock, and Survival With Style (1966) by Cal Bernstein, Alex Singer and Haskell Wexler. Both of these rare films will be screened from their original 16mm prints, and Mary’s Day will feature a live score by special musical guests!

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Plenty of inspiring openings and closings around LA this weekend, oh and some additional ass kicking as well.

• The Secret Headquarters brings new art by comic book artist Josh Simmons to their not-so-secret shop in Silver Lake with Special Nice Cosmic Hyperdeath.

• Bill McMullen’s Hype, Hustle, Ripoff ends today at the Constant Gallery on La Cienega with a closing BBQ just for you!

• KAWS‘ latest works in The Long Way Home will finally be going home as his much hyped first show in LA comes to a close at the Honor Fraser Gallery. Check out this amazing show as well as the closing of Bill McMullen’s at the Constant Gallery as they’re just a block from each other! Both well worth your time and travels (lot’s of other galleries in the area too!)

• French artistic heavyweight Parra shows off his latest works with Is That A Gun My Friend? at Saturday’s HVW8 Gallery opening off of Melrose in Hollywood.

• Art superstar Kehinde Wiley brings his latest works titled The World Stage: Brazil to Roberts & Tilton on Washington in Culver City. See more and read more about Wiley’s show inspirations here.

• On another note, wanna cheer on former Asshole of the Year Chris Pouy as he kicks ass and gets his ass kicked Muay Thai style? Of course you do!




South Coast Martial Arts
Fight night Saturday April 4th starting at 7pmdoors open at 6pm

2990 Grace Ln. Costa Mesa CA 92626

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Six places to be and see great things starting this Friday and Saturday, ending next Saturday and next next Saturday, and continuing for more future Friday and Saturdays.

• One of my favorite California artists, Luke Chueh, and his melancholy bears opens the Corey Helford Gallery in Culver City with his latest works in “From Light Cometh Darkness”.

• The lovely Susan Cianciolo (with the Ladies Choir in tow) brings her new winter fashions out west with “Trees at Night” to Space 15Twenty, one of Hollywood’s newest destinations. You may remember the Ladies Choir from their special performances during screenings of our Sister Corita film at the Hammer for Flux as well as at the opening of the Sister Corita art retrospective at CSUN.

Space 15Twenty
Opening reception:
Saturday, March 21st 4-6pm
1520 N. Cahuenga Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90028

• Mark Jenkins opens his solo art show “The Golden Ass and Other Stories” at the Stricola Contemporary in NY this Satuday. I’m interested to know how his installations on the worlds busiest city streets (video too) will translate to the relative quiet of an indoor gallery. If any of you East Coasters go let me know!

• Last week to check out Bill McMullen’s “Hype, Hustle, Ripoff” show at the Constant Gallery on La Cienega as it ends it’s run next Saturday March, 28th.

• And if you’re going to be on the central/west sides of town checking out some of these shows, you may as well head to the Honor Fraser Gallery for KAWS’ first show in LA, “The Long Way Home”. If you wisely evaded the opening weeks of madnessyou have a few more weeks to check it out as it ends April 4th.



Honor Fraser Gallery
ongoing through April 4, 2009
2622 S. La Cienega Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90034

• And if you’re not interested in checking out these great gallery shows you may want to spend your time in a darkened theater for a trip to the opening of Tokyo!, a film in three parts by Michel Gondry, Leos Carax, and Bong Joon-Ho. You can read my review of this fine film here.

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Don’t forget! KAWS will be making his Los Angeles solo show debut this Saturday at the Honor Fraser Gallery, but first he’ll be guest curating a group show at Culver City’s Royal/T gallery. For detailed info on KAWS’ “The Long Way Home”, click here or on any of the show’s exclusive preview pics below via Jamie O’Shea’s super site Supertouch:

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This Saturday February 21st, marks KAWS‘ long awaited Los Angeles solo show debut with “The Long Way Home” at the Honor Fraser Gallery on La Cienega. This opening will without a doubt be the biggest LA art show of the year so make sure to mark you calendars, grab a Companion, and be prepared to wait a while to get in. Click here for more on the ever so humble and quiet KAWS from the gallery’s press release.

Also, here’s Brian last year as he taught kids in New York the basics of character design as part for our Make Something!! web series we created in conjunction with Beautiful Losers and Nike Sportswear last year.

And finally, here’s a bit more of the street art icon in NY at an opening, giving a tour of his studio, and going legit for a day.

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