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Your cultural event guide
Here's a snapshot of our favorite things to do in Los Angeles this week. |
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Los Angeles
Jun 10-16, 2008
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The proliferation of automotive-themed greeting cards confirms that Father's Day is Sunday. But why wait until the weekend to appreciate distinguished men of a certain age? Photojournalist Don Farber discusses his influential images of Buddhist life, LA Times film critic Kenneth Turan leads a conversation about how movies can change the world, and architectural icons Greg Lynn and Eric Owen Moss explore contemporary design's sustainability revolution. We have a feeling that, if you took these guys out for dinner, they'd have lots more to talk about than golf and that deadbeat boyfriend of yours.
- Shana Nys Dambrot, Managing Editor
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SPECIAL FEATURE
Pierpaolo Campanini
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A graduate of Bologna's Accademia di Belle Arti, Pierpaolo Campanini has quickly become one of the most fascinating Italian artists working with paint. In his dominant style, Campanini constructs lyrical sculptural forms out of ordinary objects, which then become the subject of photorealistic, unconventional still-life paintings in oil and tempera.
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MORE FLAVOR: Discussion
LA Siggraph presents Maker Night feat. Jeff Boynton and Mark Frauenfelder
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Tuesday June 10 (6:30pm)
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Writers Bootcamp (2525 Michigan Ave, Bldg I, 800.800.1733)
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Mark Frauenfelder, former WIRED editor and founder of the progressive-technology and cool-stuff blog Boingboing.net, joins star circuit-bender Jeff Boynton in an evening of insightful discussion presented by the LA Siggraph chapter. The group, which examines digital culture and the creative application of advancing technology, welcomes the pair of practitioners from the performance and development realms — the better to make the world of weird science accessible to broader audiences. From keytars to children's toys, web graphics to nanotechnology, if it's got wires, it's fair game for these fellows.
- Shana Nys Dambrot
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ART: Photography
An Evening with Don Farber
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Tuesday June 10 (7pm)
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Westwood Art Forum (1028 Westwood Blvd)
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Don Farber's journalistic mission began in 1977, when he photographed a Vietnamese Buddhist temple in Los Angeles. In the years since, he has ventured to Japan, India, and Nepal to document all aspects of Buddhist life, from the spiritual to the creative. Determined "to help give people a better understanding of Buddhism and Buddhist culture," Farber has produced an astounding archive of images, which have been included in publications worldwide and several of his own books. He shares some of his experiences and presents a slideshow of his work tonight at Westwood Art Forum.
- Phil Kropoth
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This event takes place in conjunction with the ongoing exhibition The Vision and Art of Shinjo Ito, on view through Sunday, June 29.
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MORE FLAVOR: Lecture
Tokyo Tremors: Four New Waves in Japanese Contemporary Art
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Wednesday June 11 (7pm)
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Royal/T (8910 Washington Blvd, 310.559.6300)
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In the dazzling light of Takashi Murakami's superbrand status (and current US museum tour), it's become clear that contemporary Japanese art is once again on the rise. At Royal/T, a Japanese-themed art space — as well as the city's first cosplay café, where waitresses dress as cartoonish maids — UCLA professor Adrian Favell hosts Tokyo Tremors: Four New Waves in Japanese Contemporary Art. His talk proposes new methods of understanding the Japanese art scene, showing the ways young people have branched out from the high pressures of corporate culture.
- Jessica Jardine
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
Spain w/ Daniel Ahearn and Correatown
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Wednesday June 11 (8:30pm)
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The Echo (1822 Sunset Blvd, 213.413.8200)
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After some cherished effects pedals and keyboards were stolen last year, Daniel Ahearn, former frontman of LA folk-rock band Ill Lit, decided to make music that doesn't require all those fancy machines. Now he writes stripped-down acoustic tunes that spotlight his warm croon and endearing lyrics. Tonight, Ahearn unveils his fresh sound at a record-release party for Pray for Me by Name, his lovely new EP. Also on the bill are reincarnated LA indie vets Spain, and Correatown, led by local folkster Angela Correa.
- Joe Blankholm
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ART
Rebel Legacy: The Abstract in Latino Art
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Thursday June 12 (6–9pm)
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Pharmaka (101 W 5th St, 213.689.7799)
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Hot on the heels of LACMA's controversial Phantom Sightings exhibition, Pharmaka Gallery tackles the issue of contemporary Chicano art with Rebel Legacy: The Abstract in Latino Art. Artists from the heated Chicano movement of the '70s helped spark civil-rights progress for people of Mexican descent living in the US; the 11 artists participating in Rebel Legacy — some of whom hail from Central and South America and have faced similar discrimination — use different media to channel their cultural and political sensibilities. Highlights include Sam Baray's geometric paintings and distressed expressionist prints on linoleum.
- Jessica Jardine
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
Lucky Dragons
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Thursday June 12 (9pm)
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The Smell (247 S Main St)
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In spite of mounting art-world credentials (including a rave in Artforum and a coveted slot at the past Whitney Biennial), Lucky Dragons still haven't been heralded in the mainstream music press. Chief composer Luke Fischbeck arranges snippets of field recordings, looped wind instruments, and gentle vocal hums into a sprightly mix that evokes the natural world within computer-based productions. In concert, the LA-based Fischbeck comes off as a warmhearted trickster — his recent performance piece Make a Baby is an inspired bit of utopian technology, with the audience shaping exquisite neon tones by forming human chains around conductive wires.
- Max Goldberg
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Amy Sol: Karmic Magic
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Friday June 13 (7–11pm)
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Thinkspace Gallery (4210 Santa Monica Blvd, 323.913.3375)
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Karmic Magic, Las Vegas artist Amy Sol's solo show with the Silverlake gem Thinkspace, features doe-eyed females, furry creatures, and sweetly whimsical, abstract narratives. Her graphically stylized, flattened-space compositions have a dreamlike quality, as her heroines are often caught frozen in contemplation of their surreal surroundings: carousels floating in wet skies, allegorical menageries, and windswept vistas. In their fantastical flora-and-fauna environments, Sol's damsels relish in private moments, perhaps waiting for some type of resolution to inscrutable inner quandaries.
- Ashley Tibbits
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MUSIC: Hip-Hop
DJ Afrika Bambaataa
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Friday June 13 (8pm)
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Crash Mansion LA (1024 S Grand Ave, 213.747.0999)
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Legendary godfather of the block party, pioneer of electro-funk, and originator of the Universal Zulu Nation, Afrika Bambaataa lends his guidance to those still "looking for the perfect beat" as part of tonight's VIII party at Crash Mansion. Personally connected to nearly every break, beat, and funk record that's made crate-diggers salivate and B-boys twitch since the birth of hip-hop, Bam continues to spin the tracks he's helped turn into classics — alongside some surprising selections of more recent dance-floor fame. He hits the decks tonight alongside openers Reid Speed, Josh David, Mozaic, and Dave Sweeten.
- Regina Bresler
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HK Zamani: Shelter from the Storm
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Saturday June 14 (6–8pm)
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SolwayJones (5377 Wilshire Blvd, 323.937.7354)
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HK Zamani is best known to LA art lovers as Habib Kheradyar, the peripatetic multimedia artist, one-time owner of Post Gallery, and relentlessly curious individual whose videos, paintings, performances and sculptural installations dissect issues of creativity and consumerism. As political restraints on communication and self-expression set up barriers between us, Zamani remains adamant in his search for iconography and symbolic forms that can draw people together. In his LA exhibition, Zamani returns to figurative paintings with a series of thickly rendered, chrome-lathered canvases that depict variations on Buckminster Fuller's geodesic dome. Each work explores the structure's symbolic implications, as both shelter and common ground, in an age of turbulence and division.
- Shana Nys Dambrot
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PERFORMING ARTS: Theatre
Toy Theater Festival (For Adults)
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Saturday June 14 (8:30pm)
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REDCAT (631 W 2nd St, 213.237.2800)
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When you think of puppetry, you might think of kids, but this tabletop art increasingly serves a more sophisticated audience (or, uh, not — Team America?). For two nights, the international artists assembled for the LA Music Center's youth-oriented Toy Theater Festival sneak out of the dorms and put on grownup shows at REDCAT. The first night features a special live program of puppetry performances, while the second evening offers a rare screening of a transgressive feature-length adaptation of Dante's Inferno, as told through toys, under the creative direction of Sandow Birk, Sean Meredith, Paul Zaloom, and Elyse Pignolet.
- Shana Nys Dambrot
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FILM
Occult LA
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Sunday June 15 (8pm)
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The Silent Movie Theatre (611 N Fairfax Ave, 323.655.2510)
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Erik Davis hosts the Silent Movie Theatre's celebration of LA's significant occult film scene with a night of experimental and arcane flicks from Kenneth Anger, Chick Strand, and Curtis Harrington, among others. The evening also includes presentations from Manly P. Hall biographer Louis Sahagan and Brian Butler, an expert on the star of Anger's 1954 cult classic Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome and the enchanting mistress of JPL rocket scientist Jack Parsons, Marjorie Cameron.
- Steve Nalepa
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
Dosh w/ Anathallo
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Sunday June 15 (8:30pm)
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Spaceland (1717 Silver Lake Blvd, 323.661.4380)
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Martin Dosh's music sneaks up on you. He starts off by tinkering with various gizmos and percussive devices, tapping out barely audible beats and melodies, then loops them, stacking sound on top of sound. Each band member forges his own way in, playing impromptu lines around the loops, passing the lead back and forth and slowly putting the diverse pieces together. Suddenly, the gorgeousness of the jam presents itself, the final product hardly recognizable from the soft clatter the band recorded when the audience was still talking. Every Dosh set is intimate and unique; and, considering the songs are improvised, his performances are surprisingly consistent. Starting off the night are indie up-and-comers Anathallo.
- Joe Blankholm
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
Abe Vigoda w/ Times New Viking
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Monday June 16 (9pm)
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The Smell (247 S Main St)
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Being a lo-fi, art-punk band from Ohio with a deal on Matador, Times New Viking can't help but draw comparisons to Guided by Voices. It's an appropriate starting point, but their joyous racket feels more spiritually akin to late-'70s Messthetics bands like the Swell Maps than the early-'90s slacker model. Times New Viking make DIY that sounds truly done for themselves, full of poppy hooks and boy/girl harmonies; their indelible "TeenageLUST" sprouts bouncy melodies from a trebly compost of overdriven organs and mountains of fuzz. They play tonight with LA-bred electro anarchists Abe Vigoda.
- Stephen Gossett
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
Xu Xu Fang CD Release Party
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Monday June 16 (10pm)
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The Viper Room (8852 W Sunset Blvd, 310.358.1881)
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LA-based Xu Xu Fang work in some of the deepest recesses of the musical spectrum. There are the dark drones that recall the macabre sound of the Warlocks — not surprising, given that the bands share members; then there are the intergalactic guitar solos that call to mind Ennio Morricone's soundtracks, as well as the soaring sounds of Pink Floyd and Sigur Rós. The group's most recent record, The Mourning Son, brings together all seven members (you may also know some of them from Hovercraft) for an eerie, mood-altering sonic ride. Tonight, Xu Xu Fang celebrate the album release at the Viper Room.
- Jessica Jardine
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Jasmine Murrell: Possession of Fela Kuti
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Thursday June 12 (1–7pm)
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Pounder-Koné Art Space (3407 Glendale Blvd, 323.913.2247)
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Afrobeat pioneer and revolutionary activist Fela Kuti has influenced generations of progressives, from his native Nigeria to South Central LA, with his potently political celebration of Africa's musical heritage. Afrobeat — the late musician's colorful, eclectic, multi-instrument hybrid of jazz, highlife, and James Brown funk — finds visual resonance in the paintings of Brooklyn's Jasmine Murrell. Her mixed-media works pulsate with saturated palettes, rich textures, and elegantly stylized anatomy, gestures, and patterns that reflect the shine of both Kuti's work and his many muses.
- Ashley Tibbits
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About Us |
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Cultural Partner
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Editors
MANAGING EDITOR
Shana Nys Dambrot
DEPUTY EDITOR
Jessica Jardine
PRODUCTION EDITOR
Nick Earhart
SENIOR EDITORS
Anna Balkrishna
Doug Levy
CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
Joe Blankholm
Jorge Barriere
Julian Hooper
Steve Nalepa
Andrew Phillips
Lisa Rosman
Ashley Tibbits
IMAGE EDITORS
Adda Birnir
Sarah Steele
PUBLISHERS
Sascha Lewis
Mark Mangan
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