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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 17-23, 2008
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With the sad and sudden death of the incomparable Tim Russert last week, it's not just Sunday mornings that will never be the same — without Russert's optimism and forthrightness, we must now navigate the treacherous waters of American politics on our own. Though they were planned long ago, LA's cultural events this week seem to reflect the situation. There's the return of the Actors Gang, which stages Orwell's all-too-resonant cautionary tale 1984; elsewhere, the site-specific dance work After the Flood examines the ongoing fallout from Hurricane Katrina. With our presidential elections just months away, it's up to us to dig deeper into the real issues, not just the sound bites. Let's go get 'em.
- Shana Nys Dambrot, Managing Editor
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SPECIAL FEATURE
Tomoko Sawada
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Tomoko Sawada is a fast-rising star in Japan's contemporary photography scene. Her self-portraits from the past decade explore the endless permutations of a national female identity. Japanese independent curator Noriko Fuku talks to Sawada about her work and the ideas behind her multiple photographic selves.
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MORE FLAVOR: Conference
Get Dirty: Art, Environment, and Community
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Tuesday June 17 (7pm)
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Hammer Museum (10899 Wilshire Blvd, 310.443.7000)
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As the leaders of tonight's forum demonstrate, there are numerous ways to expand your artistic vision while shrinking your carbon footprint — you just have to be willing to roll your sleeves up and get your hands dirty. Socially and architecturally conscious artist/activist Stephen Badgett posits his self-sustaining live-in studio as an expression of his creativity and an example of green living; Nance Klehm conducts performances/interventions that transpose urban and rural survival strategies in order to highlight society's imbalances; and Amy Franceschini's sculptures borrow formal elements from the fields of robotics, zoology, and ecology, with a little sci-fi thrown in for good measure.
- Shana Nys Dambrot
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MUSIC: DJ
Dublab presents a Labrat Matinee V: Daylight Goes Dark
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Tuesday June 17 (8pm)
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The Silent Movie Theatre (611 N Fairfax Ave, 323.655.2510)
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With a name like Daylight Goes Dark, this Dublab happening may sound creepy, but the Cinefamily-sponsored event at the Silent Movie Theatre is actually quite welcoming — especially to those who enjoy music and moving pictures. This Labrat evening "matinee" features documentaries, comedy clips, and "out-there" animation, plus music videos from white-hot acts of the moment, including Animal Collective, Battles, Beach House, Devendra Banhart, DNTEL, and MGMT. Short films from directors Andy Cahill, Miranda July, Ben Barnes, and others also get screen time, while "eye-melting" magic and surprise guests are promised along with the brain-rattling grooves of the illustrious Dublab DJs.
- Jessica Jardine
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ART
Mr. Brainwash: Life Is Beautiful
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Wednesday June 18 (7–11pm)
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CBS News Studios (6121 W Sunset Blvd, 323.460.3000)
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Mr. Brainwash, or MBW, is a documentary filmmaker turned street artist who fell in with the renowned circle of renegade activists, filmmakers, and artists helmed by LA's Shepard Fairey. After having met the mysterious Banksy through Fairey, MBW swapped his camera for paintbrushes and wheatpaste. Life Is Beautiful is his first exhibition and stands as a glorious entrance into Fairey's corner of the art world. Mr. Brainwash's art "happening" brings together more than 100 stencils, oil paintings, and photographs, in addition to a life-size recreation of Edward Hopper's Nighthawks, an eight-foot-tall spray can and a 12-foot-tall paper bag. A bar, a live jazz band, and Fairey himself on the decks round out the night's festivities at the 15,000-square-foot former CBS studios.
- Jessica Jardine
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PERFORMING ARTS: Theatre
The Who's Tommy
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Wednesday June 18 (8pm)
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Ricardo Montalban Theatre (1615 N Vine St, 323.871.2420)
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The idea that a young man would become "deaf, dumb, and blind" and then discover that he's a pinball genius was pretty far-out when the Who released their iconic concept album Tommy in 1969. But now it's become a great excuse for high-tech stagecraft and exuberant performances. A new production puts Bose headphones in every seat — they not only amplify the music beyond the theater's acoustic capabilities, but also take audiences deep inside the ecstatic protagonist's mindset. The headphones bring viewers one step closer to Tommy's exhortation, "See me, feel me, touch me, heal me."
- Shana Nys Dambrot
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Tickets are available at a two-for-one discount using the promo code Acid Queen. There will be no performance Fri Jul 4.
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
Earth w/ Jesse Sykes & the Sweet Hereafter
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Thursday June 19 (8pm)
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The Echo (1822 Sunset Blvd, 213.413.8200)
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When drone druids Boris and Sunn O))) reined in their feedback on 2006 collaboration Altar's "The Sinking Belle (Blue Sheep)," it was so that Sweet Hereafter singer Jesse Sykes could emerge from the swirl of cymbals and mournful guitar to lament things lost in a half croon, half croak. It was undeniably the album's standout track. Thus, it seems safe to conjecture that Sykes' co-headlining set with dirge-masters Earth will evoke the song's mixture of metal suffocation and post-rock expansiveness. Since reuniting, Earth have traded their glacial drones for Morricone-style twang, and Sykes' Marianne Faithful-meets-Beth Gibbons voice couldn't make a more fitting addition.
- Matt Sussman
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FILM: Festival
Los Angeles Film Festival
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Thursday June 19
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Various locations
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Though it packs 200 new films into 11 days, the LA Film Festival offers more than just screenings. There are poolside chats with filmmakers at the W (Weeds creator Jenji Kohan discusses her movie Back to the Stoner Age), a Diversity EXPO mixer on Friday night, and Coffee Talk — an informal, caffeine-aided Q&A with actors and directors. Notable premieres include Swedish filmmaker Roy Andersson's surreal fable You, the Living, Josh Safdie's 16mm tribute to kleptomania The Pleasure of Being Robbed, and guilty-pleasure closer Hellboy II.
- Julian Hooper
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MUSIC: Global
Seun Kuti & Egypt 80
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Friday June 20 (8pm)
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Grand Performances (350 S Grand Ave, 213.687.2159)
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Seun Kuti first took to the stage with his father's Egypt 80 when he was nine years old. Today, he's fronting the large ensemble, carrying on Fela's tradition of politically aware Afrobeat. Seun's spitfire vocals and Egypt 80's well-oiled rhythms are a treat. Expect the free outdoor stage at Grand Performances Plaza to be packed for the band's LA debut — and if you discover you just can't get enough of the socially conscious funk, the show moves indoors with a gig at the El Rey tomorrow.
- Max Goldberg
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PERFORMING ARTS: Theatre
needtheater & Program12: After the Flood
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Friday June 20 (9pm)
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A + D Museum (5900 Wilshire Blvd, 323.932.9393)
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The government's response to the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina was tragically slow and uninspired — but the love, resources, and support devoted by citizens, from Habitat for Humanity volunteers to video artist Paul Chan, were profound. Occasioned by the A+D Museum's ongoing exhibition of the same name, After the Flood is a site-specific dance-and-movement piece that uses pathos, humor, and art to trace the fortunes of New Orleans citizens and literary characters — all inspired by true events and the homegrown literature of Tennessee Williams and Andrei Codrescu. The exhibition additionally displays innovative architectural models for the city's rebuilding, with supporting documentary photography.
- Shana Nys Dambrot
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ART
Ami Tallman: When the Sun Shines, It Does not Need Proof
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Saturday June 21 (6–9pm)
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See Line Gallery (1812 Berkeley St, 310.829.1727)
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Ami Tallman's Fauvist palette, her love of extreme decor, and her penchant for historical research each feed into her interiors and still lifes. Tallman's compositions — rendered in an urgent hand, with the exuberant embrace of carved railings, ornate frames, tapestries, hunting trophies, and classical art — are shaped by particular historical events and eras. Her previous series depicted country estates in advanced states of disuse; the current suite looks at the society of spectacle that spiritual and political leaders surround themselves with, as part of their charismatic polemics and power structures — a topic well-suited to the quirky majesty of Tallman's style.
- Shana Nys Dambrot
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Tallman's work is included in the concurrent exhibition Against the Grain at LACE, through Aug 10.
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ART
In the Land of Retinal Delights: The Juxtapoz Factor
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Saturday June 21 (7–11pm)
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Laguna Art Museum (307 Cliff Dr, 949.494.8971)
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To those who have been reading the contemporary-art magazine Juxtapoz since it was founded in the mid-'90s, it may come as little surprise that some consider the rag to be part of a large but mostly unacknowledged art movement. A focus on surrealist, pop artists Mark Ryden, Camille Rose Garcia, and Tim Biskup (among many others) has led critics and historians alike to declare the existence of the "Juxtapoz aesthetic," which draws inspiration from comic books, movies, TV shows, sci-fi, horror, carnival art, black-velvet painting, and more. The Laguna Art Museum celebrates this movement with In the Land of Retinal Delights: The Juxtapoz Factor, curated by Meg Linton and featuring more than 150 artists, including Shepard Fairey, R. Crumb, and Takashi Murakami.
- Jessica Jardine
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MUSIC: Global
KCRW's World Festival presents Thievery Corporation, Bebel Gilberto, Los Amigos Invisibles, and Federico Aubele
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Sunday June 22 (7pm)
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Hollywood Bowl (2301 N Highland Ave, 323.850.2000)
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International electronic wonder duo Thievery Corporation return to the Bowl with flair, offering some of the most consistently stylish beats, and accompanied by a host of exciting Latin and South American artists. Los Amigos Invisibles and Federico Aubele suggest a jet-setters' jaunt from Caracas to Buenos Aires; Bebel Gilberto enchants with her timeless, satiny voice; and special guest Seu Jorge brings his acoustic guitar to the stage (though Bowie covers are not guaranteed). The headliners' blend of funk and sophistication rounds off the corners on this night of melodic globe-trotting.
- Mallory Farrugia
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
Frightened Rabbit w/ Oxford Collapse and Sunny Day Sets Fire
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Sunday June 22 (8:30pm)
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The Roxy Theatre (9009 W Sunset Blvd, 310.278.9457)
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After a few albums of post-punk manqué, Brooklyn trio Oxford Collapse shattered expectations with 2006's Remember the Night Parties. Sounding more Chapel Hill circa '95 than '01 Williamsburg, their Sub Pop debut keeps the rhythm section fractured, and the knotted Polvo guitars and Archer of Loaf yelping is pure out-of-step ebullience. Producer John Agnello (Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr.) brightens the corners by adding some C86 jangle, and ends up with a handful of "Slack Motherf*cker"-worthy indie anthems. In the Double Nickels/Zen Arcade tradition of admirable over-extension, a new double album is due out in August. Meanwhile, Glaswegians Frightened Rabbit bring the kind of sweet, scrappy pop of which Scotland has a thankfully everlasting supply.
- Stephen Gossett
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FILM
There Will Be Blood (2007)
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Monday June 23 (9:50pm)
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New Beverly Cinema (7165 W Beverly Blvd, 323.938.4038)
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Last year was one of the strongest that cinema has seen in a decade, and There Will Be Blood is widely regarded as one of 2007's best — Daniel Day-Lewis even has a statue to prove that his performance was tops. In previous films like 1997's Boogie Nights and 1999's Magnolia, P.T. Anderson exhibited a capacity for leading sprawling ensemble casts through difficult aesthetic, psychological, and structural terrain, but this epic about the rise and fall of a '20s oil tycoon in the American West distills the director's unflinching vision. It's a spare, searing, and unpredictable study of one of this country's defining impulses: manifest destiny.
- Lisa Rosman
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ART
Tino Rodriguez & Virgo Paraiso: Lullabies for the Dark Ages
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Tuesday June 17 (noon–6pm)
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Merry Karnowsky Gallery (170 S La Brea Ave, 323.933.4408)
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Like the Catholic-raised Mexican artist himself, Tino Rodriguez's gender-defying, allegorical paintings are torn between sensuality and conservative tradition. Inspired by the limitations of his religious upbringing and his family's lush heritage, Rodriguez's paintings tackle gender identity in a sacred yet fantastical setting. For this show, Merry Karnowsky Gallery pairs him with another, equally imaginative Nor-Cal painter, Virgo Paraiso, whose canvases are vibrant mythological mishmashes of Indonesian, Colombian, and Asian cultures, filled with literary references ranging from Rumi to Shakespeare.
- Ashley Tibbits
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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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