Art in LA this weekend
Hey, is it Thursday again? And you without tickets to Coachella? Don’t despair, it’s LOS ANGELES. The weekend is still entirely salvageable.
April 30: The Human Rights project is teaming with Delia Cabral for a LiveDraw fundraising event at Bamboo Lane Gallery, in Chinatown. You pay an entry fee of $50 to come in and watch a bunch of artists drawing from live models. Artworks will be sold, fresh off the pad. KCRW’s Cathy Temkin is spinning. Funds go to an awfully good cause. PDF of press release(launches acrobat)
Ongoing: Ubiq: A Mental Odyssey, installation at Redcat (Calarts’ downtown LA branch), by Mathieu Briand. Nice LATimes writeup, but truthfully, this viewer becomes the viewed thing may just be too high-concept for the kind of girl who spends her workweek drawing naked ladies (and damn, not even for charity).
Ongoing: The Société Anonyme: Modernism for America, opened this week at the Hammer. Dreier, Duchamp, Klee, Picasso, Man Ray, Calder, Albers, Kandinsky… many more, but that right there’s enough to make my head ache.
LATimes Festival of Books. Be sure to stop by and say hi to Kathy, there’s some rumors going around about an ipod giveaway.
Hey, happy 400th birthday:Rembrandt Rarities opens this weekend at the Norton Simon museum. The Norton Simon has a large collection of Rembrandt etchings, and once in a while they need to air them all out.
Oh, one more. If you’re in the LA area, and interested to see an amazing show of contemporary artists (lots of abstract, beautiful and figurative works), send me a note or leave a comment with your contact info. There’s a show this weekend that promises to be simply amazing, but it is in a private residence, so I’m not posting details.