Posts Tagged ‘performance art’

What do you get when you showcase the brightest and boldest of Angeleno performance artists?  GUTTED.  Gutted is the only word to describe Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions’ encompassing performance art-based program, which includes live performance, texts, and objects speaking of, from, and to the body.

GUTTED is Saturday, February 20 at 7:00pm, LACE.  Click here for more info.

The exhibition Actions, Conversations, and Intersections at the Los Angeles Municipal Gallery in Barnsdall Art Park continues to add new participatory projects to its roster.  This weekend, roll up your sleeves and join artists Edward Pine Stevens and Joseph Stuckleman with their installation Make Objects Make Marks or BikeHaus as they bike through Los Angeles as part of Cloud Lines and Chemospheres.

Check out the rest of this weekend’s programming here.

Newly purchased by Quentin Tarantino, the New Beverly Cinema is continuing its program of repertory cinema.  Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and Election will play back-to-back not only once, but twice this Saturday because it is oh so nice.  Save Ferris!  Pick Flick!

The Matthew Broderick double feature starts at 3:20 and 7:30 at the New Beverly Cinema.  Click here for more info.

Angelenos love a good art walk. We hit the pavement for art walks all around town, including downtown, Silverlake, and the Miracle Mile.  And, we walk the art walk down La Cienega and in circles at Bergamot when galleries stay open late for their openings. Not only do we have a chance to get the latest scoop from our friends armed with Tecates, we have a higher chance to run into one of our favorite food trucks. We have a sneaking suspicion that since we keep running into them when we don’t follow their Twitter feeds, they’ve been reading ours…

Right before Valentine’s Day, we’re sure that you are bracing yourself for unexpected PDAs (Public Displays of Affection). Re-think this idea as a group of artists are launching another type of PDA (Public Displays of Art) in art walk form straight through Echo Park.

These PDAs are much more palatable for your art starved tastes. You’ll find: chain link fence galleries, driveway theaters, a hands on crafting station, performance art, intersection musical performances, outdoor movie screenings, sculptures, parking lot mini concerts, and other various creative and mind stimulating public displays of art.

If you tweet about it, food trucks will come.

The Echo Park Art Walk is this Saturday, February 6th, 12 – 6pm, 12–6pm. The Echo Park Art Walk begins at Blue Collar Pet Supplies (1533 Echo Park Ave.) and travels through to FIX coffee shop (2100 Echo Park Ave.) Click here for more info.

After days of exclusive parties and bad food, the art fair circuit in Miami is winding down.  Everyone has two cents about this year’s Art Basel Miami Beach, especially with Michael Jackson’s surprise appearance.  Yet somehow the world goes on outside of Miami…

• Galleries from across the globe have congregated in one spot for one weekend.  Word is they are doing more with more in Miami.  Linda Yablonsky gives her first impression of the fair.  [New York Times]
• And ArtForum gives it a whirl as well.  [ArtForum: Scene and Heard]
• Art Basel Miami Beach has bigger works and smaller prices… “When markets contract, art fairs shrink — but only to a point.”  [The LA Times]
• There are stronger art sales at Basel than last year.  “As well as taking longer to complete, sales are happening at a different level. ‘The numbers have all changed, 500,000 is the new million,’ says 303 director Lisa Spellman.” [The Art Newspaper]
• This is an art fair favorite.  At PULSE, “Corner Store envelopes the visitor within the environment of a gas station or convenience store typical to Texas and the Southern United States.”  It is a Kwik-E-Mart for the art world.  [Daily Serving]
• Michael Jackson strikes back.  Artist Kehinde Wiley reveals a portrait of Jackson a la Rubens commissioned before Jackson’s death. It is showing at Deitch Projects. [The Art Newspaper]
• David Hockney zips between Los Angeles and Yorkshire, England and tells what it is like being an “English Los Angeleno.”  [The LA Times]
• James Franco loves performance art.  And thus, we love him even more! [Another Righteous Transfer]
• MOMA presents a retrospective of Tim Burton.  Will it include Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter as well? [New York Times]
• The strike of Paris museum workers, which began recently at the Centre Pompidou, has spread to the Musee d’Orsay, the Arc de Triomphe, the Sainte-Chapelle, the Carcassonne in the south of France, Versailles Palace, and the Louvre.  The Louvre was able to open a number of its rooms for a very limited amount of time this week, but that is not necessarily a harbinger of good news – the protesters say they will “keep going until they give in.” [Bloomberg]
• Eli Broad makes very clear why he loves LA in this top ten list… Listen up, New York. [Huffington Post]

Similar to last month when a good portion of the Los Angeles art world headed to London for the Frieze Art Fair, another group of artists, directors, curators, and art aficionados are packing their bags for more art-related travel, which is Fine Art LA’s favorite kind of jet-setting by the way.  No need to bring your passport – the destination is New York and Performa is the word.  This is a biennial with a specific focus and promise: performance art.  And this stuff is the cream of the crop.

In New York City, Performa 09, the third biennale of new visual art performance, continues its run until November 22^nd.  Headed by director RoseLee Goldberg, Performa combines visual art, music, dance, poetry, fashion, architecture, and film (as well as television, radio, graphic design, and the culinary arts — Performa is much more inclusive than exclusive) to form over 110 events throughout the city of New York in institutions as well as smaller artist-run spaces.

Highlights include Performa commissioned work by artists Guy Ben-Ner, Candice Breitz, Omer Fast, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Mike Kelley, Arto Lindsay, Wangechi Mutu, Christian Tomaszewski, and Yeondoo Jung as well as premieres by artists Keren Cytter, Tacita Dean, Alica Framis, Loris Greaud, William Kentridge, and Joan Jonas.

We’re keeping our eyes and ears open for Los Angeles-based Mike Kelley’s three dance/performance pieces entitled Day is Done Judson Church Dance, which will be occurring Tuesday, November 17 to Thursday, November 19 at the Judson Memorial Church.  Kelley’s work will feature characters from Day is Done, who were inspired by the photographs found in the extracurricular activities section of American high school yearbooks.

Founded by Goldberg in 2004, both Performa 05 and Performa 07 flourished in terms of program and attendance, with this year’s incarnation including even more artists, performances, exhibitions, educational forums, public art projects, publications, film screenings, and radio, Internet, and television broadcasts.

The first of its kind, Performa is a leading example of a multi-disciplinary examination of performance art.  As Los Angeles experienced its own version of Performa with PERFORM! NOW! this past summer (July 25) up and down Chinatown’s Chung King Road, we are only excited to see any further developments Los Angeles has to aid this growing want and need of performance art at home.