Museums This Week is a guide to what's going on with exhibitions around Southern California. For recent openings, browse them here.
Closings
Santa Monica Museum of Art
Michael Queenland: Rudy's Ramp of Remainders is a sculptural installation inspired by Rudis Resterampe -- which roughly translates to "Rudy's Pile of Leftovers" -- and a German discount store filled with surplus scraps of textile and ephemera, which Queenland discovered in Berlin.
Ends December 22, 2012
It's not hard to find Orny Adams, the longtime stand up comedian. He's been a staple on the stand up circuit for more than ten years, and he landed a role in Jerry Seinfeld's 2002 documentary Comedian, where he played the hungry up-and-comer to Jerry's established performer. Since then, Adams has continued to work just about any room that will book him, from road gigs to club engagements and plenty of alternative shows around Los Angeles. Now he can be seen as Coach Finstock on MTV's Teen Wolf, and his new podcast My Crappy Week details the small things in life that drive him crazy.
There's no better way to prep yourself for next week's Christmas festivities than with a little holiday cheer this week. From downtown to North Hollywood, everyone is in the giving spirit, and the gifts of the season include songs, storytelling and at least one ugly sweater contest. It's a wonderfully charming time to be living in Los Angeles, with wintertime events happening all over the city. Here are a few of our favorites.
Museums This Week is a guide to what's going on with exhibitions around Southern California. For recent openings, browse them here.
Openings
Bowers Museum
CUT! COSTUME AND THE CINEMA goes on a journey of glamour and artistry, as dictated by the world of film. The exhibit features 43 outfits from the British costumer, Cosprop Ltd.
Saturday, December 15 - Sunday, March 10, 2013
It's the holiday version of Downtown Los Angeles Art Walk, so expect to see art items on sale for seasonal gift offerings. And as usual, while Art Walk is mostly from 6 to 10 p.m., you will find downtown filled with cultural options. Use this guide to find your way to the art -- the party will find you, if you are looking. For first timers, the best place to start is the official Downtown Art Walk Lounge in the historic MALDEF Building (634 S. Spring St); there you can pick up an event map. The galleries are free, but museum entrance fees still apply.
The Art Walk Lounge builds the lounge exhibition around "Billboard Bandits." On exhibition will be replica billboards by sculptor Andrew Oakes. Shirts, prints, and other original related artwork are for sale, including street art encased sneakers designed by celebrities and South Los Angeles high and middle school students under the program "Kicks R Canvas." You can also pick up another recent publication, "Stay Up! Los Angeles Street Art."
It's a thinkin' man's week here in Los Angeles, with enough engaging events around town to make your brain steam. Because the high holy holidays are upon us, the city is rife with art and cultural celebrations, plus the usual assortment of movie screenings and museum discussions. Of course, exerting all that mental energy is sure to make you want to let loose a little bit, so the weekend is full of both easygoing and hard-drinking events. What else would you expect from one of the greatest cities in America?
Museums This Week is a guide to what's going on with exhibitions around Southern California. For recent openings, browse them here.
Openings
Norton Simon Museum
Tormented by mental illness, Vincent Van Gogh committed himself to an asylum in the South of France in 1889. Despite his suffering, he painted over 140 works in 13 months during his stay.
Van Gogh's "Self-Portrait," 1889, on Loan from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, is one such masterpiece.
December 07, 2012 - March 04, 2013
Closings
The Hammer
A Strange Magic: Gustave Moreau's Salome is dedicated entirely to the artist's piece titled Salome Dancing before Herod. The exhibition includes five other paintings by Moreau on the theme of Salome, as well as more than 40 drawings specifically related to the Hammer painting.
Ends December 9, 2012
University Art Museum at CSULB
There are a number of closings at UAM, with a focus on the abstract:
- Patrick Wilson's Pull presents recent geometric abstract paintings by the artist.
- Linda Day: Swimming in Paint highlights abstract paintings, collages, and drawings by the late artist.
- From the Vault focuses on the evolution of abstraction in painting over the 20th Century, drawing from the museum's permanent collection.
Ends December 9, 2012
It was a wet and rainy weekend in Los Angeles, which probably means you didn't leave your house for fear of being driven off the road. But now that the skies aren't crying, it's time to get out and experience all that the City of Angels has to offer this week. There's certainly plenty to take in, what with Christmas events in full effect. Plus, John Waters is traveling through, a popular public radio show comes to town, and there's a film festival in Echo Park so depressing that you're sure to laugh.
Museums This Week is a guide to what's going on with exhibitions around Southern California. For recent openings, browse them here.
Openings
Fowler Museum at UCLA
Private commercial activity reawakened in Cambodia in the 1990s after years of living under the genocidal reign of the Khmer Rouge and the state-controlled economy of the Vietnamese military. Before international commerce and marketing took hold, local business owners designed their own advertisements, now on exhibit at Fowler in Focus: Cambodian Shop Signs: A Gift to the Fowler Museum from Joel G. Montague.
December 2, 2012-March 31, 2013
It's rebound week, now that the spectacle of Thanksgiving and all of the post-Thanksgiving shopping madness has largely left the conversation. Decorations have turned from browns and oranges to greens and reds and whites (or blues, if you're happily celebrating Hanukkah). And while we certainly agree that 'giving thanks' is sooo last week, you can at least count your lucky stars that the craziness has come and gone. This week, it's all about great conversations with interesting people, and good eats along the way.
