There's just no getting around it, folks: Thanksgiving is here. And with Thanksgiving comes grocery shopping and driving and planning and cooking and family, and that's all before you reach the weekend crush that is Black Friday. It's going to be a tough week for anyone trying to get anything reasonable done, so why not just stay home and warm up some cider with a splash of whatever hard stuff you've got laying around? Well, because there's still plenty of great stuff to do this week, that's why.
With Thanksgiving around the corner and thermostats going on at night, everyone is feeling the desire to wind down and relax this week. Maybe you'd like to stay cozy with a movie, or relax with a nice view and something chocolate-y to nibble on. Feel like reading some of your Autumnal poetry out loud, or letting someone else do the talking while you quietly listen on the beach in Venice? No matter what you're thinking, there's an event for you happening somewhere around town this week.
Museums This Week is a guide to what's going on with exhibitions around Southern California. For recent openings, browse them here.
Openings
The Huntington
The Huntington is going experimental, showcasing contemporary paintings and sculpture, along side the traditional European works, for the first time. The lucky artists are a couple: Lesley Vance and Ricky Swallow.
Nov. 10, 2012-March 11, 2013
It is Downtown Art Walk time again. On Thursday, November 8, art-goers have a chance to wander major museums, and some art galleries, that are open during the day. (Museum fees still apply). Here is a round-up of what you can find this time around:
Downtown Los Angeles Art Walk Lounge will feature the multicultural Couto Brothers -- artists, muralists, and joint practitioners of artistic mayhem. Think how Peter Max would see the world through hyperactive kaleidoscopic eyes with some Brooklyn attitude and you have an idea what you may find. Plus, 20th Century Fox's Home Entertainment is the lounge sponsor, and KCRW's Matt Holzman will host a panel with Zoe Kazan and Paul Dano, and tout the DVD release of dark comedy romance "Ruby Sparks" (2012). Of course, you can pick up the map for a self-guided tour of galleries. Open from 6 to 9 p.m.
Downtown Los Angeles Art Walk Lounge I 634 S. Spring St.
It's Election Day! As always, your number one event priority should be to get out and vote, then sit back and watch the live results roll in. Of course, with all of the lead up to today's big battle, there's no doubt you'd like to spend the rest of your week unwinding from all of the madness. That's why we've assembled a great line-up of recommended events for you this week.
Museums This Week is a guide to what's going on with exhibitions around Southern California. For recent openings, browse them here.
Openings
Laguna Art Museum
In ex·pose: Macha Suzuki, the artist explores failure as a positive place of growth and renewal. "Combining representation and abstract forms, he suspends figurative elements in a place of fantasy, with bright colors and glossy surfaces."
November 4, 2012-January 20, 2013
We're lucking out on weather right now on the Left Coast. It has (for the time being) returned to accurate fall levels, and there are all sorts fun Halloween events still in the mix. Combine all that with a few hearty gardening demonstrations for the industrious folks among us and at least one food festival for the rest of us, it's shaping up to be a pretty great week in and around Los Angeles.
Angelenos will no longer have to climb onto rooftops to get a good glimpse of the retired space shuttle Endeavour.
The California Science Center will open its public display of the shuttle tomorrow at the orbiter's retirement home in Exposition Park, where it will finally remain still for onlookers.
Endeavour arrived in Los Angeles in late September with a dramatic flyover of Southern California landmarks. Earlier this month, the shuttle made a remarkable 11-mile journey over several days along city streets from Los Angeles International Airport to the Science Center that drew an estimated 1 million spectators.
Museums This Week is a guide to what's going on with exhibitions around Southern California. For recent openings, browse them here.
Openings
Pasadena Museum of California Art
There are a number of new openings this week:
October 28, 2012 - February 24, 2013
- Greta Magnusson Grossman was a Swedish-American architect and designer who settled in Los Angeles and help define California modernist style. Greta Magnusson Grossman: A Car and Some Shorts is the first retrospective of her work.
- After visiting genetic engineering apple laboratories, Los Angeles artist Jessica Rath's exhibit take me to the apple breeder, was born. It features porcelain apple sculptures and large-scale photographic portraits of hybrid trees.
- Guillermo Bert: Encoded Textiles explores globalization, technology, and indigenous populations. An L.A. based artist, Bert gathers stories from indigenous populations, then uses software to transform it into QR codes. Native weavers then weave the code. Dare you to scan it!
- White on Black: The Modernist Prints of Paul Landacre features about 25 of the artist's works from the 1930s, when he became known for his seminal black and white wood engravings.
