http://www.examiner.com/x-8097-LA-Art-and-Design-Examiner?cid=exrss-LA-Art-and-Design-Examiner en-us Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:37:11 -0700 Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:17:42 -0700 BlogCFC http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.examiner.com/x-8097-LA-Art-and-Design-Examiner~y2009m10d8-ArtNight-Pasadena-vs-latenight-Getty-this-weekend?cid=exrss-LA-Art-and-Design-Examiner getty.edu.  Photo: Denny Renshaw.Two generic L.A. destinations I'll never tire of are the sleepy, American-mall suburb of Pasadena and the Getty, home of late-night summer concert series Saturdays off the 405.  Both are consistent presences... Asian Fine Arts Photography Pasadena Sculpture Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:17:42 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-8097-LA-Art-and-Design-Examiner~y2009m10d8-ArtNight-Pasadena-vs-latenight-Getty-this-weekend?cid=exrss-LA-Art-and-Design-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-8097-LA-Art-and-Design-Examiner~y2009m9d30-Find-fall-outside-LA-at-Reyes-Adobe-Days?cid=exrss-LA-Art-and-Design-Examiner ci.agoura-hills.ca.usOther displaced Midwesterners will relate when I associate the onset of fall with small-town fairs, pony rides, and barn gatherings, so it should come as no surprise that my weekend recommendation hearkens back to these elements ... Festival Wed, 30 Sep 2009 12:02:24 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-8097-LA-Art-and-Design-Examiner~y2009m9d30-Find-fall-outside-LA-at-Reyes-Adobe-Days?cid=exrss-LA-Art-and-Design-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-8097-LA-Art-and-Design-Examiner~y2009m9d23-SnapFlash-photo-show-provides-night-of-downtown-debauchery?cid=exrss-LA-Art-and-Design-Examiner createfixate.comI've had local arts organization Create:Fixate on my radar for some time, but this weekend's SnapFlash event got me to the keyboard because it's all photography, all night, and the sheer breadth of other attractions is staggering.&nbs... Downtown Photography Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:44:40 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-8097-LA-Art-and-Design-Examiner~y2009m9d23-SnapFlash-photo-show-provides-night-of-downtown-debauchery?cid=exrss-LA-Art-and-Design-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-8097-LA-Art-and-Design-Examiner~y2009m9d17-Saturday-brunch-in-Venice-signals-end-of-Rogue-Wave?cid=exrss-LA-Art-and-Design-Examiner Matt Wedel, boy and cow, 2007Credit L.A. Louver for hometown pride, as the fourth exhibition in their Rogue Wave series gave us a summer of new, contemporary, Angeleno-only art.  This Saturday, the gallery hosts a free brunch from 10am-noon to c... Fine Arts Sculpture Venice Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:24:22 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-8097-LA-Art-and-Design-Examiner~y2009m9d17-Saturday-brunch-in-Venice-signals-end-of-Rogue-Wave?cid=exrss-LA-Art-and-Design-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-8097-LA-Art-and-Design-Examiner~y2009m9d10-Ryan-Goslings-gothic-choir-to-accompany-legendary-marionette-show?cid=exrss-LA-Art-and-Design-Examiner Dead Man's Bones.  Photo: Hama Sanders.Perhaps the edgiest scene I've stumbled upon in Los Angeles was the after-party for Captivity, the 2006 Elisha Cuthbert torture-porn film.  Internet burlesque act the Suicide Girls were on hand in simu... Downtown Bizarre Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:17:14 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-8097-LA-Art-and-Design-Examiner~y2009m9d10-Ryan-Goslings-gothic-choir-to-accompany-legendary-marionette-show?cid=exrss-LA-Art-and-Design-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-8097-LA-Art-and-Design-Examiner~y2009m9d10-Open-canvas-party-at-Harveys-invites-you-to-eat-drink-and-be-artsy?cid=exrss-LA-Art-and-Design-Examiner http://seatbeltbags97.blogspot.com/When Dana and Melanie Harvey got married, they bought a 1950 Buick to drive to Las Vegas that lacked one important safety feature: seatbelts.  After installing new ones himself, Dana made his wife a handbag fr... Novelty West Hollywood Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:17:34 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-8097-LA-Art-and-Design-Examiner~y2009m9d10-Open-canvas-party-at-Harveys-invites-you-to-eat-drink-and-be-artsy?cid=exrss-LA-Art-and-Design-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-8097-LA-Art-and-Design-Examiner~y2009m8d25-Free-jazz-night-on-AbbotKinney-channels-Django-Reinhardt?cid=exrss-LA-Art-and-Design-Examiner Gonzalo Bergara Quartet (EPK)If your summer weekends have been one long parade of volleyball tournaments and aimless bar crawls, class up your act with live Gypsy Jazz this Friday at Abbot-Kinney's G2 Gallery.  With a week to go before the West ... Venice Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:06:38 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-8097-LA-Art-and-Design-Examiner~y2009m8d25-Free-jazz-night-on-AbbotKinney-channels-Django-Reinhardt?cid=exrss-LA-Art-and-Design-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-8097-LA-Art-and-Design-Examiner~y2009m8d20-Sunset-Junction-jam-fest-celebrates-last-throes-of-summer?cid=exrss-LA-Art-and-Design-Examiner sunsetjunction.orgLos Angeles residents couldn't ask for a more centrally-located summer fair than this weekend's Sunset Junction Street Festival, a sun-baked (and pretty much just baked in general) smorgasboard of music, arts and crafts, and local e... Festival Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:12:51 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-8097-LA-Art-and-Design-Examiner~y2009m8d20-Sunset-Junction-jam-fest-celebrates-last-throes-of-summer?cid=exrss-LA-Art-and-Design-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-8097-LA-Art-and-Design-Examiner~y2009m7d23-Expect-a-bust-in-a-good-way-at-Vice-Magazine-opening?cid=exrss-LA-Art-and-Design-Examiner Vice MagazineMight want to swankify a bit for Vice Magazine's exhibit launch this weekend, as you'll arrive to find complimentary valet, an open bar, and free copies of the enigmatic street glamor/fringe politics digest waiting.  Vice just relea... Graffiti punk Culver City Bizarre Photography Thu, 23 Jul 2009 11:15:58 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-8097-LA-Art-and-Design-Examiner~y2009m7d23-Expect-a-bust-in-a-good-way-at-Vice-Magazine-opening?cid=exrss-LA-Art-and-Design-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-8097-LA-Art-and-Design-Examiner~y2009m7d17-Wonka-and-Ringwald-under-the-stars-at-Old-Pasadena-Film-Fest?cid=exrss-LA-Art-and-Design-Examiner http://www.myspace.com/pasadenaeventsLast week, I compared Yayoi Kusama’s luminous, larger-than-life Beverly Hills exhibit to the surreal movie sets of Tim Burton.  This weekend, moviegoers can catch a free outdoor screening of the film th... Festival Pasadena Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:20:24 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-8097-LA-Art-and-Design-Examiner~y2009m7d17-Wonka-and-Ringwald-under-the-stars-at-Old-Pasadena-Film-Fest?cid=exrss-LA-Art-and-Design-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-8097-LA-Art-and-Design-Examiner~y2009m7d16-Actor-Daniel-Franzese-throws-superhero-costume-party-at-RoyalT?cid=exrss-LA-Art-and-Design-Examiner http://zippercut.wordpress.com/crusaders-haters/Readers of my column from its early days know that I love myself some Royal/T: the combination of art, tea, and cute Asian waitresses in chocolate skirts has my name written all over it.  This Frid... Culver City Asian Novelty Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:23:44 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-8097-LA-Art-and-Design-Examiner~y2009m7d16-Actor-Daniel-Franzese-throws-superhero-costume-party-at-RoyalT?cid=exrss-LA-Art-and-Design-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-8097-LA-Art-and-Design-Examiner~y2009m7d10-How-to-fall-in-love-at-Saturdays-Public-Art-Party?cid=exrss-LA-Art-and-Design-Examiner Yayoi Kusama, Hymn of Life: Tulips, www.publicartparty.comCall me sentimental, but nothing would make my weekend like a picnic date in a wealthy suburban neighborhood full of art and culture, as long someone else plans the whole thing for me.  L... Fine Arts Sculpture Beverly Hills Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:28:57 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-8097-LA-Art-and-Design-Examiner~y2009m7d10-How-to-fall-in-love-at-Saturdays-Public-Art-Party?cid=exrss-LA-Art-and-Design-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-8097-LA-Art-and-Design-Examiner~y2009m7d9-Pasadena-museum-will-rock-you-late-night-this-Friday?cid=exrss-LA-Art-and-Design-Examiner Lapin's "Parallel Deliria Iteration," pmcaonline.orgArt museums have gone all nightclub this summer, and Friday night the Pasadena Museum of California Art will take a page from the Getty's musical, late-night Saturday series for a jam sess... Fine Arts Pasadena Thu, 09 Jul 2009 10:36:06 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-8097-LA-Art-and-Design-Examiner~y2009m7d9-Pasadena-museum-will-rock-you-late-night-this-Friday?cid=exrss-LA-Art-and-Design-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-8097-LA-Art-and-Design-Examiner~y2009m7d1-Drunk-moneys-and-cartoon-vixens-at-Jesus-for-Fourth-of-July?cid=exrss-LA-Art-and-Design-Examiner Dale Sizer, laluzdejesus.comTo the dismay of local art snobs and the delight of the rest of us, art and commerce make better bedfellows in Los Angeles than perhaps anywhere else in the country.  Here, cartoonists Dale Sizer (Hanna Barbara, Warne... Hollywood Novelty Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:59:01 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-8097-LA-Art-and-Design-Examiner~y2009m7d1-Drunk-moneys-and-cartoon-vixens-at-Jesus-for-Fourth-of-July?cid=exrss-LA-Art-and-Design-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-8097-LA-Art-and-Design-Examiner~y2009m6d29-Grammy-Museum-opens-Michael-Jackson-exhibit-a-day-after-pop-stars-death?cid=exrss-LA-Art-and-Design-Examiner grammymuseum.orgIf you were in Los Angeles this weekend, you couldn't escape him: clubs, karaoke bars, cars with their windows rolled down, all playing twenty-five-year-old dance hits in a city-wide tribute to the late Michael Jackson.  An overz... Downtown Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:26:06 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-8097-LA-Art-and-Design-Examiner~y2009m6d29-Grammy-Museum-opens-Michael-Jackson-exhibit-a-day-after-pop-stars-death?cid=exrss-LA-Art-and-Design-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-8097-LA-Art-and-Design-Examiner~y2009m6d17-Gettys-free-concert-season-opens-this-Saturday-with-Chairlift?cid=exrss-LA-Art-and-Design-Examiner Chairlift.  Photo: Maciek Kobielski.It's happened to all of us.  You fall in love with a single from a below-the-radar band, thrill in catching a trendiness wave just as it's about to break, and then, before you even get to soak in its blis... Fine Arts Festival Architecture Photography Wed, 17 Jun 2009 23:39:11 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-8097-LA-Art-and-Design-Examiner~y2009m6d17-Gettys-free-concert-season-opens-this-Saturday-with-Chairlift?cid=exrss-LA-Art-and-Design-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-8097-LA-Art-and-Design-Examiner~y2009m6d15-United-Fruit-opening-to-include-girl-boy-banana-photo-shoot?cid=exrss-LA-Art-and-Design-Examiner Photo: Fallen Fruit, artleak.orgTuesdays night are so boring: plenty of work days left, "Law and Order," a hundred people gorging on bananas together.  Wait, wait.  What's that you say?  I could spend my Tuesday night gorging... Hollywood Novelty Bizarre Photography Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:27:00 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-8097-LA-Art-and-Design-Examiner~y2009m6d15-United-Fruit-opening-to-include-girl-boy-banana-photo-shoot?cid=exrss-LA-Art-and-Design-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-8097-LA-Art-and-Design-Examiner~y2009m6d10-Obamas-freshman-year-photo-shoot-becomes-WeHo-gallery-exhibit?cid=exrss-LA-Art-and-Design-Examiner Copyright Lisa Jack/Contour, mbfala.comTwenty-nine years ago, friends at Occidental College introduced photography student Lisa Jack to handsome, personable "Barry," a college freshman she enlisted as a subject in hopes he would ask her out... West Hollywood Photography Wed, 10 Jun 2009 11:47:58 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-8097-LA-Art-and-Design-Examiner~y2009m6d10-Obamas-freshman-year-photo-shoot-becomes-WeHo-gallery-exhibit?cid=exrss-LA-Art-and-Design-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-8097-LA-Art-and-Design-Examiner~y2009m6d5-1928-lasts-all-summer-with-cocktails-at-the-Oviatt-penthouse?cid=exrss-LA-Art-and-Design-Examiner redlightpromotions.comIf last week's rollerskate trip to the 1970's left you hungry for a voyage even further back in time, check out the launch of Era at downtown's Oviatt Penthouse tomorrow night.  Thirteen stories above the city, you'll find... Downtown Architecture Fri, 05 Jun 2009 17:50:33 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-8097-LA-Art-and-Design-Examiner~y2009m6d5-1928-lasts-all-summer-with-cocktails-at-the-Oviatt-penthouse?cid=exrss-LA-Art-and-Design-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-8097-LA-Art-and-Design-Examiner~y2009m5d29-LAs-only-disco-rollerskating-party-celebrates-8th-anniversary?cid=exrss-LA-Art-and-Design-Examiner myspace.com/spacerollerdiscoFrom a design perspective, there's always value in retro: afros, neon jump-suits and tight, black-light pants are practically guaranteed to come back someday (right?)  But for those unwilling to sit on their sequins w... Novelty Fri, 29 May 2009 11:54:07 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-8097-LA-Art-and-Design-Examiner~y2009m5d29-LAs-only-disco-rollerskating-party-celebrates-8th-anniversary?cid=exrss-LA-Art-and-Design-Examiner