Thursday, January 21 – Sunday, January 24
Los Angeles Art Show 2010 @ LA Convention Center. 15th annual booth-fest. Is the art market still in collapse? Go see for yourselves! Go support Meeson Pae Yang who will have an installation, Dispersion, on display at the LA Art Association booth. Check the LA Art Show site for hours and prices.
Thursday, January 21
The Films of Shana Moulton @ Cinefamily. NY-based video/performance artist Shana Moulton brings her roadshow to LA, to present and perform alongside selections from her body of work. Expect New Age references and psychedelic aesthetics. Excerpt from Whispering Pines here. $12 @ 8pm.
Gary Panter Lecture @ Hammer Museum. Lecture by the aesthete behind both Pee Wee’s Playhouse and the logo for The Screamers. Starts at 7pm.
Friday, January 22
Photo Artillery: In The Realm of the Lenses @ Stephen Cohen Galllery. Artillery Magazine presents a group photo show, riffing on Oshima’s sex/taboo filmed film, In the Realm of the Senses. Features work by Ray Beldner, Kim Crum, Marta Edmisten, Gerald Förster, Gordon Magnin, Johnny Naked, Naida Osline, Christopher Russell, Austin Young and Carrie Yury. Reception is 7-10pm.
Saturday, January 23
Börkur: Work in Progress @ Blythe Projects. Image at top. First LA show for the Iceland-based photographer. $35 for regular folks and $25 for MOCA contemporaries, booze and hors d’oeuvres to be served.
MexiCali Biennial 09/10 @ Ben Maltz Gallery. Bi-national exchange featuring Skip Arnold, Gustavo Artigas, Meli Barragan, Juan Bastardo, Bordermates, Anibal Catalan, Jeff Chabot, Pablo H. Cobian, Fernando Corona, Fidel Hernandez, Rebeca Hernandez, Homeless, Ncholas Kersulis, Ryan Lamb, Ivan Limas, Albert Lopez, Matt McFarland, Txema Novelo, Susana Rodriguez, Michelle Romero, Ernesto Rosas, Daniel Ruanova, Joaquin Segura, Gustavo Siono, Sergio Torres-Torres, Jason Wallace and Fundacion Wana Winnie. Reception is 4-6pm.
Sunday, January 24
2nd Annual Los Angeles Anarchist Bookfair @ Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery. The 1st event connected with the upcoming Edith Abeyta+Michael Miller curated Actions, Conversations and Intersections features a ton of activists and small press booksellers with an anarchist bent. Get political and fly your black flag. 11am -9pm.
