Wednesday, February 16, 2022

Weekly What To Do: Rams Won, Doesn't Seem Like It'll Affect Your Weekend

 
A Banquet Screening
Wednesday, February 16th, 7:00 P.M. 
The Ray Stark Family Theatre, SCA 108
George Lucas Building, School of Cinematic Arts Complex
900 W. 34th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90007
Free, Must RSVP
 
Widowed mother Holly (Sienna Guillory) is radically tested when her teenage daughter Betsey (Jessica Alexander) experiences a profound enlightenment and insists that her body is no longer her own, but in service to a higher power. Bound to her newfound faith, Betsey refuses to eat but loses no weight. In an agonizing dilemma, torn between love and fear, Holly is forced to confront the boundaries of her own beliefs.
 
Lifes
FEB 16–MAY 8, 2022
HAMMER MUSEUM
Free for good
10899 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA
90024
 
 Lifes is a curatorial assemblage, an exercise in synthesis, a composite being, a living software, a durational sequence, a cacophony of intentions, a misunderstanding, a text that dances, an extended conversation, a voice in ruin, a mapping of relations, a lean into the future. Initiated by four commissioned texts and including contributions from more than 50 individuals from various creative fields,
 
 
Starts Feb 17
EAST WEST PLAYERS
David Henry Hwang Theater
120 N. Judge John Aiso St.
Los Angeles, CA  90012
$$
 
A darkly comic Tony-award winner that examines the motives of the nine notorious Americans who took their shot at the President of the United States. This wickedly subversive spectacle exposes the dangers of our national fixation on celebrity and its violent intersection with the American dream.
 
Ayako Rokkaku
Frieze Los Angeles
February 17-20, 2022
9900 Wilshire Boulevard, Beverly Hills 
$$
 

Frieze Los Angeles largely focuses on contemporary art and celebrates the exceptionally dynamic culture of Los Angeles and its global contributions to the visual arts.  

Following two sold-out editions, the fair will return from February 17-20, 2022 in a new location in the heart of Beverly Hills. Situated at 9900 Wilshire Boulevard, adjacent to the Beverly Hilton Hotel, the new location will see the fair occupy a prime position between the Hammer Museum and the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts. 

Bringing together over 100 of the most significant galleries from LA and around the world, the fair experience will be completed by Frieze Week events across the city. This year, Focus LA, the section of the fair dedicated to galleries aged 15 years or younger will be curated by Amanda Hunt (Director of Public Programs & Creative Practice, Lucas Museum of Narrative Art) and feature 11 of the city’s defining young galleries.

 
Ted K
Director Tony Stone
Lead Actor Sharlto Copley
Producer Matt Flanders
Friday, February 18
7:10pm show w/Q&A
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Friday, Feb 18th at 6pm
Secret Headquarters
3817 W Sunset Blvd 
Los Angeles, CA 90026
 
 
 
 
 
 
Five-Artist Exhibition Featuring:
Jesús Aguado, Kari Tirrell, Leegan Koo,
Sun-Mi and Yasuhito Kawasaki
OPENING RECEPTION
February 19, 2022 | 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
COREY HELFORD GALLERY
571 S. Anderson St. Los Angeles, CA 90033 

Downtown Los Angeles’ Corey Helford Gallery (CHG) is proud to announce the return of San Francisco-based award-winning artist/illustrator Eric Joyner for his 11th exhibition at the gallery, entitled Someday World, premiering February 19th in the Main Gallery.
Joyner, who is renowned around the world for his “robots and donuts” scenes, has created an irresistible body of work. Joyner’s art, which has been licensed from the likes of Disney, Warner Brothers, and the hit HBO show Silicon Valley, depicts the tenuous conflict between children’s toys and adulthood as a portrait of another reality.



Sat, February 19, 2022 12:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Pasadena Convention Center
300 East Green Street
Pasadena, CA 91101

Patches and Pins is peopled by tactical visionaries with strategic craftsmanship for handheld treasures. Possessing the skill in which art and technical ability are combined. Our vendors create thousands of unique, custom enamel pins, and other keepsakes every year. Since 2015, P&P has become the essential platform connecting pin makers and pop culture enthusiasts with the public.

 
Charles Phoenix: FABULOUS FLORIDA in the 50s - LIVE ON STAGE 
Annenberg Theater,  Palm Springs Art Museum, 101 N. Museum Dr., Palm Springs, CA 92262
 $tarts at $45
  
Mid-Century Dream Vacation Slide Show Tour of the Sunshine State 

LIVE ON STAGE at Palm Springs MODERNISM WEEK 

Hold on to your space age sunglassesmid-century style and design expert, Charles Phoenix, is celebrating Florida in the 1950s & 60s. 

Starts Feb 20
Resnick Pavillion
LACMA
$ Admission
 
Placing cinema in the context of 19th-century Parisian visual culture, City of Cinema: Paris 1850–1907 explores how film emerged amid a wave of social, political, artistic, and technological developments. The exhibition brings together paintings, sculpture, posters, prints, photography, and film to reflect the range of artistic experiments that culminated in cinema as a mass medium.
 
 
STRAWBERRY MANSION
Co-Directors Albert Birney
and Kentucker Audley
Sunday, February 20 
 
Here's our review, wasn't our favorite for a great premise.
 
 
 
 
Sun, Feb 20, 2022, 9:00 PM
Globe Theatre Los Angeles
740 South Broadway
Los Angeles, CA 90014
$tarts at $65
 

This years entertainment and festivities will include:

- Master of ceremonies will be Harvey Guillén who plays Guillermo de la Cruz in the epic mocumentary TV series What We Do in the Shadows.

- A Vampyre Wedding of Father Sebastiaan and his bride Lady Lyn, presided by Ghost Adventures TV star and psychic witch Patti Negri. - 00h40

- Live music by the band Neon Coven and James Charles Miller of gODHEAD who appeared on the Queen of the Damned soundtrack. - 22h30-23h30

- Shock illusionist Dan Sperry will weave his magic and he has been featured on Master of Illusions. - 00h10

Sun, February 20, 2022
12:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Free entry
 
Angel City Market celebrates its one year anniversary! Enjoy a memorable day of shopping with 60+ vendors selling trendy clothing, jewelry, sweets, plants, accessories, and more! ACM also has fun experiences for those who just want to come out and socialize with their friends and family. 

NYCHOS: The Awakening
Exhibit Dates: 2/22/22 through 5/1/22
Mirus Gallery, Arts District, Los Angeles: 1922 E. 7th Place, Los Angeles, CA 90021
$$

The Awakening is a novel oeuvre by artist and muralist Nychos, presented by Mirus Gallery, opening 2/22/22 in the heart of the Los Angeles Arts District. Step inside a completely new realm of an immersive art experience as NYCHOS takes you on a journey of rebirth. The Awakening: will feature more than one hundred original art works from the famed artist, which are arranged in a deeply personal narrative. This museum style show shares Nychos' compelling story of personal introspection through large scale paintings, interactive artworks, projection, animation, sculptures and more.