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Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (5/4-5/7/17)-

Thursday

Day Wave is giving a free in-store performance at Amoeba Records with a record signing to follow

Hammer Museum is having a free screening of Do Not Resist, a documentary on the militarization of American police, with a discussion to follow with Black Lives Matter founder Patrisse Cullors

MOCA Senior Curator Bennett Simpson is leading a walk-through of the current Carl Andre exhibition at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA (free and free entrance to the museum)

The Stevenson Ranch Davidians are playing a free show at Harvard & Stone

Avec Sans are playing at Resident with Fiona Grey

Friday

To celebrate Cinco de Mayo, Hecho in LA: Taco Madness & Micheladas is taking place at La Plaza de Culturas y Artes downtown, with DJs and live art to go along with the food and drink (free and 21+)

LACMA is having a free screening of an episode of the series Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown, with a conversation with Bourdain to follow

Chico Mann & Captain Planet, Buyepongo, and QUITAPENAS are performing at the Natural History Museum as part of their First Friday event (and Cinco de Mayo)

The New Beverly is showing a double feature of Terrence Malick's Badlands and Richard Compton's Macon County Line

Saturday

Los Angeles Family School is having its daytime Spring Fair 2017 with live music by Moby, The Pop Ups and Freedom Fry

The Eclectic Festival is taking place in Pasadena with an art walk and music that includes OZOMATLI and Irene Diaz (free)

Photographer Robert Herman is giving a lecture at Annenberg Space for Photography on how to self publish a book from start to finish ($15 for lecture only/$50 plus signed book/ $75 book and 20 minute private consultation)

Oddisee and Good Compny are performing at the Regent Theater

The Glitch Mob are playing a DJ set at Exchange LA with Nosaj Thing

Paul Bergmann is headlining a show at The Echo with Bart Davenport and Dimber performing

Sunday

The Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre is having two free site specific dance performance for The 1988 series: Punctuation Station, at Westfield Culver City, and includes a public discussion after (reservation required)

It's probably a good time to check out the Artists Political Action Network who are having a meeting on Sunday with a voter registration to follow at the American Legion in Highland Park (if you miss this one, meetings are on the first Sunday of every month)

LAXART Executive Director and Curator, Hamza Walker and MOCA Senior Curator Bennett Simpson, will be discussing the Maximalist work of Jason Rhoades at Hauser & Wirth (free but registration recommended)

Anders Edström, Safari Softcover, 32 pp., offset 4/4, 195 x 255 mm Edition of 1000 ISBN 978-3-905714-58-6 Published by Nieves

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In Anders Edstrom’s Safari photographs, for instance, a slow, deliberate looking, a looking focused on a singular subject, a looking that by all appearances holds the outside world at bay, nonetheless reveals an image of openness one might better expect from street or landscape photography, genres bent by time, context, event, and change. But what changes in these Safari pictures? Do they have time or context? What is their world?

Modeled after a wishing well in L.A.'s Chinatown neighborhood, Mike Kelley's Framed and Frame (1999) consists of a life-sized reconstruction and an adjacent area with barbed-wire fencing, flood lights, and Chinese-themed decorations. These two elements—the wishing well and the enclosure—are the framed object and framing device alluded to in the title.

The installation also includes a mattress, pillow, and condoms—objects associated with adolescent sexual activity that also relate to the location of the wishing-well near two venues that were at the center of L.A.'s punk scene in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Madame Wong's and Hong Kong Café.

"Beneath this symbol of transcendence and hope there is also a place of physical and bodily and sexual exchange," says MOCA Curator Bennett Simpson. "It's a packed piece, it's a loaded piece, it's a showstopper, and it's great to have it here."

Despite its rich connections, Framed and Frame has never been exhibited locally. MOCA is proud to show the work for the first time in Los Angeles as part of Mike Kelley, the largest exhibition of the late artist's work to date.