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Gary Lang, BLUELIGHTTWO, 2015

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Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (5/2- 5/5/19)-

Thursday

Big Thief are performing at The Fonda Theatre with Victoria Williams

Photographers Lynsey Addario and John Moore will be discussing their work as part of the programming for Photoville (see below)

Ruby Haunt are playing at El Cid with Storefront Church and Sports Coach

Yamashiro's Night Market returns to the hills above Hollywood tonight from 5-10pm- catch a free shuttle from Mosaic Church to get there

Draemings are playing a free show at Zebulon with Crook and Ever So Android

Bikini Kill are playing at the Hollywood Palladium with Le Butcherettes

Thursday through Sunday

Photoville, the free annual photo festival with galleries built from repurposed shipping containers, returns for its second week in Century Park with programming that includes nighttime projections, talks, workshops, family activities, and a beer garden. While there check out the exhibition CONTACT HIGH: A Visual History of Hip-Hop, which showcases the work of hip hop photographers, at Annenberg Space for Photography.

Friday

Broncho will be performing at the Natural History Museum with Lauren Ruth Ward for the museum’s monthly First Friday event. This year's programming explores Forces of Nature and for this evening they will have speakers discussing California's floods. There will also be DJs and food trucks.

L.A. Live is having a block party with $5 food and drink items at many of the restaurants, pop up shops, street performers, live painting by several artists,  and more (free)

Beach Goons and No Parents are opening for SWMRS at The Belasco Theater

The Church will be at The Regent Theater performing their album Starfish

Friday and Saturday

Union Station is celebrating its 80th Anniversary for two days with live entertainment, an electronic photo exhibition of the station's history, special menu items at the station's restaurants, tours, a marketplace and more

Saturday

Hammer Museum is hosting Omniaudience, a program comprised of listening sessions, conversations, and performances from 1:30-5pm. For this iteration- Nikita Gale will have a listening session devoted to the creation, distribution, and reception of River Deep, Mountain High, which was produced by Phil Spector and performed by Tina Turner; Alexander Provan will deliver a lecture, illustrated with chart-toppers, on the use of consumer-behavior data and neurobiology research in the production of pop songs; C. Spencer Yeh will present a live quadraphonic performance of material from The RCA Mark II (Primary Information, 2017), which is composed of recordings of non-musical sounds created with the eponymous, 60-year-old synthesizer; and Nour Mobarak will speak about the vocalization of sound and phonetics in relation to her recent work. She will then be joined in conversation by Gale, Provan, and Yeh to discuss "how recordings of human voices quantify and categorize speakers—and how the components of language might, alternatively, be experienced as indeterminate sonic materials".

Otomo Yoshihide and David Novak will  be at Blum & Poe to discuss "noise, an underground music made through an amalgam of feedback, distortion, and electronic effects, which first emerged as a genre in the 1980s, circulating on cassette tapes traded between fans in Japan, Europe, and North America". (free)

Melodie McDaniel will be signing her book Riding Through Compton, about the participants of a youth riding and equestrian program in the neighborhood, at Arcana Books. A conversation will follow with book contributors Amelia Fleetwood and Mayisha Akbar (who leads the program).

Ezra Furman is playing at the Teragram Ballroom with Pancho Morris

Snowball II are playing an early show at Resident

Tomo Nakayama is opening for Jeremy Enigk (formerly of Sunny Day Real Estate) at The Roxy Theatre

Field Trip and Small Forward are opening for Foliage at The Echo

Sunday

This week's free screening at Zebulon is Luis Buñuel's Los Olivados

Later that evening Weirdo Night returns to Zebulon with performances by Dynasty Handbag, Drum Run, and Smiling Beth and more

Artist Gary Lang will be in conversation with artist Sarah Jones at Wilding Cran Gallery where Lang currently has an exhibition

Amnesia Scanner are playing at 1720

The 2017 Francis J. Greenburger Awards are TOMORROW, 4/25! 

This year’s amazing honorees are: Judy Pfaff, Gary Lang, Barry Le Va, Lorraine O’Grady, and Ryszard Wasko!

Gary Lang, Gilded and Coal, 2009, acrylic on canvas, 146 inch diameter.

Courtesy the artist

Gary Lang is one of this year's Francis J. Greenburger Award Winners! Join us on April 25th at the New Museum to celebrate his work! Learn more on the Art Omi website!

Gary Lang MIRROR, 2008, acrylic on canvas, 113” x 113” inches.

Courtesy the artist.

"The seasons of my youth were consumed recording the natural wonders and quiet miracles in our family yard, filling books with colored pencil drawings in an effort to possess the magic and energy I witnessed. I received a scholarship to attend Chouinard Art Institute in downtown Los Angeles in 1968 while in high school. Chouinard morphed into California Institute of the Arts, where I was a member of the first graduating class of 1972. During this time I was invited to attend the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, and spent a revelatory year in NYC. 

I entered Yale University in 1972 and continued the gauntlet of Art Education with remarkable people on both sides of the aisle, artists, scholars, and mentors, graduating with an MFA in 1974, when I received a Fulbright/Hayes Travel and Research Grant to live and work in Barcelona, Spain. My time in Spain was an epiphany, rich on all accounts. 

I returned to NYC in 1975 and began an exhibition arc that has included approximately 80 solo exhibitions in the United States, Europe and Asia. In 1980 I began dividing my time between my homeland in Los Angeles and my studio in NYC. In 2004, I was invited to mount a survey/retrospective exhibition at the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague, Netherlands. The exhibit titled Abundance Automata, spoke to my instincts and intentions and included fifty-five paintings, installed in eleven galleries from the years 1980-2004. I returned to Southern California just four months prior to the Trade Towers attack in 2001, to build my studio, raise our children, and focus my attention on the West Coast. 

I have received Arts Grants from The Elizabeth Foundation, the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, and was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2015. 

My studio process of amassing energy, channeling chance, and fortifying time in my pursuit of constructing a lens with which to see continues to open."

Don't forget to RSVP to this year's Francis J. Greenburger Awards! We're honoring five amazing artists this year: Gary Lang, Ryszard Waskko, Lorraine O'Grady, Barry Le Va, and Judy Pfaff!

Have you RSVP'd for the 2017 Francis J. Greenburger Awards? 

Join us Tuesday, April 25th to celebrate the achievements of inspiring artists Gary Lang, Ryszard Wasko, Lorraine O'Grady, Barry Le Va, and Judy Pfaff!