As we get ever closer to the official October launch date of The Getty ‘s sprawling Pacific Standard Time initiative, the preview exhibits and promotional materials continue to surprise, delight, and raise our already intense anticipation. In the newest, just released installment, HBO star and Wes Anderson muse Jason Schwartzman is taught a Chrismas Carol -style lesson about the value of art museums when he is visited by the ghostly apparition of renowned artist John Baldessari . And oh yeah, Jeff Garlin cameo! [ Go here if you missed the first video featuring Anthony Kiedis and Ed Ruscha !] Yes, Jason Schwartzman (at least in the video) doesn’t like museums, and it’s not like he doesn’t have something of a point.
[Lindsay Lohan by Tyler Shields via ] A photo of a knife wielding Lindsay Lohan in a bra, blood dripping down her mouth, smeared on her body and splattered across the white wall background: just the product of another day of shooting with L.A.’s Tyler Shields , NBD. After all, this is the same photographer who had a major art opening that counted fully-naked dancing girls among the guests and featured a stunt wherein Shields shot (as in, with a gun) a guard in the chest. By now you’ve probably become familiar with the edgy photographer’s work which usually features young up-and-coming Hollywood talent engaged in sexually-charged, and often violent scenes like this
via guestofaguest.com : This being an odd numbered year, about 300,000 art lovers are set to gather in Venice, Italy for the the 2011 Venice Biennale.
Gallery girls Jaclyn Johnson and Chelsea Matthews proudly presented their new creative space (No Subject) last week. The launch had a huge turn out of L.A. tastemakers who all wanted to take part in christening the downtown space.
via guestofaguest.com : James Franco is a modern-day renaissance man, covering everything from stoner comedies to serious biopics, MFA's and now… fine art. The actor/grad student will show off his right brain skills with his first solo art exhibition on Wednesday. MORE> >
The whole meaning and principle of art may be threatened by a little exhibition opening this weekend in Silver Lake. Aptly titled “Trashed,” the show posits the question of what makes something art, displaying the refuse of nine artists from around the country and even Canada. It's literally a collection of their discarded material, studio trash presented by Bystander, a home in Silver Lake that will double as a the gallery space. But rather than dressing this thing up as some pretentious try-hard exhibition concept that's supposed to make you feel dense for not understanding, the show presents its mission frankly in its press release: “We are not trying to change the world, nor do we believe wholeheartedly with sound mind that the art we are hanging is the best or most important art ever to adorn a wall here in Silver Lake, California. In fact, we're sure we saw a Ruscha and an Irwin in a window along the reservoir, a Hockney on our drives to day jobs and there is assuredly a Warhol out there somewhere too, probably up in the hill where people have medium sized houses with large listing prices and zero yard space
-Andy Warhol Andy Warhol with his painting “Barbie,” 1985 [ via ] And Los Angeles definitely has a thing for Andy Warhol. Tonight, Prism debuts their Andy Warhol: Black & White exhibition with an opening reception. The exhibition features a collection the artist's black and white silkscreened paintings done in the mid-1980s.
[All photos via thenightlenz ] Last weekend, Known Gallery on Fairfax hosted an opening reception for POSE 's art exhibition “RUMBLE!!” The graffiti artist hails from the Windy City, but came out west to show L.A. his Chi-town style with an impressive collection of dynamic, comic book-like paintings in his solo exhibition.
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