“Step away from the Lamb and no one gets hurt!”
“There will be no Hirst Heist today, buddy.”
The LA Times reports that pistol-carrying guards protect Damien Hirst’s Away from the Flock at BCAM.
Realistic preventative measure?
Or disruption to the artistic experience?
It’s up to you to decide.
For the full story read:
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-guns31-2008may31,0,5511934.story
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Friday, May 30, 6:00–9:00 p.m. Free admission; no reservations required. Free live music, gallery tours, California video screenings, cash bar, and more.
Getty Center Museum Courtyard
1200 Getty Center Drive, LA, CA 90049. 310. 440.7300.
http://www.getty.edu/visit/events/fridays_405_053008.html
Fri. May 30 8:00 P.M
Sat May 31 8:00 P.M
Sunday June 1, 2:00 P.M.
LA Philharmonic: Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor; Yefim Bronfam, piano
Debussy: Selected Preludes; Salonen: Piano Concerto (West Coast premiere)
Walt Disney Concert Hall. 111 S. Grand Ave. LA 323.850.2000
Fri. May 30 8:00 P.M
Sat May 31: 8:00 P.M
Schnittke: Not a Midsummer Night’s Dream;
Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini; Stravinsky: Rite of Spring
Orange County Performing Arts Center
600 Town Center Dr.
Costa Mesa, CA 92626 714.556.ARTS.
http://www.ocpac.org/home/Events/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=658
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LACMA is hosting Monumental Monday replete with live music, entertainment, and hands-on art workshops.
Free admission from 12-8p.m.
Swing to the sounds of Art Deco and His Society Orchestra. Create your own art with artists Ismael de Anda and Eszter Delgado.
Performance and art workshops from 12:30-4:00 p.m
Forget the beach- take the whole family LACMA this Memorial Day!
For more information visit, http://www.lacma.org/programs/FamilyDaysIntro.aspx#Target_Mondays
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Friday 7p.m. Dance Institute. Professional Training Spring Concert.
Saturday 7:30 p.m.Spring Showcase.
Sunday 3:00 p.m. Tap and Folklorico Showcase.
Free admission, but reserved tickets required. Call 213 621-1050
Colburn School. 200 South Grand Avenue LA, CA, 90012
(213)621.2200
Three contemporary artists, Zhi Lin, Arthur Ou, and Amanda Ross-Ho, illustrate diverse Chinese American experiences from the days of the Transcontinental Railroad’s construction to the present. Pacific Asia Museum 46 North Los Robles Avenue Pasadena, CA, 91101. 626.449.2742. For more information visit: http://www.pacificasiamuseum.org/
Check out BCAM- the Broad Contemporary Art Museum- one of the largest collections of contemporary art in the world.
Saturday May 24:
4:00 P.M Tour of BCAM: Art Chats at the Broad Contemporary Art Museum.
5:00 P.M Jazz All Star Concert. Dorothy Collins Brown Amphitheater at LACMA. Concert Free. No Reservations Required.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art. 5905 Wilshire Boulevard. Los Angeles, CA, 90036. 323. 857.6000 http://www.lacma.org/
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During the best of times and the worst of times, we must always remember that Hope was the last spirit in Pandora’s Box; she captured it just in time as a last refuge for humanity.
“Only Hope was left within her unbreakable house,
she remained under the lip of the jar,
and did not fly away.”- Hesiod
Here is Pandora and the eternal possibility of Hope.
Pandora. John William Waterhouse. 1896. Oil on Canvas. Private Collection
read moreO body swayed to music, O brightening glance,
How can we tell the dancer from the dance?
William Butler Yeats, Among School Children
Ludwig Van Beethoven called music “the electric soul in which the spirit lives.” The supremely talented Camerata Pacifica filled Friends’ Hall at the Huntington with explosive electricity on Tuesday night. Pianist Warren Jones, violist Richard O’Neill, cellist Ani Aznavoorian, and violinist Catherine Leonard all gave riveting performances. The four virtuosos combined in Robert Schumann’s Piano Quartet in E-Flat major, Op. 47, laced together tightly through shades of melancholy and jubilee.
Cellist Ani Aznavoorian shone in Grieg’s Sonata for Piano and Cello in A Minor, Op. 36, her face, body, and instrument one. Aznavoorian held the cello as tenderly as Michelangelo’s Pieta, eliciting an intense palette of tones: haunting, passionate, playful, transcendent. How can we tell the dancer from the dance? In Ms. Aznavoorian’s we do not; the music and musician are one being, one entity, one spirit, in a divinely inspired performance.
Divine Inspiration
Guido Reni, Saint Cecilia, 1606,
Norton Simon Museum of Art
What better way to feel refreshed on a balmy spring evening than with a soothing concert at the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens?
Camerata Pacifica, a Chamber Music ensemble based in Santa Barbara, will be gracing the Huntington with Mozart, Grieg, and Schumann.Tuesday May 20, 8pm. Program: Mozart, Duo for Violin & Viola in B-Flat Major, K 424; Grieg, Sonata for Cello and Piano, Op. 36; Schumann Quartet for Piano and Strings in E-flat Major, Op. 47. Musicians: Warren Jones, Piano; Catherine Leonard, violin; Richard O’Neill, viola, Ani Aznavoorian, cello Huntington Library, Friends Hall, 1151 Oxford Rd. San Marino, CA, 91108 For more information on tickets please visit: http://www.cameratapacifica.org/concert_schedule/may.html#
Tosca is opening this weekend. LA Opera calls Tosca “Puccini’s action-packed pyschological thriller.” Sir Richard Armstrong conducts in May. Placido Domingo conducts the second week in June. LA Opera 135 North Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, 90012. 213.972.7219. For tickets and times, visit http://www.losangelesopera.com/productions/0708/tosca/index.htm
A Noise Within presents Shakespeare’s Henry IV Part 1.
In this play Prince Hall pals around with the portly, jolly Falstaff. A Noise Within. 234 South Brand Boulevard. Glendale, CA, 91204. 818.240.0910 For tickets, please visit http://www.anoisewithin.org/boxoffice.shtml
Marcel Duchamp Redux at the Norton Simon Museum of Art
Marcel Duchamp once said, “… the creative act is not performed by the artist alone…the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contributions to the creative act.”
So head to the Norton Simon and decipher to your heart’s content!
Norton Simon Museum of Art, 411 Colorado Boulevard. Pasadena, CA, 91105. 626.449.6840. For more information about the exhibit, please visit: http://www.nortonsimon.org/exhibitions.aspx?id=6#998
read moreQuestion: Which artist was dubbed “Jack the Dripper” by a critic from Time Magazine?
For the answer, visit this site:
http://www.nga.gov/feature/pollock/process2.shtm
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If you
a) live anywhere in the LA area
b) have a remote interest in classical music
You already know, or will learn about Gustavo Dudamel, who in September 2009 will take over the LA Philharmonic. The 27 year-old Dudamel has been called, The World’s Most Precocious Conductor, Classical Music’s Rock Star, and The hottest thing to hit Classical Music.
Others simply call him THE DUDE.
60 minutes profiled Gustavo Dudamel in an interview:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2ECiFSGNNI
Much More to come!
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