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09/02/2011
08/18/2011
WHYRHYMER STORE OPENS ON LA BREA AVENUE
WhyrHymer
138 N. LA BREA AVENUE, LA 90036
I had the pleasure of seeing Brandon and his wife, Sundeep's work in person and I can tell you the craftsmanship and attention to detail is simply unmatched. So if you're looking for eco-friendly, custom lighting, tables, cabinets, seating or beds, the WhyrHymer line is now even easier to find. Brandon's beautiful new shop, the WhyrHymer store just hit the scene at 138 N. La Brea Avenue. Check it out -- I guarantee that you will be impressed by these one-of-a-kind designs and works of art. And it's not just about the furniture; WhyrHymer understands the importance of giving back. With each purchase, WhyrHymer donates 3% of the sale price to a charitable foundation.
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07/22/2011
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07/08/2011
06/20/2011
ED RUSCHA: ON THE ROAD (6/4 - 10/2 @ THE HAMMER MUSEUM)
This exhibition, organized by Hammer chief curator Douglas Fogle, brings together two great visionaries of art and language - Ed Ruscha and Jack Kerouac. Both men revolutionized the transparent use of words to document and comment on the shifting character of the American cultural landscape.
In 1951, Kerouac wrote On the Road on his typewriter as a continuous 120 foot-long scroll, feverishly recording in twenty days his experiences during road trips in the U.S. and Mexico in the late 1940s. With its publication in 1957, Kerouac was acknowledged as the leading voice of the Beat Generation, a group of writers that included Alan Ginsberg and William Burroughs.
Over the last few years Ed Ruscha has continued to explore his own fascination with the shifting emblems of American life by turning his keen aesthetic sensibility to Kerouac’s classic novel. Having created his own limited edition artist book version of On the Road in 2009 published by Gagosian Gallery and Steidl, and illustrated with photographs that he took, commissioned, or found, Ruscha has created an entirely new body of paintings and drawings that take their inspiration from passages in Kerouac’s novel.
As Douglas Fogle suggests, “It is completely fitting that Ed Ruscha would take up the challenge of looking at Kerouac’s On the Road. In many ways Ruscha’s entire career has offered an artistic corollary to Kerouac’s linguistic portrait of the American landscape, giving concrete visual form to the poetry of our vernacular roadside. These new works are no different except that they channel one of the greatest chroniclers of the American landscape by appropriating and artistically framing fragmented instances of Kerouac’s language.”
This exhibition includes Ruscha’s edition of Kerouac’s legendary novel, six large paintings on canvas, and ten drawings on museum board, each taking its text from On the Road. Whether painted over snow-capped mountains in Ruscha’s signature all-caps lettering or drawn atop delicately spattered abstract backgrounds, Kerouac’s words provide the artist with a means to explore his own archetypal landscape. Isolating key sentences and phrases from the novel for his paintings and drawings such as “In California you chew the juice out of grapes and spit away the skin, a real luxury,” “the holy con man began to eat,” or “fit and slick as a fiddle,” Ruscha adds another layer of deadpan aesthetic analysis to Kerouac’s original and radical use of language.
05/27/2011
TIM BURTON EXHIBIT: LACMA 5/29 - 10/31
Tim Burton
Resnick Pavilion
May 29, 2011–October 31, 2011
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art presents a major retrospective exploring the full range of Tim Burton's creative work, both as a film director and as an artist, illustrator, photographer, and writer.
Tim Burton was born in Burbank in 1958. After studying at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), he worked as an animator at the Walt Disney Studios before breaking out on his own. Taking inspiration from popular culture, fairy tales and traditions of the gothic, Burton has reinvented Hollywood genre filmmaking as an expression of a personal vision.
The exhibition brings together over 700 drawings, paintings, photographs, moving-image works, storyboards, puppets, concept artworks, maquettes, costumes, and cinematic ephemera, including art from a number of unrealized and little-known personal projects. Many of these objects come from the artist's own archive, as well as from studio archives and private collections of Burton's collaborators. Hundreds of never-before-exhibited artworks and sketches will be joined by a selection of film posters accompanied by music composed for the exhibition by Burton's longtime collaborator Danny Elfman.
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LA STREET ART: SATURDAY 5/28
Maximillian Gallery
Presents
"What Graffiti is to New York - Street Art is to Los Angeles
Featuring 15 Top LA Street Artists
Curated by MELROSE+FAIRFAX
Opening Reception:
Saturday May 28, 2011 • 6PM - 9PM
Exhibition: May 28 – June 30, 2011
05/17/2011
AGRICULTURAL PATTERNS FROM SPACE VIA NASA SATELLITE
Agricultural fields south-west of Perdizes, Brazil, photographed from the international space station. A mix of regularly gridded polygonal fields and circular centre-pivot fields mark the human land use of the region. Small tributary streams (and their adjacent floodplains) of the Araguari river extend throughout the agricultural landscape. The visual diversity of field forms is matched by the variety of crops produced here: sunflowers, wheat, potatoes, coffee, rice, soybeans and corn.
The Orange River serves as part of the border between Namibia and South Africa. Along the banks of this river, roughly 100km (60 miles) inland from where the river empties into the Atlantic Ocean, irrigation projects take advantage of water from the river and soils from the floodplains to grow produce, turning parts of a normally earth-toned landscape emerald green.
From mainland Ukraine, the Crimean peninsula extends southward, bordered on the west by the Black Sea and on the east by the Sea of Azov. Stretching across the peninsula is a network of shallow, marshy inlets sprawling over roughly 1,000 square miles (2,600 square kilometres). This network of lagoons is known as Sivash (also Syvash or Sivasÿ). Surrounding the marshy areas are agricultural fields, most of them rectangular, but some are shaped by centre-pivot irrigation systems. Urbanised areas appear along the shores of the Black Sea, and highways curve and zigzag across the peninsula.
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05/06/2011
PASADENA SHOWCASE HOUSE OF DESIGN
2011 SHOWCASE: APRIL 17 - MAY 15
An all-volunteer organization, Pasadena Showcase House for the Arts (PSHA) is a non-profit California Corporation whose members donate their time and talents to produce the annual Pasadena Showcase House of Design. Founded in 1948, and formerly known as The Pasadena Junior Philharmonic Committee, they adopted the Pasadena Showcase House of Design as their annual benefit in 1965. It is one of the oldest, largest and most successful house and garden tours in the nation.
But corporate facts don’t begin to give one a clear picture. About seventy women with a myriad of backgrounds accomplish the Herculean feat of producing the Showcase House. Many work fulltime at this “job” and they set the gold standard for volunteerism. Their commitment is legendary in the community. The organization is also strongly supported by about 200 Intermediate and Associate members who provide financial support and volunteer their time at the Showcase House.
The women of PSHA are united by their belief in the power and beauty of music. Their collective goal is to provide funding to programs that nurture the study and appreciation of music, to programs that provide music as a vehicle towards health and healing, to programs that offer music education knowing that the study of music enhances other academic subjects as well as cultural enrichment and to programs that ensure that music is available to a broad range of audiences.
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