LA Insider | Week of November 14, 2024: Bazaar Bazaar, Apparitions, Whammy, Soft Spot & Zines!
You can't do and see it all – but as usual, we seek to highlight a few special exhibitions, festivals, workshops and other events, with something for every interest, taste and passion. Check out art that blurs the boundaries defining landscape, figure, abstraction and pure fancy. This week, lose yourself at a 12-hour long concert with art installations at Disney Concert Hall, explore poetry reading, an architecture and design festival, make your own zine and so much more...
Gallery & Museum Exhibitions
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Marty Schnapf @ Diane Rosenstein, Hollywood
Nazarian / Curcio | West Hollywood
Vincent Pocsik: Could be Gardens
November 16—December 21, 2024
Opening Reception: Saturday, November 16 | 6–8pm
New wall and floor-based sculptures crafted in oak and walnut, drawing from the LA-based artist’s unique array of symbols and referencing elements from the manmade and natural worlds – uniting cans, shoes and tires, with flowers, hands, cacti and fruit.
Tierra del Sol | West Hollywood
Bazaar Bazaar
November 16—December 21, 2024
Opening Reception: Saturday, November 16 | 6–8pm
The gallery’s annual holiday group exhibition of 130+ artists, celebrating the creative, fantastical, practical and innovative – united as community.
Diane Rosenstein | Hollywood
Marty Schnapf: Apparitions
November 16, 2024—January 4, 2025
Opening Reception: Saturday, November 16 | 6–8pm
New paintings by the LA-based multimedia artist are deconstructed compositions anchored in the figure and the natural world, with elaborate foreground figures set in pastoral landscapes and vibrant architectural interiors. Also opening, Carl D’Alvia: Assembly.
David Zwirner | Hollywood
Walter Price: Pearl Lines
November 16, 2024—February 1, 2025
Opening Reception: Saturday, November 16 | 6–8pm
Richly vibrant paintings and drawings bypassing strict allegiances to representational or abstract modes. The artist’s canvases and works on paper experiment freely with color, line and space, while playing with perspective. Opening concurrently, William Eggleston: The Last Dyes.
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Film, Music, Theatre, Festivals & Dance
Obsession: A Taste for Fear @ Whammy! Analog, Echo Park
FILM: Dripping, Staining, Ponding
Wende Museum | Culver City
Sunday, November 16 | 2–4:30pm
A one-day screening event accompanying the exhibition, Water Marks Seeping Through Concrete. Featured films by Yeoreum Jeong, Dina Mimi, KimSu Theiler, and Minki Hong, highlight the movements, translations and adjustments of silenced voices as creative responses to a larger socio-political landscape that confiscates representation. Presented by Fellows of Contemporary Art (FOCA). Free. RSVP
FILM: Taiwan Experimental Film and Video Arts, Part 1
2220 Arts + Archives | Historic Filipinotown
Sunday, November 17, 2024 | 7:30pm
LA Filmforum presents seven films by Taiwanese artists. Four filmmakers will join for a Zoom Q&A following the screening. Tickets: $11.33
FILM: Obsession: A Taste for Fear
Whammy! Analog | Echo Park
Sunday, November 17, 2024 | 7:30pm
Whammy! hosts a VHS screening of this Italian futuristic erotic giallo from 1987.
Tickets: $8
FILM: The Seed of the Sacred Fig
AMC Rolling Hills | Torrance
Monday, November 18, 2024 | 6:50 pm, 7:00 pm & 7:05 pm
Catch a special screening of Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof’s latest film, which centers on a family during the political unrest that erupted in Tehran following the murder of a young woman in police custody. Tickets: $11.75+
MUSIC: Noon to Midnight LA Phil
Walt Disney Concert Hall | DTLA
Saturday, November 16, 2024 | 12pm–12am
LA Phil’s new music marathon includes 12 hours of live performances alongside art installations. There will also be food trucks, a beer garden and more. Part of the Getty’s PST ART: Art & Science Collide. Tickets: $12
MUSIC: Soft Spot Co-Write Group Writers Round
Healing Force of the Universe | Pasadena
Sunday, November 17, 2024 | 2pm
Songwriters will share the songs they’ve written over the past 10 weeks. Free with RSVP.
FESTIVAL: Architecture & Design Film Festival
Writers Guild Theater | Beverly Hills
Tuesday, November 19—Saturday, November 23, 2024
The 16th season of the ADFF will showcase more than a dozen films celebrating the global impact of architecture, design and art. For the first four nights, one film will screen each night at the Writers Guild Theatre in Beverly Hills. (Tickets: $20 including parking). On Saturday, November 23, eight films will be presented throughout the day at the Culver Theatre (Tickets: $18)
Literary, Readings & Book Launches
Protest Zine Workshop @ Heavy Manners Library, Echo Park
Protest Zine Workshop
Heavy Manners Library | Echo Park
Friday, November 15, 2024 | 6–9pm
Learn about political zines and make your own radical zine! Tickets: $21.05
Southern California Poetry Festival
Beyond Baroque | Venice
November 15—17, 2024
Celebrate the art of poetry at this annual three-day festival with readings and generative workshops hosted by writers, poets and literary organizations. Tickets to the opening night: $11.19
Things To Do & Workshops
Voices of Heritage @ Skirball Cultural Center
Vulture Festival
NYA East | Hollywood
November 16—17, 2024
Vulture Fest returns with a weekend of actor conversations, special screenings and more. Tickets: $25-45
Voices of Heritage: Celebrating Indigenous and Jewish Languages and Cultures
Skirball Cultural Center | Brentwood adjacent
Sunday, November 17 | 11:30 am–5:30 pm
A day-long, intergenerational celebration featuring panel discussions, art-making, games, poetry, music and performance – in conjunction with the current exhibition, On the National Language: The Poetry of America’s Endangered Tongues. Free with museum admission.
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