LA Insider | Week of November 8, 2024: Dear Genius, Land's End, Reparations Club, Piano Lesson & Open Studios
As America keeps reinventing itself, we seek inspiration and innovation in the art world, an ever evolving and ever politically daring forum. In addition to artist talks and openings, this week we highlight the Inglewood Open Studios, a fun art walk on all weekend. Also on our radar, an eclectic line-up of films, music and literary events. Dare to experience...
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Roberts Projects | West Hollywood
Panel Discussion | Dear Genius: Women, Art and Technology
Saturday, November 9 | 1 pm
A panel discussion featuring Nancy Baker Cahill, Sarah Rosalena and Mindy Seu, with Jori Finkel as moderator, on the intersections between gender, art and technology. In conjunction with the current exhibition, Betye Saar: Mojotech, part of the Getty’s PST ART: Art and Science Collide.
Regen Projects | Hollywood
Walead Beshty: Profit & Loss
November 7—December 21, 2024
Artist Talk: Saturday, November 9 | 11am
A talk with LA-based artist Walead Beshty and Hamza Walker, executive director of The Brick, in conjunction with Beshty’s new exhibition. Using painting and photography, the artist examines the overlapping systems of representation, image production and networks of circulation that produce the dominant structures of material and visual culture. RSVP
Commonwealth & Council | DTLA
Carmen Argote: Holding
November 9—December 21, 2024
Opening Reception: Saturday, November 9 | 3–5pm
The artist explores the idea of holding space, as in yoga poses, through representing the figure sitting or crouching on the canvas in negative space. Argote’s identity is present in these works while also fragmented and disarticulated. Opening concurrently, Emilija Škarnulytė: Aldona
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Film, Music, Theatre, Festivals & Dance
The Piano Lesson @ A Noise Within, Pasadena
FILM: Is He or Isn’t He?: Man Facing Southeast / The Brother From Another Planet
UCLA Hammer Museum | Westwood
Saturday, November 9 | 7:30pm
Screening of two films in which norms in the human world get shaken up by an alien presence, as part of the series Science Fiction Against the Margins. Free, first-come / first-served admission.
FILM: Konkombe: The Nigerian Pop Music Scene
Vidiots | Eagle Rock
Wednesday, November 13, 2024 | 7:30pm
Konkombe: The Nigerian Pop Music Scene illustrates how native styles like juju, Afrobeat and highlife all evolved in step with the country’s social, political and spiritual currents, before the rest of the world caught wind. Tickets: $13
FILM: La Vacacicleta Shorts Program
Plaza Del Valle Community Room | Panorama City
Friday, November 8, 2024 | 7:30–9pm
Join La Vacacicleta for its monthly screening series. This month will celebrate shorts that celebrate Indigenous heritage.
MUSIC: Land’s End
AltaSea at the Port of Los Angeles | San Pedro
Saturday, November 9, 2024 | 9–7pm
Presented by L.A. Choral Lab, Land’s End will feature works by composers and vocalists. Tickets: $28.52
MUSIC: Papi Juice LA
El Cid | Silver Lake
Saturday, November 9, 2024 | 10pm
For their first ever installment in LA, Brooklyn-based queer collective Papi Juice lands at the iconic El Cid with resident DJ Oscar Nñ and a line-up of local faves. Tickets: $28.07
THEATRE: The Piano Lesson
A Noise Within | Pasadena
November 8—10, 2024
Last weekend to catch a performance of August Wilson’s Pulitzer-Prize winning play. Tickets: $51.50+
Literary, Readings & Book Launches
Metamorphosis with Sanjana Sekhar and others @ Reparations Club, West Adams
Slowing It Down: Writing Practices for Creatives
Scribble | Highland Park
Thursday, November 14, 2024 | 3pm
This process-oriented workshop will focus on two common creative blocks and offer practical solutions to overcome them, drawing upon mindfulness, feminist, and trauma-informed perspectives. The workshop is designed to be inclusive and supportive of all creatives, not just writers. Tickets: $33.99
Metamorphosis with Sanjana Sekhar and others
Reparations Club | West Adams
Friday, November 8, 2024 | 7pm
Author, filmmaker and climate activist Sanjana Sekhar will discuss Metamorphosis: Climate Fiction for a Better Future. Sanjana will be joined in conversation by Leah Thomas and Diandra Marizet, founder and co-founder of Intersecional Environentalist, Tickets: $25.38 (includes a signed copy of the book)
Things To Do & Workshops
Inglewood Open Studios
Inglewood
Saturday November 9 & Sunday, November 10 | 12–5 pm
The annual self-guided tour of artists’ studios, galleries and cultural organizations throughout Inglewood, with workshops, talks, performances and family friendly events all weekend.
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