LA Insider | Week of September 12, 2024: Ancestral Echoes, Requiem, Mariachi Divas, In Transit & Mezcal
This week, the Fall Art Season really takes off with exhibitions opening all over town, while the phenomenal Getty initiative, PST Art: Art & Science Collide, launches too. We also highlight special happenings like a performance celebrating Quinceañeraa, a theatrical tribute to Black American poet Langston Hughes, a line-up of indie films and more...
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Olafur Eliasson: Kaleidoscope for plural perspectives, 2024, featured in Open @ The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, part of PST Art: Art & Science Collide
PST Art: Art & Science Collide
Multiple locations around Southern California
September 15, 2024—February 16, 2025
Sponsored by the Getty, this vast initiative features more than 70 exhibitions from museums and other institutions across Southern California, exploring the intersections of art and science – past, present, and in the imaginable future. Check the link above for a full list of programming, including not just art exhibitions, but a range of festivals, events, performances and more, from family-friendly craft programs to scientific explorations into the future of bio-tech.
The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA | DTLA
Olafur Eliasson: OPEN
September 15, 2024—July 6, 2025
An installation featuring a series of large-scale optical devices designed specifically for MOCA Geffen, engaging with material and immaterial qualities of the museum’s architecture – in keeping with the Icelandic-Danish artist's career-long exploration of light and color, geometry and environmental awareness. Part of PST Art: Art & Science Collide.
The Landing | Culver City Adjacent
Henry Galvin: Still Light
September 14—October 26, 2024
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 14 | 6–8pm
New acrylic-on-panel paintings exploring the architecture and landscape of the Northeast by bathing seemingly comforting and familiar spaces with a stark light that subverts nostalgia, rendering them vacant and uncanny.
M+B Gallery | West Hollywood
Eric Dwight Hancock: By and By and By
September 12—October 19, 2024
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 12 | 6–8pm
Paintings in which the artist allows past experiences and the emotional resonance of specific places to guide his brush, exploring memory through the lens of landscape. Opening concurrently, Merveille Kelekele Kelekele: Like A Magic, Welcome to L.A.
David Kordansky Gallery | Mid-Wilshire/Los Angeles
Jenna Gribbon: Life Looking in a Mirror
September 13—October 19, 2024
Opening Reception: Friday, September 13 | 6–8pm
Tender portraits of the artist with her son, this series of paintings offers a glimpse into the dynamics between a parent and child. Also opening, Fred Eversley: Cylindrical Lenses, and Matthew Brannon: Le Gant de Velours, Traversing the Fantasy, and the Thousand-Yard Stare (Disparate Subjects Happening Concurrently 1977 – 1979).
SHRINE | Melrose Hill
Meg Lipke: Long Meg and Her Daughters
September 12—October 26, 2024
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 14 | 6–8pm
Inspired by the Neolithic ceremonial site of Long Meg and Her Daughters in the UK, these paintings transcend their historical roots, merging ancient symbols with a vivid, modern palette in a unique interplay of color and form, evoking timeless landscape.
la BEAST Gallery | Cypress Park
Amy MacKay: By the Bog of Cats I One Day Will Return
September 14—October 26, 2024
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 14, 2024 | 6–9pm
The artist bridges the worlds of theater and painting through oil works inspired by Marina Carr’s play, By the Bog of Cats.
Patricia Sweetow Gallery | DTLA
Sharon Barnes: Improvisations of a Polyrhythmic Being & Demetri Broxton: Ancestral Echoes
September 14—October 19, 2024
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 14 | 4–6:30pm
Concurrent solo exhibitions featuring works by LA painter Barnes, and Oakland multidisciplinary artist Broxton, focus on the conceptual practices of both artists and their use of collage and nontraditional materials honoring Black endurance, distinction and achievements.
Film, Music, Theatre, Festivals & Dance
Tribute to Langston Hughes @ WORDTheatre, Santa Monica
FILM: She’s the Man
E.P & L.P. | West Hollywood
Friday, September 13, 2024 | 8:30pm
A teen rom-com take on Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, starring Amanda Bynes and Channing Tatum. Presented by Melrose Rooftop Theatre. Tickets: $25+
FILM: Requiem
Zebulon Cafe Concert | Frogtown
Sunday, September 15, 2024 | 8pm
A free screening of Requiem, the last film by filmmaker and poet Jonas Mekas. The film is a tribute to Verdi’s score for the Catholic funeral Mass alongside a reflection on the beauty of nature.
FILM: Happy Together
Vidiots | Eagle Rock
Wednesday, September 18, 2024 | 7:30pm
Wong Kar-wai’s queer romance stars Leslie Cheung and Tony Leung Chiu-wai as two men caught up in a tumultuous love affair. Tickets: $13
FILM: San Pedro on Film
San Pedro Heritage Museum | San Pedro
Sunday, September 15, 2024 | 3pm & 5pm
Hosted by Joshua Stecker, this program will feature clips from films, TV shows and commercials shot in San Pedro in the 70s and 80s. Tickets: $25-100
MUSIC: Rodrigo y Gabriela
Hollywood Bowl | Hollywood
Wednesday, September 18, 2024 at 8pm
Catch one of the last performances of this summer’s Hollywood Bowl season! The Grammy-winning duo features the guitar-shredding ethos of thrash metal and the rippling runs of flamenco to their guitars—Rodrigo as a lightning-fast lead player, Gabriela with a thumping, percussive style. Tickets: $10 – $164
MUSIC: ¡Viva La Tradición! La Quinceañera
The Ford Theatre | Hollywood
Saturday, September 14, 2024
Gates: 6:30pm
Concert: 8pm
A band of women bring the early 20th century all-string mariachi sound to life with vibrant vocal harmonies and colorful costumes paying homage to the Mexican cinematic divas of the ’40s and ’50s. Tickets: $53 – $100
THEATRE: Tribute to Langston Hughes
WORDTheatre | Santa Monica
Friday, September 13, 2024 | 5:30-9:30pm
A cast of actors and musicians will bring to life the work of Langston Hughes. There will be a taco food truck and margaritas for purchase before the performance. Tickets: $50
Literary, Readings & Book Launches
Charlotte Shane with Ann Friedman @ Skylight Books, Los Feliz
Charlotte Shane with Ann Friedman
Skylight Books | Los Feliz
Friday, September 13, 2024 | 7pm
Charlotte Shane’s latest book offers a provocative and tender reckoning of what it means to be a straight woman and a feminist in a misogynistic society. She will be joined in conversation by journalist and essayist Ann Friedman.
The New Series: In Transit
Beyond Baroque | Venice
Saturday, September 14, 2024 | 7-9:30pm
Writers K-Ming Chang, Joseph Rios and Michelle Tea will present work addressing the theme, In Transit. Before and after the readings, Dj Ziba Z will spin some tunes. Free with RSVP.
Things To Do & Workshops
Mezcal Por Siempre, L.A. River Studios, Mount Washington
Brittney Leeanne Williams and Dr. Tina Barouti
Anat Ebgi | East Hollywood
Saturday, September 14, 2024 | 2-3:30pm
Artist Brittney Leanne Williams will join art historian and writer Dr. Tina Barouti in discussing the current exhibition by Williams, The Form in Which the Spirit Dresses.
Mezcal Por Siempre
L.A. River Studios | Mount Washington
Saturday, September 14, 2024 | 3-8pm
A tasting event featuring 50+ mezcal producers, brands and projects along with food and music. Tickets: $81.88
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