Tag Archives: Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA

LYDIA GARCÍA MILLÁN’S COLOR

As part of Ismo, Ismo, Ismo: Cine experimental en América Latina, the Hammer hosts a rare screening of Lydia García Millán’s COLOR (1955), one of the first abstract experimental films out of Latin America.

Shot when García was still a teen—and preceding similar work by Stan BrakhageCOLOR is part of an evening of work by women filmmakers, including Vivian Ostrovsky’s “beach symphony” COPACABANA BEACH (1983).

The soundtrack of García’s film features a performance recorded at Montevideo’s Hot Jazz Club, and Ostrovsky’s includes songs by Carmen Miranda.

 

TALLERES—EXPERIMENTAL WOMEN FILMMAKERS FROM LATIN AMERICA, Thursday, November 30, at 7:30 pm.

HAMMER MUSEUM, 10899 Wilshire Boulevard, Westwood, Los Angeles.

ismismism.org/calendar/2017/11/30/talleres-experimental-women-filmmakers

hammer.ucla.edu/programs-events/2017/11/talleres-experimental-women-filmmakers-from-latin-america

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RADICAL WOMEN—LATIN AMERICAN ART 1960–1985, through December 31.

HAMMER MUSEUM, 10899 Wilshire Boulevard, Westwood, Los Angeles.

hammer.ucla.edu/exhibitions/2017/radical-women-latin-american-art-1960-1985

Lydia García Millán, Colors (1955).

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ASTRID HADAD AT THE HAMMER

Performance artist Astrid Hadad takes a hard look at Mexican hypocrisy, machismo, and corruption at the Hammer this week in ASTRID HADAD—(DE)CONSTRUCTING MEXICANIDAD.

This PST: LA/LA performance-lecture is in conjunction with the ongoing exhibition RADICAL WOMEN.

 

ASTRID HADAD—(DE)CONSTRUCTING MEXICANIDAD, Wednesday, November 29, at 7:30 pm.

hammer.ucla.edu/programs-events/2017/11/astrid-hadad

RADICAL WOMEN—LATIN AMERICAN ART 1960–1985, through December 31.

HAMMER MUSEUM, 10899 Wilshire Boulevard, Westwood, Los Angeles.

hammer.ucla.edu/exhibitions/2017/radical-women-latin-american-art-1960-1985

Astrid Hadad. Image credit: Hammer Museum.

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ALLORA AND CALZADILLA AT MARCIANO

A selection of works by Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla (they work together) is on view at the Marciano Art Foundation, part of LATIN AMERICAN ARTISTS IN THE MARCIANO COLLECTION, a PST: LA/LA program.

 

LATIN AMERICAN ARTISTS IN THE MARCIANO COLLECTION, through January 13.

MARCIANO ART FOUNDATION, 4357 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles.

marcianoartfoundation.org/exhibition/pst-latin-american-artists

From top: Shape Shifter, 2013; Petrified Petrol Pump, No. 2, 2010; Intermission (Halloween Iraq 2), 2008. All artwork by Allora & Calzadilla,

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Allora & Calzadilla, Intermission (Halloween Iraq 2), 2008
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SIMON DOONAN ON MUNDO MEZA

Simon Doonan—author and window-dresser-for-Barneys nonpareil—will be in Los Angeles this weekend to give a talk on the life and times of his friend, the late artist Mundo Meza (1955–1985), with whom Doonan collaborated on window displays at such West Hollywood boutiques as Maxfield Bleu.

Doonan’s talk is part of the ongoing PST: LA/LA exhibition AXIS MUNDO: QUEER NETWORKS IN CHICANO L.A. This program is presented in collaboration with ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives at the USC Libraries with the support of the City of West Hollywood’s WeHo Arts program.

 

SIMON DOONAN ON MUNDO MEZA, Sunday, Nov 19, 2017 at 3 pm.

CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS, 625 North San Vicente Boulevard, West Hollywood.

moca.org/program/simon-doonan-on-mundo-meza

AXIS MUNDO: QUEER NETWORKS IN CHICANO L.A., though December 31.

MOCA PACIFIC DESIGN CENTER, 8687 Melrose Ave, West Hollywood.

ONE ARCHIVES GALLERY, 9007 Melrose Avenue, West Hollywood.

moca.org/exhibition/axis-mundo-queer-networks-in-chicano-la

Simon Doonan (left) and Mundo Meza at Maxfield Bleu, West Hollywood, in the early 1980s. Photograph by Wayne Shimabukuro, from the collection of Jef Huereque.

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MAKING ART CONCRETE

As part of its PST: LA/LA initiative, the Getty Museum takes a deep look at Neo-Concretism in Brazil and Argentina. MAKING ART CONCRETE examines “the formal strategies and material choices of avant-garde painters and sculptors” in works of geometric abstraction created between 1946 and 1962.*

 

MAKING ART CONCRETE, through February 11, 2018.

GETTY CENTER, 1200 Getty Center Drive, Brentwood, Los Angeles.

*getty.edu/art/exhibitions/cisneros

See: artspace.com/magazine/what-was-concretism

From top: Hermelindo Fiaminghi, Seccionado no. 1/ Sectioned No.1, 1958, and Alternado 2, 1957. Both alkyd on hardboard, and Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros.

© Estate of Hermelindo Fiaminghi

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