Friday 26 July 2019

Los Angeles Tourism Reveals What's New in ARTS & CULTURE in L.A. This Summer

PetPOP
PetPOP (Arts District, Downtown)
July 11, 2019 – August 11, 2019
PetPOP will be a limited time art installation, amusement park, and interactive playground created to give humans a glimpse at how dogs and cats experience the world. The pop-up's goal is to raise awareness for shelter animals in need of forever homes. A portion of ticket proceeds will go to animal rescues like Wags and Walks and Paw Works who will hold animal adoptions on the property.
petpop.me

LA Plaza Cocina (Olvera Street, Downtown)
Late 2019
LA Plaza Cocina will be the first museum and teaching kitchen dedicated to Mexican food when it opens in Downtown L.A.'s Olvera Street at LA Plaza Village. The multi-disciplinary venue will aim to celebrate and educate visitors on Mexico's culinary heritage, from its indigenous roots to its contemporary interpretations through an array of exhibitions, cooking classes, lectures, workshops, and culinary festivals.
lapca.org/content/la-plaza-cocina-la-plaza-village


DOROTHY’S RUBY SLIPPERS
Academy Museum of Motion Pictures (Mid-City)
2020
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is bringing the world's leading film sciences museum to L.A.'s Miracle Mile. This exciting project is designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Renzo Piano, and will encompass six stories of state-of-the-art galleries, exhibition spaces, movie theatres, educational areas and special event spaces. Inaugural exhibitions will include a retrospective of legendary filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki and Making of: The Wizard of Oz.
www.academymuseum.com

The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art (Exposition Park, Downtown)
Los Angeles will welcome the 275,000-square-foot, $1-billion Lucas Museum of Narrative Art to Downtown L.A.'s Exposition Park. Works on display will come from George Lucas' personal collection of art, which consists of approximately 10,000 paintings and illustrations along with Hollywood memorabilia from films such as “Star Wars” and “The Ten Commandments.”
www.lucasmuseum.org

“Fearless Fashion: Rudi Gernreich”
Skirball Cultural Center (Westside) - “Fearless Fashion: Rudi Gernreich”
Now Through September 1, 2019
A must-see, the Fearless Fashion: Rudi Gernreich exhibit at Skirball Cultural Center presents an in depth look at the ways in which the famed designer impacted fashion through his beliefs on gender identity, utilitarianism and body positivity. On view through September 1, 2019, Fearless Fashion: Rudi Gernreich features more than 80 ensembles and is the first exhibition to focus on the social and cultural impact of Gernreich's vision.
www.skirball.org/exhibitions/fearless-fashion-rudi-gernreich

Hammer Museum (Westside) - “Sarah Lucas: Au Naturel”
Now Through September 1, 2019
The Hammer Museum presents the first American survey of the U.K.'s influential Sarah Lucas in Sarah Lucas: Au Naturel. Over her 30-year-career, Lucas has developed a provocative, humorous body of work that subverts society's traditional notions on gender, sexuality and identity as it relates to the human body and power. More than 130 photographs, collages, sculptures and installations are displayed.
www.hammer.ucla.edu/exhibitions/2019/sarah-lucas-au-naturel/

“Donna Huanca: OBSIDIAN LADDER”
Marciano Art Foundation (Mid-City) - “Donna Huanca: OBSIDIAN LADDER”
Now Through December 1, 2019
OBSIDIAN LADDER at Marciano Art Foundation is the first large-scale solo exhibition in the United States by Bolivian American artist Donna Huanca. Huanca's site-specific installation for the 13,000-square-foot Theater Gallery reveals a new topography of triggered senses by combining sound, scent and live performance. These elements are experienced together against a constellation of carved steel sculptures and her famed skin paintings.
www.marcianoartfoundation.org/exhibition/donna-huanca-obsidian-ladder/

Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) (Mid-City) - “The Invisible Man and the Masque of Blackness”
July 27, 2019 – November 3, 2019
British-born Trinidadian artist Zak Ové's sculptural installation, The Invisible Man and the Masque of Blackness, will encapsulate the complex history of racial objectification and the evolution of black subjectivity during its run at LACMA's B. Gerald Cantor Sculpture Garden. The installation's 40 graphite figures stand tall and dignified to represent the strong resilience of the African diaspora.
www.lacma.org/art/exhibition/invisible-man-and-masque-blackness


Annenberg Space for Photography (Century City) - “W|ALL: Defend, Divide, and the Divine “
September 21, 2019 – January 5, 2020
Annenberg Space for Photography will display 70 works covering the historical use and artistic treatment of walls over the centuries with W|ALL: Defend, Divide, and the Divine. Across diverse civilisations, walls have been central to human history, from Hadrian's Wall to our current debate over the U.S./Mexico border. Co-curated by Katie Hollander and Jen Sudul Edwards, Ph.D., this complex and intriguing exhibit will explore the various aspects of walls—artistic, social, political, and historical—in six sections: Delineation, Defense, Deterrent, the Divine, Decoration, and the Invisible.
www.annenbergphotospace.org/exhibits/wall/

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