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Judy Chicago Blows Up a Football Field, Luis Buñuel Film Fest, Plane Crash As Art, Wu Tang Clan Ain’t Nothin’ to Funk Wit
Jan 20th, 2012 @ 10:37 am
Friday January 20
Tribute band battle: Abbey Road vs The DyManic Duo
It’s the question of the ages. The Beatles vs. the Stones. But at Brixton South Bay’s cover bandstravaganza, you can have it all. Cover bands Abbey Road (the Beatles) and DyManic Duo (the Stones) play a back to back set, making everyone happy.
Luis Buñuel Retrospective at the Aero
Surrealist Spanish filmmaker Luis Buñuel may be most well known for his works with Salvador Dali, but his long career showcased a style that was confrontational and beautiful at the same time. His infamous Un Chien Andalou is an eye opping experience, literally.
More info: In 1929, Spanish filmmaker Luis Buñuel - then only as old as the century - gave the world an electrifying jolt. His short film “Un Chien Andalou,” a Surrealist collaboration with artist Salvador Dalí, simultaneously hypnotized with mirthful dream logic and accosted the eye with sudden-impact images (the most famous of which, fittingly, is a severely accosted eye). Buñuel’s career in film would span the next half-century, jumping between countries of production as circumstance dictated. After making “Un Chien Andalou” and its feature-length playmate in Europe, he fled the Spanish Civil War and sought refuge first briefly in Hollywood and then in Mexico, where his “Mexican period” in filmmaking began. There he produced alternately searing and satirical razor-sharp gems of class commentary such as THE YOUNG AND THE DAMNED (LOS OLVIDADOS), THE CRIMINAL LIFE OF ARCHIBALDO DE LA CRUZ and THE EXTERMINATING ANGEL.
Saturday January 21
Twenty years after the Staten Island rap crew began, Wu-Tang is back to rappin’ with original members RZA, GZA, Raekwon, Method Man, Ghostface Killah, Inspectah Deck, U-God and Masta Killa. Hopefully Old Dirty Bastard will be looking down from heaven Bone Thugs and Harmony-style and ghost rappin some wit.
A Butterfly for Pomona – Judy Chicago
Judy Chicago made history with her iconic art piece, the Dinner Party, but she was also known for turning fireworks into artwork. In this piece sponsored by the Pomona College Museum of Art, Chicago blows up a football field in a pyrotechnic display.
Derby Doll battle: LA Ri-ettes vs. San Diego Wildfires
Skate and destroy! The original roller derby revival girls return to the Doll House for some high-speed antics. Watch Judy Gloom, Tara Armov, and Tawdry Tempest compete in the place where Alex “Axles of Evil” Cohen once rolled.
Art Lande and Albert “Tootie” Heath at CalArts
Slip into some old school jazz with some new school players as faculty from CalArts play with some jazz icons.
More Info: A rare collaboration and appearance in LA by two jazz legends! Both musicians are cultural treasures, having worked with many of the greatest artists in jazz history. First set: A four movement piece by four different pianists. Performers include faculty and alumni of CalArts: Art Lande, David Roitstein, Cathlene Pineda, and Rory Cowal.
Second set: A dedication to Eddie Marshall, a dear friend of Art Lande and Tootie Heath. Lande and Heath will play some free improv, some standards, and some of Marshall’s music.
Accidents in Abstract Painting – Richard Jackson
Richard Jackson has been a long-standing art fixture in Pasadena and his new work is totally bizarre and great. It’s an equation: Plane + Wall = Art.
More Info: Pasadena-based artist Richard Jackson will mount Accidents in Abstract Painting, his previously unfulfilled dream performance in which he crashes a remote-controlled, large-scale model airplane filled with paint into a wall that reads “Accidents in Abstract Painting.” For Jackson, this act makes an ironic comment on Action Painting and the concept of chance so prominent in abstract painting.
Anne Carson at the Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever
Act like a hipster, a real one, from the 20’s and get all like, poetry-y at Anne Carson’s reading from her new book, Nox. Snaps!
More Info: Anne Carson is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator, and professor of Classics. She has published sixteen books, the latest of which is NOX (New Directions, 2010), a book of poetry. Antigonick (New Directions, 2011), a comic book of Sophocles’ Antigone with art by Bianca Stone, is forthcoming.
Sunday January 22
Georges Méliès Shorts Program at the Aero Theater
If you saw Martin Scorcesse’s ode to the silent era Hugo, then you’re familiar with Georges Méliès the French filmmaker whose imagination brought audiences to other worlds. This screening series will show some of his rarest films with live musical accompaniment.
Magnificent Marine Invertebrates: Family Tide Pooling at Abalone Cove
The Natural History museum presents a day of hanging with all creatures slimy and spiny, during this offsite visit to Abalone cover, where science guys help families understand the worlds hidden in tidepools.
More info: “Join Dr. Gordon Hendler, Curator of Echinoderms (sea stars and relatives) and museum colleagues at Abalone Cove, one of the most beautiful rocky reefs in Southern California, for an up close and personal tide pooling experience. Discover mollusks, anemones, sea stars, crabs, marine worms, and their intertidal neighbors. Participants will learn about tide pool ecology, marine biology and what it is that makes tide pool creatures the most exotic and fascinating to Angelenos.”
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