![]() You’ll find the series on Friday evenings in LACMA’s welcome plaza (just behind Urban Light) starting in April.Of all the neighborhoods in Northeast L.A.-if not the entire city-none has changed as rapidly as Highland Park. Within the space of only a few years, entire stretches of the area flipped from working class businesses to chic, trendy hangouts. ![]() The beloved program is back again for the season, and so too is its open seating and picnicking format (whereas last year you needed a reservation). One of L.A.’s best free live music offerings, Jazz at LACMA has featured legit legends over its three-decade run at the museum. But the artists in this LACMA exhibition have taken advantage of the language of advertising and manipulated it into their own works of art.įamiliar KCRW DJs and local buzz bands will be providing free, open-air tunes on select nights from July through September at the Hammer Museum, One Colorado, CAAM, Descanso Gardens, Bowers Museum, the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, JANM and-our favorite-the party-till-midnight bashes at Chinatown Central Plaza. They’re persuasive, powerful and everywhere: Advertising is woven into our daily lives seemingly at every turn and has developed its own visual cues. Objects of Desire: Photography and the Language of Advertising Of course, a movie exhibit wouldn’t be complete without screenings, so the museum has readied an entire month of restorations, rare finds and landmark films, sequenced in chronological order from the 1920s to 1971. The Academy Museum’s essential and energetic “Regeneration” exhibition spotlights nearly a century of often-overlooked Black cinema. This September, you can catch Sunday afternoon concerts at Gandara Park (right next to Bergamot Station and the E Line) that explore the roots of Americana. It’s not quite the beachfront party of Twilight on the Pier, but Santa Monica’s newest free concert series again sees the city teaming up with the much-loved McCabe’s Guitar Shop for some outdoor shows. For her first solo museum exhibition, a selection of recent single and multi-channel films and videos will be on display at the Geffen, including America, a visual archive of early African American cinema. A two-and-a-half-decade-long project, The World Wall: A Vision of the Future Without Fear features nine 10-by-30-foot panels that Baca worked on with collaborators as the toured the globe, displayed here in a cathedral-like installation.Ī formidable storyteller who employs lo-fi filmmaking to call out systemic racism and America’s social problems, Garrett Bradley became the first Black woman to win Sundance’s directing award for her incarceration documentary Time. The Chicana muralist and Great Wall of Los Angeles artist brings her collaborative mural to the Geffen. The clearest sign? Universal Studios’ annual Halloween Horror Nights is here, with haunted houses and mazes inspired by the Weekend (yes, as in “Blinding Lights” singer the Weeknd), Halloween, The Black Phone, Freak and the classic Universal Monsters. Ready or not, spooky season is slowly stalking its way ever closer. See more than 130 works of Korean art organized chronologically, stylistically and conceptually from the years 1897 to 1965, including European-influenced art via Japan in the Korean Empire (1897–1910) and colonial period (1910–45), American influences absorbed throughout the Korean War (1950–53) and the birth of the contemporary period. The Space Between: The Modern in Korean Art weekend itinerary of the city’s best concerts, culture and cuisine, every week, just for you. Whether you’re looking to scope out the latest museum exhibitions or watch a movie outdoors, you’ll find plenty of things to do in L.A. ![]() ![]() It can never come soon enough-which is why we’re already thinking about what new restaurants we want to try or where we can drive for the day. We don’t know about you, but our mind is always focused on the weekend. this weekend, including our favorite concerts, culture and cuisine We pick out the best things to do in L.A.
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