Los Angeles in Pieces & Parts

Images from Culver City gallery walk on Washington Blvd between Helms Walk and Fairfax Ave.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Deer at Getty Villa the Italy in LA

The calm and serenity of this recreated Pompeii Villa is easy understand, when in  Disneyland-style a deer frolics so near!

LACMA is always an iconic art stop

and bright experience especially when you start our day in the neighborhood with pastries and beyond from Republique.

HAMMER!!!

This museum is so potent and dynamic that my experience fell into two distinct categories. The Armand Hammer Collection revitalized my love of some long life favorites, mainly Gustave Moreau. There is always so much to learn from the skill of these traditional masters. The beauty of these compositions and my, clearly bias, love of bouquets translated elegantly into "The Stories Of Almost Everyone" exhibit. Every object has a story. What does it mean when you place that object and that story in an institutional setting and burden it with a canon of higher meaning? Some of these works were pure cheek, while others were heartbreaking records of human history. 

Indulgences:

The pop up shop at Hammer (Rat Bastards), GUCCI (another theme park moment waiting in the long Rodeo Drive line to get into the storefront) Laduree Salon de Tea (the height of French decadence, eventually I’ll patron every Laudree in the world)

The End

at the Castle in the Rain - Greystone Mansion and Park

An icon in the film industry. It was worth winding up into the Beverly Hills as this epic house made for a great last look at the L.A. cityscape, even through a rainstorm.

Jolt of Santa Fe

Through a time and space I re-emerged for the weekend in my homeland of New Mexico. Greeted by a vast expansive landscape that connect any adventurer to new art experiences. These interactive new art media connected me wholelisticly to the oddities, creativity, and wonder of a desert odyssey. 

First up the annual Currents New Media Show

held at El Museo Cultural De Santa Fe in the Railyard Plaza.  This industrial rail yard has been modernized to be the mecca for all things contemporary art (Site Santa Fe being a major on site institution) Currents is a large interactive instillation show featured hundreds of artists, held in a giant warehouse space complete with full stage for time based performances.  The goal of Currents is to be:

"showcasing interactive and fine art video installations, multimedia performances, single channel video, animation, digital dome programs, experimental documentary,web based/app art forms, architectural mapping, the oculus rift, robotics and 3D printing."  

-just to name a few among new media and the merger of these various disciplines overlapping all collimating in grand experiments.

Next up Meow Wolf 

This converted bowling ally in Santa Fe is the site for completely interactive, narrative, art instillation called The House of Eternal Return. This 2 hour long experience makes oh-so much since in the desert of New Mexico, where it is easy to believe in aliens, conspiracy, and portals to other dimensions.  The list of artist that worked on the space goes on and on, funding was largely made possible by George R R Martin the local Santa Fe author.