Hustler of Culture

NYC - Shepard Fairey's "May Day" (05.01.10 - 05.29.10)

Bristol - "Art From The New World" (05.01.10 - 08.22.10)

COREY HELFORD GALLERY

in collaboration with
BRISTOL’S CITY MUSEUM & ART GALLERY
present

Art From The New World
A Big Brash Exhibition of the New American Art Scene

Saturday, May 1 – Sunday, August 22, 2010
Bristol’s City Museum & Art Gallery
Queen’s Road, Bristol BS8 1RL
Free entry. Open daily 10am-5pm

NYC - Faile + Bast's "Deluxx Fluxx Arcade" (04.30.10 - 05.27.10)

FAILE & BÄST
DELUXX FLUXX ARCADE

April 30 – May 27, 2010
Opening Friday, April 30, 2010, 7:30 – 10:30 PM

What do you get when Brooklyn-based duo Faile and collaborator Bast take over a disused store front on the Lower East Side? Deluxx Fluxx, a functional video arcade that will be open to the public from April 30th to May 27th.

Berlin - Kirstine Roepstorff's "Illuminating Shadows" (04.30.10 - 06.19.10)

Kirstine ROEPSTORFF

Illuminating Shadows
April 30 – June 19, 2010
Opening: Friday, April 30, 2010 7 – 10pm

special opening weekend hours:
Saturday, May 1, 12 to 7pm
Sunday, May 2, 12 to 7pm

Peres Projects Berlin
Schlesischestrasse 26, Kreuzberg Berlin

Happy 40th Earth Day!

LA - Women's Work Event (04.25.10)

LA - Open Source Satellite Initiative (04.25.10)

Open Source Satellite Initiative

Sunday April 25th, 2010, 5pm

By Song Hojun

So far, almost all space programs have been led by governments, usually as part of their military programs. Very seldom were these initiatives developed by amateurs. After three years of research and one year of experience as a satellite engineer, Song Hojun has found that it is possible to launch and operate a personal satellite at a fairly reasonable price. In addition, he has for the past five years been exploring ways to integrate the concept of a personal satellite project into cultural contexts and into his artistic practice.

All the satellite-related systems (except for the rocket to launch it) are DIY programs –- designed so that regular people may also have the chance of developing and eventually launching their own.

Join us (last minute!) this Sunday April 25th at 5pm for a presentation by Song, who will have his satellite with him for showing.

For the people who want to study more before they come, they can download Song’s book from Google Books here: http://bit.ly/diEUDa

LA - "Rooms" (04.24.10 - 05.15.10)

LA - Phil Frost's "Pale Writer" (04.24.10 - 05.15.10)

NYC - Steve MacDonald's "The Last Dragon" (04.24.10 - 05.15.10)

LA - David Choe's "Nothing to Declare" (04.23.10 - 05.23.10)

David Choe

Nothing to Declare, a month long exposition featuring the artwork of David Choe

Lazarides Temporary Gallery & Shop, Beverly Hills
320 North Beverly Drive, Beverly Hills CA 90210
(323) 202- 6339

April 23rd - May 23, 2010
Open Daily, Noon - 8pm

The exposition will be held in an 8000 sq. ft space in Beverly Hills. The show will contain over 40 pieces of artwork and large-scale installations. There will be a shop within the space showcasing books, toys and prints by the artist.

LA - SCI-Arc Undergraduate Thesis & Spring Show (04.23.10 - 05.16.10)

SCI-Arc Undergraduate Thesis & Spring Show

April 23 - May 16, 2010

Undergraduate Thesis Reviews: Friday, April 23 from 10am-7pm
Public reception: Friday, April 23, from 7-9pm

The Southern California Institute of Architecture is pleased to present Undergraduate Thesis & Spring Show beginning Friday, April 23.

UNDERGRADUATE THESIS
SCI-Arc undergraduate thesis presentations and reviews will take place on Friday, April 23, from 10am to 7pm in the W. M. Keck Lecture Hall. The work is the culmination of five years of study and coursework leading toward the B.Arch degree.

SPRING SHOW
The annual SCI-Arc Spring Show, which includes student work from all school programs, will open on Friday, April 23, with a public reception from 7 to 9 pm. Undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate design studio projects, as well coursework from the applied, cultural, and visual studies seminars, will be installed throughout the school for the exhibition and will be on view for the public through May 16, 2010.

The Creative Lives: Barry McGee

Barry McGee Feature from TheCreativeLives on Vimeo.

'Exit Through the Gift Shop' US Premiere

Thanks to Team Banksy for the very entertaining evening. "Exit Through The Gift Shop", Banksy's first foray in feature length entertainment, left me mulling the authenticity of artist/filmmaker Thierry Guetta aka Mr. Brainwash and discussing the commodification of art with friends for days. I thoroughly enjoyed the comedic nature of the film, the archival footage, especially the clip with a young Shepard Fairey and his wife Amanda at Kinko's, and the  peek behind the street art curtain.

A great follow up to Banksy's 2006 LA-art coup, "Barely Legal", "Exit Through The Gift Shop" left me wanting to see more. For those that can read the writing on the wall, I think this art project is a laugh at or laugh with set up. Which camp are you in?

LA - Jazz at LACMA (04.16.10, 04.23.10 + 04.30.10)

Music | Jazz at LACMA Returns

The always popular Jazz at LACMA series is back! Starting on April 16, come to LACMA every Friday night through November and enjoy a free outdoor concert and free admission to the permanent collection for your friends and family. Check out the list of legends and emerging artists that will take the stage in April:

Friday, April 16
Red Holloway with Gerryck King and the J.O.S. Band

Friday, April 23
Alan Pasqua Quartet

Friday, April 30
John Proulx

LATCC | 6 pm | Free, no reservations

Learn more about Jazz at LACMA >>>

Jazz at LACMA is made possible in part by the Johnny Mercer Foundation. In-kind media support is provided by KJAZZ 88.1

NYC - Sonic Youth Book Event (04.10.10)

LA - "SUBject/subJECT" (04.10.10 - 05.08.10)

LA - Robert Lazzarini/Jonathan T.D. Neil Event (04.10.10)

Robert Lazzarini talks with Jonathan T.D. Neil

Artist and ArtReview Editor at Large talk about his exhibition guns, knives, brass knuckles

Saturday, April 10, 5 - 6pm

HONOR FRASER
2622 S. La Cienega Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90034

Robert Lazzarini lives and works in New York. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts, New York. Lazzarini has shown both nationally and internationally with solo exhibitions at Deitch, New York, the Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT and group exhibitions at Yautepec, Mexico City, Haunch of Venison, New York, Tsinghua University Museum, Beijing, and FLAG Art Foundation, New York. His work is part of the public collections of The Carnegie Museum of Art, The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

Jonathan T. D. Neil is Editor at Large for ArtReview magazine, Executive Editor of the Drawing Papers series of publications for The Drawing Center, New York, and a partner of Boyd Level LLC, a private curatorial firm. He will defend his Ph.D. dissertation (Columbia University) this spring and is at work on two book projects: How Art Works, a critical and opinionated general interest polemic aimed at combating the many misunderstandings about art's role in contemporary culture; and a currently untitled study that develops a theory of art in relationship to contemporary moral and political philosophy.

LA - Amanda Visell's "Primeval Love" (04.09.10)

LA - Robert Lazzarini's "Guns, Knives, Brass Knuckles" (04.09.10 - 05.08.10)