Film

Classical Around Town with the ABC+ Ensemble

By Jaime E. Love 2 weeks ago

Classical Around Town with the ABC+ Ensemble

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Fri, 04/29/2022 – 10:23

Join us for a concert featuring the ABC+ Ensemble at Earvin “Magic” Johnson Park.

This hour-long concert will feature a string quartet of leading BIPOC musicians performing family-friendly music, with a Q&A to follow. This will be a fun, informal, and intimate presentation geared toward families and those who enjoy and want to learn more about classical music in an informal setting.

Please follow all L.A. Parks COVID protocols.

Earvin “Magic” Johnson Park | 905 E El Segundo Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90059

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Classical Around Town with the ABC+ Ensemble
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Music
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Earvin “Magic” Johnson Park | 905 E El Segundo Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90059

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Photos courtesy of Chris Woods, Stephanie Matthews, Laurann Angel, and Adrienne Woods
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Web-Like String Installations by Chiharu Shiota Hold Tension Between Absence and Existence

By Jaime E. Love 3 weeks ago



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#installation
#site-specific
#string

April 28, 2022

Grace Ebert

A profound sense of curiosity and a search for answers consumes Chiharu Shiota’s practice. The Osaka-born, Berlin-based artist is known for her massive installations that crisscross and intertwine string into mesh-like labyrinths. Simultaneously dense in construction and delicate and airy, the site-specific works rely on negative space and a recurring theme of “absence in existence,” Shiota tells Louisiana Channel in a new interview.

Chronicling the artist’s evolution and surveying her works across decades, the short film visits her Berlin studio, where a suspended boat hangs from the ceiling and Shiota shares some childhood paintings. She describes the latter medium as limiting her expression, prompting  her first interactions with string and the concept of “drawing in the air.” The film then follows Shiota to Cisternerne in Copenhagen, where she weaves a web of white string across the

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Voices of Experience – Graeme Stevenson

By Jaime E. Love 3 weeks ago

Voices of Experience

Graeme Stevenson

Age of Innocence, © Graeme Stevenson
Age of Innocence

   We know Graeme Stevenson primarily from his very successful, award-winning television series, Colour in Your Life. Stevenson has traveled internationally to interview artists and show their work and lives to his large world-wide audience. (Graeme visited us in our studios here to film a segment on John’s work in 2018.) Colour in Your Life has been filmed in seven countries and is syndicated on television networks in over 50 countries. In his goal to preserve the work of artists for future generations to enjoy, Stevenson had collaborated with Dr. Samuel Paralta (who is working with NASA and SpaceX) to have all episodes of the show included in a SpaceX Lunar rocket that will take them to the moon.

   285 full-length Colour in Your Life episodes—representing every season plus special editions—have been loaded into the Lunar Codex, which is currently being

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Weather Engines. The poetics, politics and technologies of the environment – We Make Money Not Art

By Jaime E. Love 3 weeks ago

Weather Engines, which opened at Onassis Stegi and the National Observatory of Athens a couple of weeks ago, is looking at the climate crisis through the prisms of social justice, technology and the weather.


Afroditi Psarra and Audrey Briot, Listening Space, 2019. Waiting for satellites


Paky Vlassopoulou, To Love the Hibiscus, You Must First Love the Monsoon, 2022. Photo: Stelios Tzetzias

The title of the exhibition intrigued me. The word “Weather” looks simple enough to delineate. Weather doesn’t have the gravitas nor the long-term aura of the word “climate”. It is local, volatile and immediate. The exhibition, however, reminds us that the weather crosses borders and that its appearance in conversations is now fraught with anxieties. Because the weather directly affects our bodies, it makes us physically aware of the state of emergency in which the Earth is today.

Now the word “Engines” has even

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