Message #517
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MOCA NEWS | | Date: | Saturday August 6, 2005 12:40:07 am MDT | | URL: | http://moca.org/nightvision |
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AUGUST
Although French designer Jean Prouvé is best known for his innovative furniture, he was also one of the last great constructeurs, part architect, part engineer, whose hands-on approach resulted in buildings of lasting elegance and ingenuity. A multi-media exhibition that designers, architects, and prefab fans will revel in, Jean Prouvé: Three Nomadic Structures opens Aug 14 at MOCA Pacific Design Center.
Meanwhile, the Basquiat adventure continues downtown with NIGHT VISION: MOCA After Dark, our Saturday night program featuring music by DJ Nobody and Languis, a performance by Roger Guenveur Smith, spoken word by Kamau Daaood and Brendan Constantine, and a screening of Style Wars, the Sundance award-winning documentary about New York graffiti artists in the '80s. Get free admission to the whole series by becoming a MOCA member.
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August Events
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SATURDAY, AUG 6
6pm-midnight
MOCA GRAND AVENUE
NIGHT VISION: MOCA AFTER DARK
MOCA stays open late for art viewing, DJs, film screenings, exhibition tours, spoken word, artmaking, and a bar and light fare at Patinette Café.
HIGHLIGHTS
8pm
Style Wars and Style Wars: ReVisited
The award-winning feature Style Wars captures the golden age of hip-hop and the 1980s graffiti artist culture that transformed the New York subway system. Style Wars: ReVisited portrays the lives of the original participants 20 years later. A panel discussion follows with director Tony Silver, and Funny Garbage's Peter Girardi and Todd James. Space is limited. Seating is first come, first served.
10pm
The Sahaja Uprockers
This Los Angeles-based trip-hop trio fuses hip-hop, soul, jazz, and international riddims into a uniquely organic sound.
Events are FREE with museum admission
INFO 213/621-1734 or moca.org/nightvision
SUNDAY, AUG 7
10am-1pm
MOCA GRAND AVENUE
CLASS
Art in the '80s
This course looks at the work of Jean-Michel Basquiat within the context of the 1980s art world. Discover the major talents, the post-modern masterpieces, and feverish art-buying climate of the decade with exhibition walkthroughs, supplemental slide lectures, and discussions. Continues Aug 14 and 21.
Class is almost full! Register now. Course number 855.28. $105 MOCA members (reg# 4000B); $125 general (reg#2842B).
INFO 310/825-9971 or uclaextension.org
SUNDAY, AUG 7
1-3:30pm
MOCA GRAND AVENUE
FIRST SUNDAYS ARE FOR FAMILIES
Workshop
Was Jean-Michel Basquiat the first grown up to "solve the kid code"? Artist Andrea Kabwasa's workshop will help your family experiment to find the answer.
FREE
No reservations required
INFO 213/621-1712
MONDAY, AUG 8
8:30am-4pm
MOCA GRAND AVENUE
MOCAMANIACS SUMMER CAMP
A Sketch In Time, grades 4-6
Make extraordinary art using ordinary materials, memories, and spaces. Continues through Aug 12.
$250 MOCA members; $275 general
INFO 213/621-1745 or ttachibana@moca.org
THURSDAY, AUG 11
Noon-8pm
MOCA GRAND AVENUE
DOWNTOWN ART WALK
MOCA Grand Avenue is a participating venue.
FREE
INFO
SATURDAY, AUG 13
6pm-midnight
MOCA GRAND AVENUE
NIGHT VISION: MOCA AFTER DARK
MOCA stays open late for art viewing, DJs, film screenings, exhibition tours, spoken word, artmaking, and a bar and light fare at Patinette Café.
HIGHLIGHTS
8pm
Roger Guenveur Smith
Obie-award winning writer, actor, and author of A Huey P. Newton Story, remembers his friend in an intimate solo performance, In Honor of Jean-Michel Basquiat.
Screening: Downtown 81
10pm
Hip-hop Karaoke
UponShop Records provides the instrumentals; the audience drops the rhymes (all lyrics provided). DJs Azul 213, B Pope, Rab Jab, and Phoreyz from UponShop—a soul, funk, and hip-hop record shop and gallery in Silver Lake—spin throughout the evening.
Events are FREE with museum admission
INFO 213/621-1734 or moca.org/nightvision
SUNDAY, AUG 14
MOCA PACIFIC DESIGN CENTER
Jean Prouv�: Three Nomadic Structures opens
SUNDAY, AUG 14
3pm
MOCA PACIFIC DESIGN CENTER
MOCA ART TALKS
PRESENTED BY GALLERY C
Evan Douglis (exhibition co-curator, and chair, undergraduate architecture, Pratt Institute) and Robert Rubin (exhibition co-curator and historian) speak on Jean Prouv�. FREE
THURSDAY, AUGUST 18
7:30pm
PACIFIC DESIGN CENTER, SILVERSCREEN THEATER
New Film Works
MOCA and Film Independent (FIND) present a screening of The Puffy Chair followed by a Q & A and reception.
FREE for MOCA and FIND members plus one guest
INFO 213/633-5367
SATURDAY, AUG 20
6pm-midnight
MOCA GRAND AVENUE
NIGHT VISION: MOCA AFTER DARK
MOCA stays open late for art viewing, DJs, film screenings, exhibition tours, spoken word, artmaking, and a bar and light fare at Patinette Café.
HIGHLIGHTS
8pm
Manuel Ocampo: God is my CoPilot
This film profiles the young West Coast artist trying to negotiate multiculturalism in the contemporary art world. Starring Dennis Hopper, Julian Schnabel, Paul Schimmel, Fred Hoffman, Annina Nosei, and Mary Boone. Q & A with director Phillip Rodriguez follows.
10pm
DJ Nobody
L.A. vinyl junkie DJ Nobody, of the KXLU 88.9FM weekly session She Comes in Colors, spins tracks from his debut album Soulmates and recent release Pacific Drift. Music programming by Moj Mahdara and Associates.
Events are FREE with museum admission
INFO 213/621-1734 or moca.org/nightvision
SUNDAY, AUG 21
3pm
MOCA GRAND AVENUE
MOCA ART TALKS
PRESENTED BY GALLERY C
Kellie Jones—assistant professor, art history and African-American Studies, Yale University, and exhibition co-curator—speaks on the work of Jean-Michel Basquiat.
FREE with museum admission
SATURDAY, AUG 27
6pm-midnight
MOCA GRAND AVENUE
NIGHT VISION: MOCA AFTER DARK
MOCA stays open late for art viewing, DJs, film screenings, exhibition tours, spoken word, artmaking, and a bar and light fare at Patinette Café.
HIGHLIGHTS
8pm
Concord Records CD Release Party
Celebrate the release of Basquiat Salutes Jazz, a new compilation featuring music that inspired Jean-Michel Basquiat.
Spoken Word
National Poetry Series finalist Brendan Constantine (Hyenas 57) reads with World Stage Performance Gallery co-founder and poet Kamau Daaood (The Language of Saxophones: Selected Poems of Kamau Daaood).
Screening
Downtown 81
10pm
Languis
This prolific rock, pop, noise, and electronic-influenced duo spreads their "intergalactic Nature Channel flavor" (City Pages) at MOCA. Music programming by Moj Mahdara and Associates.
Events are FREE with museum admission
INFO 213/621-1734 or moca.org/nightvision |
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