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Each Friday, we like to showcase the latest design events and happenings. This week our venue is Los Angeles.
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January is Art Month in Los Angeles! Art Month centers around three great art fairs that include leading local, national, and international art galleries and artists: Photo LA 2009, Art LA 2009 and the LA Art Show.
Photo LA 2009
January 9-11, 2009
The opening night preview for this annual photography fair will be held on Thursday, January 8, 2009, from 6–9 pm
Barker Hangar, 3021 Airport Avenue, Santa Monica, CA 90405
http://www.artfairsinc.com/photola/2009/
Art LA 2009
January 23-25, 2009
Barker Hangar, 3021 Airport Avenue, Santa Monica, CA 90405
http://www.artfairsinc.com/artla/2009/
LA Art Show
January 21-25, 2009
Los Angeles Convention Center
The Los Angeles Art Show, the West Coast’s largest and most prestigious retail show of paintings, drawings, sculpture, photography & installation art. Pieces on display include works from George Stern Fine Arts, Louis Stern Fine Arts and Tasende Gallery among others. The LA Art Show is the apex event for January Art Month in Los Angeles. For additional information please visit www.laartshow.com.
Your January weekend calendar is starting to fill with gala art show preview parties and we are just getting started. Additionally, Los Angeles and the surrounding environs offer art walks, exhibitions, antique fairs, home shows, gardens tours and more through the month of January.
Costa Mesa Home Remodeling and Decorating Show
January 17 to February 18, 2009
Orange County Fairgrounds – Costa Mesa, CA
C.A.L.M.’s Antique Show and Sale
January 23-25, 2009
Earl Warren Showgrounds – Santa Barbara, CA
Connoisseurs gather to celebrate the legacy of 17th to 20th century decorative arts. The show benefits CALM’s programs to aid troubled youths.
Downtown Los Angeles Art Walk
The Second Thursday of Every Month in Downtown Los Angeles
Next Art Walk: Thursday, Janaury 8, 2009
12pm – 9 pm • Free Admission
The Downtown Art Walk is a self-guided tour that showcases the many art exhibition venues in Downtown Los Angeles — commercial art galleries, museums, and non-profit arts venues. Click on the following link for more details http://www.bgfa.us/daw/.
Getty Center
1200 Getty Center Drive Los Angeles, California 90049
In addition to the Getty’s collection of Western art from the Middle Ages to the present against a backdrop of dramatic architecture, tranquil gardens, and breathtaking views, the Getty museum is spotlighting a video installation by Nicole Cohen, entitled “Please Be Seated”
Daily through January 11, 2009
Internationally recognized video artist Nicole Cohen (American, b. 1970) explores the intersection of historical interiors, the social behaviors they conditioned, contemporary popular culture, and fantasy. Her project for the Getty Museum focuses on the Museum’s collection of French seating furniture and its original and museological contexts. Viewers are invited to engage in a participatory experience, forming personal, imaginative narratives through video projections that render the chairs virtually accessible.
Huntington Library, Art Collections and Gardens
1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA 91108
A “New and Native” Beauty: The Art and Craft of Greene & Greene
On view through Jan. 26, 2009
The Arts and Crafts legacy of Charles and Henry Greene is examined in a major exhibition. In all, the show features approximately 140 objects from the collections of The Huntington, the Gamble House, and other private and institutional lenders. Many of the works on view have never before been seen by the public.
LACMA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art
5905 Wilshire Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90036
Holds more than 150,000 works spanning the history of art from ancient times to the present. Current exhibit highlights include:
The Arts and Crafts Movement: Masterworks from the Max Palevsky and Jodie Evans Collection
Through March 8, 2009
Hearst the Collector
Through February 1, 2009
Long Beach Outdoor Antique and Collectible Market
Veterans Stadium
5000 Lew Davis Street
Long Beach, CA 90808
January 18, 2009 (Third Sunday of every month)
Spread out over 20 acres you’ll find well over one half million antiques and collectibles. Established in 1982, this event was named one of the top ten flea markets in the United States by Harry Rinker, author and antique expert. You can find more details on their website: http://www.longbeachantiquemarket.com/index.shtml.
MOCA Pacific Design Center
MOCA Focus: Illustrate & Multiply: An Open Book
On view through January 12, 2009
To Illustrate and Multiply: An Open Book constitutes the first large-scale, museum survey of artists’ books in Los Angeles since 1978, presenting work dating from 1965 to the present by both emerging artists who have begun to experiment with this media and established artists who view bookmaking as an integral part of their artistic practice.
Norton Simon Museum
411 W. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91105
January featured events include:
Spotlight Talk: Ruth Weisberg: Guido Cagnacci and the Resonant Image
Saturday, January 3, 1:30 p.m.
Vermeer’s Painting Techniques: Time Stilled and Light Made Tangible
Saturday, January 3, 4:00 p.m.
Adult Drawing Class: Anatomy Lessons
Friday, January 23, 6:30 p.m.
Spotlight Talk: The Art of War
Saturday, January 24, 12:30 p.m.
The Intimate Interior: Vermeer and His Contemporaries
Saturday, January 31, 4:00 p.m.
Pacific Design Center
The Art of Blake Edwards
Curated by Gail Feingarten Oppenheimer of Feingarten Galleries
January 9-31, 2009
One of Hollywood’s most distinguished writers/directors, Blake Edwards has also been a painter and sculptor for over 40 years. He brings to his art the same passion, elegance and humor that delights us in his films.
Pasadena Antique Center
480 S. Fair Oaks Avenue, Pasadena, CA, 91105
Mammoth antique center brings together more than 130 vendors offering furniture and collectibles from nearly every period and movement. Open 7 days from 10am-6pm.
http://www.pasadenaantiquecenter.com/
The Pomona Home & Garden Show
January 9, 10, 11, 2009
Fairplex L.A. County Fairgrounds
1101 W. McKinley Avenue, Pomona, CA 91796
http://www.homeshowconsultants.com/page3.html
Rose Bowl Flea Market & Arts and Crafts Outdoor Festival
Rose Bowl
1001 Rose Bowl Drive
Pasadena, CA 91103
January 11, 2009 (Second Sunday of each month from 5:00am-4:30pm)
Editorial Review by Traude Gomez for CitySearch
Shoppers arrive early in droves, wearing good walking shoes and sun hats, and pulling shopping carts. Don’t make other daytime plans–you’ll want to spend all Sunday perusing the endless sea of antiques and collectibles, vintage clothing and new merchandise from roughly 2,500 vendors.
In the antique and collectibles area, you’ll find row upon row of ’60s- and ’70s-era metal lunch boxes, vintage French movie posters, Mission furniture and even antique bathroom sinks. The area devoted to new merchandise–just within the entrance gate and winding around the actual stadium–carries such diverse items as office furniture, home spas, beauty products, ethnic clothing and animal feed. Keep in mind that most vendors are savvy about what they’ve got, so be sure to negotiate for good bargains.
Click on the following link for more information: http://www.rgcshows.com/RoseBowlFleaMarket/tabid/52/Default.aspx.
Virginia Robinson Gardens
1008 Elden Way, Beverly Hills, CA 90210
Offers an eloquent blend of architecture and landscape, and is a beautiful representation of an early twentieth century estate. A tour of the gardens, reflecting an era of gracious living and legendary hospitality, provides visitors with a tangible link to the rich history of Beverly Hills. The Virginia Robinson Gardens covers six hillside acres and includes five distinctive gardens. Tours may be scheduled Tuesday through Friday at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. Advance reservations are required and can be made by calling (310) 276-5367.
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