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MOCA FRESH Auction
Saturday, March 24, 2012
Bidding closes promptly at 8pm
MOCA Grand Avenue

Support MOCA at the 2012 FRESH Auction. You’ll have the opportunity to bid on hundreds of works by emerging and established artists, including John Baldessari, Joe Biel, Chaz Bojorquez, Shepard Fairey, Elliott Hundley, Liz Larner, William Leavitt, Faris McReynolds, Kim McCarty, Matt Mullican, Ed Moses, Catherine Opie, Sterling Ruby, Ed Ruscha, Cindy Sherman, and Rena Small. Enjoy music from a live band and L.A.–based DJ Mor Elian, drink, bid, and dig great art.~via the curve

PUBLIC PREVIEWS
March 17–18, 11am –6pm
March 19, 11am–5pm
March 20–21, 11am–3pm
March 22, 11am–8pm
March 23, 11am–5pm

 

Purchase tickets here.

Friends & Family

An exhibition curated by OUR Kenny Schachter and sons Adrian 15, and Kai 14 at his ROVE Gallery in London.
The show features works by a definite A-list of artists, including Donald Baechler, Joe Bradley, George Condo, Tracey Emin, Mary Heilmann, Damien Hirst, William Pope.L, Rob Pruitt, Josh Smith and Keith Tyson.

Also included in the exhibition are works by Schachter’s four sons, as well as by his wife, Ilona Rich, who launched her thriving career in the East Village, where she showed at Gracie Mansion Gallery, and also put on art and fashion shows in Chelsea.

According to Kai Schachter,  “What we are trying to do with this exhibit is to show that art is a huge part of our everyday lives, and, being brought up in a family obsessed with art, this has really helped me to put this into perspective.”~ .artnet.com

~Image via ROVE

At Home with Marina Abramović

I read this story on harpersbazaar.com about performance artist Marina Abramović (she’s dope) and her newly purchased house she shares with her close friend Givenchy designer Riccardo Tisci.  Wanted to share a few tid bits:
She occupies the lower three floors, which open onto a Japanese rock garden and a lap pool, while he has the top two floors.
Abramović’s aesthetic definitely tends toward the minimal, especially in her house, which is sparely decorated and stripped of ornamentation. “I never hang anything on the walls. There is never any art because I’m making art. I don’t want to see it because then I’ll never have a new idea. I try to start from the whiteness and manifest something after that.” And with every new house, she sells the contents of the last one.
“I hate kitchens”.


But please read the whole article here.  She is truly fascinating.

~images Jason Schmidt

 

VISIONAIRE 60 RELIGION

Ricardo Tisci, in collaboration with Givenchy, offers a meditation on religion understood as a celebration of humanity and inner truths that are beyond words.
Commissioning photography and works of art that vividly express the singularity of his aesthetic, he has collaborated with Marina Abramovic, Mert & Marcus, Karl Lagerfeld, Mario Testino, Inez & Vinoodh, Nick Knight.
Limited edition of 3,000 copies.

Vidal Sassoon : : Neutra’s Singleton House

This weekend I was able to watch Vidal Sassoon the Movie and really enjoyed it.  The movie explores the life and legacy of the most influential hairdresser in the world, whose influence far outreaches the industry he changed forever.  
 
“My whole work, beginning in the late 1950s, came from the Bauhaus,” Sassoon explains in Architectural Digest. “It was all about studying the bone structure of the face, to bring out the character. Architects have always been my heroes,” he adds.
After hearing how architecture influenced his work as a hairdresser it seems only natural that he would of course live in an architectural gem of a home (one of my favorites). In the movie there are glimpses of the famous 1959 Richard Neutra’s Singleton House that he and his wife renovated after purchasing it in 2004.  Last year Architectural Digest featured the Bel Air home in its April issue with the pictures shown above.
God, I can smell the Almond scented Shampoo and Conditioner that I used in the 80s so clearly right now.
~images via architecturaldigest.com

California Song

The Museum of Contemporary Art presents Hedi Slimaneʼs California Song, the first West Coast solo museum exhibition of the photographerʼs work, on view at MOCA Pacific Design Center from November 12, 2011, through January 22, 2012. California Song spans the photographerʼs “California period” and traces his explorations of cycles of urban youth culture and artistic communities, through installations of photographic essays, exhibitions, and publications.
Slimane has achieved global recognition over the past decade for his discovery and presentation of emerging musicians and artists. His publications on London youth are among the first books published about the early days of the new British punk-rock movement at the beginning of this decade, capturing the birth of the first generation of Internet users, and redefining the concept of “fans” as an indie youth imagery that has developed globally through emerging social networks. Slimaneʼs widely followed photographic “diary,” created in 2006, established and popularized an entirely new genre—the online photo diary. ~MOCA

If your interested in finding out more about the show, check out this article from Dazed Magazine: Jeffrey Deitch of @MOCAlosangeles speaks about the Californian soul of Hedi Slimane’s upcoming exhibition…

This is gonna be GOOD.

~photos via diary