Made In L.A. is coming to the Hammer, Barnsdall Park, LAXART, and billboards around town on June 2 and will showcase sixty emerging, under-recognized Los Angeles artists–one of which will be voted to win a $100,000 prize. In order to help you make an educated vote this summer, we’re counting down to Made In L.A. by showcasing each artist participating in the biennial.
Nery Gabriel Lemus is a Los Angeles painter, installation artist, and video artist. He is a native Angeleno whose work very often copes with Los Angeles, particularly dealing with racial stereotypes and immigration in Southern California.
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If you haven’t heard yet, the Re-Animator The Musical is back in town for a limited time only! After rocking Los Angeles’s socks off last year, this B-movie comedy-horror-musical is back on stage at the Hayworth Theatre for a short ten-week run before it heads off to the Big Apple, then to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival after that.
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This past Friday night art and food lovers gathered at Culver City’s Royal/T for the opening of The Art of Cooking, an exhibition rooted in the celebration of food: gourmet food to fast food, homemade meals to TV dinners. The opening was a delicious affair sponsored by Jarlsberg cheese, POM Wonderful, Kirin Ichiban, and Haribo Gummi Bears. POMojitos and POMtinis flowed like water while guests admired work by Laura Owens and Yoshitomo Nara and munched on hamburger sliders, spring rolls, and Jarlsberg croquettes.
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As we shared earlier today, this weekend is the Los Angeles Music Video Festival. Eric Warheim will be sharing a crazy video, there will be a performance by Seventeen Evergreen, there will be drinks, there will be talks, there will be opportunities for you to meet cool music video people, and tons of other fun things. Tickets are available for the Festival here; but, we have a chance for you to win two tickets to the fest by sharing your favorite Los Angeles music video!
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