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my babies are here!

well they're more here.

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Image courtesy of the Hammer Museum. 

PLAN ForYourArt: May 17–23

Thursday, May 17

Westwood Openings and Events

READINGS: Poetry: Jennifer Moxley, Hammer Museum (Westwood), 7:30pm.

DMA M.F.A. FINAL EXHIBITION, UCLA (Westwood), 5pm.

Century City Openings and Events

Iris Nights: The Restless Genius of Garry Winogrand: A Conversation with Geoff Dyer and Sasha Waters Freyer, Annenberg Space for Photography (Century City), 7pm.

West Hollywood Openings and Events

ART DE RUE, 5Art Gallery (West Hollywood), 6–9pm.

Alain Laboile: Quotidian and Deborah Anderson: Women of the White Buffalo, Leica Gallery (West Hollywood), 6–9pm.

Openings and Events on West Adams

Americus: The Past Speaks To The Present, William Grant Still Arts Center (West Adams).

Hollywood Openings and Events

LAND IS MOVING SALE, LAND (Hollywood), 2–8pm. Performance, 8pm.

Pippa Garner: Autonomy n' Stuff (Garnerhea), Redling Fine Art (Hollywood), 6–8pm.

Downtown Openings and Events

MOCA Music: THE MARIAS, Jarina De Marco, Sister Mantos, and Chulita Vinyl Club, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA (Downtown), 6:30–9:30pm.

Screening and Panel: Far Out Black, California African American Museum (Downtown), 7–9pm.

Between a rock and a hard place, werkartz (Downtown), 7–10pm.

The Broad and X-TRA present Lynne Tillman + Kerry Tribe in Conversation, The first in a series of talks addressing the legacy of Joseph Beuys, The Broad (Downtown), 7:30pm. $15.

Nataki Garrett & Andrea LeBlanc: The Carolyn Bryant Project, REDCAT (Downtown), 8:30pm. 

Chinatown Openings and Events

SUSAN SIMPSON: MACHINE FOR LIVING, Automata (Chinatown).

Openings and Events in Leimert Park

In Conversation: Taisha Paggett & Ashley Hunt, Art + Practice (Leimert Park), 7pm.

Openings and Events in Pasadena

Dibner Lecture - The Search for Perfection in an Imperfect World, The Huntington (San Marino), 7:30pm.

Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles

AAMD Art Museum Day, Laguna Art Museum (Laguna Beach), 11am–9pm.

Book Signing with Michael Imperioli and Colin Gardner, Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Santa Barbara), 5:30–7pm.

Arts for Inclusion: BEST BUDDIES 5TH ANNUAL ART EXHIBITION, Museum of Latin American Art (Long Beach), 6–8:30pm.

Third Thursday Studio | Digital Sculpture, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara), 6pm.

Andy Coolquitt: …i need a hole in my head, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara), 6–8pm.

Factory Line with the Coachella Valley Art Scene, Palm Springs Art Museum (Palm Springs), 6:30–8pm.

Film Night: Dr. Strangelove, Laguna Art Museum (Laguna Beach), 7pm.

Friday, May 18

Openings and Events in Westwood

INSIGHT WACD SENIOR PROJECTS FESTIVAL 2018, UCLA (Westwood), 8pm. Continues May 19. 

Miracle Mile Openings and Events

Film: Free Screening: American Animals, LACMA (Miracle Mile), 7:30pm.

Openings and Events in Hollywood

Kimiyo Mishima: Paintings and Shomei Tomatsu: Plastics, Nonaka-Hill (Hollywood), 7–9pm.

Openings and Events in Los Feliz

Odd Nights, Autry Museum of the American West (Los Feliz), 6–11pm.

Downtown Openings and Events

Movie Nights at the Museum: William Kunstler: Disturbing The Universe, Los Angeles Poverty Department (Downtown), 7pm.

THE PEOPLE’S HOME | Winston Street 1974, THESE DAYS (Downtown), 7–10pm.

Cal State LA Community Impact Media Documentaries Premiere, Hauser & Wirth (Downtown), 7:30pm.

Openings and Events in Chinatown

Susan Simpson: A Machine for Living, Automata (Chinatown), 8pm. $15–20.

Openings and Events in MacArthur Park

Lawrence Jordan's Three Ring Circus, Bob Baker Marionette Theater (MacArthur Park), 8pm.

Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles

Rehearsal: The Bevy, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara), 7pm. $175.

Nour Mobarak & Bana Haffar: YOU ARE THE AUDIENCE, POTTS (Alhambra), 9pm.

Saturday, May 19

Openings and Events in the Pacific Palisades

Drawing from Antiquity: Birds, Getty Villa (Pacific Palisades), 11am–12:30pm.

Plato in America: Edward Hopper, Mark Rothko, Mike Kelley, Getty Villa (Pacific Palisades), 2pm.

Openings and Events in West L.A.

Joanne Greenbaum: Things We Said Today, Otis College of Art and Design (West L.A.), 4–6pm.

Openings and Events in Westwood

URBAN HUMANITIES ALUMNI SYMPOSIUM, UCLA (Westwood), 12pm.

Openings and Events in Venice

Frame Rate: We Eat Art Live Podcast Taping, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center (Venice), 1–2:30pm.

Chasing Ansel Adams, Arcane Space (Venice), 2–6pm.

La pérdida / perdido, DXIX (Venice), 3–6pm.

Openings and Events in Santa Monica

Pico Block Party: Empowering Youth Voices!, 18th Street Arts Center (Santa Monica), 3–6pm.

Openings and Events in Brentwood

Off the 405: Allah-Las, Getty Center (Brentwood), 6pm.

Openings and Events in Culver City

Sister Corita Kent's "International Signal Code Alphabet" Book Launch and Discussion, Arcana: Books on the Arts (Culver City), 4–6pm.

Michael Dopp: Shining Desert and Tragedy Plus Time, Roberts Projects (Culver City), 6–8pm.

Jamison Carter: Hallelujah Anyway, Klowden Mann (Culver City), 6–8pm.

Openings and Events in Beverly Hills

Beverly Hills Art Show, Beverly Gardens (Beverly Hills). Continues May 20.

Miracle Mile Openings and Events

Talk: Exhibition Tour: A Universal History of Infamy—Those of This America, LACMA (Miracle Mile), 1:30pm.

Carole Garland: Streaming Color, Tom Wheeler - Painted Light in Western Landscapes, Isabelle Hope Grahm - My Color Garden, TAG Gallery (Miracle Mile), 5–8pm.

CAMERON PLATTER: Teen Non_Fiction, 1301PE (Miracle Mile), 6–8pm.

Families: Teen Night: Middle School, LACMA (Miracle Mile), 7:30pm.

Openings and Events in Mid-City

Carla Issue 12 Launch Party, Karma International (Mid-City), 6–9pm.

Openings and Events in Koreatown

Yarn Bomb Gabba Arts District!, Gabba Gallery (Koreatown), 10am–5pm.

Middle Voice walkthrough, Visitor Welcome Center (Koreatown), 2–4pm.

Openings and Events in MacArthur Park

Express Yourself/ William Grant Still Birthday Celebration, William Grant Still Arts Center (West Adams).

Openings and Events in Atwater Village

Metafork, Thank You For Coming (Atwater Village), 11am–3pm.

Openings and Events in Frogtown

Plant Communication & Radical Communion: Spring Flower Essence Making, Women’s Center for Creative Work (Frogtown), 11am–1:30pm. $20–25.

Openings and Events in West Hollywood

In the Name of the Place by the GALA Committee, West Hollywood Public Library (West Hollywood), 3–5pm.

Nathaniel Mary Quinn: Soundtrack, M+B (West Hollywood), 6–8pm.

Openings and Events in Hollywood

Fay Ray in conversation, Shulamit Nazarian (Hollywood), 4pm.

Marilyn Minter, Regen Projects (Hollywood), 6–8pm.

Julie Curtiss: Altered States, Various Small Fires (Hollywood), 6–8pm.

Double Vision, Steve Turner (Hollywood), 6–8pm.

Patrick Braden Woody: Cloth Mother, Wire Mother, there-there (Hollywood), 7–9pm.

Openings and Events in MacArthur Park

Bailey Scieszka: Soul Dolphin, Park View (MacArthur Park), 6–8pm.

Downtown Openings and Events

Bug Fair, Natural History Museum (Downtown), 9:30am–5pm. Continues May 20.

Artist Talk: Matthew Day Jackson in Conversation with Hamza Walker, Hauser & Wirth (Downtown), 2pm.

ARTIST WALKTHROUGH with Folkert de Jong and Nathan Redwood, DENK Gallery (Downtown), 2–3pm.

Bounty, Grice Bench (Downtown), 6–9pm.

Undisrememberable Curios, PØST (Downtown), 7–10pm.

Soft Bytes Feminist Animation Festival, Tiger Strikes Asteroid Los Angeles (Downtown), 7:30pm.

Anne Guro: Rule of a High Priest Vol. I, JACE (Downtown), 8–11pm.

Openings and Events in Lincoln Heights

Workshop: The Dancing Spine: Freedom, Power & Pain Relief with the Alexander Technique with Sharon Jakubecy Klehm, Pieter (Lincoln Heights), 1–3pm.

Openings and Events in Glendale

ONE-DAY NEON ART IMMERSIVE WITH DAVID SVENSON, Museum of Neon Art (Glendale), 10am–4pm.

Openings and Events in Pasadena

Taste of Art: English Tea Time, The Huntington (San Marino), 9am.

Out of the Woods: Celebrating Trees in Public Gardens, The Huntington (San Marino).

SkillShare: Veterans & Immigrants Oral History Recording, Side Street Projects (Pasadena), 1–4pm.

Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles

Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (San Diego), 11am–7pm.

MFA Thesis Exhibitions, Part II, CTSA Gallery (Irvine), 2–5pm.

Mona Kuhn: Selected Works, Porch Gallery (Ojai), 5–7pm.

2018 Old Bags & Baubles Luncheon, Long Beach Museum of Art (Long Beach).

Sunday, May 20

Openings and Events in Venice

Venice Art Walk, Google (Venice), 12–6pm.

Openings and Events in Santa Monica

8th Annual Beyond Baroque Awards Dinner, The Church in Ocean Park (Santa Monica), 6–9:30pm.

Openings and Events in Mar Vista

George Stoll: Spirograph Drawings (1995–2017), c.nichols project (Mar Vista), 5–8pm.

Openings and Events in Westwood

2018 K.A.M.P., Hammer Museum (Westwood), 10am–2pm. $100–150.

Openings and Events in Culver City

Promote-Tolerate-Ban: Art and Culture of Cold War Hungary and Socialist Flower Power: Soviet Hippie Culture, Wende Museum (Culver City), 12–5pm.

Miracle Mile Openings and Events

Talk: Gallery Course: European Art, 1750–1850—Neoclassicism and the Barbizon School, LACMA (Miracle Mile), 8:30am.

Mark Grotjahn: 50 Kitchens and Decoding Mimbres Painting: Ancient Ceramics of the American Southwest, LACMA (Miracle Mile), 10am–7pm.

Seeing Stars: A Bamboo Sculpture Workshop with Akio Hizume, Craft and Folk Art Museum (Miracle Mile), 1–3pm. $40–50.

Downtown Openings and Events

On The Wall! Street Art Youth Workshop, 356 Mission (Downtown), 1–4pm.

Place It Workshop with James Rojas, California African American Museum (Downtown), 1–3pm.

Listening Session #2 with Noah Copelin, MOCA Grand Avenue (Downtown), 3pm.

The World Is My Home, THE SPACE by ADVOCARTSY (Downtown), 4–7pm.

Openings and Events in Frogtown

Feminist Manifesto Writing Workshop, Women’s Center for Creative Work (Frogtown), 2–6pm. $12–15.

Openings and Events in Echo Park

Luca Francesconi: Eternal Digestion, 67 Steps (Echo Park), 7–9pm.

Openings and Events in MacArthur Park

The Circus, Bob Baker Marionette Theater (MacArthur Park), 5:30pm.

Openings and Events in Lincoln Heights

Orgasmic Yoga: Dr. Victoria Reuveni, Pieter (Lincoln Heights), 6–10pm. $30–40.

Openings and Events in Highland Park

Miller Robinson: Of this body; of this earth, Southwest Museum (Highland Park), 1–3pm.

Openings and Events in Pasadena

In Conversation with Susan Whitfield and Peter Sellars, The Huntington (San Marino), 2pm.

Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles

Nam June Paik: TV Clock, Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Santa Barbara).

Artist talk: Scott Froschauer: Echo Enigma closing, Ark Gallery and Studios (Altadena), 3–5pm.

Rehearsal: The Harvest, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara), 6pm.

Monday, May 21

Openings and Events in Santa Monica

A Conversation with L.A. Artists Njideka Akunyili Crosby and Charles Gaines, Santa Monica College Performing Arts Center (Santa Monica), 6:30pm. $35.

Openings and Events in Westwood

BRETT STEELE, UCLA (Westwood), 6:30pm.

Openings and Events in Pasadena

Carnegie Astronomy Lecture - Astronomical Alchemy: The Origin of the Elements, The Huntington (San Marino), 7pm.

Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles

Families: On-Site: North Hollywood—Comic-inspired Art Series, North Hollywood Amelia Earhart Regional Library (North Hollywood), 2pm.

High Desert Test Kitchen: may ingredient: cholla, Copper Mountain Mesa Community Center (Joshua Tree), 7pm

Tuesday, May 22

Openings and Events in Westwood

INA CONRADI + MARK CHAVEZ: MEDIA ART NEXUS NTU SINGAPORE, UCLA (Westwood), 6pm.

CONVERSATIONS: The Sex Ed with Liz Goldwyn, Nina Hartley, and Dita Von Teese, Hammer Museum (Westwood), 7:30pm.

Openings and Events in Brentwood

In Focus: Expressions, Getty Center (Brentwood), 10am–5:30pm.

Miracle Mile Openings and Events

Film: The Magician, LACMA (Miracle Mile), 1pm.

Downtown Openings and Events

Youth Now, California African American Museum (Downtown), 12–3pm.

Wednesday, May 23

Openings and Events in Westwood

FOWLER OUT LOUD: JOHNNIE YAJ, Fowler Museum (Westwood), 6pm. 

Openings and Events in Brentwood

India and the World: A History in Nine Stories, Getty Center (Brentwood), 7pm.

Openings and Events in Mid-City

Back to the 80s, The Loft at Liz’s (Mid-City), 7–9pm.

Openings and Events Downtown

wasteLAnd premieres Wolfgang v. Schweinitz’s Cantata, or You are the star in God’s eye, REDCAT (Downtown), 8:30pm. $10–20.

Openings and Events in Pasadena

Curator Tour: Radiant Beauty, The Huntington (San Marino), 5pm.

Crotty Lecture - Remembering the Reformation, The Huntington (San Marino), 7:30pm.

[ideasmithy]

HOLDING HANDS You're uncomfortable in silences In sighs In whispers In conversations In wide open spaces and people So you find your solace in moving And you tell me, Make it quick, this love thing Or you-and-I just might stick Hug me like it doesn't matter  that it's not a kiss instead And I do Together, we learn to use charm as our tools Insight as currency Armed with both, we storm the marketplace Sellers looking for love, peace and wisdom We craft airbrushed relationships And plastic sentiments Indestructible and neon ranged Our love and laughter chip and flake On each other And we bleed byte-sized poetry. Bartering words Duelling with sentiments We are warrior poets Traders of such dramas With love however, We will have no dealings Packing trophy experiences Boarding passes in hand, we wait Hoping that the call that comes for me Will be yours too No strings attached No expectations, no commitments No messes, no fusses But there's nothing in our contracts that says we can't hold hands. 📸: @ayushee.ghoshal 🎶: AAJ JAANE KI ZID NA KARO - Farida Kahnum #theideasmithy #missme #dontleaveme #love #lovepoetry #poetry #romance #poetsofinstagram #poetsofig #poemsofig #poemsofinstagram #poems #poem #poetryporn #poetrylovers #poetrylove #poetrycommunity https://www.instagram.com/p/B2X__nsFuYY/?igshid=7za7jp28oql6

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Lloyd Duarte: Musical instruments (playing guitar), singing, songwriting, cooking. Reading.

I am iffy about that last one. I kind of like it because I have an idea of Lloyd growing into being a caretaker [he has first aid skills and I feel this will grow bc of danger and having a human s/o], but cooking feels a bit much for some reason. Maybe it is a skill but not a hobby?

Fun Fact: He used to play the piano, that was his parents preference. But he always wanted to be a rock star. I'm not sure where he was with that by the start of the story, I guess I shall see.

The only thing he will love more than music is Emery, so they should feel lucky. Not even LOVEJOY is so high, lol.

Katharine Cinder: Yoga.

I haven't decided on anything else yet.

Fun Fact: She used to do ballet. Not as a hobby. That was her professional goal. Then Life. I need to decide how she feels about it now. I think she still dances though. She can't not.

Freyr Erlingsson: Exercises [mainly boxing], tea making, quiltmaking, crotchet [or knitting. I haven't decided. Maybe all]. Reading.

I like Freyr with dexterous hobbies because his bit has always been The Protector.

I am racking my brain trying to figure out how he gets good herbs and yarn in the Shadow Circuit. But I imagine people trade. I also feel he's gotten jobs as a body guard. He's good at it.

Aleena Odeh: Eating. Tech repair. Maybe fashion design?

In another world, she would be doing mukbang videos.

I remember The Dead Drop tended to be more tech focused and I know she doesn't HAVE to be good at it. But I want her to be, to contribute something to the trio. I think she would want to as well .... but she's liek a herbo ... except isn't nice or buff [well she used to be nice]. However, I've just decided she's just ... gets it. LOL. I can do that. Hand-wave. She just intuitively gets tech. Maybe she has some netwitch in her bg? Can that be a thing? I have to remember to ask.

I don't think fashion design is a passion, but she is good at it. And she definitely saw it as her ticket out. She is a fairly good drawer [I wanted another good at their hands] and she likes fashion. So.

Maybe she will make the crew uniforms. LMAO. I feel Ram and Aura would do that for her. It would make her so happy.

Farryn Leshy: Murder. Haha. Just kidding. Except ... though I feel that would be more under skill than hobby. Photography. Reading.

Ey and Kathy need one more hobby.

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from here.

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ROFLMAO qweresade poor baby.

goodness i love him.

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Katharine Cinder: "This is a song about somebody else/So don't worry yourself, worry yourself" - Looking Too Closely, Fink.

Lloyd Duarte: "Mom, I'm tired can I sleep in your house tonight?" - Class of 2013, Mitski

Freyr Erlingsson: "Step one, you say, 'We need to talk'/He walks, you say, 'Sit down, it's just a talk'/He stares politely back at you/You stare politely right on through" - How to Save a Life, The Frey

Farryn Leshy: "Fallin' too fast to prepare for this/Trippin' in the world could be dangerous/Everybody circlin' is vulturous/Negative, nepotist" - Whatever It Takes, Imagine Dragons

Aleena Odeh: "My eyes are made of acid, and my tongue is sharp with spite." - Unsweetened Lemonade, Amélie Farren

my babies are here!

well they're more here.