Dancers, a World War II searchlight, and 400 spools of thread combined to turn the Getty Center’s Arrival Plaza into a performative installation last Friday night. Hirokazu Kosaka’s Kalpa was part of the Pacific Standard Time Public Art Festival, an 11-day celebration of performance art in public spaces. Because of the setting, it took hours [...]
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Tags: Hirokazu Kosaka, Kalpa, Pacific Standard Time, performance art, performances, PST, PSTinLA, video
From January 19 to 29, the Pacific Standard Time Performance and Public Art Festival will present more than 30 new public art commissions and re-invented works of performance art inspired by the amazing history of art in Southern California. As we move into the final days before the festival, artists are moving into their final [...]
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Tags: Eleanor Antin, festival, Judy Chicago, Lita Albuquerque, Pacific Standard Time, performance art, performances, PST, PSTinLA, Richard Jackson
The Pacific Standard Time Performance and Public Art Festival opens on January 19. For 11 days, artists will be activating public spaces across the city with a variety of performances and public art. From Pomona to Santa Monica beach, these works will include everything from experimental music and conceptual art to dance, light shows, pyrotechnics, [...]
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Tags: festival, Judy Chicago, Machine Project, Pacific Standard Time, performance art, performances, PST, PSTinLA, Suzanne Lacy
What is “¡Sí Cuba! SoCal,” you ask? Well, it all started in New York this spring with a multi-venue festival celebrating Cuban culture, called ¡Sí Cuba!. Then, coincidentally, several cultural institutions across Southern California, including we here at the Getty, realized we were all planning events about Cuba, too. Since the events in Southern California [...]
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Tags: Cuba, film series, free events, Music, performances
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Early-morning showers and threatening clouds didn’t keep families from coming to our most recent Family Festival, a celebration of Chinese, Indian, and Japanese culture. More than 7,600 kids and parents attended the festivities that took place throughout the Getty Center. What did they do? Everything from having their faces painted like traditional Chinese opera performers [...]
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Tags: Asia, Family Festival, Family Programs, free events, kids, performances
Just 48 hours before he was pounding percussion onstage at the Getty Center this past weekend, one of the creators of Sounds and Rhythms of Afghanistan (S.A.R.A.) was teaching tabla drumming at a music school in Kabul. But the Afghan-American Angelino is used to that commute. “I feel like an ambassador of music,” said Salar [...]
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Tags: Afghanistan, concerts, Music, performances, Sounds and Rhythms of Afghanistan, Sounds of L.A., video
We really turned it up this year at Saturdays Off the 405 with an eclectic mix of the best and brightest new music—including a season finale on October 9 with New Wave favorite the Tom Tom Club, doing totally live versions of their hits without sequencers or backing tapes. Since bassist Tina Weymouth and drummer [...]
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Tags: Aloe Blacc, Bomba Estéreo, Dawes, Les Savy Fav, Mayer Hawthorne, performances, Saturday evening events, Saturdays Off the 405, The Antlers, Tom Tom Club
What is it like to perform Greek tragedy in an outdoor theater setting? The director, the composer and musical director, and cast members of the sold-out new production of Sophocles’ Elektra—which premieres tonight at the Getty Villa—gave us their take as they prepared to open the show. The production features a newly commissioned translation by [...]
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Tags: Bonfire Madigan Shive, Carey Perloff, Elektra, Manoel Felciano, Olympia Dukakis, Outdoor Classical Theater, Pamela Reed, performances, Sophocles
With heart-shaped LPs and fizzy mint juleps in hand, energetic fans welcomed Mayer Hawthorne and the County’s dazzling retro-crooning act on June 12 at our second outdoor concert of the summer. It was a stylish show. Mayer set the fashion bar in a black satin tux with white tipping, fat Buddy Holly glasses, and gleaming silver [...]
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Tags: concerts, Music, performances, Saturday evening events, Saturdays Off the 405
It’s one thing to see a writer read her own work, but when someone else gets their hands on it, the fluid dynamic between story and storyteller is revealed. How much is the reader outside of the story, telling it to an audience of listeners? Can an actor inhabit the whole story as if the [...]
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Tags: Ed Asner, Isaiah Sheffer, Leonard Nimoy, performances, public programs, Selected Shorts, spoken word
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