Welcome to this week in Art in Los Angeles.

Thursday night Jim Shaw is in dialogue with Gilda Frantz at the Hammer -- beforehand make sure to see Daria Martin's 16mm film Minotaur currently on view also at the Hammer.

Seeline Gallery will be exhibiting some of Los Angeles's finest talent, including: Ball Nogues Studio, Steven Bankhead, Kieran Brown, Sky Burchard, Enique Castrejon, Jefferey Cairns, Frohawk Two-Feathers, Hannah Greely, Miho Hagino, Kate Harding, Adam Harteau, Didler, Hess, Flora Kao, Karen Lofgren, Marcos Lutyens, Elana Scherr, Margo Victor, Meeson Pae Yang.

Saturday night is packed all over Los Angeles. In particular, I'm looking forward to the performances in Qualia at Human Resources. And especially Mike Bouchet at the Box -- who else could leave rotting hot dogs in a cardboard box in the P.S. 1 Greater New York show a few years back?

Make sure to make it to Culver City for the openings at Blum and Poe, Honor Fraser and Cherry and Martin.

So get out there, check it out and enjoy.

Best Wishes,
Alex Staiger
Los Angeles editor

Thursday:
+ Artist Talk: Jim Shaw & Gilda Frantz at Hammer Museum

Saturday:
+ "Palate" nternational Artists Explore the Idea of Food as Muse and Medium curated by Zio Fulcher at Scion Installation Space
+ Gregory Michael Hernandez & Colter Jacobson at LaxArt
+ Robert Heinecken, Erik Frydenborg, Nicolás Guagnin "They Have Not the Art to Argue with Pictures:" at Cherry and Martin
+ Donald Judd "Drawings: 1963-1977" at Maloney Fine Art
+ Mark Licari "The Finishes that Stand the Test" at Honor Fraser
+ Mike Bouchet "Cola Works" at The Box
+ Paul Cowan, Hugh Scott-Douglas, Maxwell Simmer "Bad Sculpture" at Young Art

Sunday:
+ Screening: Merce Cunningham "Merce on Film" screening of Story (1964, 20 min.) with costumes by Robert Rauschenberg and Cunningham dancing; Melange (2000, 8 min.), a film shot in Paris and directed by Cunningham and Charles Atlas; and Beach Birds for Camera (1993, 28 min.) at Moca Grand Avenue

Thursday, May 20

Ball Nogues Studio, Steven Bankhead, Kieran Brown, "Room Mobile and Soniferous Eden" curated by Janet Levy at See Line Gallery at the Pacific Design Center (Pacific Design Center)
West Hollywood: 8687 Melrose Avenue , Suite B274, CA 90069, 5-8pm

Sophia Allison, Bernadette DiPietro, Christine Gra "Not in my Backyard" at Den Contemporary Art
West Hollywood: 8687 Melrose Avenue, Pacific Design Cente, CA 90069, 5-8pm

Anthony Friedkin, Stephanie Ramer "Making Waves" at DRKRM
Santa Monica: 729 Montana avenue suite 2, CA 90403, 7-10pm

+ Artist Talk: Jim Shaw & Gilda Frantz at Hammer Museum
Westwood / Century City: 10899 Wilshire Blvd, CA 90024, free, 7pm

Alice Neel "Paintings" at L.A. Louver
Venice: 45 North Venice Boulevard, CA 90291, 6-8pm

Friday, May 21

Ed Moses "Brain Band" at Ferus Gallery
West Hollywood: 723 N La Cienega Boulevard, CA 90069, 5-7pm

Richard Colman "Keep out the Light" at New Image Gallery
West Hollywood: 7908 Santa Monica Blvd. , CA 90038, 7-10pm

Performance: Alvaro Guillen, Brendan Lynch, Dan Carlson, Elisabeth Benjamin, Emily Mast, Erlend Larsen, Francisco Janes, Hollis Cooper, Ira Eduardovna, Johns Barlog & Burtle, Levon Paria, Liz Glynn, Mariechen Danz, Melodie Mousset, Simon Haas, Vahe Berberian, William Latta, Yael Frank "Volume" curated by Andrea Neustein at AT1 Projects Silverlake / Echo Park / Atwater: 3229 Casitas Avenue, CA 90039, 6-10pm

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Saturday, May 22

John Baldessari "Sediment" at Margo Leavin
West Hollywood: 812 North Robertson blvd, CA 90069, 5-7pm

Carlo Marcucci "Wheatfields" at Lora Schlesinger Gallery
Santa Monica: 2525 Michigan Avenue, #T3, CA 90404, 5-7pm

Judith Foosaner "Step in Time" at Lora Schlesinger Gallery
Santa Monica: 2525 Michigan Avenue, #T3, CA 90404, 5-7pm

+ "Palate" nternational Artists Explore the Idea of Food as Muse and Medium curated by Zio Fulcher at Scion Installation Space
Culver City: 3521 Helms Avenue, National, CA 90232, 7-10pm

+ Gregory Michael Hernandez & Colter Jacobson at LaxArt
Culver City: 2460 S. La Cienaga , CA 90034, 7-9pm

Danielle Nelson Mourning "Homecoming" at Taylor De Cordoba
Culver City: 2660 S. La Cienega Blvd., CA 90034, 6-8pm

+ Robert Heinecken, Erik Frydenborg, Nicolás Guagnin "They Have Not the Art to Argue with Pictures:" at Cherry and Martin
Culver City: 2712 S. La Cienega Blvd., CA 90034, 6-8pm

+ Donald Judd "Drawings: 1963-1977" at Maloney Fine Art
Culver City: 2680 S. La Cienega Blvd., CA 90034, 6-8pm

+ Mark Licari "The Finishes that Stand the Test" at Honor Fraser
Culver City: 2622 S. La Cienega Boulevard, CA 90034, 6-8pm

Tim Hawkinson at Blum & Poe
Culver City: 2754 South La Cienega Boulevard, CA 90034, 6-8pm

Asher Hartman and Skylar Haskard and Jason Yates "Qualia" curated by Dawn Kasper at Human Resources
Chinatown: 510 Bernard Street, CA 90012, 7-11pm

Mara Lonner , Pierre Picot "New Work" "everything is ok now" at Jancar Gallery
Chinatown: 961 Chung King Road, CA 90012, 6-9pm

+ Mike Bouchet "Cola Works" at The Box
Chinatown: 977 Chung King Road, CA 90012, 6-9pm

George Dinhaupt "around the home and at play" at L2kontemporary
Chinatown: 990 N. Hill Street , suite 205, CA 90012, 7-10pm

+ Paul Cowan, Hugh Scott-Douglas, Maxwell Simmer "Bad Sculpture" at Young Art
Chinatown: 1727 N. Spring Street, CA 90012, 7-10pm

Sunday, May 23

+ Screening: Merce Cunningham "Merce on Film" screening of Story (1964, 20 min.) with costumes by Robert Rauschenberg and Cunningham dancing; Melange (2000, 8 min.), a film shot in Paris and directed by Cunningham and Charles Atlas; and Beach Birds for Camera (1993, 28 min.) at Moca Grand Avenue
Downtown: 250 South Grand Avenue , CA 90012, free, 3pm

Elaine Carhartt "Prints" at Offramp Gallery
Pasadena: 1702 Lincoln Avenue, CA 91103, 2-5pm

Performance: "Tragic Dinner Theatre: A Fundraiser for workspace" at Workspace Highland Park: 2601 Pasadena Ave, Unit C, CA 90031, $20 Before, $25 at the door, 2pm

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Auction: "20th Century Modern Art and Design Auction" at Los Angeles Modern Auctions (LAMA)
Misc., East of LA: 16145 Hart Street , Van Nuys California, CA 91406, noon

Monday, May 24

Amir Mogharabi, Amy Granat, Andy Warhol, Gareth James, Jacob Kassay, Jesse Cohen, John Cage, Josef Strau, Jutta Koether, Matias Faldbakken, Phillipe Decrauzat, Quentin Curry, Seth Price, Steven Parrino "Negation, Subtraction, Dissolution" arranged by Front Desk Apparatus at Kantor Gallery
West Hollywood: 7025 Melrose Avenue, CA 90036, 6-8pm

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