Events for August 21st, 2008
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Thursday - August 21st
Events / Folk Crafts
Josh Dorman - Within Four Miles
Craft and Folk Art Musuem - 5814 Wilshire Blvd. - Los Angeles (Park La Brea)
6 p.m. - 8 p.m.
Aug. 21 - Jan. 11: Working from old textbooks, vintage maps, scientific diagrams and other topographically-minded material, Josh Dorman presents large-scale visions of travel. Forget about linearity or mileage, Dorman collages together disparate dream-scapes couched in the geographies of M.C....
Music / Hip Hop
GZA
The El Rey - 5515 Wilshire Blvd. - Los Angeles (Park La Brea)
8 p.m.
Wu-Tang founder/lyrical assassin recreates his classic "Liquid Swords" album and then some
Restaurants / Dining Event
Fifth Anniversary Tasting Menu @ Grace
Grace Restaurant - 7360 Beverly Blvd. - Los Angeles (Park La Brea)
Grace celebrates five years with a five-course tasting menu from chef Neal Fraser. Starting May 6, the special menu will be available for the rest of 2008. It’s a greatest hits list of Grace’s finest: Dungeness crab salad with English peas, mint and meyer lemon...
Restaurants / Dining Event
Vinyl Thursdays @ The Whisper Lounge
The Whisper Lounge - 189 The Grove Dr #F-90B - Los Angeles (Park La Brea)
Chef Anthony Jacquet remixes the menu while DJ Thomas spins wax at Vinyl Thursdays at The Whisper Lounge. Classic cocktail specials will also accompany the classic tunes. Everything—except the food—is retro all the way at this neo-speakeasy tucked away in The Grove.
Restaurants / American Contemporary
"Close to Home" at Grace
Grace Restaurant - 7360 Beverly Blvd. - Los Angeles (Park La Brea)
Chef Neal Fraser’s endlessly popular restaurant Grace takes contemporary American fine dining to a blissful level. On Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday evenings guests can enjoy many courses of Fraser’s most inspired cooking with his “Close to Home” tasting menu. The concept is that all the...
Events / Art
Tradition as Innovation in African Art
Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA - 5905 Wilshire Blvd. - Los Angeles (Park La Brea)
Including the work of over 30 artists, this exhibition covers a late 19th to early 20th Century's worth of African groundbreakers who paved the way for such better-known (read: whiter, or if you will, "European") movements of art like cubism, Dada and surrealism. Jan. 22 - Nov. 12
Events / Art
Phantom Sightings: Art After the Chicano Movement
Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA - 5905 Wilshire Blvd. - Los Angeles (Park La Brea)
LACMA's new exhibition takes on the more experimental side of the Chicano art movement—think conceptual art, performance, film, photo- and media-based art, and "stealthy" artistic interventions in urban spaces. With over 125 different works from artists like Christina Fernandez, Julio Cesar...
Events / Art
Philip-Lorca diCorcia
Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA - 5905 Wilshire Blvd. - Los Angeles (Park La Brea)
Photographs from Philip-Lorca diGarcia cover previous series such as "Hustler," "Streetwork," "Heads," and "Lucky 13." As one might imagine, his photos depict men and boys from the "wild side" that Lou Reed famously sang of. Like Gregory Crewdson, but on a more intimate scale, the photos assign a...
Events / Photography
Berenice Abbott / Julius Shulman - photographs
Fahey / Klein Gallery - 148 North La Brea Avenue - Los Angeles (Park La Brea)
June 28 - Aug. 30: Works from two notable photographers. Berenice Abbott's "Changing New York" photographs wend us back to a smaller (dare we say) quieter City of the late 1930s. Julius Shulman's already famed "Case Study" architecture photography has been lauded so many times this year—his 97th...
Style / Apparel and Accessories
Just opened: Kao Pao Shu
Kao Pao Shu - 7227 Beverly Blvd. - Los Angeles (Park La Brea)
This ain't your neighborhood dojo
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