LACMA Late Night Re-cap
The place was unbelievably crowded. Totally insane lines going that passed the walls of LACMA. Fortunately we got in unscathed with the help of a friend, and saw the Dan Flavin show where security guards were going crazy trying to get people to stop taking pictures with their cameras and camera phones. It's nice to see a museum filled with so much energy, creating a scene for young people to experience art, but do they understand how to make the space interactive without sacrificing the integrity of the spaces? That may need to take a little more re-thinking.
DJ Steve Aoki was in a really strange club space called the "Ultra Lounge" that looked like some underground party in Seattle. Wish I could have seen him outside or in a space that felt less static, lighting that homaged Flavin in a more interactive way - throughout the space rather than just as a backdrop for a stage.
We saw some gothic circus performers from Lucent Dossier...it would have been cooler if they actually had gothic circus guests, and the performances felt less like I was on 3rd Street Promenade.
The heads on a stick for the Hairspray preview were a lot of fun, especially when we walked through the Nineteenth century art and placed them over paintings and sculptures...no security bothering us up there...in fact, we smelled someone smoking weed in the galleries.
Hit + Run crew were silkscreening on site. I met them at the Live Large exhibit a few months back. Their art wasn't as interesting as that show, the blank t-shirts were twice the price at $24, and whoever thought that the experienceartLACMA helvetica text was a good idea for silkscreening was wrong. A guest's comment: "They should pay ME to put that on a shirt" brought on laughter and nodding heads.
Well, it was a big party, that's for sure. And there was more than enough there to fill four hours of time...but when ISN'T that the case at LACMA?
More unauthorized pictures taken by myself and photographer Erik Lang can be seen in this slideshow.
Labels: art, event, lacma, late night at lacma
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