Earlier this week we rallied Manhattan Murder Mystery to take advantage of the publicly available instruments in the brothers Os Gemeos’ installation and rock out the Art in the Streets exhibit at the MOCA Geffen Contemporary, downtown. Below you’ll find video taken by Amy Darling of them playing “Parking Lot.”

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The sheer density of the show will keep any fan of street art coming back for multiple visits to this astoundingly comprehensive exhibit.

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M.M. Serra is the Executive Director of the Film-Makers Cooperative whose latest work, Chop Off, is a literal exploration of amputation as art. She co-curated the Counter Culture, Counter Cinema Avant-Garde Film Festival at
the Pacific Design Center with films featuring headless naked bodies, silent bloody births and psychedelic be-ins.

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The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles & Pacific Design Center & Charles S. Cohen present Counter Culture, Counter Cinema: An Avant-Garde Film Festival Co-Curated by David E. James and MM Serra SilverScreen Theater Pacific Design Center 8687 Melrose Avenue West Hollywood, CA 90069 This cinema extravaganza, programmed from the collection of The New American [...]

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The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles & Pacific Design Center & Charles S. Cohen present Counter Culture, Counter Cinema: An Avant-Garde Film Festival Co-Curated by David E. James and MM Serra SilverScreen Theater Pacific Design Center 8687 Melrose Avenue West Hollywood, CA 90069 This cinema extravaganza, programmed from the collection of The New American [...]

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Elana Mann’s Performing Economies demonstrates just how dynamic and even necessary participatory art can be. For almost three months now, Mann and artists and collectives from across the city have presented panels, performative works and visual artwork exploring the ideas of alternative economies. This interview by Drew Denny.

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[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdCRcrgX080] the screamers live at target video The public demands and Cinefamily provides! A second showing of Joe Rees’ Target Video presentation (co-presented by L.A. RECORD and featuring never-before-seen-except-at-the-7:30-pm-showing clips of first-wave punk bands like the Plugz, the Suburban Lawns and many more!) has been added and will begin at 11 PM tonight! Tickets are [...]

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Joe Rees’ Target Video filmed just about every punk band that pushed through San Francisco as the ’70s turned into the ’80s, including such ultimate artifacts as the Cramps live at the Napa State mental hospital and Crime live at San Quentin. He will present never-before-seen clips of punk bands from all over America tonight at Cinefamily. This interview by Chris Ziegler. UPDATE: Second showing added!

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SUNDAY, JAN. 6 Say what you will about Takashi Murakami, but the father of superflat certainly is provocative. Unfortunately, it’s in the boner-provoking rather than thought-provoking way, as evidenced by the pre-teen standing in front of a giant statue of an anime super hero lactating a lasso surrounded by canvases splattered with cartoon jizm and [...]

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