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TALK*
Snark has become so pervasive in our culture that David Denby, one of America’s most respected film critics, has dedicated his new book Snark to the subject. In it he criticizes the nastiness that has invaded [pop] culture without the substance to back it up. He’ll be in conversation with KPCC’s Patt Morrison at the ICM Screening Room in Century City at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $20 for the Writers Bloc event.
FILM
The Silent Movie Theatre features the experimental film program, “The Cocoa Screenings: Founding Fathers of Found Footage Films” tonight at 8 pm. Before hip-hop sampling and Photoshop, there were people who created art out of found (other people’s) work. “The pioneers of perverting other people's intellectual property invented a whole new art form, recontextualizing through montage, creating new significance that lied dormant in otherwise neutral footage. In the bourgeoning days of Pop Art, these spiritual descendants of Duchamp and his readymades found a new language of cinema through creative theft.” The series has been dubbed “The Cocoa Screenings” because they’ll be serving, you guessed it -- hot cocoa. Tickets are $12.
FOOD
We heard that there are just a few seats left for the Maison Camille Giroud tasting + dinner at palate food + wine. Now while the dinner will set you back $175, just look at this menu: day boat scallops, preserved meyer lemon and a trilogy of cauliflower; northern halibut, cock's combs (hmm), crosnes et cardoon; whole roasted goat, chick peas and sweet pea tapenade; and an assiette de fromage. And the food will be paired with these wines (which we can’t pronounce): Meursault La Barre 2006, Corton-Charlemagne 2006, Santenay Grand Clos du Rousseau 1995, Beaune Bressandes 1988, Chambertin 2006, Corton Clos du Roi 2006, Corton Clos du Roi 1976. So if you have a few bills just burning a hole in your pocket, call 818.662.9463, ext. 101, to reserve your seat. There’s a tasting at 6:30 pm and the dinner begins at 7:30 pm.
ART
“The Art of Two Germanys/Cold War Cultures” is the first special exhibition to go on view in LACMA’s new Renzo Piano designed-building, the Broad Contemporary Art Museum (BCAM). The show examines the modern and post-modern art of East and West Germany after the fall of Nazism. Divided into four chronological sections, the exhibition features approximately 300 paintings, sculptures, photographs, multiples, videos, installations, and books, by 120 artists. LACMA is open until 8 pm most nights (but closed Wednesdays).
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