Jennifer Saxon

SATURDAY Spend your Saturday afternoon soaking up the sun & art in Culver City for their 3rd annual ARTWALK. Neighborhood galleries & eateries near the intersection of Washington & La Cienega Boulevards will be open, along with live jazz. A listing of participating galleries is available here. Also in the afternoon, The Folk Tree in Pasadena is showcasing Anything Goes: A Small Works Show. This "mini" exhibit will present tiny works from dozens of participating...

Friday Kick off your Memorial Day weekend at a few cool art happenings around town. Friday night Pawshop Gallery is presenting the solo show of Justin Hansch with Surfing and Art are the Same; They're Both Cool. The Van Nuys native, who is the owner of JMOCA (Justin's Museum of Contemporary Art) a gallery out of his own LA home, will debut several paintings & sculpture exploring the relationship of language as a perpetrator of...

In 1974 farmers in the Shaanxi province of China made an astonishing discovery while digging for water. Buried beneath the surface, an entire legion of Terra Cotta soldiers, their horses, and chariots built to protect Emperor Qin, (the first emperor of China) for all eternity. Since that discovery, four pits have been excavated revealing over 1,000(!) soldiers, along with hundreds of horses and chariots. Beginning Sunday, The Bowers Museum in Santa Ana proudly presents the...

Thursday Look at the news in a different light tonight in North Hollywood, as NoHo Gallery presents Art of News II. Photographs, paintings, and sculpture make up this exhibit of works by various broadcasting professionals. - thru June 1st Opening reception - 6:30-10:30pm 5108 Lankershim Blvd. NoHo 818.761.7784 www.nohogalleryla.com...

A cool and rather large crowd of art lovers attended last night's fun Downtown Art Walk; enjoying an evening of great works, good music & yummy food. Next month's artwalk is scheduled for Thursday, June 12th. Check out www.downtownartwalk.com for more info and if you need more reason to go, here are seven....

"Welcome to violence, the word and the act". Those are the opening words from Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, the Russ Meyer cinematic ode to cool screening tonight at the Vista in Hollywood. Starring the voluptuous badass Tura Satana as Varla, FPKK is the story of 3 drag racin' go-go dancers looking for kicks & trouble when they con their way onto an old man's desert property after a day of murder & kidnapping. The...

Thursday While at today's Downtown Art Walk, check out the fabulous retro imagery of Melissa Sims in Neon Vacation at M.J Higgins. Crediting her inspiration to Doris Day and Elvis movies & the golden age of TV; this exhibit will be a fun Technicolor time capsule! Runs thru June 8th. Opening reception tonight from 6-9 p.m. M.J Higgins Fine Art & Furnishings 400 S. Main Street, Suite 103 (enter on 4th-east of Main) 213.617.1700 www.mjhiggins.com...

Since the 80's Ikea has become a cultural icon of the do-it-yourself furniture world, here in the U.S. Almost all of us at some point or another have struggled putting a piece of Ikea furniture together for ourselves. Artist Felis Stella explores these concepts in her latest exhibit IKEA My House: Part 1 on view now through May 17th at the L2kontemporary Gallery in Chinatown....

Put down that martini glass, and jet set over to the Santa Monica Civic this weekend for the LA Modernism Show. A delectable feast of goodies for collectors & decorators alike; over 80 drool-worthy exhibitors will be on hand, representing the best in mid-century furniture, art, and other design treasures. This years theme, "Design in Motion", will be marked with an "entrance spectacle" by sculptor Stan Bitters, and displays celebrating the streamline design of trains,...

Friday As part of First Fridays on Abbot Kinney, Altered Space Gallery in Venice hosts an evening with Master Craftsman Richard Patterson. Patterson's artistic furniture made with hand made dowels, and other joints (not a single nail!) along with many other hand crafted tools is functional, modern, and a little surreal. An impressive Dali meets Herman Miller interpretation on practical pieces. Invitations for this one night only exhibit of Patterson's one-of-a-kind works are available by...