THE Magazine - Los Angeles

At a time when contemporary culture is dominated by mass media and we are all glued to many screens, it is fascinating to contemplate the career of little-known Austrian sociologist, Otto Neurath (1888-1945), a polymath whose intellectual and moral compass - forged in the embers of World War I - led him to predict the dramatic growth of the knowledge economy and to develop tools for a universal pictorial language. ...more info

Twenty-three artists working in the vein of California's conceptual art movement have each been commissioned to create a new work that critically responds to the medium of the billboard and interprets its role in the urban landscape. Investigating art as an idea as well as art as a media for critical intervention, the exhibition highlights the interaction of Pop, conceptualism and architecture in Los Angeles since the late 1960s....more info

The first artist to be featured in Locus Remix, takes as her main subject Kukulkan's Pyramid in the sacred Mayan city of Chichén-Itzá in the Yucatan Pennisula in Mexico. Focusing on a potent relic of a non-western, vanished culture, Grinnan re-creates a contemporary interpretation of that historical site. The sacred urban architecture of the Mayans is spun into objects that reflect contemporary popular space and culture. The work reveals our own perceptions about “others” through the media of sculpture, video, drawing and sound...more info

A South African artist and social geographer who works in video, photography and performance. Farouk utilizes the urban spaces of Johannesburg to question the occupation of space and what that means in a post-apartheid era....more info

Focuses on Habitat for Humanity’s “Global Village Discovery Center,” an educational display designed to familiarize visitors with living conditions of the international poor, as well as to demonstrate the structures the organization is building around the world. In Margeiter’s exploration of the aestheticization of poverty, architecture and interpretation collide to reveal fissures in language...more info

Free public presentation by UFI fellow Xiangning Li. His presentation will include an overview of Shanghai’s “One City Nine Towns” development plan, in which nine suburbs have been designed as large-scale replicas of traditional European towns, reflecting the preference for Western culture, architecture and urbanism in contemporary China. ...more info

The MAK Center is pleased to present the newly released catalogue Poverty Housing. Americus, Georgia, an exhibition catalogue of a new work by artists Dorit Margreiter and Rebecca Baron installed at the MAK in Vienna. The catalogue features a commissioned essay by Juli Carson....more info

Andrea Fraser, Simon Leung and Lincoln Tobier first gained recognition in New York in the late 1980s/early 1990s, working in art practices which simultaneously addressed the post-conceptual legacy, critical theory and contemporary social and political life. They will consider this period, challenging the dominant narratives often used to describe an especially dynamic time in the art world. ...more info

Stefan Rutzingr, Krista Schinegger, Alan Cicmak, Markus Hanakam, Roswitha Schuller and Simon Fujiwara will present the results of their six month residency in Los Angeles....more info

Los Angeles + Lima: Probing the Urban Desert, the fifth event in the MAK UFI Public Forum. Los Angeles + Lima will feature current UFI Fellow, the Peruvian architect Alexia Leon, in conversation with her research partner, Los Angeles-based architect Christian Stayner....more info

The Last Book, produced by the haudenschildGarage, a Spare Parts project, conceptualized and directed by Steve Fagin. Its vainglory is the attempt to resurrect the medieval illuminated manuscript through the invocation of our current alchemy, the new technologies, to conjure a future as the past in reverse. ...more info

Pages has focused on a series of ongoing projects relating to an island in the Persian Gulf called Kish; the exhibition presents two of these projects. Sunset Cinema is an architectural proposal that responds to the Kish Documentary Film Festival initiated by an Iranian film director on the Island in 2000. Undecided Utopias responds to a development project that involved German architecture firms in a competition to design an international tourist and business resort. ...more info

The talk will explore the influence of Viennese emigres on the development of the 20th century avant-garde and Hollywood popular culture. ...more info

The Sundown Salon Unfolding Archive Book Release Party Features Sound, Dance, Garden, Food, Knitting Artists and More! ...more info

Gregor Eichinger, architect and designer Vienna/Zurich, discusses our new "e-nomadic" lifestyle and the increasing need for shelters outside the urban stream....more info

Nasrin Tabatabai and Babak Afrassiabi will give a public presentation about their current video project-in-development entitled Satellite Geography: as long as it is aiming at the sky. A survey about Los Angeles-based Iranian satellite television stations, this project addresses aspects of the tele-visual mediation and production of geographical and communal identity and politics. ...more info

SASSAS pairs these long time fans of each other's work for a first time ever joint concert....more info

Public presentation by UFI fellows Alaa Khaled and Salwa Rashad...more info

Focusing on Silverlake/Los Feliz Mid-Century Modernism...more info