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In LACMA’s ‘Rain Room’ there’s purple rain falling for Prince
04.22.2016
03:52 pm
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nothing more to say. #ripprince #rainroom @lacma #mylaexperience #purplerain #hollywood

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Art collective Random International asked LACMA last night that their art installation “Rain Room” rain purple in honor of Prince. LACMA was was more than happy to oblige. The result is beautiful.

If you live in Los Angeles or are just visiting, I’d head on over to LACMA to visit the “Rain Room.” It looks they’re only doing it for one day.

 

#purple #rain #rainroom

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Posted by Tara McGinley
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04.22.2016
03:52 pm
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Chris Burden’s incredible Metropolis 2 coming soon to LACMA
11.21.2010
01:43 pm
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Both my inner and outer six-year-old are squealing with glee over this absolutely flabbergasting new work by the ultimate Los Angeles artist, Chris Burden.
I can’t wait to see this in person.
 

 
Thanks, Nicole Panter !

Posted by Brad Laner
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11.21.2010
01:43 pm
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William Eggleston: ‘Stranded in Canton’ screening at Cinefamily in Los Angeles
11.01.2010
03:03 pm
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This Tuesday night, a very unique program at the Cinefamily movie theater in Hollywood: In conjunction with the big exhibit at LACMA, “William Eggleston: Democratic Camera – Photographs and Video, 1961-2008” there’ll be a screening of Eggleston’s seldom seen B&W video work, Stranded in Canton:
 

 

Legendary photographer William Eggleston, working with filmmaker Robert Gordon, recently edited thirty hours of video footage he’d shot in 1974 of friends, family, and eclectic characters encountered in the bars and back roads of his hometown of Memphis, as well as New Orleans and the Delta region. The hypnotic result is Stranded in Canton, a film that consistently teeters on the edge of dream and nightmare states. Its nocturnal visions of bar denizens, musicians (including Furry Lewis), transvestites and a variety of semi-crazies comes off like a Cassavetes all-nighter filmed by David Lynch at his most unsettling: faces loom out of darkness, shot in infrared, displaying pale glowing skin and deep black eyes. There’s even a real-life geek-off (yes, the type with chickens)! And it’s mesmerizing, partly thanks to the outsized characters who fill the screen, and partly because Eggleston turns the “home movie” into art—Father of Modern Color Photography he may be, but he kicks just as much ass in eerie B&W, wrenching glorious images out of the early Sony Porta-Pak to conjure a febrile, desperate atmosphere that captures the Southern Gothic with an extraordinarily raw and rambling intimacy.

11/2, 8pm Tickets - $12/$8 for members

Below,footage from Stranded in Canton of Alex Chilton and Sid Selvidge playing “My Rival” in Memphis, TN.
 

Posted by Richard Metzger
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11.01.2010
03:03 pm
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