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  • Smoke & Mirrors – TAM

    SMOKE & MIRRORS

    January 20th – March 10th, 2018
    Opening Reception: Saturday, January 20th, 6-9pm
    Exhibition organized by Gioj De Marco and Elizabeth Withstandley

    The artists in SMOKE AND MIRRORS investigate the nature of reality; how objects, memories, ideas come into being, how they persist and how they cease to exist. The works want to make ghosts appear in the flesh and, at the same time reveal their illusionary nature. These artists are magicians of their trade, oblique translators of both physical and virtual environments, recreating stages and props, histories and identities. By exploring the space between known and unverifiable realities, they shed light on the infinite vagueness of the anthropocentric universe.

    The exhibition encompasses video, sculpture, installation and performance and presents artists from Argentina, Finland, France, Italy, Germany and the United States.

    Featuring:
    Gordon Winiemko, Elizabeth Withstandley, Gioj De Marco, Barry Markowitz, Dorsey Dunn, Thomas Muller, Alejandra Urresti, Josephine Wister Faure, Lewis Colburn, Clifton Childree, Heta Kuchka, Bettina Khano, and Adler Guerrier

    TAM3320 Civic Center Dr N Torrance, California 90503 (310) 618-6388
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  • The Liberator, a role to play

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    Jefferson L. Edmonds‘s newspaper had the byline, “A weekly newspaper devoted to the cause of good government and the advancement of the Negro.”

    Toussaint L’Ouverture and Jean-Jacques Dessalines come to mind.

    The claims for greater freedom are never enough. The role of operators acting on the machineries that produce civics, culture and liberties, Liberator, if you will, is pivotal and always needed.

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    William H. Johnson, Toussaint l’Ouverture, Haiti, ca. 1945, oil on paperboard, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Harmon Foundation, 1967.59.1154

    Jean-Jacques Dessalines and the Haitian Revolution– William and Mary Quarterly, July 2012.

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  • Names are not random in fiction

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  • Cops vs. Thugs (Kenkei tai soshiki boryoku)

    Cops vs. Thugs, directed by Kinji Fukasaku, 1975. ???


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  • Exposition Park Rose Garden

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    The Rose Garden is part of City of Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks. Layout of the roses.

    About the park, itself:

    In the last decades of the 19th century, this 160-acre was a privately owned racetrack and fairgrounds. The park was jointly purchased in 1889 by the State of California, and the County and City of Los Angeles, and by 1909, a Beaux-Arts site plan emerged. The area, known then as Agricultural Park, was destined to become a new cultural center for the young city.

    The County funded a museum and art gallery (which became the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County); the State funded an exposition building (now the north facade of the California Science Center) and an armory building; and the City pledged to maintain the grounds of the park, including the proposed sunken rose garden. In December 1910, the site’s name changed to Exposition Park, and later that month, cornerstones were laid for both the County museum building and the State exposition building. November 6, 1913, marked the beginning of a two-week, city-wide celebration that opened Exposition Park and its facilities, and the first day the new Museum opened to the public. The tripartite ownership and operation of the park and its structures, forged almost 100 years ago, is still in place today

    PublicartinLA
    KCET – Lost LA
    KCET – Home Garden


    Wild Blue Yonder.

    Also, site of CAAM.

  • Palms in California

    Los Angeles palms. Oldest palm!? at Exposition Park.

    Mexican fan palms – Washingtonia robusta, tallest-up to 100 feet.
    California fan palms – Washingtonia filifera, native.
    via guardian

    Related : lagreengrounds.org, lagardencouncil.org, and celosangeles.ucanr.edu.

  • On a moonlit mountain

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    Entrenched in a hidden fortress. Really, last comforting views of the night in suburban Los Angeles.