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Black was another color I had a lot of on my shelf. So Thursday is Black.
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Obliged to buy two books I did not want, because I let a quarto fall upon a fine girl's head while looking at her eyes.
- John Polidori, The Diary of Dr. John William Polidori
This guy is such a relatable disaster tbh
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PLAN ForYourArt: April 19–25
Thursday, April 19
Westside Openings and Events
MFA Exhibition #3, UCLA (Westwood), 5–8pm.
TOURS & TALKS: Stories of Almost Everyone Walk-through: Saloni Mathur, Hammer Museum (Westwood), 6pm.
READINGS: Poetry: Mihaela Moscaliuc and Michael Waters, Hammer Museum (Westwood), 7:30pm.
Miracle Mile and Mid-City Openings and Events
Artist meet and greet, The Loft at Liz’s (Mid-City), 7–9pm.
Film: Free Screening: United Shades of America: The Border, LACMA (Miracle Mile), 7:30pm.
Downtown and Frogtown Openings and Events
Evolution of View Park: The Beginnings, California African American Museum (Downtown), 2–4pm.
Tony Brown + Paul Greeley: It Belongs to His, DAC Gallery + ECF Downtown L.A. Art Center (Downtown), 6–8pm.
MOCA Music: Berhana, Rayana Jay, Linafornia, and Modern Funk Fest DJs, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA (Downtown), 6:30–9:30pm.
Health/Care Film Series: Unrest (2017), Women’s Center for Creative Work (Frogtown), 7–10pm.
BUILT-IN, NAVEL (Downtown), 7:30–9:30pm.
Kelly Lytle Hernandez: City of Inmates, Main Museum (Downtown), 8–9:30pm.
Chinatown Openings and Events
THE NOW HEAR ENSEMBLE: Storytelling, Automata (Chinatown), 8pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Yve Laris Cohen: Meeting Ground, Sadie Barnette: Dear 1968,..., and Prospect 2018, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (San Diego), 11am–5pm.
Lucretia Martel: Two Screenings, CalArts (Valencia), 1pm. Also April 20.
School of Music Visiting Artist Series: Bruce Broughton, CalArts (Valencia), 2–4pm.
Historia Plantarum, The Huntington (San Marino), 4:30–6pm.
Downtown at Sundown, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (San Diego), 5–8pm.
School of Art Visiting Artist Series: Jeffrey Vallance, CalArts (Valencia), 5pm.
Parallel Stories Lecture: An Education in Seeing: Geoff Dyer on The Street Philosophy of Garry Winogrand, Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Santa Barbara), 5:30pm.
Enter>text: Docent, Pasadena Museum of California Art (Pasadena), 6–8:30pm.
15's - Fifteen Minutes of Spoken Word with A.P. Jackson, Palm Springs Art Museum (Palm Springs), 6:15pm.
Lecture: Abraham Lincoln's Diary, The Huntington (San Marino), 7:30pm.
Materials Collective: Earth Week Celebration, CalArts (Valencia), 8–11pm.
Film screening of Laguna Art Museum at 100, Laguna Art Museum (Laguna Beach).
Friday, April 20
Westside Openings and Events
MUSIC & PERFORMANCE Arts Party: Recreation, Hammer Museum (Westwood), 7–10pm.
Mid-City and Miracle Mile Openings and Events
Course: One-Day Workshop—Twilight at LACMA, LACMA (Miracle Mile), 5–8pm.
DESE ESCOBAR MISS INDEPENDENT, MARLIE MUL, MOTHER CULTURE LOS ANGELES (Mid-City), 6–9pm.
Hollywood Openings and Events
Objects of Affection, Gallery 1988 (Hollywood).
Downtown Openings and Events
Art Buzz with Glenn Phillips, ICA LA (Downtown), 5:30–7pm.
Victor Rosas: Artificial Mask, 356 Mission (Downtown), 7–9pm.
Passing Through, Documentary, LA Poverty Department (Downtown), 7pm.
An Evening with Donika Kelly, Featuring Vanessa Angélica Villarreal and Eloisa Amezcua, Ace Hotel (Downtown), 7–9pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
TINKERTOPIA – ESMoA Kids Engineering Arts Club, ESMoA (El Segundo), 3:30–5pm.
Saturday, April 21
Westside Openings and Events
Family Days at the Villa, Getty Villa (Pacific Palisades), 10am–5pm. Continues April 22.
Conversation: Oaxacan Ball Games and Mexican Indigenous Migration, Fowler Museum (Westwood), 2–4pm.
The Plato Conversations: Dialogues in LA, Getty Villa (Pacific Palisades), 4–6:30pm.
David McDonald: COMMON KNOWLEDGE artist talk, Five Car Garage (Santa Monica), 4pm.
An artist talk by Brighton Smith And exhibition closing reception for Flowers Paintings, Skidmore Contemporary Art (Santa Monica), 4pm.
Sally Jacobs: Sundays at the Farmers Market, Jenny Revitz Soper: Twisted Visions, Ernie Marjoram: Selected Paintings, Toni Reinis: Looking But Not Seeing, TAG Gallery (Santa Monica), 5–8pm.
CONSTRUCTION: A GROUP SHOW ABOUT MEMORY AND FABRICATION, Arena1 Gallery (Santa Monica), 6–9pm.
MURDER MAGAZINE ISSUE #2, Del Vaz Projects (West L.A.), 8pm.
Culver City Openings and Events
Gallery Hop: Culver City, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects (Culver City), 11am–12:30pm. $35.
Not an Ostrich: And Other Images from America’s Library, Annenberg Space for Photography (Century City), 11am–6pm.
Jessica Antola: Circadian Landscape, Arcana: Books on the Arts (Culver City), 4–6pm.
Miracle Mile Openings and Events
Talk: Exhibition Tour: A Universal History of Infamy—Those of This America, LACMA (Miracle Mile), 1:30pm.
Culver City High School Student Art Exhibition & Reception, Craft and Folk Art Museum (Miracle Mile), 2–5pm.
Mary Little: The Shape of Cloth, Craft in America Center (Miracle Mile), 4–6pm.
DLJU, Iskar, Binho Ribiero, Erre, Lesivo, and Toxicomano Callejero, Gabba Gallery (Koreatown), 7–11pm.
Koreatown and Mid-City Openings and Events
Closing reception: Corrina Peipon and Pangaea, Household (Mid-City), 4–6pm.
Ladyscumbag's World Premiere (and Closing) Party, Visitor Welcome Center (Koreatown), 6–9pm.
West Hollywood Openings and Events
Michael Mahalchick and SOFT CORNERS, Richard Telles Fine Art (Fairfax), 5–7pm.
Daniel Arsham: Character Study, Morán Morán (West Hollywood), 6–8pm.
Hollywood Openings and Events
Tom Burr in conversation with William J. Simmons, Hannah Hoffman Gallery (Hollywood), 4pm.
Community Healing Sound Bath, Various Small Fires (Hollywood), 5pm.
Downtown Openings and Events
WALK THE TALK, LA Poverty Department (Downtown), 11am–3pm.
Artist Walk-through: Rigo 23, Main Museum (Downtown), 2–3:30pm.
Girl on Wire: Redux, Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (Downtown), 4–6pm.
Michael Ned Holte and Dave Hullfish Bailey in Conversation, REDCAT (Downtown), 4pm.
JOAN Benefit Party, JOAN (Downtown), 7–11pm.
Bodies of a Different Mass, Tiger Strikes Asteroid Los Angeles (Downtown), 7–10pm.
PARALLEL STORMS: Works by Janie Geiser and TOO MANY DAYS: Works by Laura Heit, Track 16 (Downtown), 7–10pm.
Ron Linden: Em_ty, PØST (Downtown), 7–10pm.
Andy Woll, Brie Ruais, Night Gallery (Downtown), 7–10pm.
Philip Newcombe: ODEON, Monte Vista Projects (Downtown), 7–10pm.
Michael Webster and Breath Control Orchestra - Nice Day for the Races, The Box (Downtown), 8pm.
David Rosenboom and Lewis Klahr: Battle Hymn for Insurgent Arts, REDCAT (Downtown), 8:30pm. $12–25.
Chinatown Openings and Events
Sol Variations — A New Sound Installation by Richard Chartier, Human Resources (Chinatown), 7–10pm.
Closing Reception and Artist Walkthroughs for Lars Jan - Luminaries and Rachel Mason - Star Death and the Pain Body, Charlie James Gallery (Chinatown), 4–7pm.
Lincoln Heights Openings and Events
Taste of Art: At Home with The Huntingtons, The Huntington (San Marino), 9am. Sold out.
Workshop: Resistance, Delay, Accumulation and Mobilization with Luis Lara Malvacias, Pieter (Lincoln Heights), 12–3pm. $30.
Me, An Idiot, Pieter (Lincoln Heights), 8:30pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Family Event - Earth Day Saturday, The Huntington (San Marino), 11am–3pm.
Skill share: Safety & Justice, Side Street Projects (Pasadena), 1–4pm.
Chinatown: The Movie, Glendale Central Library (Glendale), 2–4pm.
FILM SCREENING: SEARCHING FOR SIMÓN BOLÍVAR: ONE POET’S JOURNEY, MOLAA (Laguna Beach), 2–5pm.
Movie Matinee - Coco, ESMoA (El Segundo), 2:30–4:30pm.
Sunday, April 22
Westside Openings and Events
SCREENINGS KIDS Family Flicks Film Series: FernGully: The Last Rainforest, Hammer Museum (Westwood), 11am.
CONVERSATIONS: Architecture for the Ages: The New Acropolis Museum of Athens with Dimitrios Pandermalis, Hammer Museum (Westwood), 3:30pm.
Artist Talk: Robert Polidori, Getty Center (Brentwood), 4pm.
Culver City Openings and Events
Historical Witness Project, Wende Museum (Culver City), 3pm.
Miracle Mile Openings and Events
On Clay: Melting Point Panel Discussion, Moderated by Exhibition Co-Curator Andres Payan & Michael Jones McKean, Craft and Folk Art Museum (Miracle Mile), 2pm.
Film: Documentary Film: Hockney—A Day on the Grand Canal, LACMA (Miracle Mile), 2pm.
Hollywood Openings and Events
WxW: For Women. By Women, Barnsdall Art Park (East Hollywood), 12–4pm.
Frogtown Openings and Events
LA For Choice Clinic Defense Volunteer Training, Women’s Center for Creative Work (Frogtown), 11am–1:30pm.
Downtown Openings and Events
Open House with Rafa Esparza, Jackie Clay, Ayanna U'Dongo, and Muñeka, ICA LA (Downtown), 11am–6pm.
Happy Earth Day! Youth Workshop with Sharif Farrag, 356 Mission (Downtown), 1–4pm.
Light and Color, California African American Museum (Downtown), 1–3pm.
SoulCollage 101, Main Museum (Downtown), 1–3pm.
CAAM Reads! Respect, The Life of Aretha Franklin, California African American Museum (Downtown), 3–4:30pm.
QueerWise/QueerWOKE, ONE Archives (Downtown), 4pm.
Chinatown Openings and Events
Christine Tavolacci and Ted Byrnes perform John Cage's Ryoanji, Human Resources (Chinatown), 8–11pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Wasted! The Story of Food Waste, The Huntington (San Marino), 1pm.
CalArts Open Studios, CalArts (Valencia), 1–6pm.
14th Annual Art Auction, Center for the Arts Eagle Rock (Eagle Rock), 1–5pm.
EXHIBITION WALKTHROUGH WITH SHAY BREDIMUS, Long Beach Museum of Art (Long Beach), 3–4pm.
GUNS: LOADED CONVERSATIONS, San Jose Quilt Museum (San Jose), 3–5pm.
PATRICIA L. BOYD: GOOD GRAMMAR, POTTS (Alhambra), 6–8pm.
Monday, April 23
Miracle Mile Openings and Events
Talk: Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece, LACMA (Miracle Mile), 7:30pm.
Downtown Openings and Events
Chantal? A performance conceived by Sonia Wieder-Atherton
and Renaud Bouchard-Gonzalez, REDCAT (Downtown), 8:30pm. $6–12.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Families: On-Site: North Hollywood—Art and Social Justice, North Hollywood Amelia Earhart Regional Library (North Hollywood), 2pm.
A Tale of Asteroid Families - Dr. Joseph Masiero, The Huntington (San Marino), 7pm.
Tuesday, April 24
Westside Openings and Events
Discussions in Israeli Art: Prof. Dalia Manor, American Jewish University (Bel Air), 10:30am.
MAKE ART NOT WALLS, ROSEGALLERY (Santa Monica), 6:30–8:30pm.
Culver City Openings and Events
Panel: Power, Politics & the Art World, Blum & Poe (Culver City), 7:20pm.
Miracle Mile Openings and Events
Film: The Haunting, LACMA (Miracle Mile), 1pm.
Wednesday, April 25
Hollywood Openings and Events
Frame Rate: Norberto Rodriguez, Hollywood Improv (Hollywood), 5–7pm.
Sense: A Silent Auction to Benefit Multiple Sclerosis, FLOOD Gallery (Larchmont), 6:30–9:30pm.
Leimert Park Openings and Events
Artist Talk: Ulysses Jenkins, Art + Practice (Leimert Park), 7pm.
Frogtown Openings and Events
Remarkable: Artists With Chronic Illness & Disability, Women’s Center for Creative Work (Frogtown), 7:30–9:30pm.
Downtown Openings and Events
Screening: Civic Art: Four Stories from South Los Angeles, California African American Museum (Downtown), 7–9pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Distinguished Fellow Lecture - Every Picture Tells a Story, The Huntington (San Marino), 7:30pm.
Crows of the Desert, Alex Theatre (Glendale), 7:30pm.
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The Diary of Dr. John William Polidori gives me life
#ugh the censorship though it bothers me#particularly the fact the his sister destroyed the original copy#oh early 19th century censorship why must you hurt me so#john polidori#The Diary of Dr. John William Polidori#history#dead writers#R#this got notes wow
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