Dave Muller in Los Angeles
By Jillian Steinhauer
Published: April 2, 2009
3. Walead Beshty: Passages at LA><ART, through May 2
“No open-toed shoes/sandals for this show, and I won’t be wearing any skirts/dresses either, warm as it has been getting in L.A. Walead has tricked out the floor of LA><ART with mirrors that the viewing public has broken simply by entering the gallery. On the walls in the main space: ‘photographs produced by passing unused film through airport X-ray machines.’ In the project space, a slide show depicting architecture of derelict shopping centers. Finish off this experience with a beer at the Mandrake Bar down the street, and look at Brian Sharp’s addition to their ‘wheat-pasted wall’ project.”
4. Anthony Burdin: Forever Haunt You at Michael Benevento, through May 1
“I organized a one-person show of Anthony’s work at a Three Day Weekend in 1998. A favorite. Around 2004 he stopped returning my calls, and I haven’t seen or spoken with him since. This show opened when I was out of town (missed him again), and I haven’t seen it yet. So it’s only fitting that when I tried to view his works on the Benevento Web site, they wouldn't load. Now I have to go. See you there?”
5. The Fowler Museum at UCLA, ongoing
“In the last five or six years my musical tastes have veered evermore toward the ethnographic. So it’s nice to have a museum in L.A. that caters visually to my sound interests. Currently there are six shows, all running through at least mid-June. My favorite is ‘Fowler in Focus: Masks of Sri Lanka,’ a show of brightly painted wooden masks that ‘transform Sri Lankan dancers into specific characters that appear in curing rituals or popular entertainment.’ On April 5, anthropologist David Blundell will lead a tour of the exhibition, after which the performance group Sapthabhumi (meaning ‘resplendent seven lands’) will present ‘ ecstatic healing ritual dances.’”
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