Now through June 28, join us every Friday and Saturday night, from 8:30-10:30pm, to celebrate with our friends from the Lyric Hyperion Theatre at Found Gallery hosted Cocktail Parties. Free refreshments, snacks, and entertainment from musical luminaries such as DJ Tarantino. After the party, walk up the block and catch the show – it starts at 10:30pm. Tickets are available at the gallery for $20.

The Found Luddites in Berlin [Chris and myself] were obviously not present for this past weekend’s activities at Found [Money & Run kickoff party/DataPortability meetup/Sunday Sweets 4]. Our own crowd of Techno-utopianists, however [Brady, Drew, Renata], were in full effect.

Click on the links above to see the individual sets. Photos by Renata Popenhagen, Drew Baldwin, and Brady Brim-DeForest.

Weekend Recap From Brady: The festivities kicked off on Friday with the Money & Run party – which returns this Friday and Saturday nights, starting at 8:30pm, and featuring DJ Tarantino [White Minstrel Show]. Saturday saw a meeting of nerds and ne’re-do-wells (nerd-o-wells, anyone?) for the DataPortability Meetup. On Sunday, we were graced with the sweet sounds of Jenny Jenkins, Mad Gregs, and Flowers From the Man Who Shot Your Uncle.

We caught some aging, but giant, portraits in the Mitte area wheatpasted on the side of this building by our friend JR.

Click here to see photos from his installation at Found.

Update: We are starting to make a habit of finding JR’s artwork in the wild. Last summer, Brady found evidence of his visit to Jerusalem.

Pop journalism/art alert. Hire your own personal paparazzi.

Flowers From The Man Who Shot Your Cousin, Jenny Jenkins, and Mad Gregs will be live at Found on Sunday, May 25th from 5-7:30pm, for the fourth edition of Sunday Sweets.

The Joint Custody Project Berlin deadline has been extended to May 15. You have five days, so Apply Now. We are looking for Berlin and LA based artists to participate in a collaborative process oriented show. Read more about what we did last year or follow the project at the Joint Custody Blog.

This Saturday, May 10 Peres Projects is opening a new show by Terrence Koh at their gallery in Chinatown.  Instead of sharing some images or the postcard, I would like to reproduce what is, perhaps, the most inspiring and engaging invitation I’ve ever received to anything, really.  Thanks to Chris for making me read through the end.

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hello deer

this is terence koh

my first show was with this gallery almost 5 years ago WOW

may 10, 2008 that’s gonna bee five years of love between javier peres and me

(more…)

Click here to read the recent cover story I wrote for the May edition of Citizen on Lilli Muller.

Then, see the film After Hours (Griffin Dunn plays himself basically, but a really great one) and let me know what you think about the cast figure and the latent German/Nazi/Ghetto images and references.

[IMP Gallery - photo courtesy of revolute]

There’s much more art to see tonight and tomorrow, leading off with the monthly Downtown Art Walk.  LAist breaks down why the Art Walk is a must-see here.

Also, Otis’ class of 2008 Exhibition is tomorrow evening.  Details here.

[image courtesy of optionthis - CWK, Coachella 2008]

Though not officially public yet, Eastside/CoS royalty Beck and currently-finishing-their-sophomore-album Cold War Kids will be performing at this year’s Sunset Junction Street Fair.  This year, the Junction takes place on Saturday + Sunday, August 23-24.

That’s all we know as of yet, but we can guarantee on that Saturday evening you will be invited to hear some special guests in town to perform and play records as part of Found’s 2 year anniversary party.  Shhhh…….