Month: March 2017

Like a comet that burns far too brightly to last, Janis Joplin exploded onto the music scene in 1967 and, almost overnight, became the Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll.  The unmistakable voice filled with raw emotion and tinged with Southern Comfort made her a must-see headliner from Monterey to Woodstock.  A NIGHT WITH JANIS JOPLIN is a musical journey celebrating Janis and her biggest musical influences – trailblazers like Aretha Franklin, Etta James, Odetta, Nina Simone and Bessie Smith, who inspired one of Rock ‘n’ Roll’s greatest legends. Make sure you catch this extended engagement at THE PASADENA PLAYHOUSE now through August 23, 2015.

Comprising a suite of new paintings, a multimedia installation, and a major painting on the Lobby Wall, this new body of work by the Los Angeles–based artist MARK BRADFORD refers to formative moments in his life and ruminations on the body in crisis. As an artist who has long been interested in strategies of mapping and the psychogeography of the city he calls home, Bradford uses his characteristic painting style to excavate the terrain— emotional, political and actual—that he inhabits. Examining the moment and afterlife of the 1992 uprisings in Los Angeles, which he experienced from his studio in Leimert Park, Bradford has translated the outrage and lasting wounds of the riots into these new paintings. Scorched Earth is Bradford’s first solo museum exhibition in Los Angeles and is on view at THE HAMMER MUSEUM through September 27, 2015.

A weekend celebration of film and music, SUNDANCE NEXT FEST is a new breed of festival experience fueled by the renegade spirit of independent artists.  Six films will make their Los Angeles premiere.  Each film is paired with a special music performance that embodies a shared artistic sensibility, or a conversation with filmmakers and the luminaries that inspired them.  With a kick off screening on Sunday, August 2 at Hollywood Forever Cemetery, presented by Cinespia, NEXTFEST runs August 7-9, 2015 at the historic Theatre at the Ace Hotel in downtown LA.

The Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (REDCAT) is an interdisciplinary contemporary arts center for innovative visual, performing and media arts located in downtown Los Angeles inside the Walt Disney Concert Hall complex. Each season REDCAT presents a far-reaching roster of work by globally renowned artists, inside one of the most versatile and technologically advanced presentation spaces in the world.  REDCAT continues the tradition of the California Institute of the Arts, its parent organization, by encouraging experimentation, discovery and lively civic discourse.

E3 is the world’s premier trade show for computer, video and mobile games and related products. At E3, the video game industry’s top talent packs the Los Angeles Convention Center connecting tens of thousands of the best, brightest, and most innovative professionals in the interactive entertainment industry. For three exciting days, June 16 – 18, 2015, leading-edge companies, groundbreaking new technologies and never-before-seen products are showcased. E3 connects you with both new and existing partners and provides unprecedented exposure to emerging markets. E3 is where evolution happens.  E3 connected with their existing partner, GOLD METROPOLITAN MEDIA, to once again provide their City Light Pole Banners.

Emerging presents images by more than 90 emerging photographers from around the world who bring a fresh perspective and creative techniques to professional photography. The exhibit explores how a new generation of photographers examines a variety of topics, from the personal to the global: youth culture, family, the environment, economic uncertainty, conflict and civil unrest, and the nature of the photographic image.  GOLD METROPOLITAN MEDIA is the perfect choice to partner with as they bring a fresh perspective to City Light Pole Banners.  See the exhibit at The Annenberg Space for Photography through September 20, 2015.

You know summer is coming in Los Angeles when GOLD METROPOLITAN MEDIA once again installs the HOLLYWOOD BOWL BANNERS all over the city heralding a new season.  The Bowl will outdo itself once again when the 2015 season kicks off on Saturday, June 20.  Come and celebrate this season at the Hollywood Bowl! Join us for the July 4th Fireworks Spectacular with Smokey Robinson, the LA Philharmonic, Monty Python’s SPAMALOT, Sinatra’s 100th Birthday celebration and everything in between.

More than 30 native North American butterfly species and an array of plants take up residence every summer in the much-anticipated living habitat at THE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM, known as the Butterfly Pavilion.  Wander through a unique changing ecosystem, witness free-flying creatures interacting with plant life, and emerge with a better understanding of the environment needed for the survival of these spectacular animals.  Get your timed tickets now through September 7, 2015.  GOLD METROPOLITAN MEDIA will be ‘free-flying’ banners (well, actually installed on light poles) all over town to mark the exhibit.

The NORTON SIMON MUSEUM Presents Tête-à-tête: Three Masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay.  A highlight will be the installation of Whistler’s iconic portrait of his mother, last on view in Southern California in 1933.  The other two portraits from this renowned art collection are Édouard Manet’s Émile Zola, 1868, and Paul Cézanne’s The Card Players, 1892–96. These paintings will hang together in the Norton Simon Museum’s 19th-century wing, alongside paintings from the Simon collection by Manet, Cézanne and their contemporaries. Tête-à-tête: Three Masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay will be on view through June 22, 2015.  A highlight for GOLD METROPOLITAN MEDIA was creating extraordinary banners to highlight this special event.

MOCA presents William Pope: Trinket, an exhibition of new and recent work by Chicago-based artist William Pope, an essential figure in the development of performance and installation art since the 1970s. Installed in the soaring spaces of The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, the exhibition explores the impact of American history and politics on the social and psychological body.  The “display” features an ensemble grouping of large-scale installations, videos, paintings, photography, and performance works, including a new performance and sculpture work made especially for the exhibition.