Earlier this week, The Standard, Downtown LA was delighted to present the premiere of A Closet Visit Film No. 2, the brainchild of collaborators Jeana Sohn and Claire Cottrell, and featuring...
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We’re super excited to share that one of our favorite LA artists, and longtime Standard collaborator) Tim Biskup, who has a solo show opening this Friday at THIS Gallery in Highland Park....
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Picture this. You are staying at one of our Standard hotels this week – Miami, New York, or Los Angeles – and you have no idea where to go. Fear not, our trusty building managers are...
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Earlier this year, we had the delight and privilege of presenting Closet Visit’s first short film, a collaboration between Jeana Sohn, the brains and beauty behind the blog, and Claire...
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In what seems like a perfectly timed Oktoberfest mirage, we are excited to announce the opening of the Biergarten on The Rooftop at The Standard, Downtown LA! With the blessing of master chef...
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While it’s true that The Standard, Downtown LA’s building has a rich history, it’s nothing compared to what Jonah Freeman and Justin Lowe concocted for their new...
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Last week, both The Standard, Downtown LA and The Standard, Hollywood were playing host to new art installations in conjunction with the arrival of PULSE and Art Platform LA. Each exhibit was...
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We at the Standard Hotels know that you, dear readers, are the savviest and most culturally relevant people out there. If you weren’t, you wouldn’t be sitting here reading this...
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We don’t know how he does it. Cornell DeWitt took the reigns of PULSE in 2010 and hasn’t looked back, finally bringing the fair to LA for it’s west coast debut. For the next few...
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Noemie Lafrance is a renowned site-specific choreographer, artist and director based in New York. Her most well known work may be everyone’s favorite music video - Feist’s 1, 2, 3,...
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In this amazing video debuting yesterday from The Getty’s Pacific Standard Time, Jason Schwartzman (playing himself) is skeptical about the merits of art. After dropping a friend off...
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It’s here! LA’s art weekend is finally here!
You should already know by now that both the PULSE and Art Platform art fairs will effectively take over all of downtown Los Angeles this...
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Earlier this summer, we highlighted the work of Daniel Askill at Cine-Shorts, our short film screening series in The Lobby at The Standard, Downtown LA. So we were excited to hear that...
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It’s Shannon Plumb, of course! As some of you may remember, we previous profiled this Brooklyn-based performance artist here. Now we are excited to kick off our LA Art Fair events with a...
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Meet Jun Antazo, a regular face spinning records every Saturday at The Standard Downtown LA lobby and occasionally at The Standard Hollywood. Jun is part of a collective of DJ’s called...
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A curious e-mail hit our inbox last week, encouraging us to become a subscriber at Quarterly.co. “What is it” you might ask?. Well we wondered the same so we waltzed on over to...
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While we race around in preparation to be the official hotel of Art Platform and Pulse in LA’s first big art fair at the end of the month, invites for openings for two of our favorite...
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If Ed Ruscha and Jack Kerouac got into a coolness fight, who do you think would win? We don’t know either but would definitely want ringside seats. Rather than fight it out, Ruscha has...
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Meet Zach Blachly who goes by the name Zac LA Roc. You’ll see him occasionally DJ on our stunning rooftop at The Standard Downtown
, alternating Sun and Mon nights. Zach took some time to...
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It’s no secret that The Standard has a major crush on artist José Parlá. He’s collaborated with us on T-shirts, scarves, and book signings, we’ve lusted after his...
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