HOT BOX: The Standard, Hollywood Goes Hydroponic with Britt Browne's Indigo Garden
May 16 2012
Los Angeles artist Britt Browne has turned The Box at The Standard, Hollywood into a hydroponic garden nurtured by the miraculous glow of magenta LED lights. For those who associate hydroponics with the cultivation of one herb in particular, sorry to disappoint, the term refers to any plant grown without soil. Britt is the Founder and Creative Director of Growing Indigo, an art...
NOW PROJECTING: Artist Drew Heitzler's Double Feature
May 07 2012
We are pleased to announce our next collaboration with Art Production Fund for our 24/7 lobby projections with artist Drew Heitzler. Heitzler, an LA-based artist with Blum and Poe, has had his work featured at PS1, LA><ART, The Whitney, and MOCA, among other illustrious venues. This time around, The Standard, Hollywood and The Standard, Downtown LA are showing two distinct works by the...
Everybody Frieze! The Standard Heads to The Art Fair at Randall's Island
May 04 2012
It’s going to be a beautiful weekend for art. Frieze Art Fair (a London exported collection of 180 contemporary galleries from around the globe) is up and running on Randall’s Island and The Standard is there doing what The Standard does best, providing much needed sustenance to fairgoers with a satellite Biergarten. For those who are curious/confused about what’s going...
NOW HANGING: Guardian Cartoonist Steve Bell at The Standard, East Village
May 03 2012
At the top of our PEN Festival to-do list? The Q&A with Guardian cartoonist Steve Bell at the New School this Saturday. After 30 years of giving the UK government what for, he’s turning his jaundiced eye on U.S. politics. Of course, we’re probably a bit biased: We’ve been staring at his greatest hits all week at The Standard, East Village, where they’ll be...
Riding the Subway with Stanley Kubrick
Apr 26 2012
Who better to make our morning commute seem like a nostalgic adventure than Stanley Kubrick? Before becoming a legendary filmmaker he shot New York’s underground travel culture and The Museum of the City of New York’s blog shared some of the highlights which don’t seem so different from our iPod and cell phone filled subway cars.
TO DO: Head Gas, Surf Art & Polo
Apr 22 2012
NEW YORK “Head Gas” is the first New York exhibition by Italian-born, Berlin-based artist Enrico David. Over the past twenty years, David has produced a body of work encompassing painting, drawing, sculpture, and collage that draws upon a rich variety of sources and expresses a range of complex emotional states. Although his work is highly celebrated throughout Europe—the...
Susan Kirschbaum Gets Her Friends Naked: Nir Hod
Apr 13 2012
Weekends in New York can often be more hectic than the weekdays. How does one find time for those out-of-the-way, been-meaning-to-check-out “things?” Luckily, freelance reporter, Susan Kirschbaum, has done the legwork for us, reporting back with “naked” – unedited that is, everyone remains fully clothed – videos from the cultural frontier. Check back...
ABOUT LAST NIGHT: BAMart/Paddle 8 Silent Auction at The Standard, East Village
Apr 13 2012
At The Standard East Village Wednesday, The Brooklyn Academy of Music and Paddle8 toasted BAM’s 150th anniversary and the launch of the BAM silent auction on Paddle 8 … • “Gus Wenner and Scout LaRue Willis made their official debut as a music duo in a dark corner of The Standard, East Village on Wednesday evening. It was so dark that if you weren’t standing in...
Proj'ekt LA at The Standard, Hollywood
Apr 11 2012
Smile Pretty! The Standard, Hollywood is stoked to be participating in The Lucie Foundation’s Month of Photography Los Angeles (MOPLA). This year’s theme for MOPLA is Intersect: An Exploration of Innovation and Technology in Contemporary Photography and over the course of April, MOPLA is presenting a bunch of dynamic photography programs related to the topic of new technology. ...
LA Darling Deedee Cheriel Does the 6th Street Mural
Apr 10 2012
After noticing Deedee Cheriel’s art around town, we couldn’t wait for her to get her hands on the 6th Street Mural! And as it turns out, we’re not the only big fans of her work. To help us get to the bottom of the amazing imagery that shows up in her art, Deedee kindly answered a few of our questions. The Standard: We have been so looking forward to seeing what...
Susan Kirschbaum Gets Her Friends Naked: Richard Phillips & Theaster Gates
Apr 06 2012
Weekends in New York can often be more hectic than the weekdays. How does one find time for those out-of-the-way, been-meaning-to-check-out “things?” Luckily, freelance reporter, Susan Kirschbaum, has done the legwork for us, reporting back with “naked” – unedited, that is, everyone remains fully clothed – videos from the cultural frontier. Check back...
ART: The Last Days of Kurt Cobain
Apr 05 2012
As crazy as it sounds to those of us who remember it, today is the 18th anniversary of Kurt Cobain’s passing. Jesse Frohman was one of the last photographers to capture the Nirvana frontman, and his iconic images are currently on view at the Morrison Gallery in SoHo. We spoke with Frohman about the shoot and the hazards of celebrity portraiture. The Standard: Nirvana was at the...
Mambo at Work in Hollywood
Mar 30 2012
As you know, Franco-Hungarian artist Mambo has created this month’s installation for The Box at The Standard, Hollywood. We are all such big fans of Mambo’s art that we couldn’t just stop with The Box. Mambo was game and over the course of a week he gave The Standard, Hollywood a top-to-bottom makeover, Mambo style. Check out the master at work: But wait,...
TO DO: Ryan McGinness's Show at the Pace Gallery
Mar 29 2012
Since adopting the rigid rules of the Ryan McGinness Studio—they even have a manual!—things at Standard HQ have gotten considerably more productive. Still, we can’t hold a candle to the the artist himself, who’s unveiling yet another amazing batch of paintings at Pace Primitive on Friday. They’re in keeping with his famed black-light aesthetic, but this time...
Celebrating MOCA's FRESH Auction
Mar 23 2012
All of LA’s been buzzing this week as MOCA Grand Avenue opened its doors for a free preview of this weekend’s FRESH art auction! Each year MOCA hosts this super-successful fundraiser featuring donated works from both emerging and established artists. This year’s list of participating artists is virtually endless and features the likes of John Baldessari, Cindy Sherman, Ed...
Mambo Takeover at The Standard, Hollywood
Mar 15 2012
Franco-Hungarian painter Mambo is taking his turn this month at creating an installation for The Box at The Standard, Hollywood. We’ve been fans of Mambo for a while, his paintings are iconic, his YouTube page is chock full of fun, and he has his own iPad/iPhone app! We are such huge fans of Mambo’s work that, in addition to The Box and The Lobby, we also begged him to paint a...
Come Dance to Ricardo Rivera's Light Installation
Mar 15 2012
The first time we met the artist Ricardo Rivera, he was commissioned by our good friends of Fixed to produce a light installation at Le Bain - just for one night. We were so impressed by his work that we asked him to think about something which would last and become part of the club. And here it is! This month, Ricardo’s art moves to the beat on the 18th floor. Based in Philadelphia,...
Artillery + The Standard Present: Stories About June Wayne's Art and Life by Betty Ann Brown
Mar 09 2012
Artillery and The Standard, Hollywood have joined forces again to bring you a reading and book signing by art historian Betty Ann Brown. Betty Ann Brown’s new book, Afternoons With June: Stories About June Wayne’s Art and Life, is a tribute to the intelligent, eloquent and generally fearless artist June Wayne. The event will be held on Tuesday, March 13th. The wine will start...
Follow Us to See Mario Wagner's Work
Mar 05 2012
Artist/illustrator, Mario Wagner is installed in The Box at The Standard, Hollywood. Not the actual man, unfortunately, although we did try. As consolation he’s giving us exclusive pics of his new artwork for our Tumblr. So click, follow and enjoy.
Tumblrs To Get Lost In
Feb 28 2012
It’s been a while since we let you know about the Tumblrs that we love. We like to think we keep our own Standard Tumblr up to snuff, but here are some Tumblrs that have nothing much in common except that we enjoy losing ourselves in their fantasy.
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