EVENTS
FEB 12TH, 13TH, 14TH
Valentine Weekend
DAILY
24/7 Projection featuring Mika Rottenberg
The question of labor and the exploitations of women's bodies lie at the heart of Rottenberg's humorous video installations. In Mary's Cherries, three female wrestlers perform a series of bodily actions in small claustrophobic chambers on successive floors. Two women rapidly pedal exercise bikes to power a UV light that promotes the growth of red fingernails. Each nail is carefully cut and dropped through a hole in the floor where another laborer massages and rubs it, softening it so that when the fingernail is passed to the next laborer it is easily transformed into a sticky maraschino cherry.
view this film daily in our Lobby
FRIDAYS
Purple Lounge Fridays
If you're looking for something better than the usual Top Forty oblivion, Friday at the Purple Lounge is your time and place!
We've collected a stable of the young and sleek tastemakers of LA and beyond to provide the sound and fury you want, but just haven't been able to find until now.
Lady Sinclair...TNT...Ben Oprstu...Doc P...Joshua Garcia...Dan Oh...Gomez Warren IV...DJ Excel...Donnis...Rob Roy...Adam Tensta...Tiron...Mickey Factz...The Cataracs...Nazcar Nation...The Dance Party...Barracuda...Nicky Savage...Hey Champ...Christian TV...Jayceeoh...Kidz in the Hall...Bobby French...Danceism...IndiePop...Binary...Sean G...to name a few...really, what more could you want?
every Friday 10 PM to 2 AM
reservations are strongly recommended
Saturdays
Electronique Boutique
10 PM to 2 AM Saturdays 323.650.9090
SATURDAYS
Ping Pong
Dust off your paddles
every Saturday afternoon 12 PM to 5 PM
NOV 27TH
Rise and Fall
OCT 2OTH THROUGH DEC 8TH
24/7 Projection featuring Marilyn Minter
In Green Pink Caviar artist Marilyn Minter continues her interest in blurring the boundaries between fine and commercial art. Co-opting advertising genres and related spaces, Minter takes on a new platform to direct her first video. The eight minute video is a lush and sensual voyeuristic hallucination.
view this provocative film daily in our Lobby
OCT 15TH
Migration
In Doug Aitken's Migration, the movements of wild North American migratory animals are transposed upon the ubiquitous space of modern roadside hotels and motels. As the wild birds and animals inhabit these mysteriously vacant and sterile interiors we're taken on a haunting odyssey through the contemporary American landscape...
The Standard supports and invites you to attend this LA><ART Public Art Initiative with ForYourArt at Regen Projects. The event will feature live improvisational music by Lucky Dragon, White Rainbow, Steve Roden, The Urxed and Nudge.
Thursday, October 15th
through OCTOBER 31ST
Gustavo Artigas: Vote for Demolition
Internationally acclaimed artist Gustavo Artigas will produce his first solo exhibition in Los Angeles at LA><ART with voting booths located throughout the city. For Vote for Demolition, Artigas has developed a survey to compile a selection of buildings in LA with the least aesthetical values. The project is to study how locals view their own environment and about the democratic possibilities of changing it.
Be part of this project by casting your vote in our Lobby!
OCT 13TH through 18TH
Hit Week LA
(H)it Week L.A. will hit Los Angeles from October 13th through the 18th with 6 days and nights of Music, Cinema, Fashion, Design, Cuisine, DJ sets and parties in the name of the hippest Italian way of life. Join us for these live performances:
Acoustic sets by the Niro and Belladonna October 14th, the Cactus Lounge at 8 PM
Acoustic sets by Afterhours and Marco Fabi October 15th, the Cactus Lounge at 8 PM
and Sunday Brunch October 18th, the Pool Deck at 11:30 AM
SEPTEMBER
The Box featuring Lilibet Snellings
Lilibet Snellings is a freelance writer, sometimes box girl and sometimes on-camera "personality" or "host" if you will, living in LA. "She" is not writing in the third person, "she" promises. "She" now crosses into new territory as sometimes "artist"...
meet Lilibet at the opening reception
Wednesday, September 23rd 8 to 10 PM
The Lobby
SEPTEMBER 2ND
Kid Catastrophe
"The Adventures of Kid Catastrophe, a mix of Moby-style hip-hop and power pop that offers many a delicate tune...there's something about pianos, harmoniums and acoustic guitars surrounded by full-volume choruses that feel like the end of prom night, and I was ready to stand and applaud." -thetripwire
stop in for this special set by Kid Catastrophe of Illinois at the Cactus Lounge
8 PM
21+
AUGUST
The Box featuring Mattia Biagi
Mattia Biagi's idea of the TAR collection was born during a visit to the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles. Entranced by the texture of the mysterious tar bubbling up from the ground, he dipped his shoe into the tar and then saw the juxtoposition of ancient and modern life in a moment of epiphany. Biagi's TAR collection transforms the familiar into the surreal. The darkness that covers these iconic objects immortalizes and connects them to a unique concept of aesthetic beauty.
visit the Lobby to see Mattia's current installation
open daily, 24/7
AUGUST ACOUSTIC
Le Rev Revue
7 to 10 PM with early arrival suggested
APRIL 1ST THROUGH OCT 20TH
24/7 Projection featuring Kalup Linzy
Kalup Linzy's clever and unique voice lampoons and satirizes various forms of film and television such as Hollywood tearjerkers and soap operas. He deals with highly charged themes such as gender, sexuality, race, class, and popular culture. His takes on these issues are eloquently fused into his delightfully raunchy videos and performances "Conversations Wit De Churen," "Diva in Distress" and "All My Churen."
located in the Lobby
JULY 29TH
Aidan Hawken
Aidan Hawken draws on an extensive and eclectic group of influences including Peter Gabriel, Talking Heads, Elliott Smith, Yann Tiersen and Arcade Fire, yet he creates a sound uniquely his own. The result is a perfect solo project rife with insinuating melodies and clever, but poignant lyrics from this exceedingly talented singer and guitarist. Over the past few years, he has caught the attention of numerous music supervisors and his music has since been featured in multiple television shows and movies.
join us in welcoming Hawken for a special Acoustic performance to the Cactus Lounge on the evening of Wednesday, July 29th
7 to 10 PM
seating is limited, early arrival or advance reservations suggested at hollywoodrsvp@standardhotel.com
no cover 21+
JULY
The Box featuring Amy Frederick
Los Angeles native and Graphic Designer/Artist, Amy Frederick, is known for her clean, chic design and colorful array of digitally illustrated femme fatales. Her work is a divergence of brilliant hues opposite various patterns and prints merging both her technical and creative makings into the form of digital art.
The Box Installation, "Create your LOVE. Color your LIFE." is a designed to visually entice and lift your frame of mind. It is also the tag line of her latest development, AMO A VIDA, a progressive, artist based brand for women meaning "LOVE LIFE" in Portuguese. Amy intends to speak loud without words, while leaving the fragrance of wonder, dreams and femininity behind.
meet Amy Frederick at the opening reception
Thursday, July 16th 8 to 10 PM
Create your LOVE. Color your LIFE. AMO A VIDA.
JULY 1ST
Wainwright
JUNE 18TH
Touche
Touché is back for the Summer with a stellar line-up of accomplished musicians and deejays
Thursday, June 18th
10 PM to 2 AM
The Purple Lounge
21+
early arrival recommended...
JUNE
The Box featuring Melissa Manning
Manning expands on her "Out There" series of photographs to manifest the weathered mysteries of rural desert life, tumbleweeds and all. She translates the richness documented in the two-dimensional world of a photograph into the real space of the Box, complete with artifacts, which will then be inhabited by our fabulous cast of Box girls nightly.
meet Melissa Manning at the opening reception
Thursday, June 4th 8 to 10 PM
The Lobby
