EVENTS
DAILY
6th Street Mural
The Downtown LA Art Series is excited to present a new public project featuring local and up and coming artists. First up, Phil Lumbang, whose mural is sure to make you smile. As a child Phil was obsessed and inspired by cartoons. His illustrations of bears, coined "awesome bears" by fans, spread a message of happiness and understanding.
Heads up! Phil stopped by this week to help spread some Standard love to Downtown LA with some fun additions to his mural. Stop by to check it out and then hop on in for a bite at the Restaurant or a drink in the Lobby.
Happy Valentine's Day!
The Standard loves to love you!
THURSDAYS
Racked
The fun and games will be taking place every Thursday from 5 to 8 PM in our Lobby. Check out DJ Dirty Dave who will be on spinning fresh beats plus awarding prizes to the lucky winners. Participants stand to win a $100 Restaurant credit or Standard branded merchandise and entry is complimentary. Free pool tournament and prizes? Thursdays downtown just got really great!
Stop by for some pool and stay for dinner in the Restaurant or drinks on the Rooftop.
TUESDAYS
Weekly World Music in the Lobby
The Lobby celebrates World Music with monthly residencies featuring live band performances every Tuesday evening. For March we are excited to present the relaxed French ambience of La Bete Noire...expect acoustic renditions of French music legends ranging from Serge Gainsbourg to Marie Laforet and more.
C'est vraiment fantastique!!!
6 to 9 PM free entry
all ages
TUESDAYS
DJ David J
DJ David J
of Love and Rockets and Bauhaus fame
brings an eclectic playllist featuring artists from
Leonard Cohen to Miles Davis
to soundtrack our early Tuesday evenings
The Rooftop
7 to 9 PM
21+
FIRST SUNDAYS
Standard Tunings
Scott and Shah present
Standard Tunings
a revolving showcase of LA's 'best kept secret' singer/songwriters performing live in the Lobby
the first Sunday of every month
7 to 10 PM
free entry
FEBRUARY 13TH
Valentines Day - Pre Party
SATURDAY FEB 13TH
VALENTINES DAY WEEKEND
Dj Ryan Brown
(Boston - Summer of Steak)
& Dj Tyler Made
(Singapore - Over Easy/ Donuts)
present
'an afternoon for the lover in all of us'
a decidely romantic blend of Breaks, World Funk and soulful Electronica
1 to 6 PM
21+
no cover
SUNDAYS
Sunday Supper
The Standard knows you have a big work week ahead, so why not take the night off and let us cook you dinner? We'll even do the dishes!
Every Sunday night from 5 to 11 PM the Restaurant is featuring a deliciously seasonal 3 course family meal for just $20* per person. Chef Yuji Iwasa features sustainable ingredients whenever possible on his eclectic menu. Reservations are requested for this special event, please contact us at 213.439.3030
*2 person minimum, tax and gratuity are not included
WEDNESDAYS
Lobby Tastings
every Wednesday the crew of Silverlake Wine will be on hand to educate us on boutique, small production, high quality, artisanal wines and spirits from around the globe in the Lobby! Drink, eat, relax, listen...
flights + snacks + live DJ
5 to 8 PM
21+
JANUARY 1ST
Culprit Sessions
Join us for a special New Year's Day to welcome 2010!!!
The Droog Collective presents
the first Culprit Sessions of the new decade
featuring your Tech-House pilots
Ryan Crosson
Droog is the DJ collective of Andrei Osyka, Brett Griffin and Justin Sloe
the Rooftop Bar
12 to 6 PM
21+
DECEMBER 31 2009
Love 20-10
DAILY
24/7 Projection featuring Mika Rottenberg
The question of labor and the exploitation 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.
DECEMBER 2ND
Zero Film Festival
Join us at the Rooftop Bar for curated projections, a live performance by Warpaint and drinks to kick off Zero Film Festival 2009!
ZFF is the first festival exclusive to self financed filmmakers and the authentically independent films they create, as well as being an independent organization out of NYC and LA, that is firmly committed to helping under represented filmmakers by screening original and innovative films for cinema lovers everywhere.
OCT 20TH 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 on our Mezzanine
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. 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 a study in how locals see their own environment and about the democratic possibilities of changing it.
Be part of this project by casting your vote in our Lobby!
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." -Whitfield Lovell
located in the Mezzanine
MONDAYS through SEPTEMBER
The Electones
"Because the Electones heady original compositions give plenty to think about, it's what happens from the neck down that sets them apart. To be blunt, if you can't dance to the Electones...you can't dance."
The Rooftop Bar welcomes the Electones, a Contemporary West Coast Jazz trio comprised of Mike Bolger on organ, Jason Myers on guitar and Jason Pipkin on drums...every Monday from 5:30 to 8:30 PM
SEPTEMBER 20TH
Compression
a Robtronik production
3rd Sunday of the month, Summer 2009
Compression presents a worldly blend of Electro, specializing in Tech and Minimal House. Past luminaries to spin Poolside include Richie Hawtin, Matthew Dear and Ryan Elliot
this Sunday's session stars
The Wighnomy Brothers, Jamie Jones & Misstress Barbara
opening sets by Compression residents Andre Ezer & Matt Xavier
Rooftop Bar
1 to 8 PM 21+
SEPTEMBER 19TH
Autumn Lights
In partnership with the Los Angeles Department of Recreation & Parks and Art2, Autumn Lights LA 2009 debuts at Pershing Square Park as an annual event in Downtown LA. A multimedia light art showcase by LA based artists presenting various forms of studio and performance art that will feature installations, performances and projections utilizing the medium of light.
"Autumn Lights LA might not be a competitive show, but it invites comparison, evaluation and investigation as well as admiration and celebration...celebration of the urban experience in the early 21st century and of the possibilities that, for all our tribulations, still course through art and life like veins of gold." -Peter Frank
We are pleased to host special installations curated by artist Lilli Muller within multiple locations of the hotel. The 6th Street Mural will feature a black light project by Jerico Woggon, the Lobby to house a textile installation by Desirae Hepp which is inspired by the natural intelligence of patterns and our innate reactions to light, waves and bioluminescence, and finally a video projection by creative group Lustre on our Rooftop that seeks to immerse the audience by engaging with visual experiences that blur the line between art, design and film.
SEPTEMBER 12TH
Swimming With Sharks
MFG + Rockwell present
on
Within one short year Danceright's Swimming With Sharks has fast become an LA party legend. Every event features new crews of label or genre battling it out Poolside over water guns and turntables for dancefloor supremacy!
roaming shots by the Squid
noon to sundown
21+
The Rooftop
due to capacity constraints early arrival is suggested
AUGUST 13TH
Echo Beach Retrospective
AUGUST 1ST
Beestings & Nosebleeds
APRIL 23RD
Shadowscene
The Standard + Ellei J
present an installation of the
Downtown LA Art Series featuring
Shadowscene images from the past 4 years
titled Fragments and Figmentations, "it's a collection of dream like glimpses into the endless party nightlife of the hipster movement."
The Loft 8 PM to 12 AM
21+
MARCH 31ST - APRIL 4TH
Postopolis!
ForYourArt and the Storefront for Art and Architecture are pleased to announce that Postopolis! LA will be taking place on the rooftop of The Standard, Downtown LA, from March 31 through April 4.
Postopolis! LA is a five-day event of near-continuous conversation about architecture, urbanism, landscape and design. Six world-renowned bloggers from New York, Paris, San Francisco, Santiago and Sydney will convene to host a series of live discussions, interviews, slideshows, presentations and panels that speak to issues of architecture, landscape, urbanism and the built environment–fusing the informal and interdisciplinary approach of the architectural blogosphere with the energy and immediacy of face-to-face interactions.
March 1ST
Women in the City
West of Rome Public Art with the
Standard Downtown LA Art Series and ForYourArt
presents
Women in the City- One Year Later
Panel discussion with Emi Fontana, Joanne Heyler and Barbara Kruger, moderated by Joshua Decter.
"Women in the City" is a viral public art exhibition that first spread throughout the streets of Los Angeles in February 2008. Curated by Emi Fontana of West of Rome, "Women in the City" features works by Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, Louise Lawler and Cindy Sherman.
Sunday, March 1, 2009
RSVP by February 23 to westofrome@foryourart.com or 310 475 2229
