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Video Exhibit at L.A.'s Standard Hotels Anything But Standard

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 550 S. Flower St. [map], Los Angeles, CA, United States, 90071
June 8, 2009 at 4:22 PM | by EricRosen | 0 Comments

For the next six months, guests and passersby at the Standard Hotel’s two L.A. properties will be treated to a video art show by artist and Guggenheim fellow Kalup Linzy, whose works have also appeared at New York’s MoMa, and the Whitney.

Entitled Key to Our Heart and SweetBerry Sonnet, Linzy’s works are meant to raise questions about gender, sexuality, race, class and popular culture by mocking soap operas’ and Hollywood films’ storytelling conventions—and many of Linzy’s works feature the male artist dressed in outlandish women’s clothing for an added impact.

Linzy is writer, director, actor and editor, making his short films (both of the ones at the Standard will run under 40 minutes) in the style of John Waters or Andy Warhol, hoping to “confront the ways we deal with our own yearnings and acknowledge the dirty little secrets that everyone knows.”

Whoa. That sounds like some pretty heavy stuff for a hotel visit, but at least you’ll have something interesting to watch while you wait for your cocktail date to show up.

At the Standard in West Hollywood, the films will be projected in the lobby, while at the downtown hotel, they will appear on the mezzanine.

[Front door photo: Eric_chet; Above photo: KalupLinzy.net]

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