13ThingsLA: July 3

Fashions & Futures for your art calendar

Bruce Yonemoto, Hanabi Fireworks, 1999, part of Scratching at the Moon at ICALA (Photo courtesy the artist and O-Town House, Los Angeles)

It’s technically a holiday weekend, but art never really goes on vacation, does it? This week’s offerings plot a course for interdisciplinary and sometimes interdimensional adventure with stops at OCMA, Frogtown First Fridays, David Kordansky Gallery, ICALA, CIACLA, The Autry, Good Mother Gallery, Broken Windows Gallery, Craig Krull Gallery/Art Division, Book Soup, Diane Rosenstein Gallery, and Boston Court Theater. PSA: the drone show at Grand Park makes a pretty satisfying substitute for 4th of July fireworks, and I’m pretty sure the neighborhood pets and wildlife prefer it too.

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Martin Creed, I Don’t Know What Art Is, Museum für Konkrete Kunst, Ingoldstadt, Germany (Photo by Hubert Klotzeck)

Yves Saint Laurent: Line and Expression and Martin Creed: Work No. 3868 Half the air in a given space open Wednesday, July 3 at Orange County Museum of Art. Honestly I get why folks would be intrigued by the YSL drawing show. The opportunity to examine a trove of signature dress designs alongside the extensive sketchbooks he filled with inspirations on a formative Moroccan adventure—and thereby experience a leisurely exegesis of his language of line and color—is quite appealing. But having experienced one of artist Martin Creed’s balloon-filled rooms myself, I am particularly excited to encounter another. So much more than a ball-pit for fancy folk—though there is a little of that energy, in a good way—these installations activate architecture by obscuring it, focusing the attention on the immediate and bodily, how we understand space, whether or not we play well with others, and how willing we are to relinquish self-consciousness in exchange for a bit of joy. YSL is on view through October 27; Creed is on view through February 16 in Costa Mesa; free; ocma.art. —SND