

Do you ever have one of those nights where there's just so much going on that, and you can't decide what to do, and you have a panic attack because everyone has invited you to this thing and that thing, and you end up doing nothing at all? That's the way the art crowd in L.A. feels this weekend, what with Pacific Standard Time (Getty's citywide art initiative to celebrate post-war Los Angeles art 1945-1980), Art Platform, Pulse... It just seems like everyone and her brother is having some sort of contemporary art "event" this weekend.
Well, don't fret. There's only one you really need to go to. Justin Lowe & Jonah Freeman's The Double Bind: Selections from the Annabel Vale Archive, an installation at The Standard Downtown. It's a continuation of the duo's exhaustive exploration into the underground, cults, and the like. This chapter deals with the archives of a lady by the name of Annabel Vale, a compiler of Californian subcultural materials. There's intricately fabricated walls, crystal sculptures, and all those beautifully crafted ephemera that Freeman & Lowe instill with their inimitably humoristic approach to artifice and pychedelia. There's even a sculpture of a pig's head to represent "The Shade," an offshoot of the Black Panthers that would leave these porcine warning shots with their enemies. And collaborators RTX will provide the soundtrack.
So, don't freak out and curl up in your duvet, eating Sun Chips and watching re-runs of Modern Family this weekend. Freak out at the Standard with Lowe and Freeman.


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Maxwell Williams
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