Mark Allen

1450 Ocean: Santa Monica Senior Center Becomes a Hip Maker Space

First thing to know about soldering irons: they're hot. If that doesn't frighten you away, you might have what it takes to wire up the circuit board that will take you on an electronic treasure hunt through Santa Monica's GLOW event. During a class at the newly rejiggered 1450 Ocean community ce ... More >>

Machine Project's Oddball Take on L.A. Architecture, From a Helicopter Experiment to the Spirit of Whitney Houston

Our Diary of the Getty's Architecture Project: 'Everything Loose Will Land,' the A D Gala and Machine Project

This is the third installment of our Pacific Standard Time Presents diary, tracking modern architecture happenings all over the city. Check out our previous entries: *The Getty's Big, New Exploration of L.A. Architecture *SCI-Arc's Gala and a Concert at Jackie Treehorn's House High temperatures mig ... More >>

Colin Dickey Will Help You Get Rid of Your Stuff...By Bringing It to the Arctic

See also: *D3, an Artist Collective That Will Destroy the '90s Mixtape Your Ex-Boyfriend Made You *Five Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week *Best L.A. Novel Ever: The Tournament When writer Colin Dickey goes to the Arctic this summer, he will be bringing two pairs of long underwear, insulated boots ... More >>

LA2050 Is Giving $100,000 For an Art Project, and You Can Vote on Who Gets It

Making ideals reality can take a frustratingly long time, especially for organizations in need of funding. Grant-writing and paperwork often come first, followed by waiting. That's part of what's exciting about My LA2050, the $1 million challenge the Goldhirsh Foundation, a philanthropic outfit with ... More >>

Happy National Pi Day: Talent Show, Pie-Eating Contest A Recipe for Strawberry Rhubarb Pie

Still dreaming of those idyllic high school days of talent shows, math problems and after-school slices of pie? Yeah, we're not either, but this Thursday night at Machine Project, you can have your strawberry rhubarb pie and eat it too -- at the first-ever American Pi-dol talent show and pie-eating ... More >>

Five Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week, From Battling Curators to Banana Splits

This week, there's a game show-style showdown in Santa Monica, a print fair at LACMA and a film that tours through facets of pre-invasion Baghdad showing in Eagle Rock. 5. Justin Bieber's leftovers Art Is Shit Editions, a fairly young, L.A.-based art publishing company that produces objects as well ... More >>

God and Jesus Work at Circuit City, Have Sex With Each Other

God and Jesus have a sex scene in act two of See What Love the Father Has Given Us, artist Asher Hartman's three-act trip into the weirdness of the Holy Trinity, currently at Machine Project in Echo Park. This scene plays out on top of a table that an audience of no more than twelve sits around. De ... More >>

Infantcore: Babies Create Experimental Music in Jam Session at Machine Project

Babies came in waves on Saturday, for Machine Project's Infantcore, a five-hour experimental jam session in which playing 6- to 18-month-olds determined what erratic, synthesized sounds would be heard in the adjoining gallery. At 11 a.m., when Infantcore officially started, there was a crowd, but by ... More >>

Drag Makeup Workshop Tonight at Machine Gallery

Learn how to do makeup like a drag queen at Machine Gallery tonight at 7 p.m.: In conjunction with Ultra Fabulous Beyond Drag at the Downtown Independent Theatre, we are having a makeup workshop, featuring Fade-Dra and Squeaky Blonde, who will teach the assembled how to apply tranimal drag make-up. ... More >>

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Bend Everything: Inside DIY Electronics with Lucky Dragons and Daedelus

A local scene bends circuits into fresh beats and sounds

Help Turn Machine Gallery Into a Magic, Spooky Forest

So, Machine Project, who you may know about from the time they took over LACMA for a day, or from any of the many wonderful strange events that happen at their Echo Park space, will be turning the gallery into a forest in the month to come. According to Mark Allen, via the website: "The forest will ... More >>

Turn Your Cash Into Awesome, at Machine

You waited until the very last minute to buy your Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa presents. There is still time to give your loved ones the gift of art. Become a member of Machine Gallery in Echo Park. Mark Allen, its founder, promises a "complimentary hug" to new members. He writes: "We are going to ha ... More >>

In Surprise Move, Moca Board to Turn Over Operation of Museum to Machine Project Gallery

In Surprise Move, MOCA Board to Turn Over Operation of Museum to Machine Project Gallery

An unconfirmed report suggests that the Museum of Contemporary Art's board of trustees is ready to turn control of the embattled institution over to a small non-profit art space, Machine Project. "Basically, the board doesn't know what to do," said a source with inside information. "This is a Hai ... More >>

LACMA Deconstructed

Machine Project rethinks what a museum is for

Machine Gallery Takes Over LACMA This Saturday...Will All Hell Break Loose?

Maybe you've heard about Machine Gallery? If you live in Los Angeles, if you like strange and strangely beautiful events, if you like being buried alive, if you like secret galleries that you peep into through a hole in the floor, if you like depleted uranium and unicorns and flowers and volcanoes a ... More >>

Tastemakers Class of 2008

Cute brunette girl invites people to sample the hors d'oeuvres at the Tastemakers "Class of 2008" public exhibition, spearheaded by style-guru Laurie Pike. Exhibit (of fashion, art, jewelry, home design, music, graphic design, etc.) runs through March 30th at Hollywood Plaza at the Hollywood & Hig ... More >>

The Collector of Experiences

Mark Allen and his Machine Project

Blood, Sweat & Sexy Back

Digital Universe

With L.A. at its center

Dump Bush, Er, Never Mind . . .

Daphne Knocking

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