CCC spent a day in Century City and Santa Monica. The first stop was at the Creative Artists Agency in their Century City headquarters with a docent tour of their architecture and renewed contemporary art collection. The second stop in Century City is the newly opened Annenberg Space for Photography to view their opening exhibit L8S ANG3LES: Perspectives of Eleven LA Photographers which includes the works of John Baldessari, Carolyn Cole and Catherine Opie. All based in Los Angeles, the exhibition reveals the influence of the city in multiple genres of fine art, architecture, photojournalism, fashion, and documentary. After lunch at Soleil’s in Westwood, the group headed to Santa Monica Museum of Art and received a very special tour of Ethiopia’s most original and prolific artists, Elias Simé (his painting, Filega 4, above). The exhibition was titled Eye of the Needle, Eye of the Heart curated by Meskerem Assegued, a revered Ethiopian curator and anthropologist, and visionary theater, opera, and multi-disciplinary artist Peter Sellars. Simé happened to be at the exhibition, so council members had a chance to ask some questions to the curators and artist. The group ended the visit with Mark Moore and Shoshana Wayne galleries in Bergamot Station to view the exhibitions of Japanese artist, Kenichi Yokono, Canadian artist, Kim Dorland, and Israeli sculptor, Zadok Ben David.
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