Nico, Basquiat, Murakami Tributes to Feature Devendra, Jenny Hval, Downtown Boys, More
The Broad, a contemporary art museum in L.A., has announced a late-night music and performance series. “Summer Happenings at the Broad” returns this year for its second season. It features music, dance, spoken word, and other performances that explore contemporary artists and themes highlighted in the museum’s collection and the current installation The Oracle. Devendra Banhart, Xiu Xiu, Jenny Hval, Downtown Boys, and others will perform in homage to each night’s icon theme—Nico, Japanese artist Takashi Murakami, and American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. The performances will be held once a month beginning June and continuing into September. Tickets will go on sale tomorrow via the Broad’s website.
The first program, Warhol Icon, is inspired by Nico and will feature live music from Jenny Hval, Kembra Pfahler, Tiny Vipers, Rose McDowall, and Geneva Jacuzzi. The event, which takes place on June 24, will also feature performance art from Vaginal Davis and a video installation by Nao Bustamante.
Strange Forest, the program named after Takashi Murakami’s work, will feature music from Afrirampo, Devendra Banhart, former DNA member Ikue Mori, and Dustin Wong (ex-Ponytail) with Takako Minekawa. It happens on July 29.
On August 26, A Place to Bury Strangers and Xiu Xiu will play alongside poets like Raquel Gutiérrez and performance artist Linda Mary Montano in celebration of the Broad’s current exhibition, Oracle.
Downtown Boys, Zebra Katz, DJ Rashida, and Michael Stock will perform as part of the final program, Jean-Michel Basquiat. The Basquiat event, which takes place on September 23, will also feature choreographed “dance bombs,” a Shani Crowe performance, and a sound piece from Damon Locks that’s based on themes found in Basquiat’s work.
The “Summer Happenings” series was co-curated by artist and Afropunk festival co-founder James Spooner, curators Ryu Takashi and Bradford Noreen, and the Creative Independent’s Brandon Stosuy (formerly an editor at Pitchfork).
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