> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://hyperallergic.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # ArtRx LA - URL: https://hyperallergic.com/artrx-la-35/ - Published: 2015-03-17T19:31:08.000Z - Updated: 2025-11-24T16:31:45.000Z - Description: LOS ANGELES — This week there's an Iranian New Year's celebration at LACMA, a performance festival at Bergamot Station, a 24-hour queer pornography marathon, and more. - Author: Matt Stromberg - Tags: Art, Events, Weekly Art Rx LA, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:08 (2014, 2015, part 2) ![Sesión Continua: A Porn Theater in Echo Park (via machineproject.com)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2015/03/machineporn.jpg) Sesión Continua: A Porn Theater in Echo Park (via machineproject.com) LOS ANGELES — This week there’s an Iranian New Year’s celebration at LACMA, a performance festival at Bergamot Station, a 24-hour queer pornography marathon, and more. ![Long Live LA 2015 (via freewaves.org)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2015/03/longlivela2015_grid.jpg) Long Live LA 2015 (via freewaves.org) ![](http://hyperallergic.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/hyperbullet.png) ## Long Live LA When: Wednesday, March 18, 7–9pm Where: Mercado La Paloma (3655 S Grand Avenue, Figueroa Corridor, Los Angeles) [Freewaves](http://freewaves.org/?ref=hyperallergic.com) — an organization dedicated to bringing media arts to the public — commissioned artists to create short videos on the topics of mental health, fitness and addiction. These 30 videos make up Long Live LA 2015, and will be on view in waiting rooms and websites of community health centers. Before they launch, there will be a screening and reception for the project at Mercado La Paloma, a community-based collection of independent restaurants and businesses. ![](http://hyperallergic.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/hyperbullet.png) ## Sesión Continua: A Porn Theater in Echo Park When: Friday, March 20, 11:59pm–Saturday, March 21, 11:59pm Where: Machine Project (1200 D North Alvarado, Echo Park, Los Angeles) Presented by Dirty Looks: LA, [Sesíon Continua](http://machineproject.com/blog/2015/03/20/sesion-continua-a-porn-theater-in-echo-park?ref=hyperallergic.com) is a 24-hour marathon of vintage gay & lesbian porn and experimental queer erotica. Fork over your $12, slide in through the side alley, and embark on a phantasmagoric journey through the golden age of homoerotic cinema. With no set times or schedules, visitors are encouraged to stay as long as they want, or come and go as they please. ![](http://hyperallergic.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/hyperbullet.png) ## Perfect Strangers Art & Performance Festival ![work by Amir H. Fallah (via facebook.com)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2015/03/fallah.jpg) work by Amir H. Fallah (via facebook.com) When: Saturday, March 21, 1–4pm Where: Bergamot Station (2525 Michigan Avenue, Santa Monica, California) Amir H. Fallah is an unconventional portrait artist, inviting children to sculpt busts of their future, elderly selves, or using items bought at an estate sale to create depictions of the deceased. In conjunction with [Perfect Strangers](http://18thstreet.org/events/amir-fallah-exhibition?ref=hyperallergic.com), his current show at 18th Street Art Center, Fallah is organizing an [Art & Performance Festival](http://18thstreet.org/events/21march2015?ref=hyperallergic.com) at Bergamot Station. A slew of LA-based artists and musicians will respond to his work, while at the same time engaging with the expansive Bergamot complex. ![Hairy Who (via armoryarts.org)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2015/03/hairywhol.jpg) Hairy Who (via armoryarts.org) ![](http://hyperallergic.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/hyperbullet.png) ## Hairy Who & The Chicago Imagists Film Screening When: Saturday, March 21, 7–9pm Where: Armory Center for the Arts (145 N. Raymond Avenue, Pasadena, California) Combining a bright, pop sensibility with a fetish for comics and a surrealist bent, the [Chicago Imagists](http://www.armoryarts.org/visit/2015-events/hairy-who-and-the-chicago-imagists-film-screening/?ref=hyperallergic.com) were largely dismissed by the mainstream art world when they emerged in the 1960’s. Presented in conjunction with [Mysticism and Metaphysics in the Works of Sara Kathryn Arledge, Charles Irvin, Jim Shaw](http://armoryarts.org/exhibitions/2015/the-making-of-personal-theory-mysticism-and-metaphysics-in-the-work-of-sara-kathryn-arledge-charles-irvin-and-jim-shaw/?ref=hyperallergic.com), this documentary is the first film to look at their work and influence on contemporary figurative art. ![](http://hyperallergic.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/hyperbullet.png) ## Remembering Forward: Conversations on Photography ![Image by John Stezaker, "Crowd" (2013) (via laxart.org)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2015/03/remeberingforward.jpg) Image by John Stezaker, “Crowd” (2013) (via laxart.org) When: Sunday, March 22, 4–6pm Where: LA>