KCRW Summer Nights with Manuela at Hauser & Wirth

Party in the Arts District with KCRW and Manuela at Hauser & Wirth! It's a free, all-ages night celebrating art and music. Explore the galleries after hours with two standout exhibitions: Destiny Is a Rose: The Eileen Harris Norton Collection, featuring more than 80 works reflecting her commitment to social justice and learning, and Keith Tyson's The Generative Universe, bringing together three decades of paintings, sculptures, drawings, and mixed-media works. Then head outside and dance the night away as KCRW DJs Olive Kimoto and Jason Bentley keep the energy going.

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Located in the Arts District of Los Angeles, Manuela unites chef, farmer and artist to create an authentic and original dining experience. The restaurant is nestled within the Hauser & Wirth gallery complex and is itself adorned by specially commissioned works from artists Paul McCarthy, Mark Bradford and Raymond Pettibon. Under the direction of Executive Chef Kris Tominaga, the menu celebrates seasonal ingredients sourced from the best farms and producers in Southern California, and features an exemplary bar program, offering classic cocktails using house-made bitters and tonics and a carefully selected wine list designed to pair with the smoke and acid at the heart of the menu.

Occupying a former flour mill, Hauser & Wirth Downtown Los Angeles is a vibrant communal space that links art and architecture with a dynamic events program. In addition to supporting and collaborating with many local and international cultural organizations, nonprofits and universities, the Los Angeles galleries foster public dialogue with the arts through a range of activities that engage the city’s diverse population.

Renowned for her generosity to artists and institutions, Eileen Harris Norton has built a collection and philanthropy actively focused upon the work of women, artists of color and her native California. Marking fifty years since Harris Norton’s first acquisition—a print purchased directly from Los Angeles artist Ruth Waddy in 1976––‘Destiny Is a Rose’ presents more than 80 works that together reflect Harris Norton’s prescient vision and commitment to social justice and learning. Titled after a painting by Kerry James Marshall, ‘Destiny Is a Rose’ includes work by such artists as Mark Bradford, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, David Hammons, Glenn Ligon, Marshall, Lorraine O’Grady, Adrian Piper, Betye Saar, Lorna Simpson, Kara Walker, Carrie Mae Weems and Jack Whitten, among others. 

British artist Keith Tyson has long used wide-ranging techniques and materials to explore the permeable boundary between human creativity and the wider forces that give rise to patterns and possibilities across the cosmos. With ‘The Generative Universe,’ his first exhibition in Los Angeles since 2009, Tyson brings together paintings, sculptures, drawings and mixed media works spanning the past three decades—and makes a powerful case for the universe as a single generative system: a constantly shifting, causal network in which forms arise, transform and dissolve.