Sarah Cooper is a curator, writer, and art historian based in Los Angeles.
She is the Public Programs Specialist for performance at the J. Paul Getty Museum, where she directs the experimental performance series Ever Present, among other programs.
She has organized programs featuring artists and musicians including Kim Gordon, Simone Forti, Brendan Fernandes, Patti Smith, Lonnie Holley, Martin Creed, Midori Takada, Helado Negro, Moor Mother, David Wojnarowicz, Derek Jarman, and Solange Knowles.
In addition, Sarah has held positions at The Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Royal Academy in London, and the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh.
She holds a Master's Degree in Art History from Hunter College, New York. Her thesis, Expanding Experimentalism: Popular Music and Art at the Kitchen in New York City, 1971-1985, explores the creative output of artists' bands and the relationship between popular music and avant-garde performance practices.
sarahannecooper [at] gmail.com
She is the Public Programs Specialist for performance at the J. Paul Getty Museum, where she directs the experimental performance series Ever Present, among other programs.
She has organized programs featuring artists and musicians including Kim Gordon, Simone Forti, Brendan Fernandes, Patti Smith, Lonnie Holley, Martin Creed, Midori Takada, Helado Negro, Moor Mother, David Wojnarowicz, Derek Jarman, and Solange Knowles.
In addition, Sarah has held positions at The Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Royal Academy in London, and the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh.
She holds a Master's Degree in Art History from Hunter College, New York. Her thesis, Expanding Experimentalism: Popular Music and Art at the Kitchen in New York City, 1971-1985, explores the creative output of artists' bands and the relationship between popular music and avant-garde performance practices.
sarahannecooper [at] gmail.com
with The Muffs, The Garden, Vajj, and more.
Off the 405
Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Saturday, July 23, 2016
Burger Records is an independent record label and store based out of Orange County, whose prolific distribution of irreverent jangly garage-rock and exuberant surf and pop music, largely through cassettes, has become a phenomenon among SoCal youth. Known for their tireless DIY work ethic, Burger co-owners Sean Bohrman and Lee Rickard have released recordings by some of today's top indie bands like King Tuff, Thee Oh Sees, Ty Segall, and Shannon and the Clams, launched the career of hip teens Cherry Glazerr, and worked with bigger names like Thurston Moore, Beck, Weezer, and Ryan Adams who came to them out of love for Burger's rampant positive energy.
For a special Saturdays Off the 405, Burger Records presents The Muffs, The Garden, Jessie Jones, Gap Dream, and VAJJ in a festival format across two stages. Quintessential Burger acts from Orange County, like The Garden, a duo of sometimes-fashion-model identical twins Fletcher and Wyatt Shears and their lo-fi, gothy garage-rock, join The Muffs, the legendary L.A.-based 90's pop-punk band known for their unique blend of bubblegum and angst, who exemplify the Southern California music scenes that paved the way for the rise of the empowering, super-fun "Burger culture."
Photos by Debi Del Grande for LA Record.
