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Weezer
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Tuesday Oct 14 (7:30pm) @ The Forum
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Though many critics have written off Weezer, the band's still alive and rocking — if not quite like it was in 1994. Old-school fans rejoiced... View details »
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Wire
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Tuesday Oct 14 (8pm) @ Echoplex
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Released at the height of punk's coming-out party, Wire's Pink Flag was full of nervous, intellectually spiked tracks that were miles ahead of more cartoonish... View details »
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Digital Cabaret
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Tuesday Oct 14 (8pm) @ Tangier Lounge
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Poetry slams meet YouTube at LA's newest competitive-storytelling monthly, Digital Cabaret. For its second-ever installment, the show's organizers are already taking stock, assigning this edition... View details »
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Antony & the Johnsons
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Tuesday Oct 14 (8pm) @ Disney Concert Hall
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No disrespect to lovers of the old Decca 45s, but some acts demand to be heard in full stereophonic glory. Antony Hegarty's intimate, late-night-confessional voice... View details »
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Rumble Strips
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Wednesday Oct 15 (9pm) @ Spaceland
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Failed romantics the Rumble Strips have taken the UK by storm with the Jens Lekman-style tune "Girls and Boys in Love," the verbose Belle and... View details »
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Hearts of Palm UK
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Wednesday Oct 15 (10pm) @ El Cid
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It's a bubblegum-and-backbeat free-for-all at El Cid tonight, featuring a triple bill of LA indie outfits with a shared enthusiasm for sugar and spikes. New-wave... View details »
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The Locust
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Wednesday Oct 15 (9pm) @ The Smell
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Formed from the remains of Providence noise-punks Arab on Radar, the Chinese Stars streamline their former band's abrasive tendencies. It's easy to toss the foursome... View details »
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Jay-Z
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Wednesday Oct 15 (9pm) @ Hollywood Palladium
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Jay-Z continues to flout that whole "retirement" thing tonight, hitting the recently refurbished Hollywood Palladium for a headlining performance. Billing his show as an homage... View details »
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Sarah Vowell
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Thursday Oct 16 (7pm) @ All Saints Church
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Zinger-slinging journalist, historian, author, and radio personality Sarah Vowell has spent the last several years working on The Wordy Shipmates, a book that examines the... View details »
- Performing Arts: Dance
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Not About Iraq
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Thursday Oct 16 (8–10pm) @ Martha B. Knoebel Dance Theater
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Armed with a probing intellectual curiosity, acclaimed choreographer Victoria Marks engages audiences in pointed discourse by forging work that considers the politics of citizenship. Reconciling... View details »
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Pure War
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Thursday Oct 16 (8pm) @ The Mandrake
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The Europhile publishers and archivists at Semiotext(e) are the standard-bearers for LA's academic literati, promoting avant-garde authors and essayists while consistently unearthing classic gems. Their... View details »
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Born Ruffians
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Thursday Oct 16 (8:30pm) @ Spaceland
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Sure, the Canadian springs have just about run dry, but when an incredible label like... p... rts dropping pail, there must be at least one drop left... View details »
- Music: DJ
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DJ Chicken George
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Thursday Oct 16 (9pm–2am) @ Zanzibar
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Chicken George may be internationally known as a hip-hop DJ, but it's his unexpected juxaposition of genre, style, and tempo that makes his sets so... View details »
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Jaguar Love
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Thursday Oct 16 (9pm) @ Silverlake Lounge
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On records like Crimes and Burn, Piano Island, and Burn (to say nothing of their criminally underrated Neon Blonde side-project), the Blood Brothers expertly siphoned... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Leo Nocentelli
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Friday Oct 17 (8pm) @ The Mint
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The Meters were a household name among funk followers in the '60s and '70s, and the group even opened for the Rolling Stones during a... View details »
- Performing Arts: Dance
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Toneelhuis
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Friday Oct 17 (8–10pm) @ UCLA Live at Royce Hall
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Antwerp's Toneelhuis theatre collective boasts an artist-in-residence roster whose values dictate that theatre, dance, video, and music must all sit around the table together to... View details »
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16 Bit & Beyond
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Friday Oct 17 (9pm–2am) @ Air Conditioned Supper Club, Venice
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Westside chameleon A/C Club continues its quest to obtain the area's dance-music crown with another edition of weekly electro-soul party Soulicious. Tonight's lineup is packed... View details »
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Robbie Conal
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Saturday Oct 18 (6–9pm) @ Track 16 Gallery
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Even Robbie Conal's most fervent admirers tend to see his work primarily through their car windows. His trademark posters — featuring his unique style of... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Patti Smith
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Saturday Oct 18 (7pm) @ Orpheum Theatre
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As an iconic figure in American counterculture and one of the founders of the American punk movement, Patti Smith was well-deserving of her induction into... View details »
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Polysics
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Saturday Oct 18 (8pm) @ The Roxy Theatre
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Polysics are as renowned for their pummeling assaults on pop-punk power chords as for their spaztastic yelps. The band's synth-driven wackiness, digital bleeps, and laser... View details »
- Music: Punk/Metal
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Lustra
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Sunday Oct 19 (9pm–2am) @ The Garter Lounge
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A recent move down the block to the revamped Red Garter (now just the Garter) seems to agree with the Venice Rocks punk weekly. Something... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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MC Chris
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Monday Oct 20 (7pm) @ The Roxy Theatre
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Nerdcore hip-hopper MC Chris is a Brooklyn native whose high-pitched, uptempo flow makes him sound like a helium-sucking Kool Moe Dee. His distinctive voice isn't... View details »
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Pinback
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Monday Oct 20 (8pm) @ Echoplex
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San Diegan quintet Pinback eschew a single style in order to create their refreshingly earnest brand of melodic indie rock. Mixing drum machines and crackling... View details »
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Michel Gondry
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Tuesday Oct 21 (7–9pm) @ Hammer Museum
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Inhabiting the DIY spirit of his recent feature, Be Kind Rewind, director and consummate experimenter Michel Gondry provides a how-to manual for truly independent filmmaking... View details »
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Mammatus
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Tuesday Oct 21 (8:30pm) @ The Echo
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Intimidating in their wizard garb, Mammatus earned cred in freak-out psych circles opening for Acid Mothers Temple and playing music inspired by '70s basement fascinations... View details »
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Wolfgang Tillmans
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Thursday Oct 23 (6–8pm) @ Regen Projects
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Wolfgang Tillmans is like the Madonna of the art world: someone never afraid to change directions, reinvent himself, or throw in a surprise or two... View details »
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Stereolab
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Thursday Oct 23 (8pm) @ Music Box at the Fonda Theater
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Art-pop connoisseurs Stereolab have a knack for nostalgia. With a name borrowed from a '50s record label's designation for stereo LPs, and a predilection for... View details »
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Rose Hill Drive
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Thursday Oct 23 (9pm) @ Spaceland
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Boulder boys Rose Hill Drive may channel Cream and Led Zeppelin more effectively than any of their contemporaries, but summoning the '70s isn't the only... View details »
- Music: Festival
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Monster Massive
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Saturday Oct 25 (7pm–4am) @ LA Sports Arena
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Get reacquainted with your trick-or-treat spirit during the return of the frighteningly fantastic Monster Massive — the largest Halloween dance-music festival this side of the... View details »
- Music: Experimental
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USA Is A Monster
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Saturday Oct 25 (9pm) @ The Smell
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Brooklyn duo USAISAMONSTER (pronounced as if spaces exist between the words) are seasoned veterans of the global basement/warehouse scene. More adventurous than many of their... View details »
- Performing Arts: Comedy
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Neil Hamburger
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Sunday Oct 26 (9pm) @ Spaceland
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When Neil Hamburger bills himself as "America's $1 Funnyman," he's inviting audiences to stay away, knowing that they'll come back for more. Gregg Turkington's self-consciously... View details »
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Shearwater
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Monday Oct 27 (8:30pm) @ The Echo
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In the wake of Shearwater's critically acclaimed new record, Rook, Okkervil River member and ornithology expert Jonathan Meiburg recently announced plans to quit the latter... View details »
- Music: Classical
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Lang Lang
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Saturday Nov 1 (8pm) @ UCLA Live at Royce Hall
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Since filling in to play Tchaikovsky with the Chicago Symphony when he was 17, Chinese pianist Lang Lang has taken the classical-music world by storm,... View details »
- Art: Photography
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Karl Ferris
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Saturday Nov 15 (7–10pm) @ Mr. Musichead Gallery
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The cover art of Jimi Hendrix's debut album, Are You Experienced?, is just as memorable as the guitar pyrotechnics inside. Using a Nikon fish-eye lens... View details »
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M83
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Saturday Nov 29 (9pm) @ Music Box at the Fonda Theater
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When France's M83 first washed up on these shores with 2003's Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts, it was a giant step forward for... View details »
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Katina and Christa Zinner
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Tuesday Oct 14 @ James Coleman Gallery
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The mother-daughter relationship is fraught with emotion and drama, and what better venue for exploring that tension than a two-woman exhibition of sculpture and painting?... View details »
- Art: Festival
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Off-Axis
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Tuesday Oct 14 @ Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum
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Although our neighbor to the north is typically known for its stellar views and celebrity mansions, Santa Barbara has a stash of hidden artistic gems,... View details »
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Sandrine Pelletier
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Tuesday Oct 14 @ Fette's Gallery
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International-artist-friendly Fette's Gallery rings in its fall season with Insekts, an installation of new works by Swiss mixed-media artist/embroiderer Sandrine Pelletier. The Laussane/Paris-based artist creates... View details »
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Mark Bradford
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Tuesday Oct 14 @ Steve Turner Contemporary Gallery
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Los Angeles painter, installation artist, and (most recently) video artist Mark Bradford has exhibited in some of the world's most prestigious galleries and museums, but... View details »
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Gordy Grundy
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Tuesday Oct 14 @ Western Project
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The Fellowship of Fortuna (and its "messenger," LA painter and media artist Gordy Grundy) takes up residence on Western Project's website for a 21-week series... View details »
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Raymond Pettibon
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Tuesday Oct 14 (10am–6pm) @ Regen Projects II
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Seminal Work features a selection of pieces from the much-lauded Raymond Pettibon, all completed between 1978 and 1988. Keeping true to the chameleon-like artist, the... View details »
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Ken Price
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Tuesday Oct 14 (10am–6pm) @ LA Louver Gallery
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Ken Price is one of the world's most respected ceramicists, part of a small, but proud, posse of sculptors hell-bent on rehabilitating the medium's less-than-sophisticated... View details »
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Jehad Nga
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Tuesday Oct 14 (10am–6pm) @ M+B Gallery Los Angeles
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Daring photographer Jehad Nga has previously documented poverty and violence from Darfur to Iraq — now, he takes his camera into the world of boxing.... View details »
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Alexander Melamid
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Tuesday Oct 14 (10am–5:30pm) @ Forum Gallery
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Russian artist Alexander Melamid is a master at finding humor in serious situations, from totalitarian regimes to the plight of endangered elephants. In his first... View details »
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Yin Zhaoyang
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Tuesday Oct 14 (10am–5:30pm) @ DF2
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Chinese-born Yin Zhaoyang didn't have to look too far for inspiration when creating the work in his latest show at DF2 Gallery. After viewing the... View details »
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Kerry James Marshall
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Tuesday Oct 14 (10am–5:30pm) @ Koplin del Rio Gallery
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Chicago artist Kerry James Marshall has shown internationally to great acclaim, and now will show for the sixth time with Koplin del Rio in LA.... View details »
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Dennis Oppenheim
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Tuesday Oct 14 (10am–6pm) @ ACE Gallery
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Dennis Oppenheim first hit the art-world radar in the late 1960s with his Land and Body Art projects, which combined film and video with performance,... View details »
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Mark Dean Veca
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Tuesday Oct 14 (10am–5pm) @ Otis College of Art and Design
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Entering Mark Dean Veca's site-specific installation at Otis College's Ben Maltz Gallery is like stepping into a psychedelic playhouse filled with surreal pop-cultural cartoons. A... View details »
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Josh Dorman
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Tuesday Oct 14 (11am–5pm) @ Craft and Folk Art Museum
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Traditional paper and canvas simply won't do for New York artist Josh Dorman, who employs vintage maps and textbook diagrams as foundations for his fantastical... View details »
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Cycling Apparati
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Tuesday Oct 14 (11am–6pm) @ High Energy Constructs
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For many contemporary artists, Warhol is the North Star by which they guide their own emerging views of culture. But for a segment of more... View details »
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Ai Yamaguchi
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Tuesday Oct 14 (11am–6pm) @ Roberts & Tilton Gallery
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Hana wa no ni aruyouni (Flowers as they are in the field) is Japanese artist Ai Yamaguchi's second solo exhibition at Roberts & Tilton. A... View details »
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Aspects of Mel's Hole
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Tuesday Oct 14 (11am–4pm) @ CSUF Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana
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Beloved radio host Art Bell is a cross between Jean Shepherd and Fox Mulder, and a man whose paranormality-themed broadcasts were among the most misunderstood... View details »
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The Maize Project
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Tuesday Oct 14 (11am–5pm) @ Torrance Art Museum
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The small but influential Torrance Art Museum simultaneously mounts three new solo exhibitions, united by highly stylized explorations of abstraction and color. The Maize Project,... View details »
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Kyle Field
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Tuesday Oct 14 (11am–5:30pm) @ Taylor De Cordoba Gallery
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For his second go-round at Taylor De Cordoba, San Franciscan artist/musican Kyle Field (he's a member of the band Little Wings), plucks whimsical imagery for... View details »
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Martin Kersels
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Tuesday Oct 14 (11am–6pm) @ Santa Monica Museum of Art
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The Santa Monica Museum of Art hosts LA artist Martin Kersels' first retrospective, Heavyweight Champion, drawing from 13 years of his multimedia work. Informed by... View details »
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James Gobel
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Tuesday Oct 14 (11am–6pm) @ Steve Turner Contemporary Gallery
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Steve Turner Contemporary on the Miracle Mile lets its hair down this month, showing new work by James Gobel, portraying portly, hairy, gay men known... View details »
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Elizabeth Turk
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Tuesday Oct 14 (11am–5pm) @ Bandini Art
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From the Department of How Did She Do That? comes a new exhibition of drawings and delicate marble sculptures from chisel-wielding enchantress Elizabeth Turk. Her... View details »
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John Bock
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Tuesday Oct 14 (noon–6pm) @ REDCAT
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John Bock's unpredictable performances may seem like exercises in artistic capriciousness, but his loud costumes and absurd statements conceal his skill as a social and... View details »
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No Brow
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Tuesday Oct 14 (noon–6pm) @ Black Maria Gallery
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Not unlike impressionism, "low brow" was a label with initially negative connotations affixed to a group of artists reacting against then-mainstream art. Merging their vision... View details »
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Miriam Wosk
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Tuesday Oct 14 (noon–6pm) @ Billy Shire Fine Arts
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For her second exhibition at Culver City's Billy Shire Fine Arts, Santa Monica-based artist Miriam Wosk once again creates her trademark large-scale, laboriously constructed mixed... View details »
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CUT: Makings of Removal
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Tuesday Oct 14 (noon–4pm) @ Vincent Price Art Museum
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The 17 young and emerging artists included in this ambitious group show follow diverse strategies in making work, but the organizing principle is one of... View details »
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Park Life
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Tuesday Oct 14 (1–6pm) @ Subliminal Projects
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Subliminal Projects uses its recent move from Koreatown to the more pastoral environs of Echo Park as the curatorial focus for its latest exhibition, Park... View details »
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Surface Sounding
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Wednesday Oct 15 (11am–6pm) @ See Line Gallery
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Any viewer beholding Surface Sounding without background information would likely believe all the art was selected by a single gatekeeper, so cohesive and connected is... View details »
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Katie Grinnan
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Wednesday Oct 15 (11am–6pm) @ MAK Center for Art and Architecture
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Katie Grinnan has made a career out of walking the fine line between the second and third dimensions. Grinnan takes architectural structures — as well... View details »
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Amanda Ross-Ho
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Wednesday Oct 15 (11am–6pm) @ Cherry and Martin
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Amanda Ross-Ho returns to Cherry and Martin with her latest exhibition of mixed-media sculptural installation, Half of What I Say Is Meaningless. Since she last... View details »
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Mexican Calendar Girls
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Wednesday Oct 15 (11am–4pm) @ California Heritage Museum
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Glamor gets deep and classic at the California Heritage Museum's Mexican Calendar Girls, opening with a Cinco de Mayo reception. The color-soaked exhibition comprises a... View details »
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Victor Gastelum
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Wednesday Oct 15 (noon–6pm) @ Overtones Gallery
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Victor Gastelum upholds the grand California tradition of elevating street-art tropes to gallery-level heights with the spray-paint stencil multiples in Xacto Mundo. The Long Beach-based... View details »
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The Art of War
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Wednesday Oct 15 (noon–6pm) @ Norton Simon Museum
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When searching for a means of drumming up support for World War I, officials in Washington didn't have to look much further than two-dimensional art.... View details »
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Marcel Duchamp Redux
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Wednesday Oct 15 (noon–6pm) @ Norton Simon
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This year marks the 45th anniversary of By or of Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Sélavy, the famous Marcel Duchamp retrospective at the Pasadena Art Museum... View details »
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Eric Sall
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Wednesday Oct 15 (noon–6pm) @ Acuna-Hansen Gallery
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In confronting the vibrating, thickly textured canvases of Eric Sall, one gets the distinct impression that he could survive by eating nothing but oil paint,... View details »
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Christopher Pate
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Wednesday Oct 15 (noon–6pm) @ Jail Gallery
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Christopher Pate is interested in the relationship between maps and landscapes, as well as the broader discourse between the real quality of a place and... View details »
