Events on Friday, November 30
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- Dust Galaxy w/ Ursula 1000
- @ Knitting Factory
- Thievery Corporation's Rob Garza undresses his gruff and humble persona this evening at the Knitting Factory, with an appearance by Dust... View details »
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- Emily Wells
- @ The Hotel Café
- Beloved indie singer/songwriter haven the Hotel Café is stuffed to the gills tonight, with sets from intellectual troubadour Greg Laswell, a... View details »
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- More Flavor: Benefit
- Witness: ACT UP/LA at 20
- @ Highways Performance Space
- AIDS touches people in all segments of society, and, despite how we might pretend otherwise, the disease continues to wreak havoc... View details »
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- Hello Stranger
- @ The Echo
- LA-based rockers Hello Stranger have officially succumbed to their obsession with dead-serious disco, legwarmers, and hairspray. Far from cutesy (despite the... View details »
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- Jonathan Richman
- @ Safari Sam's
- Massachusetts-bred Jonathan Richman has been dropping controversial vinyl bombs since the mid-'60s. Co-founder of the legendary Modern Lovers (1970-74), the one-man... View details »
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- Art: Architecture/Design
- La Vida Lowrider
- @ Petersen Automotive Museum
- The lowrider tradition originated in the Chicano barrios of Los Angeles, inspired by a fierce love for classic cars and the... View details »
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- Clayton Murdach and Travis Somerville
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- This exhibition unites two like-minded artists whose work addresses the unstoppable decline of American society. Clayton Murdach manipulates a bevy of... View details »
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- Kim Dingle
- @ Lightbox Gallery
- Kim Dingle has a knack for turning the innocent into the disturbing. Clownish kids getting their faces stuck in garish cakes... View details »
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- Sandow Birk
- @ University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach
- Sandow Birk's Depravities of War examines its titular subject's social, political, and aesthetic constructs. Birk's precursor was 17th-century printmaker Jacques Callot,... View details »
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- Treasures from the Vault
- @ Natural History Museum
- Whether you cherish the memory of dueling dino skeletons from long-ago field trips, or a more recent late-night music show amongst... View details »
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- Alejandro Gehry & Brian Biedul: Raw Space
- @ DCA Fine Art
- Alejandro Gehry may be the son of uber-architect Frank, but it's his co-exhibitor, Brian Biedul, whose work really focuses on spatiality.... View details »
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- Jacob Arden McClure and Charles Wilkin
- @ Applegate Gallery
- Jacob Arden McClure and Charles Wilkin's paintings and collages radiate pop sensibility: McClure's all-too-lovely works layer nostalgic imagery and text, while... View details »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- CANCELED The Decemberists
- @ The Wiltern
- Despite a penchant for more-absurdist-than-thou lyrics and off-kilter instrumentation, neo-prog folksters the Decemberists are actually pretty populist — courting landlords' daughters,... View details »
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- Carole Caroompas
- @ Western Project
- Carole Caroompas' fantastically imaginative paintings and drawings are a melting pot of pop-culture imagery. For Caroompas' latest collection at Western Project,... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- A Christmas Twist
- @ Ark Theatre
- Dickens' "Please sir, may I have some more?" meets Animal House's "Thank you sir, may I have another?" in A Christmas... View details »
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- Francis Alÿs
- @ Hammer Museum
- Pushing a block of ice through the streets of Mexico City, moving a mountain several inches, hiring a stripper who never... View details »
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- Kenny Harris and Roland Reiss
- @ Gallery C
- Hyperrealist painter Kenny Harris showcases his recent paintings inspired by a trip to South America. While Harris' interiors hardly show direct... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- LA Physical Theatre Festival
- @ Art/Works Theatre
- Channeling the Chaplins and Keatons of Hollywood yesteryear, LAPT's inaugural festival salutes the not-so-subtle, yet supremely precise art of physical theatre.... View details »
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- Kim Kimbro, Barry Baldwin, and Doro Hofmann
- @ Lawrence Asher Gallery
- Three newcomers to the LA art scene — Kim Kimbro, Barry Baldwin, and Doro Hofmann — open individual mini-exhibitions tonight at... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Cry-Baby
- @ La Jolla Playhouse
- We've entered the John Waters age. A Broadway musical adaptation of Hairspray and a subsequent cinematic "re-adaptation" has made the legendary... View details »
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- Green
- @ Robert Berman Gallery
- From the minds at Murphy Art Books comes this mixed-media exhibition of small works by more than 40 contemporary artists who... View details »
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- Film: Documentary
- Steal a Pencil for Me
- @ Various locations
- Steal a Pencil for Me is the improbable-but-true documentary about the love affair conducted between two prisoners of a Nazi concentration... View details »
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- Materials & Applications: Density Fields
- @ Materials & Applications
- Experimental-architecture and landscape-research center M&A is a lightning rod for visionary thinkers, bringing the brightest artists and architects together to explore... View details »
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- Stan's Cafe
- @ Skirball Cultural Center
- In Of All the People in All the World: The Americas, UK theatre company Stan's Cafe collects 300 million grains of... View details »
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- Mark Dutcher
- @ High Energy Constructs
- California native Mark Dutcher utilizes Shakespeare as a thematic backdrop, adding a tinge of the macabre to his lavish, effervescent paintings... View details »
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- Iva Gueorguieva
- @ Pomona College Museum of Art
- Victor Hugo once said that, in contrast to the sublime, the grotesque is the richest material that nature can offer art.... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Julius Shulman
- @ Los Angeles Public Library
- Julius Shulman has done more for the way California modernist architecture is seen and appreciated than probably anyone else —... View details »
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- Plays Well With Others
- @ Pete & Susan Barrett Art Gallery, Santa Monica College
- Following the DIY aesthetic to a T, Sharon Kagan, Lana Shuttleworth, and Leslie Yagar, collectively known as the ladies of PiNK... View details »
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- Art: Discussion
- Nicole Cohen
- @ The Getty Center
- Nicole Cohen engineers recombinant layers of still and video imagery, investigating the network of associations that interior spaces contain. Also, she... View details »
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- Catalina Estrada & Mark Todd
- @ La Luz de Jesus
- Custo, Nike, Honda, and others have tapped Barcelona-based illustration sensation Catalina Estrada’s super-stylized imagery. Mark Todd, influenced by comic book artist... View details »
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- Shona Macdonald: SHIFT & Heimir Björgúlfsson: Allure Gone Buffalo
- @ d.e.n. contemporary art
- Aberdeen-born Shona Macdonald's delicate gouache, silverpoint, and graphite works, exhibited in d.e.n.'s main gallery, comment on the endless order and routine... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- A Very Grand Guignol Christmas
- @ Art/Works Theatre
- Let the absinthe, eggnog, and blood flow at Art/Works Theater in Hollywood, as the Grand Guignol Theatre Company presents A Very... View details »
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- Ellen de Meutter
- @ Roberts & Tilton Gallery
- For Ellen de Meutter's first US solo exhibition, the Belgian painter displays her signature childlike aesthetic, juxtaposing bright, expressionist imagery with... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Grand Delusion
- @ The Lost Studio
- Given the topsy-turvy nature of current geopolitics, the idea of a global conflict being instigated by a cabal of petty, puerile... View details »
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- Milo Martin
- @ Brickhouse Kitchen
- Poet, artist, and amateur Buddhist Milo Martin claims to "write what I can't paint, and paint what I can't write," so... View details »
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- Art: Architecture/Design
- Victor Burgin
- @ MAK Center for Art and Architecture
- The Little House, Victor Burgin's new project at the MAK Center, explores the potential of narrative sound installation. Selections from Jean-François... View details »
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- Dream of Today
- @ Steve Turner Contemporary
- East meets West (coast, that is) in this exhibition of 14 NYC-based up-and-comers. Independent curator and New York gallerist Amy Smith-Stewart... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Local Story
- @ Theatre of NOTE
- Set over the course of two balmy days in August, theatre of NOTE's latest production revolves around the emotional cyclones stirred... View details »
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- Mark Mothersbaugh
- @ The Scion Installation LA Space
- Mark Mothersbaugh, the DEVO diva-turned-soundtrack composer, designs rugs the way David Byrne designs chairs — as humorous objects, not items of... View details »
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- Fusion Film Festival
- @ Egyptian Theatre
- The Fusion festival celebrates ethnically and sexually diverse themes in new cinema by up-and-coming filmmakers from around the world. This year's... View details »
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- Jacob Magraw & Edward del Rosario
- @ Richard Heller Gallery
- LA painter Jacob Magraw's gouache-on-paper works are improvisational landscapes composed of layers of Skittles-worthy colors. His latest batch of works at... View details »
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- Film: Documentary
- My Kid Could Paint That
- @ Various locations
- An abstract-art prodigy for the digital age, four-year-old Marla Olmstead is a rare bird indeed. In My Kid Could Paint That,... View details »
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- Mathieu Briand
- @ DF2
- While French artist Mathieu Briand is best known for his ambitious sound installations, with UBÏQ: A Mental Odyssey, he takes things... View details »
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- Art: Architecture/Design
- SIT: Contemporary and Traditional Seating
- @ Pounder-Koné Art Space
- When not hurting bad guys on FX's The Shield, actress CCH Pounder works alongside her husband Boubacar Koné, developing the Boribana... View details »
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- Robert Hardgrave
- @ Kinsey/DesForges Gallery
- Beautiful and sublime, paintings by Seattle-based artist Robert Hardgrave boast slick, slippery, intestinal arabesques, quivering flora, and mysterious corpuscular floaters. Channeling... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Teatr Zar
- @ Freud Playhouse
- Carrying on the tradition of Polish provocateur Jerzy Grotowski, Teatr Zar's members alter the notion of theatre through acts of deeply... View details »
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- Emma Ferreira
- @ Spin Gallery
- Venice's brand-new Spin Gallery merges fine and automotive art, showcasing promising new visual talents alongside rare and beautiful cars. Its latest... View details »
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- Beyond Ultraman: Seven Artists Explore the Vinyl Frontier
- @ Pasadena Museum of California Art
- One of three new exhibitions on view this fall at the Pasadena Museum of California Art, vinyl-obsessed group show Beyond Ultraman... View details »
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- Wallace Berman
- @ Michael Kohn Gallery
- Even though Wallace Berman exhibited his work at the highly influential Ferus Gallery within years of Andy Warhol's first solo show,... View details »
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- Pascual Sisto
- @ De Soto Gallery
- If LA-based video artist Pascual Sisto had been born a century earlier, he and Salvador Dalí would have been best buds.... View details »
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- A Great Delicacy
- @ Taylor De Cordoba Gallery
- Curator Melissa Levin has gathered six New York-based artists whose work focuses on the nature of consumables. While the duo of... View details »
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- Degenerate Art Ensemble
- @ REDCAT
- Seattle-based DAE's artistic methodology combines jazz, rock, thrash, butoh, poetry, and surrealism to generate intoxicating performances. The six versatile members play... View details »
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- Giant Robot Biennale
- @ Japanese American National Museum
- Pop-culture empire Giant Robot began way back in 1994 as a zine, and has since grown to include a glossy magazine,... View details »
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- Ashley McLean Emenegger & Paul Pitsker: You Are Here
- @ Bandini Art
- Inspired by the groundbreaking mixed-media assemblages of Betye Saar and Joseph Cornell, Ashley McLean Emenegger explores themes of masculinity and femininity... View details »
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- Nicole Eisenman
- @ Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects
- The humorous, poignant, and technically impressive paintings, drawings, and prints by Nicole Eisenman at Vielmetter Projects are neatly explained by the... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Hair
- @ The MET Theatre
- Hair's original 1967 production was way ahead of its time, masterfully exploring the sexual revolution, mind-expanding drugs, and opposition to the... View details »
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- Jen Liu
- @ Lizabeth Oliveria Gallery
- Jen Liu's new multimedia collection at Lizabeth Oliveria Gallery finds the anti-technology characters of her Brethren of the Stone series once... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Benedictus
- @ The New LATC
- San Francisco-based Golden Thread Productions presents Benedictus, a transcultural tale of reunion and intrigue. In the play, two men from divergent... View details »
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- Adrià Julià
- @ LAXART
- A Spanish artist who decamped to LA, Adrià Julià is a CalArts grad with a knack for telling unusual stories. Last... View details »
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- Soundwaves
- @ Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla
- Soundwaves: The Art of Sampling is MCASD's response to MOCA's 2005 exhibition Visual Music, a survey of the influence and/or direct... View details »
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- Alex Kopps
- @ New Image Art
- Bay Area artist Alex Kopps' undeniably beautiful work has been endorsed by Target, Home Depot, and Taco Bell — but don't... View details »
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- Joan Tucker
- @ Milo Gallery
- Don't call Joan Tucker another Rothko wannabe. While her exploratory, painterly abstractions are obviously influenced by the forefathers of abstract expressionism,... View details »
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- SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s
- @ Los Angeles County Museum of Art
- Exhibitions addressing mythologies of Southern California are suddenly seemingly ubiquitous. The Orange County Museum of Art's Art Since the 1960s: California... View details »
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- Cherie Benner Davis
- @ SolwayJones Gallery
- LA painter Cherie Benner Davis sees the world in layered transparencies — crisp geometric shapes overlaying expressive, devotional elements of the... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Opera
- La Bohème
- @ Los Angeles Opera
- Giacomo Puccini's four-act opera La Bohème has been immortalized in more films, songs, and remakes than any other work of its... View details »
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- Sue de Beer
- @ Sandroni Rey
- From the horrific to the mythic, Sue de Beer's video installations unravel twisted paths into the sputtering darkness of adolescence. Her... View details »
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- Clive Barker
- @ Bert Green Fine Art
- Clive Barker is known for creating some pretty frightening characters — Candyman, Pinhead, and the army of monsters in Nightbreed. The... View details »
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