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All About Eve
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Wednesday Dec 12, 2007 (7:30pm) @ Egyptian Theatre
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"Funny business, a woman's career," laments a caustic Bette Davis in '50s classic All About Eve. A smart drama about aging actress Margot Channing and... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Jesca Hoop
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Wednesday Dec 12, 2007 (8pm) @ The Troubadour
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Sweet, steel-spined folk-pop singer Jesca Hoop takes us inside her gypsy psyche, spinning tales of triumph and sorrow from her Tom Waits-endorsed debut, Kismet. A... View details »
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Wrap Up Your Words
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Wednesday Dec 12, 2007 (7:30–10pm) @ Writing Pad
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Find the right sentences for your holiday sentiments at this one-of-a-kind workshop. Whether you're looking to write a poem, a story, or just a pithy... View details »
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Squaregirls
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Wednesday Dec 12, 2007 (9pm) @ The Scene
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Presented by Radio Free Silver Lake (though dropping in Glendale), tonight's inaugural Squaregirls monthly music night features straight-up indie rock from Princeton, bluesy barroom swagger... View details »
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Cassandra C. Jones
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Wednesday Dec 12, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Ojai
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... n't let the title fool you: for her second solo effort at Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Cassandra C. Jones isn't just offering viewers another photography... View details »
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Clive Barker
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Wednesday Dec 12, 2007 (noon–6pm) @ Bert Green Fine Art
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Clive Barker is known for creating some pretty frightening characters — Candyman, Pinhead, and the army of monsters in Nightbreed. The script he submitted for... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
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Cry-Baby
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Wednesday Dec 12, 2007 @ La Jolla Playhouse
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We've entered the John Waters age. A Broadway musical adaptation of Hairspray and a subsequent cinematic "re-adaptation" has made the legendary Baltimorean a household name.... View details »
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Giant Robot Biennale
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Wednesday Dec 12, 2007 (9am–5pm) @ Japanese American National Museum
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Pop-culture empire Giant Robot began way back in 1994 as a zine, and has since grown to include a glossy magazine, galleries in both San... View details »
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Victor Burgin
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Wednesday Dec 12, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ MAK Center for Art and Architecture
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The Little House, Victor Burgin's new project at the MAK Center, explores the potential of narrative sound installation. Selections from Jean-François de Bastide's 1758 novella... View details »
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Francis Alÿs
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Wednesday Dec 12, 2007 (11am–7pm) @ Hammer Museum
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Pushing a block of ice through the streets of Mexico City, moving a mountain several inches, hiring a stripper who never quite strips: these are... View details »
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Adrià Julià
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Wednesday Dec 12, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ LAXART
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A Spanish artist who decamped to LA, Adrià Julià is a CalArts grad with a knack for telling unusual stories. Last year at the Orange... View details »
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Joan Tucker
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Wednesday Dec 12, 2007 (11am–5pm) @ Milo Gallery
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Don't call Joan Tucker another Rothko wannabe. While her exploratory, painterly abstractions are obviously influenced by the forefathers of abstract expressionism, this Detroit-born, LA-based painter's... View details »
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Green
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Wednesday Dec 12, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ Robert Berman Gallery
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From the minds at Murphy Art Books comes this mixed-media exhibition of small works by more than 40 contemporary artists who were asked to explore... View details »
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Cherie Benner Davis
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Wednesday Dec 12, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ SolwayJones
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LA painter Cherie Benner Davis sees the world in layered transparencies — crisp geometric shapes overlaying expressive, devotional elements of the physical and psychological world.... View details »
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Robert Hardgrave
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Wednesday Dec 12, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ Kinsey/DesForges Gallery
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Beautiful and sublime, paintings by Seattle-based artist Robert Hardgrave boast slick, slippery, intestinal arabesques, quivering flora, and mysterious corpuscular floaters. Channeling a "Fantastic Voyage" vision... View details »
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Sue de Beer
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Wednesday Dec 12, 2007 (10am–6pm) @ Sandroni Rey
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From the horrific to the mythic, Sue de Beer's video installations unravel twisted paths into the sputtering darkness of adolescence. Her protagonists appear alternately incandescent,... View details »
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Diva 25th Anniversary
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Wednesday Dec 12, 2007 (midnight) @ Landmark Nuart Theatre
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A genre-bending thriller, Jean-Jacques Beineix's Diva (1982) was among the first French films to herald the Cinéma du Look — the glossy, style-conscious movement that... View details »
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Richard Deacon
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Wednesday Dec 12, 2007 (10am–6pm) @ LA Louver Gallery
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Venice's premier art space reminds us that sculpture can be one of the most thrilling creative media with the debut of Richard Deacon's Dead Leg,... View details »
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Pascual Sisto
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Wednesday Dec 12, 2007 (noon–6pm) @ De Soto Gallery
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If LA-based video artist Pascual Sisto had been born a century earlier, he and Salvador Dalí would have been best buds. Like his Spanish countryman,... View details »
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Iva Gueorguieva
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Wednesday Dec 12, 2007 @ Pomona College Museum of Art
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Victor Hugo once said that, in contrast to the sublime, the grotesque is the richest material that nature can offer art. Iva Gueorguieva heeds Hugo's... View details »
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Sandow Birk
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Wednesday Dec 12, 2007 @ University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach
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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, whose Miseries and Misfortunes... View details »
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Choi Jeong-Hwa
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Wednesday Dec 12, 2007 (noon–6pm) @ REDCAT
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Interdisciplinary Korean wunderkind and founder of the Gaseum Studio, Choi Jeong-Hwa obliterates the boundaries between visual art, graphic/industrial design, and architecture, and ridicules the preciousness... View details »
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Jordin Isip & Jason Houchen
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Wednesday Dec 12, 2007 (11am–7pm) @ La Luz de Jesus
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Brooklyn-based illustrator and mixed-media painter Jordin Isip uses collage as his primary medium. This eclectic approach serves both as a literal means of constructing rough-hewn... View details »
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LAAA Open Show
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Wednesday Dec 12, 2007 (10am–5pm) @ Gallery 825
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Gallery 825, the La Cienega Boulevard location of LA's oldest artists cooperative, presents this year's Open Show. An annual highlight of the emerging artist community... View details »
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Brandi Milne: Sugar and Silence
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Wednesday Dec 12, 2007 (noon–6pm) @ Corey Helford
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Los Angeles' illustrative It-girl, Brandi Milne, joins forces with whimsical Chicago-based artist Jeremiah Ketner to transform this Culver City gallery into a veritable candyland. Milne's... View details »
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Ellen de Meutter
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Wednesday Dec 12, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ Roberts & Tilton Gallery
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For Ellen de Meutter's first US solo exhibition, the Belgian painter displays her signature childlike aesthetic, juxtaposing bright, expressionist imagery with desolate backdrops. The collection... View details »
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Carole Caroompas
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Wednesday Dec 12, 2007 (11am–5pm) @ Western Project
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Carole Caroompas' fantastically imaginative paintings and drawings are a melting pot of pop-culture imagery. For Caroompas' latest collection at Western Project, she counts films by... View details »
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Jen Liu
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Wednesday Dec 12, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ Lizabeth Oliveria Gallery
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Jen Liu's new multimedia collection at Lizabeth Oliveria Gallery finds the anti-technology characters of her Brethren of the Stone series once again entrenched in humorously... View details »
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Dream of Today
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Wednesday Dec 12, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ Steve Turner Contemporary Gallery
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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 lends her well-trained eye... View details »
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Stan's Cafe
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Wednesday Dec 12, 2007 (noon–5pm) @ Skirball Cultural Center
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In Of All the People in All the World: The Americas, UK theatre company Stan's Cafe collects 300 million grains of rice, creating a hauntingly... View details »
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Alex Kopps
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Wednesday Dec 12, 2007 (1–6pm) @ New Image Art
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Bay Area artist Alex Kopps' undeniably beautiful work has been endorsed by Target, Home Depot, and Taco Bell — but don't hold that against him.... View details »
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Shepard Fairey
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Wednesday Dec 12, 2007 (noon–6pm) @ Merry Karnowsky Gallery
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Whether reading between the lines or blurring them entirely, ubiquitous designer Shepard Fairey mines the deep vein of irony running through the American dream. Though... View details »
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Emma Ferreira
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Wednesday Dec 12, 2007 (10am–6:30pm) @ Spin Gallery
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Venice's brand-new Spin Gallery merges fine and automotive art, showcasing promising new visual talents alongside rare and beautiful cars. Its latest wall-based offering is a... View details »
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Sadly Beautiful
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Wednesday Dec 12, 2007 (noon–6pm) @ Black Maria Gallery
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Forget Wii, kid-sized Escalades, and paintball guns. Atwater Village's Black Maria Gallery shares its nostalgia (and collector's fetish) for old-time toys with Sadly Beautiful, a... View details »
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Julius Shulman
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Wednesday Dec 12, 2007 (10am–8pm) @ Los Angeles Public Library
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Julius Shulman has done more for the way California modernist architecture is seen and appreciated than probably anyone else — and he's also shot... View details »
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Wallace Berman
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Wednesday Dec 12, 2007 (10am–6pm) @ Michael Kohn Gallery
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Even though Wallace Berman exhibited his work at the highly influential Ferus Gallery within years of Andy Warhol's first solo show, you've probably never heard... View details »
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Breath of Light
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Wednesday Dec 12, 2007 (11am–4pm) @ Bonsorte Studio
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Filmmakers, peace activists, and multimedia artists Antoine Bonsorte and Abram Zinberg have created a unique visual experience. Their short film and DVD Breath of Light... View details »
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Gardar Eide Einarsson
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Wednesday Dec 12, 2007 (10am–6pm) @ Honor Fraser
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Gardar Eide Einarsson's latest series features nine massive plywood panels, printed with graphics from a '60s police manual. As the officers demonstrate baton maneuvers, the... View details »
