Events on Wednesday, December 12
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Jesca Hoop
- @ The Troubadour
- Sweet, steel-spined folk-pop singer Jesca Hoop takes us inside her gypsy psyche, spinning tales of triumph and sorrow from her Tom... View details »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Squaregirls
- @ The Scene
- Presented by Radio Free Silver Lake (though dropping in Glendale), tonight's inaugural Squaregirls monthly music night features straight-up indie rock from... View details »
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- Wrap Up Your Words
- @ Writing Pad
- 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,... View details »
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- All About Eve
- @ Egyptian Theatre
- "Funny business, a woman's career," laments a caustic Bette Davis in '50s classic All About Eve. A smart drama about aging... View details »
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- LAAA Open Show
- @ Gallery 825
- Gallery 825, the La Cienega Boulevard location of LA's oldest artists cooperative, presents this year's Open Show. An annual highlight of... View details »
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- Fruitcake Follies
- @ Cavern Club Theater
- Labeled by its creators as a cross between a Perry Como Christmas special and Pee-wee's Playhouse, the Fruitcake Follies have one... 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- More Flavor: Benefit
- Wishful Thinking
- @ project: gallery
- To celebrate the first anniversary of its move to Culver City, project: gallery collaborates with Juxtapoz magazine on an exhibition in... View details »
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- Shepard Fairey
- @ Merry Karnowsky Gallery
- Whether reading between the lines or blurring them entirely, ubiquitous designer Shepard Fairey mines the deep vein of irony running through... 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
- 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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- 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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- Breath of Light
- @ Bonsorte Studio
- Filmmakers, peace activists, and multimedia artists Antoine Bonsorte and Abram Zinberg have created a unique visual experience. Their short film and... 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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- Richard Deacon
- @ LA Louver Gallery
- Venice's premier art space reminds us that sculpture can be one of the most thrilling creative media with the debut of... 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Choi Jeong-Hwa
- @ REDCAT
- Interdisciplinary Korean wunderkind and founder of the Gaseum Studio, Choi Jeong-Hwa obliterates the boundaries between visual art, graphic/industrial design, and architecture,... View details »
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- Jordin Isip & Jason Houchen
- @ La Luz de Jesus
- Brooklyn-based illustrator and mixed-media painter Jordin Isip uses collage as his primary medium. This eclectic approach serves both as a literal... View details »
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- Gardar Eide Einarsson
- @ Honor Fraser
- Gardar Eide Einarsson's latest series features nine massive plywood panels, printed with graphics from a '60s police manual. As the officers... 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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- 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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- Brandi Milne: Sugar and Silence
- @ Corey Helford
- Los Angeles' illustrative It-girl, Brandi Milne, joins forces with whimsical Chicago-based artist Jeremiah Ketner to transform this Culver City gallery into... 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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- 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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- Cassandra C. Jones
- @ Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Ojai
- Don't let the title fool you: for her second solo effort at Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Cassandra C. Jones isn't just... 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Sadly Beautiful
- @ Black Maria Gallery
- 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... 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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- 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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- 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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- Diva 25th Anniversary
- @ Landmark Nuart Theatre
- A genre-bending thriller, Jean-Jacques Beineix's Diva (1982) was among the first French films to herald the Cinéma du Look — the... 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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