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Lacy Street Lofts
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Saturday Dec 15, 2007 (6–11pm) @ Lacy Street Lofts
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As Los Angeles is ushered into its role as a creative capital and traffic becomes exceedingly worse, functionality is key and work and play are... View details »
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Generalized Anxiety Disorder
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Saturday Dec 15, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ Walter Maciel Gallery
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Curator Kristine Bowen brings together 16 artists who channel the contemporary American spirit of fear and, as the show title suggests, anxiety. Mixed-media and painted... View details »
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Xu Hualing
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Saturday Dec 15, 2007 @ DF2
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With a brilliant juxtaposition of traditional method and modern subject, Chinese artist Xu Hualing's paintings take over this West Hollywood gallery with two series of... View details »
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Pigeon John
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Saturday Dec 15, 2007 (9pm) @ Temple Bar
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Self-made hip-hop original Pigeon John flies west tonight, hitting his hometown with the energy of a rocket from the roost. While the veteran rhymesmith is... View details »
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Les Savy Fav
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Saturday Dec 15, 2007 (8pm) @ El Rey
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Is that a bonfire in your solar plexus or just the burning desire for a good post-hardcore pummeling? Whatever it is, best grab your vitals... View details »
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Elizabeth McGrath
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Saturday Dec 15, 2007 (noon–6pm) @ Billy Shire Fine Arts
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Like Victorian-era toys brought to life by the touch of a creepy goblin's wand, Elizabeth McGrath's works sprout claws and extra heads, batting extravagant lashes... View details »
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It's a Wonderful Life
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Saturday Dec 15, 2007 (7:30pm) @ Egyptian Theatre
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Tonight finds eternal everyman James Stewart in two sublime, aw-shucks acts. Capra-corn informs the undeniably uplifting It's a Wonderful Life, with Stewart as an angel-aided... View details »
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Ashes and Diamonds & Man of Marble
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Saturday Dec 15, 2007 (7:30pm) @ Aero Theatre
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Antiwar auteur Andrzej Wajda's three-part study of wartime Poland's ruin and reclamation culminates in its hypnotic hypotenuse, Ashes and Diamonds. Somewhere in Poland on the... View details »
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Mutual Appreciation
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Saturday Dec 15, 2007 (7:30pm) @ The Silent Movie Theatre
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In the existential immediacy of the indie Mutual Appreciation, mumblecore mainstay Andrew Bujalski crafts a contemporary compendium of postcollegiate hesitation and tedium. Eliciting fawning comparisons... View details »
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Invasion USA
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Saturday Dec 15, 2007 (4am) @ New Beverly Cinema
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Pop-culture hero/clown Chuck Norris stars in (and scribed) Invasion USA, a Cold War response as only America could imagine: assault all sensitive stereotypes and situations... View details »
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Etta James
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Saturday Dec 15, 2007 (8pm) @ The Wiltern
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Blessed with a voice both brassy and bluesy and admired by present-day belters such as the Gossip's Beth Ditto, Etta James has always performed music... View details »
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Matthew Barney
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Saturday Dec 15, 2007 (10am–6pm) @ Regen Projects
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Matthew Barney, iconic multimedia rainmaker and Björk's baby daddy, shows drawings relating to his newest multimedia work, Guardian of the Veil. The film documents a... View details »
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Watch It Happen: Up Close
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Saturday Dec 15, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ Eco-Logical Art
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Like all great ideas, the inspiration behind the activities of progressive-art-and-design outfit Eco-Logical Gallery was a simple binary realization: discarded billboards hurt the environment, and... View details »
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Speedy J w/ Scott Pagano
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Saturday Dec 15, 2007 (10pm–8am) @ Warehouse announced day of show
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Jochem Paap (aka Speedy J) makes his only North American appearance this season, rocking a live audiovisual set with visual mastermind Scott Pagano at Interface... View details »
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The 17th Pygmy
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Saturday Dec 15, 2007 (7pm) @ Dangerous Curve
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Trakwerx recording artists the 17th Pygmy (who, no joke, changed their name from 17 Pygmies because it wasn't psychedelic enough) release a new disc tonight.... View details »
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Thrift Store Movie Xmas
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Saturday Dec 15, 2007 (8pm) @ Echo Park Film Center
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For its final festive happening of the year, the Echo Park Film Center offers an smorgasbord of seasonal oddities they've dubbed the Thrift Store Movie... View details »
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Dana Louise Kirkpatrick
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Saturday Dec 15, 2007 (8–11pm) @ smart house
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Visual artist Dana Louise Kirkpatrick is inspired by a variety of concepts, but more than the urban environment's frantic pace and waste, more than issues... View details »
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Don't Fence Me In
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Saturday Dec 15, 2007 (11am–5pm) @ Bandini Art
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The female artists showing their work at Bandini Art most definitely know how to have fun. For starters, there's Castillo's whimsical, touching installation of paper... View details »
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Clive Barker
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Saturday Dec 15, 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 »
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Cry-Baby
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Saturday Dec 15, 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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Victor Burgin
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Saturday Dec 15, 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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Adrià Julià
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Saturday Dec 15, 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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Saturday Dec 15, 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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Saturday Dec 15, 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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Saturday Dec 15, 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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Saturday Dec 15, 2007 (noon–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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Saturday Dec 15, 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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Richard Deacon
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Saturday Dec 15, 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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Eliza Geddes
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Saturday Dec 15, 2007 (1–5pm) @ Found Gallery
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Eliza Geddes' new mixed-media sculptures, wall hangings, and innovative paintings bring a rough physicality to deconstructivism. Her unconventional use of found objects within sculpture and... View details »
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Bill Owens
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Saturday Dec 15, 2007 (10am–6pm) @ DNJ Gallery
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Photographer Bill Owens skillfully captures Americana in his two series Suburbia and Leisure. The former, an early-1970s photo essay, features domestic scenes rendered with the... View details »
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Pascual Sisto
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Saturday Dec 15, 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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Saturday Dec 15, 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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Saturday Dec 15, 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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Saturday Dec 15, 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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Saturday Dec 15, 2007 (11am–9pm) @ 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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Saturday Dec 15, 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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Saturday Dec 15, 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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Saturday Dec 15, 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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Saturday Dec 15, 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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Saturday Dec 15, 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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Saturday Dec 15, 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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Saturday Dec 15, 2007 (10am–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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Jill Greenberg
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Saturday Dec 15, 2007 (10am–6pm) @ Fahey/Klein Gallery
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Jokes about working with children and animals aside, LA-based photographer Jill Greenberg has built an internationally acclaimed fine-art career by doing just that. Alternately revered... View details »
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Quattro Formaggio
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Saturday Dec 15, 2007 (8:30pm) @ Highways Performance Space
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This program of interdisciplinary movement-and-music pieces has a slight scent of inscrutable modern dance about it. Despite phrases like "the presence and absence of love"... View details »
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Alex Kopps
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Saturday Dec 15, 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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Snow Angels
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Saturday Dec 15, 2007 (1–6pm) @ Thinkspace Gallery
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At Thinkspace Gallery's Snow Angels, audiences would be forgiven for thinking that a fleet of muses had landed in Sunset Junction, turning it into a... View details »
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Shepard Fairey
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Saturday Dec 15, 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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Soundwaves
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Saturday Dec 15, 2007 (11am–5pm) @ Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla
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Soundwaves: The Art of Sampling is MCASD's response to MOCA's 2005 exhibition Visual Music, a survey of the influence and/or direct use of music in... View details »
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Sadly Beautiful
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Saturday Dec 15, 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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Saturday Dec 15, 2007 (10am–6pm) @ 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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Cassandra C. Jones
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Saturday Dec 15, 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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Wallace Berman
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Saturday Dec 15, 2007 (11am–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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Saturday Dec 15, 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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Saturday Dec 15, 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 »
