Events on Saturday, December 15
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- Thrift Store Movie Xmas
- @ Echo Park Film Center
- For its final festive happening of the year, the Echo Park Film Center offers an smorgasbord of seasonal oddities they've dubbed... View details »
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- Ashes and Diamonds & Man of Marble
- @ Aero Theatre
- Antiwar auteur Andrzej Wajda's three-part study of wartime Poland's ruin and reclamation culminates in its hypnotic hypotenuse, Ashes and Diamonds. Somewhere... View details »
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- A Spook-tacular St. Thanksmas Day Eve
- @ Palisades Park
- This multi-holiday-themed community competition (courtesy of the Go Game) begins with a digital camera and a wireless-web cell phone, which provides... View details »
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- Pigeon John
- @ Little Temple
- Self-made hip-hop original Pigeon John flies west tonight, hitting his hometown with the energy of a rocket from the roost. While... View details »
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- The Greyboy Allstars
- @ The Troubadour
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- It's a Wonderful Life
- @ Egyptian Theatre
- Tonight finds eternal everyman James Stewart in two sublime, aw-shucks acts. Capra-corn informs the undeniably uplifting It's a Wonderful Life, with... View details »
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- The 17th Pygmy
- @ Dangerous Curve
- Trakwerx recording artists the 17th Pygmy (who, no joke, changed their name from 17 Pygmies because it wasn't psychedelic enough) release... View details »
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- Invasion USA
- @ New Beverly Cinema
- Pop-culture hero/clown Chuck Norris stars in (and scribed) Invasion USA, a Cold War response as only America could imagine: assault all... View details »
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- Music: Electronic
- Speedy J w/ Scott Pagano
- @ Warehouse announced day of show
- Jochem Paap (aka Speedy J) makes his only North American appearance this season, rocking a live audiovisual set with visual mastermind... View details »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Etta James
- @ The Wiltern
- Blessed with a voice both brassy and bluesy and admired by present-day belters such as the Gossip's Beth Ditto, Etta James... View details »
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- Dana Louise Kirkpatrick
- @ smart house
- Visual artist Dana Louise Kirkpatrick is inspired by a variety of concepts, but more than the urban environment's frantic pace and... View details »
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- Mutual Appreciation
- @ The Silent Movie Theatre
- In the existential immediacy of the indie Mutual Appreciation, mumblecore mainstay Andrew Bujalski crafts a contemporary compendium of postcollegiate hesitation and... View details »
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- Xu Hualing
- @ DF2
- With a brilliant juxtaposition of traditional method and modern subject, Chinese artist Xu Hualing's paintings take over this West Hollywood gallery... View details »
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- Les Savy Fav
- @ El Rey
- Is that a bonfire in your solar plexus or just the burning desire for a good post-hardcore pummeling? Whatever it is,... 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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- 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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- 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
- 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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- 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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- Beyond the Valley of the Dolls and Head
- @ New Beverly Cinema
- The first "rock-horror exploitation musical," as screenwriter Rogert Ebert crowed, female-fanatic Russ Meyer's hypersexual Beyond the Valley of the Dolls is... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Serena Mitnik-Miller
- @ Mollusk Surf Shop
- Serena Mitnik-Miller doesn't take the usual kind of surf photography, and Venice's freshly opened Mollusk Surf Shop isn't the usual kind... 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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- 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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- 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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- Eliza Geddes
- @ Found Gallery
- Eliza Geddes' new mixed-media sculptures, wall hangings, and innovative paintings bring a rough physicality to deconstructivism. Her unconventional use of found... 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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- Deborah Hede and Lynda Pizzuto
- @ Commissary Arts
- While Deborah Hede and Lynda Pizzuto are both Los Angeles-based artists working in the medium of drawing, the juxtaposition of their... 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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- 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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- Performing Arts
- Extraordinary Deceptions
- @ Powerhouse Theatre
- In this spectacular evening of magic and mirth, illusionist Michael Gutenplan performs a plethora of wondrous feats, from mind reading to... 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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- 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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- 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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- Quattro Formaggio
- @ Highways Performance Space
- This program of interdisciplinary movement-and-music pieces has a slight scent of inscrutable modern dance about it. Despite phrases like "the presence... 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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- 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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- Bill Owens
- @ DNJ Gallery
- Photographer Bill Owens skillfully captures Americana in his two series Suburbia and Leisure. The former, an early-1970s photo essay, features domestic... 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Lacy Street Lofts
- @ Lacy Street Lofts
- As Los Angeles is ushered into its role as a creative capital and traffic becomes exceedingly worse, functionality is key and... View details »
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- Jill Greenberg
- @ Fahey/Klein Gallery
- Jokes about working with children and animals aside, LA-based photographer Jill Greenberg has built an internationally acclaimed fine-art career by doing... View details »
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- Elizabeth McGrath
- @ Billy Shire Fine Arts
- Like Victorian-era toys brought to life by the touch of a creepy goblin's wand, Elizabeth McGrath's works sprout claws and extra... 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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- The Actors' Gang Holiday Show
- @ The Actors' Gang Theatre
- Ever since Tim Robbins founded the Actors' Gang in 1981, these motley hoodlums have churned out award-winning dramas, capers, and comedies... 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Raising Arizona and Evil Dead II
- @ New Beverly Cinema
- The Coen brothers and pre-Spidey Sam Raimi are among American cinema's greatest genre ghosts, at ease in each of... 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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- Snow Angels
- @ Thinkspace Gallery
- At Thinkspace Gallery's Snow Angels, audiences would be forgiven for thinking that a fleet of muses had landed in Sunset Junction,... 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- You are not here, you are still there and think you are here
- @ High Energy Constructs
- High Energy Constructs has put together a three-person show of up-and-coming artists who traverse the unknown and question culture. While the... 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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- Matthew Barney
- @ Regen Projects
- Matthew Barney, iconic multimedia rainmaker and Björk's baby daddy, shows drawings relating to his newest multimedia work, Guardian of the Veil.... 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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- 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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- Watch It Happen: Up Close
- @ Eco-Logical Art
- 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... View details »
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- Liz Lerman Dance Exchange
- @ The New LATC
- In this important and timely work, conceived and directed by Peter DiMuro, award-winning dance pioneer Liz Lerman examines accepted definitions of... View details »
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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Look Sharp!
- @ Melrose & Fairfax Shopping District
- This weekend, URB graciously teaches you how to look like you effortlessly hopped off the glossy pages of a magazine, providing... View details »
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- Don't Fence Me In
- @ Bandini Art
- The female artists showing their work at Bandini Art most definitely know how to have fun. For starters, there's Castillo's whimsical,... 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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- 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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- 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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- Generalized Anxiety Disorder
- @ Walter Maciel Gallery
- Curator Kristine Bowen brings together 16 artists who channel the contemporary American spirit of fear and, as the show title suggests,... View details »
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- 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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