Events on Thursday, December 27
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Reverend Horton Heat
- @ The Wiltern
- Tonight, the Wiltern opens up double-fisted cans of country-fried whupass. On one hand, you've got the good reverend, who's been stomping... View details »
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- Midnight and Easy Living
- @ Aero Theatre
- The elegant products of director Mitchell Leisen's urbane partnership with a pair of top-notch writers (the soon-to-be-famous Billy Wilder and Preston... View details »
Ongoing Events
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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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- More Flavor: Exhibition
- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Art: Photography
- 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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- Art: Photography
- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Film
- Steep
- @ Landmark Nuart Theatre
- Like Werner Herzog's slo-mo documentary on ski-flying The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner (1974), Steep conveys the breathless exhilaration of an... 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Film
- The Landlord and Shampoo
- @ New Beverly Cinema
- Pauline Kael considered Hal Ashby's Shampoo one of the finest films of the '70s — no small compliment considering Hollywood's impressive... 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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