Events on Sunday, December 30
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- A Tale of Two Sisters
- @ The Silent Movie Theatre
- Kim Ji-woon's supernatural melodrama A Tale of Two Sisters goes beyond the usual Asian horror film's ace-in-the-hole affinity for creepy children.... View details »
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- Sullivan's Travels and Hail the Conquering Hero
- @ Aero Theatre
- Inimitable critic Manny Farber praised writer/director Preston Sturges for destroying the "image of Americans as tight-lipped Hemingwayan creatures who converse in... View details »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- The Melvins
- @ Echoplex
- Certainly the heaviest offering this evening, longtime sludge champions the Melvins face off with hometown punk trio 400 Blows. As with... View details »
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- Destroy All Monsters
- @ The Silent Movie Theatre
- In Ishiro Honda's 1968 all-star assembly of Japanese behemoths, Destroy All Monsters, 1999 is the doomed year for the scale-model demolition... View details »
Ongoing Events
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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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OngoingFree
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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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OngoingFree
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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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Ongoing
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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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Ongoing
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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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OngoingFree
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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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OngoingFree
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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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Ongoing
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- Art
- 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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OngoingFree
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- Art
- 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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OngoingFree
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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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Ongoing
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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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OngoingFree Flavorpill 50
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- Art
- 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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OngoingFree
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- Art
- 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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Ongoing
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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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- Music: Jazz/Blues
- Tierney Sutton Band
- @ Catalina Bar & Grill
- One of the most renowned jazz vocalists around, Tierney Sutton brings her virtuosic band to bless the Catalina Bar and Grill... View details »
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Ongoing
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- Art
- James Turrell
- @ Draper Courtyard, Pomona College
- It's up for debate whether James Turrell is a sculptor, an architect, a light-and-space artist, or an earth-works artist. Whichever he... View details »
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OngoingFree
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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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Ongoing
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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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Ongoing
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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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OngoingFree
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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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OngoingFree
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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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Ongoing
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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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- 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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OngoingFree
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Supersuckers
- @ The Viper Room
- Seattle's legendary Supersuckers face off against a series of SoCal challengers in a three-night rock 'n roll showdown that spills out... View details »
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Ongoing
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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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