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RB Kitaj
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Friday Jan 11 @ Skirball Cultural Center
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Painter RB Kitaj spent much of his career in Europe, becoming part of the late-'60s London School (with David Hockney and Lucian Freud) before returning... View details »
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Orifice
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Friday Jan 11 (8:30pm) @ Highways Performance Space
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Out of remission and back in submission, Gregory Barnett and co. explore every possible opening, reconciling space with the body's receptive role. As the leader... View details »
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photo LA
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Friday Jan 11 (noon–8pm) @ Santa Monica Air Center, Barker Hangar
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Boasting more than 75 exhibitors, 2008's PhotoLA tops its previous incarnations in both diversity and scale. This year's program features the standard collecting seminars —... View details »
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Let's Get Lost
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Friday Jan 11 @ Landmark Nuart Theatre
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Forgive Bruce Weber for his sculpted Abercrombie and Fitch ads or his too-chic-for-comfort Calvin Klein photography if only to fully appreciate his exceptional, incisive documentary... View details »
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Evel Knievel
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Friday Jan 11 (10:30pm) @ The Silent Movie Theatre
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Late daredevil Evel (né Robert Craig) Knievel's endangering exploits created a cultural craze in the late '60s. In this bouncy biopic, Knievel's hometown of beautiful... View details »
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Nazarín
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Friday Jan 11 (7:30pm) @ The Getty Center
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Luis Buñuel's Nazarín is one of the auteur's least-seen films, an acerbic attack on the Catholic Church. The protagonist is an earnest priest, living exactly... View details »
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Slideshow Challenge
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Friday Jan 11 (8pm) @ Fake Gallery
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The gallery is fake, but the hilarity is real. Here's how it works: a month ago, Slideshow Challenge's intrepid producers provided selected participants with a... View details »
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The Black Heart Procession
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Friday Jan 11 (9pm) @ Spaceland
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With a delicate, rhythmic vibrato, the Black Heart Procession represent the missing link between indie and credible progressive rock. After racking up the tour-bus miles... View details »
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Giant Robot Biennale
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Friday Jan 11 (9am–5pm) @ Japanese American National Museum
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Pop-culture empire Giant Robot began way back in 1994 as a zine, and has since grown to include a glossy magazine, galleries in both San... View details »
- Art: Architecture/Design
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Victor Burgin
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Friday Jan 11 (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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Francis Alÿs
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Friday Jan 11 (11am–7pm) @ Hammer Museum
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Pushing a block of ice through the streets of Mexico City, moving a mountain several inches, hiring a stripper who never quite strips: these are... View details »
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Richard Deacon
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Friday Jan 11 (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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Bill Owens
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Friday Jan 11 (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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Choi Jeong-Hwa
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Friday Jan 11 (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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LAAA Open Show
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Friday Jan 11 (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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Matthew Barney
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Friday Jan 11 (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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Jill Greenberg
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Friday Jan 11 (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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Steep
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Friday Jan 11 @ Landmark Nuart Theatre
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Like Werner Herzog's slo-mo documentary on ski-flying The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner (1974), Steep conveys the breathless exhilaration of an extreme sport: big-mountain skiing.... View details »
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Cassandra C. Jones
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Friday Jan 11 (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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David Sandlin & Martha Rich
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Friday Jan 11 (11am–9pm) @ La Luz de Jesus
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While gallery owner Billy Shire's other endeavor, upscale Culver City salon Billy Shire Fine Arts, exhibits a collection of David Sandlin's large-scale paintings, Silverlake's edgier... View details »
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Virginia Katz
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Friday Jan 11 (noon–5pm) @ Jancar Gallery
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LA's Virginia Katz uses a complex mixed-media process that involves so many layers of hand-worked pigments and liquids, her art can almost be considered geological.... View details »
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Wallace Berman
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Friday Jan 11 (10am–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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Karen Liebowitz
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Friday Jan 11 (10am–5:30pm) @ Rosamund Felsen Gallery
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The empowered female subjects of Karen Liebowitz's paintings exist in a fantasyland encompassing mythology, religious tales, and the contemporary world. For this collection — Liebowitz's... View details »
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Gardar Eide Einarsson
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Friday Jan 11 (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 »
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Julia Schwartz
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Friday Jan 11 (11am–5pm) @ The Artists' Gallery
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The Artists' Gallery (TAG) is one of the best membership-based art galleries in LA, in part due to the talent of its roster. Regular programming... View details »
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Tim Sullivan and Colin Roberts
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Friday Jan 11 (11am–6pm) @ Steve Turner Contemporary Gallery
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Photographer and video artist Tim Sullivan, the highlight of last year's OC Biennial, inserts himself into bizarrely macabre and possibly drug-induced circumstances — an assumption... View details »
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Neil Farber
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Friday Jan 11 (11am–5pm) @ Richard Heller Gallery
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At first glance, Neil Farber's vivid, whimsical drawings seem to capture all the ignorant bliss of childhood, but their darker intentions soon reveal themselves. Touched... View details »
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Os Brasilieros
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Friday Jan 11 (3–8pm) @ Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art
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You've probably never heard of any of the over 40 artists included in this multimedia dragnet of a group show — which is easily forgivable,... View details »
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Under the Influence
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Friday Jan 11 (11am–6pm) @ Gallery 1988
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Looking through Gallery 1988's roster of artists, it's easy to spot the legacy of the giants of alt-culture illustration and progressive comics, and perhaps none... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
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The Cut
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Friday Jan 11 (8pm) @ Rude Guerrilla Theater Company
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British playwright Mark Ravenhill gives theater company Rude Guerilla another opportunity to stage the U.S premieres of his work. Past collaborations have included Shopping and... View details »
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Don't Fence Me In
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Friday Jan 11 (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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Modern American Sculpture
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Friday Jan 11 (10am–5:30pm) @ Forum Gallery
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Forum Gallery usually sets the gold standard for classical figurative painting, exhibiting works ranging from the creamy, high-res romanticism of Steven Assael to the visceral,... View details »
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