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Electroma
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Friday Jan 18 (4am) @ Landmark Nuart Theatre
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French dandies Daft Punk (Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo) helm the helmeted, instant midnight movie Electroma. The minimalist/humanist allegory is about two robots (referred... View details »
- Film: Documentary
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Lynch
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Friday Jan 18 (7:30pm) @ Los Angeles County Museum of Art
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This eccentric documentary tracks David Lynch during the filming of his heavyweight epic Inland Empire. Assembled from two years of video footage, it takes a... View details »
- Film: Shorts
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The Short Films of David Lynch
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Friday Jan 18 (9:10pm) @ Los Angeles County Museum of Art
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Like concentrated versions of his feature films, David Lynch's shorts are kaleidoscopic views of the director's dreams (and nightmares). LACMA's 30-year survey of Lynchian miscellany... View details »
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A Flower in Hell
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Friday Jan 18 (7:30pm) @ Hammer Museum
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Marking a watershed of wantonness for Korean cinema, Shin Sang-ok's 1958 A Flower in Hell features his nation's first onscreen kiss. The nearly noir tale... View details »
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Laura and Advise and Consent
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Friday Jan 18 (7:30pm) @ Aero Theatre
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Otto Preminger directs one heckuva murder mystery. Laura hinges on a spellbinding turn by Gene Tierney as the film's obscure object of desire; the serpentine... View details »
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Northern Lights
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Friday Jan 18 (8pm) @ The Silent Movie Theatre
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Rob Nilsson and John Hanson's independent milestone Northern Lights features understated performances magnificently set against the wintry backdrop of early-century North Dakota. The plot springs... View details »
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Alfred Hitchcock
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Friday Jan 18 (10am–5pm) @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences
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Stylized, self-mythologizing director Alfred Hitchcock would have you believe him to be a one-man originality machine — when, in fact, his films took hundreds of... View details »
- Art: Photography
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Freeze Frame
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Friday Jan 18 (10am–5pm) @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences
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The Academy honors Douglas Kirkland's carefully composed photography with Freeze Frame, an exhibit of celebrity portraits riddled with familiar faces. Besides shooting spools of film... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Xu Xu Fang
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Friday Jan 18 (9pm) @ Bordello Bar
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Misfit dreamers Xu Xu Fang blend awkward hook runs with graceful power chords to make moody, sweet psychedelic jams. Their atmospheric sound crosses Jefferson Airplane... View details »
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- Art: Architecture/Design
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Victor Burgin
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Friday Jan 18 (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 18 (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 »
- Art: Photography
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Bill Owens
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Friday Jan 18 (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 18 (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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Matthew Barney
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Friday Jan 18 (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 18 (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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Wunderlust Berlin
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Friday Jan 18 (11am–6pm) @ Paul Kopeikin Gallery
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Berlin is in perpetual transition. The enduring fountainhead of Western culture is endlessly fascinating to students of art, architecture, and politics, teeming with creative magic... View details »
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Ruby Osorio
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Friday Jan 18 (11am–6pm) @ Cherry and Martin
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Los Angeles artist Ruby Osorio's collection at Cherry and Martin Gallery was heavily influenced by her recent trip to Athens. Surrounded by such history-rich environs,... View details »
- Film
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Steep
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Friday Jan 18 @ 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 »
- Reading
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David Sedaris
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Friday Jan 18 @ Macgowan Little Theatre, UCLA
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Fans of David Sedaris' bone-dry wit can get a sneak peak of the humorist's new book, scheduled for release this summer. His last collection, Dress... View details »
- Art
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Cassandra C. Jones
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Friday Jan 18 (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 18 (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 18 (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 18 (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 18 (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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Julia Schwartz
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Friday Jan 18 (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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Einar & Jamex de la Torre
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Friday Jan 18 (10am–5:30pm) @ Koplin del Rio Gallery
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Brothers Einar and Jamex couldn't possibly deny the influence of their heritage — their blown-glass and mixed-media works radiate with the colors, textures, and imagery... View details »
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Angelika J. Trojnarski
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Friday Jan 18 (11am–6pm) @ Kinsey/DesForges Gallery
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Born in Poland and educated in Germany, Angelika J. Trojnarski depicts desolate cultural landscapes, dismembered bodies, and the barbwired evidence of human destruction. She channels... View details »
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Tim Sullivan and Colin Roberts
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Friday Jan 18 (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 18 (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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Under the Influence
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Friday Jan 18 (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 »
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Matthew Heller
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Friday Jan 18 (11am–5pm) @ DCA Fine Art
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Matthew Heller has stripped down his busy aesthetics for something more minimal, without straying from his trademark shadowy figures and text. Though at times pained... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
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The Cut
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Friday Jan 18 (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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Girly Group Show
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Friday Jan 18 (9am–6pm) @ Ghettogloss
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This exhibition at Silverlake's favorite gallery/alt-culture hangout features the work of Noel ILL, Jenny Mollen, and Jessica Garrison among a sizeable roster of talented lady... View details »
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Don't Fence Me In
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Friday Jan 18 (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 18 (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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Rachel Mason
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Friday Jan 18 (11am–6pm) @ Circus Gallery
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There's political art; there's the art of political stagecraft; and then there's The Candidate, the new exhibition of sketches, sculptures, and photographs that artist Rachel... View details »
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