Events on Friday, January 18
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Xu Xu Fang
- @ Bordello Bar
- Misfit dreamers Xu Xu Fang blend awkward hook runs with graceful power chords to make moody, sweet psychedelic jams. Their atmospheric... View details »
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- A Flower in Hell
- @ Hammer Museum
- Marking a watershed of wantonness for Korean cinema, Shin Sang-ok's 1958 A Flower in Hell features his nation's first onscreen kiss.... View details »
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- Film: Shorts
- The Short Films of David Lynch
- @ Los Angeles County Museum of Art
- 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... View details »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- [SOLD OUT] John Doe
- @ The Getty Center
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- Film
- Electroma
- @ Landmark Nuart Theatre
- French dandies Daft Punk (Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo) helm the helmeted, instant midnight movie Electroma. The minimalist/humanist allegory is... View details »
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- Northern Lights
- @ The Silent Movie Theatre
- Rob Nilsson and John Hanson's independent milestone Northern Lights features understated performances magnificently set against the wintry backdrop of early-century North... View details »
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- Laura and Advise and Consent
- @ Aero Theatre
- Otto Preminger directs one heckuva murder mystery. Laura hinges on a spellbinding turn by Gene Tierney as the film's obscure object... View details »
Ongoing Events
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- Karen Liebowitz
- @ Rosamund Felsen Gallery
- The empowered female subjects of Karen Liebowitz's paintings exist in a fantasyland encompassing mythology, religious tales, and the contemporary world. For... View details »
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OngoingFree
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- Poster Renaissance 2
- @ New Image Art
- New Image Art owner Marsea Goldberg remembers when posters were a vehicle for edgy, urban art and illustration — and so... View details »
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- Angelika J. Trojnarski
- @ Kinsey/DesForges Gallery
- Born in Poland and educated in Germany, Angelika J. Trojnarski depicts desolate cultural landscapes, dismembered bodies, and the barbwired evidence of... View details »
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OngoingFree
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- Art: Photography
- Lights! Camera! Glamour!
- @ California Heritage Museum
- George Hurrell shot studio stars as they are remembered today: glamorous, graceful, and a tad theatrical. With his sophisticated black-and-white blowups,... View details »
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- Alfred Hitchcock
- @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences
- Stylized, self-mythologizing director Alfred Hitchcock would have you believe him to be a one-man originality machine — when, in fact, his... View details »
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- Virginia Katz
- @ Jancar Gallery
- LA's Virginia Katz uses a complex mixed-media process that involves so many layers of hand-worked pigments and liquids, her art can... View details »
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OngoingFree
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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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- 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
- 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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- 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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OngoingFree
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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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Performing Arts: Dance
- LA Improv Dance Festival
- @ Diavolo Dance Theatre
- Now in its fourth year, iD Fest continues to grow and attract national talent beyond the LA dance community. Festival director... View details »
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Ongoing
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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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- Film: Documentary
- Lynch
- @ Los Angeles County Museum of Art
- This eccentric documentary tracks David Lynch during the filming of his heavyweight epic Inland Empire. Assembled from two years of video... View details »
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- Julia Schwartz
- @ The Artists' Gallery
- The Artists' Gallery (TAG) is one of the best membership-based art galleries in LA, in part due to the talent of... View details »
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- Neil Farber
- @ Richard Heller Gallery
- At first glance, Neil Farber's vivid, whimsical drawings seem to capture all the ignorant bliss of childhood, but their darker intentions... View details »
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- Einar & Jamex de la Torre
- @ Koplin del Rio Gallery
- Brothers Einar and Jamex couldn't possibly deny the influence of their heritage — their blown-glass and mixed-media works radiate with the... 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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- Matthew Heller
- @ DCA Fine Art
- Matthew Heller has stripped down his busy aesthetics for something more minimal, without straying from his trademark shadowy figures and text.... View details »
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- Modern American Sculpture
- @ Forum Gallery
- Forum Gallery usually sets the gold standard for classical figurative painting, exhibiting works ranging from the creamy, high-res romanticism of Steven... View details »
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- Henry Lewis & Regino Gonzales
- @ Corey Helford
- Individual series and a set of collaborative works from prodigal SoCal tattoo artists Regino Gonzales and Henry Lewis showcase the profound... View details »
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- Girly Group Show
- @ Ghettogloss
- This exhibition at Silverlake's favorite gallery/alt-culture hangout features the work of Noel ILL, Jenny Mollen, and Jessica Garrison among a sizeable... 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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- Rachel Mason
- @ Circus Gallery
- There's political art; there's the art of political stagecraft; and then there's The Candidate, the new exhibition of sketches, sculptures, and... 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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- Ruby Osorio
- @ Cherry and Martin
- Los Angeles artist Ruby Osorio's collection at Cherry and Martin Gallery was heavily influenced by her recent trip to Athens. Surrounded... 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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- The Content of Their Character II
- @ Highways Performance Space
- In commemoration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, prolific author/producer J.M. Morris brings to the stage a diverse set of real... 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: Theatre
- The Cut
- @ Rude Guerrilla Theater Company
- British playwright Mark Ravenhill gives theater company Rude Guerilla another opportunity to stage the U.S premieres of his work. Past collaborations... View details »
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Ongoing
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- Kyoung Ha Yoo, Jon Tarry & John Krawczyk
- @ Lawrence Asher Gallery
- The trio of contemporary artists assembled for the first show of the year at the Lawrence Asher Gallery draws inspiration from... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Masao Yamamoto
- @ Craig Krull Gallery
- In his latest collection of photographs for Santa Monica's Craig Krull Gallery, Japanese artist Masao Yamamoto's work is somber and still,... 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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- Tim Sullivan and Colin Roberts
- @ Steve Turner Contemporary
- Photographer and video artist Tim Sullivan, the highlight of last year's OC Biennial, inserts himself into bizarrely macabre and possibly drug-induced... View details »
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- Under the Influence
- @ Gallery 1988
- Looking through Gallery 1988's roster of artists, it's easy to spot the legacy of the giants of alt-culture illustration and progressive... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Freeze Frame
- @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences
- The Academy honors Douglas Kirkland's carefully composed photography with Freeze Frame, an exhibit of celebrity portraits riddled with familiar faces. Besides... View details »
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- Aboriginal Art
- @ MODAA gallery
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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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- 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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- 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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- Art: Photography
- (Untitled) u = ____ [a photographic group show]
- @ Fette's Gallery
- Twenty-five photographers working in cities around the world were given a simple task: to take an 11 x 14-inch self-portrait —... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Wunderlust Berlin
- @ Paul Kopeikin Gallery
- Berlin is in perpetual transition. The enduring fountainhead of Western culture is endlessly fascinating to students of art, architecture, and politics,... 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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- Reading
- David Sedaris
- @ Macgowan Little Theatre, UCLA
- Fans of David Sedaris' bone-dry wit can get a sneak peak of the humorist's new book, scheduled for release this summer.... 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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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Love Loves a Pornographer
- @ The Ford Theater
- Circle X Theatre Company cordially invites you to attend its wicked Victorian farce about adultery, blackmail, and teacakes, set against the... View details »
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- David Sandlin & Martha Rich
- @ La Luz de Jesus
- While gallery owner Billy Shire's other endeavor, upscale Culver City salon Billy Shire Fine Arts, exhibits a collection of David Sandlin's... View details »
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