Events on Friday, January 25
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- Art
- Bagavagabonds: Pop!
- @ Pacific Electric Lofts
- Enjoy a staggering array of original artwork — from the urban and romantic to the alt-folky weird, from graffiti and illustration... View details »
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- More Flavor: Spectacle
- Winter Sky Highlights
- @ Planetarium, Santa Monica College
- Before landing your spacecraft at whatever far-flung destination you have in your sights tonight, experience the grandeur of the twinkling firmament... View details »
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- The Tales of Hoffmann (1951)
- @ Los Angeles County Museum of Art
- The Archers (aka legendary collaborators Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger) adapted Jacques Offenbach's classic opera Tales of Hoffmann in their typically... View details »
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- The Whole Shootin' Match
- @ The Silent Movie Theatre
- Eagle Pennell's 1979 paragon of regional filmmaking, The Whole Shootin' Match, observes the lives of two backwoods dreamers (Lou Perry and... View details »
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- Blazing Saddles and History of the World: Part I
- @ Aero Theatre
- When it comes to Mel Brooks, remember two golden rules: every archetype is an easy target, and anything resembling normalcy will... View details »
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- Alice's House
- @ Various locations
- Brazilian filmmaker Chico Teixeira's Alice's House is a soul-stirring snapshot of working-class São Paulo. Though the tale of Alice (a world-weary... View details »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Au Revoir Simone
- @ The Troubadour
- Named after a hilariously unforgettable scene in Tim Burton's Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Brooklyn girl-band Au Revoir Simone sing serious pop... View details »
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- Bluebeard's Castle
- @ Los Angeles County Museum of Art
- Filmmaker's filmmaker Michael Powell was in a precarious fix in 1964, having been ostracized by the British film industry for his... View details »
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- Clerks
- @ Fairfax Regency Theatre
- Clerks, Kevin Smith's 1994 black-and-white landmark of low-budget impudence, still feels fresh in all its foulmouthed glory. Most of the famously... View details »
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- Music
- Mirah
- @ Music Box at the Fonda Theater
- Electro-pop duo the Blow team up with indie chanteuse Mirah to enchant, beguile, and maybe even confuse LA audiences. The Blow... View details »
Ongoing Events
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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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- artLA
- @ Santa Monica Civic Auditorium
- Take a deep breath, grab a map of exhibitors, and dive headfirst into this year's artLA (not to be confused with... 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- The Imaginary 20th Century
- @ Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach
- There was a time when the 20th century seemed like an unimaginable and distant future. The Orange County Museum of Art... 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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- 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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- Projection
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- This private-residence-turned-gallery's latest offering, Projection, interprets the titular concept both literally and figuratively in an ambitious multimedia group show. The works... 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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- 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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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Victory
- @ The Fountain Theatre
- South African playwright Athol Fugard's work demonstrates the power of theatre to incite social transformation. Fugard's plays have addressed the subject... View details »
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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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Film
- 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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- Aboriginal Art
- @ MODAA gallery
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- Art: Photography
- Hiromi Tsuchida
- @ Michael Dawson Gallery
- Renowned Japanese photographer Hiromi Tsuchida has trained his lens on facets of ordinary life throughout his lengthy career. Tsuchida's first solo... 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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- 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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- Los Angeles Art Show
- @ Santa Monica Air Center, Barker Hangar
- They say artLA is the "fun" one, and the Fine Art Dealers Association (FADA)'s Los Angeles Art Show is the "mature"... View details »
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- Special Relationship
- @ The Scion Installation LA Space
- Britain's Scrawl Collective is an emerging group of post-illustration urban romantics. They bring their ramped-up aesthetic energy to the States this... View details »
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- Chinatown Gallery Exhibitions
- @ Various Chinatown galleries
- As Chinese New Year celebrations bring you to Chinatown, remember that the neighborhood is also home to dozens of contemporary art... View details »
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- Art: Architecture/Design
- Jean Michel Crettaz
- @ SCI-Arc
- Head of the Visual Studies Program at SCI-Arc Jean-Michel Crettaz has plenty of experience, having studied in Switzerland, at the ultra-exclusive... 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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- 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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- Performing Arts: Dance
- Company Ea Sola
- @ UCLA Live at Royce Hall
- It took 11 years for Vietnamese choreographer Ea Sola to follow up her heralded work Drought and Rain. In Vol. 2,... 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Tucker Neel
- @ Commissary Arts
- Frustrated debutantes, overdressed crocodiles, and bandaged aristocrats parade through Tucker Neel's latest exhibition. The LA artist conjures up witty, intriguing imagery... 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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- Michael Asher
- @ Santa Monica Museum of Art
- Rather than create new spaces and pieces, conceptual mixed-media artist Michael Asher prefers to deconstruct and punctuate extant spaces with found... View details »
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- Neil Campbell and Peter Schuyff
- @ The Balmoral
- This Venice Beach gallery's latest endeavor juxtaposes the work of Dutch artist Peter Schuyff and Vancouver-based Neil Campbell. Schuyff's paintings are... 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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- 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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- Alex Steinwiess
- @ Robert Berman Gallery
- Rocker/designer Kevin Reagan and Juxtapoz's Greg Escalante co-curate this survey of images by Alex Steinweiss. In 1939, the Columbia Records packaging... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson
- @ Kirk Douglas Theatre
- Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Center Theatre Group's world-premiere musical, busts out of the theatrical gate with energetic, rapier wit. Colored by... 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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- Performing Arts: Dance
- Bollywood Cabaret
- @ Highways Performance Space
- Venice-based Blue13 adds a little spice to its artistic license for this weekend's program of contemporary Bollywood dance pieces. Several original... 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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- 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: 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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