Events on Tuesday, January 8
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Concrete Frequency: Songs of the City
- @ Disney Concert Hall
- Living in the city definitely has its perks. The energy, the architecture, the food, and, of course, the music. Digging deeper... View details »
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- Film
- King Kong
- @ Los Angeles County Museum of Art
- It's been 75 exalted years since the eighth wonder wandered out of his prehistoric jungle and into our cinematic lexicon as... View details »
Ongoing Events
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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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- 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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- 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
- 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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OngoingFree
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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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- 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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OngoingFree
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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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- 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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OngoingFree
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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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OngoingFree
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- Gardar Eide Einarsson
- @ Honor Fraser
- Gardar Eide Einarsson's latest series features nine massive plywood panels, printed with graphics from a '60s police manual. As the officers... 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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OngoingFree
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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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- 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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Ongoing
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- Richard Deacon
- @ LA Louver Gallery
- Venice's premier art space reminds us that sculpture can be one of the most thrilling creative media with the debut of... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Drunk on Stage
- @ Akbar
- An antidote to the stagnating humor of the Sunset Strip's stand-up comedy boys' club, Bruce Daniels' Drunk on Stage celebrates the... View details »
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Ongoing
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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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OngoingFree
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- Emma Ferreira
- @ Spin Gallery
- Venice's brand-new Spin Gallery merges fine and automotive art, showcasing promising new visual talents alongside rare and beautiful cars. Its latest... View details »
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OngoingFree
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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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OngoingFree
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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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- 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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OngoingFree
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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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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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- The Violin
- @ Landmark Nuart Theatre
- With a tender musical motif that recalls Kon Ichikawa's The Burmese Harp (1985), Francisco Vargas' astute debut, The Violin, tracks a... View details »
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Ongoing
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- LAAA Open Show
- @ Gallery 825
- Gallery 825, the La Cienega Boulevard location of LA's oldest artists cooperative, presents this year's Open Show. An annual highlight of... View details »
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OngoingFree
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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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OngoingFree
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- Aboriginal Art
- @ MODAA gallery
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OngoingFree
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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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OngoingFree
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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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- 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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OngoingFree
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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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