Events on Saturday, October 11
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- Music: Global
- Cesária Évora
- @ UCLA Live at Royce Hall
- Cesária Évora brings her majestic voice from the Cape Verde Islands to Cali tonight. Évora sings in the morna tradition, which... View details »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Denali
- @ Echoplex
- In 2000, Maura Davis was just a Virginian sister going to ask her songwriter brother, Keeley (of a band called Engine... View details »
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- Music: Electronic
- Matthew Dear's Big Hands
- @ Avalon Hollywood
- Right now, Matthew Dear is arguably one of electronic music's most versatile artists. He's made stripped-down, fluid constructions as False, rough,... View details »
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- Art Spiegelman
- @ Vroman's Bookstore
- In the late '70s, Art Spiegelman published his first major work, Breakdowns, a collection of strips that tackle the artist's own... View details »
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- Raymond Pettibon
- @ Regen Projects II
- Seminal Work features a selection of pieces from the much-lauded Raymond Pettibon, all completed between 1978 and 1988. Keeping true to... View details »
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- Christopher Pate
- @ Jail Gallery
- Christopher Pate is interested in the relationship between maps and landscapes, as well as the broader discourse between the real quality... View details »
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- Art: Festival
- Hollywould
- @ Hollywood Blvd between Cahuenga and Orange
- The 11th Freewaves media-arts festival, dubbed "Hollywould," is a kind of triple-dog dare to Tinseltown boulevardiers, challenging them to engage with... View details »
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- Kristi Lippire
- @ d.e.n. contemporary art
- Kristi Lippire cobbles together images from a mind-boggling array of sources, then fashions them into large-scale works. Using plywood and other... View details »
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- Daniel DeSure
- @ Found Gallery
- Los Angeles-based artist/art producer Daniel DeSure not only creates photography, film, and new media, but he also founded the art production/design... View details »
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- Mark Dean Veca
- @ Otis College of Art and Design
- Entering Mark Dean Veca's site-specific installation at Otis College's Ben Maltz Gallery is like stepping into a psychedelic playhouse filled with... View details »
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- Mear One
- @ 01 Gallery
- Very few painters can swing the brush with the technical wizardry of LA native Mear One. Returning to the place where... View details »
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- Yoko Ono
- @ One Colorado
- It has been nearly 28 years since John Lennon's passing, but his quest for world peace lives on. Lennon's widow, noted... View details »
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- Elizabeth Turk
- @ Bandini Art
- From the Department of How Did She Do That? comes a new exhibition of drawings and delicate marble sculptures from chisel-wielding... View details »
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- Marcel Duchamp Redux
- @ Norton Simon Museum
- This year marks the 45th anniversary of By or of Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Sélavy, the famous Marcel Duchamp retrospective at... View details »
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- James Gobel
- @ Steve Turner Contemporary
- Steve Turner Contemporary on the Miracle Mile lets its hair down this month, showing new work by James Gobel, portraying portly,... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Pipo Nguyen-Duy
- @ Sam Lee Gallery
- Sam Lee Gallery follows up its dynamic group exhibition I AM I A KILLER with Pipo Nguyen-Duy's cyclical photography project, The... View details »
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- Martin Kersels
- @ Santa Monica Museum of Art
- The Santa Monica Museum of Art hosts LA artist Martin Kersels' first retrospective, Heavyweight Champion, drawing from 13 years of his... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Point Break LIVE!
- @ Dragonfly
- Point Break LIVE! turns cinematic lemons into lemonade, raucously skewering the cult-classic film by casting an unrehearsed audience volunteer to fill... View details »
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- Takako Yamaguchi
- @ Cardwell Jimmerson Contemporary Art
- New landscapes and seascapes from LA-based painter Takako Yamaguchi combine the stylized organic geometry of op art with the sensual smoothness... View details »
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- Eric Sall
- @ Acuna-Hansen Gallery
- In confronting the vibrating, thickly textured canvases of Eric Sall, one gets the distinct impression that he could survive by eating... View details »
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- Art: Architecture/Design
- John Lautner
- @ Hammer Museum
- The risk-taking John Lautner is often described as an architect's architect, even though some of his designs brought him both criticism... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- 43 Plays for 43 Presidents
- @ Sacred Fools Theater
- Using comedy, drama, dance, and music, the half dozen actors in this crash course in presidential history conjure a theatrical experience... View details »
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- Kerry James Marshall
- @ Koplin del Rio Gallery
- Chicago artist Kerry James Marshall has shown internationally to great acclaim, and now will show for the sixth time with Koplin... View details »
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- Bronx Zoo
- @ La Cita
- Conceived as a Saturday afternoon cocktail party with art activities, Ghettogloss gallery launched its Bronx Zoo summer series in June at... 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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- Victor Gastelum
- @ Overtones Gallery
- Victor Gastelum upholds the grand California tradition of elevating street-art tropes to gallery-level heights with the spray-paint stencil multiples in Xacto... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- 9 to 5
- @ Ahmanson Theatre
- Based on Collin Higgins' screwball 1980 comedy, 9 to 5: The Musical makes its LA premiere tonight before heading to Broadway... View details »
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- Aspects of Mel's Hole
- @ CSUF Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana
- Beloved radio host Art Bell is a cross between Jean Shepherd and Fox Mulder, and a man whose paranormality-themed broadcasts were... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Deanna Templeton and Hadassah Emmerich
- @ New Image Art
- Deanna Templeton didn't need to stray far from her SoCal roots to find inspiration for her engaging photographs. A product of... View details »
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- Alexander Melamid
- @ Forum Gallery
- Russian artist Alexander Melamid is a master at finding humor in serious situations, from totalitarian regimes to the plight of endangered... View details »
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- Park Life
- @ Subliminal Projects
- Subliminal Projects uses its recent move from Koreatown to the more pastoral environs of Echo Park as the curatorial focus for... View details »
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- Off-Axis
- @ Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum
- Although our neighbor to the north is typically known for its stellar views and celebrity mansions, Santa Barbara has a stash... View details »
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- Dennis Oppenheim
- @ ACE Gallery
- Dennis Oppenheim first hit the art-world radar in the late 1960s with his Land and Body Art projects, which combined film... View details »
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- More Flavor: Fashion
- Biagio Black
- @ The Sunset
- Once just a single-night charity event dedicated to a fashion staple, the Little Black Dress party has grown into a four-week... View details »
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- Gordy Grundy
- @ Western Project
- The Fellowship of Fortuna (and its "messenger," LA painter and media artist Gordy Grundy) takes up residence on Western Project's website... View details »
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- Sarah Cromarty
- @ Circus Gallery
- LA painter Sarah Cromarty has had a big year already; she gained recognition through several group shows and a bit of... View details »
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- LA25 Half-Life
- @ LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions)
- Rising stars Annie Lapin, Jeff Sheng, Cal Crawford, and Brenna Youngblood are among the 25 juror-selected artists that make up LA25... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Elevator Repair Service
- @ REDCAT
- If the idea of staging the first chapter of Faulkner's brooding Southern epic, The Sound and the Fury, in all its... View details »
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- Ai Yamaguchi
- @ Roberts & Tilton Gallery
- Hana wa no ni aruyouni (Flowers as they are in the field) is Japanese artist Ai Yamaguchi's second solo exhibition at... View details »
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- Josh Dorman
- @ Craft and Folk Art Museum
- Traditional paper and canvas simply won't do for New York artist Josh Dorman, who employs vintage maps and textbook diagrams as... View details »
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- Hans Burkhardt
- @ Jack Rutberg Fine Arts
- In the years bracketing WWII, a great many artists were among those fleeing to US shores from the specter of Nazi... View details »
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- Ultrasonic International III
- @ Mark Moore Gallery
- Elementary, My Dear Watson is the Mark Moore Gallery's third installment of its annual Ultrasonic International series. The group show features... View details »
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- Asad Faulwell and Annie Buckley
- @ Carl Berg Gallery
- This Miracle Mile-situated gallery's latest exhibition joins two artists with radically different approaches to the aesthetic of assemblage. Asad Faulwell, recent... View details »
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- The Art of War
- @ Norton Simon Museum
- When searching for a means of drumming up support for World War I, officials in Washington didn't have to look much... View details »
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- Mexican Calendar Girls
- @ California Heritage Museum
- Glamor gets deep and classic at the California Heritage Museum's Mexican Calendar Girls, opening with a Cinco de Mayo reception. The... View details »
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- It's the Housewives
- @ Whitefire Theatre
- Sarah Palin may have the elusive Hockey Mom demographic sewn up, but who knows how she's going to handle the nation's... View details »
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- Yin Zhaoyang
- @ DF2
- Chinese-born Yin Zhaoyang didn't have to look too far for inspiration when creating the work in his latest show at DF2... View details »
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- Eddy Sykes
- @ Materials & Applications
- First, there were robot maids, robot pets, and robot vacuums. Now, there are robot gardens. The technical specifications for Materials &... View details »
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- More Flavor: City Gem
- Scribble Press
- @ Scribble Press
- Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with... View details »
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- CUT: Makings of Removal
- @ Vincent Price Art Museum
- The 17 young and emerging artists included in this ambitious group show follow diverse strategies in making work, but the organizing... View details »
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- Film: Festival
- Other Venice Film Festival
- @ Electric Lodge
- In a world rife with indie film festivals (that's a good thing), this annual weekend juggernaut of alt-culture cinema, music, and... View details »
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- Amanda Ross-Ho
- @ Cherry and Martin
- Amanda Ross-Ho returns to Cherry and Martin with her latest exhibition of mixed-media sculptural installation, Half of What I Say Is... View details »
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- Red Forest
- @ Thinkspace Gallery
- Hot off the success of their individual Thinkspace exhibitions, Ekundayo and Johnny "KMNDZ" Rodriguez join forces for their first-ever collaborative collection... View details »
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- All of This is Melting Away
- @ Royal/T
- Director of New York's Greene Naftali Gallery, Jay Sanders steps into cafe/shop/gallery Royal/T to curate this group show of works from... View details »
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- Michael Knowlton
- @ 01 Gallery
- Painter Michael Knowlton doesn't feel the need to choose between beauty and terror. His passionately wrought, deftly composed scenes of the... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Festival
- FOTW 08
- @ Los Angeles Theatre Center
- For the second year in a row, the New LATC concocts an enthralling admixture of theatre, dance, and performance that brings... View details »
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- Jehad Nga
- @ M+B Gallery Los Angeles
- Daring photographer Jehad Nga has previously documented poverty and violence from Darfur to Iraq — now, he takes his camera into... View details »
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- Miriam Wosk
- @ Billy Shire Fine Arts
- For her second exhibition at Culver City's Billy Shire Fine Arts, Santa Monica-based artist Miriam Wosk once again creates her trademark... View details »
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- Pasadena Art Weekend
- @ Old Town Pasadena
- On Friday, the city's cultural institutions stay open late to kick off Pasadena Art Weekend. A free shuttle circulates from one... View details »
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- Josh Dorman, Carol Es, and Julie Speed
- @ George Billis Gallery
- Modern mix-masters Josh Dorman, Carol Es, and Julie Speed are art historians of sorts: all three borrow imagery from recycled sources... View details »
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- John Bock
- @ REDCAT
- John Bock's unpredictable performances may seem like exercises in artistic capriciousness, but his loud costumes and absurd statements conceal his skill... View details »
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- Ken Price
- @ LA Louver Gallery
- Ken Price is one of the world's most respected ceramicists, part of a small, but proud, posse of sculptors hell-bent on... View details »
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- Art: Discussion
- Earworms
- @ Pasadena Museum of California Art
- PMCA's Project Room is transformed into a beguiling labyrinth, addressing the elusiveness of memory and the neurobiological basis of thought, via... View details »
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- Cycling Apparati
- @ High Energy Constructs
- For many contemporary artists, Warhol is the North Star by which they guide their own emerging views of culture. But for... View details »
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- Robert Glenn Ketchum
- @ G2 Gallery
- Photographer and environmentalist Robert Glenn Ketchum makes landscape images, but this isn't Ansel Adams we're talking about here. The 38-year-old UCLA... View details »
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- Hans Burkhardt
- @ Cal State University Northridge Art Gallery
- Comprising selections from the nearly 1,000 works that European-native-turned California-great Hans Burkhardt personally donated to Cal State Northridge (where he taught... View details »
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- Surface Sounding
- @ See Line Gallery
- Any viewer beholding Surface Sounding without background information would likely believe all the art was selected by a single gatekeeper, so... View details »
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- Tofer Chin
- @ Commissary Arts
- The "sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll" trifecta holds ample sway in the work of Los Angeles artist Tofer Chin. For... View details »
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- The Maize Project
- @ Torrance Art Museum
- The small but influential Torrance Art Museum simultaneously mounts three new solo exhibitions, united by highly stylized explorations of abstraction and... View details »
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- UCLA Live International Theatre Festival
- @ Freud Playhouse
- UCLA Live offers a finely curated nine-month season of performances, with the International Theatre Festival serving as its cornerstone. The event... View details »
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- Charlie Roberts
- @ Richard Heller Gallery
- Charlie Roberts is a consummate collector of images, with an organizational system resembling the interior of a Whitman's Sampler. He perceives... View details »
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- Antonio Pineda
- @ Fowler Museum, UCLA
- World-renowned Mexican silversmith Antonio Pineda brings more than 200 of his masterpieces up the coast to UCLA's Fowler Museum, to show... View details »
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- Mark Bradford
- @ Steve Turner Contemporary
- Los Angeles painter, installation artist, and (most recently) video artist Mark Bradford has exhibited in some of the world's most prestigious... View details »
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- Katie Grinnan
- @ MAK Center for Art and Architecture
- Katie Grinnan has made a career out of walking the fine line between the second and third dimensions. Grinnan takes architectural... View details »
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- Hello Herman
- @ Edgemar Center for the Arts
- Norman Mailer's legacy lives on, not only in the minds and hearts of his global readership, but through the pen of... View details »
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- Kyle Field
- @ Taylor De Cordoba Gallery
- For his second go-round at Taylor De Cordoba, San Franciscan artist/musican Kyle Field (he's a member of the band Little Wings),... View details »
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- Raw Skies
- @ Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art
- Seven is a lucky number at Carmichael Gallery this month, as the curators carry out another dazzling, high-octane international group exhibition.... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- In Focus: The Landscape
- @ The Getty Center
- Art's love affair with landscapes was captured with brush strokes until technology gave way to the click of the shutter. In... View details »
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- No Brow
- @ Black Maria Gallery
- Not unlike impressionism, "low brow" was a label with initially negative connotations affixed to a group of artists reacting against then-mainstream... View details »
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- Sandrine Pelletier
- @ Fette's Gallery
- International-artist-friendly Fette's Gallery rings in its fall season with Insekts, an installation of new works by Swiss mixed-media artist/embroiderer Sandrine Pelletier.... View details »
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