Events on Saturday, November 22
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- Music: Experimental
- Hauschka
- @ Largo at the Coronet Theater
- If Dusseldorf-based pianist Volker Bertelmann (aka Hauschka) were a little girl, the piano would be his Barbie doll. And, man, does... View details »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Of Montreal
- @ Hollywood Palladium
- Athens, Georgia's Of Montreal have evolved a unique and eclectic musical style that might best be termed "indie glam." Since 2004's... View details »
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- Violet Valen
- @ Downtown Art Center Gallery
- Named "Buddy" in honor of a particularly beloved teddy bear, Violet Valen's line of hand-crafted hoodies is about as hardcore as... View details »
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- O'Death
- @ Spaceland
- This ain't your granddad's jug band. Brooklyn quintet O'Death stand (or stomp) apart with their rambunctious, passionate live show. They're joyful,... 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Performing Arts: Dance
- California Touring Project
- @ Diavolo Dance Theatre
- This year's California Touring Project assembles a stellar lineup of original dance-makers for an evening of in-the-round works, bound by the... 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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- Linda Day and Cristi Rinklin
- @ Jancar Gallery
- The works of LA painters Linda Day and Cristi Rinklin treat pattern as a malleable, organic thing that doesn't require symmetry... View details »
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- Sasha Bezzubov & Jessica Sucher
- @ Taylor De Cordoba Gallery
- In the '60s and '70s, the Beatles led an exuberant parade East, inspiring throngs of Westerners to follow in a search... View details »
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- Wolfgang Tillmans
- @ Regen Projects
- Wolfgang Tillmans is like the Madonna of the art world: never afraid to change directions, reinvent himself, or throw in a... 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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- Ismail Farouk
- @ MAK Center for Art and Architecture
- Johannesburg-based urban geographer and artist Ismail Farouk offers a multimedia overview of his recent work in the second installment of the... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Opera
- Carmen
- @ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
- Bizet's Carmen isn't just known for its ferociously popular femme fatale but also for its transformation of opera comique into a... View details »
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- Scott Belcastro, Jill Simonsen, and Nate Frizzell
- @ Cerasoli-LeBasse Gallery
- Project: gallery and Cerasoli join forces, merging their programs for the kind of no-brow urban romanticism that made LA famous. Scott... View details »
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- Bronx Zoo
- @ Ghettogloss
- Downtown's La Cita Bar has hosted Ghettogloss Gallery's Bronx Zoo each Saturday since the start of June, inspiring artists to render... View details »
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- Marco Brambilla
- @ Christopher Grimes Gallery
- Marco Brambilla's newest video pieces live up to his reputation for supersaturated maximalism, combining, recombining, randomizing, and manipulating found and sampled... View details »
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- David McDonald, Annie Wharton, and Jason David
- @ Jail Gallery
- Essentially three concurrent solo shows, this trio of installations by LA artists shares impulses ranging from gentle mockery to intellectualized deconstruction,... View details »
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- Art: Architecture/Design
- 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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- Art: Photography
- Michael Kenna and Pam Posey
- @ Craig Krull Gallery
- Photographer Michael Kenna is a technical whiz, a classicist with a flair for the dramatic. His sweeping black-and-white landscapes depict vistas... 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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- Cindy Wright
- @ Mark Moore Gallery
- Influenced by Dutch vanitas of the 16th and 17th centuries, Belgian artist Cindy Wright creates excruciatingly detailed, large-scale portraits and still-lifes... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Spring Awakening
- @ Ahmanson Theatre
- It's easy to see why Spring Awakening snagged eight Tony Awards last year, marking what has been heralded as the new... View details »
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- Jennifer Vanderpool
- @ Bandini Art
- Overtaking every nook and cranny of Bandini Art's box space — including the ceiling — Jennifer Vanderpool's recent, large-scale installation features... View details »
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- Paul and Damon McCarthy
- @ REDCAT
- Inspired by Disneyland's Pirates of the Caribbean ride, LA artist Paul McCarthy and his son Damon's video piece twists Disney's sanitized... 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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- 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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- Karl Ferris
- @ Mr. Musichead Gallery
- The cover art of Jimi Hendrix's debut album, Are You Experienced?, is just as memorable as the guitar pyrotechnics inside. Using... 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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- 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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- Which Way Berlin - L.A.?
- @ Pharmaka
- Berlin has always been notorious for cultivating the avant garde, but its conceptual art scene has flourished since the fall of... View details »
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- Linda Besemer
- @ Angles Gallery
- Linda Besemer produces the kind of art that provokes people to solve the mystery of how she does it. Without divulging... View details »
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- Clowns!
- @ Corey Helford
- Culver City's Corey Helford Gallery teams up with London's StolenSpace Gallery to present Clowns!, a new way of looking at the... View details »
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- Holly Coulis
- @ Cherry and Martin
- Whatever outfit they sport, leisurely activity they pursue, or unearthly landscape they inhabit, Coulis' men are never revealed as themselves (and... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- A Mulholland Christmas Carol
- @ Sacred Fools Theater
- A holiday must-see for the whole dysfunctional family, theatre of NOTE and Sacred Fools' A Mulholland Christmas Carol is an inspired,... View details »
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- Human Resources
- @ The Company
- The economy be damned: amid a spate of gallery closings, it's still full speed ahead for the fearless founders 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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- P-Jay Fidler and Jason Houchen
- @ La Luz de Jesus
- Art Center alum P-Jay Fidler's works reflect a heady amalgam of artistic influences, including naturalism, surrealism, popular illustration, and modern graphic... View details »
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- Xanadu
- @ La Jolla Playhouse
- When it comes to '80s nostalgia, Olivia Newton-John guilty-pleasure juggernaut Xanadu has it all: leg-warmers, roller skates, blue eye shadow, men... View details »
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- Tango with Cows: Book Art of the Russian Avant-Garde
- @ The Getty Center
- In Tango with Cows, the Getty Research Institute presents a concentrated display of unabridged books published in Russia between 1910 and... View details »
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- Ed Templeton and Matt Leines
- @ Roberts & Tilton Gallery
- In this pairing of one-man exhibitions, Roberts + Tilton's new Culver City digs unleashes an ocean of dense artistic detail. Matt... View details »
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- Sumi Ink Club
- @ Quiksilver SiteLA
- True to its name, the Sumi Ink Club is a drawing collective that encourages autodidacts to explore the miracles of sumi... View details »
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- Enrique Martínez Celaya
- @ LA Louver Gallery
- Cuban-born artist Enrique Martinez Celaya's oil-and-wax paintings and mixed-media sculptures offer a rare combination of vigorous, pre-Raphaelite style and pensive, academic... 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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- Grace Oh
- @ Edgar Varela Fine Arts
- Los Angeles photographer Grace Oh first grew passionate about capturing nudes when she began actively pursuing photography in her early twenties.... 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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- In It Together
- @ Tinlark Gallery
- In It Together is the meta-title for a pair of simultaneous collaborative exhibitions: Matthew Rodriguez and Nicholas Bohac's Drill, Baby, Drill!... View details »
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- Cole Case
- @ Western Project
- A new series of paintings by LA-based Cole Case, When We Did Believe in Magic and We Didn't Die is best... 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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- Robbie Conal
- @ Track 16 Gallery
- Even Robbie Conal's most fervent admirers tend to see his work primarily through their car windows. His trademark posters — featuring... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Robert Lepage/Ex Machina
- @ Freud Playhouse
- Versed in virtually every aspect of theatrical design, direction, performance, and writing, Robert Lepage is one of the world's most dynamic... View details »
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- 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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- Analytic & Synthetic Pile-Up
- @ Woodbury Hollywood Exhibitions
- Woodbury University goes Hollywood — or at least goes to Hollywood — by inaugurating its new off-campus gallery space with Analytic... View details »
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- Hernan Bas
- @ Sandroni Rey
- Fascinated by homo-eroticism and inspired by mythology and classic fiction, Miami painter Hernan Bas' tableaux present an enchanted world of roaming... 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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- George Stoll
- @ Lightbox Gallery
- In sacred and profane, Los Angeles-based artist George Stoll expands upon his traditional examination of everyday Americana. Objects such as his... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Song of Extinction
- @ The Ford Theater
- [Inside] the Ford's New Plays Series makes use of the intimate theatre under the venue's more familiar outdoor setting during the... 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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- Vermeer's A Lady Writing
- @ Norton Simon Museum
- It's not often that Angelenos have the chance to examine an original painting by Dutch Baroque master Johannes Vermeer. His surviving... 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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- 2008 California Biennial
- @ Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach
- The 2008 installment of the California Biennial should come with an anxiety-attack warning label. In a way, it does, with Patrick... View details »
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- The School of Night
- @ Mark Taper Forum
- Peter Whelan's latest work, The School of Night, cleverly glides between the modes of traditional murder mystery and avant-garde theatre. As... View details »
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- Louise Bourgeois
- @ Museum of Contemporary Art
- Louise Bourgeois' deeply personal art combines an in-your-face sexuality with disturbing, even terrifying, imagery of trespassed flesh and violated privacy. Yet... View details »
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- Kelsey Brookes
- @ New Image Art
- San Diego artist Kelsey Brookes' recent work resembles the slashed daydreams of a flower child: bright swathes of colors splash onto... View details »
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- Plush
- @ Eagle Rock Center for the Arts
- Eagle Rock Center for the Arts' new group show, Plush, uses sculpture, video, and drawing to explore the excesses of the... View details »
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- Skip the Mall
- @ Black Maria Gallery
- For the fourth year in a row, Atwater's Black Maria Gallery pursues a simple but powerful idea for the holiday season,... 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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- William Hundley
- @ Kinsey/DesForges Gallery
- Austin-based photographer William Hundley's work intervenes in reality, harnessing his inner trickster with the yoke of labor-intensive production. His staged and... 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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- 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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- The Little Dog Laughed
- @ Kirk Douglas Theatre
- Hollywood and homophobia share the bill in The Little Dog Laughed, a comedy about Tinseltown hypocrisy and the veil of lies... View details »
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