Events on Friday, December 19
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- Music: Hip-Hop
- Pigeon John
- @ Knitting Factory
- Feel-good poet rapper Pigeon John, emerging hip-hop Detroit powerhouse Illa J, and homespun electro-dandy Daedelus share the bill in tonight's floor-shaking... View details »
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- Music: DJ
- Losoul
- @ The Room
- The bad boys of Droog are a local DJ collective with global ambitions; as such they make a habit of introducing... View details »
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- Music: Hip-Hop
- People Under the Stairs
- @ El Rey
- Classic hip-hop, with its no-frills rhythms and shell-toe Adidas, seems anachronistic in an age ruled by shiny grills, stripper poles, and... View details »
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- Music: Experimental
- YaHoWha 13
- @ Spaceland
- Invigorated by the definitive recent book The Source: The Untold Story of Father Yod, YaHoWa 13, and the Source Family, the... View details »
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- Film
- Cult Cinema Club
- @ Egyptian Theatre
- The American Cinematheque's intermittent Cult Cinema Club showcases seldom-seen movies at the Egyptian's intimate Spielberg Theater. Hard to find (they're often... View details »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- The Duke Spirit
- @ The Roxy Theatre
- While British outfit the Duke Spirit's rollicking blues riffs are more polished on their latest release, Neptune, their formula remains the... View details »
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- Evan B. Harris and Catherine Ryan
- @ Cerasoli-LeBasse Gallery
- This month, Cerasoli-LeBasse Gallery presents a pair of exhibitions depicting imaginary lands, pairing the work by Evan Harris in the main... 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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- Human Rights: Student Voices
- @ Pasadena Central Library
- Art Center College of Design students direct their communications prowess towards human rights, presenting 25 emotionally-charged pieces that straddle the line... 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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- At the Brewery Project
- @ Armory Center for the Arts
- With At the Brewery Project: 1993-2007: the Finale, the Armory pays its respects to an LA art mainstay. For the past... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Puppetry
- Bob Baker presents The Nutcracker
- @ Bob Baker Marionette Theater
- In the early '60s, Bob Baker and partner Alton Wood founded a marionette theater, establishing what has become the longest-running children's... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- 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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- Holiday Open House
- @ Applegate Gallery
- Applegate Gallery stays up late with a group show featuring a choice selection of gallery artists that includes Mark Hobley, Britt... 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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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- 99¢ Only Calendar Girl Competition
- @ Bootleg Theater
- Bargain-hunting beauty queens and dollar store Don Juans convene as Bootleg Theatre pays homage to LA's kitschy holiday headquarters. The 99¢... 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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- Performing Arts: Dance
- The Nutcracker
- @ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
- While some traditions are made to be broken, others are simply too opulent to ignore. Washing away the rigors of the... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- War as a Way of Life
- @ 18th Street Arts Center
- 18th Street wraps up its yearlong, four-part examination of sociopolitical issues with War as a Way of Life. The exhibit includes... 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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- 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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- Art: Photography
- Glen E. Friedman
- @ Subliminal Projects
- One of the best-known names in street photography, Glen Friedman produces jaunty, richly printed black-and-white portraits of skate, punk, and indie... 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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- Martin Denker
- @ Benjamin Trigano Gallery
- A suite of digitally collaged fantasmagorias from German artist Martin Denker, Citizenoftheplanet shows us what it would be like to see... View details »
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- More Flavor: Fashion
- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Performing Arts: Cabaret/Burlesque
- Grand Guignol
- @ Art/Works Theatre
- For the first half of the 20th century, Le Theatre du Grand Guignol in Paris reigned as the predominant purveyor of... 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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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Scrooge Must Die!
- @ The Actors' Gang Theatre
- Written and directed by the Actors' Gang's own Angela Berliner, Scrooge Must Die! offers an X-rated reading of Charles Dickens' classic... 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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- 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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- ARMSROCK & ELBOW-TOE
- @ Thinkspace Gallery
- Thinkspace Gallery presents new works by artists whose street-based achievements reveal impassioned stratagems on top of fundamental creative impulses. Conceived in... 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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- 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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- Art: Photography
- 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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- 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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- WinterWaterColorLand
- @ Samuel Freeman
- Each of the six artists assembled in this Samuel Freeman group exhibition is a master of the watercolor medium. Bucking tradition,... 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Ray Pettibon
- @ Regen Projects
- The first of this winter's pair of Raymond Pettibon exhibitions at Regen Projects focused on early monochromatic, pop-culture infused pen-and-ink drawings.... 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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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- 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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- 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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- 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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- More Flavor: City Gem
- Soup Kitchen Cocktail Hour
- @ The Edison
- Every Friday, the Edison Lounge transforms itself into a soup kitchen to, in their words, "maintain perspective through this financial crisis... 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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- 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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- 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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- Date Farmers
- @ New Image Art
- New Image Art stages an imaginative collection of works by the Date Farmers (aka Coachella Valley's Carlos Ramirez and Armando Lerma).... View details »
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