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Party Girl
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Tuesday Feb 19, 2008 (1pm) @ Los Angeles County Museum of Art
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Beloved by the New Wave, Nicholas Ray possessed that rare director's talent of making every story, however stale, entirely engrossing. He invigorates standard turnaround tale... View details »
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Rebel Without a Cause
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Tuesday Feb 19, 2008 (1:30pm) @ Skirball Cultural Center
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Rebel Without a Cause, director Nicholas Ray's hell-raising horse (James Dean) and carriage (alienated youth), is best summarized by Dean's immortal howl: "You're tearing me... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Keren Ann
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Tuesday Feb 19, 2008 (7:45pm) @ El Rey
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Bundle up in melodic layers tonight as Brooklyn duo Dean & Britta's sleek twang gets paired with French chanteuse Keren Ann's masterful torch-song tristesse. Formerly... View details »
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The Hives
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Tuesday Feb 19, 2008 (8pm) @ The Wiltern
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Exuberant Swedish garage rockers the Hives, fronted by the egomaniacal Howlin' Pelle Almqvist, don their matching black-and-white suits at the Wiltern tonight in support of... View details »
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Van Hunt
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Tuesday Feb 19, 2008 (8:30pm) @ Temple Bar
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Singer/songwriter Van Hunt lets flow the kind of neo-soul music that prompts candlelit smooch sessions and the wearing of edible underwear, so his pairing with... View details »
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Walton Ford
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Tuesday Feb 19, 2008 (7:30pm) @ Art Center
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Walton Ford's paintings revive a particular kind of 19th-century sensibility, encompassing not only the hyper-detail of Victorian scientific illustration, but also the fabulist, mythological traces... View details »
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Michael Asher
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Tuesday Feb 19, 2008 (11am–6pm) @ Santa Monica Museum of Art
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Rather than create new spaces and pieces, conceptual mixed-media artist Michael Asher prefers to deconstruct and punctuate extant spaces with found materials, creating a site-specific... View details »
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Rosson Crow
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Tuesday Feb 19, 2008 (10am–6pm) @ Honor Fraser
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In a departure from her usual allusions to European art, Crow focuses on America, particularly Los Angeles, in her latest collection of paintings. Despite the... View details »
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First Generation
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Tuesday Feb 19, 2008 (11am–5pm) @ Claremont Museum of Art
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Nestled 30 minutes outside of the hustle and bustle of Los Angeles lies Claremont — not known for much other than some great old houses... View details »
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Einar & Jamex de la Torre
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Tuesday Feb 19, 2008 (10am–5:30pm) @ Koplin del Rio Gallery
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Brothers Einar and Jamex couldn't possibly deny the influence of their heritage — their blown-glass and mixed-media works radiate with the colors, textures, and imagery... View details »
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Alfred Hitchcock
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Tuesday Feb 19, 2008 (10am–5pm) @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences
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Stylized, self-mythologizing director Alfred Hitchcock would have you believe him to be a one-man originality machine — when, in fact, his films took hundreds of... View details »
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Matthew Heller
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Tuesday Feb 19, 2008 (11am–5pm) @ DCA Fine Art
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Matthew Heller has stripped down his busy aesthetics for something more minimal, without straying from his trademark shadowy figures and text. Though at times pained... View details »
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Freeze Frame
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Tuesday Feb 19, 2008 (10am–5pm) @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences
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The Academy honors Douglas Kirkland's carefully composed photography with Freeze Frame, an exhibit of celebrity portraits riddled with familiar faces. Besides shooting spools of film... View details »
- Performing Arts: Opera
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Otello
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Tuesday Feb 19, 2008 @ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
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Racism, jealousy, and betrayal form the backdrop of Shakespeare's penultimate tragedy, Othello. The stakes of the story are set even higher in this powerful staging... View details »
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Rocky Schenck
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Tuesday Feb 19, 2008 (10am–5pm) @ M+B Gallery Los Angeles
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Known for haunting images that envelop the viewer in an uneasy haze, Rocky Schenck finds beauty in rural landscapes and unremarkable interiors. Using Los Angeles... View details »
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Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y
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Tuesday Feb 19, 2008 @ Hammer Museum
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Johan Grimonprez's foreboding documentary Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y explores the press' constantly shifting obsession with airplane hijackings. With nods to the phenomenon's most obvious contemporary association, the... View details »
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Daniel Richter
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Tuesday Feb 19, 2008 (10am–6pm) @ Regen Projects
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German painter Daniel Richter's expressionistic, figurative works are both dark and disarming. With influences that range from Goya to comic books and contemporary news media,... View details »
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Sheng Qi
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Tuesday Feb 19, 2008 (10am–5:30pm) @ DF2
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Renowned Chinese artist Sheng Qi lived in exile in Europe for a decade after the Tiananmen Square massacre. Before fleeing China, however, he left a... View details »
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Dustin Yellin
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Tuesday Feb 19, 2008 (11am–6pm) @ Samuel Freeman
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Dustin Yellin does not suspend exotic crimson seaweed inside his freestanding resin columns — it just looks like it. What he does do is actually... View details »
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Projection
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Tuesday Feb 19, 2008 @ [delete]
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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 probe the idea of... View details »
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Wynne Greenwood
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Tuesday Feb 19, 2008 (11am–6pm) @ Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects
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"Interdisciplinary" is an understatement when it comes to Brooklyn-based artist Wynne Greenwood: she's known for melding performance, installation, video, and two-dimensional works into outrageous, breathtaking,... View details »
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Luke Whitlatch
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Tuesday Feb 19, 2008 (11am–5pm) @ Bandini Art
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In his new series of work, painter Luke Whitlatch offers a meditation on both the emotional events that define human life and the craft of... View details »
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Artist/Gallerist
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Tuesday Feb 19, 2008 (noon–5pm) @ another year in LA
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Gallery owners spend the majority of their working lives combing through an ever-growing pile of art, searching for a particular brand of genius. But with... View details »
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Frohawk Two Feathers
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Tuesday Feb 19, 2008 (11am–5:30pm) @ Taylor De Cordoba Gallery
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Los Angeles artist Frohawk Two Feathers makes fanciful, avant-folk paintings featuring a cast of singularly imaginative characters. For his latest collection at Taylor de Cordoba,... View details »
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Tessar Lo and Chris Devera
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Tuesday Feb 19, 2008 (noon–6pm) @ project: gallery
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This Valentine's Day, project: gallery presents Tessar Lo and Chris Devera, two illustrator/artists whose imagination-gone-wild paintings never hesitate to take things too far. Lo draws... View details »
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Tom Servais
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Tuesday Feb 19, 2008 (10am–6pm) @ epOxybOx
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Celebrated surf photographer Tom Servais comes to Venice Beach's original "green" gallery for his debut fine-art exhibition. Servais is known for his creative documentation of... View details »
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Miguel Osuna and Sam Seawright
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Tuesday Feb 19, 2008 (11am–5pm) @ Lawrence Asher Gallery
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Landscape paintings from Mexican artist Miguel Osuna have a photographic sensibility. His California landscapes possess all the fleeting romance of a glimpse through the driver's-side... View details »
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Fatally Yours
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Tuesday Feb 19, 2008 (noon–7pm) @ Crewest Gallery
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Not all of us choose to celebrate the upcoming Hallmark holiday with champagne and chocolate-covered strawberries by a roaring fireplace. Case in point: gallery/boutique Crewest... View details »
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There We Were, Now Here We Are
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Tuesday Feb 19, 2008 (10am–6pm) @ Mark Moore Gallery
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LA artist Tim Bavington reinvents the once-obsolete "stripe painting" with hometown verve. Bavington incorporates sound into many of his dense compositions, assigning a musical note... View details »
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The Garden of Delight
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Tuesday Feb 19, 2008 (9am–6pm) @ Ghettogloss
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If a group show of whimsical, freak-folky art at a boutique with punk-rock lingerie, a vending machine that sells beer, and pink cupcakes sounds like... View details »
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Julie Davidow
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Tuesday Feb 19, 2008 (11am–5pm) @ Tarryn Teresa Gallery
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Miami-based painter and self-proclaimed "frustrated scientist" Julie Davidow presents a series of new works that embody the interactions between man and nature, biology and pathology.... View details »
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Adam Janes
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Tuesday Feb 19, 2008 (11am–6pm) @ Roberts & Tilton Gallery
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With the creative ingenuity of a mad doctor and the unwieldy imagination of a five-year old, installation artist Adam Janes unveils Don't Sweat the Small... View details »
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Overgrowth
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Tuesday Feb 19, 2008 (11:30am–8pm) @ GR2
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GR2 combines the artistic minds of Katherine Guillen, Zachary Rossman, and Brian Rush for a group show of anti-monumental proportions. Discarding their individual pursuits for... View details »
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David Touster
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Tuesday Feb 19, 2008 (11am–5pm) @ Milo Gallery
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With leaked sex tapes and nude photos of celebrities comprising a billion-dollar industry, David Touster's new work couldn't be more humorous or timely. Private Pictures... View details »
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Eve Wood
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Tuesday Feb 19, 2008 (11am–6pm) @ Western Project
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Eve Wood is the toast of Culver City this month with a breakthrough exhibition of mixed-media work on canvas. Wood leaves her former quiet reserve... View details »
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Nicole Cohen
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Tuesday Feb 19, 2008 (10am–5:30pm) @ The Getty Center
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Nicole Cohen engineers recombinant layers of still and video imagery, investigating the network of associations that interior spaces contain. Also, she has something of a... View details »
