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- Performing Arts: Dance
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Giselle
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Saturday Feb 23, 2008 (2 & 8pm) @ UCLA Live at Royce Hall
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Having graced stages everywhere from New York City to St. Petersburg, Nina Ananiashvili now applies her vision as an artistic director and prima ballerina to... View details »
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Ashik Kerib
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Saturday Feb 23, 2008 (7:30pm) @ Los Angeles County Museum of Art
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Sergei Paradjanov's final film Ashik Kerib is a Rubik's Cube of color — although it's a whisper of his earlier, more complex films. The film... View details »
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Make Art/Stop AIDS
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Saturday Feb 23, 2008 (noon–5pm) @ Fowler Museum, UCLA
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Before red ribbons became de rigeur accessories at televised awards ceremonies, artists from around the globe inspired and provoked the radical awareness that the AIDS... View details »
- More Flavor: Benefit
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The Arts Incubator
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Saturday Feb 23, 2008 (7–11pm) @ Art Share LA
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Join Art Share LA for a night of tax-deductible mingling and entertainment in the heart of the downtown arts district. Complete with drinks, nibbles, and... View details »
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Toby Ziegler
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Saturday Feb 23, 2008 (10am–6pm) @ Patrick Painter Gallery
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Toby Ziegler's work is full of dichotomies. For his new collection of painting and sculpture in Patrick Painter's West Gallery, the British artist can't decide... View details »
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Sylvia Ji
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Saturday Feb 23, 2008 (noon–6pm) @ Corey Helford
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San Francisco native Sylvia Ji's paintings simultaneously depict the drama of the Pre-Raphaelites, the romantic sensuality of Mucha, and the allure of a pin-up poster.... View details »
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Evan Hecox
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Saturday Feb 23, 2008 (noon–6pm) @ Kinsey/DesForges Gallery
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In 2001, Colorado-based artist Evan Hecox inaugurated Culver City's Kinsey/DesForges gallery. Now he returns in a show that highlights how they have each evolved. In... View details »
- Music: Hip-Hop
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HEAT Festival
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Saturday Feb 23, 2008 (6pm–1am) @ UC Riverside Campus
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If Eric B. & Rakim, EPMD, and De La Soul are underground hip-hop's royalty, then Mos Def is the celebrated envoy. Mr. Def — along... View details »
- Music: DJ
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Felix da Housecat
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Saturday Feb 23, 2008 (10pm) @ Avalon Hollywood
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DJ and producer Felix da Housecat is synonymous with big-name house music — and for good reason. Over the last 20 years, the Chicago native... View details »
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- Art: Architecture/Design
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Victor Burgin
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Saturday Feb 23, 2008 (11am–6pm) @ MAK Center for Art and Architecture
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The Little House, Victor Burgin's new project at the MAK Center, explores the potential of narrative sound installation. Selections from Jean-François de Bastide's 1758 novella... View details »
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Michael Asher
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Saturday Feb 23, 2008 (11am–8pm) @ 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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Tucker Neel
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Saturday Feb 23, 2008 (noon–6pm) @ Commissary Arts
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Frustrated debutantes, overdressed crocodiles, and bandaged aristocrats parade through Tucker Neel's latest exhibition. The LA artist conjures up witty, intriguing imagery in his delicate ink... View details »
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Rosson Crow
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Saturday Feb 23, 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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Saturday Feb 23, 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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Saturday Feb 23, 2008 (11am–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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Yun Bai
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Saturday Feb 23, 2008 (noon–6pm) @ Art Murmur Gallery
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Rising LA artist Yun Bai and her alter ego Yunny Bunny converge in this smashing show. Bai splits herself in two: while the artist is... View details »
- Film
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Alfred Hitchcock
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Saturday Feb 23, 2008 (noon–6pm) @ 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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Saturday Feb 23, 2008 (noon–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 »
- Art: Photography
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Freeze Frame
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Saturday Feb 23, 2008 (noon–6pm) @ 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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Saturday Feb 23, 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
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Victory
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Saturday Feb 23, 2008 (8pm) @ The Fountain Theatre
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South African playwright Athol Fugard's work demonstrates the power of theatre to incite social transformation. Fugard's plays have addressed the subject of Apartheid with remarkable... View details »
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The Imaginary 20th Century
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Saturday Feb 23, 2008 (11am–5pm) @ Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach
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There was a time when the 20th century seemed like an unimaginable and distant future. The Orange County Museum of Art presents 2,200 images from... View details »
- Art: Photography
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Rocky Schenck
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Saturday Feb 23, 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 »
- Film
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Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y
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Saturday Feb 23, 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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Saturday Feb 23, 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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Saturday Feb 23, 2008 (11am–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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Saturday Feb 23, 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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Saturday Feb 23, 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 »
- Art: Photography
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Hiromi Tsuchida
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Saturday Feb 23, 2008 (10am–5pm) @ Michael Dawson Gallery
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Renowned Japanese photographer Hiromi Tsuchida has trained his lens on facets of ordinary life throughout his lengthy career. Tsuchida's first solo exhibition in the US... View details »
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Wynne Greenwood
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Saturday Feb 23, 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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Saturday Feb 23, 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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David Brady
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Saturday Feb 23, 2008 (11am–6pm) @ High Energy Constructs
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One of Chinatown's most interesting emerging galleries, High Energy Constructs inaugurated its space with an exhibition by David Brady. Two years on, the gallery returns... View details »
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Nick Walker
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Saturday Feb 23, 2008 (2–7pm) @ Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art
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Bristol-based street artist Nick Walker — known as the Apish Angel — comes to America, ready to stencil Tinseltown. Like his notorious countryman Banksy, Walker... View details »
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Frohawk Two Feathers
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Saturday Feb 23, 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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Sound in Space
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Saturday Feb 23, 2008 (8pm) @ Sea and Space Explorations
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Bask in the explosion of aural-art happenings on offer during Sound in Space. This miraculous monthlong program series explores the variety of the sound-art community... View details »
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The Trinity
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Saturday Feb 23, 2008 (1–6pm) @ Thinkspace Gallery
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Hailing from various points in New York City, up-and-coming artists Tony Philippou, Zach Johnsen, and Marion Bolognesi present a conglomeration of new works inspired by... View details »
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Stephen Tompkins
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Saturday Feb 23, 2008 (1–5pm) @ Found Gallery
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Stephen Tompkins is a shockingly versatile artistic chameleon, working in drawing, painting, 3-D digital design, animation, music, and sculpture. His fittingly titled show Transmogrifications (the... View details »
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Tessar Lo and Chris Devera
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Saturday Feb 23, 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 »
- Art: Photography
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Tom Servais
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Saturday Feb 23, 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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Saturday Feb 23, 2008 (noon–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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Saturday Feb 23, 2008 (noon–8pm) @ 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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Think Big
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Saturday Feb 23, 2008 (1–6pm) @ The Hive Gallery & Studios
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Global Inheritance and fashionPEACE connect socially minded youth with an international activist community. One of their finest endeavors is TRASHed, a campaign that finds artistic... View details »
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There We Were, Now Here We Are
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Saturday Feb 23, 2008 (11am–5pm) @ 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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Saturday Feb 23, 2008 (noon–4pm) @ 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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Saturday Feb 23, 2008 (11am–4pm) @ 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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Saturday Feb 23, 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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Saturday Feb 23, 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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Saturday Feb 23, 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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Julian Schnabel
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Saturday Feb 23, 2008 (10am–5:30pm) @ Gagosian Gallery
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Neo-expressionist aesthete and, most recently, award-winning feature-film director Julian Schnabel (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly) takes a break from the red carpet with a... View details »
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Eve Wood
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Saturday Feb 23, 2008 (11am–5pm) @ 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 »
- Film
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My Blueberry Nights
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Saturday Feb 23, 2008 @ The Landmark
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Wong Kar Wai's My Blueberry Nights is undeniably, embarrassingly cheesy. Replete with slow-motion shots and blue-lit greasy spoons, it truly leaves no US coming-of-age travelogue... View details »
- Art: Discussion
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Nicole Cohen
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Saturday Feb 23, 2008 (10am–9pm) @ 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 »
