Events on Friday, February 29
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Cat Power
- @ The Wiltern
- Chan Marshall regularly slips bits of other tunes into her own work — turning the chorus of Carly Simon's "Nobody Does... View details »
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- Music: Electronic
- MSTRKRFT
- @ Music Box at the Fonda Theater
- Death From Above 1979's Jesse F. Keeler (JFK) and fellow electro-lover Al-P joined their razor-sharp synths in 2005 and have been... View details »
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- Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! and Motor Psycho
- @ The Silent Movie Theatre
- Exploitation king Russ Meyer's Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! is the perfect camp pleasure: 83 minutes of flesh shots, bad-ass action, and... View details »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Tilly and the Wall
- @ The Echo
- File Tilly and the Wall under "one of the best live bands you've yet to experience." Named after a children's book,... View details »
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- The Color of Pomegranates
- @ Los Angeles County Museum of Art
- In The Color of Pomegranates, radical Russian director Sergei Paradjanov evokes the life of 18th-century Armenian poet Sayat Nova through breathtaking,... View details »
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- Blitzen Trapper
- @ The Troubadour
- Portland's Blitzen Trapper take the stage at the Troubadour tonight with countrified indie rock. The sextet's third release, last year's Wild... View details »
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- Music: Hip-Hop
- In Living the True Gods
- @ Evil Monito
- In Living the True Gods is the follow-up to the Stones Throw 101 music-video compilation. The DVD features live footage, interviews,... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Tom Servais
- @ epOxybOx
- Celebrated surf photographer Tom Servais comes to Venice Beach's original "green" gallery for his debut fine-art exhibition. Servais is known for... View details »
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- Tessar Lo and Chris Devera
- @ project: gallery
- 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... View details »
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- Miguel Osuna and Sam Seawright
- @ Lawrence Asher Gallery
- Landscape paintings from Mexican artist Miguel Osuna have a photographic sensibility. His California landscapes possess all the fleeting romance of a... View details »
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- Projection
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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... 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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- Ben Pruskin
- @ PawnShop Gallery
- Traditionally, bust portraiture has been a means of honoring those with wealth, power, and status; Ben Pruskin, however, believes that such... View details »
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- David Touster
- @ Milo Gallery
- With leaked sex tapes and nude photos of celebrities comprising a billion-dollar industry, David Touster's new work couldn't be more humorous... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Victory
- @ The Fountain Theatre
- South African playwright Athol Fugard's work demonstrates the power of theatre to incite social transformation. Fugard's plays have addressed the subject... View details »
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- There We Were, Now Here We Are
- @ Mark Moore Gallery
- LA artist Tim Bavington reinvents the once-obsolete "stripe painting" with hometown verve. Bavington incorporates sound into many of his dense compositions,... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Carnage, a Comedy
- @ The Actors' Gang Theatre
- Twenty years after Carnage's wildly successful premiere, the Gang revives Adam Simon and Tim Robbins' play with frightening vitality and acerbic... View details »
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- First Generation
- @ Claremont Museum of Art
- Nestled 30 minutes outside of the hustle and bustle of Los Angeles lies Claremont — not known for much other than... View details »
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- Rosson Crow
- @ Honor Fraser
- In a departure from her usual allusions to European art, Crow focuses on America, particularly Los Angeles, in her latest collection... View details »
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- The Trinity
- @ Thinkspace Gallery
- Hailing from various points in New York City, up-and-coming artists Tony Philippou, Zach Johnsen, and Marion Bolognesi present a conglomeration of... View details »
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- Dustin Yellin
- @ Samuel Freeman
- Dustin Yellin does not suspend exotic crimson seaweed inside his freestanding resin columns — it just looks like it. What he... View details »
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- David Brady
- @ High Energy Constructs
- One of Chinatown's most interesting emerging galleries, High Energy Constructs inaugurated its space with an exhibition by David Brady. Two years... View details »
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- SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s
- @ Los Angeles County Museum of Art
- Exhibitions addressing mythologies of Southern California are suddenly seemingly ubiquitous. The Orange County Museum of Art's Art Since the 1960s: California... View details »
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- Rocky Schenck
- @ M+B Gallery Los Angeles
- Known for haunting images that envelop the viewer in an uneasy haze, Rocky Schenck finds beauty in rural landscapes and unremarkable... View details »
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- Yun Bai
- @ Art Murmur Gallery
- Rising LA artist Yun Bai and her alter ego Yunny Bunny converge in this smashing show. Bai splits herself in two:... View details »
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- Mel Kadel and Travis Millard
- @ Richard Heller Gallery
- The organic forms that populate Mel Kadel's drawings have begun to grow in scale, creeping toward the edges of the sheet... View details »
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- Chinatown Gallery Exhibitions
- @ Various Chinatown galleries
- As Chinese New Year celebrations bring you to Chinatown, remember that the neighborhood is also home to dozens of contemporary art... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Hiromi Tsuchida
- @ Michael Dawson Gallery
- Renowned Japanese photographer Hiromi Tsuchida has trained his lens on facets of ordinary life throughout his lengthy career. Tsuchida's first solo... View details »
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- Make Art/Stop AIDS
- @ Fowler Museum, UCLA
- Before red ribbons became de rigeur accessories at televised awards ceremonies, artists from around the globe inspired and provoked the radical... View details »
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- Toby Ziegler
- @ Patrick Painter Gallery
- Toby Ziegler's work is full of dichotomies. For his new collection of painting and sculpture in Patrick Painter's West Gallery, the... View details »
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- Sylvia Ji
- @ Corey Helford
- San Francisco native Sylvia Ji's paintings simultaneously depict the drama of the Pre-Raphaelites, the romantic sensuality of Mucha, and the allure... View details »
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- Adam Janes
- @ Roberts & Tilton Gallery
- With the creative ingenuity of a mad doctor and the unwieldy imagination of a five-year old, installation artist Adam Janes unveils... View details »
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- My Blueberry Nights
- @ The Landmark
- Wong Kar Wai's My Blueberry Nights is undeniably, embarrassingly cheesy. Replete with slow-motion shots and blue-lit greasy spoons, it truly leaves... View details »
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- Eve Wood
- @ Western Project
- Eve Wood is the toast of Culver City this month with a breakthrough exhibition of mixed-media work on canvas. Wood leaves... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Scott Thompson
- @ The Steve Allen Theater
- Scott Thompson (of immortally beloved sketch-comedy crew the Kids in the Hall) drops his new one-man show on the Steve Allen... View details »
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- Art: Architecture/Design
- Jean Michel Crettaz
- @ SCI-Arc
- Head of the Visual Studies Program at SCI-Arc Jean-Michel Crettaz has plenty of experience, having studied in Switzerland, at the ultra-exclusive... View details »
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- Michael Asher
- @ Santa Monica Museum of Art
- Rather than create new spaces and pieces, conceptual mixed-media artist Michael Asher prefers to deconstruct and punctuate extant spaces with found... View details »
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- Art: Architecture/Design
- La Vida Lowrider
- @ Petersen Automotive Museum
- The lowrider tradition originated in the Chicano barrios of Los Angeles, inspired by a fierce love for classic cars and the... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Robots vs Fake Robots
- @ Powerhouse Theatre
- If you only have time this month to see one dark-comedy dance spectacular about a dystopian future in which sex-craved, man-eating... View details »
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- The Imaginary 20th Century
- @ Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach
- There was a time when the 20th century seemed like an unimaginable and distant future. The Orange County Museum of Art... View details »
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- Luke Whitlatch
- @ Bandini Art
- In his new series of work, painter Luke Whitlatch offers a meditation on both the emotional events that define human life... View details »
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- Bob Dylan's American Journey
- @ Skirball Cultural Center
- This year's resurgent Dylanmania — from Todd Haynes' byzantine biopic, I'm Not There, to Murray Lerner's performance-driven documentary, The Other Side... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Freeze Frame
- @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences
- The Academy honors Douglas Kirkland's carefully composed photography with Freeze Frame, an exhibit of celebrity portraits riddled with familiar faces. Besides... View details »
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- Tucker Neel
- @ Commissary Arts
- Frustrated debutantes, overdressed crocodiles, and bandaged aristocrats parade through Tucker Neel's latest exhibition. The LA artist conjures up witty, intriguing imagery... View details »
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- Frohawk Two Feathers
- @ Taylor De Cordoba Gallery
- Los Angeles artist Frohawk Two Feathers makes fanciful, avant-folk paintings featuring a cast of singularly imaginative characters. For his latest collection... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Opera
- Otello
- @ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
- Racism, jealousy, and betrayal form the backdrop of Shakespeare's penultimate tragedy, Othello. The stakes of the story are set even higher... View details »
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- Sheng Qi
- @ DF2
- Renowned Chinese artist Sheng Qi lived in exile in Europe for a decade after the Tiananmen Square massacre. Before fleeing China,... View details »
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- Art: Architecture/Design
- The Austrian Winery Boom
- @ MODAA gallery
- After a 1985 wine scandal (winemakers were discovered to have added an antifreeze component to sweeten their vintages), a red-faced Austria... View details »
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- Julian Schnabel
- @ Gagosian Gallery
- Neo-expressionist aesthete and, most recently, award-winning feature-film director Julian Schnabel (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly) takes a break from the... View details »
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- Fatally Yours
- @ Crewest Gallery
- Not all of us choose to celebrate the upcoming Hallmark holiday with champagne and chocolate-covered strawberries by a roaring fireplace. Case... View details »
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- Julie Davidow
- @ Tarryn Teresa Gallery
- Miami-based painter and self-proclaimed "frustrated scientist" Julie Davidow presents a series of new works that embody the interactions between man and... View details »
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- Chicago 10
- @ Landmark Nuart Theatre
- In the revolution-rich year of 1968, the French had a tough May; the US, in turn, had one heck of an... View details »
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- The Garden of Delight
- @ Ghettogloss
- If a group show of whimsical, freak-folky art at a boutique with punk-rock lingerie, a vending machine that sells beer, and... View details »
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- Overgrowth
- @ GR2
- GR2 combines the artistic minds of Katherine Guillen, Zachary Rossman, and Brian Rush for a group show of anti-monumental proportions. Discarding... View details »
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- Evan Hecox
- @ Kinsey/DesForges Gallery
- In 2001, Colorado-based artist Evan Hecox inaugurated Culver City's Kinsey/DesForges gallery. Now he returns in a show that highlights how they... View details »
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- Sound in Space
- @ Sea and Space Explorations
- Bask in the explosion of aural-art happenings on offer during Sound in Space. This miraculous monthlong program series explores the variety... View details »
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- Materials & Applications: Density Fields
- @ Materials & Applications
- Experimental-architecture and landscape-research center M&A is a lightning rod for visionary thinkers, bringing the brightest artists and architects together to explore... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Stadium Devildare
- @ Theatre of NOTE
- Stadium Devildare is billed as "a tale of future sport... America to the extreme" — and indeed, Ruth Margraff's play pushes... View details »
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- Lights! Camera! Glamour!
- @ California Heritage Museum
- George Hurrell shot studio stars as they are remembered today: glamorous, graceful, and a tad theatrical. With his sophisticated black-and-white blowups,... View details »
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- Alfred Hitchcock
- @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences
- Stylized, self-mythologizing director Alfred Hitchcock would have you believe him to be a one-man originality machine — when, in fact, his... View details »
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- Ed Fella and Geoff McFetridge
- @ REDCAT
- Even if you don't recognize their names, you are likely familiar with the art of Ed Fella and Geoff McFetridge. In... View details »
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- Wynne Greenwood
- @ Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects
- "Interdisciplinary" is an understatement when it comes to Brooklyn-based artist Wynne Greenwood: she's known for melding performance, installation, video, and two-dimensional... View details »
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- Marco Almera, Bryan Cunningham, and Krystopher Sapp
- @ La Luz de Jesus
- Hollywood's La Luz sticks to what it knows best with another collection of high-minded lowbrow art. Featured in this month's show... View details »
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- Film: Documentary
- My Kid Could Paint That
- @ Various locations
- An abstract-art prodigy for the digital age, four-year-old Marla Olmstead is a rare bird indeed. In My Kid Could Paint That,... View details »
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- Daniel Richter
- @ Regen Projects
- German painter Daniel Richter's expressionistic, figurative works are both dark and disarming. With influences that range from Goya to comic books... View details »
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- Artist/Gallerist
- @ another year in LA
- Gallery owners spend the majority of their working lives combing through an ever-growing pile of art, searching for a particular brand... View details »
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