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Art
Downtown Art Walk
Thursday Mar 13, 2008 (noon–9pm) @ Various Downtown Galleries
Free
Downtown LA's Art Walk is an easy, breezy way to spend an evening. As if free gallery and museum tours (stops include REDCAT, the Hive,... View details »
Downtown Art Walk
More Flavor: Lecture
Wangechi Mutu
Thursday Mar 13, 2008 (7pm) @ Hammer Museum
Free
Wangechi Mutu is known for her powerful, unsettling institutional critiques on colonialism and feminist art — sculptural installations and collages on Mylar depicting idealized, objectified... View details »
Wangechi Mutu

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Film: Documentary
My Kid Could Paint That
Thursday Mar 13, 2008 @ Various locations More times »
Free
An abstract-art prodigy for the digital age, four-year-old Marla Olmstead is a rare bird indeed. In My Kid Could Paint That, Amir Bar-Lev documents the... View details »
My Kid Could Paint That
Art
Rosson Crow
Thursday Mar 13, 2008 (10am–6pm) @ Honor Fraser More times »
Free
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 »
Rosson Crow
Art
Ed Fella and Geoff McFetridge
Thursday Mar 13, 2008 (noon–6pm) @ REDCAT More times »
Free
Even if you don't recognize their names, you are likely familiar with the art of Ed Fella and Geoff McFetridge. In addition to many gallery-caliber... View details »
Ed Fella and Geoff McFetridge
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Yun Bai
Thursday Mar 13, 2008 (noon–6pm) @ Art Murmur Gallery More times »
Free
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 »
Yun Bai
Film
Alfred Hitchcock
Thursday Mar 13, 2008 (10am–5pm) @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences More times »
Free
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 »
Alfred Hitchcock
Art: Photography
Freeze Frame
Thursday Mar 13, 2008 (10am–5pm) @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences More times »
Free
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 »
Freeze Frame
Art: Photography
Hiromi Tsuchida
Thursday Mar 13, 2008 (10am–5pm) @ Michael Dawson Gallery More times »
Free
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 »
Hiromi Tsuchida
Art
Luke Whitlatch
Thursday Mar 13, 2008 (11am–5pm) @ Bandini Art More times »
Free
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 »
Luke Whitlatch
Art
Nathan Mabry
Thursday Mar 13, 2008 (11am–6pm) @ Cherry and Martin More times »
Free
Spanish conquistadors beware: payback is a bitch. Nathan Mabry exacts Montezuma's revenge with irreverently styled bronze sculptures based on Pre-Columbian Moche ceramics and bedazzled Mixtec... View details »
Nathan Mabry
Art
Make Art/Stop AIDS
Thursday Mar 13, 2008 (noon–8pm) @ Fowler Museum, UCLA More times »
Free
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 »
Art
Alison Saar
Thursday Mar 13, 2008 (10am–6pm) @ LA Louver Gallery More times »
Free
Though Los Angeles is her stomping ground, provocative painter/sculptress Alison Saar is internationally acclaimed. Daughter of the groundbreaking Betye Saar, whose intensely symbolic mixed-media assemblages... View details »
Alison Saar
Art
Tessar Lo and Chris Devera
Thursday Mar 13, 2008 (noon–6pm) @ project: gallery More times »
Free
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 »
Tessar Lo and Chris Devera
Art: Photography
Tom Servais
Thursday Mar 13, 2008 (10am–6pm) @ epOxybOx More times »
Free
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 »
Tom Servais
Art
There We Were, Now Here We Are
Thursday Mar 13, 2008 (10am–6pm) @ Mark Moore Gallery More times »
Free
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 »
There We Were, Now Here We Are
Art
Angela DeCristofaro
Thursday Mar 13, 2008 (noon–5pm) @ Commisary Arts More times »
Free
Like fellow Italian Surrealist Giorgio de Chirico, Angela DeCristofaro's paintings obscure reality with dreams and memories. Seemingly unrelated images find their way onto the same... View details »
Angela DeCristofaro
Art
Julie Davidow
Thursday Mar 13, 2008 (11am–5pm) @ Tarryn Teresa Gallery More times »
Free
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 »
Julie Davidow
Art
Adam Janes
Thursday Mar 13, 2008 (11am–6pm) @ Roberts & Tilton Gallery More times »
Free
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 »
Adam Janes
Art
David Touster
Thursday Mar 13, 2008 (11am–5pm) @ Milo Gallery More times »
Free
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 »
David Touster
More Flavor: City Gem
Ugo Wine Bar
Thursday Mar 13, 2008 (5:30pm–12:30am) @ Vinum Populi More times »
Free
Culver City's latest spot of interest is Ugo Wine Bar, a cozy wine bar with the usual bistro couches and charcuterie selection — with one... View details »
Ugo Wine Bar
Art
Julian Schnabel
Thursday Mar 13, 2008 (10am–5:30pm) @ Gagosian Gallery More times »
Free
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 »
Julian Schnabel
Art
Toby Ziegler
Thursday Mar 13, 2008 (10am–6pm) @ Patrick Painter Gallery More times »
Free
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 »
Toby Ziegler
Art
Sylvia Ji
Thursday Mar 13, 2008 (noon–6pm) @ Corey Helford More times »
Free
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 »
Sylvia Ji
Art
Evan Hecox
Thursday Mar 13, 2008 (11am–6pm) @ Kinsey/DesForges Gallery More times »
Free
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 »
Evan Hecox
Art
Jeffrey Vallance
Thursday Mar 13, 2008 (11am–6pm) @ Track 16 Gallery More times »
Free
Extravagance, irony, and ephemera converge in five concurrent exhibitions. The focus is the 30th-anniversary celebration of Jeffery Vallance's performance piece Blinky the Friendly Hen. In... View details »
Jeffrey Vallance
Art
Mindy Shapero
Thursday Mar 13, 2008 (11am–6pm) @ Anna Helwing Gallery More times »
Free
Bright and brash, Mindy Shapero concocts sculptures with a childlike zeal: always curious and never satisfied. Her works seem like visual experiments in representing the... View details »
Mindy Shapero
Art
Aaron Smith
Thursday Mar 13, 2008 (10am–5:30pm) @ Koplin del Rio Gallery More times »
Free
The history of art may seem an obvious source of inspiration, but a new collection of paintings by LA's Aaron Smith flips the switch on... View details »
Aaron Smith
Art: Photography
Tom Atwood
Thursday Mar 13, 2008 (11am–6pm) @ Farmani Gallery More times »
Free
Portrait photography of celebrities in their own homes is always compelling fare, but Tom Atwood's images of high-profile figures from the gay community take the... View details »
Tom Atwood
Art: Architecture/Design
International Design Awards
Thursday Mar 13, 2008 (noon–6pm) @ MODAA gallery More times »
Free
With the Oscars over and your awards-show itch still dying to be scratched, it's time to honor the work of a few folks whose innovation... View details »
Art
Everything But the Kitschen Sync
Thursday Mar 13, 2008 (11am–9pm) @ La Luz de Jesus More times »
Free
The type of work that's usually celebrated at La Luz de Jesus Gallery, located inside Wacko (the Costco of kitsch), is usually irreverent, curious, and... View details »
Art
Cal Lane
Thursday Mar 13, 2008 (11am–6pm) @ Samuel Freeman More times »
Free
The beauty of Canadian-born, New York-based artist Cal Lane's work is in its remarkable juxtapositions. Lane transforms anything-but-delicate objects, such as dumpsters and shovels, into... View details »
Cal Lane
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The Color of Life
Thursday Mar 13, 2008 (10am–6pm) @ The Getty Villa More times »
Free
Looking at tony museum collections of ancient Greek and Roman statuary, one might think that the whole of antiquity existed only in tones of white... View details »
The Color of Life
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Robert Crumb
Thursday Mar 13, 2008 @ David Lawrence Gallery More times »
Free
Since his early days drawing for Zap Comix, Robert Crumb has made quite a name for himself as the comic world's favorite enfant terrible; with... View details »
Robert Crumb
Art: Discussion
Nicole Cohen
Thursday Mar 13, 2008 (10am–5:30pm) @ The Getty Center More times »
Free
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 »
Nicole Cohen