Events on Wednesday, March 19
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- Music: Electronic
- Bass Science
- @ The Airliner
- Bass Science make their US debut tonight at Low End Theory's 25,000-watt weekly party. The group, a glitchstep/dub-hop collaboration between Tokyo... View details »
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- Born Ruffians
- @ The Echo
- Look out, eh — it's a Canadian invasion! Toronto-based partyin' bawlers Born Ruffians headline this evening's bill, having just played a... View details »
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- Music: DJ
- DJ Simbad
- @ Zanzibar
- London-based DJ and producer Simbad is a dance-floor iconoclast through and through. By combing through stacks of records in relatively left-field... View details »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Headlights
- @ Silverlake Lounge
- Evangelicals' nutty psych-pop is tailor-made for folks who think the Flaming Lips don't have enough in common with Queen. Wrapping massive... View details »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Nada Surf
- @ Music Box at the Fonda Theater
- When Nada Surf wrote the jokey 1990s teen anthem, "Popular," they never could have imagined the roller-coaster ride that would ensue.... View details »
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- Everything But the Kitschen Sync
- @ La Luz de Jesus
- The type of work that's usually celebrated at La Luz de Jesus Gallery, located inside Wacko (the Costco of kitsch), is... 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Art: Photography
- 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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- Jeffrey Vallance
- @ Track 16 Gallery
- Extravagance, irony, and ephemera converge in five concurrent exhibitions. The focus is the 30th-anniversary celebration of Jeffery Vallance's performance piece Blinky... View details »
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- Wayne White
- @ Western Project
- Billed as "punk Mark Twain defiance," Wayne White's latest show features the recent collection of his famous word paintings and sculptures.... View details »
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- 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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- California Video
- @ The Getty Center
- As video art's growing reach now extends from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera to commuters watching YouTube on their iPhones,... View details »
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- The Color of Life
- @ The Getty Villa
- Looking at tony museum collections of ancient Greek and Roman statuary, one might think that the whole of antiquity existed only... View details »
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- Good Doll Bad Doll
- @ Armory Center for the Arts
- ArtForum critic and independent curator Michael Duncan encourages childish behavior in Good Doll Bad Doll, an exhibition featuring modern and contemporary... View details »
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- Nathan Mabry
- @ Cherry and Martin
- Spanish conquistadors beware: payback is a bitch. Nathan Mabry exacts Montezuma's revenge with irreverently styled bronze sculptures based on Pre-Columbian Moche... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Tom Atwood
- @ Farmani Gallery
- Portrait photography of celebrities in their own homes is always compelling fare, but Tom Atwood's images of high-profile figures from the... 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Guyton\Walker and Anna Sew Hoy
- @ LAXART
- Los Angeles' Anna Sew Hoy takes inspiration from her medical-doctor father in her latest exhibition POW!, which focuses on the theme... 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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- 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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- Aaron Smith
- @ Koplin del Rio Gallery
- The history of art may seem an obvious source of inspiration, but a new collection of paintings by LA's Aaron Smith... 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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- Kara Walker
- @ Hammer Museum
- Employing iconic black-paper silhouettes, Kara Walker — who was named one of Time's "100 Most Influential People" in 2007 — sparks... View details »
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- Las Vegas Diaspora
- @ Laguna Art Museum
- Dave Hickey has one of the most original minds in the contemporary art world. His best-selling collection of critical essays, Air... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- A Narrative History of the Light Bulb
- @ Gallery Luisotti
- Photographer Catherine Wagner used the Baltimore Museum of Industry's impressive collection of lightbulbs as the inspiration for her latest exhibition, which... View details »
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- Alison Saar
- @ LA Louver Gallery
- Though Los Angeles is her stomping ground, provocative painter/sculptress Alison Saar is internationally acclaimed. Daughter of the groundbreaking Betye Saar, whose... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Sweeney Todd
- @ Ahmanson Theatre
- Johnny Depp's acclaimed cinematic stab (ahem) at Mr. Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, has refreshed our memories on... 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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- 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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- Cal Lane
- @ Samuel Freeman
- 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... 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Mindy Shapero
- @ Anna Helwing Gallery
- Bright and brash, Mindy Shapero concocts sculptures with a childlike zeal: always curious and never satisfied. Her works seem like visual... View details »
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- Sarajo Frieden
- @ Little Bird Gallery
- That Sarajo Frieden's Los Angeles studio is at the nexus of Koreatown, Little Armenia, and Thai Town makes perfect sense after... View details »
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- 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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- Robert Crumb
- @ David Lawrence Gallery
- Since his early days drawing for Zap Comix, Robert Crumb has made quite a name for himself as the comic world's... 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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- Christopher Chinn
- @ Overtones Gallery
- Upon graduating from art school and relocating to the city, local painter Christopher Chinn was struck by how intrepid artists would... View details »
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- Tony de los Reyes
- @ Carl Berg Gallery
- Los Angeles-based painter and sculptor Tony de los Reyes has more in common with 19th-century author Herman Melville than most politically... View details »
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