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Film: Documentary
My Kid Could Paint That
Wednesday Mar 19, 2008 @ Various locations More times »
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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
Wednesday Mar 19, 2008 (10am–6pm) @ Honor Fraser More times »
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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 »
Rosson Crow
Art
Ed Fella and Geoff McFetridge
Wednesday Mar 19, 2008 (noon–6pm) @ REDCAT More times »
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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
Art
Yun Bai
Wednesday Mar 19, 2008 (noon–6pm) @ Art Murmur Gallery More times »
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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 »
Yun Bai
Film
Alfred Hitchcock
Wednesday Mar 19, 2008 (10am–5pm) @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences More times »
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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 »
Alfred Hitchcock
Art: Photography
Freeze Frame
Wednesday Mar 19, 2008 (10am–5pm) @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences More times »
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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 »
Freeze Frame
Art: Photography
Hiromi Tsuchida
Wednesday Mar 19, 2008 (10am–5pm) @ Michael Dawson Gallery More times »
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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 »
Hiromi Tsuchida
Art
Nathan Mabry
Wednesday Mar 19, 2008 (11am–6pm) @ Cherry and Martin More times »
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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
Wednesday Mar 19, 2008 (noon–5pm) @ Fowler Museum, UCLA More times »
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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 »
Art
Alison Saar
Wednesday Mar 19, 2008 (10am–6pm) @ LA Louver Gallery More times »
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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
California Video
Wednesday Mar 19, 2008 @ The Getty Center More times »
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As video art's growing reach now extends from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera to commuters watching YouTube on their iPhones, the Getty... View details »
California Video
Art
Tessar Lo and Chris Devera
Wednesday Mar 19, 2008 (noon–6pm) @ project: gallery More times »
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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 »
Tessar Lo and Chris Devera
Art: Photography
Tom Servais
Wednesday Mar 19, 2008 (10am–6pm) @ epOxybOx More times »
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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 »
Tom Servais
Art
There We Were, Now Here We Are
Wednesday Mar 19, 2008 (10am–6pm) @ Mark Moore Gallery More times »
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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 »
There We Were, Now Here We Are
Art
Tony de los Reyes
Wednesday Mar 19, 2008 (11am–6pm) @ Carl Berg Gallery More times »
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Los Angeles-based painter and sculptor Tony de los Reyes has more in common with 19th-century author Herman Melville than most politically savvy, academically trained artists.... View details »
Tony de los Reyes
Art
Adam Janes
Wednesday Mar 19, 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
More Flavor: City Gem
Ugo Wine Bar
Wednesday Mar 19, 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
Wednesday Mar 19, 2008 (10am–5:30pm) @ Gagosian Gallery More times »
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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 »
Julian Schnabel
Art
Toby Ziegler
Wednesday Mar 19, 2008 (10am–6pm) @ Patrick Painter Gallery More times »
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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 »
Toby Ziegler
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Evan Hecox
Wednesday Mar 19, 2008 (11am–6pm) @ Kinsey/DesForges Gallery More times »
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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 »
Evan Hecox
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Jeffrey Vallance
Wednesday Mar 19, 2008 (11am–6pm) @ Track 16 Gallery More times »
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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
Wednesday Mar 19, 2008 (11am–6pm) @ Anna Helwing Gallery More times »
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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
Wednesday Mar 19, 2008 (10am–5:30pm) @ Koplin del Rio Gallery More times »
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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
Wednesday Mar 19, 2008 (11am–6pm) @ Farmani Gallery More times »
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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
Everything But the Kitschen Sync
Wednesday Mar 19, 2008 (11am–7pm) @ La Luz de Jesus More times »
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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 »
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Cal Lane
Wednesday Mar 19, 2008 (11am–6pm) @ Samuel Freeman More times »
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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
Art
Good Doll Bad Doll
Wednesday Mar 19, 2008 (noon–5pm) @ Armory Center for the Arts More times »
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ArtForum critic and independent curator Michael Duncan encourages childish behavior in Good Doll Bad Doll, an exhibition featuring modern and contemporary artists who use dolls... View details »
Good Doll Bad Doll
Art: Photography
A Narrative History of the Light Bulb
Wednesday Mar 19, 2008 (10:30am–6pm) @ Gallery Luisotti More times »
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Photographer Catherine Wagner used the Baltimore Museum of Industry's impressive collection of lightbulbs as the inspiration for her latest exhibition, which focuses on the illuminating... View details »
A Narrative History of the Light Bulb
Art
Christopher Chinn
Wednesday Mar 19, 2008 (noon–6pm) @ Overtones Gallery More times »
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Upon graduating from art school and relocating to the city, local painter Christopher Chinn was struck by how intrepid artists would often share their Skid... View details »
Christopher Chinn
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Guyton\Walker and Anna Sew Hoy
Wednesday Mar 19, 2008 (11am–6pm) @ LAXART More times »
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Los Angeles' Anna Sew Hoy takes inspiration from her medical-doctor father in her latest exhibition POW!, which focuses on the theme of physical injury, treatment,... View details »
Guyton\Walker and Anna Sew Hoy
Art
Wayne White
Wednesday Mar 19, 2008 (11am–6pm) @ Western Project More times »
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Billed as "punk Mark Twain defiance," Wayne White's latest show features the recent collection of his famous word paintings and sculptures. White uses phrases like... View details »
Wayne White
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The Color of Life
Wednesday Mar 19, 2008 (10am–6pm) @ The Getty Villa More times »
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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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Sarajo Frieden
Wednesday Mar 19, 2008 (11am–5pm) @ Little Bird Gallery More times »
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That Sarajo Frieden's Los Angeles studio is at the nexus of Koreatown, Little Armenia, and Thai Town makes perfect sense after you see her mixed-media... View details »
Sarajo Frieden
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Robert Crumb
Wednesday Mar 19, 2008 @ David Lawrence Gallery More times »
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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
Wednesday Mar 19, 2008 (10am–5:30pm) @ The Getty Center More times »
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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 »
Nicole Cohen