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Bon Iver
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Thursday Mar 20 (8:30pm) @ The Echo
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Following the breakup of his old band, DeYarmond Edison, Justin Vernon, the humble genius behind one-man band Bon Iver, holed up in a remote Wisconsin... View details »
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Willoughby
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Thursday Mar 20 (8pm) @ Bordello Bar
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Willoughby is a quiet band — but "quiet" as in the old saw about watching out for the quiet ones. Their tintinnabulating melodies have both... View details »
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Kraak & Smaak
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Thursday Mar 20 (8pm) @ Echoplex
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Funky Dutchmen Kraak & Smaak took their name from an old Dutch proverb, "kraak noch smaak," which translates to "no crunch, no taste" — a... View details »
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Low vs Diamond
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Thursday Mar 20 (8pm) @ The Troubadour
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In the wake of buzz-building SXSW showcases for NME and Filter, local post-punk crew Low vs Diamond hit the Troubadour tonight with beautifully gloomy melodies... View details »
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Michael Asher
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Thursday Mar 20 (11am–6pm) @ 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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Rosson Crow
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Thursday Mar 20 (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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Thursday Mar 20 (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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Yun Bai
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Thursday Mar 20 (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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Thursday Mar 20 (10am–5pm) @ 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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Freeze Frame
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Thursday Mar 20 (10am–5pm) @ 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: Theatre
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Victory
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Thursday Mar 20 (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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Thursday Mar 20 (11am–8pm) @ 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 »
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Hiromi Tsuchida
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Thursday Mar 20 (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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Kara Walker
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Thursday Mar 20 (11am–9pm) @ Hammer Museum
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Employing iconic black-paper silhouettes, Kara Walker — who was named one of Time's "100 Most Influential People" in 2007 — sparks a tense dialogue between... View details »
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Nathan Mabry
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Thursday Mar 20 (11am–6pm) @ Cherry and Martin
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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 »
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Make Art/Stop AIDS
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Thursday Mar 20 (noon–8pm) @ 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 »
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Alison Saar
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Thursday Mar 20 (10am–6pm) @ LA Louver Gallery
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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 »
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California Video
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Thursday Mar 20 @ The Getty Center
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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 »
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Tessar Lo and Chris Devera
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Thursday Mar 20 (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 »
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Tom Servais
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Thursday Mar 20 (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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There We Were, Now Here We Are
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Thursday Mar 20 (10am–6pm) @ 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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Angela DeCristofaro
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Thursday Mar 20 (noon–5pm) @ Commisary Arts
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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 »
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Tony de los Reyes
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Thursday Mar 20 (11am–6pm) @ Carl Berg Gallery
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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 »
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Adam Janes
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Thursday Mar 20 (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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Julian Schnabel
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Thursday Mar 20 (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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Toby Ziegler
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Thursday Mar 20 (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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Evan Hecox
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Thursday Mar 20 (11am–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 »
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Jeffrey Vallance
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Thursday Mar 20 (11am–6pm) @ Track 16 Gallery
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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 »
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Mindy Shapero
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Thursday Mar 20 (11am–6pm) @ Anna Helwing Gallery
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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 »
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Aaron Smith
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Thursday Mar 20 (10am–5:30pm) @ Koplin del Rio Gallery
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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 »
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Las Vegas Diaspora
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Thursday Mar 20 (11am–5pm) @ Laguna Art Museum
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Dave Hickey has one of the most original minds in the contemporary art world. His best-selling collection of critical essays, Air Guitar, built bridges between... View details »
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Tom Atwood
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Thursday Mar 20 (11am–6pm) @ Farmani Gallery
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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 »
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Cal Lane
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Thursday Mar 20 (11am–6pm) @ Samuel Freeman
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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 »
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Eddie Ruscha
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Friday Apr 25 @ High Energy Constructs
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Armageddon looms at Eddie Ruscha Jr.'s debut solo show. The son of the pop-art icon pairs psychedelic works on canvas and paper with a cosmic... View details »
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Good Doll Bad Doll
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Thursday Mar 20 (noon–5pm) @ Armory Center for the Arts
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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 »
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Christopher Chinn
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Thursday Mar 20 (noon–6pm) @ Overtones Gallery
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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 »
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KuKula
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Thursday Mar 20 (1–6pm) @ Thinkspace Gallery
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For Dreamcatcher, KuKula's first solo showing at Thinkspace, the Israeli-born artist paints eerily charming images of little girl dolls, Disney-esque forest creatures, and blossoming flowers.... View details »
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Wayne White
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Thursday Mar 20 (11am–6pm) @ Western Project
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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 »
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The Color of Life
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Thursday Mar 20 (10am–6pm) @ The Getty Villa
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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 »
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Sarajo Frieden
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Thursday Mar 20 (11am–5pm) @ Little Bird Gallery
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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 »
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Robert Crumb
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Thursday Mar 20 @ David Lawrence Gallery
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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 »
