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Balkan Beat Box
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Friday Mar 7, 2008 (8pm) @ El Rey
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Brooklyn-based, Israeli-born dance band Balkan Beat Box (aka Tamir Muskat and former Gogol Bordello member Ori Kaplan) turn the brassy intensity of Balkan gypsy music... View details »
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Why?
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Friday Mar 7, 2008 (5:30–10pm) @ Natural History Museum
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Tonight, former cLOUDEAD member and Anticon guru Jonathan "Yoni" Wolf's Why? drop indie-hop science for the Natural History Museum's First Fridays series. The group —... View details »
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Division Day
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Friday Mar 7, 2008 (9pm) @ Spaceland
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Touting their exquisitely weepy rendition of Roxy Music's "More Than This," as well as a punkish sabre dance titled "Ricky," Division Day wiggle across the... View details »
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Robert Crumb
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Friday Mar 7, 2008 @ 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 »
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Michael Asher
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Friday Mar 7, 2008 (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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Friday Mar 7, 2008 (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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Friday Mar 7, 2008 (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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Friday Mar 7, 2008 (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 »
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Alfred Hitchcock
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Friday Mar 7, 2008 (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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Friday Mar 7, 2008 (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 »
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Otello
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Friday Mar 7, 2008 @ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
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Racism, jealousy, and betrayal form the backdrop of Shakespeare's penultimate tragedy, Othello. The stakes of the story are set even higher in this powerful staging... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
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Victory
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Friday Mar 7, 2008 (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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Friday Mar 7, 2008 (11am–5pm) @ 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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Projection
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Friday Mar 7, 2008 @ [delete]
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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 probe the idea of... View details »
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Hiromi Tsuchida
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Friday Mar 7, 2008 (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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Wynne Greenwood
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Friday Mar 7, 2008 (11am–6pm) @ Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects
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"Interdisciplinary" is an understatement when it comes to Brooklyn-based artist Wynne Greenwood: she's known for melding performance, installation, video, and two-dimensional works into outrageous, breathtaking,... View details »
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Luke Whitlatch
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Friday Mar 7, 2008 (11am–5pm) @ Bandini Art
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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 »
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David Brady
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Friday Mar 7, 2008 (11am–6pm) @ High Energy Constructs
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One of Chinatown's most interesting emerging galleries, High Energy Constructs inaugurated its space with an exhibition by David Brady. Two years on, the gallery returns... View details »
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Frohawk Two Feathers
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Friday Mar 7, 2008 (11am–5:30pm) @ Taylor De Cordoba Gallery
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Los Angeles artist Frohawk Two Feathers makes fanciful, avant-folk paintings featuring a cast of singularly imaginative characters. For his latest collection at Taylor de Cordoba,... View details »
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Kara Walker
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Friday Mar 7, 2008 (11am–7pm) @ 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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Friday Mar 7, 2008 (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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Friday Mar 7, 2008 (noon–5pm) @ 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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The Trinity
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Friday Mar 7, 2008 (1–6pm) @ Thinkspace Gallery
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Hailing from various points in New York City, up-and-coming artists Tony Philippou, Zach Johnsen, and Marion Bolognesi present a conglomeration of new works inspired by... View details »
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Tessar Lo and Chris Devera
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Friday Mar 7, 2008 (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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Friday Mar 7, 2008 (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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Miguel Osuna and Sam Seawright
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Friday Mar 7, 2008 (11am–5pm) @ Lawrence Asher Gallery
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Landscape paintings from Mexican artist Miguel Osuna have a photographic sensibility. His California landscapes possess all the fleeting romance of a glimpse through the driver's-side... View details »
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Chicago 10
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Friday Mar 7, 2008 @ Landmark Nuart Theatre
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In the revolution-rich year of 1968, the French had a tough May; the US, in turn, had one heck of an August. The unrest came... View details »
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There We Were, Now Here We Are
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Friday Mar 7, 2008 (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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Julie Davidow
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Friday Mar 7, 2008 (11am–5pm) @ Tarryn Teresa Gallery
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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 »
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Adam Janes
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Friday Mar 7, 2008 (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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Overgrowth
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Friday Mar 7, 2008 (11:30am–8pm) @ GR2
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GR2 combines the artistic minds of Katherine Guillen, Zachary Rossman, and Brian Rush for a group show of anti-monumental proportions. Discarding their individual pursuits for... View details »
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David Touster
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Friday Mar 7, 2008 (11am–5pm) @ Milo Gallery
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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 »
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Julian Schnabel
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Friday Mar 7, 2008 (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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Friday Mar 7, 2008 (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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Sylvia Ji
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Friday Mar 7, 2008 (noon–6pm) @ Corey Helford
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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 »
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Evan Hecox
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Friday Mar 7, 2008 (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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Mindy Shapero
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Friday Mar 7, 2008 (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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Ben Pruskin
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Friday Mar 7, 2008 (noon–6pm) @ PawnShop Gallery
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Traditionally, bust portraiture has been a means of honoring those with wealth, power, and status; Ben Pruskin, however, believes that such depictions should be used... View details »
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Aaron Smith
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Friday Mar 7, 2008 (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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Tom Atwood
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Friday Mar 7, 2008 (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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Eve Wood
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Friday Mar 7, 2008 (11am–6pm) @ Western Project
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Eve Wood is the toast of Culver City this month with a breakthrough exhibition of mixed-media work on canvas. Wood leaves her former quiet reserve... View details »
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The Color of Life
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Friday Mar 7, 2008 (10am–9pm) @ 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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Gravity Art
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Friday Mar 7, 2008 (noon–6pm) @ Telic Arts Exchange
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More laboratory than art gallery, Telic Arts Exchange stages collaborative multimedia projects that invite curious audiences along for the ride. Its current exhibition, Gravity Art,... View details »
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Nicole Cohen
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Friday Mar 7, 2008 (10am–5:30pm) @ The Getty Center
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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 »
