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- Film
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Alfred Hitchcock
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Friday Apr 11, 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 »
- Art: Photography
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Freeze Frame
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Friday Apr 11, 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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Make Art/Stop AIDS
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Friday Apr 11, 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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California Video
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Friday Apr 11, 2008 @ 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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Angela DeCristofaro
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Friday Apr 11, 2008 (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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Friday Apr 11, 2008 (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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Cal Lane
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Friday Apr 11, 2008 (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, 2008 @ 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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Friday Apr 11, 2008 (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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Friday Apr 11, 2008 (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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Wayne White
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Friday Apr 11, 2008 (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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Friday Apr 11, 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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Anything Could Happen...
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Friday Apr 11, 2008 (2–7pm) @ Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art
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In the group show Anything Could Happen..., five international artists get together to celebrate the vibrancy of contemporary street art. From sobering reflections on inequality... View details »
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Anne-Laure Sacriste
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Friday Apr 11, 2008 (11am–6pm) @ Chung King Project
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For her debut solo bow in the United States, French artist Anne-Laure Sacriste shows new large-scale paintings at Chung King Project. Her haunting paintings are... View details »
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Gravity Art
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Friday Apr 11, 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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Max Miceli
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Friday Apr 11, 2008 (11am–5pm) @ Milo Gallery
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Two-parts pop to one-part folk, Max Miceli's landscapes and portraits force viewers to examine the relationships between man and beast, industry and nature, and abstraction... View details »
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HEF
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Friday Apr 11, 2008 (noon–6pm) @ JAIL Gallery
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Hef. The single syllable alone conjures up images of smoking jackets and decadent mansion parties. Exploring that imagery, a group of artists at JAIL Gallery... View details »
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Salomón Huerta
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Friday Apr 11, 2008 (10am–6pm) @ Patrick Painter Gallery
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Salomón Huerta is one of LA's most popular painters — although personally, he seems somewhat reserved. His best-known works are smallish, finely detailed "portraits" of... View details »
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Blek le Rat
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Friday Apr 11, 2008 (1–6pm) @ Subliminal Projects
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Blek le Rat is known as the Parisian forefather of stencil and graffiti art. Nearly three decades ago, he plastered the City of Lights' meticulously... View details »
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Toys
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Friday Apr 11, 2008 (11am–6pm) @ Gallery 1988
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Watching kids fry their eyeballs playing video games can make some of us feel old. There was a time when board games and Matchbox cars... View details »
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Yumiko Kayukawa
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Friday Apr 11, 2008 (11am–9pm) @ La Luz de Jesus
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Japanese artist Yumiko Kayukawa's work is a fine example of what happens when East meets West. In Kayukawa's world, young women are erotic, sought-after creatures... View details »
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David Trulli
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Friday Apr 11, 2008 (11am–6pm) @ Robert Berman Gallery D5
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No doubt David Trulli's former career as a cinematographer had an impact on his current work, as his scratchboard pieces exhibit a decidedly film-noir aesthetic.... View details »
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Catherine Opie
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Friday Apr 11, 2008 (10am–6pm) @ Regen Projects II
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After capturing the essence of SoCal beach life with her surfer portrait series, photographer Catherine Opie tackles another bastion of American culture: high-school football. Opie... View details »
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New London School
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Friday Apr 11, 2008 (10am–6pm) @ Mark Moore Gallery
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Last year, London art-gallery impresarios Simon Rumley and Zavier Ellis curated The Future Can Wait, an ambitious group show spotlighting some of the city's most... View details »
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LA vs WAR
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Friday Apr 11, 2008 (noon–11pm) @ The Firehouse
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The LA vs War festival takes over the area around the classic downtown firehouse to create a forum for artists and musicians to voice their... View details »
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Nicole Cohen
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Friday Apr 11, 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 »
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Immigration Stories
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Friday Apr 11, 2008 (1–7pm) @ Pounder-Koné Art Space
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Atwater Village's Pounder-Koné Art Space uses color as the great communicator, gathering work from its favorite underappreciated overseas artists with a homegrown sophistication. The UK's... View details »
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Panopti(con)
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Friday Apr 11, 2008 (11am–5pm) @ Bank
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Los Angeles multimedia artist Martin Durazo curates this collection of work by 17 artists under the broad thematic umbrella of power and authority. The exhibition's... View details »
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Anselm Kiefer
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Friday Apr 11, 2008 (noon–6pm) @ First Baptist Church
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Out of 36 glass panels and multiple tonnage of cracked clay and resin, German artist Anselm Kiefer has created an illusion (as well as an... View details »
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Ryan McLennan
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Friday Apr 11, 2008 (11am–6pm) @ Kinsey/DesForges Gallery
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While Ryan McLennan's Audubon-inspired drawings of woodland animals seem innocent enough, the graphite-and-acrylic works on paper reveal the animal kingdom's vicious side. In his latest... View details »
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Mark Bradford
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Friday Apr 11, 2008 @ Steve Turner Contemporary Gallery
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Los Angeles painter, installation artist, and (most recently) video artist Mark Bradford has exhibited in some of the world's most prestigious galleries and museums, but... View details »
