Events on Saturday, April 12
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- Dead Ringers
- @ The Steve Allen Theater
- Although director David Cronenberg's recent A History of Violence and Eastern Promises have been relatively accessible affairs, his first films were... View details »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Hotel Cafe Tour
- @ Music Box at the Fonda Theater
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Meat Beat Manifesto
- @ El Rey
- Since forming in Swindon in 1987, Meat Beat Manifesto have toyed with breaks, techno, industrial, dub, and everything in between, carving... View details »
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- More Flavor: Food/Wine
- South American Cooking Class
- @ Ciudad
- Known for downtown restaurant Ciudad's sultry Latin fare, Mary Sue Milliken and Susan Feniger dish their secrets at this weekend's special... View details »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Samantha James
- @ Skinny's Lounge
- LA-based nonprofit NextAid and Nu-Soul magazine curate FUSION, a party thrown in support of African children who have been orphaned by... 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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- Mark Bradford
- @ Steve Turner Contemporary
- Los Angeles painter, installation artist, and (most recently) video artist Mark Bradford has exhibited in some of the world's most prestigious... 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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- Gravity Art
- @ Telic Arts Exchange
- More laboratory than art gallery, Telic Arts Exchange stages collaborative multimedia projects that invite curious audiences along for the ride. Its... View details »
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- LA vs WAR
- @ The Firehouse
- The LA vs War festival takes over the area around the classic downtown firehouse to create a forum for artists and... View details »
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- Edgar Heap of Birds
- @ See Line Gallery
- New York artist Edgar Heap of Birds doesn't use text to support his visual aesthetic — the text is the aesthetic.... View details »
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- LA Art Weekend
- @ Various LA galleries & museums
- Black Frame and ForYourArt present the first annual LA Art Weekend festival. From the premiere of Laurie Anderson's new piece, Homeland,... 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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- Toys
- @ Gallery 1988
- Watching kids fry their eyeballs playing video games can make some of us feel old. There was a time when board... View details »
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- Very Short Movies Festival
- @ Cinespace
- As Internet video, indie film, and broadcast TV continue merging in today's new-media world, the Very Short Movies Festival gets in... View details »
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- Panopti(con)
- @ Bank
- Los Angeles multimedia artist Martin Durazo curates this collection of work by 17 artists under the broad thematic umbrella of power... View details »
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- Immigration Stories
- @ Pounder-Koné Art Space
- Atwater Village's Pounder-Koné Art Space uses color as the great communicator, gathering work from its favorite underappreciated overseas artists with a... 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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- 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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- 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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- Art: Architecture/Design
- Phalanstery Module
- @ Materials & Applications
- M&A gallery continues to push the frontiers of architecture and landscape research with Jimenez Lai's installation Phalanstery Module. Zero-gravity design presents... View details »
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- 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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- 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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- Eddie Ruscha
- @ High Energy Constructs
- Armageddon looms at Eddie Ruscha Jr.'s debut solo show. The son of the pop-art icon pairs psychedelic works on canvas and... View details »
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- Lush
- @ Salon Oblique
- With Lush, West Side sensation Salon Oblique upholds its growing reputation for intellectually and aesthetically engaging multimedia group exhibitions. As in... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Catherine Opie
- @ Regen Projects II
- After capturing the essence of SoCal beach life with her surfer portrait series, photographer Catherine Opie tackles another bastion of American... 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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- Art: Photography
- Here Is Where You'll Find Me
- @ The Lab 101 Gallery
- As the much-beloved Polaroid photograph takes its final bow, David Horvitz and Flavorpill editor Ashley Tibbits harness the medium's lo-fi grace... View details »
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- Anne-Laure Sacriste
- @ Chung King Project
- For her debut solo bow in the United States, French artist Anne-Laure Sacriste shows new large-scale paintings at Chung King Project.... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Dance
- Complexions Contemporary Ballet
- @ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
- Complexions is a dynamic New York dance collective led by artistic directors Dwight Rhoden and Desmond Richardson. The company's populist appeal... View details »
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- Ryan McLennan
- @ Kinsey/DesForges Gallery
- 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... View details »
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- Salomón Huerta
- @ Patrick Painter Gallery
- Salomón Huerta is one of LA's most popular painters — although personally, he seems somewhat reserved. His best-known works are smallish,... View details »
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- 100% Other
- @ 18th Street Arts Center
- For the next installment of Future of Nations exhibition series 100% Other, curator Tyler Stallings asked artists Matthew Bryant, Cheryl Gilge,... View details »
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- David Trulli
- @ Robert Berman Gallery D5
- No doubt David Trulli's former career as a cinematographer had an impact on his current work, as his scratchboard pieces exhibit... View details »
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- Anything Could Happen...
- @ Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art
- In the group show Anything Could Happen..., five international artists get together to celebrate the vibrancy of contemporary street art. From... 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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- Art: Photography
- Israeli Women: A Portrait in Photographs
- @ Skirball Cultural Center
- Israeli Women: A Portrait in Photographs looks at Israel's female citizenry as a reflection of the state's 60-year history of independence.... 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Film
- Japan Film Festival
- @ Various locations
- The blessing and curse of international cultural exchange is that the influx of exotic, unfamiliar art can be a bit overwhelming,... View details »
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- Art: Architecture/Design
- Elena Manferdini
- @ SCI-Arc
- "Merletti" means lace in Italian; for architects, it refers to the pattern of folds along a watchtower's defensive rims and other... 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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- 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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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Personality Crisis
- @ The Raven Playhouse
- Academia and egomania collide in Rick Mitchell's Personality Crisis, a play that takes aim at the recent phenomenon of authors seeking... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Ten Years in Focus
- @ The Getty Center
- In celebration of its tenth anniversary, the Getty Center presents Ten Years in Focus: The Artist and the Camera. The exhibition... View details »
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- HEF
- @ Jail Gallery
- Hef. The single syllable alone conjures up images of smoking jackets and decadent mansion parties. Exploring that imagery, a group of... View details »
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- Anselm Kiefer
- @ First Baptist Church
- Out of 36 glass panels and multiple tonnage of cracked clay and resin, German artist Anselm Kiefer has created an illusion... View details »
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- Max Miceli
- @ Milo Gallery
- Two-parts pop to one-part folk, Max Miceli's landscapes and portraits force viewers to examine the relationships between man and beast, industry... View details »
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- André Ethier and Cathy Akers
- @ Honor Fraser
- Toronto-based André Ethier's grotesque, surreal paintings are psychedelic allegories illustrating misconceptions about modern history and culture. In his latest collection, Vancouver... View details »
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- Yumiko Kayukawa
- @ La Luz de Jesus
- Japanese artist Yumiko Kayukawa's work is a fine example of what happens when East meets West. In Kayukawa's world, young women... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Aurélia's Oratorio
- @ Freud Playhouse
- Aurélia Thierrée stars in a circus-theatre spectacle of retro, sideshow-style wonderment. Thierrée's parents invented Le Cirque Bonjour, which is credited as... View details »
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- New London School
- @ Mark Moore Gallery
- Last year, London art-gallery impresarios Simon Rumley and Zavier Ellis curated The Future Can Wait, an ambitious group show spotlighting some... 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Mister Lonely
- @ Agnes B.
- Filmmaker Harmony Korine's newest movie, Mister Lonely, follows a Michael Jackson impersonator (Diego Luna) living in a remote French castle with... 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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- Angela DeCristofaro
- @ Commisary Arts
- Like fellow Italian Surrealist Giorgio de Chirico, Angela DeCristofaro's paintings obscure reality with dreams and memories. Seemingly unrelated images find their... View details »
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