All events on Thursday April 17
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Arlo Guthrie
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Thursday Apr 17 (8pm) @ UCLA Live at Royce Hall
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Because commercial radio found his songs too long or too offensive, massive stardom often eluded folk hero Arlo Guthrie. Still, the celebrated troubadour's catalog helped... View details »
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Jason Martin
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Thursday Apr 17 (6–8pm) @ LA Louver Gallery
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The title of UK painter Jason Martin's latest exhibition evokes the South Pacific's warm, breezy environs — but his abstract, mostly monochromatic oil-on-aluminum pieces are... View details »
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Bent Festival
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Thursday Apr 17 @ California Plaza
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If Chucky the homicidal doll had gotten a scholarship to Juilliard and developed an obsession with John Cage instead of murder, he might have been... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Eels
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Thursday Apr 17 (8pm) @ El Rey
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While some have already bought tickets for this gig, others may be thinking, "Well, their albums get great reviews, but who wants to sit through... View details »
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First Generation
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Thursday Apr 17 (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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Alfred Hitchcock
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Thursday Apr 17 (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 Apr 17 (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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The Imaginary 20th Century
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Thursday Apr 17 (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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Kara Walker
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Thursday Apr 17 (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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Make Art/Stop AIDS
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Thursday Apr 17 (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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California Video
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Thursday Apr 17 @ 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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Thursday Apr 17 (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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Las Vegas Diaspora
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Thursday Apr 17 (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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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 Apr 17 (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 Apr 17 (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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The Color of Life
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Thursday Apr 17 (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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Anything Could Happen...
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Thursday Apr 17 (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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Max Miceli
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Thursday Apr 17 (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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Thursday Apr 17 (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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Thursday Apr 17 (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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Thursday Apr 17 (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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Thursday Apr 17 (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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Thursday Apr 17 (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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Thursday Apr 17 (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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Thursday Apr 17 (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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André Ethier and Cathy Akers
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Thursday Apr 17 (10am–6pm) @ Honor Fraser
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Toronto-based André Ethier's grotesque, surreal paintings are psychedelic allegories illustrating misconceptions about modern history and culture. In his latest collection, Vancouver Before Christ, the artist... View details »
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New London School
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Thursday Apr 17 (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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Japan Film Festival
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Thursday Apr 17 @ Various locations
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The blessing and curse of international cultural exchange is that the influx of exotic, unfamiliar art can be a bit overwhelming, not to mention disorienting.... View details »
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100% Other
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Thursday Apr 17 (11am–5pm) @ 18th Street Arts Center
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For the next installment of Future of Nations exhibition series 100% Other, curator Tyler Stallings asked artists Matthew Bryant, Cheryl Gilge, Perry Vasquez, Reggie Woolery,... View details »
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Immigration Stories
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Thursday Apr 17 (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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Thursday Apr 17 (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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Thursday Apr 17 (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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Lush
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Thursday Apr 17 @ Salon Oblique
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With Lush, West Side sensation Salon Oblique upholds its growing reputation for intellectually and aesthetically engaging multimedia group exhibitions. As in previous shows, a cadre... View details »
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Ryan McLennan
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Thursday Apr 17 (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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Thursday Apr 17 @ 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 »
