Events on Saturday, April 19
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- [SOLD OUT] Sarah Silverman
- @ The Troubadour
- Sarah Silverman goes where others fear to tread, performing take-no-prisoners standup routines that regularly make audiences split their sides (or struggle... View details »
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- Music
- State Bird
- @ Pehrspace
- Somehow, Echo Park art-and-performance space Pehrspace has successfully built a home for visual art and independent music in the back of... View details »
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- Splash!
- @ Fowler Museum, UCLA
- The Fowler hosts this afternoon's costume-optional festival of mermaids and other angels of the sea in conjunction with the museum's ongoing... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Dance
- Fingered
- @ Charlie O's at the Alexandria
- Hysteria Dance Company designer Ryan Heffington and his troupe of busy avant-garde dancers take over Charlie O's for this month's Fingered... View details »
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- Skylight Salon
- @ Skylight Books
- Eat your heart out, 17th-century Paris — the literary salon has been reborn in the cozy maze of Los Feliz's Skylight... 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Jason Martin
- @ LA Louver Gallery
- The title of UK painter Jason Martin's latest exhibition evokes the South Pacific's warm, breezy environs — but his abstract, mostly... 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Film
- Beyond the Call
- @ Laemmle's Grande 4-Plex
- Director/producer/cinematographer Adrian Belic follows 1999's Academy Award-nominated documentary Genghis Blues (about blind musician Paul Peña's relationship with Tuvan throat-singers) with a... 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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- 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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- Performing Arts: Dance
- dirty mean tricks
- @ Unknown Theater
- Director/choreographer Jennifer Li spins her theatrical yarn with a seamlessly integrated movement style and an ensemble of offbeat collaborators. For dirty... 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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- 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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- 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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- Sue-Ling Hyde
- @ Ghettogloss
- Sue-Ling Hyde is more than a pretty face. You might recognize her from modeling gigs with Shiseido, Versus, and Moshino, but... 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Pavilion of Wings
- @ Natural History Museum
- Pavilion of Wings returns to the Natural History Museum for the exhibition's tenth anniversary. Now, anyone jealous of the Shins' experience... 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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- 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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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Legend and Legacy
- @ UCLA Live at Royce Hall
- Tonight's UCLA Live concert commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Ash Grove, the legendary folk-music club that defined '50s- and '60s-era... 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Masami Teraoka
- @ Samuel Freeman
- Cheeky artist Masami Teraoka is most famous for his ukiyo-e woodblock paintings, which combine Japanese imagery, themes from American culture, and... View details »
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- Randall Sellers and Evah Fan
- @ Richard Heller Gallery
- Consummate visual storyteller Evah Fan continues her Scheherazade-like seduction with a new batch of works at Richard Heller Gallery. Her small... 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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- Art: Photography
- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Performing Arts: Dance
- Modern Myths and Monsters
- @ Diavolo Dance Theatre
- Los Angeles Contemporary Dance Company is a repertory on a mission. The troupe offers workshops and classes as well as a... 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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- 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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- 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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- Icon
- @ DCA Fine Art
- In Icon, two innovative, European-born painters explore the concept of worship in postmodernist life. Bogdan Dumitrica's portraits of animals and pop-art... View details »
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