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Dave McKenzie
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Wednesday Apr 23, 2008 (6–9pm) @ REDCAT
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Jamaican-born artist Dave McKenzie's first solo show in Los Angeles is a multimedia affair that asks multifaceted questions about where a single cell fits within... View details »
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Her Space Holiday
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Wednesday Apr 23, 2008 (8pm) @ The Troubadour
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The Postal Service, take note: over the last seven years and nearly as many albums, San Mateo's Marc Bianchi (aka Her Space Holiday) has emerged... View details »
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The Ruby Suns
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Wednesday Apr 23, 2008 (8pm) @ The Echo
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Harking back to indie's '80s heyday, Cali three-piece the Happy Hollows punctuate their terror-tinged twee with jabby art-rock riffs. Pitchfork darlings the Ruby Suns, meanwhile,... View details »
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First Generation
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Wednesday Apr 23, 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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The Imaginary 20th Century
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Wednesday Apr 23, 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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Kara Walker
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Wednesday Apr 23, 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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Make Art/Stop AIDS
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Wednesday Apr 23, 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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Wednesday Apr 23, 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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Las Vegas Diaspora
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Wednesday Apr 23, 2008 (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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Good Doll Bad Doll
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Wednesday Apr 23, 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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Wednesday Apr 23, 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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The Color of Life
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Wednesday Apr 23, 2008 (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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Masami Teraoka
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Wednesday Apr 23, 2008 (11am–6pm) @ Samuel Freeman
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Cheeky artist Masami Teraoka is most famous for his ukiyo-e woodblock paintings, which combine Japanese imagery, themes from American culture, and a mischievous sense of... View details »
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Edgar Heap of Birds
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Wednesday Apr 23, 2008 (11am–6pm) @ See Line Gallery
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New York artist Edgar Heap of Birds doesn't use text to support his visual aesthetic — the text is the aesthetic. In his exhibition at... View details »
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HEF
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Wednesday Apr 23, 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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Wednesday Apr 23, 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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Wednesday Apr 23, 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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Wednesday Apr 23, 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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Wednesday Apr 23, 2008 (11am–7pm) @ 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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Wednesday Apr 23, 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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Wednesday Apr 23, 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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André Ethier and Cathy Akers
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Wednesday Apr 23, 2008 (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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Wednesday Apr 23, 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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Nicole Cohen
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Wednesday Apr 23, 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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100% Other
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Wednesday Apr 23, 2008 (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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Icon
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Wednesday Apr 23, 2008 @ DCA Fine Art
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In Icon, two innovative, European-born painters explore the concept of worship in postmodernist life. Bogdan Dumitrica's portraits of animals and pop-art icons find themes of... View details »
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Panopti(con)
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Wednesday Apr 23, 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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Sue-Ling Hyde
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Wednesday Apr 23, 2008 (9am–6pm) @ Ghettogloss
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Sue-Ling Hyde is more than a pretty face. You might recognize her from modeling gigs with Shiseido, Versus, and Moshino, but the Puerto Rican artist... View details »
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Jason Martin
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Wednesday Apr 23, 2008 (10am–6pm) @ 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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Randall Sellers and Evah Fan
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Wednesday Apr 23, 2008 @ Richard Heller Gallery
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Consummate visual storyteller Evah Fan continues her Scheherazade-like seduction with a new batch of works at Richard Heller Gallery. Her small drawings of mundane, everyday... View details »
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Anselm Kiefer
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Wednesday Apr 23, 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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Allan Kaprow
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Wednesday Apr 23, 2008 (8pm) @ Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions
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As part of an ambitious MOCA survey of the late Allan Kaprow, LACE hosts this short-run restaging of one of the artist's more traditionally formatted... View details »
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Lush
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Wednesday Apr 23, 2008 @ 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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Wednesday Apr 23, 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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Beyond the Call
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Wednesday Apr 23, 2008 @ Laemmle's Grande 4-Plex
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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 startling new documentary, Beyond... View details »
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Mark Bradford
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Wednesday Apr 23, 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 »
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