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Ani DiFranco
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Friday Apr 4 (8pm) @ Orpheum Theatre in Downtown
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Ani DiFranco's latest disc, Canon (the singer/songwriter's first retrospective recording), showcases the new mother's contribution to music — an influential career that's spawned 19 albums.... View details »
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King Britt
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Friday Apr 4 (6–9pm) @ The Getty Center in Brentwood
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As the sun sets this evening, the Getty Center transforms its courtyard into a party promenade, attracting a lively crowd of LA's work-weary, early-starting weekend... View details »
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Yumiko Kayukawa
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Friday Apr 4 (8–11pm) @ La Luz de Jesus in Hollywood
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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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Autechre
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Friday Apr 4 (9pm–2am) @ Echoplex in Echo Park
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Experimental legends Autechre hit LA tonight in support of their ninth studio album, Quaristice, out on Warp Records. Known for their exploration of technological frontiers... View details »
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Alfred Hitchcock
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Friday Apr 4 (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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Friday Apr 4 (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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Friday Apr 4 (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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Michael Asher
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Friday Apr 4 (11am–6pm) @ Santa Monica Museum of Art
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Rather than create new spaces and pieces, conceptual mixed-media artist Michael Asher prefers to deconstruct and punctuate extant spaces with found materials, creating a site-specific... View details »
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First Generation
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Friday Apr 4 (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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Make Art/Stop AIDS
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Friday Apr 4 (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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Ben Pruskin
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Friday Apr 4 (noon–6pm) @ PawnShop Gallery in Westwood
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Traditionally, bust portraiture has been a means of honoring those with wealth, power, and status; Ben Pruskin, however, believes that such depictions should be used... View details »
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Nathan Mabry
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Friday Apr 4 (11am–6pm) @ Cherry and Martin
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Spanish conquistadors beware: payback is a bitch. Nathan Mabry exacts Montezuma's revenge with irreverently styled bronze sculptures based on Pre-Columbian Moche ceramics and bedazzled Mixtec... View details »
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Mindy Shapero
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Friday Apr 4 (11am–6pm) @ Anna Helwing Gallery
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Bright and brash, Mindy Shapero concocts sculptures with a childlike zeal: always curious and never satisfied. Her works seem like visual experiments in representing the... View details »
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Aaron Smith
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Friday Apr 4 (10am–5:30pm) @ Koplin del Rio Gallery in Culver City
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The history of art may seem an obvious source of inspiration, but a new collection of paintings by LA's Aaron Smith flips the switch on... View details »
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Gravity Art
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Friday Apr 4 (noon–6pm) @ Telic Arts Exchange in Chinatown
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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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Kara Walker
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Friday Apr 4 (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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The Color of Life
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Friday Apr 4 (10am–9pm) @ The Getty Villa in Malibu
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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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Robert Crumb
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Friday Apr 4 @ David Lawrence Gallery in Beverly Hills
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Since his early days drawing for Zap Comix, Robert Crumb has made quite a name for himself as the comic world's favorite enfant terrible; with... View details »
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Alison Saar
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Friday Apr 4 (10am–6pm) @ LA Louver Gallery in Venice
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Though Los Angeles is her stomping ground, provocative painter/sculptress Alison Saar is internationally acclaimed. Daughter of the groundbreaking Betye Saar, whose intensely symbolic mixed-media assemblages... View details »
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Angela DeCristofaro
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Friday Apr 4 (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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Jeffrey Vallance
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Friday Apr 4 (11am–6pm) @ Track 16 Gallery in Santa Monica
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Extravagance, irony, and ephemera converge in five concurrent exhibitions. The focus is the 30th-anniversary celebration of Jeffery Vallance's performance piece Blinky the Friendly Hen. In... View details »
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Cal Lane
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Friday Apr 4 (11am–6pm) @ Samuel Freeman in Santa Monica
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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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Las Vegas Diaspora
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Friday Apr 4 (11am–5pm) @ Laguna Art Museum in Laguna Beach
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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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KuKula
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Friday Apr 4 (1–6pm) @ Thinkspace Gallery
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For Dreamcatcher, KuKula's first solo showing at Thinkspace, the Israeli-born artist paints eerily charming images of little girl dolls, Disney-esque forest creatures, and blossoming flowers.... View details »
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California Video
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Friday Apr 4 @ The Getty Center in Brentwood
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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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Tony de los Reyes
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Friday Apr 4 (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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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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Friday Apr 4 (noon–5pm) @ Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena
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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 4 (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 4 (11am–6pm) @ Western Project in Culver City
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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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Sarajo Frieden
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Friday Apr 4 (11am–5pm) @ Little Bird Gallery
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That Sarajo Frieden's Los Angeles studio is at the nexus of Koreatown, Little Armenia, and Thai Town makes perfect sense after you see her mixed-media... View details »
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Anything Could Happen...
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Friday Apr 4 (2–7pm) @ Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art in W Hollywood
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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 4 (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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Edgar Heap of Birds
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Friday Apr 4 (11am–6pm) @ See Line Gallery in Santa Monica
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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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Max Miceli
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Friday Apr 4 (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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Immigration Stories
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Friday Apr 4 (1–7pm) @ Pounder-Koné Art Space in Atwater
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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 4 (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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HEF
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Friday Apr 4 (noon–6pm) @ JAIL Gallery in Downtown
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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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Mark Bradford
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Friday Apr 4 @ 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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Anselm Kiefer
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Friday Apr 4 (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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Toys
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Friday Apr 4 (11am–6pm) @ Gallery 1988 in W Hollywood
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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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MFA #2
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Friday Apr 4 (9am–4:30pm) @ New Wight Gallery, UCLA in Westwood
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Each year, the stellar Fine Arts Department at UCLA stages multi-part exhibitions of its final-year MFA students, and this year's second act opens tonight with... View details »
