Events on Wednesday, May 14
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- More Flavor: City Gem
- 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 » 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 » 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 » View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Gregory Crewdson
- @ Gagosian Gallery
- For his latest show, Gregory Crewdson churns out a new line of epic photo tableaux. Shot on a blockbuster budget with... View details » 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 » 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 » 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 » View details »
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- Terence Koh
- @ Peres Projects
- Anyone who can sell his own bodily fluids for thousands of dollars on the art market has "made it" as an... View details » 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 » View details »
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- Art: Architecture/Design
- 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 » View details »
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- Anna Dusi
- @ The Loft at Liz's
- Long known for fantastic salvage store Liz's Antique Hardware (a favorite with high-end interior designers and industry art directors), Liz Gordon... View details » 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 » View details »
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- Michelle Lopez and Vishal Jugdeo
- @ LAXART
- Michelle Lopez and Vishal Jugdeo, both making their solo debuts in Los Angeles, meditate on the meaning of objects in human... View details » 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 » View details »
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- Mexican Calendar Girls
- @ California Heritage Museum
- Glamor gets deep and classic at the California Heritage Museum's Mexican Calendar Girls, opening with a Cinco de Mayo reception. The... View details » View details »
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- It's a Beautiful World
- @ The Scion Installation LA Space
- The Scion Installation Space in Culver City has lined its walls with works by the heavyweights of urban romanticism — including... View details » 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 » View details »
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- Gary Palmer
- @ Tarryn Teresa Gallery
- With this series of works, Gary Palmer addresses one of the most ancient concerns in art: the representation of landscapes. Using... View details » View details »
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- Art: Architecture/Design
- Peter Gronquist
- @ Gallery 1988
- "Weapons of mass designer," Peter Gronquist's tongue-in-cheek label for his hilarious and poignant sculptures, is actually a quite literal description of... View details » View details »
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- Liat Yossifor and Aaron Sandnes
- @ See Line Gallery
- In the midst of war, there seems to be no shortage of news on the subject. But though we may often... View details » 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 » View details »
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- Amir H. Fallah
- @ Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Ojai
- Installation artist and painter Amir H. Fallah finds intrigue in the ramshackle construction of boyhood clubhouses and other ill-designed, teetering structures.... View details » View details »
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- KC in LA
- @ Milo Gallery
- Curator Ashley Emenegger went all the way to the unlikely art capital of Kansas City, Missouri, and brought back a little... View details » View details »
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- Blood & Glitter
- @ Bandini Art
- Co-curated by Patrick Painter Gallery's Heather Harmon and Bandini's own Ashley McLean Emenegger, Blood & Glitter is a group exhibition about... View details » 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 » View details »
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- Scott Harrison, Sam Saga, and Thomas Wargin
- @ La Luz de Jesus
- When he's not busy inking clients like Master P and Kiki Smith, internationally known tattoo artist Scott Harrison maintains a sweet... View details » View details »
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- Culmination
- @ Morono Kiang Gallery
- As Internet galleries and portfolio sites make it increasingly easy to navigate the deep waters of the international emerging art scene,... View details » View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Newer Topographics
- @ California Museum of Photography, UC Riverside
- This exhibition juxtaposes the work of idealist photographers Jeremy Kidd and Eric Curry, both of whom use digital manipulation in arresting... View details » 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 » View details »
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- DREAM(land)
- @ Jail Gallery
- The globally diverse artists in JAIL's latest endeavor have one thing in common: their work ignores the ugly cable-news cycle of... View details » View details »
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- Menace & Charm
- @ Black Maria Gallery
- Not everyone's childhood memories contain happy-go-lucky images of bubblegum chewing and bicycle riding. As the artists in Black Maria Gallery's upcoming... View details » 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 » 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 » View details »
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- Marcel Duchamp Redux
- @ Norton Simon Museum
- This year marks the 45th anniversary of By or of Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Sélavy, the famous Marcel Duchamp retrospective at... View details » View details »
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- Dave McKenzie
- @ REDCAT
- Jamaican-born artist Dave McKenzie's first solo show in Los Angeles is a multimedia affair that asks multifaceted questions about where a... View details » View details »
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- Elizabeth McGrath
- @ Billy Shire Fine Arts
- For The Secret Party, Elizabeth McGrath ditches her usual creepy dolls and freaky dioramas and fully embraces her works' intrinsic whimsy... View details » View details »
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- Yoskay Yamamoto
- @ project: gallery
- In his debut solo show, Japanese-born, California-bred artist Yoskay Yamamoto combines emotional expression with figures of timidity and doubt to illustrate... View details » View details »
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- Michael Kalish
- @ MODAA gallery
- While Michael Kalish's early work is marked by portraits of iconic figures (Jimi Hendrix, Jesus), his new exhibition at Culver City's... View details » View details »
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- Anthony Lister
- @ New Image Art
- Anthony Lister's newest installation, strewn with pop-culture tragedies and unfortunate vagabonds, erupts in New Image Art's white-walled gallery space. Hailing from... View details » View details »
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- Witnessed from Afar
- @ Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art
- Some of the most talented, recognizable practitioners of Carmichael Gallery's trademark urban-romantic aesthetic show new work in Witnessed from Afar. Highlights... View details » View details »
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- More Flavor: Convention
- LA Defines Design
- @ Elevate Lounge
- Kick back with LA's cutting-edge design community as AIGA honors three individuals chosen for their contribution to the field in 2007... View details » View details »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Kate Nash
- @ Music Box at the Fonda Theater
- For anyone who saw the appeal in Lily Allen's music, but not in Allen herself, Kate Nash is here to complete... View details » View details »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Langhorne Slim
- @ The Troubadour
- Even alone on a stage, lanky young'un Langhorne Slim and his red Guild guitar gets a crowd more riled up than... View details » View details »
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- Speech & Debate
- @ Skirball Cultural Center
- Like his previous, more controversial Columbinus, emerging playwright Stephen Karam's Speech & Debate examines teenage alienation and the construction of the... View details » View details »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Cloud Cult
- @ Knitting Factory
- Minnesota-based art rockers Cloud Cult have principles. Since musician and environmentalist Craig Minowa founded the band in 1995, the Cult have... View details » View details »
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- Saint Motel
- @ The Viper Room
- The well-coiffed young men of Saint Motel hit the Viper Room for the inauguration of their biweekly, Indie 103.1-sponsored residency. Aside... View details » View details »
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- Efterklang
- @ Spaceland
- Copenhagen's Efterklang often swell to ten players to better wow audiences with their earthshaking live shows. As with Sigur Rós and... View details » 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 » 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 » 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 » View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Keep Your Pantheon and Duck Variations
- @ Kirk Douglas Theatre
- Brilliantly contrasting old with new, Center Theatre Group places one of David Mamet's earliest works alongside his latest production. In the... View details » View details »
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- Mark Bradford
- @ Steve Turner Contemporary Gallery
- Los Angeles painter, installation artist, and (most recently) video artist Mark Bradford has exhibited in some of the world's most prestigious... View details » 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 » 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 » View details »
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- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Los Angeles Comedy Festival
- @ McCadden Place Theatre
- Los Angeles has long been a breeding ground for the hilarious, thanks to veteran improv groups like the Groundlings and relative... View details » 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 » 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 » View details »
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- More Flavor: Festival
- BritWeek 2008
- @ Various locations
- The British are coming! But this time there's no need to run for cover, as the Cool Britannia crowd of expats... View details » View details »
