All events on Saturday May 17
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- Performing Arts: Opera
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Tosca
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Saturday May 17 (7:30pm) @ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
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Still feeling the love from last month's star-studded tribute to his 40 years in Los Angeles, Plácido Domingo returns to the stage to conduct Giacomo... View details »
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Miracle Mile Art Walk
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Saturday May 17 (noon–11pm) @ Los Angeles County Museum of Art
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On the third Saturday of each month, the freshly organized Miracle Mile Art Walk features over 40 private galleries — from the mammoth ACE and... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Robyn
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Saturday May 17 (9pm) @ The Wiltern
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Swedish singer Robyn may be familiar to late-'90s pop fans for her Max Martin-glossed hit "Show Me Love" — rumored, incidentally, to have been passed... View details »
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Deedee Cheriel and Louise Bonnet
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Saturday May 17 (8–11pm) @ Subliminal Projects in Echo Park
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The newest exhibition to hit Shepard and Amanda Fairey's Subliminal Projects gallery features the work of LA-based artists Deedee Cheriel and Louise Bonnet. Cheriel's background... View details »
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Nov York City
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Saturday May 17 (7–10pm) @ Alife LA
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From infamously tagging the A train and creating some of the most iconic logos in hip-hop (Public Enemy, EPMD) to establishing himself as a forefather... View details »
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Jerome Witkin
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Saturday May 17 (6–9pm) @ Jack Rutberg Fine Arts
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Many art critics and scholars consider Jerome Witkin to be America's greatest living figurative painter. His portraits and landscapes combine an unerring eye for detail,... View details »
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Vexing
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Saturday May 17 (7pm) @ Claremont Museum of Art
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In the early '80s, the Vex was an all-ages music club located in Self Help Graphics and Art, a Chicano landmark in East LA. Although... View details »
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Mark Hobley
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Saturday May 17 (11am–6pm) @ Applegate Gallery in Santa Monica
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Venice-based painter Mark Hobley takes iconic logos, scantily-dressed women, and playing cards (often at the same time) and transforms them into graphically rich pop heroes.... View details »
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Misato Suzuki
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Saturday May 17 (noon–6pm) @ Sam Lee Gallery in Chinatown
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Misato Suzuki is acutely aware of nature's palette and geometry. With soothing shades of yellow, orange, brown, and blue, she paints amorphous forms that are... View details »
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- Art: Photography
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Lights! Camera! Glamour!
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Saturday May 17 (11am–4pm) @ California Heritage Museum in Santa Monica
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George Hurrell shot studio stars as they are remembered today: glamorous, graceful, and a tad theatrical. With his sophisticated black-and-white blowups, "The grand seigneur of... View details »
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Bob Dylan's American Journey
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Saturday May 17 @ Skirball Cultural Center in Brentwood
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This year's resurgent Dylanmania — from Todd Haynes' byzantine biopic, I'm Not There, to Murray Lerner's performance-driven documentary, The Other Side of the Mirror —... View details »
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Kara Walker
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Saturday May 17 (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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Saturday May 17 (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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Saturday May 17 @ 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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Las Vegas Diaspora
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Saturday May 17 (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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Good Doll Bad Doll
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Saturday May 17 (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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The Color of Life
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Saturday May 17 (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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Masami Teraoka
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Saturday May 17 (11am–6pm) @ Samuel Freeman in Santa Monica
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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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Catherine Opie
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Saturday May 17 (10am–6pm) @ Regen Projects II in W Hollywood
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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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Saturday May 17 (10am–6pm) @ Honor Fraser in Culver City
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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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Icon
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Saturday May 17 @ DCA Fine Art in Santa Monica
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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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Jason Martin
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Saturday May 17 (10am–6pm) @ LA Louver Gallery in Venice
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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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Saturday May 17 @ Richard Heller Gallery in Santa Monica
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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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Dave McKenzie
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Saturday May 17 (noon–6pm) @ REDCAT in Downtown
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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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Anthony Lister
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Saturday May 17 (1–6pm) @ New Image Art in W Hollywood
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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 Australia, where his work... View details »
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KC in LA
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Saturday May 17 (11am–5pm) @ Milo Gallery
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Curator Ashley Emenegger went all the way to the unlikely art capital of Kansas City, Missouri, and brought back a little piece of the progressive... View details »
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Lush
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Saturday May 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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Menace & Charm
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Saturday May 17 (noon–6pm) @ Black Maria Gallery
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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 show prove, sometimes our... View details »
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Witnessed from Afar
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Saturday May 17 (2–7pm) @ Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art in W Hollywood
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Some of the most talented, recognizable practitioners of Carmichael Gallery's trademark urban-romantic aesthetic show new work in Witnessed from Afar. Highlights include Mel Kadel's feisty,... View details »
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Newer Topographics
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Saturday May 17 (noon–5pm) @ UC Riverside California Museum of Photography in Riverside
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This exhibition juxtaposes the work of idealist photographers Jeremy Kidd and Eric Curry, both of whom use digital manipulation in arresting multimedia and photographic works.... View details »
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Yoskay Yamamoto
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Saturday May 17 (noon–6pm) @ project: gallery in Culver City
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In his debut solo show, Japanese-born, California-bred artist Yoskay Yamamoto combines emotional expression with figures of timidity and doubt to illustrate his struggle with dualities.... View details »
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Marcel Duchamp Redux
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Saturday May 17 (noon–6pm) @ Norton Simon in Pasadena
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This year marks the 45th anniversary of By or of Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Sélavy, the famous Marcel Duchamp retrospective at the Pasadena Art Museum... View details »
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Mexican Calendar Girls
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Saturday May 17 (11am–4pm) @ California Heritage Museum in Santa Monica
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Glamor gets deep and classic at the California Heritage Museum's Mexican Calendar Girls, opening with a Cinco de Mayo reception. The color-soaked exhibition comprises a... View details »
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Amir H. Fallah
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Saturday May 17 (11am–6pm) @ Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Ojai
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Installation artist and painter Amir H. Fallah finds intrigue in the ramshackle construction of boyhood clubhouses and other ill-designed, teetering structures. He tops those buildings... View details »
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Gary Palmer
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Saturday May 17 (11am–4pm) @ Tarryn Teresa Gallery in Santa Monica
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With this series of works, Gary Palmer addresses one of the most ancient concerns in art: the representation of landscapes. Using sumi ink, Palmer has... View details »
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Anna Dusi
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Saturday May 17 (10am–6pm) @ The Loft at Liz's
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Long known for fantastic salvage store Liz's Antique Hardware (a favorite with high-end interior designers and industry art directors), Liz Gordon has also created a... View details »
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Uncommon Gardens
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Saturday May 17 (1–6pm) @ Thinkspace Gallery
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Consider it Ladies' Choice at Thinkspace this month, as the gallery devotes its wall space to the work of four women with decidedly feminine bents... View details »
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DREAM(land)
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Saturday May 17 (noon–6pm) @ JAIL Gallery in Downtown
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The globally diverse artists in JAIL's latest endeavor have one thing in common: their work ignores the ugly cable-news cycle of reality in favor of... View details »
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Blood & Glitter
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Saturday May 17 (11am–5pm) @ Bandini Art in Culver City
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Co-curated by Patrick Painter Gallery's Heather Harmon and Bandini's own Ashley McLean Emenegger, Blood & Glitter is a group exhibition about the seductive dangers of... View details »
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Culmination
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Saturday May 17 (noon–6pm) @ Morono Kiang Gallery in Downtown
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As Internet galleries and portfolio sites make it increasingly easy to navigate the deep waters of the international emerging art scene, the prevalence of Chinese... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
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Speech & Debate
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Saturday May 17 (3pm) @ Skirball Cultural Center in Brentwood
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Like his previous, more controversial Columbinus, emerging playwright Stephen Karam's Speech & Debate examines teenage alienation and the construction of the adult self. Speech explores... View details »
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Dream Man
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Saturday May 17 (8pm) @ Skylight Theatre in Hollywood
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Playwright James Carroll Pickett's one-man show Dream Man focuses on Christopher, a phone-sex hustler at his breaking point. Twenty-three years ago, actor/playwright Michael Kearns originated... View details »
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COLA Artist Fellowships
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Saturday May 17 (noon–5pm) @ Barnsdall Art Park in Hollywood
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The Cultural Affairs Department recently issued a statement to declare its unprecedented satisfaction with the state's arts budget — proof that our programs are hale... View details »
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It's a Beautiful World
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Saturday May 17 (11am–6pm) @ The Scion Installation LA Space in Culver City
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The Scion Installation Space in Culver City has lined its walls with works by the heavyweights of urban romanticism — including Sage Vaughn, Mel Kadel,... View details »
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Elizabeth McGrath
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Saturday May 17 (noon–6pm) @ Billy Shire Fine Arts in Culver City
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For The Secret Party, Elizabeth McGrath ditches her usual creepy dolls and freaky dioramas and fully embraces her works' intrinsic whimsy with a frothy, quirky... View details »
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Terence Koh
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Saturday May 17 (10am–6pm) @ Peres Projects in Chinatown
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Anyone who can sell his own bodily fluids for thousands of dollars on the art market has "made it" as an artist. Of course, there's... View details »
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Jasmine Murrell
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Saturday May 17 (1–7pm) @ Pounder-Koné Art Space in Atwater
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Afrobeat pioneer and revolutionary activist Fela Kuti has influenced generations of progressives, from his native Nigeria to South Central LA, with his potently political celebration... View details »
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Mark Bradford
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Saturday May 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 »
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Ten Years in Focus
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Saturday May 17 (10am–9pm) @ The Getty Center in Brentwood
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In celebration of its tenth anniversary, the Getty Center presents Ten Years in Focus: The Artist and the Camera. The exhibition draws parallels between photography... View details »
