Events on Tuesday, May 27
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- Art: Architecture/Design
- Gary Panter
- @ Skylight Books
- Self-described "art nerd" Gary Panter is the graphic-art god best known for his iconic cartoon Jimbo and the ingenious design of... View details »
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- Imagine Our Love
- @ The Silent Movie Theatre
- If the idea of an "interplanetary ballet" gets you going, then prepare yourself for Imagine Our Love, a musical film by... View details »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Gran Ronde
- @ Spaceland
- Gran Ronde continue their Tuesday residency with another night of tight, dark atmospherics and guitar hooks that both salute and decapitate... View details »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Foxboro Hot Tubs
- @ The Roxy Theatre
- Revealed as a "secret" Green Day side project, Foxboro Hot Tubs add a bit of extra skronk, meshing power-pop and rockabilly... 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 »
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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 »
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- Art: Photography
- 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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- 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 »
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- Juan Uslé
- @ LA Louver Gallery
- The life and experiences of Spanish painter Juan Uslé meet his vision of abstraction in this new series of paintings. Including... View details »
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- Philip-Lorca diCorcia
- @ Los Angeles County Museum of Art
- Photographer Philip-Lorca diCorcia's meticulously planned pictures look as effortless as Polaroids. Most of his works feature a single person — who... 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- The Puppet Show
- @ Santa Monica Museum of Art
- SMMoA gathers an eclectic array of work by 30 impressive artists — from Kara Walker to Louise Bourgeois, Bruce Nauman, and... 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 »
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- Tillman Kaiser
- @ Honor Fraser
- Painter Tillman Kaiser invokes the legacy of dadaist Marcel Duchamp, who famously flipped a ceramic urinal on its side, signed it... 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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- 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 »
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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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- 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 »
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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 »
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- Vexing
- @ Claremont Museum of Art
- In the early '80s, the Vex was an all-ages music club located in Self Help Graphics and Art, a Chicano landmark... 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 »
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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 »
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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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- 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 »
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- 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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- 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 »
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- Jerome Witkin
- @ Jack Rutberg Fine Arts
- Many art critics and scholars consider Jerome Witkin to be America's greatest living figurative painter. His portraits and landscapes combine an... View details »
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- Film: Documentary
- Heavy Metal in Baghdad
- @ Laemmle's Sunset 5
- Heavy-metal rebelliousness is one of the many luxuries that US freedom affords us. In Baghdad, on the other hand, it's just... 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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- 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 »
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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 »
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- Deedee Cheriel and Louise Bonnet
- @ Subliminal Projects
- The newest exhibition to hit Shepard and Amanda Fairey's Subliminal Projects gallery features the work of LA-based artists Deedee Cheriel and... View details »
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- Don Ed Hardy and Michael McCabe
- @ Track 16 Gallery
- If you live in California, you've most likely heard of Don Ed Hardy — or at least of his ubiquitous fashion... View details »
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- Cadence Pearson
- @ Kara Wily Pilates
- When dancer and art enthusiast Kara Wily wanted to open her own Pilates studio (having learned the ropes from the movement's... 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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- 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 »
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- Tiffany Bozic
- @ Kinsey/DesForges Gallery
- Tiffany Bozic's paintings and drawings are interpretations of the natural world — as seen through a warped microscope, in brilliant color,... 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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- 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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- 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 »
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- Steve Olson
- @ 01 Gallery
- Back in the late 1970s, Steve Olson became a celebrity in the world of professional skateboarding for his vertical-shredding ability. He's... 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 »
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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 »
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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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- 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 »
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- Jon Rappleye and Amy Mahnick
- @ Richard Heller Gallery
- In New Jersey-based artist Jon Rappleye's world, eyeless horned owls flit around a cluster of vultures, deer, and snakes while, in... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Norman's Ark
- @ The Ford Theater
- After directing Broadway's mega-musical The Lion King, Tony Award-winner Peter Schneider moved in a surprising direction: he traded in big-budget spectacle... View details »
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