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Uh Huh Her
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Saturday May 31, 2008 (9pm) @ The Roxy Theatre
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As urban-lesbian legend has it, Uh Huh Her's main girls Leisha Hailey (The Murmurs, The L Word) and Camila Grey (Mellowdrone) first hooked up in... View details »
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Piot Brehmer
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Saturday May 31, 2008 (10am–1pm) @ Samuel Freeman
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Piot Brehmer's hyperrealist-inspired paintings at Samuel Freeman may owe a nod to painters like Philip Pearlstein and Eric Fischl, but there's a certain allure to... View details »
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Best in Show
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Saturday May 31, 2008 (7–10pm) @ ISM: gallery
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Proving that artistic merit isn't necessarily a product of education (or, more specifically, an expensive education), this group exhibition features the work of students from... View details »
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ARTWALK Culver City
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Saturday May 31, 2008 (noon–8pm) @ Culver City Gallery District
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Fortunately for your feet, the swath of concrete and modernized industrial spaces in the Culver City Gallery District is, while densely populated with over 40... View details »
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Aloe Blacc
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Saturday May 31, 2008 (8pm–2am) @ E3rd Steakhouse
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The world's sunniest emcee, soulful crooner and horn player Aloe Blacc (Stones Throw, Do-Over) presides over the first Soundlessons of the (is it official yet?)... View details »
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Oksana Badrak
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Saturday May 31, 2008 (7–10:30pm) @ Black Maria Gallery
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Russian-born artist Oksana Badrak creates worlds where disparate mediums and settings collide, merging traditional with modern, Eastern with Western, and so on. Drawing on her... View details »
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Swervedriver
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Saturday May 31, 2008 (8pm) @ Music Box at the Fonda Theater
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Of all the Creation Records bands, Swervedriver most resemble the aggro-sensitive mold that actually impacted the charts during the early '90s. (They're also one of... View details »
- Art: Architecture/Design
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Art & Design Walk
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Saturday May 31, 2008 (4–8pm) @ Avenues of Art & Design
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For the 11th straight year, the Avenues of Art and Design — the triangular mile between Robertson, Melrose, and Beverly anchored by the Pacific Design... View details »
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Kara Walker
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Saturday May 31, 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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Saturday May 31, 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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Saturday May 31, 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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Saturday May 31, 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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Saturday May 31, 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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The Color of Life
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Saturday May 31, 2008 (10am–9pm) @ 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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Nicole Cohen
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Saturday May 31, 2008 (10am–9pm) @ 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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Dave McKenzie
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Saturday May 31, 2008 (noon–6pm) @ 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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Anthony Lister
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Saturday May 31, 2008 (1–6pm) @ New Image Art
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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 31, 2008 (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 31, 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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Newer Topographics
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Saturday May 31, 2008 (noon–5pm) @ California Museum of Photography, UC 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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Marcel Duchamp Redux
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Saturday May 31, 2008 (noon–6pm) @ Norton Simon
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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 31, 2008 (11am–4pm) @ California Heritage Museum
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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 31, 2008 (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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Anna Dusi
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Saturday May 31, 2008 (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 31, 2008 (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 31, 2008 (noon–6pm) @ JAIL Gallery
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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 31, 2008 (11am–5pm) @ Bandini Art
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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 31, 2008 (noon–6pm) @ Morono Kiang Gallery
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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: Opera
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Tosca
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Saturday May 31, 2008 (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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Jerome Witkin
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Saturday May 31, 2008 (10am–5pm) @ 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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The Puppet Show
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Saturday May 31, 2008 (11am–8pm) @ Santa Monica Museum of Art
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SMMoA gathers an eclectic array of work by 30 impressive artists — from Kara Walker to Louise Bourgeois, Bruce Nauman, and Kiki Smith — in... View details »
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Vexing
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Saturday May 31, 2008 (11am–5pm) @ 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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Dream Man
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Saturday May 31, 2008 (8pm) @ Skylight Theatre
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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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Juan Uslé
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Saturday May 31, 2008 (11am–6pm) @ LA Louver Gallery
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The life and experiences of Spanish painter Juan Uslé meet his vision of abstraction in this new series of paintings. Including over a dozen canvases... View details »
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Under the Radar
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Saturday May 31, 2008 (noon–6pm) @ Grind Gallery
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Including comic-book writers, fashion photographers, and magazine illustrators, the eclectic collection of emerging artists at the Grind Gallery may be under the radar, but most... View details »
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Tiffany Bozic
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Saturday May 31, 2008 (noon–6pm) @ Kinsey/DesForges Gallery
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Tiffany Bozic's paintings and drawings are interpretations of the natural world — as seen through a warped microscope, in brilliant color, with Mozart's Rex Tremendae... View details »
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Cadence Pearson
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Saturday May 31, 2008 (9am–noon) @ Kara Wily Pilates
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When dancer and art enthusiast Kara Wily wanted to open her own Pilates studio (having learned the ropes from the movement's founder himself) she always... View details »
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COLA Artist Fellowships
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Saturday May 31, 2008 (noon–5pm) @ Barnsdall Art Park
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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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Philip-Lorca diCorcia
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Saturday May 31, 2008 (11am–8pm) @ Los Angeles County Museum of Art
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Photographer Philip-Lorca diCorcia's meticulously planned pictures look as effortless as Polaroids. Most of his works feature a single person — who diCorcia usually finds through... View details »
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Tillman Kaiser
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Saturday May 31, 2008 (10am–6pm) @ Honor Fraser
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Painter Tillman Kaiser invokes the legacy of dadaist Marcel Duchamp, who famously flipped a ceramic urinal on its side, signed it R. Mutt, and called... View details »
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Steve Olson
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Saturday May 31, 2008 (noon–6pm) @ 01 Gallery
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Back in the late 1970s, Steve Olson became a celebrity in the world of professional skateboarding for his vertical-shredding ability. He's since made his name... View details »
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It's a Beautiful World
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Saturday May 31, 2008 (11am–6pm) @ The Scion Installation LA Space
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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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Accordion Festival
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Saturday May 31, 2008 (6pm) @ Fraternal Order of Eagles Hall
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The folk-gypsy invasion was just an excuse to bring the accordion back into the common parlance of indie rock, but it's thrived in all its... View details »
- Music: Classical
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Partch
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Saturday May 31, 2008 (8:30pm) @ REDCAT
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Tossing Western music's standard 12-tone scale to the curb, avant-garde oddity Harry Partch created his own 43-note intonation system, then handcrafted instruments to play within... View details »
- More Flavor: Convention
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BookExpo LA
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Saturday May 31, 2008 (9am–5pm) @ Los Angeles Convention Center
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BookExpo, the equivalent of Fashion Week for the book-readin' crowd, lands in Los Angeles this weekend. The literary industry's largest trade show features hundreds of... View details »
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Four
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Saturday May 31, 2008 (noon–6pm) @ Corey Helford
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Jason Shawn Alexander, Sarah Folkman, Melissa Forman, and Karen Hsiao make up the "four" artists of this exhibition, which brings together locals working within the... View details »
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Elizabeth McGrath
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Saturday May 31, 2008 (noon–6pm) @ Billy Shire Fine Arts
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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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Mark Hobley
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Saturday May 31, 2008 (11am–6pm) @ Applegate Gallery
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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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Terence Koh
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Saturday May 31, 2008 (10am–6pm) @ Peres Projects
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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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Sculpture Part One
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Saturday May 31, 2008 (11am–5pm) @ Western Project
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Sculpture is LA's latest claim to art-world fame, and the medium's reemergence is due partly to the city's new generation of sculptors. Western Projects' two-part... View details »
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Jasmine Murrell
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Saturday May 31, 2008 (1–7pm) @ Pounder-Koné Art Space
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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 31, 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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Misato Suzuki
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Saturday May 31, 2008 (noon–6pm) @ Sam Lee Gallery
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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 »
