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- Music: Rock/Pop
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Vetiver
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Wednesday May 7 (8pm) @ The Troubadour
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While often grouped with the freak-folk scene because of their close affiliation with (sometimes member) Devendra Banhart, Vetiver generally favor winsome pop melodies over tribal... View details »
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Don't Look Back
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Wednesday May 7 (7:30pm) @ Skirball Cultural Center
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Although Martin Scorsese's No Direction Home did a tremendous job tackling Bob Dylan's early life, the original Dylan documentary, Don't Look Back, still stands as... View details »
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The Art of Vision
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Wednesday May 7 (6–9pm) @ Zimmer Children's Museum
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In this exhibit, 75 artists, humanitarians, and social activists transform objects traditionally related to vision (eyeglasses, binoculars, telescopes, cameras) into unique art pieces. Among the... View details »
- Reading
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Jimmy Carter
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Wednesday May 7 (6:30pm) @ Vroman's Bookstore
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Drawing the ire of the Anti-Defamation League and grammar snobs alike, Jimmy Carter's Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid became a bestseller despite (or maybe because of)... View details »
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Kara Walker
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Wednesday May 7 (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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Wednesday May 7 (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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Wednesday May 7 @ 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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Wednesday May 7 (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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Wednesday May 7 (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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Wednesday May 7 (10am–6pm) @ 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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Masami Teraoka
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Wednesday May 7 (11am–6pm) @ Samuel Freeman
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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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Salomón Huerta
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Wednesday May 7 (10am–6pm) @ Patrick Painter Gallery
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Salomón Huerta is one of LA's most popular painters — although personally, he seems somewhat reserved. His best-known works are smallish, finely detailed "portraits" of... View details »
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Catherine Opie
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Wednesday May 7 (10am–6pm) @ Regen Projects II
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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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Wednesday May 7 (10am–6pm) @ Honor Fraser
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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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New London School
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Wednesday May 7 (10am–6pm) @ Mark Moore Gallery
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Last year, London art-gallery impresarios Simon Rumley and Zavier Ellis curated The Future Can Wait, an ambitious group show spotlighting some of the city's most... View details »
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100% Other
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Wednesday May 7 (11am–5pm) @ 18th Street Arts Center
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For the next installment of Future of Nations exhibition series 100% Other, curator Tyler Stallings asked artists Matthew Bryant, Cheryl Gilge, Perry Vasquez, Reggie Woolery,... View details »
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Icon
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Wednesday May 7 @ DCA Fine Art
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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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Sue-Ling Hyde
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Wednesday May 7 (9am–6pm) @ Ghettogloss
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Sue-Ling Hyde is more than a pretty face. You might recognize her from modeling gigs with Shiseido, Versus, and Moshino, but the Puerto Rican artist... View details »
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Jason Martin
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Wednesday May 7 (10am–6pm) @ LA Louver Gallery
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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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Dave McKenzie
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Wednesday May 7 (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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Wednesday May 7 (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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Wednesday May 7 (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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Wednesday May 7 @ 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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Ryan McLennan
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Wednesday May 7 (11am–6pm) @ Kinsey/DesForges Gallery
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While Ryan McLennan's Audubon-inspired drawings of woodland animals seem innocent enough, the graphite-and-acrylic works on paper reveal the animal kingdom's vicious side. In his latest... View details »
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Menace & Charm
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Wednesday May 7 (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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Wednesday May 7 (2–7pm) @ Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art
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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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Wednesday May 7 (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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Yoskay Yamamoto
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Wednesday May 7 (noon–6pm) @ project: gallery
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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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Wednesday May 7 (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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Wednesday May 7 (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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Wednesday May 7 (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 10 (6–8pm) @ Tarryn Teresa Gallery
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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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Mark Bradford
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Wednesday May 7 @ 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 »
