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Tapes 'n Tapes
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Thursday May 8 (8pm) @ The Troubadour in W Hollywood
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Tapes 'n Tapes have pretty a standard story: they started with a stellar Pitchfork review supplemented by the obligatory industry buzz and a slew of... View details »
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The Morning Benders
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Thursday May 8 (8:30pm) @ The Echo in Echo Park
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If toe-tapping is wrong, then the Morning Benders don't want to be right. But, of course, they are — singer Chris Chu's smooth lilt wraps... View details »
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Fern Knight
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Thursday May 8 (9pm) @ Silverlake Lounge
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Fern Knight and Ex Reverie are part of the same Philadelphia scene that spawned Espers, so the two bands naturally gravitate toward the gothic side... View details »
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Paganfest
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Thursday May 8 (8pm) @ House of Blues Sunset Strip in W Hollywood
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At long last, some of Europe and Scandinavia's best folk- and Viking-metal acts make it to the States. From the Faroe Islands, Týr draw on... View details »
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From A to B
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Thursday May 8 (7pm) @ Fellows of Contemporary Art in Downtown
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Los Angeles is a city of staggering diversity, but if you're searching for a common human denominator, there's nothing more ubiquitous or emblematic of this... View details »
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Culmination
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Thursday May 8 (6–9pm) @ 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 »
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James Pants
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Thursday May 8 (10pm) @ La Cita in Downtown
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James Pants' senior prom truly was a night to remember. At an afterparty, he met Stones Throw head Peanut Butter Wolf for the first time.... View details »
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Lights! Camera! Glamour!
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Thursday May 8 (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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Thursday May 8 @ 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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Thursday May 8 (11am–9pm) @ 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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Thursday May 8 (noon–8pm) @ 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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Thursday May 8 @ 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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Thursday May 8 (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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Thursday May 8 (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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Thursday May 8 (10am–6pm) @ 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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Thursday May 8 (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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Salomón Huerta
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Thursday May 8 (10am–6pm) @ Patrick Painter Gallery in Santa Monica
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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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Thursday May 8 (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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Thursday May 8 (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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New London School
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Thursday May 8 (10am–6pm) @ Mark Moore Gallery in Santa Monica
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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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Thursday May 8 (11am–5pm) @ 18th Street Arts Center in Santa Monica
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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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Thursday May 8 @ 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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Sue-Ling Hyde
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Thursday May 8 (9am–6pm) @ Ghettogloss in Silverlake
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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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Thursday May 8 (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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Thursday May 8 @ 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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Thursday May 8 (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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Thursday May 8 (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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Thursday May 8 (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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Thursday May 8 @ 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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Thursday May 8 (11am–6pm) @ Kinsey/DesForges Gallery in Culver City
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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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Thursday May 8 (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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Thursday May 8 (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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Thursday May 8 (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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Thursday May 8 (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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Thursday May 8 (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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Thursday May 8 (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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Thursday May 8 (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 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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Heng Peng
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Thursday May 8 (1–7pm) @ Pounder-Koné Art Space in Atwater
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Los Angeles-based painter and installation artist Heng Peng has always had a fascination with fabric — both its design and the industry surrounding its production.... View details »
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Mark Bradford
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Thursday May 8 @ 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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Thursday May 8 (10am–6pm) @ 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 »
