Events on Thursday, June 12
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Lucky Dragons
- @ The Smell
- In spite of mounting art-world credentials (including a rave in Artforum and a coveted slot at the past Whitney Biennial), Lucky... View details »
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- Gender Blender
- @ Club Cobra
- The Gantz brothers are in many ways responsible for the reality-television phenomenon, as their hilarious, oddball HBO series Taxicab Confessions won... View details »
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- Music: Hip-Hop
- Erykah Badu
- @ Greek Theatre
- For the last few years, neo-soul priestess Erykah Badu has been off the pop-music grid, choosing to focus on her other... View details »
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- The Helio Sequence
- @ The Echo
- The Helio Sequence's Brandon Summers may appreciate his new calm and collected singing style more than anyone else. After destroying his... 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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- Marcel Duchamp Redux
- @ Norton Simon Museum
- This year marks the 45th anniversary of By or of Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Sélavy, the famous Marcel Duchamp retrospective at... View details »
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- Mexican Calendar Girls
- @ California Heritage Museum
- Glamor gets deep and classic at the California Heritage Museum's Mexican Calendar Girls, opening with a Cinco de Mayo reception. The... 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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- 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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- COLA Artist Fellowships
- @ Barnsdall Art Park
- The Cultural Affairs Department recently issued a statement to declare its unprecedented satisfaction with the state's arts budget — proof that... View details »
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- Liat Yossifor and Aaron Sandnes
- @ See Line Gallery
- In the midst of war, there seems to be no shortage of news on the subject. But though we may often... View details »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Meiko
- @ The Hotel Café
- A fave of ubiquitous Morning Becomes Eclectic host Nic Harcourt (not to mention viewers of a certain prime-time ABC show), LA... 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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- Recent Spanish Cinema XIV
- @ Egyptian Theatre
- Although Pedro Almodovar's work tends to hog the spotlight, more and more Spanish films continue to reach crossover status. This year's... View details »
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- Four
- @ Corey Helford
- Jason Shawn Alexander, Sarah Folkman, Melissa Forman, and Karen Hsiao make up the "four" artists of this exhibition, which brings together... View details »
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- Sculpture Part One
- @ Western Project
- 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... View details »
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- Jasmine Murrell
- @ Pounder-Koné Art Space
- Afrobeat pioneer and revolutionary activist Fela Kuti has influenced generations of progressives, from his native Nigeria to South Central LA, with... View details »
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- Robert A. Nelson: Common Ground
- @ another year in LA
- In Robert A. Nelson's exhibition Common Ground, viewers are treated to a new side of the '60s experimental filmmaker. Nelson's offbeat,... View details »
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- Misato Suzuki
- @ Sam Lee Gallery
- Misato Suzuki is acutely aware of nature's palette and geometry. With soothing shades of yellow, orange, brown, and blue, she paints... 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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- 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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- 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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- Art: Architecture/Design
- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Israel Film Festival
- @ Various locations
- The Israel Film Festival, an annual two-week movie marathon, celebrates Israel and — l'chaim! — independent film. Festival highlights include Lynn... 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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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Talk Radio
- @ The MET Theatre
- Eric Bogosian made the leap from sputtering performance artist to Pulitzer Prize-nominated playwright with his fiery, rant-filled Talk Radio. Known for... 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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- 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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- Piot Brehmer
- @ Samuel Freeman
- Piot Brehmer's hyperrealist-inspired paintings at Samuel Freeman may owe a nod to painters like Philip Pearlstein and Eric Fischl, but there's... View details »
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- Ginger
- @ New Image Art
- New Image Art's latest group exhibition packs a powerhouse list of participants. Vets of the gallery — including indie-rock man-of-the-moment Devendra... View details »
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- Oksana Badrak
- @ Black Maria Gallery
- Russian-born artist Oksana Badrak creates worlds where disparate mediums and settings collide, merging traditional with modern, Eastern with Western, and so... View details »
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- Tino Rodriguez & Virgo Paraiso
- @ Merry Karnowsky Gallery
- Like the Catholic-raised Mexican artist himself, Tino Rodriguez's gender-defying, allegorical paintings are torn between sensuality and conservative tradition. Inspired by the... View details »
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- 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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- Against the Grain
- @ LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions)
- Known for its progressive, boundary-pushing performances and interdisciplinary bravado, LACE's lofty space transforms into a clean, white gallery for Against the... View details »
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- Lights! Camera! Glamour!
- @ California Heritage Museum
- George Hurrell shot studio stars as they are remembered today: glamorous, graceful, and a tad theatrical. With his sophisticated black-and-white blowups,... 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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- 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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- Out There
- @ Gallery 825
- Those hollowed out by Pride Weekend's increasingly commercial celebrations (remind us exactly how a Vons truck defines queer culture?) should check... View details »
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- DREAM(land)
- @ Jail Gallery
- The globally diverse artists in JAIL's latest endeavor have one thing in common: their work ignores the ugly cable-news cycle of... 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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- Mixed Roots
- @ Japanese American National Museum
- It's got many meanings, but as far as the Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival is concerned, everyone is free to... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- LA Nude X
- @ A&I Hollywood
- LA's most industry-beloved photo lab, Photo Impact, officially closed when its owner went in with A&I, but the group show LA... 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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- 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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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- A Chorus Line
- @ Ahmanson Theatre
- Director and co-choreographer Michael Bennett spins this well-loved tale of Broadway gypsies and would-be stars who lay their souls on the... 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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- 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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- Kori Newkirk
- @ Pasadena Museum of California Art
- Kori Newkirk first came to national attention thanks to his contribution to the Studio Museum in Harlem's daring group show Freestyle:... 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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- 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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- Rebel Legacy
- @ Pharmaka
- Hot on the heels of LACMA's controversial Phantom Sightings exhibition, Pharmaka Gallery tackles the issue of contemporary Chicano art with Rebel... 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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- 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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- Make Art/Stop AIDS
- @ Fowler Museum, UCLA
- Before red ribbons became de rigeur accessories at televised awards ceremonies, artists from around the globe inspired and provoked the radical... View details »
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