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- Music: Rock/Pop
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The Helio Sequence
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Thursday June 12 (8pm) @ The Echo
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The Helio Sequence's Brandon Summers may appreciate his new calm and collected singing style more than anyone else. After destroying his vocal cords during 2004... View details »
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Rebel Legacy
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Thursday June 12 (6–9pm) @ Pharmaka
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Hot on the heels of LACMA's controversial Phantom Sightings exhibition, Pharmaka Gallery tackles the issue of contemporary Chicano art with Rebel Legacy: The Abstract in... View details »
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Against the Grain
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Thursday June 12 (7–9pm) @ Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions
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Known for its progressive, boundary-pushing performances and interdisciplinary bravado, LACE's lofty space transforms into a clean, white gallery for Against the Grain, perhaps this summer's... View details »
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Israel Film Festival
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Thursday June 12 @ Various locations
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The Israel Film Festival, an annual two-week movie marathon, celebrates Israel and — l'chaim! — independent film. Festival highlights include Lynn Roth's The Little Traitor,... View details »
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Gender Blender
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Thursday June 12 (10pm–2am) @ Club Cobra
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The Gantz brothers are in many ways responsible for the reality-television phenomenon, as their hilarious, oddball HBO series Taxicab Confessions won over millions of addicted... View details »
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Erykah Badu
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Thursday June 12 (7:30pm) @ Greek Theatre
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For the last few years, neo-soul priestess Erykah Badu has been off the pop-music grid, choosing to focus on her other passions: holistic health, astrology,... View details »
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Lucky Dragons
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Thursday June 12 (9pm) @ The Smell
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In spite of mounting art-world credentials (including a rave in Artforum and a coveted slot at the past Whitney Biennial), Lucky Dragons still haven't been... View details »
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Meiko
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Thursday June 12 (9pm) @ The Hotel Café
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A fave of ubiquitous Morning Becomes Eclectic host Nic Harcourt (not to mention viewers of a certain prime-time ABC show), LA folkie Meiko toes the... View details »
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Make Art/Stop AIDS
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Thursday June 12 (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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The Color of Life
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Thursday June 12 (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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100% Other
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Thursday June 12 (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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Dave McKenzie
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Thursday June 12 (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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Newer Topographics
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Thursday June 12 (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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Thursday June 12 (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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Thursday June 12 (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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Anna Dusi
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Thursday June 12 (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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DREAM(land)
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Thursday June 12 (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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Thursday June 12 (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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Thursday June 12 (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 »
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Jerome Witkin
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Thursday June 12 (10am–6pm) @ 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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Thursday June 12 (11am–6pm) @ 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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Thursday June 12 (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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Juan Uslé
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Thursday June 12 (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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Tiffany Bozic
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Thursday June 12 (11am–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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Thursday June 12 (7am–3pm & 5–8pm) @ 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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Thursday June 12 (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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Thursday June 12 (noon–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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Thursday June 12 (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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Thursday June 12 (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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Piot Brehmer
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Thursday June 12 (11am–6pm) @ 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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Four
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Thursday June 12 (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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Kori Newkirk
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Thursday June 12 (noon–5pm) @ Pasadena Museum of California Art
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Kori Newkirk first came to national attention thanks to his contribution to the Studio Museum in Harlem's daring group show Freestyle: a mural of a... View details »
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Oksana Badrak
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Thursday June 12 (noon–6pm) @ 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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Terence Koh
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Thursday June 12 (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 »
- Film: Documentary
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Bomb It
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Thursday June 12 @ Laemmle's Sunset 5
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A modern-day incarnation of 1983's groundbreaking Style Wars, graffiti documentary Bomb It moves past the boroughs of New York to survey the global community of... View details »
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Out There
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Thursday June 12 (10am–5pm) @ Gallery 825
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Those hollowed out by Pride Weekend's increasingly commercial celebrations (remind us exactly how a Vons truck defines queer culture?) should check out Los Angeles Art... View details »
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Sculpture Part One
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Thursday June 12 (11am–6pm) @ 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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Ginger
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Thursday June 12 (1–6pm) @ New Image Art
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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 Banhart, Sean Cassidy, Nico... View details »
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Jasmine Murrell
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Thursday June 12 (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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Thursday June 12 @ 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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Tino Rodriguez & Virgo Paraiso
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Saturday June 14 (8–11pm) @ Merry Karnowsky Gallery
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Like the Catholic-raised Mexican artist himself, Tino Rodriguez's gender-defying, allegorical paintings are torn between sensuality and conservative tradition. Inspired by the limitations of his religious... View details »
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Misato Suzuki
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Thursday June 12 (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 »
