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Mr. Brainwash
Wednesday June 18, 2008 (7–11pm) @ CBS News Studios More times »
Free
Mr. Brainwash, or MBW, is a documentary filmmaker turned street artist who fell in with the renowned circle of renegade activists, filmmakers, and artists helmed... View details »
Mr. Brainwash

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Art: Photography
Lights! Camera! Glamour!
Wednesday June 18, 2008 (11am–4pm) @ California Heritage Museum More times »
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 »
Lights! Camera! Glamour!
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The Color of Life
Wednesday June 18, 2008 (10am–6pm) @ The Getty Villa More times »
Free
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 »
The Color of Life
Art: Architecture/Design
Phalanstery Module
Wednesday June 18, 2008 @ Materials & Applications More times »
Free
M&A gallery continues to push the frontiers of architecture and landscape research with Jimenez Lai's installation Phalanstery Module. Zero-gravity design presents the central challenge, as... View details »
Phalanstery Module
Art: Discussion
Nicole Cohen
Wednesday June 18, 2008 (10am–5:30pm) @ The Getty Center More times »
Free
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 »
Nicole Cohen
Art: Photography
Newer Topographics
Wednesday June 18, 2008 (noon–5pm) @ California Museum of Photography, UC Riverside More times »
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 »
Newer Topographics
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Marcel Duchamp Redux
Wednesday June 18, 2008 (noon–6pm) @ Norton Simon More times »
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 »
Marcel Duchamp Redux
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Mexican Calendar Girls
Wednesday June 18, 2008 (11am–4pm) @ California Heritage Museum More times »
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 »
Mexican Calendar Girls
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Michelle Lopez and Vishal Jugdeo
Wednesday June 18, 2008 (11am–6pm) @ LAXART More times »
Free
Michelle Lopez and Vishal Jugdeo, both making their solo debuts in Los Angeles, meditate on the meaning of objects in human life. Lopez's The Year... View details »
Michelle Lopez and Vishal Jugdeo
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Blood & Glitter
Wednesday June 18, 2008 (11am–5pm) @ Bandini Art More times »
Free
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 »
Blood & Glitter
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Culmination
Wednesday June 18, 2008 (noon–6pm) @ Morono Kiang Gallery More times »
Free
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
Wednesday June 18, 2008 (10am–6pm) @ Jack Rutberg Fine Arts More times »
Free
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 »
Jerome Witkin
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The Puppet Show
Wednesday June 18, 2008 (11am–6pm) @ Santa Monica Museum of Art More times »
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 »
The Puppet Show
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Vexing
Wednesday June 18, 2008 (11am–5pm) @ Claremont Museum of Art More times »
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 »
Vexing
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Juan Uslé
Wednesday June 18, 2008 (11am–6pm) @ LA Louver Gallery More times »
Free
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
Wednesday June 18, 2008 (11am–6pm) @ Kinsey/DesForges Gallery More times »
Free
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
Wednesday June 18, 2008 (7am–3pm & 5–8pm) @ Kara Wily Pilates More times »
Free
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 »
Cadence Pearson
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Tillman Kaiser
Wednesday June 18, 2008 (10am–6pm) @ Honor Fraser More times »
Free
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 »
Tillman Kaiser
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Jon Rappleye and Amy Mahnick
Wednesday June 18, 2008 (10am–6pm) @ Richard Heller Gallery More times »
Free
In New Jersey-based artist Jon Rappleye's world, eyeless horned owls flit around a cluster of vultures, deer, and snakes while, in the distance, dozens of... View details »
Jon Rappleye and Amy Mahnick
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Steve Olson
Wednesday June 18, 2008 (noon–6pm) @ 01 Gallery More times »
Free
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 »
Steve Olson
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Piot Brehmer
Wednesday June 18, 2008 (11am–6pm) @ Samuel Freeman More times »
Free
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 »
Piot Brehmer
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Four
Wednesday June 18, 2008 (noon–6pm) @ Corey Helford More times »
Free
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 »
Four
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Kori Newkirk
Wednesday June 18, 2008 (noon–5pm) @ Pasadena Museum of California Art More times »
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 »
Kori Newkirk
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Oksana Badrak
Wednesday June 18, 2008 (noon–6pm) @ Black Maria Gallery More times »
Free
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 »
Oksana Badrak
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Terence Koh
Wednesday June 18, 2008 (10am–6pm) @ Peres Projects More times »
Free
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 »
Art: Photography
LA Nude X
Wednesday June 18, 2008 (8am–7pm) @ A&I Hollywood More times »
Free
LA's most industry-beloved photo lab, Photo Impact, officially closed when its owner went in with A&I, but the group show LA Nude X at A&I's... View details »
LA Nude X
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Sculpture Part One
Wednesday June 18, 2008 (11am–6pm) @ Western Project More times »
Free
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 »
Sculpture Part One
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Ginger
Wednesday June 18, 2008 (1–6pm) @ New Image Art More times »
Free
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 »
Ginger
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Robert A. Nelson: Common Ground
Wednesday June 18, 2008 (noon–5pm) @ another year in LA More times »
Free
In Robert A. Nelson's exhibition Common Ground, viewers are treated to a new side of the '60s experimental filmmaker. Nelson's offbeat, conceptual, and often humorous... View details »
Robert A. Nelson: Common Ground
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HK Zamani
Wednesday June 18, 2008 (11am–6pm) @ SolwayJones More times »
Free
HK Zamani is best known to LA art lovers as Habib Kheradyar, the peripatetic multimedia artist, one-time owner of Post Gallery, and relentlessly curious individual... View details »
HK Zamani
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Mark Bradford
Wednesday June 18, 2008 @ Steve Turner Contemporary Gallery More times »
Free
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 »
Mark Bradford
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Rebel Legacy
Wednesday June 18, 2008 (noon–6pm) @ Pharmaka More times »
Free
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 »
Rebel Legacy
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Against the Grain
Wednesday June 18, 2008 (noon–6pm) @ Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions More times »
Free
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 »
Against the Grain
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Tino Rodriguez & Virgo Paraiso
Wednesday June 18, 2008 (noon–6pm) @ Merry Karnowsky Gallery More times »
Free
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 »
Tino Rodriguez & Virgo Paraiso
Art: Photography
This Side of Paradise
Wednesday June 18, 2008 (10:30am–4:30pm) @ Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens More times »
If only our cracked sidewalks, classic homes, sprawling hills, and endless streets could talk. But even if objects can't, camera lenses spin many a word.... View details »
This Side of Paradise
Art: Photography
Ten Years in Focus
Wednesday June 18, 2008 (10am–6pm) @ The Getty Center More times »
Free
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 »
Ten Years in Focus
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Mariah Anne Johnson
Wednesday June 18, 2008 (noon–6pm) @ Little Bird Gallery More times »
Free
Blame it on her traditional Southern upbringing, but Mariah Anne Johnson (born and raised in Arkansas) has an affinity for her own family history. The... View details »
Mariah Anne Johnson
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Misato Suzuki
Wednesday June 18, 2008 (noon–6pm) @ Sam Lee Gallery More times »
Free
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 »
Misato Suzuki
Art: Photography
Israeli Women: A Portrait in Photographs
Wednesday June 18, 2008 (noon–5pm) @ Skirball Cultural Center More times »
Free
Israeli Women: A Portrait in Photographs looks at Israel's female citizenry as a reflection of the state's 60-year history of independence. Drawing on documentary and... View details »
Israeli Women: A Portrait in Photographs