All events on Friday June 20
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- Music: Folk/Country
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Hayden
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Friday June 20 (9pm) @ The Troubadour
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For over a decade now, Hayden has carved out a nice little following, having begun his career with lo-fi, limited-edition releases with hand-drawn liner notes.... View details »
- Music: Global
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Seun Kuti
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Friday June 20 (8pm) @ Grand Performances
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Seun Kuti first took to the stage with his father's Egypt 80 when he was nine years old. Today, he's fronting the large ensemble, carrying... View details »
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Wine & Chocolates
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Friday June 20 (7–11pm) @ Grind Gallery
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At the intersection of nepotism and trusted content lies the Grind, a coffee bar, old-school gathering place, and enthusiastic ad hoc gallery space with an... View details »
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Corbin Smith
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Friday June 20 (7–10pm) @ MODAA gallery
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Photographer Corbin Smith's initial impressions of LA seemed to buy into into Baudrillard's description of Los Angeles as an illusion, "the horizontal fault, California breaking... View details »
- Music: Experimental
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Wolf Eyes
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Friday June 20 (9pm) @ Spaceland
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Wolf Eyes have earned quite a reputation for doomy antagonism. Well-meaning critics tend to exaggerate the Sub Pop band's "scary" and "face-melting" qualities — but,... View details »
- Music: Hip-Hop
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RZA
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Friday June 20 (8pm) @ Music Box at the Fonda Theater
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With so many professional titles — producer, actor, composer — studding his belt, you might forget that RZA is, first and foremost, a master MC.... View details »
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The Color of Life
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Friday June 20 (10am–9pm) @ 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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Newer Topographics
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Friday June 20 (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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Mexican Calendar Girls
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Friday June 20 (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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Blood & Glitter
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Friday June 20 (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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Friday June 20 (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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Friday June 20 (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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Friday June 20 (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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Friday June 20 (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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Friday June 20 (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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Friday June 20 (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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Friday June 20 (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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Friday June 20 (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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Friday June 20 (noon–9pm) @ 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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Friday June 20 (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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Friday June 20 (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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Friday June 20 (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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Friday June 20 (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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Friday June 20 (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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Friday June 20 (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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Friday June 20 (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 »
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Ginger
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Friday June 20 (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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HK Zamani
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Friday June 20 (11am–6pm) @ SolwayJones
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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 »
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Mark Bradford
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Friday June 20 @ 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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Rebel Legacy
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Friday June 20 (noon–6pm) @ 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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Friday June 20 (noon–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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Amy Sol
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Friday June 20 (1–6pm) @ Thinkspace Gallery
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Karmic Magic, Las Vegas artist Amy Sol's solo show with the Silverlake gem Thinkspace, features doe-eyed females, furry creatures, and sweetly whimsical, abstract narratives. Her... View details »
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Israel Film Festival
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Friday June 20 @ 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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Tino Rodriguez & Virgo Paraiso
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Friday June 20 (noon–6pm) @ 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 »
- Art: Photography
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This Side of Paradise
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Friday June 20 (10:30am–4:30pm) @ Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens
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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 »
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Matt Dangler
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Friday June 20 (11am–6pm) @ Gallery 1988
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Artist Matt Dangler is a wee young thing to be garnering such art-world acclaim. The 24-year-old's spooky and fantastical paintings are filled with bizarre animals,... View details »
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Mr. Brainwash
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Friday June 20 (1–9pm) @ CBS News Studios
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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 »
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Mariah Anne Johnson
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Friday June 20 (noon–6pm) @ Little Bird Gallery
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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 »
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Misato Suzuki
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Friday June 20 (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 »
