Events on Saturday, June 28
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- Music: DJ
- Vikter Duplaix
- @ E3rd Steakhouse
- A true musical renaissance man, Philly native Vikter Duplaix gets mad respect for his impeccable production skills, innovative compositions, and incredibly... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Spoken Word
- David Sedaris
- @ UCLA Live at Royce Hall
- In the world of literature, one day you're in and the next day you're out. Once-golden boys James Frey, Augusten Burroughs,... View details »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Sgt. Pepper's… Revisited
- @ Hollywood Bowl
- Tonight, along with a little help from the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra and an array of special guests, Cheap Trick perform the... View details »
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- Music: Electronic
- Electric Daisy Carnival
- @ LA Memorial Coliseum & Exposition Park
- For electronic-music fans, the annual Electric Daisy Carnival is what Coachella is to the indie-rock set. Over 20,000 revelers gather as... View details »
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- Music: Experimental
- Panther
- @ Spaceland
- While he moonlights in avant-noise act the Planet The, Portland's Charlie Salas-Humara is best known for his work in Panther. Backed... View details »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Flula Borg
- @ Silverlake Lounge
- "Techno meets ambient" is a straightforward description of Flula Borg. But that's before you get to the vocals that weave through... View details »
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- Art: Discussion
- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- HK Zamani
- @ SolwayJones Gallery
- HK Zamani is best known to LA art lovers as Habib Kheradyar, the peripatetic multimedia artist, one-time owner of Post Gallery,... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- 1984
- @ REDCAT
- George Orwell wrote 1984 in the bloody wake of WWII, when anti-totalitarian screeds and fear of Communism were at a fever... 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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- Mariah Anne Johnson
- @ Little Bird Gallery
- Blame it on her traditional Southern upbringing, but Mariah Anne Johnson (born and raised in Arkansas) has an affinity for her... View details »
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- Matt Dangler
- @ Gallery 1988
- 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... View details »
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- Amy Sol
- @ Thinkspace Gallery
- Karmic Magic, Las Vegas artist Amy Sol's solo show with the Silverlake gem Thinkspace, features doe-eyed females, furry creatures, and sweetly... View details »
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- Two Madmen
- @ Otis College of Art and Design
- Clive Barker is a successful author, director, screenwriter, playwright, and poet; Myron Dyal is a classical musician. But both artists also... View details »
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- Carlos Ramos
- @ Corey Helford
- In this collection of 24 large-scale paintings, Carlos Ramos recalls the deep impressions that realistic-looking dioramas had on him as a... 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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- 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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- Liquid Landscapes
- @ Various locations
- New York's loss is Los Angeles' gain with the arrival of Stephan Koplowitz, one of the country's most intriguing interdisciplinary artists.... View details »
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- Ami Tallman
- @ See Line Gallery
- Ami Tallman's Fauvist palette, her love of extreme decor, and her penchant for historical research each feed into her interiors and... View details »
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- Haegue Yang
- @ REDCAT
- REDCAT continues to be a beacon for cutting-edge contemporary art, featuring the first solo show of Haegue Yang in the US.... 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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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Sunset Strip Music Festival
- @ House of Blues Sunset Strip
- The Sunset Strip has long been a mecca for mischief. Prohibition-era poker tourneys gave way to the '60s art rock of... View details »
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- Victoria Reynolds
- @ Richard Heller Gallery
- Living in Sweden proved to be an invaluable influence on Victoria Reynolds' artwork. Not only does she emulate the painstakingly naturalistic... 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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- 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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- 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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- 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: Comedy
- Carny Trash
- @ The Steve Allen Theater
- In Steve Allen Theater's latest production, Carny Trash, your fondest memories of days at the carnival with ma and pa are... 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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- More Flavor: Party
- Bronx Zoo
- @ La Cita
- Conceived as a Saturday afternoon cocktail party with art activities, Ghettogloss gallery launched its Bronx Zoo summer series in June at... 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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- Darkness Will Find You
- @ Jail Gallery
- Sculptor, video artist, and (increasingly often) independent curator Michael Dee is something of a conceptual punster; his own work in plastic... View details »
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- Harry Benson
- @ David Gallery
- As the Beatles greeted New York City's cold winter weather for the first time in 1964, looming in their shadows was... 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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- The Juxtapoz Factor
- @ Laguna Art Museum
- To those who have been reading the contemporary-art magazine Juxtapoz since it was founded in the mid-'90s, it may come as... View details »
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- Party Favors
- @ Bonelli Contemporary
- An ambitious undertaking by art critic and curator Holly Myers, this month-long celebration of interactive visual and performance art promises to... View details »
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- Film: Festival
- Mods & Rockers
- @ Egyptian Theatre
- Mods and rockers both worshiped bands, rode scooters, and cultivated impossibly hip hairstyles. But the two UK groups had a distinct... 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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- Irene Kai
- @ Found Gallery
- Somewhere between Edward Weston's nudes and Hermann Rorschach's ink blots lies the work of Irene Kai. The author/teacher/photographer plays with the... View details »
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- Film: Festival
- LA Film Festival
- @ Various locations
- Though it packs 200 new films into 11 days, the LA Film Festival offers more than just screenings. There are poolside... View details »
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- Dennis Koch & Claudia Nieto
- @ High Energy Constructs
- Angelinos Dennis Koch and Claudia Nieto work on the same plane — the flat one. Utilizing the simplest of all media,... 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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- Gravity & Transformation
- @ Kristi Engle Gallery
- The world of art is one place where the laws of physics do not apply, and LA-based artist Suzanne Adelman assembles... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Point Break LIVE!
- @ Dragonfly
- Point Break LIVE! turns cinematic lemons into lemonade, raucously skewering the cult-classic film by casting an unrehearsed audience volunteer to fill... View details »
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- Antonio Ballester Moreno
- @ Peres Projects
- Antonio Ballester Moreno's first solo show in America explodes in vibrant colors and playful forms. His bold palette recalls the traditions... 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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- Art: Photography
- This Side of Paradise
- @ Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens
- If only our cracked sidewalks, classic homes, sprawling hills, and endless streets could talk. But even if objects can't, camera lenses... 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- John Moore
- @ DCA Fine Art
- One of Dublin, Ireland's most popular and prolific painters, John Moore makes richly hued portraits and abstractions that use the seemingly... View details »
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- Peter Saul
- @ Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach
- Peter Saul, who hit his artistic stride mid-century during America's pop-art movement, has become best known of late as a creator... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Tommy
- @ Ricardo Montalbán Theatre
- The idea that a young man would become "deaf, dumb, and blind" and then discover that he's a pinball genius was... 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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- Flaunt
- @ Junc Gallery
- This annual exhibition at Junc typically features new work by both its most promising emerging talents and good-old standbys. The 2008... View details »
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- Mr. Brainwash
- @ CBS News Studios
- Mr. Brainwash, or MBW, is a documentary filmmaker turned street artist who fell in with the renowned circle of renegade activists,... 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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- Sophia Allison & York Chang
- @ Lawrence Asher Gallery
- The title of this two-person exhibition refers to the artists' different approaches to dependence on media and consumerism. For collagist Sophia... 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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- Contemporary Art from India
- @ d.e.n. contemporary art
- A single definition of Indian contemporary art is tricky to pin down, as one might expect when funneling the widely varying... View details »
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- BANG! Fully Loaded
- @ Remy's on Temple
- BANG! Fully Loaded sits at the intersection of the group art show, the modern penchant for excavating problematic historical/cultural symbols, and... View details »
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- After the Flood
- @ A + D Museum
- The government's response to the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina was tragically slow and uninspired — but the love, resources, and... View details »
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- Cover Version
- @ Taylor De Cordoba Gallery
- Thematic summer shows are as de rigueur in the art world as summer reading lists were in high school — and... View details »
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- 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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- Marlene Dumas
- @ Museum of Contemporary Art
- The first stateside exhibit of French/South African/Dutch artist Marlene Dumas' work, Measuring Your Own Grave is a prodding collection of sketches... 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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- 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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- One-Act Play Festival
- @ Studio/Stage
- Those suffering from art attention-deficit disorder should appreciate Moving Arts' 14th Annual One-Act Play Festival, a yearly roundup of short 'n... View details »
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