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Darker My Love
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Friday July 18 @ The Echo
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Darker My Love's overdriven soul isn't the most original thing in the world — imagine the Jesus & Mary Chain channeled by the Brian Jonestown... View details »
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Gaslight
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Friday July 18 (9:20pm) @ Los Angeles County Museum of Art
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Though French-born actor Charles Boyer isn't often mentioned alongside classic movie stars like Cary Grant or Humphrey Bogart, he shared the screen with many of... View details »
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Earlimart
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Friday July 18 @ Spaceland
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To non-locals, seeing Earlimart, California, on a map may not mean much beyond the fact that an indie-rock band named itself after the city, but... View details »
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Kenny
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Friday July 18 @ Laemmle's Monica 4-plex
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Kenny, a lovable Porta Potti maintenance man, just might be Australia's answer to Larry the Cable Guy. The new indie-cinema sweetheart from Down Under, Kenny... View details »
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Wolf Parade
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Friday July 18 (8pm) @ Music Box at the Fonda Theater
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Wolf Parade's 2005 full-length debut, Apologies to the Queen Mary, marked the arrival of a compelling new force in indie rock — a pair of... View details »
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Mark Bradford
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Friday July 18 @ 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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Mexican Calendar Girls
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Friday July 18 (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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COLA Artist Fellowships
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Friday July 18 (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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Jerome Witkin
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Friday July 18 (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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Vexing
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Friday July 18 (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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The Puppet Show
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Friday July 18 (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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Cadence Pearson
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Friday July 18 (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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Philip-Lorca diCorcia
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Friday July 18 (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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Kori Newkirk
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Friday July 18 (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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Rebel Legacy
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Friday July 18 (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 July 18 (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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HK Zamani
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Friday July 18 (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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This Side of Paradise
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Friday July 18 (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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Corbin Smith
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Friday July 18 (9am–6pm) @ 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 »
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Peter Saul
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Friday July 18 (11am–5pm) @ Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach
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Peter Saul, who hit his artistic stride mid-century during America's pop-art movement, has become best known of late as a creator of work that's part... View details »
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Darkness Will Find You
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Friday July 18 (noon–6pm) @ JAIL Gallery
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Sculptor, video artist, and (increasingly often) independent curator Michael Dee is something of a conceptual punster; his own work in plastic abstract forms and layered... View details »
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MiniWorX
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Friday July 18 (9am–6pm) @ Ghettogloss
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The Art Directors Guild IA Local 800 is a deliriously talented group of production designers, art directors, and scenic, title, and graphic artists — all... View details »
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The Juxtapoz Factor
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Friday July 18 (11am–5pm) @ Laguna Art Museum
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To those who have been reading the contemporary-art magazine Juxtapoz since it was founded in the mid-'90s, it may come as little surprise that some... View details »
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Ami Tallman
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Friday July 18 (11am–6pm) @ See Line Gallery
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Ami Tallman's Fauvist palette, her love of extreme decor, and her penchant for historical research each feed into her interiors and still lifes. Tallman's compositions... View details »
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Flaunt
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Friday July 18 (1–7pm) @ Junc Gallery
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This annual exhibition at Junc typically features new work by both its most promising emerging talents and good-old standbys. The 2008 edition acts as a... View details »
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BANG! Fully Loaded
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Friday July 18 (noon–6pm) @ Remy's on Temple
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BANG! Fully Loaded sits at the intersection of the group art show, the modern penchant for excavating problematic historical/cultural symbols, and urban culture's taste for... View details »
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Marlene Dumas
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Friday July 18 (11am–5pm) @ Museum of Contemporary Art
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The first stateside exhibit of French/South African/Dutch artist Marlene Dumas' work, Measuring Your Own Grave is a prodding collection of sketches and paintings that explore... View details »
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Two Madmen
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Saturday July 26 (6–8pm) @ Otis College of Art and Design
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Clive Barker is a successful author, director, screenwriter, playwright, and poet; Myron Dyal is a classical musician. But both artists also maintain an interest in... View details »
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Haegue Yang
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Friday July 18 (noon–6pm) @ REDCAT
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REDCAT continues to be a beacon for cutting-edge contemporary art, featuring the first solo show of Haegue Yang in the US. The Korean artist's multimedia... View details »
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Party Favors
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Friday July 18 (noon–6pm) @ Bonelli Contemporary
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An ambitious undertaking by art critic and curator Holly Myers, this month-long celebration of interactive visual and performance art promises to bring out the Factory... View details »
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Cover Version
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Friday July 18 (11am–5:30pm) @ Taylor De Cordoba Gallery
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Thematic summer shows are as de rigueur in the art world as summer reading lists were in high school — and now a new group... View details »
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Sophia Allison & York Chang
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Friday July 18 (11am–5pm) @ Lawrence Asher Gallery
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The title of this two-person exhibition refers to the artists' different approaches to dependence on media and consumerism. For collagist Sophia Allison, the "automatic" is... View details »
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Victoria Reynolds
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Friday July 18 (11am–5pm) @ Richard Heller Gallery
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Living in Sweden proved to be an invaluable influence on Victoria Reynolds' artwork. Not only does she emulate the painstakingly naturalistic vanitas (often-morbid still-life paintings... View details »
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Witnessing the War
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Friday July 18 (2–7pm) @ Carol Henry Studio
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An overstuffed white glove might bring to mind images of a Mickey Mouse cartoon, but for artist and curator Cecelia Kane, it stands for something... View details »
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Caia Koopman & Mark Gleason
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Friday July 18 (11am–9pm) @ La Luz de Jesus
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Though painters Caia Koopman and Mark Gleason take vastly different approaches, both make the human/animal relationship a cornerstone of their work. Koopman's whimsical illustrations depict... View details »
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Mondongo
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Friday July 18 @ Track 16 Gallery
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As students of cultural iconoclasm, the members of Argentinian art collective Mondongo — Juliana Laffitte, Manuel Mendanha, and Agustina Picasso — regularly reveal the dark... View details »
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LA Art Girls
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Friday July 18 (noon–6pm) @ Pacific Electric Lofts
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The LA Art Girls began four years ago, when a vibrant group of women working in painting, photography, video, and performance began supporting one another... View details »
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Andy Warhol
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Friday July 18 (10am–6pm) @ Michael Kohn Gallery
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The quintessential pop artist was much more than a factory for silkscreens of Marilyn Monroe and Campbell's soup cans. In fact, the prolific Andy Warhol... View details »
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No Room
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Friday July 18 (10am–5:30pm) @ Christopher Grimes Gallery
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Architects and international-design darlings Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee are known for innovative materials and forms. Visually and conceptually promiscuous, Christopher Grimes Gallery has invited... View details »
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Weekend Warrior
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Friday July 18 (11am–6pm) @ Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Ojai
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The Ojai-based Nathan Larramendy Gallery has teamed up with the illustrious Beautiful/Decay magazine to produce Weekend Warrior, a group show of LA artists... View details »
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Jekyll Island
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Friday July 18 (10am–6pm) @ Honor Fraser
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Artist Erik Parker and curator/critic Max Henry put their heads together to gather a group of talented artists for Honor Fraser's annual summer show, which... View details »
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Gillian Wearing
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Friday July 18 (10am–6pm) @ Regen Projects
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This dual exhibition from British artist Gillian Wearing begins with Pin-Ups, displayed at the Regen Projects' Almont Drive location. For her collaboration with illustrator Jim... View details »
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David Eddington
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Friday July 18 (11:30am–6:30pm) @ Frank Pictures Gallery
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British ex-pat painter David Eddington may have left the grandeur and historical heft of Europe for a life by the Pacific shore, but his new... View details »
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Mike Stilkey
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Friday July 18 (11am–6pm) @ Kinsey/DesForges Gallery
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While Mike Stilkey's fanciful-yet-edgy works draw comparisons to Egon Schiele, Modigliani, and Aubrey Beardsley, their contemporary illustrative twists give the Los Angeles artist's output real... View details »
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Rabbit Hole
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Friday July 18 (8pm) @ Skylight Theatre
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Commissioned as part of South Coast Repertory's Pacific Playwrights Festival, David Lindsay-Abaire's wrenching drama won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize and kick-started Cynthia Nixon's Tony Award-winning... View details »
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Edwin Ushiro
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Friday July 18 (noon–6pm) @ project: gallery
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Edwin Ushiro's multimedia paintings are ethereal combinations of pop art and anime, which explains why he is in high demand as a production designer, art... View details »
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Splash
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Friday July 18 (11am–6pm) @ Cerasoli Gallery
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While others seek refuge from this season's sweltering heat, Cerasoli Gallery director Freddi Cerasoli is inspired by it — hence Splash, a group exhibition that... View details »
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Pierogi Et Al
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Friday July 18 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Daniel Weinberg Gallery
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Before Williamsburg was Williamsburg (in other words, when taking the L train to Brooklyn was a perilous undertaking devoid of glossy gallery-district maps), there was... View details »
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(Neo) Realism
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Saturday July 19 (5–8pm) @ George Billis Gallery
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Just like the A.O.S. song says, history repeats itself. The new exhibition at George Billis Gallery offers a refreshing take on mid-19th-century realism, as an... View details »
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Outfest
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Friday July 18 (8:30pm) @ The Ford Theater
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In light of the California Supreme Court's recent overruling of the gay-marriage ban, the 26th Annual Los Angeles Outfest has more cause for celebration than... View details »
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The Dark Knight
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Friday July 18 @ ArcLight Hollywood
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The upcoming installment of the Batman film franchise, The Dark Knight, has been subject to a media blitz of epic proportions in recent months. Lauded... View details »
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Eduardo Sarabia
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Friday July 18 (10am–6pm) @ LA Louver Gallery
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A participant in LA Louver's group show Rogue Wave '07, Sarabia proves that his work is dynamic enough to stand on its own with a... View details »
