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Chris & Don
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Friday July 4 @ Landmark Nuart Theatre
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The remarkable tale at the center of Chris & Don opens on a Malibu beach 50 years ago, when British writer Christopher Isherwood (his Berlin... View details »
- More Flavor: Party
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July 4th Spectacular
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Friday July 4 (7:30pm) @ Hollywood Bowl
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While Randy Newman's recent end-of-empire parable "A Few Words in Defense of Our Country" took a pretty dark turn, the husky-throated piano man remains the... View details »
- Music: Folk/Country
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Spindrift
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Friday July 4 (8:30pm) @ The Echo
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Spaghetti-Western psych-rockers Spindrift were born for a gig in the back-room saloon in The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (or any cowboy flick scored... View details »
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- Art: Photography
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Newer Topographics
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Friday July 4 (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 July 4 (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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Jerome Witkin
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Friday July 4 (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 July 4 (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 July 4 (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 July 4 (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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Cadence Pearson
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Friday July 4 (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 July 4 (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 July 4 (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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Piot Brehmer
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Friday July 4 (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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Kori Newkirk
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Friday July 4 (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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Ginger
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Friday July 4 (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 July 4 (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 July 4 @ 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 July 4 (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 4 (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 July 4 (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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Tino Rodriguez & Virgo Paraiso
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Friday July 4 (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 »
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This Side of Paradise
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Friday July 4 (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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Peter Saul
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Friday July 4 (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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Matt Dangler
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Friday July 4 (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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Darkness Will Find You
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Friday July 4 (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 4 (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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Corbin Smith
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Friday July 4 (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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The Juxtapoz Factor
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Friday July 4 (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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Mr. Brainwash
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Friday July 4 (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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Ami Tallman
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Friday July 4 (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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Mariah Anne Johnson
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Friday July 4 (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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Flaunt
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Friday July 4 (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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Haegue Yang
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Friday July 4 (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 4 (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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Carlos Ramos
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Friday July 4 (noon–6pm) @ Corey Helford
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In this collection of 24 large-scale paintings, Carlos Ramos recalls the deep impressions that realistic-looking dioramas had on him as a young boy, wandering through... View details »
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Cover Version
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Friday July 4 (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 4 (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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Misato Suzuki
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Friday July 4 (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 »
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Liquid Landscapes
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Friday July 4 @ Various locations
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New York's loss is Los Angeles' gain with the arrival of Stephan Koplowitz, one of the country's most intriguing interdisciplinary artists. Koplowitz recently founded TaskForce,... View details »
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Witnessing the War
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Friday July 4 (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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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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BANG! Fully Loaded
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Friday July 4 (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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Victoria Reynolds
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Friday July 4 (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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Marlene Dumas
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Friday July 4 (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 »
