Events on Tuesday, September 16
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Let's Independent!
- @ Boardner's
- Playfully creepy garage rockers the Poor Excuses sing about the irony of America's "new normal" — such as security screenings at... View details »
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- Anne Faith Nicholls
- @ La Luz de Jesus
- Anne Faith Nicholls remixes folk art with her quasi-surrealist, richly symbolic narrative works that have roots in the traditional Western high-art... View details »
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- Jenny Mollen-Biggs
- @ Ghettogloss
- When Jenny Mollen-Biggs isn't acting in films and television shows, she is exhibiting paintings that are simultaneously cute and sinister. The... View details »
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- Eric Joyner
- @ Corey Helford
- The dangerous, abiding love for donuts that torments the psyche of the modern robot is at the center of the universe... View details »
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- Michael Knowlton
- @ 01 Gallery
- Painter Michael Knowlton doesn't feel the need to choose between beauty and terror. His passionately wrought, deftly composed scenes of the... View details »
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- Elizabeth Turk
- @ Bandini Art
- From the Department of How Did She Do That? comes a new exhibition of drawings and delicate marble sculptures from chisel-wielding... 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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- 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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- 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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- Sandrine Pelletier
- @ Fette's Gallery
- International-artist-friendly Fette's Gallery rings in its fall season with Insekts, an installation of new works by Swiss mixed-media artist/embroiderer Sandrine Pelletier.... View details »
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- Yin Zhaoyang
- @ DF2
- Chinese-born Yin Zhaoyang didn't have to look too far for inspiration when creating the work in his latest show at DF2... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- A Bronx Tale
- @ Wadsworth Theater
- Before his tenure in Hollywood began, Chazz Palminteri penned this semi-autobiographical play about growing up on the corner of Belmont Ave... View details »
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- Kyle Field
- @ Taylor De Cordoba Gallery
- For his second go-round at Taylor De Cordoba, San Franciscan artist/musican Kyle Field (he's a member of the band Little Wings),... View details »
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- Aspects of Mel's Hole
- @ CSUF Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana
- Beloved radio host Art Bell is a cross between Jean Shepherd and Fox Mulder, and a man whose paranormality-themed broadcasts were... View details »
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- Alexander Melamid
- @ Forum Gallery
- Russian artist Alexander Melamid is a master at finding humor in serious situations, from totalitarian regimes to the plight of endangered... View details »
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- Truthiness and Absurd Recreation
- @ California Museum of Photography, UC Riverside
- Borrowing a recently coined neologism from Stephen Colbert's faux-conservative lexicon, Truthiness questions the reliability of the visual by featuring artists who... View details »
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- Brandon Boyd
- @ Mr. Musichead Gallery
- If the name Brandon Boyd sounds familiar, it might be for precarious reasons: he's the lead singer of Incubus. Of course,... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Jehad Nga
- @ M+B Gallery Los Angeles
- Daring photographer Jehad Nga has previously documented poverty and violence from Darfur to Iraq — now, he takes his camera into... View details »
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- Syndrome
- @ Crewest Gallery
- Micah Hancock, James Larese, and Mars Sandoval, who make up the motion-design studio Syndrome, demonstrate their penchants for biting humor and... View details »
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- Chris Mars
- @ Billy Shire Fine Arts
- From Brandon Boyd's paintings to Scion and ill-Studios' curatorial collaboration and Alexander Melamid's hip-hop portraits, music-related art has been blanketing LA's... View details »
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- Sarah Cromarty
- @ Circus Gallery
- LA painter Sarah Cromarty has had a big year already; she gained recognition through several group shows and a bit of... View details »
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- The Maize Project
- @ Torrance Art Museum
- The small but influential Torrance Art Museum simultaneously mounts three new solo exhibitions, united by highly stylized explorations of abstraction and... View details »
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- More Flavor: City Gem
- Scribble Press
- @ Scribble Press
- Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- 9 to 5
- @ Ahmanson Theatre
- Based on Collin Higgins' screwball 1980 comedy, 9 to 5: The Musical makes its LA premiere tonight before heading to Broadway... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Melanie Pullen
- @ ACE Gallery
- Melanie Pullen extends her macabre view of the world in her latest series, Violent Times, which explores the aesthetics of war... View details »
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- Yoko Ono
- @ One Colorado
- It has been nearly 28 years since John Lennon's passing, but his quest for world peace lives on. Lennon's widow, noted... View details »
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- Macrocosm
- @ Roberts & Tilton Gallery
- Roberts + Tilton becomes the latest A-list LA gallery to take up residence in Culver City, throwing a mammoth group show... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Dennis Hopper and Wendy Burton
- @ Craig Krull Gallery
- Craig Krull Gallery pulls out the big guns for its season opener, with concurrent solo exhibitions from two of its most... View details »
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- More Flavor: Food/Wine
- Maynard James Keenan
- @ Various locations
- Brainy prog-rock demigod Maynard James Keenan has gone from fronting Tool, A Perfect Circle, and Puscifer to his latest, somewhat quieter... View details »
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- Cycling Apparati
- @ High Energy Constructs
- For many contemporary artists, Warhol is the North Star by which they guide their own emerging views of culture. But for... View details »
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- Ian Francis
- @ Kinsey/DesForges Gallery
- The brilliantly brash British phenom Ian Francis returns to Kinsey/DesForges for his second solo show. Once again, the artist presents visceral,... View details »
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- Raymond Pettibon
- @ Regen Projects II
- Seminal Work features a selection of pieces from the much-lauded Raymond Pettibon, all completed between 1978 and 1988. Keeping true to... View details »
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- Mercedes Helnwein
- @ Merry Karnowsky Gallery
- Austrian artist Mercedes Helnwein's darkly beautiful pencil drawings are equal parts Tim Burton fairy tale, Cindy Sherman photograph, and girlish fantasy.... View details »
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- Bob Biggs, Doug Edge, and Kate Harding
- @ Track 16 Gallery
- Track 16 opens the fall season with three concurrent solo exhibitions. Venice stalwart Doug Edge is known for the fluidity and... View details »
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- All of This is Melting Away
- @ Royal/T
- Director of New York's Greene Naftali Gallery, Jay Sanders steps into cafe/shop/gallery Royal/T to curate this group show of works from... View details »
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- CUT: Makings of Removal
- @ Vincent Price Art Museum
- The 17 young and emerging artists included in this ambitious group show follow diverse strategies in making work, but the organizing... View details »
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- Martin Kersels
- @ Santa Monica Museum of Art
- The Santa Monica Museum of Art hosts LA artist Martin Kersels' first retrospective, Heavyweight Champion, drawing from 13 years of his... View details »
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- Ultrasonic International III
- @ Mark Moore Gallery
- Elementary, My Dear Watson is the Mark Moore Gallery's third installment of its annual Ultrasonic International series. The group show features... View details »
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- Hope Gangloff and Jason Jägel
- @ Richard Heller Gallery
- In tandem with the release of his book, 73 Funshine, San Francisco-based artist Jason Jägel exhibits a collection of music-inspired work.... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- In Focus: The Landscape
- @ The Getty Center
- Art's love affair with landscapes was captured with brush strokes until technology gave way to the click of the shutter. In... View details »
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- Gordy Grundy
- @ Western Project
- The Fellowship of Fortuna (and its "messenger," LA painter and media artist Gordy Grundy) takes up residence on Western Project's website... View details »
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- Art: Architecture/Design
- John Lautner
- @ Hammer Museum
- The risk-taking John Lautner is often described as an architect's architect, even though some of his designs brought him both criticism... View details »
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- Kerry James Marshall
- @ Koplin del Rio Gallery
- Chicago artist Kerry James Marshall has shown internationally to great acclaim, and now will show for the sixth time with Koplin... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Opera
- The Fly
- @ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
- Loosely based on George Langelaan's 1957 short story and David Cronenberg's 1986 film adaptation, The Fly wings its way to the... View details »
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- Josh Dorman
- @ Craft and Folk Art Museum
- Traditional paper and canvas simply won't do for New York artist Josh Dorman, who employs vintage maps and textbook diagrams as... View details »
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- Kristi Lippire
- @ d.e.n. contemporary art
- Kristi Lippire cobbles together images from a mind-boggling array of sources, then fashions them into large-scale works. Using plywood and other... View details »
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- Nancy Reddin Kienholz
- @ LA Louver Gallery
- Nancy Reddin Kienholz may be familiar to some because of her lifelong collaboration with late husband Ed Kienholz, one of the... View details »
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- Hans Burkhardt
- @ Cal State University Northridge Art Gallery
- Comprising selections from the nearly 1,000 works that European-native-turned California-great Hans Burkhardt personally donated to Cal State Northridge (where he taught... View details »
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