Events on Saturday, September 6
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- Music: DJ
- Modeselektor
- @ Avalon Hollywood
- The Berlin invasion rolls through town tonight, bringing doe-eyed techno doyenne Ellen Allien and party monsters Modeselektor to the Avalon. In... View details »
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- LA Flash
- @ Los Angeles County Museum of Art
- The latest installment in LACMA's Late Night Art series puts a new twist on an old project. Thirty-five years ago, the... View details »
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- Music: Punk/Metal
- Nine Inch Nails
- @ The Forum
- Since parting ways with Interscope last year, industrial-music impresario Trent Reznor has taken a stand against corporate interference and high consumer... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Contemporary Photography from China
- @ DNJ Gallery
- In DNJ's latest exhibition, eight artists take their cameras on the road and on rail, underground into mines, onto farms, and... View details »
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- More Flavor: Fashion
- Antonio Pineda
- @ Fowler Museum, UCLA
- World-renowned Mexican silversmith Antonio Pineda brings more than 200 of his masterpieces up the coast to UCLA's Fowler Museum, to show... 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- The Horror of Tradition
- @ AndrewShire Gallery
- The five artists brought together for this end-of-summer group show have little in common — except perhaps episodes of childhood trauma... View details »
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- Summer Smockshop
- @ Smockshop
- For artists who don't yet sustain themselves from their work, there are myriad ways to bring in some income — peddling... 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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- 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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- 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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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Rabbit Hole
- @ Skylight Theatre
- 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... View details »
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- The Art of Music
- @ The Scion Installation LA Space
- What do Vans, Tokion magazine, and the Moody Blues have in common? They are all among the scores of clients from... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Pipo Nguyen-Duy
- @ Sam Lee Gallery
- Sam Lee Gallery follows up its dynamic group exhibition I AM I A KILLER with Pipo Nguyen-Duy's cyclical photography project, The... View details »
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- Kori Newkirk and Miguel Angel Rios
- @ LAXART
- Kori Newkirk transforms the mundane into the monumental with his new installation, RANK. The deceptively simple sculpture — an outsized, mirrored... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Agamemnon
- @ The Getty Villa
- Aeschylus' Agamemnon, the first of three plays that make up famed Greek trilogy The Oresteia, soaks the stage with what all... 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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- 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
- 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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- 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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- Katie Grinnan
- @ MAK Center for Art and Architecture
- Katie Grinnan has made a career out of walking the fine line between the second and third dimensions. Grinnan takes architectural... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Camera Ephemera
- @ Found Gallery
- The next generation of children sadly will be deprived of the joyous anticipation that accompanies instant-photograph developing — the whole shaking-and-waiting... 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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- 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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- 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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- David Eddington
- @ Frank Pictures Gallery
- British ex-pat painter David Eddington may have left the grandeur and historical heft of Europe for a life by the Pacific... 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- More Flavor: Sports
- Malibu Surf Classic
- @ Surfrider Beach
- Finally, there's something to photograph on the beach in Malibu besides the shirtless antics of Matthew McConaughey. The newsworthy occasion is... 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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- 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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- Cindy Stelmackowich
- @ Kristi Engle Gallery
- Unless you're a goth historian, 19th-century cadavers, Victorian lace, and anatomical illustrations are not often everyday topics of interest. But Canadian... 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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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Bury the Dead
- @ The Actors' Gang Theatre
- From director Matt Huffman comes a new adaptation of Irwin Shaw's 1936 antiwar masterpiece, Bury the Dead. Shaw, who went on... View details »
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- Signals: A Video Showcase
- @ Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach
- For California Scenarios — the third installment of Signals, OCMA's ongoing contemporary video-art survey — the museum showcases the vivid work... 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Neck Face
- @ New Image Art
- Neck Face and his ubiquitous demon motifs — scrawled all over downtowns on both coasts — enter the gallery scene and... 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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- Eric Sall
- @ Acuna-Hansen Gallery
- In confronting the vibrating, thickly textured canvases of Eric Sall, one gets the distinct impression that he could survive by eating... 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Nathan Danilowicz
- @ Crisp London Los Angeles
- Pawn Shop Gallery reinvents itself as the LA half of the new venture Crisp London Los Angeles with an inaugural exhibition... 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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- Music: Jazz/Blues
- The Bad Plus
- @ Catalina Bar & Grill
- Three distinct musical personalities make up the Bad Plus. Drummer David King drives syncopated, rough-around-the-edges rhythms, while Ethan Iverson's piano provides... 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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- 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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- Jim Marshall
- @ Duncan Miller Gallery
- During his 40-year career, rock 'n roll photographer Jim Marshall has captured some of Bob Dylan's, John Coltrane's, and Janis Joplin's... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- It's the Housewives
- @ Whitefire Theatre
- Sarah Palin may have the elusive Hockey Mom demographic sewn up, but who knows how she's going to handle the nation's... View details »
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- Doug Henry & Joe Potts
- @ Cardwell Jimmerson Contemporary Art
- Video artist Doug Henry and composer/audiophile Joe Potts collaborate in a major new video work honoring the 100-year anniversary of cubism... View details »
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- 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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- 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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- The Art of War
- @ Norton Simon Museum
- When searching for a means of drumming up support for World War I, officials in Washington didn't have to look much... View details »
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