Events on Wednesday, January 14
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Meat Puppets
- @ Alex's Bar
- Led by brothers Curt and Cris Kirkwood, punk-rock pioneers Meat Puppets have enjoyed a decades-long run with roots in seminal indie... View details »
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- Music: Jazz/Blues
- The Nels Cline Singers
- @ Largo at the Coronet Theater
- If you've only been following the guitar-based artistry of Nels Cline since he joined indie supergroup Wilco in 2004, you've been... View details »
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- Music: Electronic
- Low End Theory
- @ The Airliner
- This week's edition of cabinet-rattling weekly Low End Theory features Bass Science, an intercontinental collaboration between Tokyo-based MattB and LA native... View details »
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- Anjulie
- @ The Roosevelt Hotel
- Though her much-anticipated debut album doesn't drop until spring, Canadian singer Anjulie is already being touted as the industry's next —... View details »
Ongoing Events
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- George Stoll
- @ Lightbox Gallery
- In sacred and profane, Los Angeles-based artist George Stoll expands upon his traditional examination of everyday Americana. Objects such as his... View details »
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- Yuval Pudik
- @ Angles Gallery
- Israeli-born, LA-based artist Yuval Pudik executes remarkable graphite drawings on paper that defy the laws of anatomy, narrative, romance, and even... View details »
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- Art: Architecture/Design
- Eddy Sykes
- @ Materials & Applications
- First, there were robot maids, robot pets, and robot vacuums. Now, there are robot gardens. The technical specifications for Materials &... View details »
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- Ray Pettibon
- @ Regen Projects
- The first of this winter's pair of Raymond Pettibon exhibitions at Regen Projects focused on early monochromatic, pop-culture infused pen-and-ink drawings.... View details »
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- Mark Todd and Alan Forbes
- @ La Luz de Jesus
- In Fragments, professional illustrator Mark Todd brings his increasingly abstracted art to La Luz. Bastardizing his signature, comics-based style, Todd's latest... View details »
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- More Flavor: City Gem
- Ugo Wine Bar
- @ Vinum Populi
- Culver City's latest spot of interest is Ugo Wine Bar, a cozy wine bar with the usual bistro couches and charcuterie... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Julia Meltzer + David Thorne
- @ Steve Turner Contemporary
- In previous collaborations between Julia Meltzer and David Thorne, audiences have been offered printed manifestos, photographic projects on public billboards, 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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- Vermeer's A Lady Writing
- @ Norton Simon Museum
- It's not often that Angelenos have the chance to examine an original painting by Dutch Baroque master Johannes Vermeer. His surviving... View details »
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- James Naccarato, Erik Alos, and Lauren Bergman
- @ Corey Helford
- Experts in the unexpected, James Naccarato, Erik Alos, and Lauren Bergman all employ the stylistic underpinnings found in pop surrealism, combining... View details »
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- Martin Denker
- @ Benjamin Trigano Gallery
- A suite of digitally collaged fantasmagorias from German artist Martin Denker, Citizenoftheplanet shows us what it would be like to see... 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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- Derek Buckner
- @ George Billis Gallery
- In an inspired mashup of childhood comfort, adult-onset ADHD, and modern-art history, Brooklyn-based painter Derek Buckner delivers luminous, refined oil paintings... 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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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Pippin
- @ Mark Taper Forum
- Wicked maestro Stephen Schwartz revives his '70s rock opera Pippin as the opening production of the Mark Taper 2009 season. A... View details »
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- WinterWaterColorLand
- @ Samuel Freeman
- Each of the six artists assembled in this Samuel Freeman group exhibition is a master of the watercolor medium. Bucking tradition,... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Cabaret/Burlesque
- Lucent Dossier
- @ The Edison
- Venture into the shabby-chic underground for a night of festive mayhem courtesy of LA's own urban circus freaks, Lucent Dossier, who... View details »
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- Under the Influence
- @ Gallery 1988
- Gallery 1988 hits '09 running with the second installment of its Under the Influence series, this year paying homage to the... View details »
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- Asgar/Gabriel
- @ Mark Moore Gallery
- Collaborative painters Daryoush Asgar and Elisabeth Gabriel make no attempt at seamlessness or illusion. The scars of their clashing styles is... View details »
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OngoingFree Flavorpill 50
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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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- Tango with Cows: Book Art of the Russian Avant-Garde
- @ The Getty Center
- In Tango with Cows, the Getty Research Institute presents a concentrated display of unabridged books published in Russia between 1910 and... View details »
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- At the Brewery Project
- @ Armory Center for the Arts
- With At the Brewery Project: 1993-2007: the Finale, the Armory pays its respects to an LA art mainstay. For the past... View details »
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- David E. Stone
- @ Charlie James Gallery
- Los Angeles artist David E. Stone practices a surreal brand of punsterism, often producing exhibitions in serial form that build upon... View details »
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- William Tunberg
- @ C4 Gallery
- Marquetry is an ages-old technique of applying wood veneers to solid surfaces, popular among extremely wealthy Europeans in the time of... View details »
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- 2008 California Biennial
- @ Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach
- The 2008 installment of the California Biennial should come with an anxiety-attack warning label. In a way, it does, with Patrick... 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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- 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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- The Art of Blake Edwards
- @ Pacific Design Center
- Blake Edwards has established a lasting role in an otherwise fickle entertainment industry, directing gems like Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Party,... View details »
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- Lisa Adams
- @ Lawrence Asher Gallery
- LA painter Lisa Adams is something of a riddle. Her work is almost violently sweet, with a dulcet, wafting quality to... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Puppetry
- Bob Baker presents The Nutcracker
- @ Bob Baker Marionette Theater
- In the early '60s, Bob Baker and partner Alton Wood founded a marionette theater, establishing what has become the longest-running children's... 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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- Hans Burkhardt
- @ Jack Rutberg Fine Arts
- In the years bracketing WWII, a great many artists were among those fleeing to US shores from the specter of Nazi... View details »
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- Human Resources
- @ The Company
- The economy be damned: amid a spate of gallery closings, it's still full speed ahead for the fearless founders of the... View details »
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- Shut Up and Keep Swimming
- @ Jail Gallery
- While it's certainly true that things are finally looking up in this country, the premise of curator Claressinka Anderson's latest parfait... View details »
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- Moira Hahn
- @ Koplin del Rio Gallery
- Moira Hahn is known for conceptually complex, masterfully rendered mash-up paintings in which wild and domestic animals play the roles of... View details »
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