Events on Friday, January 9
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- Music: Folk/Country
- Greg Laswell
- @ The Hotel Café
- Greg Laswell returns from a cross-continental gigging escapade to perform at Hotel Café, the site of his LA residency. The Vanguard... View details »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Plants and Animals w/ the Little Ones
- @ Natural History Museum
- The Little Ones play the kind of pop music LA does best: no rock posturing or fake tales of hard knocks... View details »
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- Music: Punk/Metal
- Beats Up Festival
- @ The Smell
- The Beats Up festival does just that, pummeling eardrums with a packed line-up capped by UK techno-punk club killers Teeth. Also... 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Self-Portraits in the Age of MyFaceSpaceBook
- @ I-5 Gallery
- Self-Portraits in the Age of MyFaceSpaceBook is a big, fat group show that delivers just what its title promises: an unwieldy... View details »
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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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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- 99¢ Only Calendar Girl Competition
- @ Bootleg Theater
- Bargain-hunting beauty queens and dollar store Don Juans convene as Bootleg Theatre pays homage to LA's kitschy holiday headquarters. The 99¢... 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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- More Flavor: City Gem
- Soup Kitchen Cocktail Hour
- @ The Edison
- Every Friday, the Edison Lounge transforms itself into a soup kitchen to, in their words, "maintain perspective through this financial crisis... 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Art: Photography
- Michael Kenna and Pam Posey
- @ Craig Krull Gallery
- Photographer Michael Kenna is a technical whiz, a classicist with a flair for the dramatic. His sweeping black-and-white landscapes depict vistas... View details »
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- Music: Festival
- BPM Festival
- @ Playa del Carmen, Mexico
- In honor of the second annual BPM Festival, club owners, promoters, and other pro nightlifers flock to the Mexican Caribbean for... 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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- 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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- 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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- Performing Arts: Cabaret/Burlesque
- Grand Guignol
- @ Art/Works Theatre
- For the first half of the 20th century, Le Theatre du Grand Guignol in Paris reigned as the predominant purveyor of... View details »
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- Louise Bourgeois
- @ Museum of Contemporary Art
- Louise Bourgeois' deeply personal art combines an in-your-face sexuality with disturbing, even terrifying, imagery of trespassed flesh and violated privacy. Yet... 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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- Date Farmers
- @ New Image Art
- New Image Art stages an imaginative collection of works by the Date Farmers (aka Coachella Valley's Carlos Ramirez and Armando Lerma).... 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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: Photography
- photoLA
- @ Santa Monica Air Center, Barker Hangar
- The LA International Photographic Art Expo (aka photoLA) hits Barker Hanger for its 18th-annual three-day jubilee. Over 70 worldwide galleries and... 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Scrooge Must Die!
- @ The Actors' Gang Theatre
- Written and directed by the Actors' Gang's own Angela Berliner, Scrooge Must Die! offers an X-rated reading of Charles Dickens' classic... 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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- Art: Photography
- Glen E. Friedman
- @ Subliminal Projects
- One of the best-known names in street photography, Glen Friedman produces jaunty, richly printed black-and-white portraits of skate, punk, and indie... 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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- 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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