Events on Thursday, May 28
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- Reading
- Memphis & the Delta Blues Trail: A Complete Guide
- @ Stories Books
- There's more to Memphis than Graceland — a fact that LA-based writers Melissa and Justin Gage tackle in their recent collaboration... View details »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- St. Vincent
- @ El Rey
- After stunning critics with her 2007 debut, Marry Me, crystal-voiced Brooklyn crooner St. Vincent (aka Annie Clark) returns with an impressive... View details »
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- Music: Festival
- Tonalism
- @ Henry Miller Library (Big Sur)
- Oceanside idyll, live performances from pulse-slowing experimental acts, and psychedelic dance sets from some of SoCal's finest DJs: Three of Tonalism's... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- L8S ANG3LES
- @ Annenberg Space for Photography
- John Baldessari, Catherine Opie, Douglas Kirkland, Lauren Greenfield and Julius Shulman are a few of the world-class photographers whose images are... View details »
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- Marc Camille Chaimowicz
- @ Overduin and Kite
- In his first US solo exhibition, UK artist Marc Camille Chaimowicz presents four-dimensional spacial poetry realized in the form of a... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Photograph 51
- @ The Fountain Theatre
- In the early '50s, British biophysicist Rosalind Franklin labored in a King's College London lab to unravel the structure of DNA.... View details »
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- Sam Flores
- @ Subliminal Projects
- Sam Flores has brand recognition in the skate-deck and design worlds, but as a fine-art painter, his work might surprise even... View details »
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- Celestial Ash
- @ Craft and Folk Art Museum
- Joseph Cornell's surrealist shadowboxes reconfigured found objects into multidimensional creations, classified as neither sculpture nor collage, but as assemblages. The Craft... View details »
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- ZAP! POW! BAM!
- @ Skirball Cultural Center
- Jerry Robinson, cartoonist and creator of Batman's iconic villain, the Joker, guest curated ZAP! POW! BAM! The Golden Age of Comic... View details »
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- Lizabeth Eva Rossof and David Fokos
- @ Kopeikin Gallery
- While much of Lizabeth Eva Rossof's visual art might recall the colorful confectionary treats of our youth, it actually focuses on... View details »
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- Hugh Brown
- @ CSUF Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana
- The Grand Central Art Center Gallery at Cal State Fullerton features over 40 original works by the Grammy-winning Creative Director of... View details »
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- Steve Lambert
- @ Charlie James Gallery
- Chinatown's Charlie James Gallery becomes more appliance store than art space during Steve Lambert's solo show Everything You Want, Right Now!... View details »
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- C.O.L.A. 2009
- @ Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery
- The City of Los Angeles (C.O.L.A.) Individual Artist Fellowships in the Arts, granted by the Department of Cultural Affairs, are distinguished... View details »
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- Matahati ke Matadunia
- @ Seni Contemporary
- Art critic Peter Frank and gallerist Delia Cabral want you to see what they've seen. On a recent curatorial reconnaissance trip... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Occupation Dreamer
- @ GRAMMY Museum at LA Live
- Spanning the decade between 1976 and 1986, the GRAMMY Museum's first photography exhibition features 30 pictures of rock stars by Israeli-born,... View details »
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- Paul Outerbridge and Jo Ann Callis
- @ The Getty Center
- Over 100 prints by prolific New York photographer Paul Outerbridge (1896-1958) are on view at the Getty Center through August 9.... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Ain't Misbehavin'
- @ Ahmanson Theatre
- The joint is jumpin' at the Ahmanson Theatre's revival of the 1978 off-Broadway musical Ain't Misbehavin'. Based on the life and... 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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- More Flavor: Food/Wine
- Rush Street
- @ Rush Street
- Rush Street may be the loudest bar/restaurant in Culver City, but that's just part of its authentic Chicago style. The creative,... View details »
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- Fatima Jamil Faiz
- @ Deborah Martin Gallery
- This month's Downtown Art Walk event is ideal for lovers of quirky paintings in all shapes and sizes. Deborah Martin Gallery... View details »
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- Kehinde Wiley
- @ Roberts & Tilton Gallery
- For the third installment of his World Stage series (the first two spotlighted China and Africa, respectively), Harlem's hip-hop-styled conceptualist painter... View details »
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- My Barbarian
- @ Steve Turner Contemporary
- Don't worry, it's not another Geico commercial gone wrong. Despite its faux-savage name, this decidedly polished experimental-art troupe uses a sophisticated... View details »
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- Chaka
- @ Mid-City Arts Gallery
- Longtime Southland residents likely recall seeing Chaka's moniker on thousands of LA street signs, overpasses, and any other public space the... View details »
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- Castillo
- @ Tarryn Teresa Gallery
- A lot of women in LA are obsessed with their hair, but installation artist Castillo takes the prize. Her large-scale sculptural... View details »
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- Daniel Nicoletta
- @ Overtones Gallery
- Starting in 1975 as a staff photographer for The Advocate and an employee in the Harvey Milk-owned Castro Camera shop, Daniel... View details »
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- Susan Feniger's Street
- @ Street
- Celebu-chef Susan Feniger of Too Hot Tamales serves up everything from Malaysian Kaya Toast to Moldavian Meatballs at her latest, most... 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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- Art: Architecture/Design
- Cool Globes
- @ LA Memorial Coliseum & Exposition Park
- Artists, scientists, public-policy makers, and concerned citizens find common ground at unique outdoor art installation Cool Globes. The result of a... View details »
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- Barkley L. Hendricks
- @ Santa Monica Museum of Art
- Imagine the florid, hyper-decorative seduction of Kehinde Wiley's large-scale portraits of young black men, only rendered with an urban, folk-outsider edge,... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Barack Obama: The Freshman
- @ M+B Gallery Los Angeles
- As a photography student at LA's Occidental College in 1980, Lisa Jack took a series of portraits with a handsome, charismatic... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo
- @ Kirk Douglas Theatre
- It's always refreshing to see a work that speaks with such striking originality that it reaffirms the value in taking risks.... View details »
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- Thais Beltrame
- @ Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art
- It's a perfect confluence of art and events at Carmichael Gallery this month, with two shows and a book-release party stoking... View details »
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- Nine Lives: Visionary Artists from LA
- @ Hammer Museum
- Exploring the idea of reinvention, Nine Lives: Visionary Artists from LA illuminates the creative undercurrent of a city that has long... View details »
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- James Hueter
- @ Claremont Museum of Art
- The Claremont Museum of Art makes no secret of its mission: the preservation, study, and dissemination of the legacy left by... View details »
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- Matisse's Amours
- @ Norton Simon Museum
- The French Fauvist painter Henri Matisse began a simple, 30-lithograph portfolio in 1941, and seven years later transformed it into a... View details »
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- Yoskay Yamamoto
- @ LeBasse Projects
- Yoskay Yamamoto is all about fusion. His art, illustration, and design have become wildly popular among the urban-romantic set, whose aesthetic... View details »
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- Screwball Asses
- @ The Company
- Curated by Hedi El Kholti and David Jones, this wide-ranging group show uses broken-down stereotypes to reveal the multiplicity of a... View details »
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- Amy Kaps
- @ Indie Collective
- LA-based performance artist, photographer, and visual philosopher Amy Kaps is obsessed with patterns — of thought, behavior, history, and form —... View details »
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- Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
- @ GRAMMY Museum at LA Live
- The recently opened GRAMMY Museum at Downtown's mammoth entertainment complex LA Live offers visitors a rare, intimate glimpse into the life... View details »
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- Exceptionally Gifted: Recent Donations to the Norton Simon Museum
- @ Norton Simon Museum of Art
- The Norton Simon Museum presents a selection of artworks donated to the Museum since 2002. Exceptionally Gifted: Recent Donations to the... View details »
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- More Flavor: Exhibition
- Walls of Algiers: Narratives of the City
- @ The Getty Museum
- The city of Algiers, on the north coast of Africa, historically sheltered a diverse population. During the Ottoman centuries (1529-1830), this... View details »
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