Events on Saturday, July 18

<em>Sixteen Candles </em>(1984)
Month_07 Saturday Day_18
Film
Sixteen Candles
@ Schoolhouse Parking Garage Rooftop
Written and directed by '80s teen-movie maestro John Hughes, Sixteen Candles stars Molly Ringwald as Sam Baker, a high-school sophomore celebrating...  View details »
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Grand Performances presents Albita
Month_07 Saturday Day_18
Music
Albita
@ Grand Performances
Albita is a self-assured powerhouse whose upbeat performance style is infused with the traditional musicality of Cuba in both sound and...  View details »
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Faith Hill with the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra
Month_07 Saturday Day_18
Music: Folk/Country
Faith Hill with the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra
@ Hollywood Bowl
Drawing on best-selling albums with such hits as “Breathe,” “This Kiss,” and “Mississippi Girl,” five-time Grammy-winner Faith Hill joins the Hollywood...  View details »
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Lisa Jack: <em>Barack Obama: The Freshman</em>
Month_07 Saturday Day_18
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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Heather Cantrell: <em>A Study in Portraiture: Act I</em>
Month_07 Saturday Day_18
Art: Photography
Heather Cantrell
@ Kinkead Contemporary
Los Angeles-based photographer Heather Cantrell lays elaborate groundwork for her seemingly fresh and casual portraits. Employing props, costumes, and references to...  View details »
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<em>Point Break LIVE!</em>
Month_07 Saturday Day_18
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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<em>Bitch Is the New Black</em>
Month_07 Saturday Day_18
Art
Bitch Is the New Black
@ Honor Fraser
Curated by arts critic and writer Emma Gray, Honor Fraser's annual group show features works by 14 female artists based in...  View details »
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<em>Sweets & Treats</em>: Wayne Thiebaud in the Collection of the Norton Simon Museum
Month_07 Saturday Day_18
Art
Wayne Thiebaud
@ Norton Simon Museum
In the 1960s, soon-to-be Pop icon Wayne Thiebaud created a series of monochromatic, two-dimensional prints of nine pieces of pie, sufficiently...  View details »
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<em>Sweets & Treats</em>: Wayne Thiebaud in the Collection of the Norton Simon Museum
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Sweets & Treats: Wayne Thiebaud in the Collection of the Norton Simon Museum
@ Norton Simon Museum of Art
Sweets & Treats: Wayne Thiebaud in the Collection of the Norton Simon Museum presents a selection of prints created by the...  View details »
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Andrew Schoultz: <em>White Noise and Silence</em> and Hank Willis Thomas: <em>Black Is Beautiful</em>
Month_07 Saturday Day_18
Art
Andrew Schoultz and Hank Willis Thomas
@ Roberts & Tilton Gallery
Bay Area artist Andrew Schoultz crafts expansive murals and other large-scale paintings from innumerable individual lines and details. His densely swirled,...  View details »
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<em>Kill Me, Deadly</em>
Month_07 Saturday Day_18
Performing Arts: Theatre
Kill Me, Deadly
@ Theatre of NOTE
Theatre of Note's current "Season of the Passion Plays" continues with this original noir production of Kill Me, Deadly! Loaded with...  View details »
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Ugo Wine Bar
Month_07 Saturday Day_18
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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<em>Broads, Boobs, and Buckles</em>: The Pinball Art of Dave Christensen
Month_07 Saturday Day_18
Art
Dave Christensen
@ Kristi Engle Gallery
Throughout the '70s, technical artist and service-manual author Dave Christensen fleshed out a series of bodacious and bawdy graphics for pinball...  View details »
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<em>Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy</em>
Month_07 Sunday Day_19
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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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<em>ZAP! POW! BAM!</em><em> The Superhero: The Golden Age of Comic Books, 1938-1950</em>
Month_07 Saturday Day_18
Art
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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<em>RE: materialization</em>
Month_07 Saturday Day_18
Art
RE: materialization
@ Deborah Martin Gallery
Opening in conjunction with the Downtown Art Walk, RE: materialization features 35 works, narrowed down from over 200 submissions, in an...  View details »
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Venice Beach Wines
Month_07 Saturday Day_18
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Venice Beach Wines
@ Venice Beach Wines
Venice's transformation from the sister nabe of Loisaida into Williamsburg West continues as posh locals-heavy favorite Venice Beach Wines lights up...  View details »
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<em>Lights on LA</em>
Month_07 Sunday Day_19
Art: Festival
Lights on LA
@ Pershing Square
Illuminating the wealth of creative resources within the LA art scene, Tarryn Teresa Gallery's Lights on LA strings up light bulbs...  View details »
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Todd Hebert and Jennifer Nehrbass
Month_07 Saturday Day_18
Art
Todd Hebert and Jennifer Nehrbass
@ Mark Moore Gallery
On view through August 15th, Todd Hebert and Jennifer Nehrbass present new bodies of work in simultaneous solo exhibitions at Mark...  View details »
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<em>Locals Only</em>
Month_07 Sunday Day_19
Art
Locals Only
@ LOOK Gallery
Curated by Coagula Art Journal publisher Mat Gleason, Locals Only features works by nine artists who reflect the Southland's inherent multiplicity....  View details »
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Gary Lang: <em>Circles Lines Grids</em> and Jay Mark Johnson: <em>Spacetime</em>
Month_07 Saturday Day_18
Art: Photography
Gary Lang and Jay Mark Johnson
@ ACE Gallery
It's a veritable amusement park for optic nerves at ACE Gallery's Beverly Hills location this month, with a pair of exhibitions...  View details »
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Eine: <em>The A-Z of Change</em>
Month_07 Saturday Day_18
Art
Eine
@ Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art
The latest salvo in Carmichael Gallery's one-shop battle to raise the domestic profiles of European graffiti stars features British and German...  View details »
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Nicole Cohen: <em>French Connection</em>
Month_07 Saturday Day_18
Art
Nicole Cohen
@ Shoshana Wayne Gallery
In her latest series of photographic and video projections, Nicole Cohen expands upon previous subject matter and technological complexity, constructing layered,...  View details »
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<em>Stranger</em>
Month_07 Saturday Day_18
Performing Arts: Theatre
Stranger
@ Bootleg Theater
Stranger has the look, sound, and feel of everything glorious about the old west — and its classy, interpretive design ropes...  View details »
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<em>Occupation Dreamer: The Photography of Moshe Brakha</em>
Month_07 Saturday Day_18
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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Lawrence Weiner: <em>Placed on the Tip of a Wave</em>
Month_07 Saturday Day_18
Art
Lawrence Weiner
@ Regen Projects II
Since his seminal book Statements came out in 1968, Lawrence Weiner has been at the forefront of conceptual art. Using language...  View details »
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<em>Celestial Ash: Assemblages from Los Angeles</em>
Month_07 Saturday Day_18
Art
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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Danger Mouse, Sparklehorse, and David Lynch present <em>Dark Night of the Soul</em>
Month_07 Saturday Day_18
Art: Photography
Dark Night of the Soul
@ Michael Kohn Gallery
Dark Night of the Soul is a two-pronged project: The visual element, represented here, features psych-noir master David Lynch's photographic interpretations...  View details »
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<em>Octomom: The Musical</em>
Month_07 Saturday Day_18
Performing Arts: Theatre
Octomom: The Musical
@ The Fake Gallery
Octomom: The Musical places pop-cultural satire in good hands. However obvious the conceit may be, director Chris Voltaire uses it well...  View details »
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Jim Gentry: <em>Never Odd or Even</em> and Leia Jervert: <em>Cut Back</em>
Month_07 Saturday Day_18
Art
Jim Gentry and Leia Jervert
@ Happy
There's no excuse to feel glum when you're at Happy, a home and lifestyle nook in Los Feliz that features well-designed...  View details »
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Cirque Berzerk
Month_07 Saturday Day_18
Performing Arts
Cirque Berzerk
@ Los Angeles State Historic Park
Cirque Berzerk at Downtown's LA State Historic Park features a custom-built Italian big top, seven new alt-circus acts, and a midway...  View details »
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<em>Rogue Wave: 10 Artists from Los Angeles</em>
Month_07 Saturday Day_18
Art
Rogue Wave
@ LA Louver Gallery
Following three previous incarnations, the Rogue Wave group show returns to Venice's LA Louver with ten Angelenos redefining regionalism. Co-curated by...  View details »
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<em>The Billboard Show: Selling the So-Cal Lifestyle</em>: Photographic Landscapes of the 1950s and 1960s
Month_07 Saturday Day_18
Art: Photography
The Billboard Show: Selling the So-Cal Lifestyle
@ Take My Picture Gary Leonard
Ever since taking a photograph of the Dodgers as a little boy in 1959, Gary Leonard has documented the mercurial landscape...  View details »
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Suzannah Sinclair: <em>The Way Things Are Looking</em> and Kime Buzelli: <em>Deep in the Hole I Own You</em>
Month_07 Saturday Day_18
Art
Kime Buzelli and Suzannah Sinclair
@ New Image Art
New Image Art Gallery presents a pair of very different takes on the feminine mystique as painters Suzannah Sinclair and Kime...  View details »
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<em>The Kids Are Alright</em>
Month_07 Saturday Day_18
Art
The Kids Are Alright
@ Black Maria Gallery
Taking a cue from those masters of capturing the youthful zeitgeist, the Who, The Kids Are Alright showcases a new generation...  View details »
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TreePeople presents Once Upon A Canyon Night
Month_07 Sunday Day_19
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Once Upon A Canyon Night
@ S. Mark Taper Foundation Amphitheatre
Working to restore greenery to the southland for over 30 years, TreePeople helps communities foster tree growth, provides environmental education, and...  View details »
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Pictures of the Year International: The World. In High Resolution
Month_07 Saturday Day_18
Art: Photography
Pictures of the Year International: The World. In High Resolution
@ Annenberg Space for Photography
The Annenberg Space for Photography is a new home for POYi's expanded exhibition this year. For 65 years, the winning work...  View details »
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<em>Cool Globes: Hot Ideas for a Cooler Planet</em>
Month_07 Sunday Day_19
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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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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Fallen Fruit: <em>Fresh 'n Easy</em>
Month_07 Saturday Day_18
Art
Fallen Fruit: Fresh 'n Easy
@ another year in LA
Fallen Fruit — the artist collective formed by David Burns, Matias Viegener, and Austin Young — has typically been known more...  View details »
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Rush Street
Month_07 Saturday Day_18
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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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Outfest Under the Stars
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Month_07 Saturday Day_18
Film: Festival
Outfest Under the Stars  
@ The Ford Theater
The second week of Outfest concludes with its now-legendary open-air screenings at the Ford Ampitheatre. Highlights include Wednesday night's Swedish same-sex-parenting...  View details »
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Paul Outerbridge: <em>Command Performance</em> and Jo Ann Callis: <em>Woman Twirling</em>
Month_07 Saturday Day_18
Art: Photography
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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<em>In Focus: Making a Scene</em>
Month_07 Saturday Day_18
Art: Photography
In Focus: Making a Scene
@ The Getty Center
Thirty staged photographs are on view at the Getty Center as part of its In Focus series, a thematic presentation of...  View details »
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Fallen Fruit: <em>United Fruit</em>
Month_07 Saturday Day_18
Art
Fallen Fruit: United Fruit
@ LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions)
LA-based art and action collective Fallen Fruit uses the visual arts (specifically photography, installation, and performance-oriented actions) to examine the imbalance...  View details »
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<em>James Hueter: A Retrospective</em>
Month_07 Saturday Day_18
Art
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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<em>Nevermore</em>
Month_07 Saturday Day_18
Performing Arts: Comedy
Nevermore
@ The Steve Allen Theater
Edgar Allan Poe would have been 200 this year, and though, by all appearances, he wasn't exactly the birthday-cake type, he...  View details »
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Clayton Brothers: <em>Jumbo Fruit</em>
Month_07 Saturday Day_18
Art
Clayton Brothers
@ Patrick Painter Gallery
Rob and Christian Clayton's first hometown exhibition in over half a decade, Jumbo Fruit represents the culmination of six months' worth...  View details »
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The Eclectech Poolside
Month_07 Saturday Day_18
Music: DJ
The Eclectech
@ Custom Hotel
Custom Hotel's Eclectech-hosted day-into-night poolside dance party was already a legend. Making the move from Sunday to Saturday to "allow for...  View details »
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<em>Instruments</em>
Month_07 Saturday Day_18
Art
Instruments
@ SolwayJones Gallery
Solway Jones Gallery's summer group show takes on the celebrated cross-pollination of music and art, with an exhibition of mostly sculptural...  View details »
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<em>He Asked For It</em>
Month_07 Saturday Day_18
Performing Arts: Theatre
He Asked For It
@ Macha Theatre
Erik Patterson's provocative play He Asked for It explores the dark underbelly of one-night stands: the HIV-indifferent behavior of "bug chasers."...  View details »
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<em>Farragut North</em>
Month_07 Saturday Day_18
Performing Arts: Theatre
Farragut North
@ The Geffen Playhouse
Westwood's Geffen Playhouse presents a timely hybrid of Survivor, West Wing, and The Hills, outlining the value of loyalty and the...  View details »
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Sophia Allison, Rebecca Lowry, and Ivo Vergara: <em>Retrospect</em>
Month_07 Saturday Day_18
Art: Architecture/Design
Retrospect
@ Lawrence Asher Gallery
Three very different artists enter into a dialogue about the persistence of memory and how recollections are formed, contorted, stored, and...  View details »
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Back to Basics: <em>MatterApp</em>
Month_07 Sunday Day_19
Art: Architecture/Design
MatterApp
@ Materials & Applications
Materials and Applications, the architecture and landscape research company, has pursued design experimentation by focusing their usual outdoor courtyard exhibitions on...  View details »
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Silver Lake Art, Craft & Vintage Flea Market
Month_07 Saturday Day_18
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Art, Craft & Vintage Flea Market
@ Micheltorena Elementary School
East Side shoppers seeking the offbeat have cause to celebrate, as last year's most wild and eclectic weekly outdoor shopping adventure...  View details »
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Stella Im Hultberg: <em>Memento Mori</em>
Month_07 Saturday Day_18
Art
Stella Im Hultberg
@ Thinkspace Gallery
The paintings of Brooklyn-based artist Stella Im Hultberg combine the sultry, gilded romance and elongated, mannerist lines of Gustav Klimt with...  View details »
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Susan Feniger's Street
Month_07 Saturday Day_18
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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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The Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum presents <em>The Cherry Orchard</em>
Month_07 Sunday Day_19
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Cherry Orchard
@ The Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum
In the '50s, blacklisted actor Will Geer opened a theater on his Topanga property for fellow performers ostracized during the McCarthy...  View details »
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Barkley L. Hendricks: <em>Birth of the Cool: Paintings, 1964-2007</em>
Month_07 Saturday Day_18
Art
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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Outfest 2009
Month_07 Sunday Day_19
Film: Festival
Outfest 2009
@ Various
Outfest returns for its annual spotlight on emerging LGBT film and filmmakers, featuring old-school faves, outdoor screenings (two words: Funny Girl),...  View details »
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<em>Diverted Destruction 2</em>
Month_07 Saturday Day_18
Art
Diverted Destruction 2
@ The Loft at Liz's
A diverse group of emerging LA artists join forces to give your garbage a new lease on life. Work in the...  View details »
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Annie Lapin: <em>Parallel Deliria Iteration</em>
Month_07 Saturday Day_18
Art
Annie Lapin: Parallel Deliria Iteration
@ Pasadena Museum of California Art
The PMCA is proud to present Los Angeles painter Annie Lapin's Parallel Deliria Iteration, which the artist describes as "a never-ending...  View details »
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The Chimaera of Arezzo
Month_07 Saturday Day_18
Art
The Chimaera of Arezzo
@ The Getty Museum
The Chimaera of Arezzo traces the myth of Bellerophon and the Chimaera - the legendary fire-breathing monster comprised of a lion,...  View details »
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Edith Heath: Tabletop Modernist
Month_07 Saturday Day_18
Art: Architecture/Design
Edith Heath: Tabletop Modernist
@ Pasadena Museum of California Art
This exhibition focuses on the life of Edith Heath and her defining influence on California design through pottery. Popular at dinner...  View details »
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Cast in Bronze: French Sculpture from Renaissance to Revolution
Month_07 Saturday Day_18
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Cast in Bronze: French Sculpture from Renaissance to Revolution
@ The Getty Museum
This exhibition represents an overview of three centuries of French bronze sculpture, when monarchs and private collectors came to embrace bronze...  View details »
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You See: The Early Years of the UC Davis Studio Art Faculty
Month_07 Saturday Day_18
Art
You See: The Early Years of the UC Davis Studio Art Faculty
@ Pasadena Museum of California Art
Featuring work of five UC Davis faculty members Robert Arneson, Roy De Forest, Manuel Neri, Wayne Thiebaud and William T. Wiley,...  View details »
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Exceptionally Gifted: Recent Donations to the Norton Simon Museum
Month_07 Sunday Day_19
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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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Walls of Algiers: Narratives of the City
Month_07 Saturday Day_18
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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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TRAFFIC!
Month_07 Saturday Day_18
Art: Photography
TRAFFIC!
@ Pasadena Museum of California Art
Benny Chan has worked diligently over the past few years to photograph overhead views of Los Angeles freeways during the height...  View details »
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