Events on Friday, July 31
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Stellastarr*
- @ The Troubadour
- It's been a minute since NYC's Stellastarr* have been around, with their last album, Harmonies for the Haunted, dropping in 2005.... View details »
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- Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite
- @ Synchronicity Space
- Tonight, Synchronicity Space screens Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite, a multimedia video mash-up curated by Ben Bigelow and incorporating works... View details »
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- Reading
- Zak Smith
- @ Skylight Books
- The lavishly illustrated docu-novel from artist Zak Smith expands on certain extant themes in his paintings and drawings — specifically those... View details »
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- Film: Double Feature
- A Night at Earl Carroll's & The Big TNT Show
- @ Egyptian Theatre
- Double Feature: A NIGHT AT EARL CARROLL'S, 1940, Universal, 62 min. Dir. Kurt Neumann. The Wayback Machine now takes you back... View details »
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- 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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- Film: Documentary
- Smile 'Til It Hurts: The Up With People Story
- @ Arclight Hollywood
- As hippies dodged the draft in the 1960s and more and more Americans embraced flower-power, free-love, and psychedelics, the corn-fed, deliriously... 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Yogaglo
- @ Yogaglo
- Yoga lovers will be jumping for joy (or rather, doing the Downward Dog) thanks to Yogaglo, a new online interactive site that... 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Exene Cervenka and Wayne White
- @ Western Project
- Daring frontwoman of arguably the coolest punk band ever, X, Exene Cervenka has considerable talents off the stage as well, starting... View details »
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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Performing Arts
- Accomplice: Hollywood
- @ Various Hollywood locations
- Co-produced by Neil Patrick Harris and Tom Salamon, Accomplice: Hollywood sends teams of intrepid folks along Hollywood Boulevard and its environs... View details »
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- 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
- Nordic Mood
- @ Gallery Skart
- Beyond Björk and ice hotels, most Americans don't have a lot of familiarity with Iceland — but the eerie beauty of... 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Gidget Gein: Post Mortem
- @ La Luz de Jesus
- Born Bradley Stewart, Gidget Gein merged the name of an icon with that of grave-robber/murderer Ed Gein during his days as... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Festival
- New Original Works Festival 2009: Program Two
- @ REDCAT
- REDCAT's sixth annual NOW Festival launches eight new works by Los Angeles dance, theater, music and multimedia artists who are bending... View details »
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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Heard of Elephants
- @ Synchronicity Space
- LA indie art and music collective Heard of Elephants celebrates its first anniversary with a party so big, it takes up... View details »
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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Film: Festival
- DocuWeeks
- @ Arclight Hollywood
- A nonprofit designed to foster nonfiction film and video, the 27-year-old International Documentary Association also hosts the yearly DocuWeeks Theatrical Documentary... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Vice Magazine Photography Exhibition
- @ The Scion Installation LA Space
- In conjunction with Vice's annual photo issue, the ninth annual Vice Photo Show features work by contributors Jamie Lee Curtis Taete,... View details »
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- A Pageant of Hip-Hop Masters
- @ Sweeney Art Gallery, UC Riverside
- Lovers of the tableau vivant ("living picture") revel in earnest replicas of treasures of art history, typically versions of the Venus... 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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- Music
- Guys and Dolls in Concert with the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra
- @ Hollywood Bowl
- Combine the pizzazz of Damon Runyon's now-legendary characters with a dazzling score by Frank Loesser and a brilliant book by Jo... View details »
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- ZOOM – Open Call For Artists
- @ Torrance Art Museum
- The Torrance Art Museum presents ZOOM A new prestigious annual group show of contemporary artists from So Cal, Baja, Nevada... View details »
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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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- 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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- Performing Arts: Festival
- New Original Works Festival 2009: Program Two
- @ REDCAT
- The annual three-week NOW Festival launches new works by Los Angeles dance, theater, music and multimedia performance artists.... 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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- 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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- 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
- @ 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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- Capturing Nature's Beauty: Three Centuries of French Landscapes
- @ The Getty Museum
- This selection of over 40 drawings from the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Getty Research Institute highlights... View details »
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- 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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- 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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