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- Music: Folk/Country
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Spindrift
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Friday July 4 (8:30pm) @ The Echo in Echo Park
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Spaghetti-Western psych-rockers Spindrift were born for a gig in the back-room saloon in The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (or any cowboy flick scored... View details »
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July 4th Spectacular
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Friday July 4 (7:30pm) @ Hollywood Bowl
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While Randy Newman's recent end-of-empire parable "A Few Words in Defense of Our Country" took a pretty dark turn, the husky-throated piano man remains the... View details »
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Chris & Don
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Friday July 4 @ Landmark Nuart Theatre in W Hollywood
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The remarkable tale at the center of Chris & Don opens on a Malibu beach 50 years ago, when British writer Christopher Isherwood (his Berlin... View details »
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13-Hour Pool Party
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Saturday July 5 (1pm–2am) @ Custom Hotel in Westchester
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Nothing says "summer" like a 13-hour dance party. Starting in the afternoon and ending in the wee hours, the Splash pool party invades the Custom... View details »
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Mondongo
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Saturday July 5 (6–9pm) @ Track 16 Gallery in Santa Monica
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As students of cultural iconoclasm, the members of Argentinian art collective Mondongo — Juliana Laffitte, Manuel Mendanha, and Agustina Picasso — regularly reveal the dark... View details »
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The Joint Custody Project
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Saturday July 5 (6–9pm) @ Found Gallery
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Many artists feel that they express themselves best through their own singular vision, making collaboration in the visuals arts somewhat rare. But Found Gallery's The... View details »
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Los Muertos
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Saturday July 5 (7pm) @ The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA in Downtown
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As a Los Angeles judge debates whether or not to excuse a dying Manson-family murderer from her life-without-parole sentence, audiences can do some deep moral... View details »
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Caia Koopman & Mark Gleason
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Saturday July 5 (8–11pm) @ La Luz de Jesus in Hollywood
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Though painters Caia Koopman and Mark Gleason take vastly different approaches, both make the human/animal relationship a cornerstone of their work. Coopman's whimsical illustrations depict... View details »
- Performing Arts: Dance
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Viver Brasil
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Saturday July 5 (8:30pm) @ The Ford Theater in Hollywood
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The Ford Amphitheatre's bucolic environment is the perfect setting for Viver Brasil's excursion into the seductive world of Afro-Bahian culture. Artistic director Linda Yudin has... View details »
- Music: DJ
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Marques Wyatt
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Sunday July 6 (1–9pm) @ Custom Hotel in Westchester
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Pushing Sunday well into Monday morning, Om Records producer and DJ Marques Wyatt's finely crafted club night Deep showcases beat stars from around the world.... View details »
- Film: Documentary
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The Gits Movie
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Monday July 7 (7:30pm) @ Echoplex in Echo Park
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The history of the Gits, a Seattle band from the early '90s, starkly combines moments of exhilaration and devastation. In July 1993, just as the... View details »
- Music: Soul/R&B
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Stevie Wonder
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Monday July 7 (8pm) @ Hollywood Bowl
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Sure, old-school soulster Stevie Wonder has evened out a bit with age — tempering his once-rollicking rock 'n rollers with shot after shot of unrelenting... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Princeton
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Monday July 7 @ Silverlake Lounge
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In spite of their ivy-oriented band name, chamber-pop trio Princeton are actually from here in LA. Adding to the geographical incongruency, Princeton's latest EP, Bloomsbury,... View details »
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Sunrise
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Tuesday July 8 (8pm) @ The Silent Movie Theatre in Hollywood
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Silent-film director F.W. Murnau's Sunrise is often cited on all-time best-of lists, and for good reason. The story of a wishy-washy farmer whose life is... View details »
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Sneak Preview
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Wednesday July 9 (7–10pm) @ Writers Guild Theater
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One of the great perks of living in the twinkle-dusted Hollywood vicinity is not only getting to see hotly anticipated films before they officially open,... View details »
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Downtown Art Walk
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Thursday July 10 (noon–9pm) @ Bert Green Fine Art
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The Downtown Gallery District gets bigger all the time, with new art spaces popping up at an alarming rate. This month's installment of the neighborhood... View details »
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LA Art Girls
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Thursday July 10 (6–10pm) @ Pacific Electric Lofts in Downtown
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The LA Art Girls began four years ago, when a vibrant group of women working in painting, photography, video, and performance began supporting one another... View details »
- Art: Photography
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Andy Warhol
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Thursday July 10 (6–8pm) @ Michael Kohn Gallery
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The quintessential pop artist was much more than a factory for silkscreens of Marilyn Monroe and Campbell's soup cans. In fact, the prolific Andy Warhol... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Tilly & the Wall
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Thursday July 10 (7:30pm) @ Echoplex in Echo Park
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Despite two albums of joyous indie pop, Omaha's Tilly & the Wall will likely always be known as "that band with a tap dancer instead... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Gutter Twins
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Thursday July 10 (8pm) @ The Roxy Theatre in W Hollywood
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Calling themselves the "Satanic Everly Brothers," the Gutter Twins' Mark Lanegan and Greg Dulli are both longstanding alt-rock heroes. (Lanegan fronted the Screaming Trees while... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Deadly Syndrome
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Thursday July 10 (8pm) @ Hammer Museum
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In traditional French country cuisine, an ortolan is a tiny bird that's force-fed, drowned alive in Armagnac, roasted, and finally eaten whole while the diner... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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King Khan and the Shrines
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Thursday July 10 (8:30pm) @ The Echo in Echo Park
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All hail King Khan. The recent Vice Records signee and his nine-piece psychedelic garage-soul band storm into the Echo tonight like whirling dervishes of rock,... View details »
- Performing Arts: Comedy
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Comedy Walk
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Thursday July 10 (8:30–10pm) @ The New LATC in Downtown
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After art-walking to your heart's content, lace up your laughing shoes and shuffle over to July's installment of the Comedy Walk. On the second Thursday... View details »
- Music: Soul/R&B
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Albert Hammond, Jr.
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Friday July 11 @ Spaceland in Silver Lake
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Strokes guitarist Albert Hammond, Jr. kicks off an international tour tonight with a set of his trademark super-poppy licks and crunchy power chords. Hammond's 2006... View details »
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Dan Deacon
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Friday July 11 (6–9pm) @ The Getty Center in Brentwood
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With apologies to No Age, Dan Deacon is the strangest performer ever to grace the Fridays Off the 405 stage. Known for his hilarious, sweat-soaked... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Chris Isaak
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Friday July 11 (7:30pm) @ Hollywood Bowl
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Wistful singer Chris Isaak takes the stage for a two-night rendezvous with conductor Thomas Wilkins and the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra. First, Wilkins and his charges... View details »
- Music: Electronic
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Kode9
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Friday July 11 (8pm) @ The Roxy Theatre in W Hollywood
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DJ and founder of the genre-leading Hyperdub label, Kode9 is the UK's most tireless ambassador of dubstep. The illegitimate spawn of jungle, two-step, and grime,... View details »
- Performing Arts: Spoken Word
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Free Style
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Friday July 11 (8:30pm) @ The Ford Theater in Hollywood
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Urban LA youths get their close-up with Free Style, a one-night-only event that partners 15 high-school students with some of Broadway and pop music's biggest... View details »
- Music: DJ
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Pause
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Friday July 11 (9pm–2am) @ Tantra in Silver Lake
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Pause, Tantra's weekly weekend kick-off, is the perfect Friday-night wind-up. For four years, a rotating posse of resident turntable maestros — including DJ Jedi, DJ... View details »
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Weekend Warrior
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Saturday July 12 (3–6pm) @ Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Ojai
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The Ojai-based Nathan Larramendy Gallery has teamed up with the illustrious Beautiful/Decay magazine to produce Weekend Warrior, a group show of LA artists... View details »
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Gillian Wearing
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Saturday July 12 (6–8pm) @ Regen Projects in W Hollywood
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This dual exhibition from British artist Gillian Wearing begins with Pin-Ups, displayed at the Regen Projects' Almont Drive location. For her collaboration with illustrator Jim... View details »
- Music: Electronic
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Daedelus
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Saturday July 12 @ Secret location
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In preparation for a long European jaunt, sample-happy producer Daedelus lays down the leftfield grooves from his latest album, Love to Make Music To, tonight.... View details »
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Mike Stilkey
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Saturday July 12 (7–10pm) @ Kinsey/DesForges Gallery in Culver City
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While Mike Stilkey's fanciful-yet-edgy works draw comparisons to Egon Schiele, Modigliani, and Aubrey Beardsley, their contemporary illustrative twists give the Los Angeles artist's output real... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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The Who
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Saturday July 12 (8pm) @ Pauley Pavillion (UCLA)
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Whether influencing the grunge-infused rock of Pearl Jam and the Foo Fighters or the psychedelic sounds of the Flaming Lips, the Who have made an... View details »
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Carmen
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Sunday July 13 (7:30pm) @ Hollywood Bowl
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Dubbed "immoral" by critics upon its 1875 debut (a surefire marketing strategy), Georges Bizet's Carmen is now an oft-staged operatic staple, informing numerous modern works,... View details »
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Outfest
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Wednesday July 16 (8:30pm) @ The Ford Theater in Hollywood
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Along with the California Supreme Court's recent overruling of the gay-marriage ban, the 26th Annual Los Angeles Outfest is reason for celebration. Margaret Cho introduces... View details »
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(Neo) Realism
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Saturday July 19 (5–8pm) @ George Billis Gallery in Culver City
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Just like the A.O.S. song says, history repeats itself. The new exhibition at George Billis Gallery offers a refreshing take on mid-19th-century realism, as an... View details »
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HARD Summer Music Festival
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Saturday July 19 (9pm–4am) @ Shrine Auditorium
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From the whacked-out crew that put French beat-masters Justice and Miami hip-hop bad boys 2 Live Crew on the same stage for a rousing 2008... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Feist
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Sunday July 20 (7pm) @ Hollywood Bowl
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Canadian chanteuse Leslie Feist has had quite a year. The singer/songwriter (and sometime Broken Social Scene member) released her third solo album, The Reminder, to... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Radiohead
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Sunday Aug 24 (7pm) @ Hollywood Bowl
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Radiohead's 1997 album OK Computer catapulted the band to iconic status; the Oxford boys' superhuman creativity, well-documented in the film Meeting People Is Easy, then... View details »
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Sophia Allison & York Chang
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Friday July 4 (11am–5pm) @ Lawrence Asher Gallery
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The title of this two-person exhibition refers to the artists' different approaches to dependence on media and consumerism. For collagist Sophia Allison, the "automatic" is... View details »
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Cover Version
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Friday July 4 (11am–5:30pm) @ Taylor De Cordoba Gallery in Culver City
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Thematic summer shows are as de rigueur in the art world as summer reading lists were in high school — and now a new group... View details »
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Ami Tallman
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Friday July 4 (11am–6pm) @ See Line Gallery in Santa Monica
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Ami Tallman's Fauvist palette, her love of extreme decor, and her penchant for historical research each feed into her interiors and still lifes. Tallman's compositions... View details »
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The Juxtapoz Factor
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Friday July 4 (11am–5pm) @ Laguna Art Museum in Laguna Beach
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To those who have been reading the contemporary-art magazine Juxtapoz since it was founded in the mid-'90s, it may come as little surprise that some... View details »
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Mexican Calendar Girls
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Friday July 4 (11am–4pm) @ California Heritage Museum in Santa Monica
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Glamor gets deep and classic at the California Heritage Museum's Mexican Calendar Girls, opening with a Cinco de Mayo reception. The color-soaked exhibition comprises a... View details »
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Jerome Witkin
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Friday July 4 (10am–6pm) @ Jack Rutberg Fine Arts
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Many art critics and scholars consider Jerome Witkin to be America's greatest living figurative painter. His portraits and landscapes combine an unerring eye for detail,... View details »
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The Puppet Show
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Friday July 4 (11am–6pm) @ Santa Monica Museum of Art
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SMMoA gathers an eclectic array of work by 30 impressive artists — from Kara Walker to Louise Bourgeois, Bruce Nauman, and Kiki Smith — in... View details »
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Vexing
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Friday July 4 (11am–5pm) @ Claremont Museum of Art
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In the early '80s, the Vex was an all-ages music club located in Self Help Graphics and Art, a Chicano landmark in East LA. Although... View details »
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Juan Uslé
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Friday July 4 (11am–6pm) @ LA Louver Gallery in Venice
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The life and experiences of Spanish painter Juan Uslé meet his vision of abstraction in this new series of paintings. Including over a dozen canvases... View details »
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Cadence Pearson
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Friday July 4 (7am–3pm & 5–8pm) @ Kara Wily Pilates
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When dancer and art enthusiast Kara Wily wanted to open her own Pilates studio (having learned the ropes from the movement's founder himself) she always... View details »
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Corbin Smith
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Friday July 4 (9am–6pm) @ MODAA gallery in Culver City
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Photographer Corbin Smith's initial impressions of LA seemed to buy into into Baudrillard's description of Los Angeles as an illusion, "the horizontal fault, California breaking... View details »
- Art: Photography
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Ten Years in Focus
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Friday July 4 (10am–9pm) @ The Getty Center in Brentwood
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In celebration of its tenth anniversary, the Getty Center presents Ten Years in Focus: The Artist and the Camera. The exhibition draws parallels between photography... View details »
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Piot Brehmer
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Friday July 4 (11am–6pm) @ Samuel Freeman in Santa Monica
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Piot Brehmer's hyperrealist-inspired paintings at Samuel Freeman may owe a nod to painters like Philip Pearlstein and Eric Fischl, but there's a certain allure to... View details »
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Antonio Ballester Moreno
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Friday July 4 (11am–6pm) @ Peres Projects in Chinatown
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Antonio Ballester Moreno's first solo show in America explodes in vibrant colors and playful forms. His bold palette recalls the traditions of his native Spain,... View details »
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LA Nude X
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Friday July 4 (8am–7pm) @ A&I Hollywood in Hollywood
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LA's most industry-beloved photo lab, Photo Impact, officially closed when its owner went in with A&I, but the group show LA Nude X at A&I's... View details »
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MiniWorX
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Friday July 4 (9am–6pm) @ Ghettogloss in Silverlake
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The Art Directors Guild IA Local 800 is a deliriously talented group of production designers, art directors, and scenic, title, and graphic artists — all... View details »
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Contemporary Art from India
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Friday July 4 (11am–5:30pm) @ d.e.n. contemporary art in Culver City
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A single definition of Indian contemporary art is tricky to pin down, as one might expect when funneling the widely varying creative output from any... View details »
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Matt Dangler
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Friday July 4 (11am–6pm) @ Gallery 1988 in W Hollywood
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Artist Matt Dangler is a wee young thing to be garnering such art-world acclaim. The 24-year-old's spooky and fantastical paintings are filled with bizarre animals,... View details »
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Harry Benson
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Friday July 4 (11am–6pm) @ David Gallery in Culver City
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As the Beatles greeted New York City's cold winter weather for the first time in 1964, looming in their shadows was Scottish photographer Harry Benson.... View details »
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Mark Bradford
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Friday July 4 @ Steve Turner Contemporary Gallery
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Los Angeles painter, installation artist, and (most recently) video artist Mark Bradford has exhibited in some of the world's most prestigious galleries and museums, but... View details »
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Mods & Rockers
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Friday July 4 @ Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood
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Mods and rockers both worshiped bands, rode scooters, and cultivated impossibly hip hairstyles. But the two UK groups had a distinct aversion to one another... View details »
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Liquid Landscapes
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Friday July 4 @ Various locations
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New York's loss is Los Angeles' gain with the arrival of Stephan Koplowitz, one of the country's most intriguing interdisciplinary artists. Koplowitz recently founded TaskForce,... View details »
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Peter Saul
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Friday July 4 (11am–5pm) @ Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach
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Peter Saul, who hit his artistic stride mid-century during America's pop-art movement, has become best known of late as a creator of work that's part... View details »
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This Side of Paradise
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Friday July 4 (10:30am–4:30pm) @ Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens in San Marino
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If only our cracked sidewalks, classic homes, sprawling hills, and endless streets could talk. But even if objects can't, camera lenses spin many a word.... View details »
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HK Zamani
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Friday July 4 (11am–6pm) @ SolwayJones
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HK Zamani is best known to LA art lovers as Habib Kheradyar, the peripatetic multimedia artist, one-time owner of Post Gallery, and relentlessly curious individual... View details »
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Tino Rodriguez & Virgo Paraiso
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Friday July 4 (noon–6pm) @ Merry Karnowsky Gallery
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Like the Catholic-raised Mexican artist himself, Tino Rodriguez's gender-defying, allegorical paintings are torn between sensuality and conservative tradition. Inspired by the limitations of his religious... View details »
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Against the Grain
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Friday July 4 (noon–9pm) @ Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions in Hollywood
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Known for its progressive, boundary-pushing performances and interdisciplinary bravado, LACE's lofty space transforms into a clean, white gallery for Against the Grain, perhaps this summer's... View details »
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Rebel Legacy
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Friday July 4 (noon–6pm) @ Pharmaka in Downtown
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Hot on the heels of LACMA's controversial Phantom Sightings exhibition, Pharmaka Gallery tackles the issue of contemporary Chicano art with Rebel Legacy: The Abstract in... View details »
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Haegue Yang
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Friday July 4 (noon–6pm) @ REDCAT in Downtown
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REDCAT continues to be a beacon for cutting-edge contemporary art, featuring the first solo show of Haegue Yang in the US. The Korean artist's multimedia... View details »
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Darkness Will Find You
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Friday July 4 (noon–6pm) @ JAIL Gallery in Downtown
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Sculptor, video artist, and (increasingly often) independent curator Michael Dee is something of a conceptual punster; his own work in plastic abstract forms and layered... View details »
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Party Favors
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Friday July 4 (noon–6pm) @ Bonelli Contemporary in Chinatown
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An ambitious undertaking by art critic and curator Holly Myers, this month-long celebration of interactive visual and performance art promises to bring out the Factory... View details »
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Carlos Ramos
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Friday July 4 (noon–6pm) @ Corey Helford in Culver City
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In this collection of 24 large-scale paintings, Carlos Ramos recalls the deep impressions that realistic-looking dioramas had on him as a young boy, wandering through... View details »
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Philip-Lorca diCorcia
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Friday July 4 (noon–9pm) @ Los Angeles County Museum of Art
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Photographer Philip-Lorca diCorcia's meticulously planned pictures look as effortless as Polaroids. Most of his works feature a single person — who diCorcia usually finds through... View details »
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Misato Suzuki
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Friday July 4 (noon–6pm) @ Sam Lee Gallery in Chinatown
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Misato Suzuki is acutely aware of nature's palette and geometry. With soothing shades of yellow, orange, brown, and blue, she paints amorphous forms that are... View details »
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Mariah Anne Johnson
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Friday July 4 (noon–6pm) @ Little Bird Gallery
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Blame it on her traditional Southern upbringing, but Mariah Anne Johnson (born and raised in Arkansas) has an affinity for her own family history. The... View details »
