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Chris & Don
Today @ Landmark Nuart Theatre in W Hollywood More times»
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 »
Chris & Don
More Flavor: Party
July 4th Spectacular
Today (7:30pm) @ Hollywood Bowl
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 »
July 4th Spectacular
Music: Folk/Country
Spindrift
Today (8:30pm) @ The Echo in Echo Park
Giveaway
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 »
Spindrift

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More Flavor: City Gem
Vinum Populi
Today (5:30pm–1:30am) @ Vinum Populi in Culver City More times»
Free
Culver City's latest spot of interest is Vinum Populi, a cozy wine bar with the usual bistro couches and charcuterie selection — with one key... View details »
Vinum Populi
Art: Architecture/Design
Phalanstery Module
Today @ Materials & Applications in Silver Lake More times»
Free
M&A gallery continues to push the frontiers of architecture and landscape research with Jimenez Lai's installation Phalanstery Module. Zero-gravity design presents the central challenge, as... View details »
Phalanstery Module
Art: Photography
Newer Topographics
Today (noon–5pm) @ UC Riverside California Museum of Photography in Riverside More times»
This exhibition juxtaposes the work of idealist photographers Jeremy Kidd and Eric Curry, both of whom use digital manipulation in arresting multimedia and photographic works.... View details »
Newer Topographics
Art
Marcel Duchamp Redux
Today (noon–9pm) @ Norton Simon in Pasadena More times»
This year marks the 45th anniversary of By or of Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Sélavy, the famous Marcel Duchamp retrospective at the Pasadena Art Museum... View details »
Marcel Duchamp Redux
Art
Mexican Calendar Girls
Today (11am–4pm) @ California Heritage Museum in Santa Monica More times»
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 »
Mexican Calendar Girls
Art
Jerome Witkin
Today (10am–6pm) @ Jack Rutberg Fine Arts More times»
Free
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 »
Jerome Witkin
Art
The Puppet Show
Today (11am–6pm) @ Santa Monica Museum of Art More times»
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 »
The Puppet Show
Art
Vexing
Today (11am–5pm) @ Claremont Museum of Art More times»
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 »
Vexing
Art
Juan Uslé
Today (11am–6pm) @ LA Louver Gallery in Venice More times»
Free
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 »
Art
Cadence Pearson
Today (7am–3pm & 5–8pm) @ Kara Wily Pilates More times»
Free
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 »
Cadence Pearson
Art
COLA Artist Fellowships
Today (noon–5pm) @ Barnsdall Art Park in Hollywood More times»
Free
The Cultural Affairs Department recently issued a statement to declare its unprecedented satisfaction with the state's arts budget — proof that our programs are hale... View details »
Art: Photography
Philip-Lorca diCorcia
Today (noon–9pm) @ Los Angeles County Museum of Art More times»
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 »
Philip-Lorca diCorcia
Film: Documentary
Heavy Metal in Baghdad
Today @ Laemmle's Sunset 5 in W Hollywood More times»
Heavy-metal rebelliousness is one of the many luxuries that US freedom affords us. In Baghdad, on the other hand, it's just plain reckless. Long hair... View details »
Heavy Metal in Baghdad
Art
Piot Brehmer
Today (11am–6pm) @ Samuel Freeman in Santa Monica More times»
Free
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 »
Piot Brehmer
Art
Kori Newkirk
Today (noon–5pm) @ Pasadena Museum of California Art in Pasadena More times»
Kori Newkirk first came to national attention thanks to his contribution to the Studio Museum in Harlem's daring group show Freestyle: a mural of a... View details »
Kori Newkirk
Art: Photography
LA Nude X
Today (8am–7pm) @ A&I Hollywood in Hollywood More times»
Free
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 »
LA Nude X
Art
Ginger
Today (1–6pm) @ New Image Art in W Hollywood More times»
Free
New Image Art's latest group exhibition packs a powerhouse list of participants. Vets of the gallery — including indie-rock man-of-the-moment Devendra Banhart, Sean Cassidy, Nico... View details »
Ginger
Performing Arts: Theatre
A Chorus Line
Today (8pm) @ Ahmanson Theatre in Downtown More times»
Director and co-choreographer Michael Bennett spins this well-loved tale of Broadway gypsies and would-be stars who lay their souls on the line in pursuit of... View details »
A Chorus Line
Performing Arts: Theatre
Point Break LIVE!
Today (8pm) @ Dragonfly in Hollywood More times»
Point Break LIVE! turns cinematic lemons into lemonade, raucously skewering the cult-classic film by casting an unrehearsed audience volunteer to fill the not-so-massive shoes of... View details »
Point Break LIVE!
Art
Robert A. Nelson: Common Ground
Today (noon–5pm) @ another year in LA More times»
Free
In Robert A. Nelson's exhibition Common Ground, viewers are treated to a new side of the '60s experimental filmmaker. Nelson's offbeat, conceptual, and often humorous... View details »
Robert A. Nelson: Common Ground
Art
HK Zamani
Today (11am–6pm) @ SolwayJones More times»
Free
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 »
HK Zamani
Art
Mark Bradford
Today @ Steve Turner Contemporary Gallery More times»
Free
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 »
Mark Bradford
Art
Rebel Legacy
Today (noon–6pm) @ Pharmaka in Downtown More times»
Free
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 »
Rebel Legacy
Art
Against the Grain
Today (noon–9pm) @ Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions in Hollywood More times»
Free
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 »
Against the Grain
Art
Amy Sol
Today (1–6pm) @ Thinkspace Gallery More times»
Free
Karmic Magic, Las Vegas artist Amy Sol's solo show with the Silverlake gem Thinkspace, features doe-eyed females, furry creatures, and sweetly whimsical, abstract narratives. Her... View details »
Amy Sol
Art
Tino Rodriguez & Virgo Paraiso
Today (noon–6pm) @ Merry Karnowsky Gallery More times»
Free
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 »
Tino Rodriguez & Virgo Paraiso
Art: Photography
This Side of Paradise
Today (10:30am–4:30pm) @ Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens in San Marino More times»
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 »
This Side of Paradise
Art
Peter Saul
Today (11am–5pm) @ Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach More times»
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 »
Peter Saul
Art: Photography
Harry Benson
Today (11am–6pm) @ David Gallery in Culver City More times»
Free
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 »
Harry Benson
Art
Matt Dangler
Today (11am–6pm) @ Gallery 1988 in W Hollywood More times»
Free
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 »
Matt Dangler
Art
Darkness Will Find You
Today (noon–6pm) @ JAIL Gallery in Downtown More times»
Free
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 »
Darkness Will Find You
Art
Contemporary Art from India
Today (11am–5:30pm) @ d.e.n. contemporary art in Culver City More times»
Free
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 »
Contemporary Art from India
Art
MiniWorX
Today (9am–6pm) @ Ghettogloss in Silverlake More times»
Free
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 »
MiniWorX
Art: Photography
Ten Years in Focus
Today (10am–9pm) @ The Getty Center in Brentwood More times»
Free
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 »
Ten Years in Focus
Performing Arts: Theatre
1984
Today (8:30pm) @ REDCAT in Downtown More times»
Giveaway
George Orwell wrote 1984 in the bloody wake of WWII, when anti-totalitarian screeds and fear of Communism were at a fever pitch. His own frazzled... View details »
1984
Performing Arts: Theatre
Tommy
Today (8pm) @ Ricardo Montalban Theatre in Hollywood More times»
The idea that a young man would become "deaf, dumb, and blind" and then discover that he's a pinball genius was pretty far-out when the... View details »
Tommy
Art: Photography
Corbin Smith
Today (9am–6pm) @ MODAA gallery in Culver City More times»
Free
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 »
Corbin Smith
Art
The Juxtapoz Factor
Today (11am–5pm) @ Laguna Art Museum in Laguna Beach More times»
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 »
The Juxtapoz Factor
Art
Mr. Brainwash
Today (1–9pm) @ CBS News Studios in Hollywood More times»
Free
Mr. Brainwash, or MBW, is a documentary filmmaker turned street artist who fell in with the renowned circle of renegade activists, filmmakers, and artists helmed... View details »
Mr. Brainwash
Art
Dennis Koch & Claudia Nieto
Today (11am–6pm) @ High Energy Constructs More times»
Free
Angelinos Dennis Koch and Claudia Nieto work on the same plane — the flat one. Utilizing the simplest of all media, paper and colored pencil,... View details »
Dennis Koch & Claudia Nieto
Art
Ami Tallman
Today (11am–6pm) @ See Line Gallery in Santa Monica More times»
Free
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 »
Ami Tallman
Art
Mariah Anne Johnson
Today (noon–6pm) @ Little Bird Gallery More times»
Free
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 »
Mariah Anne Johnson
Art
Flaunt
Today (1–7pm) @ Junc Gallery More times»
Free
This annual exhibition at Junc typically features new work by both its most promising emerging talents and good-old standbys. The 2008 edition acts as a... View details »
Flaunt
Performing Arts: Dance
Eleven Missing Days
Today (8pm) @ Unknown Theater in Hollywood More times»
Meg Wolfe's relentless creative spirit knows no bounds. Her energy produced the offbeat dance zine Itch Journal, the experimental series Anatomy Riot, and now Eleven... View details »
Eleven Missing Days
Film: Festival
Mods & Rockers
Today @ Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood More times»
Giveaway
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 »
Mods & Rockers
Art
Haegue Yang
Today (noon–6pm) @ REDCAT in Downtown More times»
Free
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 »
Haegue Yang
Art
Party Favors
Today (noon–6pm) @ Bonelli Contemporary in Chinatown More times»
Free
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 »
Party Favors
Art
Carlos Ramos
Today (noon–6pm) @ Corey Helford in Culver City More times»
Free
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 »
Carlos Ramos
Art
Cover Version
Today (11am–5:30pm) @ Taylor De Cordoba Gallery in Culver City More times»
Free
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 »
Cover Version
Art
Sophia Allison & York Chang
Today (11am–5pm) @ Lawrence Asher Gallery More times»
Free
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 »
Sophia Allison & York Chang
Art
Antonio Ballester Moreno
Today (11am–6pm) @ Peres Projects in Chinatown More times»
Free
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 »
Antonio Ballester Moreno
Art
Misato Suzuki
Today (noon–6pm) @ Sam Lee Gallery in Chinatown More times»
Free
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 »
Misato Suzuki
Art
Liquid Landscapes
Today @ Various locations More times»
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 »
Liquid Landscapes
Art
Witnessing the War
Today (2–7pm) @ Carol Henry Studio More times»
Free
An overstuffed white glove might bring to mind images of a Mickey Mouse cartoon, but for artist and curator Cecelia Kane, it stands for something... View details »
Witnessing the War