All events Oct 17–19
- Performing Arts: Dance
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Toneelhuis
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Friday Oct 17 (8–10pm) @ UCLA Live at Royce Hall
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Antwerp's Toneelhuis theatre collective boasts an artist-in-residence roster whose values dictate that theatre, dance, video, and music must all sit around the table together to... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Leo Nocentelli
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Friday Oct 17 (8pm) @ The Mint
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The Meters were a household name among funk followers in the '60s and '70s, and the group even opened for the Rolling Stones during a... View details »
- Music: DJ
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16 Bit & Beyond
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Friday Oct 17 (9pm–2am) @ Air Conditioned Supper Club, Venice
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Westside chameleon A/C Club continues its quest to obtain the area's dance-music crown with another edition of weekly electro-soul party Soulicious. Tonight's lineup is packed... View details »
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Robbie Conal
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Saturday Oct 18 (6–9pm) @ Track 16 Gallery
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Even Robbie Conal's most fervent admirers tend to see his work primarily through their car windows. His trademark posters — featuring his unique style of... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Patti Smith
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Saturday Oct 18 (7pm) @ Orpheum Theatre
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As an iconic figure in American counterculture and one of the founders of the American punk movement, Patti Smith was well-deserving of her induction into... View details »
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Polysics
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Saturday Oct 18 (8pm) @ The Roxy Theatre
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Polysics are as renowned for their pummeling assaults on pop-punk power chords as for their spaztastic yelps. The band's synth-driven wackiness, digital bleeps, and laser... View details »
- Music: Punk/Metal
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Lustra
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Sunday Oct 19 (9pm–2am) @ The Garter Lounge
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A recent move down the block to the revamped Red Garter (now just the Garter) seems to agree with the Venice Rocks punk weekly. Something... View details »
The following events are ongoing.
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Eric Sall
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Friday Oct 17 (noon–6pm) @ Acuna-Hansen Gallery
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In confronting the vibrating, thickly textured canvases of Eric Sall, one gets the distinct impression that he could survive by eating nothing but oil paint,... View details »
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Mexican Calendar Girls
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Friday Oct 17 (11am–4pm) @ California Heritage Museum
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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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Mark Bradford
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Friday Oct 17 @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Dance
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Not About Iraq
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Friday Oct 17 (8–10pm) @ Martha B. Knoebel Dance Theater
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Armed with a probing intellectual curiosity, acclaimed choreographer Victoria Marks engages audiences in pointed discourse by forging work that considers the politics of citizenship. Reconciling... View details »
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Martin Kersels
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Friday Oct 17 (11am–6pm) @ Santa Monica Museum of Art
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The Santa Monica Museum of Art hosts LA artist Martin Kersels' first retrospective, Heavyweight Champion, drawing from 13 years of his multimedia work. Informed by... View details »
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Katie Grinnan
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Friday Oct 17 (11am–6pm) @ MAK Center for Art and Architecture
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Katie Grinnan has made a career out of walking the fine line between the second and third dimensions. Grinnan takes architectural structures — as well... View details »
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Yin Zhaoyang
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Friday Oct 17 (10am–5:30pm) @ DF2
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Chinese-born Yin Zhaoyang didn't have to look too far for inspiration when creating the work in his latest show at DF2 Gallery. After viewing the... View details »
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Kerry James Marshall
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Friday Oct 17 (10am–5:30pm) @ Koplin del Rio Gallery
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Chicago artist Kerry James Marshall has shown internationally to great acclaim, and now will show for the sixth time with Koplin del Rio in LA.... View details »
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Kyle Field
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Friday Oct 17 (11am–5:30pm) @ Taylor De Cordoba Gallery
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For his second go-round at Taylor De Cordoba, San Franciscan artist/musican Kyle Field (he's a member of the band Little Wings), plucks whimsical imagery for... View details »
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Josh Dorman
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Friday Oct 17 (11am–5pm) @ Craft and Folk Art Museum
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Traditional paper and canvas simply won't do for New York artist Josh Dorman, who employs vintage maps and textbook diagrams as foundations for his fantastical... View details »
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Amanda Ross-Ho
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Friday Oct 17 (11am–6pm) @ Cherry and Martin
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Amanda Ross-Ho returns to Cherry and Martin with her latest exhibition of mixed-media sculptural installation, Half of What I Say Is Meaningless. Since she last... View details »
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Cycling Apparati
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Friday Oct 17 (11am–6pm) @ High Energy Constructs
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For many contemporary artists, Warhol is the North Star by which they guide their own emerging views of culture. But for a segment of more... View details »
- Film
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Drive-In Series
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Friday Oct 17 (9pm) @ The Steve Allen Theater
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Grab your best buds — or just someone you can hide behind — as the Steve Allen Theater's homemade drive-in combines LA's twin obsessions with... View details »
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Aspects of Mel's Hole
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Friday Oct 17 (11am–9pm) @ CSUF Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana
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Beloved radio host Art Bell is a cross between Jean Shepherd and Fox Mulder, and a man whose paranormality-themed broadcasts were among the most misunderstood... View details »
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Tofer Chin
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Friday Oct 17 (noon–5pm) @ Commissary Arts
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The "sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll" trifecta holds ample sway in the work of Los Angeles artist Tofer Chin. For his latest collection at... View details »
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Alexander Melamid
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Friday Oct 17 (10am–5:30pm) @ Forum Gallery
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Russian artist Alexander Melamid is a master at finding humor in serious situations, from totalitarian regimes to the plight of endangered elephants. In his first... View details »
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The Art of War
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Friday Oct 17 (noon–9pm) @ Norton Simon Museum
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When searching for a means of drumming up support for World War I, officials in Washington didn't have to look much further than two-dimensional art.... View details »
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Red Forest
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Friday Oct 17 (1–6pm) @ Thinkspace Gallery
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Hot off the success of their individual Thinkspace exhibitions, Ekundayo and Johnny "KMNDZ" Rodriguez join forces for their first-ever collaborative collection at their favorite Silverlake... View details »
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Elizabeth Turk
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Friday Oct 17 (11am–5pm) @ Bandini Art
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From the Department of How Did She Do That? comes a new exhibition of drawings and delicate marble sculptures from chisel-wielding enchantress Elizabeth Turk. Her... View details »
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Gordy Grundy
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Friday Oct 17 @ Western Project
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The Fellowship of Fortuna (and its "messenger," LA painter and media artist Gordy Grundy) takes up residence on Western Project's website for a 21-week series... View details »
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Sandrine Pelletier
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Friday Oct 17 @ Fette's Gallery
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International-artist-friendly Fette's Gallery rings in its fall season with Insekts, an installation of new works by Swiss mixed-media artist/embroiderer Sandrine Pelletier. The Laussane/Paris-based artist creates... View details »
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Raymond Pettibon
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Friday Oct 17 (10am–6pm) @ Regen Projects II
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Seminal Work features a selection of pieces from the much-lauded Raymond Pettibon, all completed between 1978 and 1988. Keeping true to the chameleon-like artist, the... View details »
- Art: Photography
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Jehad Nga
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Friday Oct 17 (10am–6pm) @ M+B Gallery Los Angeles
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Daring photographer Jehad Nga has previously documented poverty and violence from Darfur to Iraq — now, he takes his camera into the world of boxing.... View details »
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John Bock
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Friday Oct 17 (noon–6pm) @ REDCAT
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John Bock's unpredictable performances may seem like exercises in artistic capriciousness, but his loud costumes and absurd statements conceal his skill as a social and... View details »
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Victor Gastelum
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Friday Oct 17 (noon–6pm) @ Overtones Gallery
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Victor Gastelum upholds the grand California tradition of elevating street-art tropes to gallery-level heights with the spray-paint stencil multiples in Xacto Mundo. The Long Beach-based... View details »
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No Brow
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Friday Oct 17 (noon–6pm) @ Black Maria Gallery
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Not unlike impressionism, "low brow" was a label with initially negative connotations affixed to a group of artists reacting against then-mainstream art. Merging their vision... View details »
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Dennis Oppenheim
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Friday Oct 17 (10am–6pm) @ ACE Gallery
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Dennis Oppenheim first hit the art-world radar in the late 1960s with his Land and Body Art projects, which combined film and video with performance,... View details »
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Ken Price
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Friday Oct 17 (10am–6pm) @ LA Louver Gallery
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Ken Price is one of the world's most respected ceramicists, part of a small, but proud, posse of sculptors hell-bent on rehabilitating the medium's less-than-sophisticated... View details »
- Art: Festival
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Off-Axis
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Friday Oct 17 @ Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum
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Although our neighbor to the north is typically known for its stellar views and celebrity mansions, Santa Barbara has a stash of hidden artistic gems,... View details »
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Park Life
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Friday Oct 17 (1–6pm) @ Subliminal Projects
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Subliminal Projects uses its recent move from Koreatown to the more pastoral environs of Echo Park as the curatorial focus for its latest exhibition, Park... View details »
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The Maize Project
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Friday Oct 17 (11am–5pm) @ Torrance Art Museum
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The small but influential Torrance Art Museum simultaneously mounts three new solo exhibitions, united by highly stylized explorations of abstraction and color. The Maize Project,... View details »
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Christopher Pate
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Friday Oct 17 (noon–6pm) @ Jail Gallery
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Christopher Pate is interested in the relationship between maps and landscapes, as well as the broader discourse between the real quality of a place and... View details »
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Ai Yamaguchi
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Friday Oct 17 (11am–6pm) @ Roberts & Tilton Gallery
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Hana wa no ni aruyouni (Flowers as they are in the field) is Japanese artist Ai Yamaguchi's second solo exhibition at Roberts & Tilton. A... View details »
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Mark Dean Veca
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Friday Oct 17 (10am–5pm) @ Otis College of Art and Design
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Entering Mark Dean Veca's site-specific installation at Otis College's Ben Maltz Gallery is like stepping into a psychedelic playhouse filled with surreal pop-cultural cartoons. A... View details »
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Miriam Wosk
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Friday Oct 17 (noon–6pm) @ Billy Shire Fine Arts
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For her second exhibition at Culver City's Billy Shire Fine Arts, Santa Monica-based artist Miriam Wosk once again creates her trademark large-scale, laboriously constructed mixed... View details »
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LA25 Half-Life
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Friday Oct 17 (noon–9pm) @ Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions
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Rising stars Annie Lapin, Jeff Sheng, Cal Crawford, and Brenna Youngblood are among the 25 juror-selected artists that make up LA25 Half-Life, a group show... View details »
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James Gobel
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Friday Oct 17 (11am–6pm) @ Steve Turner Contemporary Gallery
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Steve Turner Contemporary on the Miracle Mile lets its hair down this month, showing new work by James Gobel, portraying portly, hairy, gay men known... View details »
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Surface Sounding
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Friday Oct 17 (11am–6pm) @ See Line Gallery
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Any viewer beholding Surface Sounding without background information would likely believe all the art was selected by a single gatekeeper, so cohesive and connected is... View details »
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CUT: Makings of Removal
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Saturday Oct 18 (noon–4pm) @ Vincent Price Art Museum
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The 17 young and emerging artists included in this ambitious group show follow diverse strategies in making work, but the organizing principle is one of... View details »
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Daniel DeSure
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Saturday Oct 18 (1–5pm) @ Found Gallery
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Los Angeles-based artist/art producer Daniel DeSure not only creates photography, film, and new media, but he also founded the art production/design house Commonwealth last year... View details »
- More Flavor: Party
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Bronx Zoo
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Saturday Oct 18 (3:30–8pm) @ La Cita
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Conceived as a Saturday afternoon cocktail party with art activities, Ghettogloss gallery launched its Bronx Zoo summer series in June at the delightfully dancy downtown... View details »
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James Turrell
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Sunday Oct 19 (10am–8pm) @ Draper Courtyard, Pomona College
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It's up for debate whether James Turrell is a sculptor, an architect, a light-and-space artist, or an earth-works artist. Whichever he is, the transcendent, full-body... View details »
