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James Frey
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Thursday May 15 (7pm) @ Whisky a Go Go
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Branded as the print world's Pinocchio after his addiction memoir A Million Little Pieces became a scapegoat for the industry, author James Frey survived a... View details »
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The Little Ones
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Thursday May 15 (8pm) @ The Troubadour
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The Little Ones play the kind of pop music you wish LA would always produce: no rock posturing or fake tales of hard knocks —... View details »
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Hearts of Palm UK
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Thursday May 15 (8:30pm) @ Silverlake Lounge
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Amiable Echo Park-based duo Hearts of Palm UK (no, they're not from the UK, so quit asking) hit the Silverlake Lounge this evening with Cyndi... View details »
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Blowfly
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Thursday May 15 (8pm) @ Knitting Factory
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Clarence Reid (aka Blowfly) is paid to do things that get creepy uncles banned from the kids table. Since turning out 1965's "Rap Dirty," reputedly... View details »
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Jasmine Murrell
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Thursday May 15 (1–7pm) @ Pounder-Koné Art Space
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Afrobeat pioneer and revolutionary activist Fela Kuti has influenced generations of progressives, from his native Nigeria to South Central LA, with his potently political celebration... View details »
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Kara Walker
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Thursday May 15 (11am–9pm) @ Hammer Museum
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Employing iconic black-paper silhouettes, Kara Walker — who was named one of Time's "100 Most Influential People" in 2007 — sparks a tense dialogue between... View details »
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Make Art/Stop AIDS
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Thursday May 15 (noon–8pm) @ Fowler Museum, UCLA
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Before red ribbons became de rigeur accessories at televised awards ceremonies, artists from around the globe inspired and provoked the radical awareness that the AIDS... View details »
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California Video
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Thursday May 15 @ The Getty Center
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As video art's growing reach now extends from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera to commuters watching YouTube on their iPhones, the Getty... View details »
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Las Vegas Diaspora
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Thursday May 15 (11am–5pm) @ Laguna Art Museum
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Dave Hickey has one of the most original minds in the contemporary art world. His best-selling collection of critical essays, Air Guitar, built bridges between... View details »
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Good Doll Bad Doll
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Thursday May 15 (noon–5pm) @ Armory Center for the Arts
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ArtForum critic and independent curator Michael Duncan encourages childish behavior in Good Doll Bad Doll, an exhibition featuring modern and contemporary artists who use dolls... View details »
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The Color of Life
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Thursday May 15 (10am–6pm) @ The Getty Villa
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Looking at tony museum collections of ancient Greek and Roman statuary, one might think that the whole of antiquity existed only in tones of white... View details »
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Masami Teraoka
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Thursday May 15 (11am–6pm) @ Samuel Freeman
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Cheeky artist Masami Teraoka is most famous for his ukiyo-e woodblock paintings, which combine Japanese imagery, themes from American culture, and a mischievous sense of... View details »
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Catherine Opie
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Thursday May 15 (10am–6pm) @ Regen Projects II
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After capturing the essence of SoCal beach life with her surfer portrait series, photographer Catherine Opie tackles another bastion of American culture: high-school football. Opie... View details »
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André Ethier and Cathy Akers
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Thursday May 15 (10am–6pm) @ Honor Fraser
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Toronto-based André Ethier's grotesque, surreal paintings are psychedelic allegories illustrating misconceptions about modern history and culture. In his latest collection, Vancouver Before Christ, the artist... View details »
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100% Other
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Thursday May 15 (11am–5pm) @ 18th Street Arts Center
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For the next installment of Future of Nations exhibition series 100% Other, curator Tyler Stallings asked artists Matthew Bryant, Cheryl Gilge, Perry Vasquez, Reggie Woolery,... View details »
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Icon
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Thursday May 15 @ DCA Fine Art
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In Icon, two innovative, European-born painters explore the concept of worship in postmodernist life. Bogdan Dumitrica's portraits of animals and pop-art icons find themes of... View details »
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Jason Martin
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Thursday May 15 (10am–6pm) @ LA Louver Gallery
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The title of UK painter Jason Martin's latest exhibition evokes the South Pacific's warm, breezy environs — but his abstract, mostly monochromatic oil-on-aluminum pieces are... View details »
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Dave McKenzie
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Thursday May 15 (noon–6pm) @ REDCAT
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Jamaican-born artist Dave McKenzie's first solo show in Los Angeles is a multimedia affair that asks multifaceted questions about where a single cell fits within... View details »
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Anthony Lister
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Thursday May 15 (1–6pm) @ New Image Art
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Anthony Lister's newest installation, strewn with pop-culture tragedies and unfortunate vagabonds, erupts in New Image Art's white-walled gallery space. Hailing from Australia, where his work... View details »
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KC in LA
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Thursday May 15 (11am–5pm) @ Milo Gallery
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Curator Ashley Emenegger went all the way to the unlikely art capital of Kansas City, Missouri, and brought back a little piece of the progressive... View details »
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Lush
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Thursday May 15 @ Salon Oblique
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With Lush, West Side sensation Salon Oblique upholds its growing reputation for intellectually and aesthetically engaging multimedia group exhibitions. As in previous shows, a cadre... View details »
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Menace & Charm
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Thursday May 15 (noon–6pm) @ Black Maria Gallery
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Not everyone's childhood memories contain happy-go-lucky images of bubblegum chewing and bicycle riding. As the artists in Black Maria Gallery's upcoming show prove, sometimes our... View details »
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Witnessed from Afar
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Thursday May 15 (2–7pm) @ Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art
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Some of the most talented, recognizable practitioners of Carmichael Gallery's trademark urban-romantic aesthetic show new work in Witnessed from Afar. Highlights include Mel Kadel's feisty,... View details »
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Newer Topographics
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Thursday May 15 (noon–5pm) @ California Museum of Photography, UC Riverside
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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 »
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Yoskay Yamamoto
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Thursday May 15 (noon–6pm) @ project: gallery
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In his debut solo show, Japanese-born, California-bred artist Yoskay Yamamoto combines emotional expression with figures of timidity and doubt to illustrate his struggle with dualities.... View details »
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Marcel Duchamp Redux
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Thursday May 15 (noon–6pm) @ Norton Simon
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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 »
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Mexican Calendar Girls
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Thursday May 15 (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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Amir H. Fallah
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Thursday May 15 (11am–6pm) @ Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Ojai
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Installation artist and painter Amir H. Fallah finds intrigue in the ramshackle construction of boyhood clubhouses and other ill-designed, teetering structures. He tops those buildings... View details »
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Gary Palmer
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Thursday May 15 (11am–5pm) @ Tarryn Teresa Gallery
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With this series of works, Gary Palmer addresses one of the most ancient concerns in art: the representation of landscapes. Using sumi ink, Palmer has... View details »
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Anna Dusi
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Thursday May 15 (10am–6pm) @ The Loft at Liz's
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Long known for fantastic salvage store Liz's Antique Hardware (a favorite with high-end interior designers and industry art directors), Liz Gordon has also created a... View details »
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Uncommon Gardens
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Thursday May 15 (1–6pm) @ Thinkspace Gallery
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Consider it Ladies' Choice at Thinkspace this month, as the gallery devotes its wall space to the work of four women with decidedly feminine bents... View details »
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DREAM(land)
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Thursday May 15 (noon–6pm) @ JAIL Gallery
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The globally diverse artists in JAIL's latest endeavor have one thing in common: their work ignores the ugly cable-news cycle of reality in favor of... View details »
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Blood & Glitter
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Thursday May 15 (11am–5pm) @ Bandini Art
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Co-curated by Patrick Painter Gallery's Heather Harmon and Bandini's own Ashley McLean Emenegger, Blood & Glitter is a group exhibition about the seductive dangers of... View details »
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Culmination
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Thursday May 15 (noon–6pm) @ Morono Kiang Gallery
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As Internet galleries and portfolio sites make it increasingly easy to navigate the deep waters of the international emerging art scene, the prevalence of Chinese... View details »
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It's a Beautiful World
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Thursday May 15 (11am–6pm) @ The Scion Installation LA Space
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The Scion Installation Space in Culver City has lined its walls with works by the heavyweights of urban romanticism — including Sage Vaughn, Mel Kadel,... View details »
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Elizabeth McGrath
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Thursday May 15 (noon–6pm) @ Billy Shire Fine Arts
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For The Secret Party, Elizabeth McGrath ditches her usual creepy dolls and freaky dioramas and fully embraces her works' intrinsic whimsy with a frothy, quirky... View details »
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Terence Koh
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Thursday May 15 (10am–6pm) @ Peres Projects
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Anyone who can sell his own bodily fluids for thousands of dollars on the art market has "made it" as an artist. Of course, there's... View details »
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Mark Bradford
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Thursday May 15 @ 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 »
