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My Bloody Valentine
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Wednesday Oct 1 (8pm) @ Santa Monica Civic Auditorium
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Shoegaze progenitors My Bloody Valentine regroup after more than 15 years of Barrett-esque reclusive behavior, all of which followed their mind-altering 1991 album, Loveless. Apparently,... View details »
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Stars
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Wednesday Oct 1 (9pm) @ Avalon Hollywood
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From Do Make Say Think's bombastic guitarkestras to the Dears' Morrissey fixation, most of the Broken Social Scene-related bands are fans of the Grand Romantic... View details »
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Off-Axis
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Wednesday Oct 1 @ 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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Pattern Is Movement
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Wednesday Oct 1 (8:30pm) @ Spaceland
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Pattern Is Movement, a band that's emblematic of the new Philly sound, create songs that are by turns haunting and jaunty, counterpointing catchy melodies with... View details »
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Marcel Duchamp Redux
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Wednesday Oct 1 (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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Wednesday Oct 1 (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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Wednesday Oct 1 @ 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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The Juxtapoz Factor
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Wednesday Oct 1 (11am–5pm) @ Laguna Art Museum
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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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Truthiness and Absurd Recreation
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Wednesday Oct 1 (noon–5pm) @ California Museum of Photography, UC Riverside
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Borrowing a recently coined neologism from Stephen Colbert's faux-conservative lexicon, Truthiness questions the reliability of the visual by featuring artists who transform photography (decidedly two-dimensional)... View details »
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Macrocosm
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Wednesday Oct 1 (11am–6pm) @ Roberts & Tilton Gallery
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Roberts + Tilton becomes the latest A-list LA gallery to take up residence in Culver City, throwing a mammoth group show and housewarming party on... View details »
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Martin Kersels
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Wednesday Oct 1 (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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Hans Burkhardt
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Wednesday Oct 1 (noon–4pm) @ Cal State University Northridge Art Gallery
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Comprising selections from the nearly 1,000 works that European-native-turned California-great Hans Burkhardt personally donated to Cal State Northridge (where he taught before his death), this... View details »
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Katie Grinnan
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Wednesday Oct 1 (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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Wednesday Oct 1 (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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Wednesday Oct 1 (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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Wednesday Oct 1 (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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Wednesday Oct 1 (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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Wednesday Oct 1 (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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Wednesday Oct 1 (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 »
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Aspects of Mel's Hole
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Wednesday Oct 1 (11am–4pm) @ 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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Kristi Lippire
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Wednesday Oct 1 (11am–5:30pm) @ d.e.n. contemporary art
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Kristi Lippire cobbles together images from a mind-boggling array of sources, then fashions them into large-scale works. Using plywood and other construction materials to reinforce... View details »
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Alexander Melamid
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Wednesday Oct 1 (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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Nancy Reddin Kienholz
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Wednesday Oct 1 (10am–6pm) @ LA Louver Gallery
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Nancy Reddin Kienholz may be familiar to some because of her lifelong collaboration with late husband Ed Kienholz, one of the world's most famous assemblage... View details »
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Ian Francis
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Wednesday Oct 1 (11am–6pm) @ Kinsey/DesForges Gallery
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The brilliantly brash British phenom Ian Francis returns to Kinsey/DesForges for his second solo show. Once again, the artist presents visceral, even garish, large-scale works... View details »
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The Art of War
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Wednesday Oct 1 (noon–6pm) @ 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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Eric Sall
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Wednesday Oct 1 (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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Sarah Cromarty
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Wednesday Oct 1 (11am–5pm) @ Circus Gallery
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LA painter Sarah Cromarty has had a big year already; she gained recognition through several group shows and a bit of favorable press. She continues... View details »
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Elizabeth Turk
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Wednesday Oct 1 (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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CUT: Makings of Removal
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Wednesday Oct 1 (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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Sandrine Pelletier
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Wednesday Oct 1 @ 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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Chris Mars
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Wednesday Oct 1 (noon–6pm) @ Billy Shire Fine Arts
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From Brandon Boyd's paintings to Scion and ill-Studios' curatorial collaboration and Alexander Melamid's hip-hop portraits, music-related art has been blanketing LA's gallery walls this month.... View details »
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Raymond Pettibon
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Wednesday Oct 1 (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 »
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Jehad Nga
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Wednesday Oct 1 (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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Wednesday Oct 1 (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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Wednesday Oct 1 (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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Mr. Funky
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Wednesday Oct 1 (9am–6pm) @ Ghettogloss
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At most galleries and museums, squeezing the art is most definitely at the top of the list of "don'ts" — but then, Ghettogloss has always... View details »
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No Brow
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Wednesday Oct 1 (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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Wednesday Oct 1 (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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OFF-REGISTER
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Wednesday Oct 1 (noon–5pm) @ Little Bird Gallery
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For the past year, this traveling exhibition has showcased artists and graphic designers who were asked to apply their experience with commercial printmaking processes to... View details »
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Michael Knowlton
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Wednesday Oct 1 (noon–6pm) @ 01 Gallery
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Painter Michael Knowlton doesn't feel the need to choose between beauty and terror. His passionately wrought, deftly composed scenes of the ruin and savagery of... View details »
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The Maize Project
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Wednesday Oct 1 (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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Katina and Christa Zinner
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Wednesday Oct 1 @ James Coleman Gallery
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The mother-daughter relationship is fraught with emotion and drama, and what better venue for exploring that tension than a two-woman exhibition of sculpture and painting?... View details »
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Gordy Grundy
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Wednesday Oct 1 @ 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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Choke
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Wednesday Oct 1 @ Landmark Westside Pavilion
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Colonial theme-park worker Victor Mancini (an especially disheveled Sam Rockwell) barely survived childhood with his erratic mother (Anjelica Huston, bearing all her wonderful fangs), and... View details »
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Yoko Ono
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Wednesday Oct 1 @ One Colorado
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It has been nearly 28 years since John Lennon's passing, but his quest for world peace lives on. Lennon's widow, noted artist Yoko Ono, continues... View details »
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Hans Burkhardt
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Wednesday Oct 1 (10am–6pm) @ Jack Rutberg Fine Arts
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In the years bracketing WWII, a great many artists were among those fleeing to US shores from the specter of Nazi Germany. In fine-art terms... View details »
