All events on Thursday October 16
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- Performing Arts: Dance
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Not About Iraq
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Thursday Oct 16 (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 »
- Reading
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Sarah Vowell
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Thursday Oct 16 (7pm) @ All Saints Church
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Zinger-slinging journalist, historian, author, and radio personality Sarah Vowell has spent the last several years working on The Wordy Shipmates, a book that examines the... View details »
- Music: DJ
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DJ Chicken George
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Thursday Oct 16 (9pm–2am) @ Zanzibar
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Chicken George may be internationally known as a hip-hop DJ, but it's his unexpected juxaposition of genre, style, and tempo that makes his sets so... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Born Ruffians
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Thursday Oct 16 (8:30pm) @ Spaceland
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Sure, the Canadian springs have just about run dry, but when an incredible label like... p... rts dropping pail, there must be at least one drop left... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Jaguar Love
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Thursday Oct 16 (9pm) @ Silverlake Lounge
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On records like Crimes and Burn, Piano Island, and Burn (to say nothing of their criminally underrated Neon Blonde side-project), the Blood Brothers expertly siphoned... View details »
- More Flavor: Party
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Pure War
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Thursday Oct 16 (8pm) @ The Mandrake
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The Europhile publishers and archivists at Semiotext(e) are the standard-bearers for LA's academic literati, promoting avant-garde authors and essayists while consistently unearthing classic gems. Their... View details »
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Marcel Duchamp Redux
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Thursday Oct 16 (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 Oct 16 (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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Thursday Oct 16 @ 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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Martin Kersels
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Thursday Oct 16 (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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Thursday Oct 16 (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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Thursday Oct 16 (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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Thursday Oct 16 (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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Thursday Oct 16 (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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Thursday Oct 16 (11am–7pm) @ 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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Thursday Oct 16 (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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Thursday Oct 16 (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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Thursday Oct 16 (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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Tofer Chin
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Thursday Oct 16 (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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Thursday Oct 16 (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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Thursday Oct 16 (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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Thursday Oct 16 (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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Elizabeth Turk
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Thursday Oct 16 (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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Thursday Oct 16 (noon–7pm) @ 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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Thursday Oct 16 @ 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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Thursday Oct 16 (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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Thursday Oct 16 (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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Thursday Oct 16 (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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Thursday Oct 16 (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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Thursday Oct 16 (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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Thursday Oct 16 (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 »
- Art: Festival
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Off-Axis
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Thursday Oct 16 @ 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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Thursday Oct 16 (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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Thursday Oct 16 (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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Thursday Oct 16 (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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Thursday Oct 16 (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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Thursday Oct 16 (10am–7pm) @ 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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Thursday Oct 16 (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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Thursday Oct 16 (noon–6pm) @ 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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Thursday Oct 16 (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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Thursday Oct 16 (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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Ken Price
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Thursday Oct 16 (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 »
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Katina and Christa Zinner
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Thursday Oct 16 @ 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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Thursday Oct 16 @ 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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Red Forest
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Thursday Oct 16 (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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Raw Skies
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Thursday Oct 16 (2–7pm) @ Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art
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Seven is a lucky number at Carmichael Gallery this month, as the curators carry out another dazzling, high-octane international group exhibition. Raw Skies presents a... View details »
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Takako Yamaguchi
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Thursday Oct 16 (11am–6pm) @ Cardwell Jimmerson Contemporary Art
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New landscapes and seascapes from LA-based painter Takako Yamaguchi combine the stylized organic geometry of op art with the sensual smoothness of patterned silk. Strong,... View details »
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Yoko Ono
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Thursday Oct 16 @ 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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Charlie Roberts
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Thursday Oct 16 (11am–5pm) @ Richard Heller Gallery
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Charlie Roberts is a consummate collector of images, with an organizational system resembling the interior of a Whitman's Sampler. He perceives the world of people... View details »
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Hans Burkhardt
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Thursday Oct 16 (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 »
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Mear One
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Thursday Oct 16 (noon–6pm) @ 01 Gallery
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Very few painters can swing the brush with the technical wizardry of LA native Mear One. Returning to the... ce where he got his start... View details »
- Art: Discussion
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Earworms
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Thursday Oct 16 (noon–5pm) @ Pasadena Museum of California Art
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PMCA's Project Room is transformed into a beguiling labyrinth, addressing the elusiveness of memory and the neurobiological basis of thought, via Deborah Aschheim's installation Earworms.... View details »
