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- Music: Punk/Metal
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Spinnerette
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Wednesday Oct 29 (9pm) @ Spaceland
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Out of the ashes of breakout punk act the Distillers emerges Spinnerette, Brody Dalle's latest searingly hot take on femme-fronted rock 'n roll. This seductive... View details »
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3 from 33 1/3
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Wednesday Oct 29 (7pm) @ Hammer Museum
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This evening's event features multimedia readings by authors from 33 1/3, the book series that tells the stories behind some of the world's most beloved... View details »
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DJ Spooky
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Wednesday Oct 29 (6pm) @ UCLA Broad Art Center
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As DJ Spooky, That Subliminal Kid, Paul Miller has long been slipping strains of Afro-futurist technology into the hip-hop marketplace. The second part of his... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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The Notwist
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Wednesday Oct 29 (8pm) @ Music Box at the Fonda Theater
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After nearly five years of silence, everyone's favorite German-bred electro-acoustic outfit makes its way back to America. On this year's The Devil, You + Me,... View details »
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Marcel Duchamp Redux
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Wednesday Oct 29 (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 29 (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 29 @ 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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Wednesday Oct 29 (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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Yin Zhaoyang
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Wednesday Oct 29 (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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Josh Dorman
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Wednesday Oct 29 (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 29 (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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Alexander Melamid
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Wednesday Oct 29 (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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Wednesday Oct 29 (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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CUT: Makings of Removal
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Wednesday Oct 29 (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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John Bock
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Wednesday Oct 29 (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 »
- Art: Festival
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Off-Axis
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Wednesday Oct 29 @ 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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Wednesday Oct 29 (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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Wednesday Oct 29 (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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Wednesday Oct 29 (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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Wednesday Oct 29 (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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Wednesday Oct 29 (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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Wednesday Oct 29 (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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Wednesday Oct 29 (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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Wednesday Oct 29 (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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Wednesday Oct 29 (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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Wednesday Oct 29 (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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Gordy Grundy
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Wednesday Oct 29 @ 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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Anthony Goicolea
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Wednesday Oct 29 (10am–6pm) @ Sandroni Rey
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Anthony Goicolea let his family albums guide his latest exhibition, Related III. The Cuban artist's photographs, drawings, and installations are spun from portraits of family... View details »
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Robbie Conal
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Wednesday Oct 29 (11am–6pm) @ 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 »
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Linda Besemer
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Wednesday Oct 29 (10am–6pm) @ Angles Gallery
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Linda Besemer produces the kind of art that provokes people to solve the mystery of how she does it. Without divulging trade secrets, it has... View details »
- Art: Photography
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Grace Oh
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Wednesday Oct 29 @ Edgar Varela Fine Arts
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Los Angeles photographer Grace Oh first grew passionate about capturing nudes when she began actively pursuing photography in her early twenties. After broadening her scope... View details »
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Wolfgang Tillmans
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Wednesday Oct 29 (10am–6pm) @ Regen Projects
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Wolfgang Tillmans is like the Madonna of the art world: never afraid to change directions, reinvent himself, or throw in a surprise or two to... View details »
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Neal Spector
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Wednesday Oct 29 (10am–6pm) @ Guy Hepner Contemporary
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In his previous life as a principal at a "Hollywood creative firm," Neal Spector was instrumental in enabling LA's obsession with labels. Now working as... View details »
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Takako Yamaguchi
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Wednesday Oct 29 (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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Wednesday Oct 29 @ 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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Wednesday Oct 29 (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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Wednesday Oct 29 (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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Marco Brambilla
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Wednesday Oct 29 (10am–5:30pm) @ Christopher Grimes Gallery
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Marco Brambilla's newest video pieces live up to his reputation for supersaturated maximalism, combining, recombining, randomizing, and manipulating found and sampled film footage into looped... View details »
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Bob Zoell
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Wednesday Oct 29 (11am–5pm) @ Wal-Art
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Remember in LA Story when Steve Martin thought the LED signs on the freeway were speaking to him? The work in Bob Zoell's current show... View details »
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2008 California Biennial
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Wednesday Oct 29 (11am–5pm) @ Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach
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The 2008 installment of the California Biennial should come with an anxiety-attack warning label. In a way, it does, with Patrick Hebert's sprawling outdoor installation... View details »
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Mear One
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Wednesday Oct 29 (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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Wednesday Oct 29 (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 »