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Halloween in Hades
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Friday Oct 31 (7–11pm) @ Hammer Museum
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Acid-burlesque troupe Discount Cruise to Hell kicks off the Hammer Museum's tryptic of Halloween horrowshows, resurrecting glam with blood-curdling cabaret. Dance duo Hecuba follows, fusing... View details »
- Music: DJ
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HARD Haunted Mansion
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Friday Oct 31 (8pm–4am) @ Shrine Expo Hall
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The only thing spooky about the HARD Haunted Mansion — masterfully curated by Nitrus Records — is the sheer amount of international electro royalty huddled... View details »
- Music: Punk/Metal
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Tulsa Skull Swingers
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Friday Oct 31 (11pm) @ Taix
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In the Tulsa Skull Swingers' ghoulish world, every day is Halloween. The LA-based garage-rock outfit perennially amuse audiences with skull masks and zombie regalia, spewing... View details »
- Music: DJ
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Mickey Avalon and Damian Lazarus
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Friday Oct 31 (10pm–7am) @ Avalon Hollywood
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An irreverent LA-based rapper with a famously sordid past, Mickey Avalon spouts bawdy lyrics infused with scathing pop-culture references. Hitting everything from his own drug... View details »
- Music: DJ
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An Evening of Haunted House
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Friday Oct 31 (9pm) @ Air Conditioned Supper Club, Venice
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What better night than Halloween to resurrect the ghost of Funky in the Middle? Tonight the one-time Westside dance-music staple returns to haunt its former... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Creepshow
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Friday Oct 31 (9pm–2am) @ Little Radio
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In this year's most beard-friendly Halloween event, LA-bred noise-poppers Autolux ring in the most evil evening of the year alongside powerglove pimp the Gaslamp Killer... View details »
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Phantom of the Opera
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Friday Oct 31 (8pm) @ Disney Concert Hall
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Check out the original film version of Phantom that started all the fuss in 1925, decades before Andrew Lloyd Webber was even born. Disney Hall... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Roky Erickson
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Friday Oct 31 (8pm) @ El Rey
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As a founding member of '60s psych legends 13th Floor Elevators, singer/guitarist Roky Erickson wasn't shy about experimenting with drugs (he often described the band's... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Asobi Seksu
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Friday Oct 31 (9pm) @ The Echo
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Tonight the Echo brings a polarizing night of tunes for boys and girls, so no standing on opposite sides of the room. Brooklyn's Asobi Seksu... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Drop Dead Gorgeous
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Friday Oct 31 (9pm–2am) @ Natural History Museum
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Indie 103.1 and Bud Lime's Drop Dead Gorgeous Halloween party stars Darker My Love, a crew known, and loved, for an overdriven soul a bit... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Very Be Careful
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Friday Oct 31 (9pm) @ Guatelinda Nightclub
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Very Be Careful bring cumbia and vallenato into the 21st century. The Caribbean-by-way-of-LA group expound upon urban grit with jubilant music that resounds as much... View details »
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Halloween Downtown
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Friday Oct 31 (9pm–3am) @ Lot 613
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Bound to be one of the underdog parties this All Hallows Eve, Halloween Downtown's rock showcase features local rock veterans the Vacation and headliners the... View details »
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Mexican Calendar Girls
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Friday Oct 31 (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 31 @ 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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Friday Oct 31 (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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Friday Oct 31 (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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Friday Oct 31 (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 31 (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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Drive-In Series
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Friday Oct 31 (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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Alexander Melamid
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Friday Oct 31 (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 31 (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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John Bock
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Friday Oct 31 (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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Off-Axis
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Friday Oct 31 @ 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 31 (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 31 (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 31 (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 31 (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 31 (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 31 (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 31 (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 31 (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 31 (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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Friday Oct 31 (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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Friday Oct 31 @ 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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Friday Oct 31 (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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Anthony Goicolea
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Friday Oct 31 (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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Friday Oct 31 (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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Friday Oct 31 (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 »
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Grace Oh
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Friday Oct 31 @ 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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Friday Oct 31 (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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Friday Oct 31 (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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Friday Oct 31 (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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Friday Oct 31 @ 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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AFI Fest
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Friday Oct 31 @ Arclight Hollywood
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The AFI Fest continues its yearly assault on the Arclight with a truly impressive lineup for 2008. Among the highlights are opening-night presentation The Soloist,... View details »
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Charlie Roberts
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Friday Oct 31 (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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Friday Oct 31 (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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Friday Oct 31 (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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Friday Oct 31 (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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Friday Oct 31 (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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Louise Bourgeois
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Friday Oct 31 (11am–5pm) @ Museum of Contemporary Art
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Louise Bourgeois' deeply personal art combines an in-your-face sexuality with disturbing, even terrifying, imagery of trespassed flesh and violated privacy. Yet her work, including her... View details »
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Mear One
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Friday Oct 31 (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 »
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Earworms
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Friday Oct 31 (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 »
