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Our contributing photo editor, Estevan Oriol, gave us the head's up on this new photography show opening at Known Gallery tonight, Feburary 4. Michael Miller's West Coast Hip-Hop: A History In Pictures will feature 43 photos, majority of which have never been shown to the public.
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We were pretty geeked on the NFL this year, especially seeing as our neighborhood team (literally) went 13-3 behind a memorably marauding defense. Beyond our beloved Niners in Paris, though, mediocrity and half-truths abounded league-wide, wonderfully illustrated by These Fries Are Good.
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We know that Chinese artist Liu Bolin gets a lot of recognition for his blending into public objects by painting himself series, but we would like to say that Peruvian artist Cecilia Paredes' work of painting herself into various flowering wallpaper designs is quite impressive. At times, you can almost lose her in the backdrops she chooses.
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Tonight, February 4 at Thinkspace Gallery, Liz Brizzi will open a new series of works based on landscapes of the streets and alleys of Downtown Los Angeles. The LA-based artist spent more time working on the architectural elements of her scenes as opposed to the more lifelike work she has created in the past.
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A Bigger Picture features fifty years of Hockney's fascination and investigation of landscape. Many of the works are inspired by the East Yorkshire countryside and created in the last five years specifically for this exhibition at the Royal Academy. Hockney has always been interested in re-examining how we see and make pictures through a variety of mediums, but most notably through photography, drawing, and painting.
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