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Francis Alÿs: Fabiola  |  Art, 09 7 2008 - 01 4 2009 Francis Alÿs, a Belgian artist who relocated to Mexico City in the early 1990s, has assembled a significant collection of nearly identical paintings and other depictions of fourth-century Saint Fabiola over the last two decades. Gathered from flea markets, antique shops, and private collections throughout Europe and the Americas, Alÿs’s collection offers a window onto aesthetic, sociological, and theological values over the past century and more. Los Angeles County Museum of Art 5905 Wilshire Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90036 USA Hours: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday: 12 pm - 8 pm  Friday: 12 pm - 9 pm / Saturday, Sunday: 11 am - 8 pm Admission: A general admission ticket is a one-day pass to LACMA’s permanent galleries and non-ticketed exhibitions : Adults $9 / Concessions $5 Admission FREE after 5 pm & the second Tuesday of each month. http://www.lacma.org

MARTIN KIPPENBERGER  |   Contemporary Art, 09 21 2008 - 01 5 2009 One of the most significant and influential artists of our time, German artist Martin Kippenberger (1953–97) produced a complex and richly varied body of work from the mid-1970s until his untimely death in 1997 at the age of 44. The first major retrospective exhibition to be mounted in the United States, Martin Kippenberger: The Problem Perspective includes key selections and bodies of work from Kippenberger’s entire career: paintings, sculpture, works on paper, installations, multiples, photographs, posters, announcement cards, and books. Image: Martin Kippenberger: The Problem Perspective at MOCA Grand Avenue, 2008, photo by Brian Forrest MOCA - Grand Avenue 250 South Grand Avenue Los Angeles CA 90012 USA Hours: MON 11am–5pm / THURS 11am–8pm /FRI 11am–5pm / SAT, SUN 11am–6pm  TUES, WED CLOSED

Admission: general $10 / Students with I.D.: $5 / Seniors (65+): $5 Children under 12: Free Free Thursdays: Admission is free every Thursday, 5 - 8pm http://www.moca.org

Contemporary Projects 11: Hard Targets Sport and Masculinity  |  Photography, 10 9 2008 - 01 18 2009 The exhibition features photographs, sculptures, video, and installations by artists, including Mark Bradford, Harun Farocki, Brian Jungen, Shaun Leonardo, Collier Schorr, and Joe Sola, all of whom suggest through their work that the male athlete is a far more ambiguous, multidimensional figure in our collective cultural imagination than ever before. Image: Collier Schorr, 152 lbs. (H.T.) Los Angeles County Museum of Art 5905 Wilshire Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90036 USA Hours: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday: 12 pm - 8 pm  Friday: 12 pm - 9 pm / Saturday, Sunday: 11 am - 8 pm Admission: A general admission ticket is a one-day pass to LACMA’s permanent galleries and non-ticketed exhibitions : Adults $9 / Concessions $5 Admission FREE after 5 pm & the second Tuesday of each month. http://www.lacma.org

Vanity Fair Portraits: Photographs 1913 - 2008  |  Photography, 10 26 2008 - 03 1 2009 This remarkable exhibition showcases 150 portraits including classic images from Vanity Fair's early period, displayed for the first time alongside photographs featured in the magazine since its re-launch. Image: Nickolas Muray, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr and Joan Crawford, Santa Monica, 1929, Vanity Fair, October 1929, © Condé Nast Publications Inc./Courtesy Condé Nast Archive. Los Angeles County Museum of Art 5905 Wilshire Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90036 USA Hours: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday: 12 pm - 8 pm  Friday: 12 pm - 9 pm / Saturday, Sunday: 11 am - 8 pm Admission: A general admission ticket is a one-day pass to LACMA’s permanent galleries and non-ticketed exhibitions : Adults $9 / Concessions $5 Admission FREE after 5 pm & the second Tuesday of each month. http://www.lacma.org

Louise Bourgeois  |  Art, 10 26 2008 - 01 25 2009 Fourth venue of an ambitious international tour. This comprehensive exhibition is the first major survey of American artist Louise Bourgeois's (b. 1911, Paris, France) work in more than a decade. Bourgeois's long and distinguished career reveals a vast oeuvre in dialogue with most of the major international avant-garde artistic movements of the 20th century- from surrealism to conceptual art- but always remaining distinctively separate, as an inventive frontrunner. Simultaneously engaging both modern and traditional techniques, Bourgeois explores various themes in a range of styles, from abstraction to the ready-made. With over 100 works spanning her career, the exhibition includes her earliest paintings; sculptures in differing materials; large-scale installation works from the 1980s and '90s; a selection of drawings and prints; small-scale hand-made objects; and her most recent works, which utilize fabric. Image: Louise Bourgeois, The Blind Leading The Blind, 1947–49, painted wood, 70 3/8 x 96 7/8 x 17 3/8 in., Hirshhorn useum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., photo by Bruce Jones, © Louise Bourgeois MOCA - Grand Avenue 250 South Grand Avenue Los Angeles CA 90012 USA Hours: MON 11am–5pm / THURS 11am–8pm /FRI 11am–5pm / SAT, SUN 11am–6pm  TUES, WED CLOSED

Admission: general $10 / Students with I.D.: $5 / Seniors (65+): $5 Children under 12: Free Free Thursdays: Admission is free every Thursday, 5 - 8pm http://www.moca.org

Tango with Cows: Book Art of the Russian Avant-Garde, 1910–1917  |  Art, 11 18 2008 - 04 19 2009 Tango with Cows takes its title from a book and poem by the Russian avant-garde poet Vasily Kamensky. The absurd image of farm animals dancing the tango evokes the clash in Russia between a primarily rural culture and a growing urban life. This exhibition explores the way Russian avant-garde poets and artists responded to this crisis through their book art. Image: Portrait of Akhmet (detail), Mikhail Larionov, in Worldbackwards (Mirskontsa), 1912. Banner image: Cover of Transrational Boog (Zaumnaia gniga) (detail), Olga Rozanova, 1916 The Getty Museum 1200 Getty Center Drive Los Angeles, California 90049 Hours: Tuesday - Friday and Sunday 10 am - 5:30 pm / Saturday 10 am- 9 pm Closed Monday and on January 1, July 4, Thanksgiving and December 25. Admission: FREE http://www.getty.edu/museum/

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