Edition One Hundred
A&I Lab – Los Angeles, CA
10/2/10

On Saturday, October 2, A&I Lab, Los Angeles, will host the first exhibition of work by all 2010 Edition One Hundred artists. The exhibition is designed to introduce the public to the brand by showcasing the luxurious production and knockout content of astoundingly affordable art. Edition One Hundred has partnered with A&I Lab, the largest photographic and digital services lab on the west coast, to produce the photo-based fine art prints available for sale.

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Arteest- One Month. One Designer. A Great Cause.

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Derek Chan’s rigorous paintings, works-on-paper, and durational performances record the minutia of daily life, while combining historical and fictitious narratives to reflect on such themes as spirituality and environmental sustainability.

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The Orchestra Unleashed
El Portal Theatre – Los Angeles, CA
9/11 to 9/12/10

The Orchestra Unleashed, a concert of new classical music for the orchestra, will take place September 11 and 12 at the El Portal Theatre in North Hollywood, CA. The Saturday, September 11 concert is at 8:00pm and the Sunday, September 12 concert is at 2:00pm. Ticket prices are $25 for adults and $15 for students and are available for purchase at the theatre website. There are a limited number of in-orchestra seats available. This unique experience gives audiences the opportunity to sit with the orchestra, immersed in the music. These tickets are $100 and only available at www.theorchestraunleashed.com.

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From El-P’s album of instrumental suites comes this video of “Time Won’t Tell,” an understated track with a simple guitar riff and beat. Director Shan Nicholson reconstructs a memory from his childhood in New York, where children had to use their imaginations to make something of their bleak urban surroundings. El-P’s Weareallgoingtoburninhellmegamixxx3 is out now on Gold Dust Records.

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Shinique Smith: Menagerie
MOCA – Miami, FL
9/16/10 to 11/19/10

In this exhibition, Shinique Smith will use MOCA’s flexible gallery space to explore new ways of working and installing her work. Part of MOCA’ s Knight Exhibition Series, Shinique Smith: Menagerie will include installations, works on paper, and video from 2002 to the present. Shinique Smith: Menagerie is organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami in association with Madison Museum of Contemporary Art and is curated by MOCA, North Miami Executive Director and Chief Curator Bonnie Clearwater.

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Extreme Animals Sit Down
The Cinefamily – Los Angeles, CA
9/5/10

21st-century composers/mindwarpers Jacob Ciocci and David Wightman present a furious mash-up of live music, video, staged theatrics, and global meltdowns! Get ready for their disjunctive, startlingly entertaining array of live shredding, extreme feedback, YouTube bombardment, ecstatic dance moves, and Saturday morning cartoons, as the group’’s newest performance delves into the world of tween culture and the current obsession with the infinite hall of mirrors known as “being forever young.”

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Dickies and FILTER Magazine have paired up to bring you a chance to win a pair of tickets to Germany’s Reeperbahn Festival. The contest will provide one lucky winner and his/her guest with round trip airfare, hotel accommodations, and much more. Grand Prize includes trip for 2 to Hamburg, Germany; round-trip airfare for 2; hotel accommodations for 3 days/3 nights; 2 tickets to the Reeperbahn Festival; 1 year FILTER magazine subscription and $500 Dickies Gift Card. Five 1st Prize winners will receive a $50 Dickies Gift Card good for purchases on Dickies.com or Dickies Catalog. Must be 21 or older to enter. One entry per person.

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Grammy-nominated soul singer Bilal’s forthcoming album, Airtight’s Revenge, features “Restart,” produced by Bilal and Steve McKie (hitting stores on September 14^th via Plug Research).

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Secretly Canadian is pleased to present the latest news from Yeasayer. The band has teamed up with renowned artist and video maker Andreas Nilsson (MGMT, Fever Ray, Moby, José González) for an extremely bizarre, poignant video for their latest single, “Madder Red.”
 
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