This week Thursday and Saturday offer a few slightly mysterious exhibitions that definitely seem worth investigating: 

The Action Bureau hosts Free Clinic #2, the second installment in an ongoing series of of action-based, body-centric performance events at Human Resources this Thursday evening from 6-9pm. You may want to wear protective goggles.

On Saturday evening The Fellows of Contemporary Art presents Seven Los Angeles Artists, featuring work by Kathryn Andrews, Anonymous, Anonymous, Erin Cosgrove, Mark Hagen, Mike Kelley, Rodney Mcmillian curated by Scott Benzel. 

Also on Saturday, enter a forest-like installation at Las Cienegas Projects. Have You Seen Me is a collaborative project and group of performances curated by Tanya Haden and Anna Oxygen.

New on Artcards Review:
- "Featured Artist: Ry Rocklen" by Brent Birnbaum
- "Joshua Hagler at 101/exhibit" by Brinson Renda
- "Transmission Arts: Artists and Airwaves Book Celebration at Issue Project Room" by Maria Papadomanolaki
 
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Thursday:
+ Gajin Fujita "Made in L.A." at L.A. Louver

Saturday:
+ Jennifer Sullivan, Shelli Tollman "3 New Exhibitions: Have You Seen Me; Somewhere In This World; Adult Movie" curated by Anna Oxygen, Tanya Haden at Las Cienegas Projects
+ "Bound Together" curated by Gusmano Cesaretti at Fifth Floor Gallery

Tuesday, October 11

? James Lee Byars "James Lee Byars: Letters | Books | Multiples | Ephemera" curated by Jonathan Brown at LEADAPRON
West Hollywood: 8445 Melrose Place, CA 90069, (time not confirmed, check with gallery)

Screening: "Brand X" at Hammer Museum
Westwood / Century City: 10899 Wilshire Blvd, CA 90024, 7pm

Aaron Carpenter, Claire Greenshaw, David Armstrong-Six, Jay Isaac, Mark DeLong, Nicole Ondre, Tony Romano "Hunter and Cook Presents" at Night Gallery
Lincoln Heights: 204 S. Ave 19 , CA 90031, 10pm

Thursday, October 13

Joan Vennum "There, From Here" at Sundaram Tagore Gallery
Beverly Hills: 9606 South Santa Monica Boulevard, CA 90210, 6-9pm

Performance: Ulysses Jenkins "Black Gold Fever" at LACE Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions
Hollywood: 6522 Hollywood Boulevard, CA 90028, $10, 7-9pm

Cryptic, Destroy All Design, J.W. Pipen, Nomade, Rtsystm, Septerhed "Public Order" curated by Stuart Noble at Pershing Square (Art Squared Gallery)
Downtown: 532 South Olive Street, CA 90013, 6-9pm

Alejandro Caraballo, Alicia Falcone, Aminah Shabazz, Djembe & Canvas, Erik Jerumanis, Fabian Landgrave, Graeme Whittle, James Hall, Jobe Benjamin, Kim Berg, Louise Howard, Marianne Saltiel, Nancy Caster, Robert E. Richards, Uriel J. Tekunoff "Annual Fall International: Eleven,Twelve...Fourteen" at Norbertellen Gallery
Downtown: 215 W 6th street, CA 90014, noon-10pm (Downtown LA Art Walk)

"Urbnlux: Graffiti For Life" at Crewest
Downtown: 110 Winston street, CA 90013, 6-10pm

+ Gajin Fujita "Made in L.A." at L.A. Louver
Venice: 45 North Venice Boulevard, CA 90291, 6-8pm

"Loose Canon" at L.A. Louver
Venice: 45 North Venice Boulevard, CA 90291, 6-8pm

Airom, Andreea Enache Uanciufrii, Arturo Jimenez Haro, Barry Markowitz, Bill Hicks, Courtney Reid, Garrett Wentzell, Gay Summer Rick, Gerta Lind, Jose Lopes, Kelly Thompson, Lynn Coleman, Marcus Durkheim, Oscar Magallones, Robert Oblon, Robyn Killian, Shannon Rowland, Simone Gad, Stephen Jerome, Tracey Harnish, Vyalone, Wenceslao Quiroz "Soft Machine UT" curated by Mike Saijo at Bleicher/Golightly (MID WILSHIRE)
Mid-Wilshire: 355 N La Brea Avenue, CA 90036, 6-10pm

Screening: "Exchange and Evolution: Worldwide Video Long Beach 1974-1999" at Long Beach Museum of Art
Long Beach: 2300 E Ocean Boulevard, CA 90803, 8-9:30pm

Friday, October 14

Lecture: Odile Decq Benoît Cornette "Anisotropy | Anisotropie" at Sci-Arc
Downtown: 960 E 3rd Street, CA 90013, 7-9pm

Danny Minnick "17 Peaces" at Rico Adair Gallery
North Hollywood: 5310 Laurel Canyon boulevard, CA 91607, 7-11pm

Screening: Charles Phoenix "Charles Phoenix: Slides from my "Slibrary"" at Craig Krull Gallery
Santa Monica: 2525 Michigan Avenue, Bergamot Station, Building B7, CA 90404, $25 - RSVP to 310-828-6410 or info@craigkrullgallery.com - Space limited to 40 people., 8-9:30pm

Peter Gronquist "The Evolution will be Fabulous!" at Gallery 1988 (Venice)
Santa Monica: 214 Pier Avenue, CA 90405, 7-10pm

Tim Biskup "Former State" at This Los Angeles
Highland Park: 5906 N Figueroa St, CA 90042, 7-10pm

Saturday, October 15

Charley Gallay "Foto! Ray-Gun! Mambo!" curated by Shannon Rowland at Caporale/Bleicher
West Hollywood: 355 North La Brea Avenue, CA 90036, 6-10pm

? Wayne Littlejohn "Slippery" at Peter Mendenhall Gallery
West Hollywood: 6150 Wilshire Boulevard, Space 8, CA 90048, (time not confirmed, check with gallery)

$ex Artiste, Art Tickle, Asa Fox, Bryan Barnes, Charlie Krafft, Chris Lissner, Dan Pyle, Daniel Bolliger, Eddie Jelinet, Eric Nash, Eric Sometimes, Erika Winters, Joe De Hoyos, Jose De Juan, Matt Pipes, Philip Pirolo, Raymond Sandoval, Renfield, Robert Mann, Ted Dickinson "Saints & Sinners" curated by Rick Castro at Antebellum Gallery Hollywood: 1643 N. Las Palmas Ave, CA 90028, $10, 7-9pm

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Anthony Sneed , Bertil Petersson, Clytie Alexander, Edith Baumann, Jow, Larry Bell, Samuel Stabler, Scot Heywood, Sol LeWitt "Less is More" at Subliminal Projects
Silverlake / Echo Park / Atwater: 1331 W Sunset Boulevard, CA 90026, 7-10pm

Ben Buswell, Heidi Schwegler, Paula Rebsom "TILT Export: Imposter" curated by Jenene Nagy, Josh Smith at Raid Projects
Downtown: 602 Moulton Avenue, CA 90031, 6-9pm

? Performance: "Live Artists Challenge: 6 Artists will attempt to make and install an entire gallery full of mixed media work in one day" at Rico Adair Gallery North Hollywood: 5310 Laurel Canyon boulevard, CA 91607, (time not confirmed, check with gallery)

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Chet Zar, Dan Quintana, Mark Garro at Copro Gallery
Santa Monica: 2525 Michigan Avenue, T5, CA 90404, 8-11:30pm

Sara Wylie Walsh "Summers End" at FIG (First Independent Gallery)
Santa Monica: 2525 Michigan Avenue, CA 90404, 5-7pm

Carole Garland, Della Rolle, Diane Rudnick Mann, Ellen Starr at TAG Gallery
Santa Monica: 2525 Michigan Avenue, CA 90404, 5-8pm

? Marinella Paolini at James Gray Gallery
Santa Monica: 2525 Michigan Avenue, building D4, CA 90404, (time not confirmed, check with gallery)

Gegam Kacherian at Rosamund Felsen Gallery
Santa Monica: 2525 Michigan Avenue, CA 90404, 5-7pm

"She Accepts the Proposition: Women Gallerists and the Redefinition of Art in Los Angeles, 1967-1978" curated by Kristina Newhouse at Sam Francis Gallery at Crossroads
Santa Monica: 1714 Twenty First Street, Crossroads School 2n, 6-8pm

+ Jennifer Sullivan, Shelli Tollman "3 New Exhibitions: Have You Seen Me; Somewhere In This World; Adult Movie" curated by Anna Oxygen, Tanya Haden at Las Cienegas Projects
Culver City: 2045 S. La Cienega Blvd., CA 90034, 7-10pm

Carole Caroompas "Uncle Lenny: Right As Wrong/ Wrong As Right" at Western Project
Culver City: 2762 S. La Cienega Blvd., CA 90034, 6-8pm

Alex Blas "My Friends" at George Billis Gallery LA
Culver City: 2716 S. La Cienega Blvd., CA 90034, 5-8pm

"The House of Rising Spirits" at Bleicher/Golightly (MID WILSHIRE)
Mid-Wilshire: 355 N La Brea Avenue, CA 90036, 2-6pm

Nevan Lahart "HD Softcore" at Steve Turner Contemporary
Mid-Wilshire: 6026 Wilshire Blvd, CA 90036, 6-8pm

Christian Herman Cummings "Beside My Self" at Steve Turner Contemporary
Mid-Wilshire: 6026 Wilshire Blvd, CA 90036, 6-8pm

Monique Prieto "Time Enough" at Acme Gallery
Mid-Wilshire: 6150 Wilshire Blvd., CA 90048, 6-8pm

Grant Barnhart "This room has one thousand doors and an abandoned light booth for a ceiling" at Ambach & Rice
Mid-Wilshire: 6148 Wilshire Boulevard, CA 90048, 6-8pm

+ "Bound Together" curated by Gusmano Cesaretti at Fifth Floor Gallery
Chinatown: 502 Chung King Court, CA 90012, 6-9pm

Kim Tucker "Unquiet Slumber" at ShoeboxLA (All Star Lanes -- Eagle Rock)
Eagle Rock: 4459 Eagle Rock boulevard, CA 90041, 4-7pm

Steve Cook "Riding the Planet, Volume III" at Buenaventura Gallery
Ventura: 700 E. Santa Clara street, CA 93001, 4-7pm

Sunday, October 16

Kate Browning, Rebacca Catterall at Topanga Canyon Gallery
Topanga: 120 N. Topanga Canyon Blvd, suite 109, CA 90290, 2-5pm

Reading: "Five Points Reading Series Presents: Tundra" with readings by Ken Ehrlich, Grace Krilanovich, Karen Tongson at Workspace
Highland Park: 2601 Pasadena Ave, Unit C, CA 90031, 5pm

Monday, October 17

? "Ewha Womans University Asociation of S. California group show" at Lee & Lee Gallery
Miracle Mile / Mid-City: 3130 Wilshire Boulevard, suite 502, CA 90005, (time not confirmed, check with gallery)

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