There is much to see this week, especially if you like goodies to go with your art. For an exhibition of paintings by Damien Hirst at Gagosian Gallery, they will also launch a custom iPad app to help you explore the collection of works displayed at all eleven of Gagosian's international locations. 

On a more local scale, the Museum of Public fiction curates a series of "secret restaurants" this week. The dinners will be hosted by guest chefs, with performances from artists such as Dawn Kasper, Karen Adelman, Butchy Fuego, Heather McIntosh, Kathryn Mccullough, Andrew Bulbrook and Eric Byers. They require an RSVP and will cost you a very worthwhile twenty dollars, so please email the gallery to request details.

On Saturday, RAID Projects presents an exhibition of work by Dana Maiden that explores intersections of sculpture and photography, with the poetic title, Margins and Rocks. Nearby at Thomas Solomon Gallery, Berlin based artist Jonas Lipps will present some quietly profound works on paper. 

Happy New Year! 
 

Thursday:
+ Damien Hirst "The Complete Spot Paintings 1986-2011" Worldwide Exhibition at Gagosian
+ "Larkin Grimm, Arrington de Dionyso, Erin Durant, Ezra Buchla" at museum of public fiction

Friday:
+ Jeanine Oleson "The Shore is Still in the Sea" at Commonwealth and Council
+ Adam Berg "Endangered Spaces" at Santa Monica Museum of Art

Saturday:
+ Dana Maiden "Margins and Rocks" at Raid Projects
+ Robert Minervini "On the Nature of Things" at Marine Contemporary
+ Jonas Lipps "Works on Paper" at Thomas Solomon Gallery

Sunday:

+ Closing reception: "The Loop Show" at Beacon Arts

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Tuesday, January 10

Screening: Vanessa Beecroft "The Art Star and the Sudanese Twins" at Human Resources (HRLA)
Chinatown: 410 Cottage Home street, CA 90012, 7-10pm

Thursday, January 12

+ Damien Hirst "The Complete Spot Paintings 1986-2011" Worldwide Exhibition at Gagosian
Beverly Hills: 456 North Camden Drive, CA 90210, 6-8pm

"Visions and Horizons" at Artspace Warehouse
West Hollywood: 7354 Beverly Boulevard, CA 90036, 6-8pm

Stuart Rapeport "Critics, Collectors, Curators, and Grapefruit" at Caporale/Bleicher
West Hollywood: 355 North La Brea Avenue, CA 90036, 7-10pm

"Pia MYrvoLD: Immersion" at LACDA (Los Angeles Center for Digital Art)
Downtown: 107 West 5th street , CA 90013, 7-9pm

Stuart Rapeport "Critics, Collectors, Curators and Grapefruit" at Bleicher/Golightly
Santa Monica: 1431 Ocean Avenue, CA 90401, 7-10pm

+ "Larkin Grimm, Arrington de Dionyso, Erin Durant, Ezra Buchla" at museum of public fiction
Highland Park: 749 avenue 50, CA 90042, 8-11:30pm

Friday, January 13

Rosa Loy "Convocation" at Michael Kohn Gallery
West Hollywood: 8071 Beverly Blvd , CA 90048, 6-8pm

Ramiro Diaz-Granados "Go Figure" at Sci-Arc
Downtown: 960 E 3rd Street, CA 90013, 7pm

+ Jeanine Oleson "The Shore is Still in the Sea" at Commonwealth and Council
Downtown: 3006 W. 7th Street #220, CA 76107, 8-11pm

+ Adam Berg "Endangered Spaces" at Santa Monica Museum of Art
Santa Monica: 2525 Michigan Avenue, CA 90404, 6-8pm

Georgi Tushev "Strange Attractor" at Santa Monica Museum of Art
Santa Monica: 2525 Michigan Avenue, CA 90404, 6-8pm

Saturday, January 14

"Saudade" at ANN 330 Gallery
West Hollywood: 7319 Beverly Boulevard, CA 90036, 6-8pm

Farrah Karapetian "Accessory to Protest - Photograms and Constructed Negatives" curated by Diane Rosenstein at LEADAPRON
West Hollywood: 8445 Melrose Place, CA 90069, 6-8pm

Flavio Garciandia "No Man Is A Brush" at Couturier Gallery
West Hollywood: 166 N La Brea Avenue, CA 90036, 6-8pm

+ Dana Maiden "Margins and Rocks" at Raid Projects
Downtown: 602 Moulton Avenue, CA 90031, 7-10pm

"Paperland" at ADC Contemporary Art Gallery
Downtown: 1330 Factory Place, rear entrance by 6th, CA 90013, 5:30pm

Kim Barry "Welcome 2012" at West Eleven Downtown: 642 Moulton avenue, W-11, CA 90031, 7-10pm

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"Once Emerging, Now Emerging: The Visitation" at Cirrus Gallery
Downtown: 542 S. Alameda street, CA 90013, 7-10pm

John Van Hamersveld "T.V. Life" at DRKRM
Downtown: 727 S. Spring Street, CA 90014, 7-10pm

Helen K. Garber "Encaustic Noir" at DNJ Gallery
Santa Monica: 2525 Michigan Avenue, suite J1, CA 90404, 7-9pm

Christopher Felver, Ted Soqui "JUST OCCUPY: Christopher Felver and Ted Soqui" at Robert Berman Gallery (D5)
Santa Monica: 2525 Michigan Avenue, CA 90404, 7-10pm

John Divola "Notes on the Observer" at Gallery Luisotti/Ram Publications
Santa Monica: 2525 Michigan Avenue , building A 2, CA 90404, 6-8pm

+ Robert Minervini "On the Nature of Things" at Marine Contemporary
Venice: 1733 Abbot Kinney Boulevard, suite A, CA 90291, 6-9pm

Kenny Harris "China" at Koplin Del Rio Gallery
Culver City: 6031 Washington Boulevard, CA 90232, 5:30-8pm

Amy Green "Grids, Stains, Stacks" at Monte Vista
Highland Park: 5442 Monte Vista Street, CA 90042, 7-10pm

"Resurrected Histories: Voices from the Chicano Arts Collectives of Highland Park" at Avenue 50 Studio
Highland Park: 131 North Avenue 50, CA 90042, 7-10pm

+ Jonas Lipps "Works on Paper" at Thomas Solomon Gallery
Chinatown: 427 Bernard Street, CA 90012, 6-8pm

"Go Tell It On the Mountain" curated by Nery Gabriel Lemus at Charlie James Gallery
Chinatown: 975 Chung King Road, CA 90012, 6-9pm

Mario Cutajar "Civil War" at JB Jurve
Chinatown: 742 N Broadway, CA 90012, 6-9pm

Sunday, January 15

+ Closing reception: "The Loop Show" at Beacon Arts Inglewood: 808 N. La Brea avenue, CA 90302, 1-4pm

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Lecture: "Feminist Seminar on Politics & Performance" at Human Resources (HRLA)
Chinatown: 410 Cottage Home street, CA 90012, 4-6pm

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