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Eugenia Bulter Jr. showed Electric Cord Piece (1967) at her mother's gallery

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The best art this week is all in Hollywood, where major-leaguers look like superheroes and an eccentric 1960s gallerist makes a thrilling comeback.

5. Sunglass art
Artist Alex Israel, who makes surreal installations out of Hollywood props, also designs sunglasses for his L.A.-centric brand Freeways Eyewear (John Baldessari's quote "I will not look at any more boring art" is on a new pair). Israel's new Abbot Kinney mural isn't a sunglass ad but, intentionally, it has that crisp, seductive feeling of a beachside advertisement minus a brand name. Will you be able to spot it as art? And does it matter if you can't? 1212-C Abbot Kinney Blvd., Venice; up indefinitely. (310) 426-8040, vsf.la.

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Flickr/Mats Haugen

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Kiss your whites goodbye -- Labor Day is nearly upon us. To some of you, that means the end of summer; to others, the beginning of Indian summer. Either way, it's time to reflect on the calendar months traditionally associated with sunshine. To that end, most of you will spend the weekend drowning in beer and barbecue sauce, but for a waistline-friendly alternative that will leave you not so sad about the passage of time, here are 10 annoying things about summer in L.A...

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Rendering courtesy the City of Santa Monica.

The setup at each bathroom is unique, with the intention of creating a welcoming place.

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Crowded in your bathroom in the morning? Can't get your girl outta the shower? Try sharing sink time with millions -- and you've got the setup at the City of Santa Monica public beach bathrooms.

With high user numbers and harsh-on-materials weather conditions such as the coastal environment's wind and salt, it's no wonder that durability was the key word when it came to designing eight new beach bathrooms, which began to open in the area at the end of July.

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