All events on Tuesday October 30

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Film
The Departed (2006) & Infernal Affairs (2002)
Tuesday Oct 30, 2007 (7:30pm) @ New Beverly Cinema
Two locations, two films, one complicated storyline — in both the Chinese original, Infernal Affairs, and its American counterpart, The Departed, the Law has placed... View details »
The Departed (2006) & Infernal Affairs (2002)
Music: Rock/Pop
Battles
Tuesday Oct 30, 2007 (8pm) @ Music Box at the Fonda Theater
Giveaway
Battles' brand of spastic post-rock takes as much from '70s prog and post-punk as it does from cartoon soundtracks and drone metal. There are head-scratching... View details »
Battles
Art
Kim Rugg: Don't Mention the War
Tuesday Oct 30, 2007 (10am–6pm) @ Mark Moore Gallery More times »
Free
British artist Kim Rugg distills printed objects to their barest essentials by cutting them up and reconfiguring. For her well-known newspaper works, Rugg preserves the... View details »
Kim Rugg: Don't Mention the War

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Art
Mathieu Briand
Tuesday Oct 30, 2007 (10am–5:30pm) @ DF2 More times »
Free
While French artist Mathieu Briand is best known for his ambitious sound installations, with UBÏQ: A Mental Odyssey, he takes things significantly further. A multimedia... View details »
Mathieu Briand
Art
Bliss
Tuesday Oct 30, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ Roberts & Tilton Gallery More times »
Free
Roberts & Tilton associate director Lindsay Charlwood assumes the role of curator in this group show in the gallery's shared Domestic space. For the... View details »
Bliss
Art
Camille Rose Garcia
Tuesday Oct 30, 2007 (noon–6pm) @ Merry Karnowsky Gallery More times »
Free
Los Angeles' own Camille Rose Garcia isn't just part of the hot "lowbrow" urban-art movement — she's a key player. Her self-dubbed "creepy cartoon" illustrations... View details »
Camille Rose Garcia
Art
SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s
Tuesday Oct 30, 2007 @ Los Angeles County Museum of Art More times »
Exhibitions addressing mythologies of Southern California are suddenly seemingly ubiquitous. The Orange County Museum of Art's Art Since the 1960s: California Experiments historicizes the "evolution"... View details »
SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s
Art
Barry McGee: Advanced Mature Work
Tuesday Oct 30, 2007 (noon–6pm) @ REDCAT More times »
Free
Barry McGee (aka San Fran street scriber Twist) has created everything from a demolition derby (complete with cars featuring his painting) to a spray-painting mannequin.... View details »
Barry McGee: Advanced Mature Work
Art: Photography
Eric Tucker & Rae Scarton: Exit East
Tuesday Oct 30, 2007 @ Commissary Arts More times »
Free
Eric Tucker and Rae Scarton's Exit East explores the transformation of the Inland Empire with large-format color prints that pay special attention to the displacement... View details »
Eric Tucker & Rae Scarton: Exit East
Art
Second Nature
Tuesday Oct 30, 2007 @ Tinlark Gallery More times »
Free
Second Nature
Art
Susan Silton: The Day, the Earth
Tuesday Oct 30, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ SolwayJones More times »
Free
Susan Silton's latest photography project packs centuries of history and cultural politics into what many think of as a lowly design element: the stripe. Conjuring... View details »
Susan Silton: The Day, the Earth
Film: Documentary
My Kid Could Paint That
Tuesday Oct 30, 2007 @ Various locations More times »
Free
An abstract-art prodigy for the digital age, four-year-old Marla Olmstead is a rare bird indeed. In My Kid Could Paint That, Amir Bar-Lev documents the... View details »
My Kid Could Paint That
Art
Marischa Slusarski
Tuesday Oct 30, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ Robert Berman Gallery More times »
Free
Marischa Slusarski's paintings would be at home in Bosch's nursery school. Her strange, surreal landscapes — full of hideously adorable babies and creatures cavorting most... View details »
Marischa Slusarski
Art
Dave Kinsey
Tuesday Oct 30, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ Kinsey/DesForges Gallery More times »
Free
The theme of unlearning is an essential aspect in BLK/MRKT gallery owner Dave Kinsey's art. As a result, his multi-medium portraits are rife with diverse... View details »
Dave Kinsey
Art
Immigrant Punk
Tuesday Oct 30, 2007 (noon–6pm) @ Black Maria Gallery More times »
Free
There's a lot more to punk than style — after all, safety pins and mohawks were really just window dressing to the movement's underlying ethos.... View details »
Immigrant Punk
Art
Brendan Monroe: Insides
Tuesday Oct 30, 2007 (11am–5pm) @ Richard Heller Gallery More times »
Free
Internationally acclaimed, Berkeley-based artist Brendan Monroe returns to Richard Heller Gallery — one of the West Side's premier sources of contemporary art — for Insides,... View details »
Brendan Monroe: Insides
Art
Fumiko Amano: Heian Dream Series & Art Weeks: God Only Knows (what I'd be without you)
Tuesday Oct 30, 2007 (11am–5pm) @ Lawrence Asher Gallery More times »
Free
Fumiko Amano's saturated palettes, thick color fields, and raw patterns have an intensely serene and meditative physicality. Offering a powerful counterpoint, Art Weeks offers crisp,... View details »
Fumiko Amano: Heian Dream Series & Art Weeks: God Only Knows (what I'd be without you)
Art
Francis Alÿs
Tuesday Oct 30, 2007 (11am–7pm) @ Hammer Museum More times »
Pushing a block of ice through the streets of Mexico City, moving a mountain several inches, hiring a stripper who never quite strips: these are... View details »
Francis Alÿs
Art
Jennifer Faist
Tuesday Oct 30, 2007 (10am–5:30pm) @ Ruth Bachofner Gallery More times »
Free
Ironically, LA-based Jennifer Faist uses one of the most labor-intensive, obsessive processes imaginable to create serene, harmonious, and even poetic monochromes. After applying, setting, sanding,... View details »
Jennifer Faist
Art
Materials & Applications: Density Fields
Tuesday Oct 30, 2007 (10am–10pm) @ Materials & Applications More times »
Free
Experimental-architecture and landscape-research center M&A is a lightning rod for visionary thinkers, bringing the brightest artists and architects together to explore the artful use of... View details »
Materials & Applications: Density Fields
Art
Sue de Beer
Tuesday Oct 30, 2007 (10am–6pm) @ Sandroni Rey More times »
Free
From the horrific to the mythic, Sue de Beer's video installations unravel twisted paths into the sputtering darkness of adolescence. Her protagonists appear alternately incandescent,... View details »
Sue de Beer
Art
Kim Dingle
Tuesday Oct 30, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ Lightbox Gallery More times »
Free
Kim Dingle has a knack for turning the innocent into the disturbing. Clownish kids getting their faces stuck in garish cakes may seem the perfect... View details »
Kim Dingle
Art
A Great Delicacy
Tuesday Oct 30, 2007 (11am–5:30pm) @ Taylor De Cordoba Gallery More times »
Free
Curator Melissa Levin has gathered six New York-based artists whose work focuses on the nature of consumables. While the duo of Rebecca Veit and Kathryn... View details »
A Great Delicacy
Art
Shona Macdonald: SHIFT & Heimir Björgúlfsson: Allure Gone Buffalo
Tuesday Oct 30, 2007 (11am–5:30pm) @ d.e.n. contemporary art More times »
Free
Aberdeen-born Shona Macdonald's delicate gouache, silverpoint, and graphite works, exhibited in d.e.n.'s main gallery, comment on the endless order and routine of daily life —... View details »
Shona Macdonald: SHIFT & Heimir Björgúlfsson: Allure Gone Buffalo
Art
Anton Henning
Tuesday Oct 30, 2007 (10am–5:30pm) @ Christopher Grimes Gallery More times »
Free
Anton Henning's loopy abstractions, painterly portraits, and grandiose furniture are loveable yet curiously familiar. Consuming broad swathes of modernism from Manet to Mondrian to late... View details »
Anton Henning
Art
Iva Gueorguieva
Tuesday Oct 30, 2007 @ Pomona College Museum of Art More times »
Free
Victor Hugo once said that, in contrast to the sublime, the grotesque is the richest material that nature can offer art. Iva Gueorguieva heeds Hugo's... View details »
Iva Gueorguieva
Art
Nicole Eisenman
Tuesday Oct 30, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects More times »
Free
The humorous, poignant, and technically impressive paintings, drawings, and prints by Nicole Eisenman at Vielmetter Projects are neatly explained by the artist in a crude... View details »
Nicole Eisenman
Art
Soundwaves
Tuesday Oct 30, 2007 (11am–5pm) @ Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla More times »
Soundwaves: The Art of Sampling is MCASD's response to MOCA's 2005 exhibition Visual Music, a survey of the influence and/or direct use of music in... View details »
Soundwaves
Art: Photography
Julius Shulman
Tuesday Oct 30, 2007 (10am–8pm) @ Los Angeles Public Library More times »
Free
Julius Shulman has done more for the way California modernist architecture is seen and appreciated than probably anyone else — and he's also shot... View details »
Julius Shulman
Art: Architecture/Design
La Vida Lowrider
Tuesday Oct 30, 2007 (10am–6pm) @ Peterson Automotive Museum More times »
The lowrider tradition originated in the Chicano barrios of Los Angeles, inspired by a fierce love for classic cars and the need for expressing cultural... View details »
La Vida Lowrider