Events on Sunday, November 18
Conversations with Artists: Mike Kelley and Jim Shaw
Sunday 11/18 @ Bing Theater
Mike Kelley has had plenty to say about the modern world's media assault on the senses; he's notorious for mixing media...
Sunday 11/18 @ The Hotel Café
It's unofficial urban-noir night at this month's Tongue & Groove. Post-punk impresario, photographer, and award-winning author Shawna Kenney — whose most...
Sunday 11/18 @ La Luz de Jesus
From the first snarling guitar on the Lower East Side, an entire ethos was born. As much as society wanted to...
KCRW Presents: Everloving Music Night
Sunday 11/18 @ McCabe's Guitar Shop
Indier-than-thou record label Everloving pulls together a triple bill of new melody-making outfits for tonight's show, held on McCabe's legendarily intimate...
Sunday 11/18 @ Hammer Museum
Watch out Westwood — Steve Erickson is coming to the Hammer Museum to unleash his apocalyptic worldview. The author of eight...
Ongoing Events
Sunday 11/18 @ Los Angeles Public Library: Central Library
Julius Shulman has done more for the way California modernist architecture is seen and appreciated than probably anyone else —...
Sunday 11/18 @ University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach
Sandow Birk's Depravities of War examines its titular subject's social, political, and aesthetic constructs. Birk's precursor was 17th-century printmaker Jacques Callot,...
Sunday 11/18 @ MAK Center for Art and Architecture
The Little House, Victor Burgin's new project at the MAK Center, explores the potential of narrative sound installation. Selections from Jean-François...
Sunday 11/18 @ Petersen Automotive Museum
The lowrider tradition originated in the Chicano barrios of Los Angeles, inspired by a fierce love for classic cars and the...
Sunday 11/18 @ The Lost Studio
Given the topsy-turvy nature of current geopolitics, the idea of a global conflict being instigated by a cabal of petty, puerile...
Sunday 11/18 @ Various locations
Steal a Pencil for Me is the improbable-but-true documentary about the love affair conducted between two prisoners of a Nazi concentration...
Beyond Ultraman: Seven Artists Explore the Vinyl Frontier
Sunday 11/18 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art
One of three new exhibitions on view this fall at the Pasadena Museum of California Art, vinyl-obsessed group show Beyond Ultraman...
Sunday 11/18 @ Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla
Soundwaves: The Art of Sampling is MCASD's response to MOCA's 2005 exhibition Visual Music, a survey of the influence and/or direct...
Sunday 11/18 @ The Getty Center
Nicole Cohen engineers recombinant layers of still and video imagery, investigating the network of associations that interior spaces contain. Also, she...
Eric Tucker & Rae Scarton: Exit East
Sunday 11/18 @ Commissary Arts
Eric Tucker and Rae Scarton's Exit East explores the transformation of the Inland Empire with large-format color prints that pay special...
Sunday 11/18 @ Pomona College Museum of Art
Victor Hugo once said that, in contrast to the sublime, the grotesque is the richest material that nature can offer art....
Jacob Arden McClure and Charles Wilkin
Sunday 11/18 @ Applegate Gallery
Jacob Arden McClure and Charles Wilkin's paintings and collages radiate pop sensibility: McClure's all-too-lovely works layer nostalgic imagery and text, while...
Materials & Applications: Density Fields
Sunday 11/18 @ Materials & Applications
Experimental-architecture and landscape-research center M&A is a lightning rod for visionary thinkers, bringing the brightest artists and architects together to explore...
Sunday 11/18 @ Egyptian Theatre
In this festival's sixth edition, the burgeoning cinematic breadth of Buenos Aires and beyond is on display. Hot-topic showpiece XXY portrays...
Sunday 11/18 @ Various locations
It's been nearly four years since desertification precipitated a tragic conflict in Sudan. According to some estimates, to date as many...
Barry McGee: Advanced Mature Work
Sunday 11/18 @ REDCAT
Barry McGee (aka San Fran street scriber Twist) has created everything from a demolition derby (complete with cars featuring his painting)...
Sunday 11/18 @ Hammer Museum
Pushing a block of ice through the streets of Mexico City, moving a mountain several inches, hiring a stripper who never...
Sunday 11/18 @ Natural History Museum
Whether you cherish the memory of dueling dino skeletons from long-ago field trips, or a more recent late-night music show amongst...
SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s
Sunday 11/18 @ Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Exhibitions addressing mythologies of Southern California are suddenly seemingly ubiquitous. The Orange County Museum of Art's Art Since the 1960s: California...
Sunday 11/18 @ Laemmle's Music Hall 3
Ever cruised down the Walk of Fame in Hollywood, found yourself surrounded by a crowd of grown men and women dressed...
Sunday 11/18 @ La Luz de Jesus
Custo, Nike, Honda, and others have tapped Barcelona-based illustration sensation Catalina Estrada’s super-stylized imagery. Mark Todd, influenced by comic book artist...
Sunday 11/18 @ Draper Courtyard, Pomona College
It's up for debate whether James Turrell is a sculptor, an architect, a light-and-space artist, or an earth-works artist. Whichever he...
Sunday 11/18 @ Brickhouse Kitchen
Poet, artist, and amateur Buddhist Milo Martin claims to "write what I can't paint, and paint what I can't write," so...
Sunday 11/18 @ Various locations
An abstract-art prodigy for the digital age, four-year-old Marla Olmstead is a rare bird indeed. In My Kid Could Paint That,...
