Events on Tuesday, November 20
Tuesday 11/20 @ Hammer Museum
Renny Pritikin is a rare treasure in the world of fine art: a high-level scholar and curator with a keen, prescient...
The Greatest Rock 'n Roll Show in the World!!!
Tuesday 11/20 @ The Steve Allen Theater
From the hair-band-obsessed minds of Charlyne Yi, Harris Wittels, Michael Cassady, and Paul Rust comes, apparently, the best rock show in...
Tuesday 11/20 @ Boardner's
This month's installment of Let's Independent takes a turn for the twee, with a triple bill of local bands who love...
Ongoing Events
Tuesday 11/20 @ Western Project
Carole Caroompas' fantastically imaginative paintings and drawings are a melting pot of pop-culture imagery. For Caroompas' latest collection at Western Project,...
Tuesday 11/20 @ 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,...
Barry McGee: Advanced Mature Work
Tuesday 11/20 @ REDCAT
Barry McGee (aka San Fran street scriber Twist) has created everything from a demolition derby (complete with cars featuring his painting)...
Tuesday 11/20 @ DF2
While French artist Mathieu Briand is best known for his ambitious sound installations, with UBÏQ: A Mental Odyssey, he takes things...
Ashley McLean Emenegger & Paul Pitsker: You Are Here
Tuesday 11/20 @ Bandini Art
Inspired by the groundbreaking mixed-media assemblages of Betye Saar and Joseph Cornell, Ashley McLean Emenegger explores themes of masculinity and femininity...
Tuesday 11/20 @ 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 —...
Jacob Magraw & Edward del Rosario
Tuesday 11/20 @ Richard Heller Gallery
LA painter Jacob Magraw's gouache-on-paper works are improvisational landscapes composed of layers of Skittles-worthy colors. His latest batch of works at...
Tuesday 11/20 @ 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...
Shona Macdonald: SHIFT & Heimir Björgúlfsson: Allure Gone Buffalo
Tuesday 11/20 @ d.e.n. contemporary art
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...
Tuesday 11/20 @ 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...
Tuesday 11/20 @ Steve Turner Contemporary
East meets West (coast, that is) in this exhibition of 14 NYC-based up-and-comers. Independent curator and New York gallerist Amy Smith-Stewart...
Tuesday 11/20 @ Pete & Susan Barrett Art Gallery, Santa Monica College
Following the DIY aesthetic to a T, Sharon Kagan, Lana Shuttleworth, and Leslie Yagar, collectively known as the ladies of PiNK...
Materials & Applications: Density Fields
Tuesday 11/20 @ 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...
Tuesday 11/20 @ LAXART
A Spanish artist who decamped to LA, Adrià Julià is a CalArts grad with a knack for telling unusual stories. Last...
Tuesday 11/20 @ The Getty Center
Nicole Cohen engineers recombinant layers of still and video imagery, investigating the network of associations that interior spaces contain. Also, she...
Tuesday 11/20 @ The Lab 101 Gallery
Culver City's Lab 101 celebrates its third year in LA's newest international art-world hub with a show that, appropriately enough, features...
SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s
Tuesday 11/20 @ 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...
Tuesday 11/20 @ Roberts & Tilton Gallery
For Ellen de Meutter's first US solo exhibition, the Belgian painter displays her signature childlike aesthetic, juxtaposing bright, expressionist imagery with...
Tuesday 11/20 @ 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....
Tuesday 11/20 @ New Beverly Cinema
Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together — it's mass hysteria. Or, at least it will be if busybody Walter Peck...
Tuesday 11/20 @ 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...
Alejandro Gehry & Brian Biedul: Raw Space
Tuesday 11/20 @ DCA Fine Art
Alejandro Gehry may be the son of uber-architect Frank, but it's his co-exhibitor, Brian Biedul, whose work really focuses on spatiality....
Tuesday 11/20 @ Christopher Grimes Gallery
Anton Henning's loopy abstractions, painterly portraits, and grandiose furniture are loveable yet curiously familiar. Consuming broad swathes of modernism from Manet...
Tuesday 11/20 @ Milo Gallery
Don't call Joan Tucker another Rothko wannabe. While her exploratory, painterly abstractions are obviously influenced by the forefathers of abstract expressionism,...
Tuesday 11/20 @ Japanese American National Museum
Pop-culture empire Giant Robot began way back in 1994 as a zine, and has since grown to include a glossy magazine,...
Tuesday 11/20 @ Taylor De Cordoba Gallery
Curator Melissa Levin has gathered six New York-based artists whose work focuses on the nature of consumables. While the duo of...
Tuesday 11/20 @ Various locations
It's been nearly four years since desertification precipitated a tragic conflict in Sudan. According to some estimates, to date as many...
Tuesday 11/20 @ Bert Green Fine Art
Clive Barker is known for creating some pretty frightening characters — Candyman, Pinhead, and the army of monsters in Nightbreed. The...
Tuesday 11/20 @ Ruth Bachofner Gallery
Ironically, LA-based Jennifer Faist uses one of the most labor-intensive, obsessive processes imaginable to create serene, harmonious, and even poetic monochromes....
Tuesday 11/20 @ Hammer Museum
Pushing a block of ice through the streets of Mexico City, moving a mountain several inches, hiring a stripper who never...
Tuesday 11/20 @ Petersen Automotive Museum
The lowrider tradition originated in the Chicano barrios of Los Angeles, inspired by a fierce love for classic cars and the...
Tuesday 11/20 @ Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects
The humorous, poignant, and technically impressive paintings, drawings, and prints by Nicole Eisenman at Vielmetter Projects are neatly explained by the...
Tuesday 11/20 @ 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...
Tuesday 11/20 @ Gallery C
Hyperrealist painter Kenny Harris showcases his recent paintings inspired by a trip to South America. While Harris' interiors hardly show direct...
Tuesday 11/20 @ 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...
Tuesday 11/20 @ Sandroni Rey
From the horrific to the mythic, Sue de Beer's video installations unravel twisted paths into the sputtering darkness of adolescence. Her...
Kim Kimbro, Barry Baldwin, and Doro Hofmann
Tuesday 11/20 @ Lawrence Asher Gallery
Three newcomers to the LA art scene — Kim Kimbro, Barry Baldwin, and Doro Hofmann — open individual mini-exhibitions tonight at...
Tuesday 11/20 @ 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...
Tuesday 11/20 @ Lightbox Gallery
Kim Dingle has a knack for turning the innocent into the disturbing. Clownish kids getting their faces stuck in garish cakes...
Tuesday 11/20 @ 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,...
