Events on Wednesday, November 21

Ninth Annual Thanksgivends Benefit feat. Rhettmatic
Month_11 Wednesday Day_21
More Flavor: Benefit
Thanksgivends
@ Vanguard
Combining young Angelenos' love of hip-hop with do-gooding, the ninth edition of the annual Thanksgivends benefit concert moves to the Vanguard....  View details »
Suicidal Tendencies w/ Municipal Waste and Black President
Month_11 Wednesday Day_21
Music
Suicidal Tendencies
@ House of Blues Sunset Strip
Still riding high off that cameo appearance in the original Miami Vice series, Suicidal Tendencies deliver their signature energy-driven speed guitar...  View details »
Alfred Hitchcock's <i>The Lodger</i> (1927)
Month_11 Wednesday Day_21
Film
The Lodger
@ The Silent Movie Theatre
The Lodger is Hitchcock's silent blueprint for his later loud Hermann-scored magnum opuses. The film's setup — an innocent individual running...  View details »
KCRW Presents Travis w/ Maxïmo Park
Month_11 Wednesday Day_21
Music: Rock/Pop
Travis w/ Maxïmo Park
@ The Wiltern
Glasgow, Scotland natives Travis have had a rather romantic year, beginning with a solid Coachella performance and a new...  View details »
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<I>Julius Shulman's Los Angeles</i>
Month_11 Wednesday Day_21
Art: Photography
Julius Shulman
@ Los Angeles Public Library
Julius Shulman has done more for the way California modernist architecture is seen and appreciated than probably anyone else —...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<i>Beyond Ultraman: Seven Artists Explore the Vinyl Frontier</i>
Month_11 Wednesday Day_21
Art
Beyond Ultraman: Seven Artists Explore the Vinyl Frontier
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
<I>Replace 'Please' with 'Fast' & 'Thank you' with 'Good'</I>
Month_11 Wednesday Day_21
Art
The Lab 101
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<I>Treasures from the Vault</i>
Month_11 Wednesday Day_21
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Treasures from the Vault
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Pascual Sisto: <I>Everything Must Go</i>
Month_11 Wednesday Day_21
Art
Pascual Sisto
@ De Soto Gallery
If LA-based video artist Pascual Sisto had been born a century earlier, he and Salvador Dalí would have been best buds....  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Shona Macdonald: <I>SHIFT</i> &  Heimir Björgúlfsson: <I>Allure Gone Buffalo</i>
Month_11 Wednesday Day_21
Art
Shona Macdonald: SHIFT & Heimir Björgúlfsson: Allure Gone Buffalo
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Ellen de Meutter: <I>Secrets and Lies</i>
Month_11 Wednesday Day_21
Art
Ellen de Meutter
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<i>My Kid Could Paint That</i>
Month_11 Thursday Day_22
Film: Documentary
My Kid Could Paint That
@ 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,...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Alejandro Gehry & Brian Biedul: <i>Raw Space</i>
Month_11 Wednesday Day_21
Art
Alejandro Gehry & Brian Biedul: Raw Space
@ 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....  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<I>Dream of Today</i>
Month_11 Wednesday Day_21
Art
Dream of Today
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<I>Confessions of a Superhero</i>
Month_11 Thursday Day_22
Film
Confessions of a Superhero
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Francis Al&#255;s: <I>Politics of Rehearsal</I>
Month_11 Wednesday Day_21
Art
Francis Alÿs
@ Hammer Museum
Pushing a block of ice through the streets of Mexico City, moving a mountain several inches, hiring a stripper who never...  View details »
Ongoing
Kim Kimbro, Barry Baldwin, and Doro Hofmann
Month_11 Wednesday Day_21
Art
Kim Kimbro, Barry Baldwin, and Doro Hofmann
@ Lawrence Asher Gallery
Three newcomers to the LA art scene — Kim Kimbro, Barry Baldwin, and Doro Hofmann — open individual mini-exhibitions tonight at...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Jennifer Faist: <I>I Remember Too</i>
Month_11 Wednesday Day_21
Art
Jennifer Faist
@ 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....  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<I>Ghostbusters</i> (1984)
Month_11 Wednesday Day_21
Film
Ghostbusters
@ New Beverly Cinema
Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together — it's mass hysteria. Or, at least it will be if busybody Walter Peck...  View details »
Ongoing
<I>Green</i>
Month_11 Wednesday Day_21
Art
Green
@ Robert Berman Gallery
From the minds at Murphy Art Books comes this mixed-media exhibition of small works by more than 40 contemporary artists who...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Anton Henning: <I>Welcome, delicious ideas!</I>
Month_11 Wednesday Day_21
Art
Anton Henning
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Clive Barker: <i>New Paintings and Works on Paper</i>
Month_11 Wednesday Day_21
Art
Clive Barker
@ Bert Green Fine Art
Clive Barker is known for creating some pretty frightening characters — Candyman, Pinhead, and the army of monsters in Nightbreed. The...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Nicole Cohen: <em>Please Be Seated</em>
Month_11 Wednesday Day_21
Art: Discussion
Nicole Cohen
@ The Getty Center
Nicole Cohen engineers recombinant layers of still and video imagery, investigating the network of associations that interior spaces contain. Also, she...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
PiNK: <i>Plays Well With Others</i>
Month_11 Wednesday Day_21
Art
Plays Well With Others
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<I>A Great Delicacy</i>
Month_11 Wednesday Day_21
Art
A Great Delicacy
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Nicole Eisenman: <I>A Show Born of Fear</i>
Month_11 Wednesday Day_21
Art
Nicole Eisenman
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<i>SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s</i>
Month_11 Thursday Day_22
Art
SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Milo Martin: <I>The Bunnies of Denham</i>
Month_11 Wednesday Day_21
Art
Milo Martin
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Catalina Estrada & Mark Todd
Month_11 Wednesday Day_21
Art
Catalina Estrada & Mark Todd
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Jen Liu: <I>New Dawn Fades</i>
Month_11 Wednesday Day_21
Art
Jen Liu
@ Lizabeth Oliveria Gallery
Jen Liu's new multimedia collection at Lizabeth Oliveria Gallery finds the anti-technology characters of her Brethren of the Stone series once...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<i>Steal a Pencil for Me</i>
Month_11 Thursday Day_22
Film: Documentary
Steal a Pencil for Me
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Victor Burgin: <I>The Little House</i>
Month_11 Wednesday Day_21
Art: Architecture/Design
Victor Burgin
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Mark Mothersbaugh: <I>Rugs During Wartime and Peacetime</I>
Month_11 Wednesday Day_21
Art
Mark Mothersbaugh
@ The Scion Installation LA Space
Mark Mothersbaugh, the DEVO diva-turned-soundtrack composer, designs rugs the way David Byrne designs chairs — as humorous objects, not items of...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Mathieu Briand: <i>UBÏQ: A Mental Odyssey</i>
Month_11 Wednesday Day_21
Art
Mathieu Briand
@ DF2
While French artist Mathieu Briand is best known for his ambitious sound installations, with UBÏQ: A Mental Odyssey, he takes things...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Sandow Birk: <I>Depravities of War</i>
Month_11 Thursday Day_22
Art
Sandow Birk
@ 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,...  View details »
Ongoing
Jacob Magraw & Edward del Rosario
Month_11 Wednesday Day_21
Art
Jacob Magraw & Edward del Rosario
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Sue de Beer: <I>Permanent Revolution</i>
Month_11 Wednesday Day_21
Art
Sue de Beer
@ Sandroni Rey
From the horrific to the mythic, Sue de Beer's video installations unravel twisted paths into the sputtering darkness of adolescence. Her...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Barry McGee: <i>Advanced Mature Work</i>
Month_11 Wednesday Day_21
Art
Barry McGee: Advanced Mature Work
@ REDCAT
Barry McGee (aka San Fran street scriber Twist) has created everything from a demolition derby (complete with cars featuring his painting)...  View details »
Ongoing
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<I>La Vida Lowrider: Cruising the City of Angels</i>
Month_11 Wednesday Day_21
Art: Architecture/Design
La Vida Lowrider
@ Petersen Automotive Museum
The lowrider tradition originated in the Chicano barrios of Los Angeles, inspired by a fierce love for classic cars and the...  View details »
Ongoing
Peter R&#246;sel
Month_11 Wednesday Day_21
Art
Peter Rösel
@ Chung King Project
Born in Germany and raised in Iraq, Peter Rösel is now a devotee of the whisperings of desert mirages. Rösel's sparse,...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Kim Dingle: <i>The Cake Series</i>
Month_11 Wednesday Day_21
Art
Kim Dingle
@ Lightbox Gallery
Kim Dingle has a knack for turning the innocent into the disturbing. Clownish kids getting their faces stuck in garish cakes...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Giant Robot Biennale: 50 Issues Art Exhibition
Month_11 Wednesday Day_21
Art
Giant Robot Biennale
@ 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,...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Chris Oatey: <i>Wallpaper of Champions</i>
Month_11 Wednesday Day_21
Art
Chris Oatey
@ See Line Gallery
  Fresh-faced, LA-based multimedia artist Chris Oatey meticulously removes the majority of the detail from photo-based images, creating...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Jacob Arden McClure and Charles Wilkin
Month_11 Wednesday Day_21
Art
Jacob Arden McClure and Charles Wilkin
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<i>Cry-Baby</i>
Month_11 Thursday Day_22
Performing Arts: Theatre
Cry-Baby
@ La Jolla Playhouse
We've entered the John Waters age. A Broadway musical adaptation of Hairspray and a subsequent cinematic "re-adaptation" has made the legendary...  View details »
Ongoing
Carole Caroompas: <I>Dancing with Misfits: Eye-Dazzler</i>
Month_11 Wednesday Day_21
Art
Carole Caroompas
@ Western Project
Carole Caroompas' fantastically imaginative paintings and drawings are a melting pot of pop-culture imagery. For Caroompas' latest collection at Western Project,...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<i>Darfur Now</i>
Month_11 Thursday Day_22
Film: Documentary
Darfur Now
@ Various locations
It's been nearly four years since desertification precipitated a tragic conflict in Sudan. According to some estimates, to date as many...  View details »
Ongoing
Month_11 Wednesday Day_21
Art
Ashley McLean Emenegger & Paul Pitsker: You Are Here
@ Bandini Art
Inspired by the groundbreaking mixed-media assemblages of Betye Saar and Joseph Cornell, Ashley McLean Emenegger explores themes of masculinity and femininity...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Kenny Harris: <I>New Paintings</i> and Roland Reiss: <I>Onshore Flow</i>
Month_11 Wednesday Day_21
Art
Kenny Harris and Roland Reiss
@ Gallery C
Hyperrealist painter Kenny Harris showcases his recent paintings inspired by a trip to South America. While Harris' interiors hardly show direct...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Project Series 34: Iva Gueorguieva
Month_11 Thursday Day_22
Art
Iva Gueorguieva
@ 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....  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Adri&#224; Juli&#224;: <I>A Means of Passing the Time</I>
Month_11 Wednesday Day_21
Art
Adrià Julià
@ LAXART
A Spanish artist who decamped to LA, Adrià Julià is a CalArts grad with a knack for telling unusual stories. Last...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Joan Tucker: <I>The Time Is Always Now</i>
Month_11 Wednesday Day_21
Art
Joan Tucker
@ Milo Gallery
Don't call Joan Tucker another Rothko wannabe. While her exploratory, painterly abstractions are obviously influenced by the forefathers of abstract expressionism,...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Materials & Applications: <em>Density Fields</em>
Month_11 Wednesday Day_21
Art
Materials & Applications: Density Fields
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Alex Kopps & the Gothic Dolphins: <I>Your Today Is Their Tomorrow</i>
Month_11 Wednesday Day_21
Art
Alex Kopps
@ New Image Art
Bay Area artist Alex Kopps' undeniably beautiful work has been endorsed by Target, Home Depot, and Taco Bell — but don't...  View details »
Ongoing
Free