Events on Wednesday, November 7
Wednesday 11/ 7 @ Aero Theatre
The Coen Brothers' first literary adaptation — a faithful rendition of a Cormac McCarthy novel, no less — uses naturalistic storytelling...
Wednesday 11/ 7 @ Hammer Museum
Like Brian Eno curating a Sol LeWitt dance party, Restless Brilliance's seven artists bend and blend the lines of art, music,...
Wednesday 11/ 7 @ The Airliner
The mad scientists at Dublab have been streaming their positive, music-driven lifestyle to the masses for eight years, enlightening the community...
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 11/ 7 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/ 7 @ 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....
Beyond Ultraman: Seven Artists Explore the Vinyl Frontier
Wednesday 11/ 7 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/ 7 @ 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....
Wednesday 11/ 7 @ Robert Berman Gallery
Marischa Slusarski's paintings would be at home in Bosch's nursery school. Her strange, surreal landscapes — full of hideously adorable babies...
Wednesday 11/ 7 @ Petersen Automotive Museum
The lowrider tradition originated in the Chicano barrios of Los Angeles, inspired by a fierce love for classic cars and the...
Wednesday 11/ 7 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/ 7 @ Lightbox Gallery
Kim Dingle has a knack for turning the innocent into the disturbing. Clownish kids getting their faces stuck in garish cakes...
Wednesday 11/ 7 @ Various locations
It's been nearly four years since desertification precipitated a tragic conflict in Sudan. According to some estimates, to date as many...
Wednesday 11/ 7 @ Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art
The modest Canadian artist known as Labrona considers himself to be "just a guy... [who] doesn't want a regular nine-to-five" —...
Wednesday 11/ 7 @ 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,...
Wednesday 11/ 7 @ Sandroni Rey
From the horrific to the mythic, Sue de Beer's video installations unravel twisted paths into the sputtering darkness of adolescence. Her...
Wednesday 11/ 7 @ See Line Gallery
Wednesday 11/ 7 @ 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,...
Ashley McLean Emenegger & Paul Pitsker: You Are Here
Wednesday 11/ 7 @ Bandini Art
Inspired by the groundbreaking mixed-media assemblages of Betye Saar and Joseph Cornell, Ashley McLean Emenegger explores themes of masculinity and femininity...
Eric Tucker & Rae Scarton: Exit East
Wednesday 11/ 7 @ 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...
Shona Macdonald: SHIFT & Heimir Björgúlfsson: Allure Gone Buffalo
Wednesday 11/ 7 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/ 7 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/ 7 @ Merry Karnowsky Gallery
Los Angeles' own Camille Rose Garcia isn't just part of the hot "lowbrow" urban-art movement — she's a key player. Her...
Wednesday 11/ 7 @ DF2
While French artist Mathieu Briand is best known for his ambitious sound installations, with UBÏQ: A Mental Odyssey, he takes things...
Susan Silton: The Day, the Earth
Wednesday 11/ 7 @ SolwayJones Gallery
Susan Silton's latest photography project packs centuries of history and cultural politics into what many think of as a lowly design...
Wednesday 11/ 7 @ 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 —...
Fumiko Amano: Heian Dream Series & Art Weeks: God Only Knows (what I'd be without you)
Wednesday 11/ 7 @ Lawrence Asher Gallery
Fumiko Amano's saturated palettes, thick color fields, and raw patterns have an intensely serene and meditative physicality. Offering a powerful counterpoint,...
Wednesday 11/ 7 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/ 7 @ 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,...
Wednesday 11/ 7 @ Western Project
Carole Caroompas' fantastically imaginative paintings and drawings are a melting pot of pop-culture imagery. For Caroompas' latest collection at Western Project,...
Wednesday 11/ 7 @ Black Maria Gallery
There's a lot more to punk than style — after all, safety pins and mohawks were really just window dressing to...
Materials & Applications: Density Fields
Wednesday 11/ 7 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/ 7 @ Kinsey/DesForges Gallery
The theme of unlearning is an essential aspect in BLK/MRKT gallery owner Dave Kinsey's art. As a result, his multi-medium portraits...
Wednesday 11/ 7 @ The Getty Center
Nicole Cohen engineers recombinant layers of still and video imagery, investigating the network of associations that interior spaces contain. Also, she...
Alejandro Gehry & Brian Biedul: Raw Space
Wednesday 11/ 7 @ 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....
SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s
Wednesday 11/ 7 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/ 7 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/ 7 @ The Troubadour
So this is what happens when you lock eight Australians in a room with an analog sampler and a glockenspiel. (Try...
Barry McGee: Advanced Mature Work
Wednesday 11/ 7 @ REDCAT
Barry McGee (aka San Fran street scriber Twist) has created everything from a demolition derby (complete with cars featuring his painting)...
Kim Rugg: Don't Mention the War
Wednesday 11/ 7 @ Mark Moore Gallery
British artist Kim Rugg distills printed objects to their barest essentials by cutting them up and reconfiguring. For her well-known newspaper...
Wednesday 11/ 7 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/ 7 @ Richard Heller Gallery
Internationally acclaimed, Berkeley-based artist Brendan Monroe returns to Richard Heller Gallery — one of the West Side's premier sources of contemporary...
Wednesday 11/ 7 @ Brickhouse Kitchen
As part of its ongoing series of exhibitions spotlighting Venice Beach's legendarily talented denizens, the Brickhouse Kitchen welcomes Monica Martinez and...
Wednesday 11/ 7 @ Hammer Museum
Pushing a block of ice through the streets of Mexico City, moving a mountain several inches, hiring a stripper who never...
