Events on Wednesday, December 12

Wrap Up Your Words

Workshop/Class

Wrap Up Your Words

Wednesday 12/12 @ Writing Pad

Find the right sentences for your holiday sentiments at this one-of-a-kind workshop. Whether you're looking to write a poem, a story,... 

Squaregirls feat. Princeton, Le Switch, and the Health Club

Music

Squaregirls

Wednesday 12/12 @ The Scene

Presented by Radio Free Silver Lake (though dropping in Glendale), tonight's inaugural Squaregirls monthly music night features straight-up indie rock from... 

Outfest presents <I>All About Eve</i> (1950)

Film

All About Eve

Wednesday 12/12 @ Egyptian Theatre

"Funny business, a woman's career," laments a caustic Bette Davis in '50s classic All About Eve. A smart drama about aging... 

Jesca Hoop w/ Lissie

Music

Jesca Hoop

Wednesday 12/12 @ The Troubadour

Sweet, steel-spined folk-pop singer Jesca Hoop takes us inside her gypsy psyche, spinning tales of triumph and sorrow from her Tom... 

Ongoing Events

Alex Kopps & the Gothic Dolphins: <I>Your Today Is Their Tomorrow</i>

Art

Alex Kopps

Wednesday 12/12 @ New Image Art

Bay Area artist Alex Kopps' undeniably beautiful work has been endorsed by Target, Home Depot, and Taco Bell — but don't... 

Jen Liu: <I>New Dawn Fades</i>

Art

Jen Liu

Wednesday 12/12 @ 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... 

Sandow Birk: <I>Depravities of War</i>

Art

Sandow Birk

Wednesday 12/12 @ 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,... 

<I>Wishful Thinking</i>

Special Event: Benefit

Wishful Thinking

Wednesday 12/12 @ project: gallery

To celebrate the first anniversary of its move to Culver City, project: gallery collaborates with Juxtapoz magazine on an exhibition in... 

Materials & Applications: <em>Density Fields</em>

Art

Materials & Applications: Density Fields

Wednesday 12/12 @ 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... 

Alejandro Gehry & Brian Biedul: <i>Raw Space</i>

Art

Alejandro Gehry & Brian Biedul: Raw Space

Wednesday 12/12 @ 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.... 

<I>Julius Shulman's Los Angeles</i>

Art: Photography

Julius Shulman

Wednesday 12/12 @ 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 —... 

Joan Tucker: <I>The Time Is Always Now</i>

Art

Joan Tucker

Wednesday 12/12 @ Milo Gallery

Don't call Joan Tucker another Rothko wannabe. While her exploratory, painterly abstractions are obviously influenced by the forefathers of abstract expressionism,... 

<I>Treasures from the Vault</i>

Special Event

Treasures from the Vault

Wednesday 12/12 @ 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... 

Jordin Isip & Jason Houchen

Art

Jordin Isip & Jason Houchen

Wednesday 12/12 @ La Luz de Jesus

Brooklyn-based illustrator and mixed-media painter Jordin Isip uses collage as his primary medium. This eclectic approach serves both as a literal... 

<I>La Bohème</i>

Performing Arts: Opera

La Bohème

Wednesday 12/12 @ Los Angeles Opera

Giacomo Puccini's four-act opera La Bohème has been immortalized in more films, songs, and remakes than any other work of its... 

Stan's Cafe: <i>Of All the People in All the World: The Americas</i>

Art

Stan's Cafe

Wednesday 12/12 @ Skirball Cultural Center

In Of All the People in All the World: The Americas, UK theatre company Stan's Cafe collects 300 million grains of... 

Kenny Harris: <I>New Paintings</i> and Roland Reiss: <I>Onshore Flow</i>

Art

Kenny Harris and Roland Reiss

Wednesday 12/12 @ Gallery C

Hyperrealist painter Kenny Harris showcases his recent paintings inspired by a trip to South America. While Harris' interiors hardly show direct... 

Brandi Milne: <I>Sugar and Silence</i>

Art

Brandi Milne: Sugar and Silence

Wednesday 12/12 @ Corey Helford Gallery

Los Angeles' illustrative It-girl, Brandi Milne, joins forces with whimsical Chicago-based artist Jeremiah Ketner to transform this Culver City gallery into... 

Richard Deacon

Art

Richard Deacon

Wednesday 12/12 @ LA Louver Gallery

Venice's premier art space reminds us that sculpture can be one of the most thrilling creative media with the debut of... 

Francis Al&#255;s: <I>Politics of Rehearsal</I>

Art

Francis Alÿs

Wednesday 12/12 @ Hammer Museum

Pushing a block of ice through the streets of Mexico City, moving a mountain several inches, hiring a stripper who never... 

Wallace Berman: <i>Photography and Other Works of Art 1950-1976</i>

Art

Wallace Berman

Wednesday 12/12 @ Michael Kohn Gallery

Even though Wallace Berman exhibited his work at the highly influential Ferus Gallery within years of Andy Warhol's first solo show,... 

<I>Green</i>

Art

Green

Wednesday 12/12 @ 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... 

<i>Cry-Baby</i>

Theatre

Cry-Baby

Wednesday 12/12 @ 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... 

Fruitcake Follies Holiday Show

Party

Fruitcake Follies

Wednesday 12/12 @ Cavern Club Theater

Labeled by its creators as a cross between a Perry Como Christmas special and Pee-wee's Playhouse, the Fruitcake Follies have one... 

Carole Caroompas: <I>Dancing with Misfits: Eye-Dazzler</i>

Art

Carole Caroompas

Wednesday 12/12 @ Western Project

Carole Caroompas' fantastically imaginative paintings and drawings are a melting pot of pop-culture imagery. For Caroompas' latest collection at Western Project,... 

Project Series 34: Iva Gueorguieva

Art

Iva Gueorguieva

Wednesday 12/12 @ 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.... 

<i>Beyond Ultraman: Seven Artists Explore the Vinyl Frontier</i>

Art

Beyond Ultraman: Seven Artists Explore the Vinyl Frontier

Wednesday 12/12 @ 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... 

<I>Breath of Light: Healing Images for the Soul</i>

Art

Breath of Light

Wednesday 12/12 @ Bonsorte Studio

Filmmakers, peace activists, and multimedia artists Antoine Bonsorte and Abram Zinberg have created a unique visual experience. Their short film and... 

<I>Sadly Beautiful: A Vinyl Show</i>

Art

Sadly Beautiful

Wednesday 12/12 @ Black Maria Gallery

Forget Wii, kid-sized Escalades, and paintball guns. Atwater Village's Black Maria Gallery shares its nostalgia (and collector's fetish) for old-time toys... 

Emma Ferreira: <I>When Life Dances II: Classic Beauty</i>

Art

Emma Ferreira

Wednesday 12/12 @ Spin Gallery

Venice's brand-new Spin Gallery merges fine and automotive art, showcasing promising new visual talents alongside rare and beautiful cars. Its latest... 

Kim Kimbro, Barry Baldwin, and Doro Hofmann

Art

Kim Kimbro, Barry Baldwin, and Doro Hofmann

Wednesday 12/12 @ Lawrence Asher Gallery

Three newcomers to the LA art scene — Kim Kimbro, Barry Baldwin, and Doro Hofmann — open individual mini-exhibitions tonight at... 

Nicole Cohen: <em>Please Be Seated</em>

Special Event

Nicole Cohen

Wednesday 12/12 @ The Getty Center

Nicole Cohen engineers recombinant layers of still and video imagery, investigating the network of associations that interior spaces contain. Also, she... 

Robert Hardgrave: <I>Xenoglossy</i>

Art

Robert Hardgrave

Wednesday 12/12 @ Kinsey/DesForges Gallery

Beautiful and sublime, paintings by Seattle-based artist Robert Hardgrave boast slick, slippery, intestinal arabesques, quivering flora, and mysterious corpuscular floaters. Channeling... 

<i>My Kid Could Paint That</i>

Film: Documentary

My Kid Could Paint That

Wednesday 12/12 @ 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,... 

Choi Jeong-Hwa: <I>Truth</i>

Art

Choi Jeong-Hwa

Wednesday 12/12 @ REDCAT

Interdisciplinary Korean wunderkind and founder of the Gaseum Studio, Choi Jeong-Hwa obliterates the boundaries between visual art, graphic/industrial design, and architecture,... 

<I>Dream of Today</i>

Art

Dream of Today

Wednesday 12/12 @ 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... 

Pascual Sisto: <I>Everything Must Go</i>

Art

Pascual Sisto

Wednesday 12/12 @ 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.... 

Sue de Beer: <I>Permanent Revolution</i>

Art

Sue de Beer

Wednesday 12/12 @ Sandroni Rey

From the horrific to the mythic, Sue de Beer's video installations unravel twisted paths into the sputtering darkness of adolescence. Her... 

Victor Burgin: <I>The Little House</i>

Art

Victor Burgin

Wednesday 12/12 @ 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... 

<I>La Vida Lowrider: Cruising the City of Angels</i>

Art

La Vida Lowrider

Wednesday 12/12 @ Petersen Automotive Museum

The lowrider tradition originated in the Chicano barrios of Los Angeles, inspired by a fierce love for classic cars and the... 

Jacob Magraw & Edward del Rosario

Art

Jacob Magraw & Edward del Rosario

Wednesday 12/12 @ 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... 

Giant Robot Biennale: 50 Issues Art Exhibition

Art

Giant Robot Biennale

Wednesday 12/12 @ 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,... 

Ellen de Meutter: <I>Secrets and Lies</i>

Art

Ellen de Meutter

Wednesday 12/12 @ 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... 

<I>Diva</i> 25th Anniversary

Film

Diva 25th Anniversary

Wednesday 12/12 @ Landmark Nuart Theatre

A genre-bending thriller, Jean-Jacques Beineix's Diva (1982) was among the first French films to herald the Cinéma du Look — the... 

Clive Barker: <i>New Paintings and Works on Paper</i>

Art

Clive Barker

Wednesday 12/12 @ Bert Green Fine Art

Clive Barker is known for creating some pretty frightening characters — Candyman, Pinhead, and the army of monsters in Nightbreed. The... 

Cassandra C. Jones: <I>Photos Taken</i>

Art

Cassandra C. Jones

Wednesday 12/12 @ Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Ojai

  Don't let the title fool you: for her second solo effort at Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Cassandra C. Jones isn't just... 

Shepard Fairey: <I>Imperfect Union</i>

Art

Shepard Fairey

Wednesday 12/12 @ Merry Karnowsky Gallery

Whether reading between the lines or blurring them entirely, ubiquitous designer Shepard Fairey mines the deep vein of irony running through... 

Los Angeles Art Association Open Show

Art

LAAA Open Show

Wednesday 12/12 @ Gallery 825

Gallery 825, the La Cienega Boulevard location of LA's oldest artists cooperative, presents this year's Open Show. An annual highlight of... 

Adri&#224; Juli&#224;: <I>A Means of Passing the Time</I>

Art

Adrià Julià

Wednesday 12/12 @ LAXART

A Spanish artist who decamped to LA, Adrià Julià is a CalArts grad with a knack for telling unusual stories. Last... 

Gardar Eide Einarsson: <I>All My Friends Are Dead</i>

Art

Gardar Eide Einarsson

Wednesday 12/12 @ Honor Fraser

Gardar Eide Einarsson's latest series features nine massive plywood panels, printed with graphics from a '60s police manual. As the officers... 

Cherie Benner Davis: <I>Best Laid Plans</i>

Art

Cherie Benner Davis

Wednesday 12/12 @ SolwayJones Gallery

LA painter Cherie Benner Davis sees the world in layered transparencies — crisp geometric shapes overlaying expressive, devotional elements of the... 

<i>SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s</i>

Art

SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s

Wednesday 12/12 @ 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...