Events on Tuesday, December 4

<I>? The War</i>

Art

? The War

Tuesday 12/ 4 @ Corey Helford Gallery

Twenty-one top contemporary artists keep the current antiwar movement in the spotlight with ? The War, producing powerful, iconic imagery that... 

Port O'Brien w/ the Cave Singers

Music

Port O'Brien w/ the Cave Singers

Tuesday 12/ 4 @ The Echo & Echoplex

With their carefree choruses and happy-go-lucky instrumentation, Van Pierszalowski and his four-piece Port O'Brien play a seafaring, down-home brand of indie... 

Experimental Night: Zbigniew Rybczy&#324;ski

Film

Zbigniew Rybczyński

Tuesday 12/ 4 @ The Silent Movie Theatre

Music-video director Zbigniew Rybczyński (pronounced "Rib-chin-ski") is a preposterously talented, tech-savvy maverick. Simultaneously breaking and making the rules of established filmmaking,... 

[SOLD OUT] Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings

Music

[SOLD OUT] Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings

Tuesday 12/ 4 @ El Rey

The live experience of the soul-shaking sounds of Brooklyn-based Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings trembles you from the core. The... 

Ongoing Events

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

Art

Jen Liu

Tuesday 12/ 4 @ 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

Tuesday 12/ 4 @ 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,... 

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

Art

Clive Barker

Tuesday 12/ 4 @ Bert Green Fine Art

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

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

Art

Sue de Beer

Tuesday 12/ 4 @ Sandroni Rey

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

Art

Ashley McLean Emenegger & Paul Pitsker: You Are Here

Tuesday 12/ 4 @ Bandini Art

Inspired by the groundbreaking mixed-media assemblages of Betye Saar and Joseph Cornell, Ashley McLean Emenegger explores themes of masculinity and femininity... 

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

Art

Wallace Berman

Tuesday 12/ 4 @ 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,... 

Jacob Magraw & Edward del Rosario

Art

Jacob Magraw & Edward del Rosario

Tuesday 12/ 4 @ 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... 

Milo Martin: <I>The Bunnies of Denham</i>

Art

Milo Martin

Tuesday 12/ 4 @ 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... 

Nicole Eisenman: <I>A Show Born of Fear</i>

Art

Nicole Eisenman

Tuesday 12/ 4 @ 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... 

<I>La Bohème</i>

Performing Arts: Opera

La Bohème

Tuesday 12/ 4 @ 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... 

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

Art

Kenny Harris and Roland Reiss

Tuesday 12/ 4 @ Gallery C

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

<I>Wishful Thinking</i>

Special Event: Benefit

Wishful Thinking

Tuesday 12/ 4 @ project: gallery

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

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

Art

Emma Ferreira

Tuesday 12/ 4 @ 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... 

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

Art

Adrià Julià

Tuesday 12/ 4 @ LAXART

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

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

Special Event

Nicole Cohen

Tuesday 12/ 4 @ The Getty Center

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

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

Art

Cherie Benner Davis

Tuesday 12/ 4 @ 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

Tuesday 12/ 4 @ 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... 

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

Art

Carole Caroompas

Tuesday 12/ 4 @ 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

Tuesday 12/ 4 @ 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.... 

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

Art

Stan's Cafe

Tuesday 12/ 4 @ 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... 

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

Art

Materials & Applications: Density Fields

Tuesday 12/ 4 @ 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

Tuesday 12/ 4 @ 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>La Vida Lowrider: Cruising the City of Angels</i>

Art

La Vida Lowrider

Tuesday 12/ 4 @ Petersen Automotive Museum

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

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

Art

Joan Tucker

Tuesday 12/ 4 @ Milo Gallery

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

Giant Robot Biennale: 50 Issues Art Exhibition

Art

Giant Robot Biennale

Tuesday 12/ 4 @ 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,... 

Kim Dingle: <i>The Cake Series</i>

Art

Kim Dingle

Tuesday 12/ 4 @ Lightbox Gallery

Kim Dingle has a knack for turning the innocent into the disturbing. Clownish kids getting their faces stuck in garish cakes... 

<i>Steal a Pencil for Me</i>

Film: Documentary

Steal a Pencil for Me

Tuesday 12/ 4 @ 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... 

<I>Dream of Today</i>

Art

Dream of Today

Tuesday 12/ 4 @ 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... 

PiNK: <i>Plays Well With Others</i>

Art

Plays Well With Others

Tuesday 12/ 4 @ 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... 

Richard Deacon

Art

Richard Deacon

Tuesday 12/ 4 @ 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

Tuesday 12/ 4 @ Hammer Museum

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

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

Art

Gardar Eide Einarsson

Tuesday 12/ 4 @ Honor Fraser

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

<I>Green</i>

Art

Green

Tuesday 12/ 4 @ 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

Tuesday 12/ 4 @ 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... 

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

Art

Ellen de Meutter

Tuesday 12/ 4 @ 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

Tuesday 12/ 4 @ 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... 

<I>Soundwaves: The Art of Sampling</i>

Art

Soundwaves

Tuesday 12/ 4 @ 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... 

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

Art

Shepard Fairey

Tuesday 12/ 4 @ Merry Karnowsky Gallery

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

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

Art: Photography

Julius Shulman

Tuesday 12/ 4 @ 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 —... 

Kim Kimbro, Barry Baldwin, and Doro Hofmann

Art

Kim Kimbro, Barry Baldwin, and Doro Hofmann

Tuesday 12/ 4 @ Lawrence Asher Gallery

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

<I>Treasures from the Vault</i>

Special Event

Treasures from the Vault

Tuesday 12/ 4 @ 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... 

Robert Hardgrave: <I>Xenoglossy</i>

Art

Robert Hardgrave

Tuesday 12/ 4 @ 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

Tuesday 12/ 4 @ 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,...