Events on Tuesday, January 1

<I>Duck Soup</i> (1933) and <I>Horse Feathers</i> (1932)

Film

Duck Soup and Horse Feathers

Tuesday 1/ 1 @ Aero Theatre

When Groucho, Chico, Harpo, and Zeppo unleashed their silliness upon an unsuspecting world, they raised the bar for wordplay, physical comedy,... 

Ongoing Events

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

Art

Shepard Fairey

Tuesday 1/ 1 @ 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>Steep</i>

Film

Steep

Tuesday 1/ 1 @ Landmark Nuart Theatre

Like Werner Herzog's slo-mo documentary on ski-flying The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner (1974), Steep conveys the breathless exhilaration of an... 

<em>Don't Fence Me In</em>

Art

Don't Fence Me In

Tuesday 1/ 1 @ Bandini Art

The female artists showing their work at Bandini Art most definitely know how to have fun. For starters, there's Castillo's whimsical,... 

Matthew Barney: <I>Drawing from Guardian of the Veil</i>

Art

Matthew Barney

Tuesday 1/ 1 @ Regen Projects

Matthew Barney, iconic multimedia rainmaker and Björk's baby daddy, shows drawings relating to his newest multimedia work, Guardian of the Veil.... 

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

Art

La Vida Lowrider

Tuesday 1/ 1 @ Petersen Automotive Museum

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

Giant Robot Biennale: 50 Issues Art Exhibition

Art

Giant Robot Biennale

Tuesday 1/ 1 @ 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,... 

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

Art

Adrià Julià

Tuesday 1/ 1 @ LAXART

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

Richard Deacon

Art

Richard Deacon

Tuesday 1/ 1 @ 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... 

Serena Mitnik-Miller: <I>Quiver</I>

Art: Photography

Serena Mitnik-Miller

Tuesday 1/ 1 @ Mollusk Surf Shop

Serena Mitnik-Miller doesn't take the usual kind of surf photography, and Venice's freshly opened Mollusk Surf Shop isn't the usual kind... 

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

Art

Gardar Eide Einarsson

Tuesday 1/ 1 @ Honor Fraser

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

Elizabeth McGrath: <I>The Incurable Disorder</i>

Art

Elizabeth McGrath

Tuesday 1/ 1 @ Billy Shire Fine Arts

Like Victorian-era toys brought to life by the touch of a creepy goblin's wand, Elizabeth McGrath's works sprout claws and extra... 

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

Film: Documentary

My Kid Could Paint That

Tuesday 1/ 1 @ 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,... 

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

Art

Kenny Harris and Roland Reiss

Tuesday 1/ 1 @ Gallery C

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

Los Angeles Art Association Open Show

Art

LAAA Open Show

Tuesday 1/ 1 @ 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... 

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

Art: Photography

Julius Shulman

Tuesday 1/ 1 @ 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 —... 

<I>Treasures from the Vault</i>

Special Event

Treasures from the Vault

Tuesday 1/ 1 @ 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... 

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

Art

Francis Alÿs

Tuesday 1/ 1 @ Hammer Museum

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

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

Art

Materials & Applications: Density Fields

Tuesday 1/ 1 @ 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... 

Jill Greenberg: <I>Ursine</i> & <I>Performance</i>

Art: Photography

Jill Greenberg

Tuesday 1/ 1 @ Fahey/Klein Gallery

Jokes about working with children and animals aside, LA-based photographer Jill Greenberg has built an internationally acclaimed fine-art career by doing... 

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

Art

Wallace Berman

Tuesday 1/ 1 @ 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,... 

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

Art

Choi Jeong-Hwa

Tuesday 1/ 1 @ 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>SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s</i>

Art

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

Tuesday 1/ 1 @ 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... 

<i>Generalized Anxiety Disorder</i>

Art

Generalized Anxiety Disorder

Tuesday 1/ 1 @ Walter Maciel Gallery

Curator Kristine Bowen brings together 16 artists who channel the contemporary American spirit of fear and, as the show title suggests,... 

Bill Owens: <I>Suburbia</i> and <I>Leisure</i>

Art: Photography

Bill Owens

Tuesday 1/ 1 @ DNJ Gallery

Photographer Bill Owens skillfully captures Americana in his two series Suburbia and Leisure. The former, an early-1970s photo essay, features domestic... 

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

Art

Emma Ferreira

Tuesday 1/ 1 @ 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... 

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

Special Event

Nicole Cohen

Tuesday 1/ 1 @ The Getty Center

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