Events on Tuesday, January 22

<em>The World, the Flesh, and the Devil</em> (1959)

Film

The World, the Flesh, and the Devil

Tuesday 1/22 @ Los Angeles County Museum of Art

The 1959 doomsday film The World, the Flesh, and the Devil is an important time capsule with an uncomfortable premise; it... 

Listen Again: Music You Should Change Your Mind About Right Now

Special Event

Listen Again

Tuesday 1/22 @ REDCAT

Some musicians' popularity obscures their objective badness (Mariah Carey, James Blunt), and some artists are so universally reviled that they're actual... 

<em>F for Fake </em>(1974)

Film

F for Fake

Tuesday 1/22 @ Hammer Museum

F for Fake is Orson Welles' farewell to filmmaking, as well as a crafty reminder of the art form's slippery relationship... 

Ben Rothbard w/ Roses on Her Grave and the Automatic Music Explosion

Music

Ben Rothbard

Tuesday 1/22 @ Air Conditioned Supper Club, Venice

Venice Rocks! That's the name of the newly christened hard-rock night going off Tuesday at the Air Conditioned Supper Club (or,... 

Ongoing Events

Angelika J. Trojnarski: <em>Ricochet<br />
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Art

Angelika J. Trojnarski

Tuesday 1/22 @ Kinsey/DesForges Gallery

Born in Poland and educated in Germany, Angelika J. Trojnarski depicts desolate cultural landscapes, dismembered bodies, and the barbwired evidence of... 

<em>Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson</em>

Theatre

Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson

Tuesday 1/22 @ Kirk Douglas Theatre

Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Center Theatre Group's world-premiere musical, busts out of the theatrical gate with energetic, rapier wit. Colored by... 

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

Art

Don't Fence Me In

Tuesday 1/22 @ 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,... 

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

Art: Photography

Jill Greenberg

Tuesday 1/22 @ 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... 

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

Art

Choi Jeong-Hwa

Tuesday 1/22 @ REDCAT

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

<em>Casting a Shadow: Creating the Alfred Hitchcock Film</em>

Film

Alfred Hitchcock

Tuesday 1/22 @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences

Stylized, self-mythologizing director Alfred Hitchcock would have you believe him to be a one-man originality machine — when, in fact, his... 

<em>Wunderlust Berlin</em>

Art: Photography

Wunderlust Berlin

Tuesday 1/22 @ Paul Kopeikin Gallery

Berlin is in perpetual transition. The enduring fountainhead of Western culture is endlessly fascinating to students of art, architecture, and politics,... 

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

Art

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

Tuesday 1/22 @ 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... 

Neil Farber: <em>New Works</em>

Art

Neil Farber

Tuesday 1/22 @ Richard Heller Gallery

At first glance, Neil Farber's vivid, whimsical drawings seem to capture all the ignorant bliss of childhood, but their darker intentions... 

Rachel Mason: <em>The Candidate</em>

Art

Rachel Mason

Tuesday 1/22 @ Circus Gallery

There's political art; there's the art of political stagecraft; and then there's The Candidate, the new exhibition of sketches, sculptures, and... 

Karen Liebowitz: <I>Leviathan</i>

Art

Karen Liebowitz

Tuesday 1/22 @ Rosamund Felsen Gallery

The empowered female subjects of Karen Liebowitz's paintings exist in a fantasyland encompassing mythology, religious tales, and the contemporary world. For... 

Henry Lewis &amp; Regino Gonzales: <em>Burning at Both Ends</em>

Art

Henry Lewis & Regino Gonzales

Tuesday 1/22 @ Corey Helford Gallery

Individual series and a set of collaborative works from prodigal SoCal tattoo artists Regino Gonzales and Henry Lewis showcase the profound... 

<em>Modern American Sculpture</em>

Art

Modern American Sculpture

Tuesday 1/22 @ Forum Gallery

Forum Gallery usually sets the gold standard for classical figurative painting, exhibiting works ranging from the creamy, high-res romanticism of Steven... 

Kyoung Ha Yoo, Jon Tarry & John Krawczyk

Art

Kyoung Ha Yoo, Jon Tarry & John Krawczyk

Tuesday 1/22 @ Lawrence Asher Gallery

The trio of contemporary artists assembled for the first show of the year at the Lawrence Asher Gallery draws inspiration from... 

<i>Steep</i>

Film

Steep

Tuesday 1/22 @ 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... 

Matthew Heller: <em>Everything Is a Love Story</em>

Art

Matthew Heller

Tuesday 1/22 @ DCA Fine Art

Matthew Heller has stripped down his busy aesthetics for something more minimal, without straying from his trademark shadowy figures and text.... 

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

Art: Photography

Bill Owens

Tuesday 1/22 @ DNJ Gallery

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

Media Mash-Up: Guy/Ken

Theatre

Media Mash-Up

Tuesday 1/22 @ Bootleg Theater

This live, multimedia spectacular brings together two impressive artists: award-winning composer and choreographer Ken Roht and wildly inventive filmmaker Guy Maddin.... 

Einar and Jamex de la Torre: <em>New Colonies in the New World</em>

Art

Einar & Jamex de la Torre

Tuesday 1/22 @ Koplin del Rio Gallery

Brothers Einar and Jamex couldn't possibly deny the influence of their heritage — their blown-glass and mixed-media works radiate with the... 

<i>Generalized Anxiety Disorder</i>

Art

Generalized Anxiety Disorder

Tuesday 1/22 @ Walter Maciel Gallery

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

<em>Girly Group Show</em>

Art

Girly Group Show

Tuesday 1/22 @ Ghettogloss Presents: An art conglomerate on the move

This exhibition at Silverlake's favorite gallery/alt-culture hangout features the work of Noel ILL, Jenny Mollen, and Jessica Garrison among a sizeable... 

Tim Sullivan: <em>Perfect Entrance </em>and Colin Roberts: <em>The Inscrutable Immutable</em>

Art

Tim Sullivan and Colin Roberts

Tuesday 1/22 @ Steve Turner Contemporary

Photographer and video artist Tim Sullivan, the highlight of last year's OC Biennial, inserts himself into bizarrely macabre and possibly drug-induced... 

Alex Steinweiss:<em> Creator of the Album Cover</em>

Art

Alex Steinwiess

Tuesday 1/22 @ Robert Berman Gallery

Rocker/designer Kevin Reagan and Juxtapoz's Greg Escalante co-curate this survey of images by Alex Steinweiss. In 1939, the Columbia Records packaging... 

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

Art

La Vida Lowrider

Tuesday 1/22 @ Petersen Automotive Museum

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

Modern Aboriginal Art + Australian Architecture

Art

Aboriginal Art

Tuesday 1/22 @ MODAA gallery

<em>Freeze Frame: Five Decades of Photographs by Douglas Kirkland</em>

Art: Photography

Freeze Frame

Tuesday 1/22 @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences

The Academy honors Douglas Kirkland's carefully composed photography with Freeze Frame, an exhibit of celebrity portraits riddled with familiar faces. Besides... 

David Sandlin:  <i>Swamp Preacher</i> & Martha Rich: <I>Imitation Snakeskin Superstore</i>

Art

David Sandlin & Martha Rich

Tuesday 1/22 @ La Luz de Jesus

While gallery owner Billy Shire's other endeavor, upscale Culver City salon Billy Shire Fine Arts, exhibits a collection of David Sandlin's... 

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

Film: Documentary

My Kid Could Paint That

Tuesday 1/22 @ 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,... 

<em>Under the Influence: A Tribute to Stan Lee</em>

Art

Under the Influence

Tuesday 1/22 @ Gallery 1988

Looking through Gallery 1988's roster of artists, it's easy to spot the legacy of the giants of alt-culture illustration and progressive... 

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

Art

Materials & Applications: Density Fields

Tuesday 1/22 @ 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... 

Masao Yamamoto

Art: Photography

Masao Yamamoto

Tuesday 1/22 @ Craig Krull Gallery

In his latest collection of photographs for Santa Monica's Craig Krull Gallery, Japanese artist Masao Yamamoto's work is somber and still,... 

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

Art

Francis Alÿs

Tuesday 1/22 @ Hammer Museum

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

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

Special Event

Nicole Cohen

Tuesday 1/22 @ The Getty Center

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