All events on Wednesday January 23

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Film
The Producers and The Twelve Chairs
Wednesday Jan 23 (7:30pm) @ Aero Theatre
Overflowing with merriment, Mel Brooks' first film The Producers (1968) tells the now-familiar tale of a failing theater producer and his accountant. Their fantastical money-making... View details »
The Producers  and The Twelve Chairs
Film
The Marines Who Never Returned and Wildflowers on the Battlefield
Wednesday Jan 23 (7:30pm) @ Billy Wilder Theater, Hammer Museum
Lee Man-hee brings tender humanism to the war-movie genre with The Marines Who Never Returned and Wildflowers on the Battlefield. In these dramas about the... View details »
The Marines Who Never Returned and Wildflowers on the Battlefield
Film
[SOLD OUT] Dr. Strangelove
Wednesday Jan 23 (8pm) @ ArcLight Hollywood
Sold Out!
Upon its release, Stanley Kubrick's boffo black comedy about Cold War politics, atomic annihilation, and American madmen, Dr. Strangelove, assured that "safeguards would prevent the... View details »
[SOLD OUT] Dr. Strangelove
Music: Rock/Pop
The Teenagers
Wednesday Jan 23 (9pm) @ Spaceland
Indie 103.1 takes over Spaceland tonight with another installment of Club NME's ready-to-break artists. Tonight's spotlight shines on a band that sailed all the way... View details »
The Teenagers
Music: Rock/Pop
Trevor Hall
Wednesday Jan 23 (8:50pm) @ The Derby
Quickly making a name for himself, fledgling singer-songwriter Trevor Hall hits the Derby this evening, blessing the east side with stories of spiritual encounters and... View details »
Trevor Hall

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Art
SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s
Wednesday Jan 23 @ Los Angeles County Museum of Art More times »
Exhibitions addressing mythologies of Southern California are suddenly seemingly ubiquitous. The Orange County Museum of Art's Art Since the 1960s: California Experiments historicizes the "evolution"... View details »
SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s
Film: Documentary
My Kid Could Paint That
Wednesday Jan 23 @ Various locations More times »
Free
An abstract-art prodigy for the digital age, four-year-old Marla Olmstead is a rare bird indeed. In My Kid Could Paint That, Amir Bar-Lev documents the... View details »
My Kid Could Paint That
Art: Architecture/Design
Victor Burgin
Wednesday Jan 23 (11am–6pm) @ MAK Center for Art and Architecture More times »
The Little House, Victor Burgin's new project at the MAK Center, explores the potential of narrative sound installation. Selections from Jean-François de Bastide's 1758 novella... View details »
Victor Burgin
Art
Francis Alÿs
Wednesday Jan 23 (11am–7pm) @ Hammer Museum More times »
Pushing a block of ice through the streets of Mexico City, moving a mountain several inches, hiring a stripper who never quite strips: these are... View details »
Francis Alÿs
Art
Materials & Applications: Density Fields
Wednesday Jan 23 (10am–10pm) @ Materials & Applications More times »
Free
Experimental-architecture and landscape-research center M&A is a lightning rod for visionary thinkers, bringing the brightest artists and architects together to explore the artful use of... View details »
Materials & Applications: Density Fields
Art
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Wednesday Jan 23 (11am–6pm) @ Walter Maciel Gallery More times »
Free
Curator Kristine Bowen brings together 16 artists who channel the contemporary American spirit of fear and, as the show title suggests, anxiety. Mixed-media and painted... View details »
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Art: Photography
Bill Owens
Wednesday Jan 23 (10am–6pm) @ DNJ Gallery More times »
Free
Photographer Bill Owens skillfully captures Americana in his two series Suburbia and Leisure. The former, an early-1970s photo essay, features domestic scenes rendered with the... View details »
Bill Owens
Art
Choi Jeong-Hwa
Wednesday Jan 23 (noon–6pm) @ REDCAT More times »
Free
Interdisciplinary Korean wunderkind and founder of the Gaseum Studio, Choi Jeong-Hwa obliterates the boundaries between visual art, graphic/industrial design, and architecture, and ridicules the preciousness... View details »
Choi Jeong-Hwa
Art: Photography
Jill Greenberg
Wednesday Jan 23 (10am–6pm) @ Fahey/Klein Gallery More times »
Free
Jokes about working with children and animals aside, LA-based photographer Jill Greenberg has built an internationally acclaimed fine-art career by doing just that. Alternately revered... View details »
Jill Greenberg
Art: Photography
Wunderlust Berlin
Wednesday Jan 23 (11am–6pm) @ Paul Kopeikin Gallery More times »
Free
Berlin is in perpetual transition. The enduring fountainhead of Western culture is endlessly fascinating to students of art, architecture, and politics, teeming with creative magic... View details »
Wunderlust Berlin
Art
Ruby Osorio
Wednesday Jan 23 (11am–6pm) @ Cherry and Martin More times »
Free
Los Angeles artist Ruby Osorio's collection at Cherry and Martin Gallery was heavily influenced by her recent trip to Athens. Surrounded by such history-rich environs,... View details »
Ruby Osorio
Film
Steep
Wednesday Jan 23 @ Landmark Nuart Theatre More times »
Like Werner Herzog's slo-mo documentary on ski-flying The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner (1974), Steep conveys the breathless exhilaration of an extreme sport: big-mountain skiing.... View details »
Steep
Art: Architecture/Design
La Vida Lowrider
Wednesday Jan 23 (10am–6pm) @ Peterson Automotive Museum More times »
The lowrider tradition originated in the Chicano barrios of Los Angeles, inspired by a fierce love for classic cars and the need for expressing cultural... View details »
La Vida Lowrider
Art
Cassandra C. Jones
Wednesday Jan 23 (11am–6pm) @ Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Ojai More times »
Free
... n't let the title fool you: for her second solo effort at Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Cassandra C. Jones isn't just offering viewers another photography... View details »
Cassandra C. Jones
Art
David Sandlin & Martha Rich
Wednesday Jan 23 (11am–7pm) @ La Luz de Jesus More times »
Free
While gallery owner Billy Shire's other endeavor, upscale Culver City salon Billy Shire Fine Arts, exhibits a collection of David Sandlin's large-scale paintings, Silverlake's edgier... View details »
David Sandlin & Martha Rich
Art
Kyoung Ha Yoo, Jon Tarry & John Krawczyk
Wednesday Jan 23 (11am–5pm) @ Lawrence Asher Gallery More times »
Free
The trio of contemporary artists assembled for the first show of the year at the Lawrence Asher Gallery draws inspiration from the physical and emotional... View details »
Kyoung Ha Yoo, Jon Tarry & John Krawczyk
Art
Karen Liebowitz
Wednesday Jan 23 (10am–5:30pm) @ Rosamund Felsen Gallery More times »
Free
The empowered female subjects of Karen Liebowitz's paintings exist in a fantasyland encompassing mythology, religious tales, and the contemporary world. For this collection — Liebowitz's... View details »
Karen Liebowitz
Art
Aboriginal Art
Wednesday Jan 23 (noon–6pm) @ MODAA gallery More times »
Free
Aboriginal Art
Art: Photography
Masao Yamamoto
Wednesday Jan 23 (10am–5:30pm) @ Craig Krull Gallery More times »
Free
In his latest collection of photographs for Santa Monica's Craig Krull Gallery, Japanese artist Masao Yamamoto's work is somber and still, with no loss of... View details »
Masao Yamamoto
Art
Julia Schwartz
Wednesday Jan 23 (11am–5pm) @ The Artists' Gallery More times »
Free
The Artists' Gallery (TAG) is one of the best membership-based art galleries in LA, in part due to the talent of its roster. Regular programming... View details »
Julia Schwartz
Art
Einar & Jamex de la Torre
Wednesday Jan 23 (10am–5:30pm) @ Koplin del Rio Gallery More times »
Free
Brothers Einar and Jamex couldn't possibly deny the influence of their heritage — their blown-glass and mixed-media works radiate with the colors, textures, and imagery... View details »
Einar & Jamex de la Torre
Art
Angelika J. Trojnarski
Wednesday Jan 23 (11am–6pm) @ Kinsey/DesForges Gallery More times »
Free
Born in Poland and educated in Germany, Angelika J. Trojnarski depicts desolate cultural landscapes, dismembered bodies, and the barbwired evidence of human destruction. She channels... View details »
Angelika J. Trojnarski
Art
Tim Sullivan and Colin Roberts
Wednesday Jan 23 (11am–6pm) @ Steve Turner Contemporary Gallery More times »
Free
Photographer and video artist Tim Sullivan, the highlight of last year's OC Biennial, inserts himself into bizarrely macabre and possibly drug-induced circumstances — an assumption... View details »
Tim Sullivan and Colin Roberts
Art
Henry Lewis & Regino Gonzales
Wednesday Jan 23 (noon–6pm) @ Corey Helford More times »
Free
Individual series and a set of collaborative works from prodigal SoCal tattoo artists Regino Gonzales and Henry Lewis showcase the profound and eclectic influences and... View details »
Henry Lewis & Regino Gonzales
Art
Neil Farber
Wednesday Jan 23 (11am–5pm) @ Richard Heller Gallery More times »
Free
At first glance, Neil Farber's vivid, whimsical drawings seem to capture all the ignorant bliss of childhood, but their darker intentions soon reveal themselves. Touched... View details »
Neil Farber
Art
Poster Renaissance 2
Wednesday Jan 23 (1–6pm) @ New Image Art More times »
Free
New Image Art owner Marsea Goldberg remembers when posters were a vehicle for edgy, urban art and illustration — and so do the artists she's... View details »
Poster Renaissance 2
Film
Alfred Hitchcock
Wednesday Jan 23 (10am–5pm) @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences More times »
Free
Stylized, self-mythologizing director Alfred Hitchcock would have you believe him to be a one-man originality machine — when, in fact, his films took hundreds of... View details »
Alfred Hitchcock
Art: Photography
Lights! Camera! Glamour!
Wednesday Jan 23 (11am–4pm) @ California Heritage Museum More times »
George Hurrell shot studio stars as they are remembered today: glamorous, graceful, and a tad theatrical. With his sophisticated black-and-white blowups, "The grand seigneur of... View details »
Lights! Camera! Glamour!
Art
Under the Influence
Wednesday Jan 23 (11am–6pm) @ Gallery 1988 More times »
Free
Looking through Gallery 1988's roster of artists, it's easy to spot the legacy of the giants of alt-culture illustration and progressive comics, and perhaps none... View details »
Under the Influence
Art
Matthew Heller
Wednesday Jan 23 (11am–5pm) @ DCA Fine Art More times »
Free
Matthew Heller has stripped down his busy aesthetics for something more minimal, without straying from his trademark shadowy figures and text. Though at times pained... View details »
Matthew Heller
Art: Photography
Freeze Frame
Wednesday Jan 23 (10am–5pm) @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences More times »
Free
The Academy honors Douglas Kirkland's carefully composed photography with Freeze Frame, an exhibit of celebrity portraits riddled with familiar faces. Besides shooting spools of film... View details »
Freeze Frame
Performing Arts: Opera
Tristan und Isolde
Wednesday Jan 23 (4am) @ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion More times »
Considered one of the world's greatest operas, Richard Wagner's 1857 Tristan und Isolde sprang from the composer's own torrid love life. Wagner composed the piece... View details »
Tristan und Isolde
Performing Arts: Theatre
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson
Wednesday Jan 23 @ Kirk Douglas Theatre More times »
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Center Theatre Group's world-premiere musical, busts out of the theatrical gate with energetic, rapier wit. Colored by its emo-influenced rock score,... View details »
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson
Performing Arts: Theatre
Media Mash-Up
Wednesday Jan 23 (8pm) @ Bootleg Theater More times »
This live, multimedia spectacular brings together two impressive artists: award-winning composer and choreographer Ken Roht and wildly inventive filmmaker Guy Maddin. Roht's Orphean Circus dancers... View details »
Media Mash-Up
Art
Girly Group Show
Wednesday Jan 23 (9am–6pm) @ Ghettogloss More times »
Free
This exhibition at Silverlake's favorite gallery/alt-culture hangout features the work of Noel ILL, Jenny Mollen, and Jessica Garrison among a sizeable roster of talented lady... View details »
Girly Group Show
Art
Don't Fence Me In
Wednesday Jan 23 (11am–5pm) @ Bandini Art More times »
Free
The female artists showing their work at Bandini Art most definitely know how to have fun. For starters, there's Castillo's whimsical, touching installation of paper... View details »
Don't Fence Me In
Art
The Imaginary 20th Century
Wednesday Jan 23 (11am–5pm) @ Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach More times »
There was a time when the 20th century seemed like an unimaginable and distant future. The Orange County Museum of Art presents 2,200 images from... View details »
The Imaginary 20th Century
Art
Alex Steinwiess
Wednesday Jan 23 (11am–6pm) @ Robert Berman Gallery More times »
Free
Rocker/designer Kevin Reagan and Juxtapoz's Greg Escalante co-curate this survey of images by Alex Steinweiss. In 1939, the Columbia Records packaging designer revolutionized the music... View details »
Alex Steinwiess
Art
Special Relationship
Wednesday Jan 23 (11am–6pm) @ The Scion Installation LA Space More times »
Free
Britain's Scrawl Collective is an emerging group of post-illustration urban romantics. They bring their ramped-up aesthetic energy to the States this week to curate the... View details »
Special Relationship
Art
Modern American Sculpture
Wednesday Jan 23 (10am–5:30pm) @ Forum Gallery More times »
Free
Forum Gallery usually sets the gold standard for classical figurative painting, exhibiting works ranging from the creamy, high-res romanticism of Steven Assael to the visceral,... View details »
Modern American Sculpture
Art: Photography
(Untitled) u = ____ [a photographic group show]
Wednesday Jan 23 (11am–5pm) @ Fette's Gallery More times »
Free
Twenty-five photographers working in cities around the world were given a simple task: to take an 11 x 14-inch self-portrait — of someone else. The... View details »
(Untitled) u = ____ [a photographic group show]
Art
Rachel Mason
Wednesday Jan 23 (11am–6pm) @ Circus Gallery More times »
Free
There's political art; there's the art of political stagecraft; and then there's The Candidate, the new exhibition of sketches, sculptures, and photographs that artist Rachel... View details »
Rachel Mason
More Flavor: City Gem
Ugo Wine Bar
Wednesday Jan 23 (5:30pm–12:30am) @ Vinum Populi More times »
Free
Culver City's latest spot of interest is Ugo Wine Bar, a cozy wine bar with the usual bistro couches and charcuterie selection — with one... View details »
Ugo Wine Bar