Events on Tuesday, January 8

Concrete Frequency: Songs of the City feat. Inara George, John Doe, and Sean Lennon
Month_01 Tuesday Day_08
Music: Rock/Pop
Concrete Frequency: Songs of the City
@ Disney Concert Hall
Living in the city definitely has its perks. The energy, the architecture, the food, and, of course, the music. Digging deeper...  View details »
<em>King Kong</em> (1933)
Month_01 Tuesday Day_08
Film
King Kong
@ Los Angeles County Museum of Art
It's been 75 exalted years since the eighth wonder wandered out of his prehistoric jungle and into our cinematic lexicon as...  View details »

Ongoing Events

Francis Al&#255;s: <I>Politics of Rehearsal</I>
Month_01 Tuesday Day_08
Art
Francis Alÿs
@ Hammer Museum
Pushing a block of ice through the streets of Mexico City, moving a mountain several inches, hiring a stripper who never...  View details »
Ongoing
<I>Treasures from the Vault</i>
Month_01 Tuesday Day_08
More Flavor: Exhibition
Treasures from the Vault
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
<i>Steep</i>
Month_01 Wednesday Day_09
Film
Steep
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Bill Owens: <I>Suburbia</i> and <I>Leisure</i>
Month_01 Tuesday Day_08
Art: Photography
Bill Owens
@ DNJ Gallery
Photographer Bill Owens skillfully captures Americana in his two series Suburbia and Leisure. The former, an early-1970s photo essay, features domestic...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Choi Jeong-Hwa: <I>Truth</i>
Month_01 Tuesday Day_08
Art
Choi Jeong-Hwa
@ REDCAT
Interdisciplinary Korean wunderkind and founder of the Gaseum Studio, Choi Jeong-Hwa obliterates the boundaries between visual art, graphic/industrial design, and architecture,...  View details »
Ongoing
Free Flavorpill 50
Jill Greenberg: <I>Ursine</i> & <I>Performance</i>
Month_01 Tuesday Day_08
Art: Photography
Jill Greenberg
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<I>Julius Shulman's Los Angeles</i>
Month_01 Tuesday Day_08
Art: Photography
Julius Shulman
@ Los Angeles Public Library
Julius Shulman has done more for the way California modernist architecture is seen and appreciated than probably anyone else —...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<i>Generalized Anxiety Disorder</i>
Month_01 Tuesday Day_08
Art
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
@ Walter Maciel Gallery
Curator Kristine Bowen brings together 16 artists who channel the contemporary American spirit of fear and, as the show title suggests,...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Tim Sullivan: <em>Perfect Entrance </em>and Colin Roberts: <em>The Inscrutable Immutable</em>
Month_01 Tuesday Day_08
Art
Tim Sullivan and Colin Roberts
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Gardar Eide Einarsson: <I>All My Friends Are Dead</i>
Month_01 Tuesday Day_08
Art
Gardar Eide Einarsson
@ Honor Fraser
Gardar Eide Einarsson's latest series features nine massive plywood panels, printed with graphics from a '60s police manual. As the officers...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Don't Fence Me In</em>
Month_01 Tuesday Day_08
Art
Don't Fence Me In
@ 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,...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<I>La Vida Lowrider: Cruising the City of Angels</i>
Month_01 Tuesday Day_08
Art: Architecture/Design
La Vida Lowrider
@ Petersen Automotive Museum
The lowrider tradition originated in the Chicano barrios of Los Angeles, inspired by a fierce love for classic cars and the...  View details »
Ongoing
<i>SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s</i>
Month_01 Wednesday Day_09
Art
SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Richard Deacon
Month_01 Tuesday Day_08
Art
Richard Deacon
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Drunk on Stage at Akbar
Month_01 Tuesday Day_08
Performing Arts: Comedy
Drunk on Stage
@ Akbar
An antidote to the stagnating humor of the Sunset Strip's stand-up comedy boys' club, Bruce Daniels' Drunk on Stage celebrates the...  View details »
Ongoing
Matthew Barney: <I>Drawing from Guardian of the Veil</i>
Month_01 Tuesday Day_08
Art
Matthew Barney
@ Regen Projects
Matthew Barney, iconic multimedia rainmaker and Björk's baby daddy, shows drawings relating to his newest multimedia work, Guardian of the Veil....  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Emma Ferreira: <I>When Life Dances II: Classic Beauty</i>
Month_01 Tuesday Day_08
Art
Emma Ferreira
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Henry Lewis &amp; Regino Gonzales: <em>Burning at Both Ends</em>
Month_01 Tuesday Day_08
Art
Henry Lewis & Regino Gonzales
@ Corey Helford
Individual series and a set of collaborative works from prodigal SoCal tattoo artists Regino Gonzales and Henry Lewis showcase the profound...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Karen Liebowitz: <I>Leviathan</i>
Month_01 Tuesday Day_08
Art
Karen Liebowitz
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Kyoung Ha Yoo, Jon Tarry & John Krawczyk
Month_01 Tuesday Day_08
Art
Kyoung Ha Yoo, Jon Tarry & John Krawczyk
@ Lawrence Asher Gallery
The trio of contemporary artists assembled for the first show of the year at the Lawrence Asher Gallery draws inspiration from...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Under the Influence: A Tribute to Stan Lee</em>
Month_01 Tuesday Day_08
Art
Under the Influence
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Nicole Cohen: <em>Please Be Seated</em>
Month_01 Tuesday Day_08
Art: Discussion
Nicole Cohen
@ The Getty Center
Nicole Cohen engineers recombinant layers of still and video imagery, investigating the network of associations that interior spaces contain. Also, she...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Materials & Applications: <em>Density Fields</em>
Month_01 Tuesday Day_08
Art
Materials & Applications: Density Fields
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Giant Robot Biennale: 50 Issues Art Exhibition
Month_01 Tuesday Day_08
Art
Giant Robot Biennale
@ 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,...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<i>My Kid Could Paint That</i>
Month_01 Wednesday Day_09
Film: Documentary
My Kid Could Paint That
@ 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,...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<I>The Violin</i>
Month_01 Wednesday Day_09
Film
The Violin
@ Landmark Nuart Theatre
With a tender musical motif that recalls Kon Ichikawa's The Burmese Harp (1985), Francisco Vargas' astute debut, The Violin, tracks a...  View details »
Ongoing
Los Angeles Art Association Open Show
Month_01 Tuesday Day_08
Art
LAAA Open Show
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Serena Mitnik-Miller: <I>Quiver</I>
Month_01 Tuesday Day_08
Art: Photography
Serena Mitnik-Miller
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Modern Aboriginal Art + Australian Architecture
Month_01 Tuesday Day_08
Art
Aboriginal Art
@ MODAA gallery
Ongoing
Free
Wallace Berman: <i>Photography and Other Works of Art 1950-1976</i>
Month_01 Tuesday Day_08
Art
Wallace Berman
@ 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,...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
David Sandlin:  <i>Swamp Preacher</i> & Martha Rich: <I>Imitation Snakeskin Superstore</i>
Month_01 Tuesday Day_08
Art
David Sandlin & Martha Rich
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Neil Farber: <em>New Works</em>
Month_01 Tuesday Day_08
Art
Neil Farber
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Modern American Sculpture</em>
Month_01 Tuesday Day_08
Art
Modern American Sculpture
@ Forum Gallery
Forum Gallery usually sets the gold standard for classical figurative painting, exhibiting works ranging from the creamy, high-res romanticism of Steven...  View details »
Ongoing
Free