All events on Tuesday January 08

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Music: Rock/Pop
Concrete Frequency: Songs of the City
Tuesday Jan 8 (8pm) @ Disney Concert Hall
Living in the city definitely has its perks. The energy, the architecture, the food, and, of course, the music. Digging deeper into the urban experience,... View details »
Concrete Frequency: Songs of the City
Film
King Kong
Tuesday Jan 8 (1pm) @ 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 the beast. The infamous... View details »
King Kong
Art
Under the Influence
Tuesday Jan 8 (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

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SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s
Tuesday Jan 8 @ 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
Tuesday Jan 8 @ 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
Giant Robot Biennale
Tuesday Jan 8 (9am–5pm) @ Japanese American National Museum More times »
Free
Pop-culture empire Giant Robot began way back in 1994 as a zine, and has since grown to include a glossy magazine, galleries in both San... View details »
Giant Robot Biennale
Art
Francis Alÿs
Tuesday Jan 8 (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
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Materials & Applications: Density Fields
Tuesday Jan 8 (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
Richard Deacon
Tuesday Jan 8 (10am–6pm) @ LA Louver Gallery More times »
Free
Venice's premier art space reminds us that sculpture can be one of the most thrilling creative media with the debut of Richard Deacon's Dead Leg,... View details »
Richard Deacon
Art
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Tuesday Jan 8 (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
Tuesday Jan 8 (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
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Choi Jeong-Hwa
Tuesday Jan 8 (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
LAAA Open Show
Tuesday Jan 8 (10am–5pm) @ Gallery 825 More times »
Free
Gallery 825, the La Cienega Boulevard location of LA's oldest artists cooperative, presents this year's Open Show. An annual highlight of the emerging artist community... View details »
LAAA Open Show
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Matthew Barney
Tuesday Jan 8 (10am–6pm) @ Regen Projects More times »
Free
Matthew Barney, iconic multimedia rainmaker and Björk's baby daddy, shows drawings relating to his newest multimedia work, Guardian of the Veil. The film documents a... View details »
Matthew Barney
Art: Photography
Jill Greenberg
Tuesday Jan 8 (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
Serena Mitnik-Miller
Tuesday Jan 8 (10am–6:30pm) @ Mollusk Surf Shop More times »
Free
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 of board store. While... View details »
Serena Mitnik-Miller
Performing Arts: Comedy
Drunk on Stage
Tuesday Jan 8 (8pm) @ Akbar More times »
An antidote to the stagnating humor of the Sunset Strip's stand-up comedy boys' club, Bruce Daniels' Drunk on Stage celebrates the under-appreciated funny folks: ladies,... View details »
Drunk on Stage
Film
Steep
Tuesday Jan 8 @ 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
Emma Ferreira
Tuesday Jan 8 (10am–6:30pm) @ Spin Gallery More times »
Free
Venice's brand-new Spin Gallery merges fine and automotive art, showcasing promising new visual talents alongside rare and beautiful cars. Its latest wall-based offering is a... View details »
Emma Ferreira
Film
The Violin
Tuesday Jan 8 @ Landmark Nuart Theatre More times »
With a tender musical motif that recalls Kon Ichikawa's The Burmese Harp (1985), Francisco Vargas' astute debut, The Violin, tracks a violinist's escapades during the... View details »
The Violin
Art: Photography
Julius Shulman
Tuesday Jan 8 (10am–8pm) @ Los Angeles Public Library More times »
Free
Julius Shulman has done more for the way California modernist architecture is seen and appreciated than probably anyone else — and he's also shot... View details »
Julius Shulman
Art: Architecture/Design
La Vida Lowrider
Tuesday Jan 8 (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
More Flavor: Exhibition
Treasures from the Vault
Tuesday Jan 8 (9:30am–5pm) @ Natural History Museum More times »
Whether you cherish the memory of dueling dino skeletons from long-ago field trips, or a more recent late-night music show amongst stuffed-buffalo-and-antelope dioramas, you probably... View details »
Treasures from the Vault
Art
David Sandlin & Martha Rich
Tuesday Jan 8 (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
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Kyoung Ha Yoo, Jon Tarry & John Krawczyk
Tuesday Jan 8 (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
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Wallace Berman
Tuesday Jan 8 (10am–6pm) @ Michael Kohn Gallery More times »
Free
Even though Wallace Berman exhibited his work at the highly influential Ferus Gallery within years of Andy Warhol's first solo show, you've probably never heard... View details »
Wallace Berman
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Karen Liebowitz
Tuesday Jan 8 (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
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Gardar Eide Einarsson
Tuesday Jan 8 (10am–6pm) @ Honor Fraser More times »
Free
Gardar Eide Einarsson's latest series features nine massive plywood panels, printed with graphics from a '60s police manual. As the officers demonstrate baton maneuvers, the... View details »
Gardar Eide Einarsson
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Aboriginal Art
Tuesday Jan 8 (noon–6pm) @ MODAA gallery More times »
Free
Aboriginal Art
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Tim Sullivan and Colin Roberts
Tuesday Jan 8 (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
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Henry Lewis & Regino Gonzales
Tuesday Jan 8 (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
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Neil Farber
Tuesday Jan 8 (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
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Don't Fence Me In
Tuesday Jan 8 (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
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Modern American Sculpture
Tuesday Jan 8 (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