Events on Wednesday, January 9
Wednesday 1/ 9 @ Hammer Museum
Simple artistic arithmetic leads you to guess that the anarchic Sympathy for the Devil pairing of the pre-Altamont Rolling Stones and...
Wednesday 1/ 9 @ The Troubadour
In the early '90s, Money Mark's funky keyboard joints helped lure Beastie Boys' audiences onto dance floors en masse, but it...
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 1/ 9 @ California Heritage Museum
George Hurrell shot studio stars as they are remembered today: glamorous, graceful, and a tad theatrical. With his sophisticated black-and-white blowups,...
Wednesday 1/ 9 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/ 9 @ DNJ Gallery
Photographer Bill Owens skillfully captures Americana in his two series Suburbia and Leisure. The former, an early-1970s photo essay, features domestic...
Wednesday 1/ 9 @ New Image Art
New Image Art owner Marsea Goldberg remembers when posters were a vehicle for edgy, urban art and illustration — and so...
Wednesday 1/ 9 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/ 9 @ Hammer Museum
Pushing a block of ice through the streets of Mexico City, moving a mountain several inches, hiring a stripper who never...
Wednesday 1/ 9 @ Honor Fraser
Gardar Eide Einarsson's latest series features nine massive plywood panels, printed with graphics from a '60s police manual. As the officers...
Wednesday 1/ 9 @ The Artists' Gallery
The Artists' Gallery (TAG) is one of the best membership-based art galleries in LA, in part due to the talent of...
SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s
Wednesday 1/ 9 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/ 9 @ 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,...
Wednesday 1/ 9 @ Regen Projects
Matthew Barney, iconic multimedia rainmaker and Björk's baby daddy, shows drawings relating to his newest multimedia work, Guardian of the Veil....
Wednesday 1/ 9 @ Petersen Automotive Museum
The lowrider tradition originated in the Chicano barrios of Los Angeles, inspired by a fierce love for classic cars and the...
Wednesday 1/ 9 @ Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Ojai
Don't let the title fool you: for her second solo effort at Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Cassandra C. Jones isn't just...
Wednesday 1/ 9 @ The Getty Center
Nicole Cohen engineers recombinant layers of still and video imagery, investigating the network of associations that interior spaces contain. Also, she...
Wednesday 1/ 9 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/ 9 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/ 9 @ Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art
You've probably never heard of any of the over 40 artists included in this multimedia dragnet of a group show —...
Wednesday 1/ 9 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/ 9 @ MAK Center for Art and Architecture
The Little House, Victor Burgin's new project at the MAK Center, explores the potential of narrative sound installation. Selections from Jean-François...
Wednesday 1/ 9 @ 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...
Kyoung Ha Yoo, Jon Tarry & John Krawczyk
Wednesday 1/ 9 @ Lawrence Asher Gallery
The trio of contemporary artists assembled for the first show of the year at the Lawrence Asher Gallery draws inspiration from...
Wednesday 1/ 9 @ 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,...
Wednesday 1/ 9 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/ 9 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/ 9 @ REDCAT
Interdisciplinary Korean wunderkind and founder of the Gaseum Studio, Choi Jeong-Hwa obliterates the boundaries between visual art, graphic/industrial design, and architecture,...
Wednesday 1/ 9 @ 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 —...
Wednesday 1/ 9 @ Walter Maciel Gallery
Curator Kristine Bowen brings together 16 artists who channel the contemporary American spirit of fear and, as the show title suggests,...
Wednesday 1/ 9 @ Forum Gallery
Forum Gallery usually sets the gold standard for classical figurative painting, exhibiting works ranging from the creamy, high-res romanticism of Steven...
Tim Sullivan and Colin Roberts
Wednesday 1/ 9 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/ 9 @ 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,...
Materials & Applications: Density Fields
Wednesday 1/ 9 @ 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...
Golden Globe Foreign-Language Nominee Series
Wednesday 1/ 9 @ Aero Theatre
The Aero's four-night bill of Golden Globe foreign-language nominees begins with The Kite Runner, which negotiates decades, continents, and languages in...
Wednesday 1/ 9 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/ 9 @ Corey Helford Gallery
Individual series and a set of collaborative works from prodigal SoCal tattoo artists Regino Gonzales and Henry Lewis showcase the profound...
Wednesday 1/ 9 @ 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,...
Wednesday 1/ 9 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/ 9 @ 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...
