Events on Wednesday, October 1

Pattern Is Movement w/ the Minor Canon

Music

Pattern Is Movement

Wednesday 10/ 1 @ Spaceland

Pattern Is Movement, a band that's emblematic of the new Philly sound, create songs that are by turns haunting and jaunty,... 

Stars

Music

Stars

Wednesday 10/ 1 @ Avalon Hollywood

From Do Make Say Think's bombastic guitarkestras to the Dears' Morrissey fixation, most of the Broken Social Scene-related bands are fans... 

Ongoing Events

Michael Knowlton: <em>Blackwater Babylon</em>

Art

Michael Knowlton

Wednesday 10/ 1 @ 01 Gallery

Painter Michael Knowlton doesn't feel the need to choose between beauty and terror. His passionately wrought, deftly composed scenes of the... 

Ultrasonic International III: <em>Elementary, My Dear Watson</em>

Art

Ultrasonic International III

Wednesday 10/ 1 @ Mark Moore Gallery

Elementary, My Dear Watson is the Mark Moore Gallery's third installment of its annual Ultrasonic International series. The group show features... 

Hope Gangloff and Jason J&auml;gel

Art

Hope Gangloff and Jason Jägel

Wednesday 10/ 1 @ Richard Heller Gallery

In tandem with the release of his book, 73 Funshine, San Francisco-based artist Jason Jägel exhibits a collection of music-inspired work.... 

Kristi Lippire: <em>Paradox and Levity, Mergers and Sigmund</em>

Art

Kristi Lippire

Wednesday 10/ 1 @ d.e.n. contemporary art

Kristi Lippire cobbles together images from a mind-boggling array of sources, then fashions them into large-scale works. Using plywood and other... 

Jehad Nga: <em>My Shadow, My Opponent</em>

Art: Photography

Jehad Nga

Wednesday 10/ 1 @ M+B Gallery Los Angeles

Daring photographer Jehad Nga has previously documented poverty and violence from Darfur to Iraq — now, he takes his camera into... 

<em>The Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela</em>

Film

The Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela

Wednesday 10/ 1 @ Regent Showcase

Lured by the lucrative business of Internet pornography, "ladyboy" Raquela longs to escape her native Philippines for a new life in... 

Robert Glenn Ketchum

Art: Photography

Robert Glenn Ketchum

Wednesday 10/ 1 @ G2 Gallery

Photographer and environmentalist Robert Glenn Ketchum makes landscape images, but this isn't Ansel Adams we're talking about here. The 38-year-old UCLA... 

<em>In Focus: The Landscape</em>

Art: Photography

In Focus: The Landscape

Wednesday 10/ 1 @ The Getty Center

Art's love affair with landscapes was captured with brush strokes until technology gave way to the click of the shutter. In... 

<em>The Art of War: American Posters from WWI and WWII</em>

Art

The Art of War

Wednesday 10/ 1 @ Norton Simon Museum

When searching for a means of drumming up support for World War I, officials in Washington didn't have to look much... 

<em>Macrocosm</em>

Art

Macrocosm

Wednesday 10/ 1 @ Roberts & Tilton Gallery

Roberts + Tilton becomes the latest A-list LA gallery to take up residence in Culver City, throwing a mammoth group show... 

<em>9 to 5: The Musical </em>

Theatre

9 to 5

Wednesday 10/ 1 @ Ahmanson Theatre

Based on Collin Higgins' screwball 1980 comedy, 9 to 5: The Musical makes its LA premiere tonight before heading to Broadway... 

Victor Gastelum: <em>Xacto Mundo</em>

Art

Victor Gastelum

Wednesday 10/ 1 @ Overtones Gallery

Victor Gastelum upholds the grand California tradition of elevating street-art tropes to gallery-level heights with the spray-paint stencil multiples in Xacto... 

Amanda Ross-Ho: <em>Half of What I Say Is Meaningless</em>

Art

Amanda Ross-Ho

Wednesday 10/ 1 @ Cherry and Martin

Amanda Ross-Ho returns to Cherry and Martin with her latest exhibition of mixed-media sculptural installation, Half of What I Say Is... 

<em>Choke</em>

Film

Choke

Wednesday 10/ 1 @ Landmark Westside Pavilion

Colonial theme-park worker Victor Mancini (an especially disheveled Sam Rockwell) barely survived childhood with his erratic mother (Anjelica Huston, bearing all... 

<em>Truthiness: Photography as Sculpture</em> and <em>Absurd Recreation: Contemporary Art from China</em>

Art

Truthiness and Absurd Recreation

Wednesday 10/ 1 @ California Museum of Photography, UC Riverside

Borrowing a recently coined neologism from Stephen Colbert's faux-conservative lexicon, Truthiness questions the reliability of the visual by featuring artists who... 

Alexander Melamid: <em>Holy Hip-Hop!</em>

Art

Alexander Melamid

Wednesday 10/ 1 @ Forum Gallery

Russian artist Alexander Melamid is a master at finding humor in serious situations, from totalitarian regimes to the plight of endangered... 

Neil Diamond

Music

Neil Diamond

Wednesday 10/ 1 @ Hollywood Bowl

Known to some as the "Jewish Elvis," Neil Diamond is a master of reinvention, having succeeded as a folk troubadour, leisure-suited... 

Bob Biggs: <em>OPP-A Roadmap to Nowhere</em>, Doug Edge: <em>New Paintings</em>, and Kate Harding: <em>Whiskey Creek</em>

Art

Bob Biggs, Doug Edge, and Kate Harding

Wednesday 10/ 1 @ Track 16 Gallery

Track 16 opens the fall season with three concurrent solo exhibitions. Venice stalwart Doug Edge is known for the fluidity and... 

Hans Burkhardt: Paintings of the 1960s

Art

Hans Burkhardt

Wednesday 10/ 1 @ Jack Rutberg Fine Arts

In the years bracketing WWII, a great many artists were among those fleeing to US shores from the specter of Nazi... 

<em>Madama Butterfly</em>

Performing Arts: Opera

Madama Butterfly

Wednesday 10/ 1 @ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion

Madama Butterfly's composer, Giacomo Puccini, rightly considered the opera his most "deeply felt and imaginative" work. Inspiring a number of reinterpretations... 

<em>Mexican Calendar Girls</em>

Art

Mexican Calendar Girls

Wednesday 10/ 1 @ California Heritage Museum

Glamor gets deep and classic at the California Heritage Museum's Mexican Calendar Girls, opening with a Cinco de Mayo reception. The... 

Kerry James Marshall: Portraits, Pin-Ups, and Wistful Romantic Idylls

Art

Kerry James Marshall

Wednesday 10/ 1 @ Koplin del Rio Gallery

Chicago artist Kerry James Marshall has shown internationally to great acclaim, and now will show for the sixth time with Koplin... 

<em>Silver Seduction: The Art of Mexican Modernist Antonio Pineda</em>

Fashion/Style

Antonio Pineda

Wednesday 10/ 1 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA

World-renowned Mexican silversmith Antonio Pineda brings more than 200 of his masterpieces up the coast to UCLA's Fowler Museum, to show... 

Katie Grinnan: <em>Polaris </em>

Art

Katie Grinnan

Wednesday 10/ 1 @ MAK Center for Art and Architecture

Katie Grinnan has made a career out of walking the fine line between the second and third dimensions. Grinnan takes architectural... 

Santa Barbara Off-Axis 2008

Festival: Performing Arts

Off-Axis

Wednesday 10/ 1 @ Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum

Although our neighbor to the north is typically known for its stellar views and celebrity mansions, Santa Barbara has a stash... 

Foundation Projects presents <em>OFF-REGISTER</em>

Art

OFF-REGISTER

Wednesday 10/ 1 @ Little Bird Gallery

For the past year, this traveling exhibition has showcased artists and graphic designers who were asked to apply their experience with... 

<em>Cycling Apparati</em>

Art

Cycling Apparati

Wednesday 10/ 1 @ High Energy Constructs

For many contemporary artists, Warhol is the North Star by which they guide their own emerging views of culture. But for... 

Mark Bradford: <em>Help Us</em>

Art

Mark Bradford

Wednesday 10/ 1 @ Steve Turner Contemporary

Los Angeles painter, installation artist, and (most recently) video artist Mark Bradford has exhibited in some of the world's most prestigious... 

<em>Aspects of Mel's Hole: Artists Respond to a Paranormal Land Event Occurring in Radiospace</em>

Art

Aspects of Mel's Hole

Wednesday 10/ 1 @ CSUF Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana

Beloved radio host Art Bell is a cross between Jean Shepherd and Fox Mulder, and a man whose paranormality-themed broadcasts were... 

Raymond Pettibon: <em>Seminal Work</em>

Art

Raymond Pettibon

Wednesday 10/ 1 @ Regen Projects II

Seminal Work features a selection of pieces from the much-lauded Raymond Pettibon, all completed between 1978 and 1988. Keeping true to... 

UCLA Live International Theatre Festival: <em>Playboy of the Western World</em> and <em>The Shadow of the Glen</em>

Theatre

UCLA Live International Theatre Festival

Wednesday 10/ 1 @ Freud Playhouse

UCLA Live offers a finely curated nine-month season of performances, with the International Theatre Festival serving as its cornerstone. The event... 

Elizabeth Turk: <em>Traces</em>

Art

Elizabeth Turk

Wednesday 10/ 1 @ Bandini Art

From the Department of How Did She Do That? comes a new exhibition of drawings and delicate marble sculptures from chisel-wielding... 

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

Special Event

Nicole Cohen

Wednesday 10/ 1 @ The Getty Center

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

Pipo Nguyen-Duy: <em>The Garden</em>

Art: Photography

Pipo Nguyen-Duy

Wednesday 10/ 1 @ Sam Lee Gallery

Sam Lee Gallery follows up its dynamic group exhibition I AM I A KILLER with Pipo Nguyen-Duy's cyclical photography project, The... 

<em>Between Earth and Heaven: The Architecture of John Lautner</em>

Art

John Lautner

Wednesday 10/ 1 @ Hammer Museum

The risk-taking John Lautner is often described as an architect's architect, even though some of his designs brought him both criticism... 

<em>All of This is Melting Away</em>

Art

All of This is Melting Away

Wednesday 10/ 1 @ Royal/T

Director of New York's Greene Naftali Gallery, Jay Sanders steps into cafe/shop/gallery Royal/T to curate this group show of works from... 

Chris Mars: <em>Tolerance</em>

Art

Chris Mars

Wednesday 10/ 1 @ Billy Shire Fine Arts

From Brandon Boyd's paintings to Scion and ill-Studios' curatorial collaboration and Alexander Melamid's hip-hop portraits, music-related art has been blanketing LA's... 

<em>Within Four Miles: The World of Josh Dorman</em>

Art

Josh Dorman

Wednesday 10/ 1 @ Craft and Folk Art Museum

Traditional paper and canvas simply won't do for New York artist Josh Dorman, who employs vintage maps and textbook diagrams as... 

<em>Fortuna Rising: Gordy Grundy is the Messenger</em>

Art

Gordy Grundy

Wednesday 10/ 1 @ Western Project

The Fellowship of Fortuna (and its "messenger," LA painter and media artist Gordy Grundy) takes up residence on Western Project's website... 

<em>Marcel Duchamp Redux </em>

Art

Marcel Duchamp Redux

Wednesday 10/ 1 @ Norton Simon Museum

This year marks the 45th anniversary of By or of Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Sélavy, the famous Marcel Duchamp retrospective at... 

Dennis Hopper: <em>Colors </em>and Wendy Burton: <em>Trace Elements III</em>

Art: Photography

Dennis Hopper and Wendy Burton

Wednesday 10/ 1 @ Craig Krull Gallery

Craig Krull Gallery pulls out the big guns for its season opener, with concurrent solo exhibitions from two of its most... 

Ian Francis: <em>Together Forever</em>

Art

Ian Francis

Wednesday 10/ 1 @ Kinsey/DesForges Gallery

The brilliantly brash British phenom Ian Francis returns to Kinsey/DesForges for his second solo show. Once again, the artist presents visceral,... 

Dennis Oppenheim: <em>Cactus Grove</em>

Art

Dennis Oppenheim

Wednesday 10/ 1 @ ACE Gallery

Dennis Oppenheim first hit the art-world radar in the late 1960s with his Land and Body Art projects, which combined film... 

Twilight at the Club

City Gems

Twilight at the Club

Wednesday 10/ 1 @ Griffith Park Driving Range Clubhouse

With summertime in high gear, there's no shortage of happening spots where you can grab a chilled post-work cocktail. But few... 

Art

The Maize Project

Wednesday 10/ 1 @ Torrance Art Museum

The small but influential Torrance Art Museum simultaneously mounts three new solo exhibitions, united by highly stylized explorations of abstraction and... 

Yin Zhaoyang: <em>Radiation</em>

Art

Yin Zhaoyang

Wednesday 10/ 1 @ DF2

Chinese-born Yin Zhaoyang didn't have to look too far for inspiration when creating the work in his latest show at DF2... 

Eric Sall: <em>High and Wide</em>

Art

Eric Sall

Wednesday 10/ 1 @ Acuna-Hansen Gallery

In confronting the vibrating, thickly textured canvases of Eric Sall, one gets the distinct impression that he could survive by eating... 

Martin Kersels: <em>Heavyweight Champion</em>

Art

Martin Kersels

Wednesday 10/ 1 @ Santa Monica Museum of Art

The Santa Monica Museum of Art hosts LA artist Martin Kersels' first retrospective, Heavyweight Champion, drawing from 13 years of his... 

Sandrine Pelletier: <em>Insekts</em>

Art

Sandrine Pelletier

Wednesday 10/ 1 @ Fette's Gallery

International-artist-friendly Fette's Gallery rings in its fall season with Insekts, an installation of new works by Swiss mixed-media artist/embroiderer Sandrine Pelletier.... 

<em>No Brow</em>

Art

No Brow

Wednesday 10/ 1 @ Black Maria Gallery

Not unlike impressionism, "low brow" was a label with initially negative connotations affixed to a group of artists reacting against then-mainstream... 

<em>War as a Way of Life</em>

Art: Photography

War as a Way of Life

Wednesday 10/ 1 @ 18th Street Arts Center

18th Street wraps up its yearlong, four-part examination of sociopolitical issues with War as a Way of Life. The exhibit includes... 

Yoko Ono: <em>Wish Tree</em>

Art

Yoko Ono

Wednesday 10/ 1 @ One Colorado

It has been nearly 28 years since John Lennon's passing, but his quest for world peace lives on. Lennon's widow, noted... 

Hans Burkhardt

Art

Hans Burkhardt

Wednesday 10/ 1 @ Cal State University Northridge Art Gallery

Comprising selections from the nearly 1,000 works that European-native-turned California-great Hans Burkhardt personally donated to Cal State Northridge (where he taught... 

Nancy Reddin Kienholz

Art

Nancy Reddin Kienholz

Wednesday 10/ 1 @ LA Louver Gallery

Nancy Reddin Kienholz may be familiar to some because of her lifelong collaboration with late husband Ed Kienholz, one of the... 

My Bloody Valentine

Music

My Bloody Valentine

Wednesday 10/ 1 @ Santa Monica Civic Auditorium

Shoegaze progenitors My Bloody Valentine regroup after more than 15 years of Barrett-esque reclusive behavior, all of which followed their mind-altering... 

Sarah Cromarty: <em>Diamonds and Rust</em>

Art

Sarah Cromarty

Wednesday 10/ 1 @ Circus Gallery

LA painter Sarah Cromarty has had a big year already; she gained recognition through several group shows and a bit of... 

City Gems

Scribble Press

Wednesday 10/ 1 @ Scribble Press

Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with... 

John Bock: <em>Palms</em>

Art

John Bock

Wednesday 10/ 1 @ REDCAT

John Bock's unpredictable performances may seem like exercises in artistic capriciousness, but his loud costumes and absurd statements conceal his skill... 

<em>In the Land of Retinal Delights: The Juxtapoz Factor</em>

Art

The Juxtapoz Factor

Wednesday 10/ 1 @ Laguna Art Museum

To those who have been reading the contemporary-art magazine Juxtapoz since it was founded in the mid-'90s, it may come as... 

Mr. Funky: <em>Super Plush</em>

Art

Mr. Funky

Wednesday 10/ 1 @ Ghettogloss Presents: An art conglomerate on the move

At most galleries and museums, squeezing the art is most definitely at the top of the list of "don'ts" — but... 

<em>CUT: Makings of Removal</em>

Art

CUT: Makings of Removal

Wednesday 10/ 1 @ Vincent Price Art Museum

The 17 young and emerging artists included in this ambitious group show follow diverse strategies in making work, but the organizing... 

Kyle Field: <em>More Country Questions</em>

Art

Kyle Field

Wednesday 10/ 1 @ Taylor De Cordoba Gallery

For his second go-round at Taylor De Cordoba, San Franciscan artist/musican Kyle Field (he's a member of the band Little Wings),... 

Katina and Christa Zinner: <em>Tides of Emotion</em>

Art

Katina and Christa Zinner

Wednesday 10/ 1 @ James Coleman Gallery

The mother-daughter relationship is fraught with emotion and drama, and what better venue for exploring that tension than a two-woman exhibition...