Events on Tuesday, October 28

Mark Oliver Everett: <em>Things the Grandchildren Should Know</em>

Books: Reading

Mark Oliver Everett

Tuesday 10/28 @ Book Soup

If it's not obvious from song titles like "Novocaine for the Soul" and "Cancer for the Cure," Eels mastermind Mark Oliver... 

Talkdemonic w/ Jeffrey Lewis, Homesick Elephant

Music

Talkdemonic

Tuesday 10/28 @ Spaceland

Since forming string-enhanced electronic duo Talkdemonic in 2003, multi-instrumentalists Kevin O'Connor and Lisa Molinaro have become indie staples, touring with acts... 

<em>Part of the Weekend Never Dies</em>

Film: Documentary

Part of the Weekend Never Dies

Tuesday 10/28 @ Nike Sportswear at the Montalbán

Take a walk — or a tour-bus ride — on the wild side and see what it's really like to be... 

Against Me! w/ Ted Leo & the Pharmacists, Future of the Left

Music

Against Me!

Tuesday 10/28 @ The Wiltern

The punk-rock landscape encompasses everything from radical politics and DIY culture to abrasive antics and self-mutilation, and Against Me!'s current tour... 

Ongoing Events

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

Art

Martin Kersels

Tuesday 10/28 @ 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... 

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

Art

Mark Bradford

Tuesday 10/28 @ 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... 

Mark Dean Veca: <em>Phantasmagoria</em>

Art

Mark Dean Veca

Tuesday 10/28 @ Otis College of Art and Design

Entering Mark Dean Veca's site-specific installation at Otis College's Ben Maltz Gallery is like stepping into a psychedelic playhouse filled with... 

Miriam Wosk: <em>Paradise and Wildlife</em>

Art

Miriam Wosk

Tuesday 10/28 @ Billy Shire Fine Arts

For her second exhibition at Culver City's Billy Shire Fine Arts, Santa Monica-based artist Miriam Wosk once again creates her trademark... 

Hans Burkhardt: Paintings of the 1960s

Art

Hans Burkhardt

Tuesday 10/28 @ 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... 

James Gobel:<em> Happy Hour </em>

Art

James Gobel

Tuesday 10/28 @ Steve Turner Contemporary

Steve Turner Contemporary on the Miracle Mile lets its hair down this month, showing new work by James Gobel, portraying portly,... 

Yin Zhaoyang: <em>Radiation</em>

Art

Yin Zhaoyang

Tuesday 10/28 @ DF2

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

Takako Yamaguchi: <em>The Plain Sense of Things</em>

Art

Takako Yamaguchi

Tuesday 10/28 @ Cardwell Jimmerson Contemporary Art

New landscapes and seascapes from LA-based painter Takako Yamaguchi combine the stylized organic geometry of op art with the sensual smoothness... 

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

Art

Gordy Grundy

Tuesday 10/28 @ 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>War as a Way of Life</em>

Art: Photography

War as a Way of Life

Tuesday 10/28 @ 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... 

<em>Park Life</em>

Art

Park Life

Tuesday 10/28 @ Subliminal Projects

Subliminal Projects uses its recent move from Koreatown to the more pastoral environs of Echo Park as the curatorial focus for... 

Linda Besemer: <em>Sine, Sine, Everywhere a Sine</em>

Art

Linda Besemer

Tuesday 10/28 @ Angles Gallery

Linda Besemer produces the kind of art that provokes people to solve the mystery of how she does it. Without divulging... 

Robert Glenn Ketchum

Art: Photography

Robert Glenn Ketchum

Tuesday 10/28 @ 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... 

City Gems

Scribble Press

Tuesday 10/28 @ Scribble Press

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

Richard Amend and Christopher Martin Hoff: <em>Urban-scape</em>

Art

Richard Amend and Christopher Martin Hoff

Tuesday 10/28 @ Lawrence Asher Gallery

Considering the precision and mastery of detail in the work of Richard Amend and Christopher Martin Hoff, it should come as... 

Jeff Charbonneau and Eliza French: <em>Massillon</em>

Art: Photography

Jeff Charbonneau and Eliza French

Tuesday 10/28 @ Robert Berman Gallery

Dreamlike, sensual, and ominous, the black-and-white photography of Jeff Charbonneau and Eliza French is like a surrealist's take on a Nathaniel... 

Bob Zoell: <em>I Wish I Was Happy</em>

Art

Bob Zoell

Tuesday 10/28 @ Wal-Art

Remember in LA Story when Steve Martin thought the LED signs on the freeway were speaking to him? The work in... 

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

Art

Yoko Ono

Tuesday 10/28 @ 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... 

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

Art

Alexander Melamid

Tuesday 10/28 @ Forum Gallery

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

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

Art

CUT: Makings of Removal

Tuesday 10/28 @ 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... 

Neal Spector: <em>Labels</em>

Art: Photography

Neal Spector

Tuesday 10/28 @ Guy Hepner Contemporary

In his previous life as a principal at a "Hollywood creative firm," Neal Spector was instrumental in enabling LA's obsession with... 

Ai Yamaguchi: <em>Hana wa no ni aruyouni</em>

Art

Ai Yamaguchi

Tuesday 10/28 @ Roberts & Tilton Gallery

Hana wa no ni aruyouni (Flowers as they are in the field) is Japanese artist Ai Yamaguchi's second solo exhibition at... 

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

Art: Photography

In Focus: The Landscape

Tuesday 10/28 @ 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... 

Asad Faulwell and Annie Buckley

Art

Asad Faulwell and Annie Buckley

Tuesday 10/28 @ Carl Berg Gallery

This Miracle Mile-situated gallery's latest exhibition joins two artists with radically different approaches to the aesthetic of assemblage. Asad Faulwell, recent... 

Eddy Sykes: <em>Yakuza Lou</em>

Art

Eddy Sykes

Tuesday 10/28 @ Materials & Applications

First, there were robot maids, robot pets, and robot vacuums. Now, there are robot gardens. The technical specifications for Materials &... 

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

Art

Josh Dorman

Tuesday 10/28 @ 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... 

Anthony Goicolea: <em>Related III
</em>

Art

Anthony Goicolea

Tuesday 10/28 @ Sandroni Rey

Anthony Goicolea let his family albums guide his latest exhibition, Related III. The Cuban artist's photographs, drawings, and installations are spun... 

Mear One: <em>Mearasma</em>

Art

Mear One

Tuesday 10/28 @ 01 Gallery

Very few painters can swing the brush with the technical wizardry of LA native Mear One. Returning to the place where... 

Marco Brambilla: <em>Living the Dream</em>

Art

Marco Brambilla

Tuesday 10/28 @ Christopher Grimes Gallery

Marco Brambilla's newest video pieces live up to his reputation for supersaturated maximalism, combining, recombining, randomizing, and manipulating found and sampled... 

Robbie Conal: <em>No Spitting No Kidding</em>

Art

Robbie Conal

Tuesday 10/28 @ Track 16 Gallery

Even Robbie Conal's most fervent admirers tend to see his work primarily through their car windows. His trademark posters — featuring... 

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

Art

All of This is Melting Away

Tuesday 10/28 @ 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... 

Charlie Roberts

Art

Charlie Roberts

Tuesday 10/28 @ Richard Heller Gallery

Charlie Roberts is a consummate collector of images, with an organizational system resembling the interior of a Whitman's Sampler. He perceives... 

Grace Oh: <em>Humanature II</em>

Art: Photography

Grace Oh

Tuesday 10/28 @ Edgar Varela Fine Arts

Los Angeles photographer Grace Oh first grew passionate about capturing nudes when she began actively pursuing photography in her early twenties.... 

Josh Dorman, Carol Es, and Julie Speed

Art

Josh Dorman, Carol Es, and Julie Speed

Tuesday 10/28 @ George Billis Gallery

Modern mix-masters Josh Dorman, Carol Es, and Julie Speed are art historians of sorts: all three borrow imagery from recycled sources... 

John Bock: <em>Palms</em>

Art

John Bock

Tuesday 10/28 @ REDCAT

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

Wolfgang Tillmans: <em>half page</em>

Art

Wolfgang Tillmans

Tuesday 10/28 @ Regen Projects

Wolfgang Tillmans is like the Madonna of the art world: never afraid to change directions, reinvent himself, or throw in a... 

Art

The Maize Project

Tuesday 10/28 @ Torrance Art Museum

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

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

Special Event

Nicole Cohen

Tuesday 10/28 @ The Getty Center

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

<em>Seeing Things: Ghost Polaroids</em>

Art: Photography

Ghost Polaroids

Tuesday 10/28 @ Drkrm

For 15 years, in an old house on a sleepy hillside outside LA, a phalanx of residents, researchers, and TV producers... 

Santa Barbara Off-Axis 2008

Festival: Performing Arts

Off-Axis

Tuesday 10/28 @ 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...