Events on Wednesday, October 8
The Plastic People of the Universe
Wednesday 10/ 8 @ Safari Sam's
Czech rockers the Plastic People of the Universe weren't just aesthetic dissidents — they were actual outlaws. Coming of age in...
Wednesday 10/ 8 @ The Echo & Echoplex
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Ongoing Events
Wednesday 10/ 8 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/ 8 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/ 8 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/ 8 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/ 8 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/ 8 @ 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 10/ 8 @ The Sunset
Once just a single-night charity event dedicated to a fashion staple, the Little Black Dress party has grown into a four-week...
Wednesday 10/ 8 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/ 8 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/ 8 @ Western Project
The Fellowship of Fortuna (and its "messenger," LA painter and media artist Gordy Grundy) takes up residence on Western Project's website...
Wednesday 10/ 8 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/ 8 @ High Energy Constructs
For many contemporary artists, Warhol is the North Star by which they guide their own emerging views of culture. But for...
Wednesday 10/ 8 @ Jail Gallery
Christopher Pate is interested in the relationship between maps and landscapes, as well as the broader discourse between the real quality...
Wednesday 10/ 8 @ ACE Gallery
Dennis Oppenheim first hit the art-world radar in the late 1960s with his Land and Body Art projects, which combined film...
Josh Dorman, Carol Es, and Julie Speed
Wednesday 10/ 8 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/ 8 @ DF2
Chinese-born Yin Zhaoyang didn't have to look too far for inspiration when creating the work in his latest show at DF2...
Wednesday 10/ 8 @ 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...
Jeff Charbonneau and Eliza French
Wednesday 10/ 8 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/ 8 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/ 8 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/ 8 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/ 8 @ Forum Gallery
Russian artist Alexander Melamid is a master at finding humor in serious situations, from totalitarian regimes to the plight of endangered...
Wednesday 10/ 8 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/ 8 @ Scribble Press
Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with...
Wednesday 10/ 8 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/ 8 @ Bandini Art
From the Department of How Did She Do That? comes a new exhibition of drawings and delicate marble sculptures from chisel-wielding...
Wednesday 10/ 8 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/ 8 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/ 8 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/ 8 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/ 8 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/ 8 @ 01 Gallery
Painter Michael Knowlton doesn't feel the need to choose between beauty and terror. His passionately wrought, deftly composed scenes of the...
Wednesday 10/ 8 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/ 8 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/ 8 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/ 8 @ Torrance Art Museum
The small but influential Torrance Art Museum simultaneously mounts three new solo exhibitions, united by highly stylized explorations of abstraction and...
Wednesday 10/ 8 @ 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....
Wednesday 10/ 8 @ LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions)
Rising stars Annie Lapin, Jeff Sheng, Cal Crawford, and Brenna Youngblood are among the 25 juror-selected artists that make up LA25...
Wednesday 10/ 8 @ 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),...
Wednesday 10/ 8 @ The Landmark
In Religulous, veteran comedian and free thinker Bill Maher travels the world, visiting a Holy Land theme park in Florida, London's...
Wednesday 10/ 8 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/ 8 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/ 8 @ Norton Simon Museum
This year marks the 45th anniversary of By or of Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Sélavy, the famous Marcel Duchamp retrospective at...
Wednesday 10/ 8 @ 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...
UCLA Live International Theatre Festival
Wednesday 10/ 8 @ Freud Playhouse
UCLA Live offers a finely curated nine-month season of performances, with the International Theatre Festival serving as its cornerstone. The event...
Wednesday 10/ 8 @ Circus Gallery
LA painter Sarah Cromarty has had a big year already; she gained recognition through several group shows and a bit of...
Wednesday 10/ 8 @ 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...
Deanna Templeton and Hadassah Emmerich
Wednesday 10/ 8 @ New Image Art
Deanna Templeton didn't need to stray far from her SoCal roots to find inspiration for her engaging photographs. A product of...
Wednesday 10/ 8 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/ 8 @ 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...
