Events on Tuesday, November 11

Kaiser Chiefs w/ Hockey

Music

Kaiser Chiefs

Tuesday 11/11 @ Music Box at the Fonda Theater

While the members of Blur-y Brit-pop quintet Kaiser Chiefs dress like kids — punking it up with skin-tight black jeans and... 

The B-52's

Music

The B-52's

Tuesday 11/11 @ House of Blues Anaheim

On paper, it makes no sense. How could a band as eccentric as the B-52s be universally loved? Dissonant chirping, rudimentary... 

Hammer Readings: TC Boyle

Books: Reading

TC Boyle

Tuesday 11/11 @ Hammer Museum

The Big Lebowski may be TC Boyle's favorite film, but he clearly hasn't taken the Dude's work ethic to... 

Spindrift Record Release

Music

Spindrift

Tuesday 11/11 @ The Roxy Theatre

Inspired by the Doors' spacious soundscapes and Ennio Morricone's stylized narratives, Spindrift are at the forefront of "the new West." Making... 

Creative Commons Salon feat. Dublab and Lucas Gonze

Conferences

Creative Commons Salon

Tuesday 11/11 @ Found Gallery

Creative Commons is at the forefront of the progressive copyright movement, seeking arrangements that allow the free flow of artistry and... 

Ongoing Events

P-Jay Fidler and Jason Houchen

Art

P-Jay Fidler and Jason Houchen

Tuesday 11/11 @ La Luz de Jesus

Art Center alum P-Jay Fidler's works reflect a heady amalgam of artistic influences, including naturalism, surrealism, popular illustration, and modern graphic... 

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

Art

Mark Bradford

Tuesday 11/11 @ 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... 

Cindy Wright

Art

Cindy Wright

Tuesday 11/11 @ Mark Moore Gallery

Influenced by Dutch vanitas of the 16th and 17th centuries, Belgian artist Cindy Wright creates excruciatingly detailed, large-scale portraits and still-lifes... 

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

Art

Wolfgang Tillmans

Tuesday 11/11 @ Regen Projects

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

Mear One: <em>Mearasma</em>

Art

Mear One

Tuesday 11/11 @ 01 Gallery

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

City Gems

Scribble Press

Tuesday 11/11 @ Scribble Press

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

Sasha Bezzubov & Jessica Sucher: <em>The Searchers</em>

Art

Sasha Bezzubov & Jessica Sucher

Tuesday 11/11 @ Taylor De Cordoba Gallery

In the '60s and '70s, the Beatles led an exuberant parade East, inspiring throngs of Westerners to follow in a search... 

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

Art

Gordy Grundy

Tuesday 11/11 @ Western Project

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

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

Art

Martin Kersels

Tuesday 11/11 @ 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 Dean Veca: <em>Phantasmagoria</em>

Art

Mark Dean Veca

Tuesday 11/11 @ 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... 

<em>Xanadu</em>

Theatre

Xanadu

Tuesday 11/11 @ La Jolla Playhouse

When it comes to '80s nostalgia, Olivia Newton-John guilty-pleasure juggernaut Xanadu has it all: leg-warmers, roller skates, blue eye shadow, men... 

Hans Burkhardt: Paintings of the 1960s

Art

Hans Burkhardt

Tuesday 11/11 @ 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... 

Jennifer Vanderpool: <em>Hysterical Paradise</em>

Art

Jennifer Vanderpool

Tuesday 11/11 @ Bandini Art

Overtaking every nook and cranny of Bandini Art's box space — including the ceiling — Jennifer Vanderpool's recent, large-scale installation features... 

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

Art: Photography

In Focus: The Landscape

Tuesday 11/11 @ 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... 

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

Art

Bob Zoell

Tuesday 11/11 @ Wal-Art

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

<em>Spring Awakening</em>

Theatre

Spring Awakening

Tuesday 11/11 @ Ahmanson Theatre

It's easy to see why Spring Awakening snagged eight Tony Awards last year, marking what has been heralded as the new... 

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

Art: Photography

War as a Way of Life

Tuesday 11/11 @ 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... 

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

Art

Linda Besemer

Tuesday 11/11 @ Angles Gallery

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

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

Art

CUT: Makings of Removal

Tuesday 11/11 @ 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... 

<em>Plush</em>

Art

Plush

Tuesday 11/11 @ Eagle Rock Center for the Arts

Eagle Rock Center for the Arts' new group show, Plush, uses sculpture, video, and drawing to explore the excesses of the... 

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

Art

Richard Amend and Christopher Martin Hoff

Tuesday 11/11 @ Lawrence Asher Gallery

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

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

Art

Eddy Sykes

Tuesday 11/11 @ Materials & Applications

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

Scott Belcastro, Jill Simonsen, and Nate Frizzell

Art

Scott Belcastro, Jill Simonsen, and Nate Frizzell

Tuesday 11/11 @ Cerasoli-LeBasse Gallery

Project: gallery and Cerasoli join forces, merging their programs for the kind of no-brow urban romanticism that made LA famous. Scott... 

Josh Dorman, Carol Es, and Julie Speed

Art

Josh Dorman, Carol Es, and Julie Speed

Tuesday 11/11 @ 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... 

<em>The School of Night</em>

Theatre

The School of Night

Tuesday 11/11 @ Mark Taper Forum

Peter Whelan's latest work, The School of Night, cleverly glides between the modes of traditional murder mystery and avant-garde theatre. As... 

Neal Spector: <em>Labels</em>

Art: Photography

Neal Spector

Tuesday 11/11 @ 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... 

Robert Glenn Ketchum

Art: Photography

Robert Glenn Ketchum

Tuesday 11/11 @ 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... 

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

Special Event

Nicole Cohen

Tuesday 11/11 @ The Getty Center

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

George Stoll: <em>sacred and profane</em>

Art

George Stoll

Tuesday 11/11 @ Lightbox Gallery

In sacred and profane, Los Angeles-based artist George Stoll expands upon his traditional examination of everyday Americana. Objects such as his... 

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

Art: Photography

Grace Oh

Tuesday 11/11 @ 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.... 

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

Art

Josh Dorman

Tuesday 11/11 @ 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 11/11 @ Sandroni Rey

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

<em>Pour Me Some Smoke</em>

Art

Pour Me Some Smoke

Tuesday 11/11 @ Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art

Carmichael Gallery assembles an international gang of five figurative painters whose obsessive magic realism reads like an alt-culture Forum Gallery exhibition.... 

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

Art

Marco Brambilla

Tuesday 11/11 @ 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 11/11 @ 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 11/11 @ 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...