Events on Wednesday, November 12

The Los Angeles Conservancy's 30th Anniversary Celebration: An Evening with Richard Moe

Special Event

An Evening with Richard Moe

Wednesday 11/12 @ LA Center Studios

On this 30th anniversary celebration of the Los Angeles Conservancy, President of the National Trust for Historic Preservation Richard Moe discusses... 

Lupe Fiasco w/ Hey Champ

Music: Hip-Hop

Lupe Fiasco

Wednesday 11/12 @ Nokia Theatre LA Live

Chicago's Lupe Fiasco hits LA tonight with his manicured, brainy hip-hop. He first came on the mainstream scene in 2006 with... 

Dungen w/ Women and Life on Earth

Music

Dungen

Wednesday 11/12 @ The Echo & Echoplex

Swedish psych-pop imports Dungen recall a past era where experimental musicians weren't afraid to swirl their instruments simply for the sake... 

Ongoing Events

<em>LA25 Half-Life</em>

Art

LA25 Half-Life

Wednesday 11/12 @ 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... 

P-Jay Fidler and Jason Houchen

Art

P-Jay Fidler and Jason Houchen

Wednesday 11/12 @ 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

Wednesday 11/12 @ 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>Which Way Berlin </em>-<em> L.A.?</em>

Art

Which Way Berlin - L.A.?

Wednesday 11/12 @ Pharmaka

Berlin has always been notorious for cultivating the avant garde, but its conceptual art scene has flourished since the fall of... 

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

Art: Photography

War as a Way of Life

Wednesday 11/12 @ 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>Marcel Duchamp Redux </em>

Art

Marcel Duchamp Redux

Wednesday 11/12 @ Norton Simon Museum

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

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

Art

Wolfgang Tillmans

Wednesday 11/12 @ Regen Projects

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

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

Art

Robbie Conal

Wednesday 11/12 @ Track 16 Gallery

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

City Gems

Scribble Press

Wednesday 11/12 @ Scribble Press

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

<em>Pour Me Some Smoke</em>

Art

Pour Me Some Smoke

Wednesday 11/12 @ 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.... 

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

Art

Bob Zoell

Wednesday 11/12 @ Wal-Art

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

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

Art

Gordy Grundy

Wednesday 11/12 @ 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>Silver Seduction: The Art of Mexican Modernist Antonio Pineda</em>

Fashion/Style

Antonio Pineda

Wednesday 11/12 @ 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... 

<em>Mexican Calendar Girls</em>

Art

Mexican Calendar Girls

Wednesday 11/12 @ 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... 

Mear One: <em>Mearasma</em>

Art

Mear One

Wednesday 11/12 @ 01 Gallery

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

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

Art

Mark Dean Veca

Wednesday 11/12 @ 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... 

Robert Glenn Ketchum

Art: Photography

Robert Glenn Ketchum

Wednesday 11/12 @ 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... 

Hans Burkhardt: Paintings of the 1960s

Art

Hans Burkhardt

Wednesday 11/12 @ 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>The School of Night</em>

Theatre

The School of Night

Wednesday 11/12 @ 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... 

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

Art

Sasha Bezzubov & Jessica Sucher

Wednesday 11/12 @ 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>In Focus: The Landscape</em>

Art: Photography

In Focus: The Landscape

Wednesday 11/12 @ 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... 

Sumi Ink Club

Art

Sumi Ink Club

Wednesday 11/12 @ Quiksilver SiteLA

True to its name, the Sumi Ink Club is a drawing collective that encourages autodidacts to explore the miracles of sumi... 

2008 California Biennial

Art

2008 California Biennial

Wednesday 11/12 @ Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach

The 2008 installment of the California Biennial should come with an anxiety-attack warning label. In a way, it does, with Patrick... 

<em>Spring Awakening</em>

Theatre

Spring Awakening

Wednesday 11/12 @ 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>Analytic & Synthetic Pile-Up</em>

Art

Analytic & Synthetic Pile-Up

Wednesday 11/12 @ Woodbury Hollywood Exhibitions

Woodbury University goes Hollywood — or at least goes to Hollywood — by inaugurating its new off-campus gallery space with Analytic... 

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

Art

Josh Dorman

Wednesday 11/12 @ 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... 

Vermeer's <em>A Lady Writing</em>

Art

Vermeer's A Lady Writing

Wednesday 11/12 @ Norton Simon Museum

It's not often that Angelenos have the chance to examine an original painting by Dutch Baroque master Johannes Vermeer. His surviving... 

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

Art

Linda Besemer

Wednesday 11/12 @ Angles Gallery

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

<em>Surface Sounding</em>

Art

Surface Sounding

Wednesday 11/12 @ See Line Gallery

Any viewer beholding Surface Sounding without background information would likely believe all the art was selected by a single gatekeeper, so... 

<em>Plush</em>

Art

Plush

Wednesday 11/12 @ 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... 

<em>Xanadu</em>

Theatre

Xanadu

Wednesday 11/12 @ 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... 

Holly Coulis:<em> Men</em>

Art

Holly Coulis

Wednesday 11/12 @ Cherry and Martin

Whatever outfit they sport, leisurely activity they pursue, or unearthly landscape they inhabit, Coulis' men are never revealed as themselves (and... 

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

Art

Eddy Sykes

Wednesday 11/12 @ Materials & Applications

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

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

Art

The Art of War

Wednesday 11/12 @ 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... 

Scott Belcastro, Jill Simonsen, and Nate Frizzell

Art

Scott Belcastro, Jill Simonsen, and Nate Frizzell

Wednesday 11/12 @ 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... 

Linda Day and Cristi Rinklin

Art

Linda Day and Cristi Rinklin

Wednesday 11/12 @ Jancar Gallery

The works of LA painters Linda Day and Cristi Rinklin treat pattern as a malleable, organic thing that doesn't require symmetry... 

Cindy Wright

Art

Cindy Wright

Wednesday 11/12 @ 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... 

Josh Dorman, Carol Es, and Julie Speed

Art

Josh Dorman, Carol Es, and Julie Speed

Wednesday 11/12 @ 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... 

Neal Spector: <em>Labels</em>

Art: Photography

Neal Spector

Wednesday 11/12 @ 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... 

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

Art

Richard Amend and Christopher Martin Hoff

Wednesday 11/12 @ Lawrence Asher Gallery

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

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

Special Event

Nicole Cohen

Wednesday 11/12 @ The Getty Center

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

Kelsey Brookes

Art

Kelsey Brookes

Wednesday 11/12 @ New Image Art

San Diego artist Kelsey Brookes' recent work resembles the slashed daydreams of a flower child: bright swathes of colors splash onto... 

Ismail Farouk: <em>Cancelled Without Prejudice</em>

Art

Ismail Farouk

Wednesday 11/12 @ MAK Center for Art and Architecture

Johannesburg-based urban geographer and artist Ismail Farouk offers a multimedia overview of his recent work in the second installment of the... 

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

Art: Photography

Grace Oh

Wednesday 11/12 @ 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>CUT: Makings of Removal</em>

Art

CUT: Makings of Removal

Wednesday 11/12 @ 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... 

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

Art

Martin Kersels

Wednesday 11/12 @ 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... 

Deborah Aschheim and Lisa Mezzacappa: <em>Earworms</em>

Special Event

Earworms

Wednesday 11/12 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art

PMCA's Project Room is transformed into a beguiling labyrinth, addressing the elusiveness of memory and the neurobiological basis of thought, via... 

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

Art

Anthony Goicolea

Wednesday 11/12 @ Sandroni Rey

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

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

Art

Jennifer Vanderpool

Wednesday 11/12 @ Bandini Art

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

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

Art

Marco Brambilla

Wednesday 11/12 @ 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... 

UCLA Live's International Theatre Festival: Robert Lepage/Ex Machina: <em>The Blue Dragon</em>

Theatre

Robert Lepage/Ex Machina

Wednesday 11/12 @ Freud Playhouse

Versed in virtually every aspect of theatrical design, direction, performance, and writing, Robert Lepage is one of the world's most dynamic... 

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

Art

George Stoll

Wednesday 11/12 @ Lightbox Gallery

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

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

Art

All of This is Melting Away

Wednesday 11/12 @ 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...