Events on Wednesday, November 19
Wednesday 11/19 @ Egyptian Theatre
As Proposition 8 continues to divide California, France offers its decade-old take on gay and gender-identity issues. Ma vie en rose...
Wednesday 11/19 @ The Smell
Stuff your ears full of toilet paper and prepare to test your musical mettle: Montreal indie institution AIDS Wolf are touring...
Wednesday 11/19 @ Zanzibar
Serving music-forward tunes to a laid back Westside crowd, tonight's Tighten Up party imports West London (by way of New Zealand)...
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 11/19 @ Woodbury Hollywood Exhibitions
Woodbury University goes Hollywood — or at least goes to Hollywood — by inaugurating its new off-campus gallery space with Analytic...
Wednesday 11/19 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/19 @ 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 11/19 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/19 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/19 @ Bandini Art
Overtaking every nook and cranny of Bandini Art's box space — including the ceiling — Jennifer Vanderpool's recent, large-scale installation features...
Wednesday 11/19 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/19 @ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
Bizet's Carmen isn't just known for its ferociously popular femme fatale but also for its transformation of opera comique into a...
Wednesday 11/19 @ Lightbox Gallery
In sacred and profane, Los Angeles-based artist George Stoll expands upon his traditional examination of everyday Americana. Objects such as his...
Wednesday 11/19 @ 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
Wednesday 11/19 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/19 @ Ahmanson Theatre
It's easy to see why Spring Awakening snagged eight Tony Awards last year, marking what has been heralded as the new...
Wednesday 11/19 @ Jancar Gallery
The works of LA painters Linda Day and Cristi Rinklin treat pattern as a malleable, organic thing that doesn't require symmetry...
Wednesday 11/19 @ 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...
David McDonald, Annie Wharton, and Jason David
Wednesday 11/19 @ Jail Gallery
Essentially three concurrent solo shows, this trio of installations by LA artists shares impulses ranging from gentle mockery to intellectualized deconstruction,...
Wednesday 11/19 @ Regen Projects
Wolfgang Tillmans is like the Madonna of the art world: never afraid to change directions, reinvent himself, or throw in a...
Wednesday 11/19 @ Track 16 Gallery
Even Robbie Conal's most fervent admirers tend to see his work primarily through their car windows. His trademark posters — featuring...
Wednesday 11/19 @ Scribble Press
Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with...
Wednesday 11/19 @ 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....
Wednesday 11/19 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/19 @ Materials & Applications
First, there were robot maids, robot pets, and robot vacuums. Now, there are robot gardens. The technical specifications for Materials &...
Wednesday 11/19 @ 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 11/19 @ Tinlark Gallery
In It Together is the meta-title for a pair of simultaneous collaborative exhibitions: Matthew Rodriguez and Nicholas Bohac's Drill, Baby, Drill!...
Wednesday 11/19 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/19 @ 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...
Tango with Cows: Book Art of the Russian Avant-Garde
Wednesday 11/19 @ The Getty Center
In Tango with Cows, the Getty Research Institute presents a concentrated display of unabridged books published in Russia between 1910 and...
Wednesday 11/19 @ Freud Playhouse
Versed in virtually every aspect of theatrical design, direction, performance, and writing, Robert Lepage is one of the world's most dynamic...
Sasha Bezzubov & Jessica Sucher
Wednesday 11/19 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/19 @ 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 11/19 @ Quiksilver SiteLA
True to its name, the Sumi Ink Club is a drawing collective that encourages autodidacts to explore the miracles of sumi...
P-Jay Fidler and Jason Houchen
Wednesday 11/19 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/19 @ 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....
Wednesday 11/19 @ Pharmaka
Berlin has always been notorious for cultivating the avant garde, but its conceptual art scene has flourished since the fall of...
Wednesday 11/19 @ 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 11/19 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/19 @ Angles Gallery
Linda Besemer produces the kind of art that provokes people to solve the mystery of how she does it. Without divulging...
Wednesday 11/19 @ See Line Gallery
Any viewer beholding Surface Sounding without background information would likely believe all the art was selected by a single gatekeeper, so...
Wednesday 11/19 @ Cherry and Martin
Whatever outfit they sport, leisurely activity they pursue, or unearthly landscape they inhabit, Coulis' men are never revealed as themselves (and...
Wednesday 11/19 @ 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 11/19 @ 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 11/19 @ Roberts & Tilton Gallery
In this pairing of one-man exhibitions, Roberts + Tilton's new Culver City digs unleashes an ocean of dense artistic detail. Matt...
Wednesday 11/19 @ Kirk Douglas Theatre
Hollywood and homophobia share the bill in The Little Dog Laughed, a comedy about Tinseltown hypocrisy and the veil of lies...
Wednesday 11/19 @ 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 11/19 @ 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 11/19 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/19 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/19 @ Mr. Musichead Gallery
The cover art of Jimi Hendrix's debut album, Are You Experienced?, is just as memorable as the guitar pyrotechnics inside. Using...
Wednesday 11/19 @ 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 11/19 @ New Image Art
San Diego artist Kelsey Brookes' recent work resembles the slashed daydreams of a flower child: bright swathes of colors splash onto...
Wednesday 11/19 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/19 @ Western Project
The Fellowship of Fortuna (and its "messenger," LA painter and media artist Gordy Grundy) takes up residence on Western Project's website...
