Events on Tuesday, November 25

Indie 103.1 presents Check One Twosdays feat. Rosebuds, Jonah Ray, Lemon Sun, and Dazzler

Music

Rosebuds

Tuesday 11/25 @ The Echo & Echoplex

One of many bands causing a musical renaissance in Raleigh, NC, Rosebuds might be the most eclectic of the bunch; and... 

Deerhunter w/ Times New Viking

Music

Deerhunter

Tuesday 11/25 @ El Rey

Bradford Cox, the lanky frontman and curious creative force behind Deerhunter, has done it again. Upping the ante on their own... 

The Hold Steady w/ Drive-By Truckers

Music

The Hold Steady

Tuesday 11/25 @ The Wiltern

Brooklyn's the Hold Steady have come a long way from their roots in legendary Minneapolis indie-rock outfit LFTR PLLR. The self-declared... 

Ongoing Events

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

Art: Photography

War as a Way of Life

Tuesday 11/25 @ 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... 

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

Art

Mark Bradford

Tuesday 11/25 @ 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... 

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

Art

Linda Besemer

Tuesday 11/25 @ Angles Gallery

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

<em>Clowns!</em>

Art

Clowns!

Tuesday 11/25 @ Corey Helford Gallery

Culver City's Corey Helford Gallery teams up with London's StolenSpace Gallery to present Clowns!, a new way of looking at the... 

Michael Kenna: <em>Recent Photographs</em> and Pam Posey: <em>Timber</em>

Art: Photography

Michael Kenna and Pam Posey

Tuesday 11/25 @ Craig Krull Gallery

Photographer Michael Kenna is a technical whiz, a classicist with a flair for the dramatic. His sweeping black-and-white landscapes depict vistas... 

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

Art

Sasha Bezzubov & Jessica Sucher

Tuesday 11/25 @ 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

Tuesday 11/25 @ 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... 

Cole Case: <em>When We Did Believe in Magic and We Didn't Die</em>

Art

Cole Case

Tuesday 11/25 @ Western Project

A new series of paintings by LA-based Cole Case, When We Did Believe in Magic and We Didn't Die is best... 

<em>Spring Awakening</em>

Theatre

Spring Awakening

Tuesday 11/25 @ Ahmanson Theatre

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

Cindy Wright

Art

Cindy Wright

Tuesday 11/25 @ 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... 

<em>Xanadu</em>

Theatre

Xanadu

Tuesday 11/25 @ 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 11/25 @ 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... 

Robert Glenn Ketchum

Art: Photography

Robert Glenn Ketchum

Tuesday 11/25 @ 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... 

William Hundley: <em>Draco</em>

Art: Photography

William Hundley

Tuesday 11/25 @ Kinsey/DesForges Gallery

Austin-based photographer William Hundley's work intervenes in reality, harnessing his inner trickster with the yoke of labor-intensive production. His staged and... 

P-Jay Fidler and Jason Houchen

Art

P-Jay Fidler and Jason Houchen

Tuesday 11/25 @ 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... 

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

Art

All of This is Melting Away

Tuesday 11/25 @ 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... 

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

Art

Josh Dorman

Tuesday 11/25 @ 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... 

<em>In It Together</em>

Art

In It Together

Tuesday 11/25 @ 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!... 

Hernan Bas

Art

Hernan Bas

Tuesday 11/25 @ Sandroni Rey

Fascinated by homo-eroticism and inspired by mythology and classic fiction, Miami painter Hernan Bas' tableaux present an enchanted world of roaming... 

Mear One: <em>Mearasma</em>

Art

Mear One

Tuesday 11/25 @ 01 Gallery

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

<em>Plush</em>

Art

Plush

Tuesday 11/25 @ 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... 

Karl Ferris: <em>The Psychedelic Experience</em>

Art: Photography

Karl Ferris

Tuesday 11/25 @ 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... 

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

Special Event

Nicole Cohen

Tuesday 11/25 @ The Getty Center

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

Ed Templeton: <em>Map of the Inner War</em> and Matt Leines: <em>The Great Gates of Zenith</em>

Art

Ed Templeton and Matt Leines

Tuesday 11/25 @ 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... 

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

Art

Gordy Grundy

Tuesday 11/25 @ Western Project

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

The Bob Baker Marionette Theater presents <em>The Nutcracker</em>

Performing Arts: Puppetry

Bob Baker presents The Nutcracker

Tuesday 11/25 @ Bob Baker Marionette Theater

In the early '60s, Bob Baker and partner Alton Wood founded a marionette theater, establishing what has become the longest-running children's... 

<em>The School of Night</em>

Theatre

The School of Night

Tuesday 11/25 @ 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... 

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

Art

Wolfgang Tillmans

Tuesday 11/25 @ Regen Projects

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

Black Market at Black Maria: Skip the Mall

Art

Skip the Mall

Tuesday 11/25 @ Black Maria Gallery

For the fourth year in a row, Atwater's Black Maria Gallery pursues a simple but powerful idea for the holiday season,... 

Enrique Mart&iacute;nez Celaya: <em>Daybreak</em>

Art

Enrique Martínez Celaya

Tuesday 11/25 @ LA Louver Gallery

Cuban-born artist Enrique Martinez Celaya's oil-and-wax paintings and mixed-media sculptures offer a rare combination of vigorous, pre-Raphaelite style and pensive, academic... 

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

Art

George Stoll

Tuesday 11/25 @ 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>Bronx Zoo</em>

Art

Bronx Zoo

Tuesday 11/25 @ Ghettogloss Presents: An art conglomerate on the move

Downtown's La Cita Bar has hosted Ghettogloss Gallery's Bronx Zoo each Saturday since the start of June, inspiring artists to render... 

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

Art

Martin Kersels

Tuesday 11/25 @ 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... 

<em>The Little Dog Laughed</em>

Theatre

The Little Dog Laughed

Tuesday 11/25 @ Kirk Douglas Theatre

Hollywood and homophobia share the bill in The Little Dog Laughed, a comedy about Tinseltown hypocrisy and the veil of lies... 

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

Art

Mark Dean Veca

Tuesday 11/25 @ 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>CUT: Makings of Removal</em>

Art

CUT: Makings of Removal

Tuesday 11/25 @ 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>Tango with Cows: Book Art of the Russian Avant-Garde</em>

Art

Tango with Cows: Book Art of the Russian Avant-Garde

Tuesday 11/25 @ The Getty Center

In Tango with Cows, the Getty Research Institute presents a concentrated display of unabridged books published in Russia between 1910 and... 

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

Art

Jennifer Vanderpool

Tuesday 11/25 @ Bandini Art

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

City Gems

Scribble Press

Tuesday 11/25 @ Scribble Press

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

Scott Belcastro, Jill Simonsen, and Nate Frizzell

Art

Scott Belcastro, Jill Simonsen, and Nate Frizzell

Tuesday 11/25 @ 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... 

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

Art

Eddy Sykes

Tuesday 11/25 @ Materials & Applications

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