Events on Wednesday, November 26
Wednesday 11/26 @ The Roxy Theatre
From the masterminds of the hugely successful HARD Haunted Mansion and HARD Summer Fest comes another outrageous festival, Turkey Soup. On...
Wednesday 11/26 @ The Hotel Café
While up to 19 members have been known to circulate in and out, Shara Worden remains the driving force behind indie-rock...
Wednesday 11/26 @ The Bell Tower
The tenth-annual Thanks Givends benefit concert packs a warehouse with 20+ DJs and a range of art rooms. The roster is...
Wednesday 11/26 @ Royal/T
Yakuza new-wave noir hijacks Royal/T tonight in a screening of the ex-con thriller Afraid to Die. Influenced by Antonioni, Fellini, and...
Wednesday 11/26 @ Ecco
Before you stuff yourself so full of fixings that getting off the couch, much less dancing, becomes impossible, head out to...
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 11/26 @ 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 11/26 @ 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...
David McDonald, Annie Wharton, and Jason David
Wednesday 11/26 @ Jail Gallery
Essentially three concurrent solo shows, this trio of installations by LA artists shares impulses ranging from gentle mockery to intellectualized deconstruction,...
Wednesday 11/26 @ Angles Gallery
Linda Besemer produces the kind of art that provokes people to solve the mystery of how she does it. Without divulging...
Wednesday 11/26 @ 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 11/26 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/26 @ 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 11/26 @ 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 11/26 @ 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 11/26 @ 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 11/26 @ 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 11/26 @ 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 11/26 @ 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 11/26 @ 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 11/26 @ 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 11/26 @ 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 11/26 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/26 @ Quiksilver SiteLA
True to its name, the Sumi Ink Club is a drawing collective that encourages autodidacts to explore the miracles of sumi...
Scott Belcastro, Jill Simonsen, and Nate Frizzell
Wednesday 11/26 @ 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 11/26 @ 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 11/26 @ 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 11/26 @ 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 11/26 @ 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 11/26 @ The Company
The economy be damned: amid a spate of gallery closings, it's still full speed ahead for the fearless founders of the...
Wednesday 11/26 @ Sandroni Rey
Fascinated by homo-eroticism and inspired by mythology and classic fiction, Miami painter Hernan Bas' tableaux present an enchanted world of roaming...
Wednesday 11/26 @ 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 11/26 @ 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 11/26 @ 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 11/26 @ 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 11/26 @ 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 11/26 @ Western Project
The Fellowship of Fortuna (and its "messenger," LA painter and media artist Gordy Grundy) takes up residence on Western Project's website...
Bob Baker presents The Nutcracker
Wednesday 11/26 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/26 @ 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,...
Wednesday 11/26 @ Regen Projects
Wolfgang Tillmans is like the Madonna of the art world: never afraid to change directions, reinvent himself, or throw in a...
Sasha Bezzubov & Jessica Sucher
Wednesday 11/26 @ 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 11/26 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/26 @ New Image Art
San Diego artist Kelsey Brookes' recent work resembles the slashed daydreams of a flower child: bright swathes of colors splash onto...
P-Jay Fidler and Jason Houchen
Wednesday 11/26 @ 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 11/26 @ Pharmaka
Berlin has always been notorious for cultivating the avant garde, but its conceptual art scene has flourished since the fall of...
Wednesday 11/26 @ 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 11/26 @ 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 11/26 @ 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 11/26 @ 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 11/26 @ 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 11/26 @ 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 11/26 @ 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 11/26 @ Scribble Press
Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with...
Wednesday 11/26 @ 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 11/26 @ 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 11/26 @ Materials & Applications
First, there were robot maids, robot pets, and robot vacuums. Now, there are robot gardens. The technical specifications for Materials &...
