Events on Wednesday, November 5
Collecting Contemporary: Urban Art
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ Bonhams & Butterfields
Tonight, Seth Carmichael of the Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art moderates Collecting Contemporary: Urban Art, a panel discussion with Shepard Fairey,...
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ Savoy Entertainment Center
The mood of this month's Flypoet — LA's most famously exuberant hip-hop, indie-soul, and spoken-word showcase — depends a great deal...
Blackest of the Black feat. Danzig
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ Gibson Amphitheatre
This celebration of dark, mirthless metal is not for the faint of heart — or weak of ears. Glenn Danzig's eponymous...
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Apollo [Part 3]: Liberation (a work in progress)
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ Bovard Auditorium
The Critical Mass performance group has never shied away from ambitious works. Particularly favoring pieces that gestate and morph over time,...
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ Roberts & Tilton Gallery
Hana wa no ni aruyouni (Flowers as they are in the field) is Japanese artist Ai Yamaguchi's second solo exhibition at...
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ Scribble Press
Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with...
Asad Faulwell and Annie Buckley
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ Carl Berg Gallery
This Miracle Mile-situated gallery's latest exhibition joins two artists with radically different approaches to the aesthetic of assemblage. Asad Faulwell, recent...
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum
Although our neighbor to the north is typically known for its stellar views and celebrity mansions, Santa Barbara has a stash...
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ Billy Shire Fine Arts
For her second exhibition at Culver City's Billy Shire Fine Arts, Santa Monica-based artist Miriam Wosk once again creates her trademark...
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ 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
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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...
Sasha Bezzubov & Jessica Sucher
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ Western Project
The Fellowship of Fortuna (and its "messenger," LA painter and media artist Gordy Grundy) takes up residence on Western Project's website...
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ Paper Mag Pop-Up Space
Fashion capitals collide as Paper magazine returns to the City of Angels for its 4th Annual Los Angeles Project. This week,...
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ Sandroni Rey
Anthony Goicolea let his family albums guide his latest exhibition, Related III. The Cuban artist's photographs, drawings, and installations are spun...
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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...
Richard Amend and Christopher Martin Hoff
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ Lawrence Asher Gallery
Considering the precision and mastery of detail in the work of Richard Amend and Christopher Martin Hoff, it should come as...
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ Jail Gallery
Christopher Pate is interested in the relationship between maps and landscapes, as well as the broader discourse between the real quality...
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ Steve Turner Contemporary
Steve Turner Contemporary on the Miracle Mile lets its hair down this month, showing new work by James Gobel, portraying portly,...
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ Cardwell Jimmerson Contemporary Art
New landscapes and seascapes from LA-based painter Takako Yamaguchi combine the stylized organic geometry of op art with the sensual smoothness...
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ Materials & Applications
First, there were robot maids, robot pets, and robot vacuums. Now, there are robot gardens. The technical specifications for Materials &...
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ Arclight Hollywood
The AFI Fest continues its yearly assault on the Arclight with a truly impressive lineup for 2008. Among the highlights are...
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ DF2
Chinese-born Yin Zhaoyang didn't have to look too far for inspiration when creating the work in his latest show at DF2...
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ Richard Heller Gallery
Charlie Roberts is a consummate collector of images, with an organizational system resembling the interior of a Whitman's Sampler. He perceives...
Wednesday 11/ 5 @ 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....
