Events on Tuesday, December 2
Tuesday 12/ 2 @ The Troubadour
After censors forced him to remove his Obama shirt at a taping for the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, No...
Tuesday 12/ 2 @ The Silent Movie Theatre
Curated by Argentine Noel Palazzo, the Dot and the Line Festival strips animation to its elemental roots while simultaneously challenging the...
Ongoing Events
Bob Baker presents The Nutcracker
Tuesday 12/ 2 @ 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...
Tuesday 12/ 2 @ 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...
Tuesday 12/ 2 @ Regen Projects
Wolfgang Tillmans is like the Madonna of the art world: never afraid to change directions, reinvent himself, or throw in a...
Tuesday 12/ 2 @ 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...
Tuesday 12/ 2 @ 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...
Tuesday 12/ 2 @ Bandini Art
Overtaking every nook and cranny of Bandini Art's box space — including the ceiling — Jennifer Vanderpool's recent, large-scale installation features...
Tuesday 12/ 2 @ Various locations
Brainy prog-rock demigod Maynard James Keenan has gone from fronting Tool, A Perfect Circle, and Puscifer to his latest, somewhat quieter...
Tuesday 12/ 2 @ 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...
Tuesday 12/ 2 @ Kirk Douglas Theatre
Hollywood and homophobia share the bill in The Little Dog Laughed, a comedy about Tinseltown hypocrisy and the veil of lies...
Tuesday 12/ 2 @ 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...
Tango with Cows: Book Art of the Russian Avant-Garde
Tuesday 12/ 2 @ The Getty Center
In Tango with Cows, the Getty Research Institute presents a concentrated display of unabridged books published in Russia between 1910 and...
Tuesday 12/ 2 @ 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...
Tuesday 12/ 2 @ Scribble Press
Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with...
Tuesday 12/ 2 @ Lightbox Gallery
In sacred and profane, Los Angeles-based artist George Stoll expands upon his traditional examination of everyday Americana. Objects such as his...
Tuesday 12/ 2 @ Materials & Applications
First, there were robot maids, robot pets, and robot vacuums. Now, there are robot gardens. The technical specifications for Materials &...
Tuesday 12/ 2 @ 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...
Tuesday 12/ 2 @ 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!...
Tuesday 12/ 2 @ Angles Gallery
Linda Besemer produces the kind of art that provokes people to solve the mystery of how she does it. Without divulging...
Tuesday 12/ 2 @ 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...
Tuesday 12/ 2 @ 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,...
Tuesday 12/ 2 @ 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...
Tuesday 12/ 2 @ Ahmanson Theatre
It's easy to see why Spring Awakening snagged eight Tony Awards last year, marking what has been heralded as the new...
Tuesday 12/ 2 @ 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...
Tuesday 12/ 2 @ 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...
Tuesday 12/ 2 @ 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...
Sasha Bezzubov & Jessica Sucher
Tuesday 12/ 2 @ 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...
Tuesday 12/ 2 @ 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...
Tuesday 12/ 2 @ 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...
Tuesday 12/ 2 @ Echo Park Film Center
In a city where big budgets are often confused with big ideas, the first annual Zero Film Festival reminds us that...
Tuesday 12/ 2 @ Sandroni Rey
Fascinated by homo-eroticism and inspired by mythology and classic fiction, Miami painter Hernan Bas' tableaux present an enchanted world of roaming...
Tuesday 12/ 2 @ The Getty Center
Nicole Cohen engineers recombinant layers of still and video imagery, investigating the network of associations that interior spaces contain. Also, she...
Tuesday 12/ 2 @ 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...
Tuesday 12/ 2 @ Western Project
The Fellowship of Fortuna (and its "messenger," LA painter and media artist Gordy Grundy) takes up residence on Western Project's website...
