Events on Wednesday, December 3

Sebastien Tellier w/ Hearts Revolution
Month_12 Wednesday Day_03
Music: Rock/Pop
Sebastien Tellier
@ Music Box at the Fonda Theater
A club superstar for the American Apparel set, French popster Sebastien Tellier toes the line between bangin' electroclash and unrepentant new...  View details »
Ladies Lotto Charity Water Benefit
Month_12 Wednesday Day_03
More Flavor: Benefit
Ladies Lotto Charity Water Benefit
@ Royal/T
Without clean water, there can be no life. Although international efforts have made some progress, great swathes of Africa still struggle...  View details »

Ongoing Events

Ismail Farouk: <em>Cancelled Without Prejudice</em>
Month_12 Wednesday Day_03
Art
Ismail Farouk
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Fortuna Rising: Gordy Grundy is the Messenger</em>
Month_12 Thursday Day_04
Art
Gordy Grundy
@ Western Project
The Fellowship of Fortuna (and its "messenger," LA painter and media artist Gordy Grundy) takes up residence on Western Project's website...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Month_12 Wednesday Day_03
More Flavor: City Gem
Scribble Press
@ Scribble Press
Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with...  View details »
Ongoing
David McDonald: <em>Minor Monuments</em>, Annie Wharton: <em>Pungent Glimmer</em>, and Jason David: <em>Hubris Cream</em>
Month_12 Wednesday Day_03
Art
David McDonald, Annie Wharton, and Jason David
@ Jail Gallery
Essentially three concurrent solo shows, this trio of installations by LA artists shares impulses ranging from gentle mockery to intellectualized deconstruction,...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>The Art of War: American Posters from WWI and WWII</em>
Month_12 Wednesday Day_03
Art
The Art of War
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Nicole Cohen: <em>Please Be Seated</em>
Month_12 Wednesday Day_03
Art: Discussion
Nicole Cohen
@ The Getty Center
Nicole Cohen engineers recombinant layers of still and video imagery, investigating the network of associations that interior spaces contain. Also, she...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>The Little Dog Laughed</em>
Month_12 Thursday Day_04
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Little Dog Laughed
@ Kirk Douglas Theatre
Hollywood and homophobia share the bill in The Little Dog Laughed, a comedy about Tinseltown hypocrisy and the veil of lies...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>War as a Way of Life</em>
Month_12 Wednesday Day_03
Art: Photography
War as a Way of Life
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Hernan Bas
Month_12 Wednesday Day_03
Art
Hernan Bas
@ Sandroni Rey
Fascinated by homo-eroticism and inspired by mythology and classic fiction, Miami painter Hernan Bas' tableaux present an enchanted world of roaming...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>The School of Night</em>
Month_12 Wednesday Day_03
Performing Arts: Theatre
The School of Night
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Cindy Wright
Month_12 Wednesday Day_03
Art
Cindy Wright
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free Flavorpill 50
Maynard James Keenan Wine Tasting & Bottle Signing
Month_12 Wednesday Day_03
More Flavor: Food/Wine
Maynard James Keenan
@ Various locations
Brainy prog-rock demigod Maynard James Keenan has gone from fronting Tool, A Perfect Circle, and Puscifer to his latest, somewhat quieter...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
George Stoll: <em>sacred and profane</em>
Month_12 Wednesday Day_03
Art
George Stoll
@ Lightbox Gallery
In sacred and profane, Los Angeles-based artist George Stoll expands upon his traditional examination of everyday Americana. Objects such as his...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Cole Case: <em>When We Did Believe in Magic and We Didn't Die</em>
Month_12 Wednesday Day_03
Art
Cole Case
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Plush</em>
Month_12 Wednesday Day_03
Art
Plush
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>CUT: Makings of Removal</em>
Month_12 Wednesday Day_03
Art
CUT: Makings of Removal
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Within Four Miles: The World of Josh Dorman</em>
Month_12 Wednesday Day_03
Art
Josh Dorman
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Eddy Sykes: <em>Yakuza Lou</em>
Month_12 Thursday Day_04
Art: Architecture/Design
Eddy Sykes
@ Materials & Applications
First, there were robot maids, robot pets, and robot vacuums. Now, there are robot gardens. The technical specifications for Materials &...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
William Hundley: <em>Draco</em>
Month_12 Wednesday Day_03
Art: Photography
William Hundley
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Human Resources</em>
Month_12 Wednesday Day_03
Art
Human Resources
@ The Company
The economy be damned: amid a spate of gallery closings, it's still full speed ahead for the fearless founders of the...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Marcel Duchamp Redux </em>
Month_12 Wednesday Day_03
Art
Marcel Duchamp Redux
@ Norton Simon Museum
This year marks the 45th anniversary of By or of Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Sélavy, the famous Marcel Duchamp retrospective at...  View details »
Ongoing
The Bob Baker Marionette Theater presents <em>The Nutcracker</em>
Month_12 Wednesday Day_03
Performing Arts: Puppetry
Bob Baker presents The Nutcracker
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Spring Awakening</em>
Month_12 Thursday Day_04
Performing Arts: Theatre
Spring Awakening
@ Ahmanson Theatre
It's easy to see why Spring Awakening snagged eight Tony Awards last year, marking what has been heralded as the new...  View details »
Ongoing
Vermeer's <em>A Lady Writing</em>
Month_12 Wednesday Day_03
Art
Vermeer's A Lady Writing
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Mark Dean Veca: <em>Phantasmagoria</em>
Month_12 Wednesday Day_03
Art
Mark Dean Veca
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Month_12 Wednesday Day_03
Performing Arts: Dance
David Gordon
@ REDCAT
A founding artist in the Judson Dance Theater, David Gordon has left his fingerprints all over the canon of contemporary dance,...  View details »
Ongoing
Flavorpill 50
Wolfgang Tillmans: <em>half page</em>
Month_12 Wednesday Day_03
Art
Wolfgang Tillmans
@ Regen Projects
Wolfgang Tillmans is like the Madonna of the art world: never afraid to change directions, reinvent himself, or throw in a...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Xanadu</em>
Month_12 Wednesday Day_03
Performing Arts: Theatre
Xanadu
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Sasha Bezzubov & Jessica Sucher: <em>The Searchers</em>
Month_12 Wednesday Day_03
Art
Sasha Bezzubov & Jessica Sucher
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Tango with Cows: Book Art of the Russian Avant-Garde</em>
Month_12 Wednesday Day_03
Art
Tango with Cows: Book Art of the Russian Avant-Garde
@ The Getty Center
In Tango with Cows, the Getty Research Institute presents a concentrated display of unabridged books published in Russia between 1910 and...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Silver Seduction: The Art of Mexican Modernist Antonio Pineda</em>
Month_12 Wednesday Day_03
More Flavor: Fashion
Antonio Pineda
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Ed Templeton: <em>Map of the Inner War</em> and Matt Leines: <em>The Great Gates of Zenith</em>
Month_12 Wednesday Day_03
Art
Ed Templeton and Matt Leines
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Martin Kersels: <em>Heavyweight Champion</em>
Month_12 Wednesday Day_03
Art
Martin Kersels
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Flavorpill 50
Mark Bradford: <em>Help Us</em>
Month_12 Thursday Day_04
Art
Mark Bradford
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Enrique Mart&iacute;nez Celaya: <em>Daybreak</em>
Month_12 Wednesday Day_03
Art
Enrique Martínez Celaya
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Mear One: <em>Mearasma</em>
Month_12 Wednesday Day_03
Art
Mear One
@ 01 Gallery
Very few painters can swing the brush with the technical wizardry of LA native Mear One. Returning to the place where...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
2008 California Biennial
Month_12 Wednesday Day_03
Art
2008 California Biennial
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>In It Together</em>
Month_12 Thursday Day_04
Art
In It Together
@ 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!...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>All of This is Melting Away</em>
Month_12 Wednesday Day_03
Art
All of This is Melting Away
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Black Market at Black Maria: Skip the Mall
Month_12 Wednesday Day_03
Art
Skip the Mall
@ 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,...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Deborah Aschheim and Lisa Mezzacappa: <em>Earworms</em>
Month_12 Wednesday Day_03
Art: Discussion
Earworms
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>In Focus: The Landscape</em>
Month_12 Wednesday Day_03
Art: Photography
In Focus: The Landscape
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Zero Film Festival
Month_12 Thursday Day_04
Film: Festival
Zero Film Festival
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Linda Besemer: <em>Sine, Sine, Everywhere a Sine</em>
Month_12 Wednesday Day_03
Art
Linda Besemer
@ Angles Gallery
Linda Besemer produces the kind of art that provokes people to solve the mystery of how she does it. Without divulging...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Carmen</em>
Month_12 Wednesday Day_03
Performing Arts: Opera
Carmen
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Jennifer Vanderpool: <em>Hysterical Paradise</em>
Month_12 Wednesday Day_03
Art
Jennifer Vanderpool
@ Bandini Art
Overtaking every nook and cranny of Bandini Art's box space — including the ceiling — Jennifer Vanderpool's recent, large-scale installation features...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Hans Burkhardt: Paintings of the 1960s
Month_12 Wednesday Day_03
Art
Hans Burkhardt
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Kelsey Brookes
Month_12 Wednesday Day_03
Art
Kelsey Brookes
@ New Image Art
San Diego artist Kelsey Brookes' recent work resembles the slashed daydreams of a flower child: bright swathes of colors splash onto...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Holly Coulis:<em> Men</em>
Month_12 Wednesday Day_03
Art
Holly Coulis
@ Cherry and Martin
Whatever outfit they sport, leisurely activity they pursue, or unearthly landscape they inhabit, Coulis' men are never revealed as themselves (and...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Mexican Calendar Girls</em>
Month_12 Wednesday Day_03
Art
Mexican Calendar Girls
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Michael Kenna: <em>Recent Photographs</em> and Pam Posey: <em>Timber</em>
Month_12 Wednesday Day_03
Art: Photography
Michael Kenna and Pam Posey
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Which Way Berlin </em>-<em> L.A.?</em>
Month_12 Wednesday Day_03
Art
Which Way Berlin - L.A.?
@ Pharmaka
Berlin has always been notorious for cultivating the avant garde, but its conceptual art scene has flourished since the fall of...  View details »
Ongoing
Free