Events on Tuesday, December 9
Tuesday 12/ 9 @ Gibson Amphitheatre
While hip-hop and the holidays generally fit together about as well as Xmas lights and a desert cactus, you simply can't...
Stockhausen and the Music of the Future
Tuesday 12/ 9 @ Disney Concert Hall
Heralded as a pioneer of electronic and avant-garde music, German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen may not be a household name (despite his...
Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid
Tuesday 12/ 9 @ Skirball Cultural Center
After garnering multiple Academy Awards, occupying a spot in the top 100 grossing movies of all time, and being selected by...
Tuesday 12/ 9 @ The Echo & Echoplex
The members of Florida-cum-Baltimore-based band Wilderness have been working together for 11 years, and it shows in the maturity of their...
Digital Cabaret: Make It Funny
Tuesday 12/ 9 @ Tangier Lounge
Tangier Lounge's monthly Digital Cabaret event redefines the concept of modern dinner theater, updating classic nightclub entertainment for contemporary audiences. In...
Ongoing Events
Tuesday 12/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ The Getty Center
Nicole Cohen engineers recombinant layers of still and video imagery, investigating the network of associations that interior spaces contain. Also, she...
Sasha Bezzubov & Jessica Sucher
Tuesday 12/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ GOOD Space
Everyone wants to be a better person, but no one wants to forgo art, music, or great food in the process....
Bob Baker presents The Nutcracker
Tuesday 12/ 9 @ 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...
Tango with Cows: Book Art of the Russian Avant-Garde
Tuesday 12/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ Scribble Press
Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with...
Tuesday 12/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ Western Project
The Fellowship of Fortuna (and its "messenger," LA painter and media artist Gordy Grundy) takes up residence on Western Project's website...
Tuesday 12/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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...
Tuesday 12/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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...
Tuesday 12/ 9 @ Armory Center for the Arts
With At the Brewery Project: 1993-2007: the Finale, the Armory pays its respects to an LA art mainstay. For the past...
Tuesday 12/ 9 @ Materials & Applications
First, there were robot maids, robot pets, and robot vacuums. Now, there are robot gardens. The technical specifications for Materials &...
