Events on Wednesday, March 26

<em>Brasilintime </em>

Film

Brasilintime

Wednesday 3/26 @ Hammer Museum

Back in 2002, hip-hop photographer and music-video maestro B+ (aka Brian Cross) introduced LA's old-school session drummers to a bunch of... 

Chamber Music with Gustavo Dudamel

Music: Classical

Gustavo Dudamel

Wednesday 3/26 @ Disney Concert Hall

Just 27 years old and already one of the most exciting names (and faces) in contemporary classical music, Gustavo Dudamel performs... 

<em>Cruising </em>(1980)

Film

Cruising

Wednesday 3/26 @ Egyptian Theatre

Gay serial killers in film are always going to be a bit of a gamble. William Friedkin's 1980 feature Cruising was... 

Music: Classical

[SOLD OUT] Paul Potts

Wednesday 3/26 @ The Wiltern

A&R curmudgeon Simon Cowell has been known to dish out a compliment once every blue moon, one of which was aimed... 

Jessica Fichot w/ Ben Pringle, Brandon Mayer & the Hidden Powers

Music

Jessica Fichot

Wednesday 3/26 @ Tangier Restaurant

Jessica Fichot lives and works in LA, but her music is the result of an international cultural heritage spanning avant-garde cabaret,... 

Kaki King w/ Matt Sheehy

Music

Kaki King

Wednesday 3/26 @ The Roxy Theatre

Enigmatic guitarist/singer Kaki King recently left her cushy major label to release her newest record, Dreaming of Revenge, on Velour Music,... 

Ongoing Events

Anne-Laure Sacriste

Art

Anne-Laure Sacriste

Wednesday 3/26 @ Chung King Project

For her debut solo bow in the United States, French artist Anne-Laure Sacriste shows new large-scale paintings at Chung King Project.... 

Robert Crumb: <em>Cr&egrave;me de la Crumb</em>

Art

Robert Crumb

Wednesday 3/26 @ David Lawrence Gallery

Since his early days drawing for Zap Comix, Robert Crumb has made quite a name for himself as the comic world's... 

<em>Good Doll Bad Doll </em>

Art

Good Doll Bad Doll

Wednesday 3/26 @ Armory Center for the Arts

ArtForum critic and independent curator Michael Duncan encourages childish behavior in Good Doll Bad Doll, an exhibition featuring modern and contemporary... 

<em>A Narrative History of the Light Bulb</em>

Art: Photography

A Narrative History of the Light Bulb

Wednesday 3/26 @ Gallery Luisotti

Photographer Catherine Wagner used the Baltimore Museum of Industry's impressive collection of lightbulbs as the inspiration for her latest exhibition, which... 

<em>Lights! Camera! Glamour!</em>

Art: Photography

Lights! Camera! Glamour!

Wednesday 3/26 @ California Heritage Museum

George Hurrell shot studio stars as they are remembered today: glamorous, graceful, and a tad theatrical. With his sophisticated black-and-white blowups,... 

<em>Freeze Frame: Five Decades of Photographs by Douglas Kirkland</em>

Art: Photography

Freeze Frame

Wednesday 3/26 @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences

The Academy honors Douglas Kirkland's carefully composed photography with Freeze Frame, an exhibit of celebrity portraits riddled with familiar faces. Besides... 

Jeffrey Vallance w/ James Goodwin, Laurie Hassold, Marjan Hormozi, Dave Shulman, and Scotty Vera

Art

Jeffrey Vallance

Wednesday 3/26 @ Track 16 Gallery

Extravagance, irony, and ephemera converge in five concurrent exhibitions. The focus is the 30th-anniversary celebration of Jeffery Vallance's performance piece Blinky... 

Aaron Smith: <em>Estofada</em>

Art

Aaron Smith

Wednesday 3/26 @ Koplin del Rio Gallery

The history of art may seem an obvious source of inspiration, but a new collection of paintings by LA's Aaron Smith... 

Cal Lane: <em>Sweet Crude</em>

Art

Cal Lane

Wednesday 3/26 @ Samuel Freeman

The beauty of Canadian-born, New York-based artist Cal Lane's work is in its remarkable juxtapositions. Lane transforms anything-but-delicate objects, such as... 

<i>SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s</i>

Art

SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s

Wednesday 3/26 @ Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Exhibitions addressing mythologies of Southern California are suddenly seemingly ubiquitous. The Orange County Museum of Art's Art Since the 1960s: California... 

Faith47, Johnny Yanok, Joulu, Mike Kershnar, and Misery: <em>Anything Could Happen...</em>

Art

Anything Could Happen...

Wednesday 3/26 @ Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art

In the group show Anything Could Happen..., five international artists get together to celebrate the vibrancy of contemporary street art. From... 

Sarajo Frieden: <em>Another Green World</em>

Art

Sarajo Frieden

Wednesday 3/26 @ Little Bird Gallery

That Sarajo Frieden's Los Angeles studio is at the nexus of Koreatown, Little Armenia, and Thai Town makes perfect sense after... 

<em>Here Is Where You'll Find Me</em>: Small Photographs by Ashley Tibbits & David Horvitz

Art: Photography

Here Is Where You'll Find Me

Wednesday 3/26 @ The Lab 101 Gallery

As the much-beloved Polaroid photograph takes its final bow, David Horvitz and Flavorpill editor Ashley Tibbits harness the medium's lo-fi grace... 

<I>La Vida Lowrider: Cruising the City of Angels</i>

Art

La Vida Lowrider

Wednesday 3/26 @ Petersen Automotive Museum

The lowrider tradition originated in the Chicano barrios of Los Angeles, inspired by a fierce love for classic cars and the... 

Kara Walker: <em>My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love</em>

Art

Kara Walker

Wednesday 3/26 @ Hammer Museum

Employing iconic black-paper silhouettes, Kara Walker — who was named one of Time's "100 Most Influential People" in 2007 — sparks... 

Alison Saar: <em>Hither</em>

Art

Alison Saar

Wednesday 3/26 @ LA Louver Gallery

Though Los Angeles is her stomping ground, provocative painter/sculptress Alison Saar is internationally acclaimed. Daughter of the groundbreaking Betye Saar, whose... 

<em>Las Vegas Diaspora: The Emergence of Contemporary Art from the Neon Homeland</em>

Art

Las Vegas Diaspora

Wednesday 3/26 @ Laguna Art Museum

Dave Hickey has one of the most original minds in the contemporary art world. His best-selling collection of critical essays, Air... 

Nicole Cohen: <em>Please Be Seated</em>

Special Event

Nicole Cohen

Wednesday 3/26 @ The Getty Center

Nicole Cohen engineers recombinant layers of still and video imagery, investigating the network of associations that interior spaces contain. Also, she... 

Wayne White: <em>Drop the Country Boy Act</em>

Art

Wayne White

Wednesday 3/26 @ Western Project

Billed as "punk Mark Twain defiance," Wayne White's latest show features the recent collection of his famous word paintings and sculptures.... 

<em>California Video </em>

Art

California Video

Wednesday 3/26 @ The Getty Center

As video art's growing reach now extends from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera to commuters watching YouTube on their iPhones,... 

Art

Make Art/Stop AIDS

Wednesday 3/26 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA

Before red ribbons became de rigeur accessories at televised awards ceremonies, artists from around the globe inspired and provoked the radical... 

<em>Panopti(con)</em>

Art

Panopti(con)

Wednesday 3/26 @ Bank

Los Angeles multimedia artist Martin Durazo curates this collection of work by 17 artists under the broad thematic umbrella of power... 

<em>First Generation: Art in Claremont 1907-1957</em>

Art

First Generation

Wednesday 3/26 @ Claremont Museum of Art

Nestled 30 minutes outside of the hustle and bustle of Los Angeles lies Claremont — not known for much other than... 

<em>Casting a Shadow: Creating the Alfred Hitchcock Film</em>

Film

Alfred Hitchcock

Wednesday 3/26 @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences

Stylized, self-mythologizing director Alfred Hitchcock would have you believe him to be a one-man originality machine — when, in fact, his... 

Tony de los Reyes: <em>Ahab's America</em>

Art

Tony de los Reyes

Wednesday 3/26 @ Carl Berg Gallery

Los Angeles-based painter and sculptor Tony de los Reyes has more in common with 19th-century author Herman Melville than most politically... 

Toby Ziegler: <em>The Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse</em>

Art

Toby Ziegler

Wednesday 3/26 @ Patrick Painter Gallery

Toby Ziegler's work is full of dichotomies. For his new collection of painting and sculpture in Patrick Painter's West Gallery, the... 

Art

Everything But the Kitschen Sync

Wednesday 3/26 @ La Luz de Jesus

The type of work that's usually celebrated at La Luz de Jesus Gallery, located inside Wacko (the Costco of kitsch), is... 

<em>Bob Dylan's American Journey, 1956-1966</em>

Art

Bob Dylan's American Journey

Wednesday 3/26 @ Skirball Cultural Center

This year's resurgent Dylanmania — from Todd Haynes' byzantine biopic, I'm Not There, to Murray Lerner's performance-driven documentary, The Other Side... 

<em>Sweeney Todd</em>

Theatre

Sweeney Todd

Wednesday 3/26 @ Ahmanson Theatre

Johnny Depp's acclaimed cinematic stab (ahem) at Mr. Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, has refreshed our memories on... 

Edgar Heap of Birds: <em>Moving With the Storm</em>

Art

Edgar Heap of Birds

Wednesday 3/26 @ See Line Gallery

New York artist Edgar Heap of Birds doesn't use text to support his visual aesthetic — the text is the aesthetic.... 

Christopher Chinn: <em>On the Row</em>

Art

Christopher Chinn

Wednesday 3/26 @ Overtones Gallery

Upon graduating from art school and relocating to the city, local painter Christopher Chinn was struck by how intrepid artists would... 

Tim Bavington: <em>There We Were, Now Here We Are</em>

Art

There We Were, Now Here We Are

Wednesday 3/26 @ Mark Moore Gallery

LA artist Tim Bavington reinvents the once-obsolete "stripe painting" with hometown verve. Bavington incorporates sound into many of his dense compositions,... 

<em>The Imaginary 20th Century</em>

Art

The Imaginary 20th Century

Wednesday 3/26 @ Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach

There was a time when the 20th century seemed like an unimaginable and distant future. The Orange County Museum of Art... 

Hiromi Tsuchida: <em>Photographs 1969-2004 </em>

Art: Photography

Hiromi Tsuchida

Wednesday 3/26 @ Michael Dawson Gallery

Renowned Japanese photographer Hiromi Tsuchida has trained his lens on facets of ordinary life throughout his lengthy career. Tsuchida's first solo... 

Mindy Shapero

Art

Mindy Shapero

Wednesday 3/26 @ Anna Helwing Gallery

Bright and brash, Mindy Shapero concocts sculptures with a childlike zeal: always curious and never satisfied. Her works seem like visual... 

<em>The Color of Life: Polychromy in Sculpture from Antiquity to the Present </em>

Art

The Color of Life

Wednesday 3/26 @ The Getty Villa

Looking at tony museum collections of ancient Greek and Roman statuary, one might think that the whole of antiquity existed only... 

Guyton\Walker and Anna Sew Hoy

Art

Guyton\Walker and Anna Sew Hoy

Wednesday 3/26 @ LAXART

Los Angeles' Anna Sew Hoy takes inspiration from her medical-doctor father in her latest exhibition POW!, which focuses on the theme... 

<i>My Kid Could Paint That</i>

Film: Documentary

My Kid Could Paint That

Wednesday 3/26 @ Various locations

An abstract-art prodigy for the digital age, four-year-old Marla Olmstead is a rare bird indeed. In My Kid Could Paint That,... 

<em>Two Lines Align</em>: Drawings by Ed Fella and Geoff McFetridge

Art

Ed Fella and Geoff McFetridge

Wednesday 3/26 @ REDCAT

Even if you don't recognize their names, you are likely familiar with the art of Ed Fella and Geoff McFetridge. In... 

Max Miceli: <em>Hard Icing</em>

Art

Max Miceli

Wednesday 3/26 @ Milo Gallery

Two-parts pop to one-part folk, Max Miceli's landscapes and portraits force viewers to examine the relationships between man and beast, industry... 

Michael Asher

Art

Michael Asher

Wednesday 3/26 @ Santa Monica Museum of Art

Rather than create new spaces and pieces, conceptual mixed-media artist Michael Asher prefers to deconstruct and punctuate extant spaces with found... 

Rosson Crow: <em>Night at the Palomino</em>

Art

Rosson Crow

Wednesday 3/26 @ Honor Fraser

In a departure from her usual allusions to European art, Crow focuses on America, particularly Los Angeles, in her latest collection... 

Nathan Mabry

Art

Nathan Mabry

Wednesday 3/26 @ Cherry and Martin

Spanish conquistadors beware: payback is a bitch. Nathan Mabry exacts Montezuma's revenge with irreverently styled bronze sculptures based on Pre-Columbian Moche... 

Tom Servais: <em>el&middot;e&middot;men&middot;tal</em>

Art: Photography

Tom Servais

Wednesday 3/26 @ epOxybOx

Celebrated surf photographer Tom Servais comes to Venice Beach's original "green" gallery for his debut fine-art exhibition. Servais is known for... 

Tom Atwood: <em>Kings in their Castles</em><em> </em>

Art: Photography

Tom Atwood

Wednesday 3/26 @ Farmani Gallery

Portrait photography of celebrities in their own homes is always compelling fare, but Tom Atwood's images of high-profile figures from the... 

<em>Ten Years in Focus: The Artist and the Camera</em>

Art: Photography

Ten Years in Focus

Wednesday 3/26 @ The Getty Center

In celebration of its tenth anniversary, the Getty Center presents Ten Years in Focus: The Artist and the Camera. The exhibition...