All events on Wednesday March 05

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Mark Johnson
Wednesday Mar 5 (7pm) @ SCI-Arc
Free
Mark Johnson is a rock star — at least in the world of landscape architects who rehabilitate high-profile urban riverfront properties. That world now stretches... View details »
Mark Johnson
Film
Charles Bukowski Films
Wednesday Mar 5 (7–11pm) @ 7 Dudley Cinema at Sponto Gallery
Free
Charles Bukowski was the unofficial poet of skid row. Whether writing about his sexual escapades, betting on horses, or breathing life into a mundane job,... View details »
Charles Bukowski Films
Film
My Name Is Albert Ayler
Wednesday Mar 5 (7pm) @ Hammer Museum
Free
American jazz saxophonist Albert Ayler may be unfamiliar to many outside the 20th-century free-jazz loop, but his influence is still deeply felt. Before he turned... View details »
My Name Is Albert Ayler
Art: Photography
Tom Atwood
Wednesday Mar 5 (11am–6pm) @ Farmani Gallery More times »
Free
Portrait photography of celebrities in their own homes is always compelling fare, but Tom Atwood's images of high-profile figures from the gay community take the... View details »
Tom Atwood

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Art
SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s
Wednesday Mar 5 @ Los Angeles County Museum of Art More times »
Exhibitions addressing mythologies of Southern California are suddenly seemingly ubiquitous. The Orange County Museum of Art's Art Since the 1960s: California Experiments historicizes the "evolution"... View details »
SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s
Film: Documentary
My Kid Could Paint That
Wednesday Mar 5 @ Various locations More times »
Free
An abstract-art prodigy for the digital age, four-year-old Marla Olmstead is a rare bird indeed. In My Kid Could Paint That, Amir Bar-Lev documents the... View details »
My Kid Could Paint That
Art: Architecture/Design
Jean Michel Crettaz
Wednesday Mar 5 (9am–6pm) @ SCI-Arc More times »
Free
Head of the Visual Studies Program at SCI-Arc Jean-Michel Crettaz has plenty of experience, having studied in Switzerland, at the ultra-exclusive Cooper Union school in... View details »
Jean Michel Crettaz
Art: Architecture/Design
La Vida Lowrider
Wednesday Mar 5 (10am–6pm) @ Peterson Automotive Museum More times »
The lowrider tradition originated in the Chicano barrios of Los Angeles, inspired by a fierce love for classic cars and the need for expressing cultural... View details »
La Vida Lowrider
Art
Michael Asher
Wednesday Mar 5 (11am–6pm) @ Santa Monica Museum of Art More times »
Rather than create new spaces and pieces, conceptual mixed-media artist Michael Asher prefers to deconstruct and punctuate extant spaces with found materials, creating a site-specific... View details »
Michael Asher
Art
Rosson Crow
Wednesday Mar 5 (10am–6pm) @ Honor Fraser More times »
Free
In a departure from her usual allusions to European art, Crow focuses on America, particularly Los Angeles, in her latest collection of paintings. Despite the... View details »
Rosson Crow
Art
First Generation
Wednesday Mar 5 (11am–5pm) @ Claremont Museum of Art More times »
Nestled 30 minutes outside of the hustle and bustle of Los Angeles lies Claremont — not known for much other than some great old houses... View details »
First Generation
Art
Ed Fella and Geoff McFetridge
Wednesday Mar 5 (noon–6pm) @ REDCAT More times »
Free
Even if you don't recognize their names, you are likely familiar with the art of Ed Fella and Geoff McFetridge. In addition to many gallery-caliber... View details »
Ed Fella and Geoff McFetridge
Art
Yun Bai
Wednesday Mar 5 (noon–6pm) @ Art Murmur Gallery More times »
Free
Rising LA artist Yun Bai and her alter ego Yunny Bunny converge in this smashing show. Bai splits herself in two: while the artist is... View details »
Yun Bai
Film
Alfred Hitchcock
Wednesday Mar 5 (10am–5pm) @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences More times »
Free
Stylized, self-mythologizing director Alfred Hitchcock would have you believe him to be a one-man originality machine — when, in fact, his films took hundreds of... View details »
Alfred Hitchcock
Art: Photography
Lights! Camera! Glamour!
Wednesday Mar 5 (11am–4pm) @ California Heritage Museum More times »
George Hurrell shot studio stars as they are remembered today: glamorous, graceful, and a tad theatrical. With his sophisticated black-and-white blowups, "The grand seigneur of... View details »
Lights! Camera! Glamour!
Art
Bob Dylan's American Journey
Wednesday Mar 5 @ Skirball Cultural Center More times »
This year's resurgent Dylanmania — from Todd Haynes' byzantine biopic, I'm Not There, to Murray Lerner's performance-driven documentary, The Other Side of the Mirror —... View details »
Bob Dylan's American Journey
Art: Photography
Freeze Frame
Wednesday Mar 5 (10am–5pm) @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences More times »
Free
The Academy honors Douglas Kirkland's carefully composed photography with Freeze Frame, an exhibit of celebrity portraits riddled with familiar faces. Besides shooting spools of film... View details »
Freeze Frame
Performing Arts: Opera
Otello
Wednesday Mar 5 @ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion More times »
Racism, jealousy, and betrayal form the backdrop of Shakespeare's penultimate tragedy, Othello. The stakes of the story are set even higher in this powerful staging... View details »
Otello
Art
The Imaginary 20th Century
Wednesday Mar 5 (11am–5pm) @ Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach More times »
There was a time when the 20th century seemed like an unimaginable and distant future. The Orange County Museum of Art presents 2,200 images from... View details »
The Imaginary 20th Century
Art
Chinatown Gallery Exhibitions
Wednesday Mar 5 @ Various Chinatown galleries More times »
Free
As Chinese New Year celebrations bring you to Chinatown, remember that the neighborhood is also home to dozens of contemporary art galleries, many of which... View details »
Chinatown Gallery Exhibitions
Art
Projection
Wednesday Mar 5 @ [delete] More times »
Free
This private-residence-turned-gallery's latest offering, Projection, interprets the titular concept both literally and figuratively in an ambitious multimedia group show. The works probe the idea of... View details »
Projection
Art: Photography
Hiromi Tsuchida
Wednesday Mar 5 (10am–5pm) @ Michael Dawson Gallery More times »
Free
Renowned Japanese photographer Hiromi Tsuchida has trained his lens on facets of ordinary life throughout his lengthy career. Tsuchida's first solo exhibition in the US... View details »
Hiromi Tsuchida
Art
Wynne Greenwood
Wednesday Mar 5 (11am–6pm) @ Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects More times »
Free
"Interdisciplinary" is an understatement when it comes to Brooklyn-based artist Wynne Greenwood: she's known for melding performance, installation, video, and two-dimensional works into outrageous, breathtaking,... View details »
Wynne Greenwood
Art
Luke Whitlatch
Wednesday Mar 5 (11am–5pm) @ Bandini Art More times »
Free
In his new series of work, painter Luke Whitlatch offers a meditation on both the emotional events that define human life and the craft of... View details »
Luke Whitlatch
Art
Frohawk Two Feathers
Wednesday Mar 5 (11am–5:30pm) @ Taylor De Cordoba Gallery More times »
Free
Los Angeles artist Frohawk Two Feathers makes fanciful, avant-folk paintings featuring a cast of singularly imaginative characters. For his latest collection at Taylor de Cordoba,... View details »
Frohawk Two Feathers
Art: Architecture/Design
The Austrian Winery Boom
Wednesday Mar 5 (noon–6pm) @ MODAA gallery More times »
Free
After a 1985 wine scandal (winemakers were discovered to have added an antifreeze component to sweeten their vintages), a red-faced Austria moved toward redefinition. Like... View details »
The Austrian Winery Boom
Art
Kara Walker
Wednesday Mar 5 (11am–7pm) @ Hammer Museum More times »
Employing iconic black-paper silhouettes, Kara Walker — who was named one of Time's "100 Most Influential People" in 2007 — sparks a tense dialogue between... View details »
Kara Walker
Art
Nathan Mabry
Wednesday Mar 5 (11am–6pm) @ Cherry and Martin More times »
Free
Spanish conquistadors beware: payback is a bitch. Nathan Mabry exacts Montezuma's revenge with irreverently styled bronze sculptures based on Pre-Columbian Moche ceramics and bedazzled Mixtec... View details »
Nathan Mabry
Art
Make Art/Stop AIDS
Wednesday Mar 5 (noon–5pm) @ Fowler Museum, UCLA More times »
Free
Before red ribbons became de rigeur accessories at televised awards ceremonies, artists from around the globe inspired and provoked the radical awareness that the AIDS... View details »
Art
Tessar Lo and Chris Devera
Wednesday Mar 5 (noon–6pm) @ project: gallery More times »
Free
This Valentine's Day, project: gallery presents Tessar Lo and Chris Devera, two illustrator/artists whose imagination-gone-wild paintings never hesitate to take things too far. Lo draws... View details »
Tessar Lo and Chris Devera
Art
Mel Kadel and Travis Millard
Wednesday Mar 5 (11am–5pm) @ Richard Heller Gallery More times »
Free
The organic forms that populate Mel Kadel's drawings have begun to grow in scale, creeping toward the edges of the sheet and threatening to break... View details »
Mel Kadel and Travis Millard
Art: Photography
Tom Servais
Wednesday Mar 5 (10am–6pm) @ epOxybOx More times »
Free
Celebrated surf photographer Tom Servais comes to Venice Beach's original "green" gallery for his debut fine-art exhibition. Servais is known for his creative documentation of... View details »
Tom Servais
Art
Miguel Osuna and Sam Seawright
Wednesday Mar 5 (11am–5pm) @ Lawrence Asher Gallery More times »
Free
Landscape paintings from Mexican artist Miguel Osuna have a photographic sensibility. His California landscapes possess all the fleeting romance of a glimpse through the driver's-side... View details »
Miguel Osuna and Sam Seawright
Art
Here, There, and Everywhere
Wednesday Mar 5 (7–10pm) @ The Bike Oven More times »
Free
Cyclists unite for an exhibition featuring the works of artists from all parts of the nation who just happen to also, you know, ride bicycles.... View details »
Here, There, and Everywhere
Film
Chicago 10
Wednesday Mar 5 @ Landmark Nuart Theatre More times »
In the revolution-rich year of 1968, the French had a tough May; the US, in turn, had one heck of an August. The unrest came... View details »
Chicago 10
Art
There We Were, Now Here We Are
Wednesday Mar 5 (10am–6pm) @ Mark Moore Gallery More times »
Free
LA artist Tim Bavington reinvents the once-obsolete "stripe painting" with hometown verve. Bavington incorporates sound into many of his dense compositions, assigning a musical note... View details »
There We Were, Now Here We Are
Art
Julie Davidow
Wednesday Mar 5 (11am–5pm) @ Tarryn Teresa Gallery More times »
Free
Miami-based painter and self-proclaimed "frustrated scientist" Julie Davidow presents a series of new works that embody the interactions between man and nature, biology and pathology.... View details »
Julie Davidow
Art
Adam Janes
Wednesday Mar 5 (11am–6pm) @ Roberts & Tilton Gallery More times »
Free
With the creative ingenuity of a mad doctor and the unwieldy imagination of a five-year old, installation artist Adam Janes unveils Don't Sweat the Small... View details »
Adam Janes
Art
Overgrowth
Wednesday Mar 5 (11:30am–8pm) @ GR2 More times »
Free
GR2 combines the artistic minds of Katherine Guillen, Zachary Rossman, and Brian Rush for a group show of anti-monumental proportions. Discarding their individual pursuits for... View details »
Overgrowth
Art
David Touster
Wednesday Mar 5 (11am–5pm) @ Milo Gallery More times »
Free
With leaked sex tapes and nude photos of celebrities comprising a billion-dollar industry, David Touster's new work couldn't be more humorous or timely. Private Pictures... View details »
David Touster
More Flavor: City Gem
Ugo Wine Bar
Wednesday Mar 5 (5:30pm–12:30am) @ Vinum Populi More times »
Free
Culver City's latest spot of interest is Ugo Wine Bar, a cozy wine bar with the usual bistro couches and charcuterie selection — with one... View details »
Ugo Wine Bar
Art
Julian Schnabel
Wednesday Mar 5 (10am–5:30pm) @ Gagosian Gallery More times »
Free
Neo-expressionist aesthete and, most recently, award-winning feature-film director Julian Schnabel (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly) takes a break from the red carpet with a... View details »
Julian Schnabel
Art
Toby Ziegler
Wednesday Mar 5 (10am–6pm) @ Patrick Painter Gallery More times »
Free
Toby Ziegler's work is full of dichotomies. For his new collection of painting and sculpture in Patrick Painter's West Gallery, the British artist can't decide... View details »
Toby Ziegler
Art
Sylvia Ji
Wednesday Mar 5 (noon–6pm) @ Corey Helford More times »
Free
San Francisco native Sylvia Ji's paintings simultaneously depict the drama of the Pre-Raphaelites, the romantic sensuality of Mucha, and the allure of a pin-up poster.... View details »
Sylvia Ji
Art
Evan Hecox
Wednesday Mar 5 (11am–6pm) @ Kinsey/DesForges Gallery More times »
Free
In 2001, Colorado-based artist Evan Hecox inaugurated Culver City's Kinsey/DesForges gallery. Now he returns in a show that highlights how they have each evolved. In... View details »
Evan Hecox
Art
Mindy Shapero
Wednesday Mar 5 (11am–6pm) @ Anna Helwing Gallery More times »
Free
Bright and brash, Mindy Shapero concocts sculptures with a childlike zeal: always curious and never satisfied. Her works seem like visual experiments in representing the... View details »
Mindy Shapero
Art
Aaron Smith
Wednesday Mar 5 (10am–5:30pm) @ Koplin del Rio Gallery More times »
Free
The history of art may seem an obvious source of inspiration, but a new collection of paintings by LA's Aaron Smith flips the switch on... View details »
Aaron Smith
Music: Rock/Pop
The Mountain Goats
Wednesday Mar 5 (9pm) @ The Troubadour More times »
Indie darlings the Mountain Goats play the first of two shows at the Troubadour tonight in support of their new album, Heretic Pride. Currently a... View details »
The Mountain Goats
Art
Eve Wood
Wednesday Mar 5 (11am–6pm) @ Western Project More times »
Free
Eve Wood is the toast of Culver City this month with a breakthrough exhibition of mixed-media work on canvas. Wood leaves her former quiet reserve... View details »
Eve Wood
Film
My Blueberry Nights
Wednesday Mar 5 @ The Landmark More times »
Wong Kar Wai's My Blueberry Nights is undeniably, embarrassingly cheesy. Replete with slow-motion shots and blue-lit greasy spoons, it truly leaves no US coming-of-age travelogue... View details »
My Blueberry Nights