Events on Wednesday, April 16
Wednesday 4/16 @ Hammer Museum
Larry Fink's stark, black-and-white photographs tend to contrast high and low culture, observing the dialogue between disparate social groups. Over his...
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 4/16 @ 18th Street Arts Center
For the next installment of Future of Nations exhibition series 100% Other, curator Tyler Stallings asked artists Matthew Bryant, Cheryl Gilge,...
Wednesday 4/16 @ 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...
Israeli Women: A Portrait in Photographs
Wednesday 4/16 @ Skirball Cultural Center
Israeli Women: A Portrait in Photographs looks at Israel's female citizenry as a reflection of the state's 60-year history of independence....
Wednesday 4/16 @ Petersen Automotive Museum
The lowrider tradition originated in the Chicano barrios of Los Angeles, inspired by a fierce love for classic cars and the...
Wednesday 4/16 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/16 @ Patrick Painter Gallery
Salomón Huerta is one of LA's most popular painters — although personally, he seems somewhat reserved. His best-known works are smallish,...
Wednesday 4/16 @ Hammer Museum
Employing iconic black-paper silhouettes, Kara Walker — who was named one of Time's "100 Most Influential People" in 2007 — sparks...
Wednesday 4/16 @ Natural History Museum
Pavilion of Wings returns to the Natural History Museum for the exhibition's tenth anniversary. Now, anyone jealous of the Shins' experience...
Wednesday 4/16 @ Agnes B.
Filmmaker Harmony Korine's newest movie, Mister Lonely, follows a Michael Jackson impersonator (Diego Luna) living in a remote French castle with...
Wednesday 4/16 @ Kinsey/DesForges Gallery
While Ryan McLennan's Audubon-inspired drawings of woodland animals seem innocent enough, the graphite-and-acrylic works on paper reveal the animal kingdom's vicious...
Wednesday 4/16 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/16 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/16 @ Claremont Museum of Art
Nestled 30 minutes outside of the hustle and bustle of Los Angeles lies Claremont — not known for much other than...
Wednesday 4/16 @ Honor Fraser
Toronto-based André Ethier's grotesque, surreal paintings are psychedelic allegories illustrating misconceptions about modern history and culture. In his latest collection, Vancouver...
Guyton\Walker and Anna Sew Hoy
Wednesday 4/16 @ LAXART
Los Angeles' Anna Sew Hoy takes inspiration from her medical-doctor father in her latest exhibition POW!, which focuses on the theme...
Wednesday 4/16 @ 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,...
Wednesday 4/16 @ Robert Berman Gallery D5
No doubt David Trulli's former career as a cinematographer had an impact on his current work, as his scratchboard pieces exhibit...
Wednesday 4/16 @ Subliminal Projects
Blek le Rat is known as the Parisian forefather of stencil and graffiti art. Nearly three decades ago, he plastered the...
Wednesday 4/16 @ Mark Moore Gallery
Last year, London art-gallery impresarios Simon Rumley and Zavier Ellis curated The Future Can Wait, an ambitious group show spotlighting some...
Wednesday 4/16 @ SCI-Arc
"Merletti" means lace in Italian; for architects, it refers to the pattern of folds along a watchtower's defensive rims and other...
Wednesday 4/16 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/16 @ The Getty Center
In celebration of its tenth anniversary, the Getty Center presents Ten Years in Focus: The Artist and the Camera. The exhibition...
Wednesday 4/16 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/16 @ Materials & Applications
M&A gallery continues to push the frontiers of architecture and landscape research with Jimenez Lai's installation Phalanstery Module. Zero-gravity design presents...
Wednesday 4/16 @ Bank
Los Angeles multimedia artist Martin Durazo curates this collection of work by 17 artists under the broad thematic umbrella of power...
Wednesday 4/16 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA
Before red ribbons became de rigeur accessories at televised awards ceremonies, artists from around the globe inspired and provoked the radical...
Wednesday 4/16 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/16 @ First Baptist Church
Out of 36 glass panels and multiple tonnage of cracked clay and resin, German artist Anselm Kiefer has created an illusion...
Wednesday 4/16 @ Regen Projects II
After capturing the essence of SoCal beach life with her surfer portrait series, photographer Catherine Opie tackles another bastion of American...
Wednesday 4/16 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/16 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/16 @ La Luz de Jesus
Japanese artist Yumiko Kayukawa's work is a fine example of what happens when East meets West. In Kayukawa's world, young women...
Wednesday 4/16 @ Various locations
The blessing and curse of international cultural exchange is that the influx of exotic, unfamiliar art can be a bit overwhelming,...
Wednesday 4/16 @ 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...
A Narrative History of the Light Bulb
Wednesday 4/16 @ Gallery Luisotti
Photographer Catherine Wagner used the Baltimore Museum of Industry's impressive collection of lightbulbs as the inspiration for her latest exhibition, which...
Wednesday 4/16 @ Overtones Gallery
Upon graduating from art school and relocating to the city, local painter Christopher Chinn was struck by how intrepid artists would...
Wednesday 4/16 @ The Getty Villa
Looking at tony museum collections of ancient Greek and Roman statuary, one might think that the whole of antiquity existed only...
Wednesday 4/16 @ 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,...
Wednesday 4/16 @ The Getty Center
Nicole Cohen engineers recombinant layers of still and video imagery, investigating the network of associations that interior spaces contain. Also, she...
Wednesday 4/16 @ See Line Gallery
New York artist Edgar Heap of Birds doesn't use text to support his visual aesthetic — the text is the aesthetic....
Wednesday 4/16 @ 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,...
