Events on Tuesday, April 29
Tuesday 4/29 @ The Glass House
Despite being an aging "alternative nation" act, the Breeders continue to inspire legions of loyalists: Deerhunter singer Bradford Cox has recently...
Tuesday 4/29 @ Echoplex
Check Yo' Ponytail has hosted worldwide DJs from Justice to Spank Rock, MSTRKRFT to VHS or Beta, Datarock to the Teddybears....
Ongoing Events
A Narrative History of the Light Bulb
Tuesday 4/29 @ Gallery Luisotti
Photographer Catherine Wagner used the Baltimore Museum of Industry's impressive collection of lightbulbs as the inspiration for her latest exhibition, which...
Tuesday 4/29 @ 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 4/29 @ 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,...
Tuesday 4/29 @ Subliminal Projects
Blek le Rat is known as the Parisian forefather of stencil and graffiti art. Nearly three decades ago, he plastered the...
Tuesday 4/29 @ The Getty Center
In celebration of its tenth anniversary, the Getty Center presents Ten Years in Focus: The Artist and the Camera. The exhibition...
Tuesday 4/29 @ Black Maria Gallery
Not everyone's childhood memories contain happy-go-lucky images of bubblegum chewing and bicycle riding. As the artists in Black Maria Gallery's upcoming...
Tuesday 4/29 @ 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,...
Tuesday 4/29 @ 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,...
Tuesday 4/29 @ Petersen Automotive Museum
The lowrider tradition originated in the Chicano barrios of Los Angeles, inspired by a fierce love for classic cars and the...
Tuesday 4/29 @ 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...
Israeli Women: A Portrait in Photographs
Tuesday 4/29 @ 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....
Tuesday 4/29 @ Ghettogloss Presents: An art conglomerate on the move
Sue-Ling Hyde is more than a pretty face. You might recognize her from modeling gigs with Shiseido, Versus, and Moshino, but...
Tuesday 4/29 @ Hammer Museum
Employing iconic black-paper silhouettes, Kara Walker — who was named one of Time's "100 Most Influential People" in 2007 — sparks...
Tuesday 4/29 @ Agnes B.
Filmmaker Harmony Korine's newest movie, Mister Lonely, follows a Michael Jackson impersonator (Diego Luna) living in a remote French castle with...
Tuesday 4/29 @ 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...
Tuesday 4/29 @ Various locations
Krzysztof Kieslowski may have set the bar too high for Polish cinema with his mid-'90s Three Colors trilogy. In the years...
Tuesday 4/29 @ SCI-Arc
"Merletti" means lace in Italian; for architects, it refers to the pattern of folds along a watchtower's defensive rims and other...
Tuesday 4/29 @ Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art
Some of the most talented, recognizable practitioners of Carmichael Gallery's trademark urban-romantic aesthetic show new work in Witnessed from Afar. Highlights...
Tuesday 4/29 @ LA Louver Gallery
The title of UK painter Jason Martin's latest exhibition evokes the South Pacific's warm, breezy environs — but his abstract, mostly...
Tuesday 4/29 @ MODAA gallery
While Michael Kalish's early work is marked by portraits of iconic figures (Jimi Hendrix, Jesus), his new exhibition at Culver City's...
Tuesday 4/29 @ 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,...
Tuesday 4/29 @ Samuel Freeman
Cheeky artist Masami Teraoka is most famous for his ukiyo-e woodblock paintings, which combine Japanese imagery, themes from American culture, and...
Tuesday 4/29 @ Richard Heller Gallery
Consummate visual storyteller Evah Fan continues her Scheherazade-like seduction with a new batch of works at Richard Heller Gallery. Her small...
Tuesday 4/29 @ 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...
Tuesday 4/29 @ Regen Projects II
After capturing the essence of SoCal beach life with her surfer portrait series, photographer Catherine Opie tackles another bastion of American...
Tuesday 4/29 @ REDCAT
Jamaican-born artist Dave McKenzie's first solo show in Los Angeles is a multimedia affair that asks multifaceted questions about where a...
Tuesday 4/29 @ 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...
Tuesday 4/29 @ California Museum of Photography, UC Riverside
This exhibition juxtaposes the work of idealist photographers Jeremy Kidd and Eric Curry, both of whom use digital manipulation in arresting...
Tuesday 4/29 @ 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...
Tuesday 4/29 @ Various locations
The British are coming! But this time there's no need to run for cover, as the Cool Britannia crowd of expats...
Tuesday 4/29 @ The Getty Villa
Looking at tony museum collections of ancient Greek and Roman statuary, one might think that the whole of antiquity existed only...
Tuesday 4/29 @ The Getty Center
Nicole Cohen engineers recombinant layers of still and video imagery, investigating the network of associations that interior spaces contain. Also, she...
Tuesday 4/29 @ 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...
Tuesday 4/29 @ 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...
Tuesday 4/29 @ 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...
