Events on Wednesday, April 9

LA Video Uncensored feat. Bruce Yonemoto

Art

Bruce Yonemoto

Wednesday 4/ 9 @ The Getty Center

Iconic multimedia artist, curator, and scholar Bruce Yonemoto has accomplished the impossible: the early star of the underground video-art scene effectively... 

The Nightwatchman

Music

The Nightwatchman

Wednesday 4/ 9 @ The Hotel Café

Sure, as guitarist for Rage Against the Machine he generated a decade's worth of ass-kicking riffs, but Tom Morello's achievements since... 

Ongoing Events

Anne-Laure Sacriste

Art

Anne-Laure Sacriste

Wednesday 4/ 9 @ 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.... 

Mark Bradford: <em>Help Us</em>

Art

Mark Bradford

Wednesday 4/ 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... 

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

Art

Anything Could Happen...

Wednesday 4/ 9 @ 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... 

David Trulli: <em>All Lines Busy</em>

Art

David Trulli

Wednesday 4/ 9 @ 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... 

<em>HEF</em>

Art

HEF

Wednesday 4/ 9 @ Jail Gallery

Hef. The single syllable alone conjures up images of smoking jackets and decadent mansion parties. Exploring that imagery, a group of... 

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

Art

La Vida Lowrider

Wednesday 4/ 9 @ Petersen Automotive Museum

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

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

Art: Photography

Lights! Camera! Glamour!

Wednesday 4/ 9 @ 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,... 

Salom&oacute;n Huerta: <em>Mask</em>

Art

Salomón Huerta

Wednesday 4/ 9 @ 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,... 

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

Art

Cal Lane

Wednesday 4/ 9 @ 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>My Kid Could Paint That</i>

Film: Documentary

My Kid Could Paint That

Wednesday 4/ 9 @ 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,... 

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

Art

Max Miceli

Wednesday 4/ 9 @ 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... 

Art

Make Art/Stop AIDS

Wednesday 4/ 9 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA

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

Ryan McLennan: <em>From Fur to Bone</em>

Art

Ryan McLennan

Wednesday 4/ 9 @ 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... 

Anselm Kiefer: <em>Palmsonntag</em>

Art

Anselm Kiefer

Wednesday 4/ 9 @ First Baptist Church

Out of 36 glass panels and multiple tonnage of cracked clay and resin, German artist Anselm Kiefer has created an illusion... 

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

Art: Photography

Freeze Frame

Wednesday 4/ 9 @ 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... 

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

Art

Kara Walker

Wednesday 4/ 9 @ Hammer Museum

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

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

Art: Photography

Ten Years in Focus

Wednesday 4/ 9 @ The Getty Center

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

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

Art

Wayne White

Wednesday 4/ 9 @ Western Project

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

AFI Music Documentary Series

Film

AFI Music Documentary Series

Wednesday 4/ 9 @ Arclight Hollywood

This year's AFI Music Doc series kicks off with a sneak peek at Scott Hicks' inventive, intimate film Glass: A Portrait... 

<em>Aur&eacute;lia's  Oratorio</em>

Theatre

Aurélia's Oratorio

Wednesday 4/ 9 @ Freud Playhouse

Aurélia Thierrée stars in a circus-theatre spectacle of retro, sideshow-style wonderment. Thierrée's parents invented Le Cirque Bonjour, which is credited as... 

Yumiko Kayukawa: Extinction

Art

Yumiko Kayukawa

Wednesday 4/ 9 @ 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... 

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

Art

Christopher Chinn

Wednesday 4/ 9 @ Overtones Gallery

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

<em>New London School</em>

Art

New London School

Wednesday 4/ 9 @ 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... 

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

Art

First Generation

Wednesday 4/ 9 @ Claremont Museum of Art

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

Elena Manferdini: <em>Merletti</em>

Art

Elena Manferdini

Wednesday 4/ 9 @ SCI-Arc

"Merletti" means lace in Italian; for architects, it refers to the pattern of folds along a watchtower's defensive rims and other... 

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

Art

Las Vegas Diaspora

Wednesday 4/ 9 @ 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... 

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

Art

Bob Dylan's American Journey

Wednesday 4/ 9 @ 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... 

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

Art

Edgar Heap of Birds

Wednesday 4/ 9 @ See Line Gallery

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

Blek le Rat: <em>Art Is Not Peace But War</em>

Art

Blek le Rat

Wednesday 4/ 9 @ Subliminal Projects

Blek le Rat is known as the Parisian forefather of stencil and graffiti art. Nearly three decades ago, he plastered the... 

<em>Panopti(con)</em>

Art

Panopti(con)

Wednesday 4/ 9 @ Bank

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

<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 4/ 9 @ 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... 

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

Film

Alfred Hitchcock

Wednesday 4/ 9 @ 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... 

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

Art

The Imaginary 20th Century

Wednesday 4/ 9 @ 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... 

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

Special Event

Nicole Cohen

Wednesday 4/ 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... 

Guyton\Walker and Anna Sew Hoy

Art

Guyton\Walker and Anna Sew Hoy

Wednesday 4/ 9 @ LAXART

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

<em>California Video </em>

Art

California Video

Wednesday 4/ 9 @ 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,... 

<em>Toys</em>

Art

Toys

Wednesday 4/ 9 @ Gallery 1988

Watching kids fry their eyeballs playing video games can make some of us feel old. There was a time when board... 

<em>Good Doll Bad Doll </em>

Art

Good Doll Bad Doll

Wednesday 4/ 9 @ 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 4/ 9 @ Gallery Luisotti

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

Michael Asher

Art

Michael Asher

Wednesday 4/ 9 @ 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... 

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

Art

The Color of Life

Wednesday 4/ 9 @ The Getty Villa

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

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

Art

Tony de los Reyes

Wednesday 4/ 9 @ 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... 

<em>MFA #2</em>

Art

MFA #2

Wednesday 4/ 9 @ New Wight Gallery, UCLA

Each year, the stellar Fine Arts Department at UCLA stages multi-part exhibitions of its final-year MFA students, and this year's second...