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Tokyo Tremors
Wednesday June 11 (7pm) @ Royal/T
In the dazzling light of Takashi Murakami's superbrand status (and current US museum tour), it's become clear that contemporary Japanese art is once again on... View details »
Tokyo Tremors
Music: Rock/Pop
Saint Motel
Wednesday June 11 (8:30pm) @ The Viper Room
Film-school geeks (members A.J. Jackson and Aaron Sharp met as students at Chapman University) make good in Saint Motel. The retro rockers blend incisive guitar... View details »
Saint Motel
Music: Electronic
Crystal Castles
Wednesday June 11 (9:30pm) @ The Roxy Theatre
Crystal Castles love small-scale blippy melodies styled after old-school video games, but their songs are always dance-floor ready, given a sensual push by vocalist Alice... View details »
Crystal Castles
Music: Rock/Pop
Spain
Wednesday June 11 (8:30pm) @ The Echo
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After some cherished effects pedals and keyboards were stolen last year, Daniel Ahearn, former frontman of LA folk-rock band Ill Lit, decided to make music... View details »
Spain

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Art: Photography
Lights! Camera! Glamour!
Wednesday June 11 (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
Make Art/Stop AIDS
Wednesday June 11 (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 »
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Ugo Wine Bar
Wednesday June 11 (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
The Color of Life
Wednesday June 11 (10am–6pm) @ The Getty Villa More times »
Free
Looking at tony museum collections of ancient Greek and Roman statuary, one might think that the whole of antiquity existed only in tones of white... View details »
The Color of Life
Art: Architecture/Design
Phalanstery Module
Wednesday June 11 @ Materials & Applications More times »
Free
M&A gallery continues to push the frontiers of architecture and landscape research with Jimenez Lai's installation Phalanstery Module. Zero-gravity design presents the central challenge, as... View details »
Phalanstery Module
Art
100% Other
Wednesday June 11 (11am–5pm) @ 18th Street Arts Center More times »
Free
For the next installment of Future of Nations exhibition series 100% Other, curator Tyler Stallings asked artists Matthew Bryant, Cheryl Gilge, Perry Vasquez, Reggie Woolery,... View details »
100% Other
Art: Architecture/Design
Michael Kalish
Wednesday June 11 (noon–6pm) @ MODAA gallery More times »
Free
While Michael Kalish's early work is marked by portraits of iconic figures (Jimi Hendrix, Jesus), his new exhibition at Culver City's Museum of Design Art... View details »
Art
Dave McKenzie
Wednesday June 11 (noon–6pm) @ REDCAT More times »
Free
Jamaican-born artist Dave McKenzie's first solo show in Los Angeles is a multimedia affair that asks multifaceted questions about where a single cell fits within... View details »
Dave McKenzie
Art: Photography
Newer Topographics
Wednesday June 11 (noon–5pm) @ California Museum of Photography, UC Riverside More times »
This exhibition juxtaposes the work of idealist photographers Jeremy Kidd and Eric Curry, both of whom use digital manipulation in arresting multimedia and photographic works.... View details »
Newer Topographics
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Marcel Duchamp Redux
Wednesday June 11 (noon–6pm) @ Norton Simon More times »
This year marks the 45th anniversary of By or of Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Sélavy, the famous Marcel Duchamp retrospective at the Pasadena Art Museum... View details »
Marcel Duchamp Redux
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Mexican Calendar Girls
Wednesday June 11 (11am–4pm) @ California Heritage Museum More times »
Glamor gets deep and classic at the California Heritage Museum's Mexican Calendar Girls, opening with a Cinco de Mayo reception. The color-soaked exhibition comprises a... View details »
Mexican Calendar Girls
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Anna Dusi
Wednesday June 11 (10am–6pm) @ The Loft at Liz's More times »
Free
Long known for fantastic salvage store Liz's Antique Hardware (a favorite with high-end interior designers and industry art directors), Liz Gordon has also created a... View details »
Anna Dusi
Art
Michelle Lopez and Vishal Jugdeo
Wednesday June 11 (11am–6pm) @ LAXART More times »
Free
Michelle Lopez and Vishal Jugdeo, both making their solo debuts in Los Angeles, meditate on the meaning of objects in human life. Lopez's The Year... View details »
Michelle Lopez and Vishal Jugdeo
Art
DREAM(land)
Wednesday June 11 (noon–6pm) @ JAIL Gallery More times »
Free
The globally diverse artists in JAIL's latest endeavor have one thing in common: their work ignores the ugly cable-news cycle of reality in favor of... View details »
DREAM(land)
Art
Blood & Glitter
Wednesday June 11 (11am–5pm) @ Bandini Art More times »
Free
Co-curated by Patrick Painter Gallery's Heather Harmon and Bandini's own Ashley McLean Emenegger, Blood & Glitter is a group exhibition about the seductive dangers of... View details »
Blood & Glitter
Art
Culmination
Wednesday June 11 (noon–6pm) @ Morono Kiang Gallery More times »
Free
As Internet galleries and portfolio sites make it increasingly easy to navigate the deep waters of the international emerging art scene, the prevalence of Chinese... View details »
Art
Liat Yossifor and Aaron Sandnes
Wednesday June 11 (11am–6pm) @ See Line Gallery More times »
Free
In the midst of war, there seems to be no shortage of news on the subject. But though we may often feel aware of present... View details »
Liat Yossifor and Aaron Sandnes
Performing Arts: Opera
Tosca
Wednesday June 11 (7:30pm) @ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion More times »
Still feeling the love from last month's star-studded tribute to his 40 years in Los Angeles, Plácido Domingo returns to the stage to conduct Giacomo... View details »
Art
Deedee Cheriel and Louise Bonnet
Wednesday June 11 (1–6pm) @ Subliminal Projects More times »
Free
The newest exhibition to hit Shepard and Amanda Fairey's Subliminal Projects gallery features the work of LA-based artists Deedee Cheriel and Louise Bonnet. Cheriel's background... View details »
Deedee Cheriel and Louise Bonnet
Art
Jerome Witkin
Wednesday June 11 (10am–6pm) @ Jack Rutberg Fine Arts More times »
Free
Many art critics and scholars consider Jerome Witkin to be America's greatest living figurative painter. His portraits and landscapes combine an unerring eye for detail,... View details »
Jerome Witkin
Art
The Puppet Show
Wednesday June 11 (11am–6pm) @ Santa Monica Museum of Art More times »
SMMoA gathers an eclectic array of work by 30 impressive artists — from Kara Walker to Louise Bourgeois, Bruce Nauman, and Kiki Smith — in... View details »
The Puppet Show
Art
Don Ed Hardy and Michael McCabe
Wednesday June 11 (11am–6pm) @ Track 16 Gallery More times »
Free
If you live in California, you've most likely heard of Don Ed Hardy — or at least of his ubiquitous fashion label, Ed Hardy, known... View details »
Art
Vexing
Wednesday June 11 (11am–5pm) @ Claremont Museum of Art More times »
In the early '80s, the Vex was an all-ages music club located in Self Help Graphics and Art, a Chicano landmark in East LA. Although... View details »
Vexing
Art
Juan Uslé
Wednesday June 11 (11am–6pm) @ LA Louver Gallery More times »
Free
The life and experiences of Spanish painter Juan Uslé meet his vision of abstraction in this new series of paintings. Including over a dozen canvases... View details »
Art
Tiffany Bozic
Wednesday June 11 (11am–6pm) @ Kinsey/DesForges Gallery More times »
Free
Tiffany Bozic's paintings and drawings are interpretations of the natural world — as seen through a warped microscope, in brilliant color, with Mozart's Rex Tremendae... View details »
Art
Cadence Pearson
Wednesday June 11 (7am–3pm & 5–8pm) @ Kara Wily Pilates More times »
Free
When dancer and art enthusiast Kara Wily wanted to open her own Pilates studio (having learned the ropes from the movement's founder himself) she always... View details »
Cadence Pearson
Art
Tillman Kaiser
Wednesday June 11 (10am–6pm) @ Honor Fraser More times »
Free
Painter Tillman Kaiser invokes the legacy of dadaist Marcel Duchamp, who famously flipped a ceramic urinal on its side, signed it R. Mutt, and called... View details »
Tillman Kaiser
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Jon Rappleye and Amy Mahnick
Wednesday June 11 (10am–6pm) @ Richard Heller Gallery More times »
Free
In New Jersey-based artist Jon Rappleye's world, eyeless horned owls flit around a cluster of vultures, deer, and snakes while, in the distance, dozens of... View details »
Jon Rappleye and Amy Mahnick
Art
Steve Olson
Wednesday June 11 (noon–6pm) @ 01 Gallery More times »
Free
Back in the late 1970s, Steve Olson became a celebrity in the world of professional skateboarding for his vertical-shredding ability. He's since made his name... View details »
Steve Olson
Performing Arts: Cabaret/Burlesque
Lucent Dossier
Wednesday June 11 (9pm–2am) @ The Edison More times »
Venture into the shabby-chic underground for a night of festive mayhem courtesy of LA's own urban circus freaks, Lucent Dossier, who update old-school carny acts... View details »
Lucent Dossier
Art
Piot Brehmer
Wednesday June 11 (11am–6pm) @ Samuel Freeman More times »
Free
Piot Brehmer's hyperrealist-inspired paintings at Samuel Freeman may owe a nod to painters like Philip Pearlstein and Eric Fischl, but there's a certain allure to... View details »
Piot Brehmer
Art
Four
Wednesday June 11 (noon–6pm) @ Corey Helford More times »
Free
Jason Shawn Alexander, Sarah Folkman, Melissa Forman, and Karen Hsiao make up the "four" artists of this exhibition, which brings together locals working within the... View details »
Four
Art
Kori Newkirk
Wednesday June 11 (noon–5pm) @ Pasadena Museum of California Art More times »
Kori Newkirk first came to national attention thanks to his contribution to the Studio Museum in Harlem's daring group show Freestyle: a mural of a... View details »
Kori Newkirk
Art
Oksana Badrak
Wednesday June 11 (noon–6pm) @ Black Maria Gallery More times »
Free
Russian-born artist Oksana Badrak creates worlds where disparate mediums and settings collide, merging traditional with modern, Eastern with Western, and so on. Drawing on her... View details »
Oksana Badrak
Art
Terence Koh
Wednesday June 11 (10am–6pm) @ Peres Projects More times »
Free
Anyone who can sell his own bodily fluids for thousands of dollars on the art market has "made it" as an artist. Of course, there's... View details »
Film: Documentary
Bomb It
Wednesday June 11 @ Laemmle's Sunset 5 More times »
A modern-day incarnation of 1983's groundbreaking Style Wars, graffiti documentary Bomb It moves past the boroughs of New York to survey the global community of... View details »
Bomb It
Art: Photography
LA Nude X
Wednesday June 11 (8am–7pm) @ A&I Hollywood More times »
Free
LA's most industry-beloved photo lab, Photo Impact, officially closed when its owner went in with A&I, but the group show LA Nude X at A&I's... View details »
LA Nude X
Art
Out There
Wednesday June 11 (10am–5pm) @ Gallery 825 More times »
Free
Those hollowed out by Pride Weekend's increasingly commercial celebrations (remind us exactly how a Vons truck defines queer culture?) should check out Los Angeles Art... View details »
Art
Sculpture Part One
Wednesday June 11 (11am–6pm) @ Western Project More times »
Free
Sculpture is LA's latest claim to art-world fame, and the medium's reemergence is due partly to the city's new generation of sculptors. Western Projects' two-part... View details »
Sculpture Part One
Art
Ginger
Wednesday June 11 (1–6pm) @ New Image Art More times »
Free
New Image Art's latest group exhibition packs a powerhouse list of participants. Vets of the gallery — including indie-rock man-of-the-moment Devendra Banhart, Sean Cassidy, Nico... View details »
Ginger
Performing Arts: Theatre
A Chorus Line
Wednesday June 11 (8pm) @ Ahmanson Theatre More times »
Director and co-choreographer Michael Bennett spins this well-loved tale of Broadway gypsies and would-be stars who lay their souls on the line in pursuit of... View details »
A Chorus Line
Art
Robert A. Nelson: Common Ground
Wednesday June 11 (noon–5pm) @ another year in LA More times »
Free
In Robert A. Nelson's exhibition Common Ground, viewers are treated to a new side of the '60s experimental filmmaker. Nelson's offbeat, conceptual, and often humorous... View details »
Robert A. Nelson: Common Ground
Art
Mark Bradford
Wednesday June 11 @ Steve Turner Contemporary Gallery More times »
Free
Los Angeles painter, installation artist, and (most recently) video artist Mark Bradford has exhibited in some of the world's most prestigious galleries and museums, but... View details »
Mark Bradford
Performing Arts: Opera
shAme
Wednesday June 11 (8pm) @ King King More times »
Writing a rock opera may not be everyone's first impulse after finishing Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1850 novel, The Scarlet Letter, but apparently it was Mark Governor's.... View details »
shAme
Art
Tino Rodriguez & Virgo Paraiso
Saturday June 14 (8–11pm) @ Merry Karnowsky Gallery More times »
Free
Like the Catholic-raised Mexican artist himself, Tino Rodriguez's gender-defying, allegorical paintings are torn between sensuality and conservative tradition. Inspired by the limitations of his religious... View details »
Tino Rodriguez & Virgo Paraiso
Art: Photography
Ten Years in Focus
Wednesday June 11 (10am–6pm) @ The Getty Center More times »
Free
In celebration of its tenth anniversary, the Getty Center presents Ten Years in Focus: The Artist and the Camera. The exhibition draws parallels between photography... View details »
Ten Years in Focus
Art
Misato Suzuki
Wednesday June 11 (noon–6pm) @ Sam Lee Gallery More times »
Free
Misato Suzuki is acutely aware of nature's palette and geometry. With soothing shades of yellow, orange, brown, and blue, she paints amorphous forms that are... View details »
Misato Suzuki
More Flavor: City Gem
Pavilion of Wings
Wednesday June 11 (9:30am–5pm) @ Natural History Museum More times »
Pavilion of Wings returns to the Natural History Museum for the exhibition's tenth anniversary. Now, anyone jealous of the Shins' experience in Mexico can walk... View details »
Pavilion of Wings
Art: Photography
Israeli Women: A Portrait in Photographs
Wednesday June 11 (noon–5pm) @ Skirball Cultural Center More times »
Free
Israeli Women: A Portrait in Photographs looks at Israel's female citizenry as a reflection of the state's 60-year history of independence. Drawing on documentary and... View details »
Israeli Women: A Portrait in Photographs