Events on Wednesday, June 11

Tokyo Tremors: Four New Waves in Japanese Contemporary Art

Special Event

Tokyo Tremors

Wednesday 6/11 @ 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... 

Crystal Castles

Music: Electronic

Crystal Castles

Wednesday 6/11 @ 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... 

Saint Motel w/ the Cheat, United by Sound, and Lite FM

Music

Saint Motel

Wednesday 6/11 @ 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... 

Spain w/ Daniel Ahearn and Correatown

Music

Spain

Wednesday 6/11 @ The Echo & Echoplex

After some cherished effects pedals and keyboards were stolen last year, Daniel Ahearn, former frontman of LA folk-rock band Ill Lit,... 

Ongoing Events

Los Angeles Rock Opera Company presents: <em>shAme</em>

Performing Arts: Opera

shAme

Wednesday 6/11 @ King King

Writing a rock opera may not be everyone's first impulse after finishing Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1850 novel, The Scarlet Letter, but apparently... 

<em>Blood & Glitter </em>

Art

Blood & Glitter

Wednesday 6/11 @ Bandini Art

Co-curated by Patrick Painter Gallery's Heather Harmon and Bandini's own Ashley McLean Emenegger, Blood & Glitter is a group exhibition about... 

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

Art

Mark Bradford

Wednesday 6/11 @ 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... 

<em>Israeli Women: A Portrait in Photographs</em>

Art: Photography

Israeli Women: A Portrait in Photographs

Wednesday 6/11 @ 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.... 

Art

Juan Uslé

Wednesday 6/11 @ LA Louver Gallery

The life and experiences of Spanish painter Juan Uslé meet his vision of abstraction in this new series of paintings. Including... 

<em>DREAM(land)</em>

Art

DREAM(land)

Wednesday 6/11 @ Jail Gallery

The globally diverse artists in JAIL's latest endeavor have one thing in common: their work ignores the ugly cable-news cycle of... 

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

Special Event

Nicole Cohen

Wednesday 6/11 @ The Getty Center

Nicole Cohen engineers recombinant layers of still and video imagery, investigating the network of associations that interior spaces contain. Also, she... 

Oksana Badrak

Art

Oksana Badrak

Wednesday 6/11 @ Black Maria Gallery

Russian-born artist Oksana Badrak creates worlds where disparate mediums and settings collide, merging traditional with modern, Eastern with Western, and so... 

Art

Terence Koh

Wednesday 6/11 @ Peres Projects

Anyone who can sell his own bodily fluids for thousands of dollars on the art market has "made it" as an... 

<em>100% Other: Artists and Psycho-Demographic Transitions</em>

Art

100% Other

Wednesday 6/11 @ 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,... 

Cadence Pearson: <em>Disjointed</em>

Art

Cadence Pearson

Wednesday 6/11 @ Kara Wily Pilates

When dancer and art enthusiast Kara Wily wanted to open her own Pilates studio (having learned the ropes from the movement's... 

Deedee Cheriel and Louise Bonnet: <em>New Works</em>

Art

Deedee Cheriel and Louise Bonnet

Wednesday 6/11 @ Subliminal Projects

The newest exhibition to hit Shepard and Amanda Fairey's Subliminal Projects gallery features the work of LA-based artists Deedee Cheriel and... 

<em>The Puppet Show</em>

Art

The Puppet Show

Wednesday 6/11 @ Santa Monica Museum of Art

SMMoA gathers an eclectic array of work by 30 impressive artists — from Kara Walker to Louise Bourgeois, Bruce Nauman, and... 

Art

Michael Kalish

Wednesday 6/11 @ 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... 

Piot Brehmer

Art

Piot Brehmer

Wednesday 6/11 @ Samuel Freeman

Piot Brehmer's hyperrealist-inspired paintings at Samuel Freeman may owe a nod to painters like Philip Pearlstein and Eric Fischl, but there's... 

Steve Olson: <em>Art Attack</em>

Art

Steve Olson

Wednesday 6/11 @ 01 Gallery

Back in the late 1970s, Steve Olson became a celebrity in the world of professional skateboarding for his vertical-shredding ability. He's... 

Jerome Witkin: <em>Revelations in Drawing</em>

Art

Jerome Witkin

Wednesday 6/11 @ Jack Rutberg Fine Arts

Many art critics and scholars consider Jerome Witkin to be America's greatest living figurative painter. His portraits and landscapes combine an... 

Tino Rodriguez & Virgo Paraiso: <em>Lullabies for the Dark Ages</em>

Art

Tino Rodriguez & Virgo Paraiso

Wednesday 6/11 @ Merry Karnowsky Gallery

Like the Catholic-raised Mexican artist himself, Tino Rodriguez's gender-defying, allegorical paintings are torn between sensuality and conservative tradition. Inspired by the... 

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

Art: Photography

Ten Years in Focus

Wednesday 6/11 @ The Getty Center

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

A Chorus Line

Theatre

A Chorus Line

Wednesday 6/11 @ Ahmanson Theatre

Director and co-choreographer Michael Bennett spins this well-loved tale of Broadway gypsies and would-be stars who lay their souls on the... 

Michelle Lopez and Vishal Jugdeo

Art

Michelle Lopez and Vishal Jugdeo

Wednesday 6/11 @ LAXART

Michelle Lopez and Vishal Jugdeo, both making their solo debuts in Los Angeles, meditate on the meaning of objects in human... 

<em>Bomb It </em>

Film: Documentary

Bomb It

Wednesday 6/11 @ Laemmle's Sunset 5

A modern-day incarnation of 1983's groundbreaking Style Wars, graffiti documentary Bomb It moves past the boroughs of New York to survey... 

Dave McKenzie: <em>Screen Doors on Submarines</em>

Art

Dave McKenzie

Wednesday 6/11 @ REDCAT

Jamaican-born artist Dave McKenzie's first solo show in Los Angeles is a multimedia affair that asks multifaceted questions about where a... 

<em>Vexing: Female Voices from East LA Punk</em>

Art

Vexing

Wednesday 6/11 @ Claremont Museum of Art

In the early '80s, the Vex was an all-ages music club located in Self Help Graphics and Art, a Chicano landmark... 

<em>Marcel Duchamp Redux </em>

Art

Marcel Duchamp Redux

Wednesday 6/11 @ Norton Simon Museum

This year marks the 45th anniversary of By or of Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Sélavy, the famous Marcel Duchamp retrospective at... 

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

Art

The Color of Life

Wednesday 6/11 @ The Getty Villa

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

Kori Newkirk:<em> 1997-2007</em>

Art

Kori Newkirk

Wednesday 6/11 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art

Kori Newkirk first came to national attention thanks to his contribution to the Studio Museum in Harlem's daring group show Freestyle:... 

Jon Rappleye: <em>Fantastic Planet</em> and Amy Mahnick: <em>Garbage</em>

Art

Jon Rappleye and Amy Mahnick

Wednesday 6/11 @ Richard Heller Gallery

In New Jersey-based artist Jon Rappleye's world, eyeless horned owls flit around a cluster of vultures, deer, and snakes while, in... 

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

Art: Photography

Lights! Camera! Glamour!

Wednesday 6/11 @ 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,... 

<em>LA Nude X </em>

Art: Photography

LA Nude X

Wednesday 6/11 @ A&I Hollywood

LA's most industry-beloved photo lab, Photo Impact, officially closed when its owner went in with A&I, but the group show LA... 

Performing Arts: Opera

Tosca

Wednesday 6/11 @ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion

Still feeling the love from last month's star-studded tribute to his 40 years in Los Angeles, Plácido Domingo returns to the... 

Liat Yossifor and Aaron Sandnes: <em>The War Is Over</em>

Art

Liat Yossifor and Aaron Sandnes

Wednesday 6/11 @ See Line Gallery

In the midst of war, there seems to be no shortage of news on the subject. But though we may often... 

Art

Make Art/Stop AIDS

Wednesday 6/11 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA

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

Art

Tiffany Bozic

Wednesday 6/11 @ Kinsey/DesForges Gallery

Tiffany Bozic's paintings and drawings are interpretations of the natural world — as seen through a warped microscope, in brilliant color,... 

Art

Culmination

Wednesday 6/11 @ Morono Kiang Gallery

As Internet galleries and portfolio sites make it increasingly easy to navigate the deep waters of the international emerging art scene,... 

Anna Dusi: <em>Da Cosa Nasce Cosa</em>

Art

Anna Dusi

Wednesday 6/11 @ The Loft at Liz's

Long known for fantastic salvage store Liz's Antique Hardware (a favorite with high-end interior designers and industry art directors), Liz Gordon... 

Robert A. Nelson: <em>Common Ground</em>

Art

Robert A. Nelson: Common Ground

Wednesday 6/11 @ another year in LA

In Robert A. Nelson's exhibition Common Ground, viewers are treated to a new side of the '60s experimental filmmaker. Nelson's offbeat,... 

Art

Out There

Wednesday 6/11 @ Gallery 825

Those hollowed out by Pride Weekend's increasingly commercial celebrations (remind us exactly how a Vons truck defines queer culture?) should check... 

<em>Mexican Calendar Girls</em>

Art

Mexican Calendar Girls

Wednesday 6/11 @ California Heritage Museum

Glamor gets deep and classic at the California Heritage Museum's Mexican Calendar Girls, opening with a Cinco de Mayo reception. The... 

<em>Phalanstery Module </em>

Art

Phalanstery Module

Wednesday 6/11 @ 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... 

<em>Ginger</em>

Art

Ginger

Wednesday 6/11 @ New Image Art

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... 

Art

Don Ed Hardy and Michael McCabe

Wednesday 6/11 @ Track 16 Gallery

If you live in California, you've most likely heard of Don Ed Hardy — or at least of his ubiquitous fashion... 

<em>Newer Topographics: Photographs of Digitally Altered Urban Landscapes</em>

Art: Photography

Newer Topographics

Wednesday 6/11 @ 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... 

Sculpture Part One

Art

Sculpture Part One

Wednesday 6/11 @ Western Project

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... 

<em>Four</em>

Art

Four

Wednesday 6/11 @ Corey Helford Gallery

Jason Shawn Alexander, Sarah Folkman, Melissa Forman, and Karen Hsiao make up the "four" artists of this exhibition, which brings together... 

Tillman Kaiser: <em>Don't Worry About the Motion on the Ocean</em>

Art

Tillman Kaiser

Wednesday 6/11 @ Honor Fraser

Painter Tillman Kaiser invokes the legacy of dadaist Marcel Duchamp, who famously flipped a ceramic urinal on its side, signed it... 

Misato Suzuki: <em>Unknown Quantities</em>

Art

Misato Suzuki

Wednesday 6/11 @ Sam Lee Gallery

Misato Suzuki is acutely aware of nature's palette and geometry. With soothing shades of yellow, orange, brown, and blue, she paints... 

Pavilion of Wings

City Gems

Pavilion of Wings

Wednesday 6/11 @ 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...