All events on Tuesday June 17

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Music: DJ
A Labrat Matinee V
Tuesday June 17 (8pm) @ The Silent Movie Theatre
With a name like Daylight Goes Dark, this Dublab happening may sound creepy, but the Cinefamily-sponsored event at the Silent Movie Theatre is actually quite... View details »
A Labrat Matinee V
More Flavor: Conference
Get Dirty
Tuesday June 17 (7pm) @ Hammer Museum
Free
As the leaders of tonight's forum demonstrate, there are numerous ways to expand your artistic vision while shrinking your carbon footprint — you just have... View details »
Get Dirty
Performing Arts: Theatre
1984
Tuesday June 17 (8:30pm) @ REDCAT More times »
Giveaway
George Orwell wrote 1984 in the bloody wake of WWII, when anti-totalitarian screeds and fear of Communism were at a fever pitch. His own frazzled... View details »
1984
Music: Rock/Pop
The Parson Redheads
Tuesday June 17 (8pm) @ Boardner's
Free
Indie-folk troupe the Parson Red Heads relocated from Eugene, Oregon, to LA last summer, and the move paid off when their sugar-sweet debut LP, King... View details »
The Parson Redheads
Music: Rock/Pop
Islands
Tuesday June 17 (9pm) @ Music Box at the Fonda Theater
Featuring members of the now-defunct Unicorns, Montreal's Islands had already made a name for themselves when they released their debut LP, Return to the Sea,... View details »
Islands

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More Flavor: City Gem
Ugo Wine Bar
Tuesday June 17 (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
Tuesday June 17 (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
Tuesday June 17 @ 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: Photography
Newer Topographics
Tuesday June 17 (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
Art
Anna Dusi
Tuesday June 17 (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
Tuesday June 17 (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
Blood & Glitter
Tuesday June 17 (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
Tuesday June 17 (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
Jerome Witkin
Tuesday June 17 (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
Tuesday June 17 (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
Vexing
Tuesday June 17 (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
Tuesday June 17 (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
Tuesday June 17 (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
Tuesday June 17 (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: Photography
Philip-Lorca diCorcia
Tuesday June 17 (noon–8pm) @ Los Angeles County Museum of Art More times »
Photographer Philip-Lorca diCorcia's meticulously planned pictures look as effortless as Polaroids. Most of his works feature a single person — who diCorcia usually finds through... View details »
Philip-Lorca diCorcia
Art
Tillman Kaiser
Tuesday June 17 (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
Art
Jon Rappleye and Amy Mahnick
Tuesday June 17 (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
Tuesday June 17 (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
Art
Piot Brehmer
Tuesday June 17 (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
Tuesday June 17 (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
Oksana Badrak
Tuesday June 17 (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
Tuesday June 17 (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
Poultrygeist
Tuesday June 17 (1:45, 4:30, 7:15 & 9:45pm) @ Laemmle's Sunset 5 More times »
Serving up buckets of undead breasts and extra-slimy special sauce, Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead keeps Troma Entertainment's traditions of sex and dismemberment alive.... View details »
Poultrygeist
Art: Photography
LA Nude X
Tuesday June 17 (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
Sculpture Part One
Tuesday June 17 (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
Performing Arts: Theatre
A Chorus Line
Tuesday June 17 (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
Tuesday June 17 (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
HK Zamani
Tuesday June 17 (11am–6pm) @ SolwayJones More times »
Free
HK Zamani is best known to LA art lovers as Habib Kheradyar, the peripatetic multimedia artist, one-time owner of Post Gallery, and relentlessly curious individual... View details »
HK Zamani
Art
Mark Bradford
Tuesday June 17 @ 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
Music: Jazz/Blues
Wine & Jazz Summer Concert Series
Tuesday June 17 (7–9pm) @ Hollywood & Highland Center More times »
Jazz venues are notorious for their high cover prices and drink minimums. Luckily, the Hollywood & Highland Center is teaming up with KJAZZ 88.1 FM... View details »
Wine & Jazz Summer Concert Series
Performing Arts: Theatre
Tiny Ninja Theater: Macbeth
Tuesday June 17 (8pm) @ Fake Gallery More times »
Perhaps using toy ninjas to act out Macbeth protects human performers from the curse of "the Scottish play," but that probably isn't Tiny Ninja Theater's... View details »
Tiny Ninja Theater: Macbeth
Film
Israel Film Festival
Tuesday June 17 @ Various locations More times »
The Israel Film Festival, an annual two-week movie marathon, celebrates Israel and — l'chaim! — independent film. Festival highlights include Lynn Roth's The Little Traitor,... View details »
Israel Film Festival
Art
Tino Rodriguez & Virgo Paraiso
Tuesday June 17 (noon–6pm) @ 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
Tuesday June 17 (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
Mariah Anne Johnson
Tuesday June 17 (noon–6pm) @ Little Bird Gallery More times »
Free
Blame it on her traditional Southern upbringing, but Mariah Anne Johnson (born and raised in Arkansas) has an affinity for her own family history. The... View details »
Mariah Anne Johnson
More Flavor: City Gem
Pavilion of Wings
Tuesday June 17 (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
Tuesday June 17 (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