All events on Wednesday June 25

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Film
High Noon Film Series
Wednesday June 25 (noon) @ Fowler Museum, UCLA More times »
Free
Every Wednesday from now until the end of July, the Fowler hosts a noontime film series that complements its ongoing Mami Wata exhibition. Throughout the... View details »
High Noon Film Series
Music: Rock/Pop
Venice Rocks
Wednesday June 25 (8pm) @ Air Conditioned Supper Club, Venice
Energy is the key word tonight as four bands leave their hearts out on the stage at the Air Conditioned Supper Club's. OK Stranger fire... View details »
Venice Rocks
Music: Rock/Pop
Thailand
Wednesday June 25 (9pm) @ Silverlake Lounge
Though leg warmers and headbands have unsuccessfully struggled to break back onto the scene for years, Los Angeles trio Thailand brings '80s pop back to... View details »
Thailand
Music: Rock/Pop
Ciam
Wednesday June 25 (9pm–2am) @ Tangier Restaurant
A natural heir to the lineage of the Beta Band and Kraftwerk, London-based Ciam create cinematic electronic music with a disturbed art-rock edge. The brainchild... View details »
Ciam
Music: Rock/Pop
The Beautiful Girls
Wednesday June 25 (8:30pm) @ The Troubadour
Giveaway
It's hard to come up with a fresh sound using the classic three-piece setup — guitar, bass, and drums. But Australia's Beautiful Girls somehow craft... View details »
The Beautiful Girls
Music: Rock/Pop
George Michael
Wednesday June 25 (8pm) @ The Forum
Although his career is divided sharply between the sugary boy-band confections of the '80s and the adult-contemporary fare of the '90s, there's no denying that... View details »
George Michael

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Art: Photography
Lights! Camera! Glamour!
Wednesday June 25 (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!
More Flavor: City Gem
Ugo Wine Bar
Wednesday June 25 (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: Architecture/Design
Phalanstery Module
Wednesday June 25 @ 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
Wednesday June 25 (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
Marcel Duchamp Redux
Wednesday June 25 (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
Art
Mexican Calendar Girls
Wednesday June 25 (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
Art
Culmination
Wednesday June 25 (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
Wednesday June 25 (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 25 (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
Wednesday June 25 (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 25 (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
Cadence Pearson
Wednesday June 25 (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 25 (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
Steve Olson
Wednesday June 25 (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 25 (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 25 (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
Kori Newkirk
Wednesday June 25 (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: Photography
LA Nude X
Wednesday June 25 (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
Ginger
Wednesday June 25 (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 25 (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 25 (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
Wednesday June 25 (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
Wednesday June 25 @ 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 25 (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
Rebel Legacy
Wednesday June 25 (noon–6pm) @ Pharmaka More times »
Free
Hot on the heels of LACMA's controversial Phantom Sightings exhibition, Pharmaka Gallery tackles the issue of contemporary Chicano art with Rebel Legacy: The Abstract in... View details »
Rebel Legacy
Art
Against the Grain
Wednesday June 25 (noon–6pm) @ Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions More times »
Free
Known for its progressive, boundary-pushing performances and interdisciplinary bravado, LACE's lofty space transforms into a clean, white gallery for Against the Grain, perhaps this summer's... View details »
Against the Grain
Film
Israel Film Festival
Wednesday June 25 @ 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
Wednesday June 25 (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
This Side of Paradise
Wednesday June 25 (10:30am–4:30pm) @ Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens More times »
If only our cracked sidewalks, classic homes, sprawling hills, and endless streets could talk. But even if objects can't, camera lenses spin many a word.... View details »
This Side of Paradise
Art
Peter Saul
Wednesday June 25 (11am–5pm) @ Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach More times »
Peter Saul, who hit his artistic stride mid-century during America's pop-art movement, has become best known of late as a creator of work that's part... View details »
Peter Saul
Film: Festival
LA Film Festival
Wednesday June 25 @ Various locations More times »
Though it packs 200 new films into 11 days, the LA Film Festival offers more than just screenings. There are poolside chats with filmmakers at... View details »
LA Film Festival
Art: Photography
Harry Benson
Wednesday June 25 (11am–6pm) @ David Gallery More times »
Free
As the Beatles greeted New York City's cold winter weather for the first time in 1964, looming in their shadows was Scottish photographer Harry Benson.... View details »
Harry Benson
Art
Matt Dangler
Wednesday June 25 (11am–6pm) @ Gallery 1988 More times »
Free
Artist Matt Dangler is a wee young thing to be garnering such art-world acclaim. The 24-year-old's spooky and fantastical paintings are filled with bizarre animals,... View details »
Matt Dangler
Art
Darkness Will Find You
Wednesday June 25 (noon–6pm) @ JAIL Gallery More times »
Free
Sculptor, video artist, and (increasingly often) independent curator Michael Dee is something of a conceptual punster; his own work in plastic abstract forms and layered... View details »
Darkness Will Find You
Art
Contemporary Art from India
Wednesday June 25 (11am–5:30pm) @ d.e.n. contemporary art More times »
Free
A single definition of Indian contemporary art is tricky to pin down, as one might expect when funneling the widely varying creative output from any... View details »
Contemporary Art from India
Art
MiniWorX
Wednesday June 25 (9am–6pm) @ Ghettogloss More times »
Free
The Art Directors Guild IA Local 800 is a deliriously talented group of production designers, art directors, and scenic, title, and graphic artists — all... View details »
MiniWorX
Art: Photography
Ten Years in Focus
Wednesday June 25 (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
Performing Arts: Theatre
1984
Wednesday June 25 (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
Performing Arts: Theatre
Tommy
Wednesday June 25 (8pm) @ Ricardo Montalban Theatre More times »
The idea that a young man would become "deaf, dumb, and blind" and then discover that he's a pinball genius was pretty far-out when the... View details »
Tommy
Art: Photography
Corbin Smith
Wednesday June 25 (9am–6pm) @ MODAA gallery More times »
Free
Photographer Corbin Smith's initial impressions of LA seemed to buy into into Baudrillard's description of Los Angeles as an illusion, "the horizontal fault, California breaking... View details »
Corbin Smith
Art
The Juxtapoz Factor
Wednesday June 25 (11am–5pm) @ Laguna Art Museum More times »
To those who have been reading the contemporary-art magazine Juxtapoz since it was founded in the mid-'90s, it may come as little surprise that some... View details »
The Juxtapoz Factor
Art
Ami Tallman
Wednesday June 25 (11am–6pm) @ See Line Gallery More times »
Free
Ami Tallman's Fauvist palette, her love of extreme decor, and her penchant for historical research each feed into her interiors and still lifes. Tallman's compositions... View details »
Ami Tallman
Art
Mariah Anne Johnson
Wednesday June 25 (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
Art
Flaunt
Wednesday June 25 (1–7pm) @ Junc Gallery More times »
Free
This annual exhibition at Junc typically features new work by both its most promising emerging talents and good-old standbys. The 2008 edition acts as a... View details »
Flaunt
Performing Arts: Cabaret/Burlesque
Lucha Va Voom
Wednesday June 25 (8pm) @ Mayan Theater More times »
For the uninitiated, Lucha Va Voom combines the treasured pastime of Mexican wrestling known as lucha libre with saucy burlesque performances, off-color standup comedy, and... View details »
Lucha Va Voom
Art
Misato Suzuki
Wednesday June 25 (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
Art
Two Madmen
Saturday July 26 (6–8pm) @ Otis College of Art and Design More times »
Free
Clive Barker is a successful author, director, screenwriter, playwright, and poet; Myron Dyal is a classical musician. But both artists also maintain an interest in... View details »
Two Madmen
More Flavor: City Gem
Pavilion of Wings
Wednesday June 25 (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 25 (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