All events on Wednesday June 04

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Music: Rock/Pop
Jonathan Richman
Wednesday June 4 (8pm) @ The Mint More times »
Between willfully simple, '50s-inspired numbers like "I'm a Little Dinosaur" and his work with the Modern Lovers, Jonathan Richman has the mark of a true... View details »
Jonathan Richman
Music: Rock/Pop
Matt Ellis
Wednesday June 4 (8pm) @ Tangier Restaurant
Singer/songwriter Matt Ellis displays much of the same rock-meets-country swagger as Ryan Adams, but with a dash of Bruce Springsteen's man-of-the-people amiability. Ellis, who was... View details »
Matt Ellis
Film
Savage Grace
Wednesday June 4 (7:30pm) @ Egyptian Theatre
The Egyptian Theatre offers a sneak preview of true-crime film Savage Grace as part of its Outfest Wednesdays. Julianne Moore plays Barbara Daly, a former... View details »
Savage Grace
Music: Rock/Pop
The Long Blondes
Wednesday June 4 (8pm) @ The Troubadour
Giveaway
Enveloped by disco beats and new-wave synths, the Long Blondes frontwoman Kate Jackson's husky voice seems to float above the crowd, evoking memories of Debbie... View details »
The Long Blondes
Performing Arts: Opera
shAme
Wednesday June 4 (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

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Art: Architecture/Design
La Vida Lowrider
Wednesday June 4 (10am–6pm) @ Peterson Automotive Museum More times »
The lowrider tradition originated in the Chicano barrios of Los Angeles, inspired by a fierce love for classic cars and the need for expressing cultural... View details »
La Vida Lowrider
Art: Photography
Lights! Camera! Glamour!
Wednesday June 4 (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
Bob Dylan's American Journey
Wednesday June 4 @ Skirball Cultural Center More times »
This year's resurgent Dylanmania — from Todd Haynes' byzantine biopic, I'm Not There, to Murray Lerner's performance-driven documentary, The Other Side of the Mirror —... View details »
Bob Dylan's American Journey
Art
Kara Walker
Wednesday June 4 (11am–7pm) @ Hammer Museum More times »
Employing iconic black-paper silhouettes, Kara Walker — who was named one of Time's "100 Most Influential People" in 2007 — sparks a tense dialogue between... View details »
Kara Walker
Art
Make Art/Stop AIDS
Wednesday June 4 (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 »
Art
California Video
Wednesday June 4 @ The Getty Center More times »
Free
As video art's growing reach now extends from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera to commuters watching YouTube on their iPhones, the Getty... View details »
California Video
More Flavor: City Gem
Ugo Wine Bar
Wednesday June 4 (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
Performing Arts: Theatre
Keep Your Pantheon and Duck Variations
Wednesday June 4 @ Kirk Douglas Theatre More times »
Brilliantly contrasting old with new, Center Theatre Group places one of David Mamet's earliest works alongside his latest production. In the classic Duck Variations, two... View details »
Keep Your Pantheon and Duck Variations
Art
The Color of Life
Wednesday June 4 (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: Photography
Gregory Crewdson
Wednesday June 4 (10am–5:30pm) @ Gagosian Gallery More times »
Free
For his latest show, Gregory Crewdson churns out a new line of epic photo tableaux. Shot on a blockbuster budget with an army of production... View details »
Gregory Crewdson
Art: Architecture/Design
Phalanstery Module
Wednesday June 4 @ 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 4 (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 4 (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 4 (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 4 (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 4 (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 4 (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
Amir H. Fallah
Wednesday June 4 (11am–6pm) @ Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Ojai More times »
Free
Installation artist and painter Amir H. Fallah finds intrigue in the ramshackle construction of boyhood clubhouses and other ill-designed, teetering structures. He tops those buildings... View details »
Amir H. Fallah
Art
Anna Dusi
Wednesday June 4 (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 4 (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 4 (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 4 (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 4 (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 4 (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 4 (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 4 (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 4 (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 4 (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 4 (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 4 (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 4 (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 4 (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 4 (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 4 (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
Wednesday June 4 (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 4 (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
Wednesday June 4 (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
Performing Arts: Theatre
Norman's Ark
Wednesday June 4 (8:30pm) @ The Ford Theater More times »
After directing Broadway's mega-musical The Lion King, Tony Award-winner Peter Schneider moved in a surprising direction: he traded in big-budget spectacle and the Great White... View details »
Norman's Ark
Art
Four
Wednesday June 4 (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 4 (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 4 (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
Elizabeth McGrath
Wednesday June 4 (noon–6pm) @ Billy Shire Fine Arts More times »
Free
For The Secret Party, Elizabeth McGrath ditches her usual creepy dolls and freaky dioramas and fully embraces her works' intrinsic whimsy with a frothy, quirky... View details »
Elizabeth McGrath
Art
Mark Hobley
Wednesday June 4 (11am–6pm) @ Applegate Gallery More times »
Free
Venice-based painter Mark Hobley takes iconic logos, scantily-dressed women, and playing cards (often at the same time) and transforms them into graphically rich pop heroes.... View details »
Mark Hobley
Art
Terence Koh
Wednesday June 4 (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 »
Art
Sculpture Part One
Wednesday June 4 (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
CalArts MFA Graduate Exhibition
Wednesday June 4 (noon–5pm) @ Various Chinatown galleries More times »
Free
After graduation, most MFA recipients fret over finding places to show their work. This year's graduating class of visual artists at CalArts did its fretting... View details »
CalArts MFA Graduate Exhibition
Performing Arts: Theatre
A Chorus Line
Wednesday June 4 (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
Mark Bradford
Wednesday June 4 @ 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
Art: Photography
Ten Years in Focus
Wednesday June 4 (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 4 (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 4 (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 4 (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