Events on Wednesday, July 16
Wednesday 7/16 @ Greek Theatre
Eric Burdon wasn't the first to lament it, but thanks to his chart-topping wail, everyone knows about the infamous house in...
Inara George and Van Dyke Parks
Wednesday 7/16 @ Tangier Restaurant
Old school meets new school as arranger/conductor Van Dyke Parks joins forces with free spirit Inara George. A friend and a...
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 7/16 @ Pharmaka
Hot on the heels of LACMA's controversial Phantom Sightings exhibition, Pharmaka Gallery tackles the issue of contemporary Chicano art with Rebel...
Citizen Artists Making Emphatic Arguments
Wednesday 7/16 @ 18th Street Arts Center
The 18th Street Art Center continues its tradition of presenting politically and socially engaged visual art with its four-part exhibition series...
Wednesday 7/16 @ George Billis Gallery
Just like the A.O.S. song says, history repeats itself. The new exhibition at George Billis Gallery offers a refreshing take on...
Wednesday 7/16 @ project: gallery
Edwin Ushiro's multimedia paintings are ethereal combinations of pop art and anime, which explains why he is in high demand as...
Wednesday 7/16 @ Daniel Weinberg Gallery
Before Williamsburg was Williamsburg (in other words, when taking the L train to Brooklyn was a perilous undertaking devoid of glossy...
Wednesday 7/16 @ Otis College of Art and Design
Clive Barker is a successful author, director, screenwriter, playwright, and poet; Myron Dyal is a classical musician. But both artists also...
Wednesday 7/16 @ Carol Henry Studio
An overstuffed white glove might bring to mind images of a Mickey Mouse cartoon, but for artist and curator Cecelia Kane,...
Wednesday 7/16 @ See Line Gallery
Ami Tallman's Fauvist palette, her love of extreme decor, and her penchant for historical research each feed into her interiors and...
Wednesday 7/16 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/16 @ Norton Simon Museum
This year marks the 45th anniversary of By or of Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Sélavy, the famous Marcel Duchamp retrospective at...
Wednesday 7/16 @ Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Ojai
The Ojai-based Nathan Larramendy Gallery has teamed up with the illustrious Beautiful/Decay magazine to produce Weekend Warrior, a group...
Wednesday 7/16 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/16 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA
Every Wednesday from now until the end of July, the Fowler hosts a noontime film series that complements its ongoing Mami...
Wednesday 7/16 @ Richard Heller Gallery
Living in Sweden proved to be an invaluable influence on Victoria Reynolds' artwork. Not only does she emulate the painstakingly naturalistic...
Wednesday 7/16 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/16 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/16 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/16 @ David Gallery
As the Beatles greeted New York City's cold winter weather for the first time in 1964, looming in their shadows was...
Wednesday 7/16 @ Regen Projects
This dual exhibition from British artist Gillian Wearing begins with Pin-Ups, displayed at the Regen Projects' Almont Drive location. For her...
Wednesday 7/16 @ LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions)
Known for its progressive, boundary-pushing performances and interdisciplinary bravado, LACE's lofty space transforms into a clean, white gallery for Against the...
Wednesday 7/16 @ Lawrence Asher Gallery
The title of this two-person exhibition refers to the artists' different approaches to dependence on media and consumerism. For collagist Sophia...
Wednesday 7/16 @ MODAA gallery
Photographer Corbin Smith's initial impressions of LA seemed to buy into into Baudrillard's description of Los Angeles as an illusion, "the...
Robert A. Nelson: Common Ground
Wednesday 7/16 @ 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,...
Wednesday 7/16 @ DCA Fine Art
One of Dublin, Ireland's most popular and prolific painters, John Moore makes richly hued portraits and abstractions that use the seemingly...
Wednesday 7/16 @ Corey Helford Gallery
In this collection of 24 large-scale paintings, Carlos Ramos recalls the deep impressions that realistic-looking dioramas had on him as a...
Wednesday 7/16 @ Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens
If only our cracked sidewalks, classic homes, sprawling hills, and endless streets could talk. But even if objects can't, camera lenses...
Wednesday 7/16 @ Honor Fraser
Artist Erik Parker and curator/critic Max Henry put their heads together to gather a group of talented artists for Honor Fraser's...
Wednesday 7/16 @ Writers Guild Theater
One of the great perks of living in the twinkle-dusted Hollywood vicinity is not only getting to see hotly anticipated films...
Wednesday 7/16 @ Laguna Art Museum
To those who have been reading the contemporary-art magazine Juxtapoz since it was founded in the mid-'90s, it may come as...
Wednesday 7/16 @ ACE Gallery
Melanie Pullen extends her macabre view of the world in her latest series, Violent Times, which explores the aesthetics of war...
Israeli Women: A Portrait in Photographs
Wednesday 7/16 @ 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....
Wednesday 7/16 @ Hammer Museum
The risk-taking John Lautner is often described as an architect's architect, even though some of his designs brought him both criticism...
Wednesday 7/16 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/16 @ Jail Gallery
Sculptor, video artist, and (increasingly often) independent curator Michael Dee is something of a conceptual punster; his own work in plastic...
Wednesday 7/16 @ Kinsey/DesForges Gallery
While Mike Stilkey's fanciful-yet-edgy works draw comparisons to Egon Schiele, Modigliani, and Aubrey Beardsley, their contemporary illustrative twists give the Los...
Wednesday 7/16 @ Frank Pictures Gallery
British ex-pat painter David Eddington may have left the grandeur and historical heft of Europe for a life by the Pacific...
Wednesday 7/16 @ The Getty Center
Nicole Cohen engineers recombinant layers of still and video imagery, investigating the network of associations that interior spaces contain. Also, she...
Wednesday 7/16 @ Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach
Peter Saul, who hit his artistic stride mid-century during America's pop-art movement, has become best known of late as a creator...
Wednesday 7/16 @ Michael Kohn Gallery
The quintessential pop artist was much more than a factory for silkscreens of Marilyn Monroe and Campbell's soup cans. In fact,...
Wednesday 7/16 @ Taylor De Cordoba Gallery
Thematic summer shows are as de rigueur in the art world as summer reading lists were in high school — and...
Wednesday 7/16 @ 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:...
Wednesday 7/16 @ La Luz de Jesus
Though painters Caia Koopman and Mark Gleason take vastly different approaches, both make the human/animal relationship a cornerstone of their work....
Wednesday 7/16 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/16 @ Bonelli Contemporary
An ambitious undertaking by art critic and curator Holly Myers, this month-long celebration of interactive visual and performance art promises to...
Wednesday 7/16 @ 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...
Wednesday 7/16 @ The Getty Center
In celebration of its tenth anniversary, the Getty Center presents Ten Years in Focus: The Artist and the Camera. The exhibition...
Wednesday 7/16 @ Griffith Park Driving Range Clubhouse
With summertime in high gear, there's no shortage of happening spots where you can grab a chilled post-work cocktail. But few...
Wednesday 7/16 @ d.e.n. contemporary art
A single definition of Indian contemporary art is tricky to pin down, as one might expect when funneling the widely varying...
Wednesday 7/16 @ REDCAT
REDCAT continues to be a beacon for cutting-edge contemporary art, featuring the first solo show of Haegue Yang in the US....
Wednesday 7/16 @ Peres Projects
Antonio Ballester Moreno's first solo show in America explodes in vibrant colors and playful forms. His bold palette recalls the traditions...
Wednesday 7/16 @ 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...
