Events on Wednesday, July 9

Sleepytime Gorilla Museum w/ Jason Webley & Edmund Welles

Music

Sleepytime Gorilla Museum

Wednesday 7/ 9 @ The Troubadour

It would be a great disservice to pin the usual genre descriptors to the lapels of Sleepytime Gorilla Museum. Part of... 

The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra feat. Wynton Marsalis and Willie Nelson

Music

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra

Wednesday 7/ 9 @ Hollywood Bowl

They call themselves "The Greatest Big Band in the Universe," and after seeing (and hearing) their roster of musicians, it's hard... 

Ongoing Events

<em>Conversations That Never Happened</em>

Art

Conversations That Never Happened

Wednesday 7/ 9 @ Telic Arts Exchange

Conversations That Never Happened is a series of four communal, food-based art happenings in and around Telic's Chinatown gallery, created by... 

<em>Contradictions & Complexities: Contemporary Art from India</em>

Art

Contemporary Art from India

Wednesday 7/ 9 @ 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... 

Mondongo: <em>Gaslighting</em>

Art

Mondongo

Wednesday 7/ 9 @ Track 16 Gallery

As students of cultural iconoclasm, the members of Argentinian art collective Mondongo — Juliana Laffitte, Manuel Mendanha, and Agustina Picasso —... 

Haegue Yang: <em>Asymmetric Equality</em>

Art

Haegue Yang

Wednesday 7/ 9 @ REDCAT

REDCAT continues to be a beacon for cutting-edge contemporary art, featuring the first solo show of Haegue Yang in the US.... 

Antonio Ballester Moreno: <em>Hunter House & Bear Suit Number Two</em>

Art

Antonio Ballester Moreno

Wednesday 7/ 9 @ Peres Projects

Antonio Ballester Moreno's first solo show in America explodes in vibrant colors and playful forms. His bold palette recalls the traditions... 

<em>Rebel Legacy: The Abstract in Latino Art </em>

Art

Rebel Legacy

Wednesday 7/ 9 @ Pharmaka

Hot on the heels of LACMA's controversial Phantom Sightings exhibition, Pharmaka Gallery tackles the issue of contemporary Chicano art with Rebel... 

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

Special Event

Nicole Cohen

Wednesday 7/ 9 @ The Getty Center

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

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

Art

Misato Suzuki

Wednesday 7/ 9 @ 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... 

The Art Directors Guild presents <em>MiniWorX</em>

Art

MiniWorX

Wednesday 7/ 9 @ Ghettogloss Presents: An art conglomerate on the move

The Art Directors Guild IA Local 800 is a deliriously talented group of production designers, art directors, and scenic, title, and... 

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

Performing Arts: Opera

shAme

Wednesday 7/ 9 @ 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... 

Peter Saul

Art

Peter Saul

Wednesday 7/ 9 @ 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... 

<em>Phalanstery Module </em>

Art

Phalanstery Module

Wednesday 7/ 9 @ 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 7/ 9 @ 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... 

Ami Tallman: <em>When the Sun Shines, It Does not Need Proof</em>

Art

Ami Tallman

Wednesday 7/ 9 @ 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... 

<em>Marcel Duchamp Redux </em>

Art

Marcel Duchamp Redux

Wednesday 7/ 9 @ Norton Simon Museum

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

John Moore: <em>Dreamscapes: Excavating Our Inner Landscape</em>

Art

John Moore

Wednesday 7/ 9 @ 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... 

High Noon Film Series

Film

High Noon Film Series

Wednesday 7/ 9 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA

Every Wednesday from now until the end of July, the Fowler hosts a noontime film series that complements its ongoing Mami... 

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

Art: Photography

Ten Years in Focus

Wednesday 7/ 9 @ The Getty Center

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

<em>The Puppet Show</em>

Art

The Puppet Show

Wednesday 7/ 9 @ 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... 

<em>LA Nude X </em>

Art: Photography

LA Nude X

Wednesday 7/ 9 @ 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... 

UCLA Extension Course: <em>Sneak Preview: Contemporary Films and Filmmakers</em>

Film

Sneak Preview

Wednesday 7/ 9 @ 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... 

Matt Dangler's <em>Treehouse</em>

Art

Matt Dangler

Wednesday 7/ 9 @ Gallery 1988

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... 

<em>Chris & Don</em>

Film

Chris & Don

Wednesday 7/ 9 @ Landmark Nuart Theatre

The remarkable tale at the center of Chris & Don opens on a Malibu beach 50 years ago, when British writer... 

<em>Against the Grain</em>

Art

Against the Grain

Wednesday 7/ 9 @ 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... 

Sophia Allison & York Chang: <em>Automatic Enigmatic</em>

Art

Sophia Allison & York Chang

Wednesday 7/ 9 @ 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... 

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

Art

Robert A. Nelson: Common Ground

Wednesday 7/ 9 @ 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,... 

<em>This Side of Paradise: Body and Landscape in LA Photographs</em>

Art: Photography

This Side of Paradise

Wednesday 7/ 9 @ 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... 

Carlos Ramos: <em>Natural History Museum Part I</em>

Art

Carlos Ramos

Wednesday 7/ 9 @ 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... 

Pavilion of Wings

City Gems

Pavilion of Wings

Wednesday 7/ 9 @ 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... 

<em>Broadway Bound</em>

Theatre

Broadway Bound

Wednesday 7/ 9 @ Skirball Cultural Center

Neil Simon has authored some of the most popular American plays of the last century, including the much-loved Eugene Trilogy, which... 

HK Zamani: <em>Shelter from the Storm</em>

Art

HK Zamani

Wednesday 7/ 9 @ SolwayJones Gallery

HK Zamani is best known to LA art lovers as Habib Kheradyar, the peripatetic multimedia artist, one-time owner of Post Gallery,... 

Mods & Rockers

Festival: Performing Arts

Mods & Rockers

Wednesday 7/ 9 @ Egyptian Theatre

Mods and rockers both worshiped bands, rode scooters, and cultivated impossibly hip hairstyles. But the two UK groups had a distinct... 

<em>Hand to Hand: Witnessing the War</em>

Art

Witnessing the War

Wednesday 7/ 9 @ Carol Henry Studio

An overstuffed white glove might bring to mind images of a Mickey Mouse cartoon, but for artist and curator Cecelia Kane,... 

<em>In the Land of Retinal Delights: The Juxtapoz Factor</em>

Art

The Juxtapoz Factor

Wednesday 7/ 9 @ 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... 

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

Art: Photography

Israeli Women: A Portrait in Photographs

Wednesday 7/ 9 @ 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.... 

Caia Koopman & Mark Gleason

Art

Caia Koopman & Mark Gleason

Wednesday 7/ 9 @ 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.... 

<em>Darkness Will Find You</em>

Art

Darkness Will Find You

Wednesday 7/ 9 @ Jail Gallery

Sculptor, video artist, and (increasingly often) independent curator Michael Dee is something of a conceptual punster; his own work in plastic... 

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

Art

Jerome Witkin

Wednesday 7/ 9 @ 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... 

<em>Mexican Calendar Girls</em>

Art

Mexican Calendar Girls

Wednesday 7/ 9 @ 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... 

Corbin Smith:<em> Venice Boulevard: Close Encounters </em>

Art: Photography

Corbin Smith

Wednesday 7/ 9 @ 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... 

Twilight at the Club

City Gems

Twilight at the Club

Wednesday 7/ 9 @ 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... 

<em>Politics as Usual: As Seen by Harry Benson</em>

Art: Photography

Harry Benson

Wednesday 7/ 9 @ David Gallery

As the Beatles greeted New York City's cold winter weather for the first time in 1964, looming in their shadows was... 

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

Art

Mark Bradford

Wednesday 7/ 9 @ 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>Flaunt</em>

Art

Flaunt

Wednesday 7/ 9 @ Junc Gallery

This annual exhibition at Junc typically features new work by both its most promising emerging talents and good-old standbys. The 2008... 

<em>Cover Version: A Summer Reading List</em>

Art

Cover Version

Wednesday 7/ 9 @ Taylor De Cordoba Gallery

Thematic summer shows are as de rigueur in the art world as summer reading lists were in high school — and... 

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

Art

Kori Newkirk

Wednesday 7/ 9 @ 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:... 

Victoria Reynolds: <em>Drawn and Rendered</em>

Art

Victoria Reynolds

Wednesday 7/ 9 @ Richard Heller Gallery

Living in Sweden proved to be an invaluable influence on Victoria Reynolds' artwork. Not only does she emulate the painstakingly naturalistic... 

<em>Party Favors</em>

Art

Party Favors

Wednesday 7/ 9 @ Bonelli Contemporary

An ambitious undertaking by art critic and curator Holly Myers, this month-long celebration of interactive visual and performance art promises to... 

<em>Two Madmen: The Art of Clive Barker and Myron Dyal</em>

Art

Two Madmen

Wednesday 7/ 9 @ 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... 

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

Art

Vexing

Wednesday 7/ 9 @ 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... 

Cadence Pearson: <em>Disjointed</em>

Art

Cadence Pearson

Wednesday 7/ 9 @ 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...