All events on Wednesday July 09

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Music: Jazz/Blues
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra
Wednesday July 9 (8pm) @ Hollywood Bowl
They call themselves "The Greatest Big Band in the Universe," and after seeing (and hearing) their roster of musicians, it's hard to disagree. The Jazz... View details »
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra
Music: Rock/Pop
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
Wednesday July 9 (8pm) @ The Troubadour
It would be a great disservice to pin the usual genre descriptors to the lapels of Sleepytime Gorilla Museum. Part of the Bay Area's avant-garde... View details »
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
Film
Sneak Preview
Wednesday July 9 (7–10pm) @ Writers Guild Theater More times »
Giveaway
One of the great perks of living in the twinkle-dusted Hollywood vicinity is not only getting to see hotly anticipated films before they officially open,... View details »
Sneak Preview
Performing Arts: Theatre
Broadway Bound
Wednesday July 9 (8pm) @ Skirball Cultural Center More times »
Neil Simon has authored some of the most popular American plays of the last century, including the much-loved Eugene Trilogy, which follows an aspiring comedy... View details »
Broadway Bound
Art
Conversations That Never Happened
Wednesday July 9 (7pm) @ Telic Arts Exchange More times »
Conversations That Never Happened is a series of four communal, food-based art happenings in and around Telic's Chinatown gallery, created by a group of chefs,... View details »
Conversations That Never Happened
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Twilight at the Club
Wednesday July 9 (7:30–11pm) @ Griffith Park Driving Range Clubhouse More times »
Free
With summertime in high gear, there's no shortage of happening spots where you can grab a chilled post-work cocktail. But few have an unobstructed view... View details »
Twilight at the Club

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Vinum Populi
Wednesday July 9 (5:30pm–12:30am) @ Vinum Populi More times »
Free
Culver City's latest spot of interest is Vinum Populi, a cozy wine bar with the usual bistro couches and charcuterie selection — with one key... View details »
Vinum Populi
Art: Architecture/Design
Phalanstery Module
Wednesday July 9 @ 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
Marcel Duchamp Redux
Wednesday July 9 (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 July 9 (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
Jerome Witkin
Wednesday July 9 (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 July 9 (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 July 9 (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
Cadence Pearson
Wednesday July 9 (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
Kori Newkirk
Wednesday July 9 (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 July 9 (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 July 9 (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
Art
Robert A. Nelson: Common Ground
Wednesday July 9 (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 July 9 (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 July 9 @ 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 July 9 (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 July 9 (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 July 9 (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
Chris & Don
Wednesday July 9 @ Landmark Nuart Theatre More times »
The remarkable tale at the center of Chris & Don opens on a Malibu beach 50 years ago, when British writer Christopher Isherwood (his Berlin... View details »
Chris & Don
Art: Photography
This Side of Paradise
Wednesday July 9 (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 July 9 (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
Art: Photography
Harry Benson
Wednesday July 9 (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 July 9 (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 July 9 (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 July 9 (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 July 9 (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 July 9 (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: Photography
Corbin Smith
Wednesday July 9 (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 July 9 (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 July 9 (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
Flaunt
Wednesday July 9 (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
Film
High Noon Film Series
Wednesday July 9 (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
Film: Festival
Mods & Rockers
Wednesday July 9 @ Egyptian Theatre More times »
Giveaway
Mods and rockers both worshiped bands, rode scooters, and cultivated impossibly hip hairstyles. But the two UK groups had a distinct aversion to one another... View details »
Mods & Rockers
Art
Haegue Yang
Wednesday July 9 (noon–6pm) @ REDCAT More times »
Free
REDCAT continues to be a beacon for cutting-edge contemporary art, featuring the first solo show of Haegue Yang in the US. The Korean artist's multimedia... View details »
Haegue Yang
Art
Party Favors
Wednesday July 9 (noon–6pm) @ Bonelli Contemporary More times »
Free
An ambitious undertaking by art critic and curator Holly Myers, this month-long celebration of interactive visual and performance art promises to bring out the Factory... View details »
Party Favors
Art
Carlos Ramos
Wednesday July 9 (noon–6pm) @ Corey Helford More times »
Free
In this collection of 24 large-scale paintings, Carlos Ramos recalls the deep impressions that realistic-looking dioramas had on him as a young boy, wandering through... View details »
Carlos Ramos
Art
Cover Version
Wednesday July 9 (11am–5:30pm) @ Taylor De Cordoba Gallery More times »
Free
Thematic summer shows are as de rigueur in the art world as summer reading lists were in high school — and now a new group... View details »
Cover Version
Art
Sophia Allison & York Chang
Wednesday July 9 (11am–5pm) @ Lawrence Asher Gallery More times »
Free
The title of this two-person exhibition refers to the artists' different approaches to dependence on media and consumerism. For collagist Sophia Allison, the "automatic" is... View details »
Sophia Allison & York Chang
Art
Antonio Ballester Moreno
Wednesday July 9 (11am–6pm) @ Peres Projects More times »
Free
Antonio Ballester Moreno's first solo show in America explodes in vibrant colors and playful forms. His bold palette recalls the traditions of his native Spain,... View details »
Antonio Ballester Moreno
Art
Misato Suzuki
Wednesday July 9 (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
Caia Koopman & Mark Gleason
Wednesday July 9 (11am–7pm) @ La Luz de Jesus More times »
Free
Though painters Caia Koopman and Mark Gleason take vastly different approaches, both make the human/animal relationship a cornerstone of their work. Koopman's whimsical illustrations depict... View details »
Caia Koopman & Mark Gleason
Art
Mondongo
Wednesday July 9 @ Track 16 Gallery More times »
Free
As students of cultural iconoclasm, the members of Argentinian art collective Mondongo — Juliana Laffitte, Manuel Mendanha, and Agustina Picasso — regularly reveal the dark... View details »
Mondongo
Art
Witnessing the War
Wednesday July 9 (2–7pm) @ Carol Henry Studio More times »
Free
An overstuffed white glove might bring to mind images of a Mickey Mouse cartoon, but for artist and curator Cecelia Kane, it stands for something... View details »
Witnessing the War
Art
John Moore
Wednesday July 9 (11am–4pm) @ DCA Fine Art More times »
Free
One of Dublin, Ireland's most popular and prolific painters, John Moore makes richly hued portraits and abstractions that use the seemingly ubiquitous premise of the... View details »
John Moore
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
Art
Victoria Reynolds
Wednesday July 9 (11am–5pm) @ Richard Heller Gallery More times »
Free
Living in Sweden proved to be an invaluable influence on Victoria Reynolds' artwork. Not only does she emulate the painstakingly naturalistic vanitas (often-morbid still-life paintings... View details »
Victoria Reynolds
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Pavilion of Wings
Wednesday July 9 (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 July 9 (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