Events on Monday, August 18

Warpaint w/ the Drones, Die Princess Die, and Hecuba

Music

The Drones

Monday 8/18 @ Spaceland

Lo-fi blues rockers the Drones teeter between exhaustion and rage, mixing filthy, meandering guitar riffs and the snarling vocals of an... 

Monday Social feat. Habersham

Music: DJ

Habersham

Monday 8/18 @ Nacional

The Monday Social is one of the longest-running weekly dance nights in LA, holding things steady for 12 years now —... 

Ongoing Events

<em>Man on Wire</em>

Film

Man on Wire

Monday 8/18 @ The Landmark

In 1968, a French teen named Philippe Petit sat in a dentist's office reading a magazine that featured the plans for... 

Marlene Dumas: <em>Measuring Your Own Grave</em>

Art

Marlene Dumas

Monday 8/18 @ Museum of Contemporary Art

The first stateside exhibit of French/South African/Dutch artist Marlene Dumas' work, Measuring Your Own Grave is a prodding collection of sketches... 

City Gems

Scribble Press

Monday 8/18 @ Scribble Press

Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with... 

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

Art

Mark Bradford

Monday 8/18 @ 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>Citizen Artists Making Emphatic Arguments</em>

Art

Citizen Artists Making Emphatic Arguments

Monday 8/18 @ 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... 

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

Art: Photography

Corbin Smith

Monday 8/18 @ 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... 

Fr&eacute;d&eacute;ric Magazine

Art

Frédéric Magazine

Monday 8/18 @ Fette's Gallery

Every day, at least one new drawing posts to the online magazine/gallery Frédéric. Founded in 2004 by Isabelle Boinot, Frédéric Fleury,... 

Philip-Lorca diCorcia

Art: Photography

Philip-Lorca diCorcia

Monday 8/18 @ Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Photographer Philip-Lorca diCorcia's meticulously planned pictures look as effortless as Polaroids. Most of his works feature a single person — who... 

James Turrell: <em>Dividing the Light</em>

Art

James Turrell

Monday 8/18 @ Draper Courtyard, Pomona College

It's up for debate whether James Turrell is a sculptor, an architect, a light-and-space artist, or an earth-works artist. Whichever he... 

<em>Phalanstery Module </em>

Art

Phalanstery Module

Monday 8/18 @ 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>In the Land of Retinal Delights: The Juxtapoz Factor</em>

Art

The Juxtapoz Factor

Monday 8/18 @ 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... 

Pavilion of Wings

City Gems

Pavilion of Wings

Monday 8/18 @ 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>(Neo) Realism</em>

Art

(Neo) Realism

Monday 8/18 @ 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... 

<em>Marcel Duchamp Redux </em>

Art

Marcel Duchamp Redux

Monday 8/18 @ Norton Simon Museum

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

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

Art: Photography

This Side of Paradise

Monday 8/18 @ 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... 

Yoko Ono: <em>Wish Tree</em>

Art

Yoko Ono

Monday 8/18 @ One Colorado

It has been nearly 28 years since John Lennon's passing, but his quest for world peace lives on. Lennon's widow, noted...