Events on Wednesday, August 27
Druid Underground Film Festival
Wednesday 8/27 @ 7 Dudley Cinema at Sponto Gallery
William Burgess collects short films and pieces of video art that don't so much defy convention as mow it down, douse...
Wednesday 8/27 @ The Echo & Echoplex
After opening for Coldplay on a few gargantuan West Coast dates, Austin's Shearwater settle in for a headlining slot at the...
Wednesday 8/27 @ Whisky a Go Go
Tonight, Star 98.7 presents the third of five Rock Star 3 showcases, taking LA's top indie bands to the fabled Whisky...
Wednesday 8/27 @ Hollywood Bowl
Tonight's all-star lineup of jazz and R&B heavyweights promises a set full of songs you didn't know you knew. Guitar great...
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 8/27 @ 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 8/27 @ Cardwell Jimmerson Contemporary Art
Video artist Doug Henry and composer/audiophile Joe Potts collaborate in a major new video work honoring the 100-year anniversary of cubism...
Wednesday 8/27 @ 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 8/27 @ AndrewShire Gallery
The five artists brought together for this end-of-summer group show have little in common — except perhaps episodes of childhood trauma...
Wednesday 8/27 @ Cal State University Northridge Art Gallery
Comprising selections from the nearly 1,000 works that European-native-turned California-great Hans Burkhardt personally donated to Cal State Northridge (where he taught...
Wednesday 8/27 @ 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 8/27 @ 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 8/27 @ ACE Gallery
Melanie Pullen extends her macabre view of the world in her latest series, Violent Times, which explores the aesthetics of war...
Wednesday 8/27 @ Sabina Lee Gallery
Cambodian artist Aragna Ker can't help but poke and prod at cultural meanings until they fall apart. His elaborate mixed-media installations...
Wednesday 8/27 @ 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 8/27 @ 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 8/27 @ Tarryn Teresa Gallery
The work of New Zealander Rozi Demant depicts feathered friends, but her birds don't always stand for things like freedom, peace,...
Wednesday 8/27 @ Smockshop
For artists who don't yet sustain themselves from their work, there are myriad ways to bring in some income — peddling...
Wednesday 8/27 @ Scribble Press
Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with...
Wednesday 8/27 @ 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 8/27 @ 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 8/27 @ Royal/T
Director of New York's Greene Naftali Gallery, Jay Sanders steps into cafe/shop/gallery Royal/T to curate this group show of works from...
Wednesday 8/27 @ 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 8/27 @ Landmark Nuart Theatre
In this band biopic, Shane West delivers a charismatic, near-perfect performance as the self-inventing, self-immolating, and fatally brilliant Darby Crash, founder...
Wednesday 8/27 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA
World-renowned Mexican silversmith Antonio Pineda brings more than 200 of his masterpieces up the coast to UCLA's Fowler Museum, to show...
Wednesday 8/27 @ LA Contemporary
Adi Da Samraj's images are products of mashed-together visual strategies, evoking everything from Mondrian's primary-color palette and geometric line work to...
Wednesday 8/27 @ Little Bird Gallery
Drawing on her suburban So-Cal roots, Kelly Lynn Jones depicts modern America's decay in sparse, childlike paintings. Using house paint and...
Wednesday 8/27 @ 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 8/27 @ The Getty Center
Art's love affair with landscapes was captured with brush strokes until technology gave way to the click of the shutter. In...
Kori Newkirk and Miguel Angel Rios
Wednesday 8/27 @ LAXART
Kori Newkirk transforms the mundane into the monumental with his new installation, RANK. The deceptively simple sculpture — an outsized, mirrored...
Wednesday 8/27 @ 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 8/27 @ Western Project
For the second installment of its lively Sculpture series, Culver City gallery Western Projects pushes the 3-D envelope with a collection...
Wednesday 8/27 @ 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 8/27 @ 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 8/27 @ Corey Helford Gallery
This aptly titled exhibition from Los Angeles street artist Buff Monster submerges viewers in a candy-coated, anime-inspired world. His riffs on...
Wednesday 8/27 @ 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 8/27 @ 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 8/27 @ 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 8/27 @ Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach
For California Scenarios — the third installment of Signals, OCMA's ongoing contemporary video-art survey — the museum showcases the vivid work...
Wednesday 8/27 @ 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...
Israeli Women: A Portrait in Photographs
Wednesday 8/27 @ 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 8/27 @ Craft and Folk Art Museum
Traditional paper and canvas simply won't do for New York artist Josh Dorman, who employs vintage maps and textbook diagrams as...
Truthiness and Absurd Recreation
Wednesday 8/27 @ California Museum of Photography, UC Riverside
Borrowing a recently coined neologism from Stephen Colbert's faux-conservative lexicon, Truthiness questions the reliability of the visual by featuring artists who...
Wednesday 8/27 @ 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 8/27 @ 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...
Contemporary Photography from China
Wednesday 8/27 @ DNJ Gallery
In DNJ's latest exhibition, eight artists take their cameras on the road and on rail, underground into mines, onto farms, and...
Citizen Artists Making Emphatic Arguments
Wednesday 8/27 @ 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...
