Events on Tuesday, August 5
Tuesday 8/ 5 @ Gibson Amphitheatre
While the Bowies, Iggys, and Enos were hogging the late-'70s stage, the Human League were waiting quietly in the wings —...
Tuesday 8/ 5 @ Spaceland
For the 11th year in a row, International Pop Overthrow lands in Los Angeles. Curated by founder David Bash, the two-week...
Tuesday 8/ 5 @ The Silent Movie Theatre
The musical wizards of Dublab are dazzling behind the turntables, and now they're getting behind the camera and inviting some creative...
Tuesday 8/ 5 @ Hollywood Bowl
Considered a kind of tragic rock star while alive (he played to packed houses even while stone-deaf) and a classical legend...
Ongoing Events
Tuesday 8/ 5 @ Subliminal Projects
Big Kids/Little Kids is the brainchild of curator John Freeborn, author of a book of the same name that chronicles the...
Tuesday 8/ 5 @ AndrewShire Gallery
The five artists brought together for this end-of-summer group show have little in common — except perhaps episodes of childhood trauma...
Tuesday 8/ 5 @ Various locations
Hip-hop is for nerds, or so seems to be the sentiment of LA's own Stones Throw records. You won't see the...
Truthiness and Absurd Recreation
Tuesday 8/ 5 @ 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...
Tuesday 8/ 5 @ The Getty Center
In celebration of its tenth anniversary, the Getty Center presents Ten Years in Focus: The Artist and the Camera. The exhibition...
Tuesday 8/ 5 @ David Gallery
As the Beatles greeted New York City's cold winter weather for the first time in 1964, looming in their shadows was...
Tuesday 8/ 5 @ Regen Projects
This dual exhibition from British artist Gillian Wearing begins with Pin-Ups, displayed at the Regen Projects' Almont Drive location. For her...
Citizen Artists Making Emphatic Arguments
Tuesday 8/ 5 @ 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...
Tuesday 8/ 5 @ 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...
Tuesday 8/ 5 @ 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...
Tuesday 8/ 5 @ 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...
Israeli Women: A Portrait in Photographs
Tuesday 8/ 5 @ 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....
Tuesday 8/ 5 @ Scribble Press
Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with...
Tuesday 8/ 5 @ 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...
Tuesday 8/ 5 @ 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...
Tuesday 8/ 5 @ Taylor De Cordoba Gallery
Thematic summer shows are as de rigueur in the art world as summer reading lists were in high school — and...
Tuesday 8/ 5 @ LA Louver Gallery
A participant in LA Louver's group show Rogue Wave '07, Sarabia proves that his work is dynamic enough to stand on...
Kori Newkirk and Miguel Angel Rios
Tuesday 8/ 5 @ LAXART
Kori Newkirk transforms the mundane into the monumental with his new installation, RANK. The deceptively simple sculpture — an outsized, mirrored...
Tuesday 8/ 5 @ 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...
Wine & Jazz Summer Concert Series
Tuesday 8/ 5 @ Hollywood & Highland Center
Jazz venues are notorious for their high cover prices and drink minimums. Luckily, the Hollywood & Highland Center is teaming up...
Tuesday 8/ 5 @ 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...
Tuesday 8/ 5 @ 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,...
Tuesday 8/ 5 @ project: gallery
Edwin Ushiro's multimedia paintings are ethereal combinations of pop art and anime, which explains why he is in high demand as...
Tuesday 8/ 5 @ 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...
Tuesday 8/ 5 @ Louis Stern Fine Arts
What do submerged nudes, fire-ravaged landscapes, and monstrous energy towers have in common? Not much at first glance, but they're all...
Tuesday 8/ 5 @ 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...
Tuesday 8/ 5 @ ACE Gallery
Melanie Pullen extends her macabre view of the world in her latest series, Violent Times, which explores the aesthetics of war...
Tuesday 8/ 5 @ 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...
Tuesday 8/ 5 @ REDCAT
REDCAT continues to be a beacon for cutting-edge contemporary art, featuring the first solo show of Haegue Yang in the US....
Tuesday 8/ 5 @ Daniel Weinberg Gallery
Before Williamsburg was Williamsburg (in other words, when taking the L train to Brooklyn was a perilous undertaking devoid of glossy...
Tuesday 8/ 5 @ Merry Karnowsky Gallery
During this solo show, Dave McKean leaves no medium unexplored. McKean is a prolific artist who dabbles in — among other...
Tuesday 8/ 5 @ 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...
Tuesday 8/ 5 @ 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...
Tuesday 8/ 5 @ 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...
Tuesday 8/ 5 @ 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...
Tuesday 8/ 5 @ 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,...
Tuesday 8/ 5 @ 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...
Tuesday 8/ 5 @ 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...
Tuesday 8/ 5 @ The Getty Center
Nicole Cohen engineers recombinant layers of still and video imagery, investigating the network of associations that interior spaces contain. Also, she...
Tuesday 8/ 5 @ 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...
Tuesday 8/ 5 @ 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,...
Tuesday 8/ 5 @ Peres Projects
Antonio Ballester Moreno's first solo show in America explodes in vibrant colors and playful forms. His bold palette recalls the traditions...
Contemporary Photography from China
Tuesday 8/ 5 @ DNJ Gallery
In DNJ's latest exhibition, eight artists take their cameras on the road and on rail, underground into mines, onto farms, and...
Tuesday 8/ 5 @ 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...
