All events on Wednesday September 10

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Music: Rock/Pop
Built to Spill
Wednesday Sep 10 (8pm) @ The Troubadour More times »
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Built to Spill
Performing Arts: Comedy
826LA Yuk-Fest
Wednesday Sep 10 (8pm) @ Avalon Hollywood
The nonprofit 826LA emphasizes writing as an important tool for kids' success. The organization, founded to support the writing endeavors of students from elementary through... View details »
826LA Yuk-Fest
More Flavor: Discussion
Is There Such a Thing as LA Cuisine?
Wednesday Sep 10 (7pm) @ Hammer Museum
Free
Those who think the phrase "Los Angeles cuisine" is an oxymoron need to wake up and smell the cooking. This Zócalo-organized, Hammer-hosted event, moderated by... View details »
Is There Such a Thing as LA Cuisine?
Music: Electronic
Irwin's Conspiracy
Wednesday Sep 10 (10pm–2am) @ Air Conditioned Supper Club, Venice
The Air Conditioned Lounge's new series, Live Electronic, kicks off with an epic lineup. Irwin's Conspiracy boast a powerful live show that combines the spontaneity... View details »
Irwin's Conspiracy
Music: Rock/Pop
Bodies of Water w/ Throw Me the Statue and Princeton
Wednesday Sep 10 (7:30pm) @ The Echo
Bodies of Water's patchwork of musical touchstones shouldn't really work, but the Los Angeles group's sky-scraping enthusiasm is the glue that holds the gospel, tropicália,... View details »
Bodies of Water w/ Throw Me the Statue and Princeton

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More Flavor: City Gem
Ugo Wine Bar
Wednesday Sep 10 (5:30pm–12:30am) @ Vinum Populi More times »
Free
Culver City's latest spot of interest is Ugo Wine Bar, a cozy wine bar with the usual bistro couches and charcuterie selection — with one... View details »
Ugo Wine Bar
Art
Marcel Duchamp Redux
Wednesday Sep 10 (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
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Mexican Calendar Girls
Wednesday Sep 10 (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
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Kori Newkirk
Wednesday Sep 10 (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
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Mark Bradford
Wednesday Sep 10 @ 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
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Against the Grain
Wednesday Sep 10 (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
Art: Photography
This Side of Paradise
Wednesday Sep 10 (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 Sep 10 (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
The Juxtapoz Factor
Wednesday Sep 10 (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: Architecture/Design
John Lautner
Wednesday Sep 10 (11am–7pm) @ Hammer Museum More times »
The risk-taking John Lautner is often described as an architect's architect, even though some of his designs brought him both criticism and disdain. One of... View details »
John Lautner
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Citizen Artists Making Emphatic Arguments
Wednesday Sep 10 (11am–5:30pm) @ 18th Street Arts Center More times »
Free
The 18th Street Art Center continues its tradition of presenting politically and socially engaged visual art with its four-part exhibition series Future of Nations, an... View details »
Citizen Artists Making Emphatic Arguments
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David Eddington
Wednesday Sep 10 (11:30am–6:30pm) @ Frank Pictures Gallery More times »
Free
British ex-pat painter David Eddington may have left the grandeur and historical heft of Europe for a life by the Pacific shore, but his new... View details »
David Eddington
Music: Electronic
Ratatat
Wednesday Sep 10 (8pm) @ Music Box at the Fonda Theater More times »
Giveaway
After two studio albums and two bootleg hip-hop mixtapes, New York's Ratatat decamped to an old mansion in the Catskills to record their third full-length... View details »
Ratatat
Art
Summer Smockshop
Wednesday Sep 10 (noon–4pm) @ Smockshop More times »
Free
For artists who don't yet sustain themselves from their work, there are myriad ways to bring in some income — peddling smocks is one of... View details »
Summer Smockshop
More Flavor: City Gem
Twilight at the Club
Wednesday Sep 10 (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
Art
Truthiness and Absurd Recreation
Wednesday Sep 10 (noon–5pm) @ California Museum of Photography, UC Riverside More times »
Borrowing a recently coined neologism from Stephen Colbert's faux-conservative lexicon, Truthiness questions the reliability of the visual by featuring artists who transform photography (decidedly two-dimensional)... View details »
Truthiness and Absurd Recreation
Performing Arts: Opera
The Fly
Wednesday Sep 10 (7:30pm) @ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion More times »
Loosely based on George Langelaan's 1957 short story and David Cronenberg's 1986 film adaptation, The Fly wings its way to the Chandler Pavilion tonight for... View details »
The Fly
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Ultrasonic International III
Wednesday Sep 10 (10am–6pm) @ Mark Moore Gallery More times »
Free
Elementary, My Dear Watson is the Mark Moore Gallery's third installment of its annual Ultrasonic International series. The group show features 16 local, national, and... View details »
Ultrasonic International III
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Signals: A Video Showcase
Wednesday Sep 10 (11am–5pm) @ Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach More times »
For California Scenarios — the third installment of Signals, OCMA's ongoing contemporary video-art survey — the museum showcases the vivid work of Mungo Thomson, Enid... View details »
Signals: A Video Showcase
Art
Macrocosm
Wednesday Sep 10 (11am–6pm) @ Roberts & Tilton Gallery More times »
Free
Roberts + Tilton becomes the latest A-list LA gallery to take up residence in Culver City, throwing a mammoth group show and housewarming party on... View details »
Macrocosm
Art: Photography
In Focus: The Landscape
Wednesday Sep 10 (10am–6pm) @ The Getty Center More times »
Free
Art's love affair with landscapes was captured with brush strokes until technology gave way to the click of the shutter. In Focus: The Landscape explores... View details »
In Focus: The Landscape
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Hans Burkhardt
Wednesday Sep 10 (noon–4pm) @ Cal State University Northridge Art Gallery More times »
Free
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 before his death), this... View details »
Hans Burkhardt
More Flavor: City Gem
Scribble Press
Wednesday Sep 10 (10am–9pm) @ Scribble Press More times »
Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with markers, stickers, paints, wide... View details »
Art: Photography
Melanie Pullen
Wednesday Sep 10 (10am–6pm) @ ACE Gallery More times »
Free
Melanie Pullen extends her macabre view of the world in her latest series, Violent Times, which explores the aesthetics of war and takes her elaborately... View details »
Melanie Pullen
Art
Katie Grinnan
Wednesday Sep 10 (11am–6pm) @ MAK Center for Art and Architecture More times »
Katie Grinnan has made a career out of walking the fine line between the second and third dimensions. Grinnan takes architectural structures — as well... View details »
Katie Grinnan
Art
All of This is Melting Away
Wednesday Sep 10 (8am–6pm) @ Royal/T More times »
Free
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 prominent collector Susan Hancock's... View details »
All of This is Melting Away
Art
Yin Zhaoyang
Wednesday Sep 10 (10am–5:30pm) @ DF2 More times »
Free
Chinese-born Yin Zhaoyang didn't have to look too far for inspiration when creating the work in his latest show at DF2 Gallery. After viewing the... View details »
Yin Zhaoyang
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Kerry James Marshall
Wednesday Sep 10 (10am–5:30pm) @ Koplin del Rio Gallery More times »
Free
Chicago artist Kerry James Marshall has shown internationally to great acclaim, and now will show for the sixth time with Koplin del Rio in LA.... View details »
Kerry James Marshall
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Kyle Field
Wednesday Sep 10 (11am–5:30pm) @ Taylor De Cordoba Gallery More times »
Free
For his second go-round at Taylor De Cordoba, San Franciscan artist/musican Kyle Field (he's a member of the band Little Wings), plucks whimsical imagery for... View details »
Kyle Field
Art
Hope Gangloff and Jason Jägel
Wednesday Sep 10 @ Richard Heller Gallery More times »
Free
In tandem with the release of his book, 73 Funshine, San Francisco-based artist Jason Jägel exhibits a collection of music-inspired work. Part of the exhibition... View details »
Hope Gangloff and Jason Jägel
Art
Neck Face
Wednesday Sep 10 (1–6pm) @ New Image Art More times »
Free
Neck Face and his ubiquitous demon motifs — scrawled all over downtowns on both coasts — enter the gallery scene and infiltrate the once-genteel medium... View details »
Neck Face
Art
Josh Dorman
Wednesday Sep 10 (11am–5pm) @ Craft and Folk Art Museum More times »
Traditional paper and canvas simply won't do for New York artist Josh Dorman, who employs vintage maps and textbook diagrams as foundations for his fantastical... View details »
Josh Dorman
Art
Cycling Apparati
Wednesday Sep 10 (11am–6pm) @ High Energy Constructs More times »
Free
For many contemporary artists, Warhol is the North Star by which they guide their own emerging views of culture. But for a segment of more... View details »
Cycling Apparati
Performing Arts: Theatre
A Bronx Tale
Wednesday Sep 10 (8pm) @ Wadsworth Theater More times »
Before his tenure in Hollywood began, Chazz Palminteri penned this semi-autobiographical play about growing up on the corner of Belmont Ave and 187th Street. For... View details »
A Bronx Tale
Art
Jenny Mollen-Biggs
Wednesday Sep 10 (9am–6pm) @ Ghettogloss More times »
Free
When Jenny Mollen-Biggs isn't acting in films and television shows, she is exhibiting paintings that are simultaneously cute and sinister. The artist — who can... View details »
Jenny Mollen-Biggs
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Aspects of Mel's Hole
Wednesday Sep 10 (11am–4pm) @ CSUF Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana More times »
Free
Beloved radio host Art Bell is a cross between Jean Shepherd and Fox Mulder, and a man whose paranormality-themed broadcasts were among the most misunderstood... View details »
Aspects of Mel's Hole
Art: Photography
Pipo Nguyen-Duy
Wednesday Sep 10 (noon–6pm) @ Sam Lee Gallery More times »
Free
Sam Lee Gallery follows up its dynamic group exhibition I AM I A KILLER with Pipo Nguyen-Duy's cyclical photography project, The Garden. Behind his camera,... View details »
Pipo Nguyen-Duy
Art
Mercedes Helnwein
Wednesday Sep 10 (noon–6pm) @ Merry Karnowsky Gallery More times »
Free
Austrian artist Mercedes Helnwein's darkly beautiful pencil drawings are equal parts Tim Burton fairy tale, Cindy Sherman photograph, and girlish fantasy. The women in her... View details »
Mercedes Helnwein
Art
Syndrome
Wednesday Sep 10 (noon–7pm) @ Crewest Gallery More times »
Free
Micah Hancock, James Larese, and Mars Sandoval, who make up the motion-design studio Syndrome, demonstrate their penchants for biting humor and stark realism during an... View details »
Syndrome
Art
Kristi Lippire
Wednesday Sep 10 (11am–5:30pm) @ d.e.n. contemporary art More times »
Free
Kristi Lippire cobbles together images from a mind-boggling array of sources, then fashions them into large-scale works. Using plywood and other construction materials to reinforce... View details »
Kristi Lippire
Performing Arts: Theatre
9 to 5
Wednesday Sep 10 @ Ahmanson Theatre More times »
Based on Collin Higgins' screwball 1980 comedy, 9 to 5: The Musical makes its LA premiere tonight before heading to Broadway in the spring. Directed... View details »
9 to 5
Art: Photography
Dennis Hopper and Wendy Burton
Wednesday Sep 10 (10am–5:30pm) @ Craig Krull Gallery More times »
Free
Craig Krull Gallery pulls out the big guns for its season opener, with concurrent solo exhibitions from two of its most accomplished artists. Wendy Burton's... View details »
Dennis Hopper and Wendy Burton
Art
Nancy Reddin Kienholz
Wednesday Sep 10 (10am–6pm) @ LA Louver Gallery More times »
Free
Nancy Reddin Kienholz may be familiar to some because of her lifelong collaboration with late husband Ed Kienholz, one of the world's most famous assemblage... View details »
Nancy Reddin Kienholz
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Ian Francis
Wednesday Sep 10 (11am–6pm) @ Kinsey/DesForges Gallery More times »
Free
The brilliantly brash British phenom Ian Francis returns to Kinsey/DesForges for his second solo show. Once again, the artist presents visceral, even garish, large-scale works... View details »
Ian Francis
Art
The Art of War
Wednesday Sep 10 (noon–6pm) @ Norton Simon Museum More times »
When searching for a means of drumming up support for World War I, officials in Washington didn't have to look much further than two-dimensional art.... View details »
The Art of War
Art
GLAMFA
Wednesday Sep 10 (noon–7pm) @ University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach More times »
Free
The spirit of collegiality among the many graduate art programs in the greater Los Angeles area finds its annual apogee in the 2008 GLAMFA exhibition.... View details »
GLAMFA
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Brandon Boyd
Wednesday Sep 10 (11am–6pm) @ Mr. Musichead Gallery More times »
Free
If the name Brandon Boyd sounds familiar, it might be for precarious reasons: he's the lead singer of Incubus. Of course, his art is something... View details »
Brandon Boyd
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Anne Faith Nicholls
Wednesday Sep 10 (11am–7pm) @ La Luz de Jesus More times »
Free
Anne Faith Nicholls remixes folk art with her quasi-surrealist, richly symbolic narrative works that have roots in the traditional Western high-art style. The result, which... View details »
Anne Faith Nicholls
Art
Bob Biggs, Doug Edge, and Kate Harding
Wednesday Sep 10 (11am–6pm) @ Track 16 Gallery More times »
Free
Track 16 opens the fall season with three concurrent solo exhibitions. Venice stalwart Doug Edge is known for the fluidity and materials-driven caprice of his... View details »
Bob Biggs, Doug Edge, and Kate Harding
Art
Eric Sall
Wednesday Sep 10 (noon–6pm) @ Acuna-Hansen Gallery More times »
Free
In confronting the vibrating, thickly textured canvases of Eric Sall, one gets the distinct impression that he could survive by eating nothing but oil paint,... View details »
Eric Sall
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The Art of Music
Wednesday Sep 10 (11am–6pm) @ The Scion Installation LA Space More times »
Free
What do Vans, Tokion magazine, and the Moody Blues have in common? They are all among the scores of clients from the retail, publishing, and... View details »
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Sarah Cromarty
Wednesday Sep 10 (11am–5pm) @ Circus Gallery More times »
Free
LA painter Sarah Cromarty has had a big year already; she gained recognition through several group shows and a bit of favorable press. She continues... View details »
Sarah Cromarty
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Eric Joyner
Wednesday Sep 10 (noon–6pm) @ Corey Helford More times »
Free
The dangerous, abiding love for donuts that torments the psyche of the modern robot is at the center of the universe inhabited by SF-based painter... View details »
Eric Joyner
Art
Elizabeth Turk
Wednesday Sep 10 (11am–5pm) @ Bandini Art More times »
Free
From the Department of How Did She Do That? comes a new exhibition of drawings and delicate marble sculptures from chisel-wielding enchantress Elizabeth Turk. Her... View details »
Elizabeth Turk
More Flavor: Fashion
Antonio Pineda
Wednesday Sep 10 (noon–5pm) @ Fowler Museum, UCLA More times »
Free
World-renowned Mexican silversmith Antonio Pineda brings more than 200 of his masterpieces up the coast to UCLA's Fowler Museum, to show what an especially talented... View details »
Antonio Pineda
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CUT: Makings of Removal
Thursday Sep 11 (6–9pm) @ Vincent Price Art Museum More times »
Free
The 17 young and emerging artists included in this ambitious group show follow diverse strategies in making work, but the organizing principle is one of... View details »
CUT: Makings of Removal
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The Maize Project
Wednesday Sep 10 (11am–5pm) @ Torrance Art Museum More times »
Free
The small but influential Torrance Art Museum simultaneously mounts three new solo exhibitions, united by highly stylized explorations of abstraction and color. The Maize Project,... View details »
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Yoko Ono
Wednesday Sep 10 @ One Colorado More times »
Free
It has been nearly 28 years since John Lennon's passing, but his quest for world peace lives on. Lennon's widow, noted artist Yoko Ono, continues... View details »
Yoko Ono