Events on Tuesday, September 16

Let's Independent! feat. the Poor Excuses, Manhattan Murder Mystery, and Tenlons Fort
Month_09 Tuesday Day_16
Music: Rock/Pop
Let's Independent!
@ Boardner's
Playfully creepy garage rockers the Poor Excuses sing about the irony of America's "new normal" — such as security screenings at...  View details »

Ongoing Events

Anne Faith Nicholls: <em>Neofolk</em>
Month_09 Tuesday Day_16
Art
Anne Faith Nicholls
@ La Luz de Jesus
Anne Faith Nicholls remixes folk art with her quasi-surrealist, richly symbolic narrative works that have roots in the traditional Western high-art...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Jenny Mollen-Biggs: <em>Be Your Own Pet</em>
Month_09 Tuesday Day_16
Art
Jenny Mollen-Biggs
@ Ghettogloss
When Jenny Mollen-Biggs isn't acting in films and television shows, she is exhibiting paintings that are simultaneously cute and sinister. The...  View details »
Ongoing
Free Flavorpill 50
Eric Joyner: <em>Artificial Enlightenment</em>
Month_09 Tuesday Day_16
Art
Eric Joyner
@ Corey Helford
The dangerous, abiding love for donuts that torments the psyche of the modern robot is at the center of the universe...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Michael Knowlton: <em>Blackwater Babylon</em>
Month_09 Tuesday Day_16
Art
Michael Knowlton
@ 01 Gallery
Painter Michael Knowlton doesn't feel the need to choose between beauty and terror. His passionately wrought, deftly composed scenes of the...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Elizabeth Turk: <em>Traces</em>
Month_09 Tuesday Day_16
Art
Elizabeth Turk
@ Bandini Art
From the Department of How Did She Do That? comes a new exhibition of drawings and delicate marble sculptures from chisel-wielding...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Mark Bradford: <em>Help Us</em>
Month_09 Wednesday Day_17
Art
Mark Bradford
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>In the Land of Retinal Delights: The Juxtapoz Factor</em>
Month_09 Tuesday Day_16
Art
The Juxtapoz Factor
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Nicole Cohen: <em>Please Be Seated</em>
Month_09 Tuesday Day_16
Art: Discussion
Nicole Cohen
@ The Getty Center
Nicole Cohen engineers recombinant layers of still and video imagery, investigating the network of associations that interior spaces contain. Also, she...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Sandrine Pelletier: <em>Insekts</em>
Month_09 Wednesday Day_17
Art
Sandrine Pelletier
@ Fette's Gallery
International-artist-friendly Fette's Gallery rings in its fall season with Insekts, an installation of new works by Swiss mixed-media artist/embroiderer Sandrine Pelletier....  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Yin Zhaoyang: <em>Radiation</em>
Month_09 Tuesday Day_16
Art
Yin Zhaoyang
@ DF2
Chinese-born Yin Zhaoyang didn't have to look too far for inspiration when creating the work in his latest show at DF2...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>A Bronx Tale</em>
Month_09 Tuesday Day_16
Performing Arts: Theatre
A Bronx Tale
@ Wadsworth Theater
Before his tenure in Hollywood began, Chazz Palminteri penned this semi-autobiographical play about growing up on the corner of Belmont Ave...  View details »
Ongoing
Kyle Field: <em>More Country Questions</em>
Month_09 Tuesday Day_16
Art
Kyle Field
@ Taylor De Cordoba Gallery
For his second go-round at Taylor De Cordoba, San Franciscan artist/musican Kyle Field (he's a member of the band Little Wings),...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Aspects of Mel's Hole: Artists Respond to a Paranormal Land Event Occurring in Radiospace</em>
Month_09 Tuesday Day_16
Art
Aspects of Mel's Hole
@ CSUF Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana
Beloved radio host Art Bell is a cross between Jean Shepherd and Fox Mulder, and a man whose paranormality-themed broadcasts were...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Alexander Melamid: <em>Holy Hip-Hop!</em>
Month_09 Tuesday Day_16
Art
Alexander Melamid
@ Forum Gallery
Russian artist Alexander Melamid is a master at finding humor in serious situations, from totalitarian regimes to the plight of endangered...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Truthiness: Photography as Sculpture</em> and <em>Absurd Recreation: Contemporary Art from China</em>
Month_09 Tuesday Day_16
Art
Truthiness and Absurd Recreation
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Brandon Boyd: <em>Ectoplasm</em>
Month_09 Tuesday Day_16
Art
Brandon Boyd
@ Mr. Musichead Gallery
If the name Brandon Boyd sounds familiar, it might be for precarious reasons: he's the lead singer of Incubus. Of course,...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Jehad Nga: <em>My Shadow, My Opponent</em>
Month_09 Tuesday Day_16
Art: Photography
Jehad Nga
@ M+B Gallery Los Angeles
Daring photographer Jehad Nga has previously documented poverty and violence from Darfur to Iraq — now, he takes his camera into...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Syndrome: <em>I Learned It By Watching You</em>
Month_09 Tuesday Day_16
Art
Syndrome
@ Crewest Gallery
Micah Hancock, James Larese, and Mars Sandoval, who make up the motion-design studio Syndrome, demonstrate their penchants for biting humor and...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Chris Mars: <em>Tolerance</em>
Month_09 Tuesday Day_16
Art
Chris Mars
@ Billy Shire Fine Arts
From Brandon Boyd's paintings to Scion and ill-Studios' curatorial collaboration and Alexander Melamid's hip-hop portraits, music-related art has been blanketing LA's...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Sarah Cromarty: <em>Diamonds and Rust</em>
Month_09 Tuesday Day_16
Art
Sarah Cromarty
@ Circus Gallery
LA painter Sarah Cromarty has had a big year already; she gained recognition through several group shows and a bit of...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Month_09 Tuesday Day_16
Art
The Maize Project
@ Torrance Art Museum
The small but influential Torrance Art Museum simultaneously mounts three new solo exhibitions, united by highly stylized explorations of abstraction and...  View details »
Ongoing
Free Flavorpill 50
Month_09 Tuesday Day_16
More Flavor: City Gem
Scribble Press
@ Scribble Press
Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>9 to 5: The Musical </em>
Month_09 Wednesday Day_17
Performing Arts: Theatre
9 to 5
@ Ahmanson Theatre
Based on Collin Higgins' screwball 1980 comedy, 9 to 5: The Musical makes its LA premiere tonight before heading to Broadway...  View details »
Ongoing
Melanie Pullen: <em>Violent Times</em>
Month_09 Tuesday Day_16
Art: Photography
Melanie Pullen
@ ACE Gallery
Melanie Pullen extends her macabre view of the world in her latest series, Violent Times, which explores the aesthetics of war...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Yoko Ono: <em>Wish Tree</em>
Month_09 Wednesday Day_17
Art
Yoko Ono
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Macrocosm</em>
Month_09 Tuesday Day_16
Art
Macrocosm
@ Roberts & Tilton Gallery
Roberts + Tilton becomes the latest A-list LA gallery to take up residence in Culver City, throwing a mammoth group show...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Dennis Hopper: <em>Colors </em>and Wendy Burton: <em>Trace Elements III</em>
Month_09 Tuesday Day_16
Art: Photography
Dennis Hopper and Wendy Burton
@ Craig Krull Gallery
Craig Krull Gallery pulls out the big guns for its season opener, with concurrent solo exhibitions from two of its most...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Maynard James Keenan Wine Tasting & Bottle Signing
Month_09 Tuesday Day_16
More Flavor: Food/Wine
Maynard James Keenan
@ Various locations
Brainy prog-rock demigod Maynard James Keenan has gone from fronting Tool, A Perfect Circle, and Puscifer to his latest, somewhat quieter...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Cycling Apparati</em>
Month_09 Tuesday Day_16
Art
Cycling Apparati
@ High Energy Constructs
For many contemporary artists, Warhol is the North Star by which they guide their own emerging views of culture. But for...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Ian Francis: <em>Together Forever</em>
Month_09 Tuesday Day_16
Art
Ian Francis
@ Kinsey/DesForges Gallery
The brilliantly brash British phenom Ian Francis returns to Kinsey/DesForges for his second solo show. Once again, the artist presents visceral,...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Raymond Pettibon: <em>Seminal Work</em>
Month_09 Tuesday Day_16
Art
Raymond Pettibon
@ Regen Projects II
Seminal Work features a selection of pieces from the much-lauded Raymond Pettibon, all completed between 1978 and 1988. Keeping true to...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Mercedes Helnwein: <em>Whistling Past the Graveyard</em>
Month_09 Tuesday Day_16
Art
Mercedes Helnwein
@ Merry Karnowsky Gallery
Austrian artist Mercedes Helnwein's darkly beautiful pencil drawings are equal parts Tim Burton fairy tale, Cindy Sherman photograph, and girlish fantasy....  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Bob Biggs: <em>OPP-A Roadmap to Nowhere</em>, Doug Edge: <em>New Paintings</em>, and Kate Harding: <em>Whiskey Creek</em>
Month_09 Tuesday Day_16
Art
Bob Biggs, Doug Edge, and Kate Harding
@ Track 16 Gallery
Track 16 opens the fall season with three concurrent solo exhibitions. Venice stalwart Doug Edge is known for the fluidity and...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>All of This is Melting Away</em>
Month_09 Tuesday Day_16
Art
All of This is Melting Away
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>CUT: Makings of Removal</em>
Month_09 Tuesday Day_16
Art
CUT: Makings of Removal
@ Vincent Price Art Museum
The 17 young and emerging artists included in this ambitious group show follow diverse strategies in making work, but the organizing...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Martin Kersels: <em>Heavyweight Champion</em>
Month_09 Tuesday Day_16
Art
Martin Kersels
@ Santa Monica Museum of Art
The Santa Monica Museum of Art hosts LA artist Martin Kersels' first retrospective, Heavyweight Champion, drawing from 13 years of his...  View details »
Ongoing
Flavorpill 50
Ultrasonic International III: <em>Elementary, My Dear Watson</em>
Month_09 Tuesday Day_16
Art
Ultrasonic International III
@ Mark Moore Gallery
Elementary, My Dear Watson is the Mark Moore Gallery's third installment of its annual Ultrasonic International series. The group show features...  View details »
Ongoing
Free Flavorpill 50
Hope Gangloff and Jason J&auml;gel
Month_09 Wednesday Day_17
Art
Hope Gangloff and Jason Jägel
@ Richard Heller Gallery
In tandem with the release of his book, 73 Funshine, San Francisco-based artist Jason Jägel exhibits a collection of music-inspired work....  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>In Focus: The Landscape</em>
Month_09 Tuesday Day_16
Art: Photography
In Focus: The Landscape
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Fortuna Rising: Gordy Grundy is the Messenger</em>
Month_09 Wednesday Day_17
Art
Gordy Grundy
@ Western Project
The Fellowship of Fortuna (and its "messenger," LA painter and media artist Gordy Grundy) takes up residence on Western Project's website...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Between Earth and Heaven: The Architecture of John Lautner</em>
Month_09 Tuesday Day_16
Art: Architecture/Design
John Lautner
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Kerry James Marshall: Portraits, Pin-Ups, and Wistful Romantic Idylls
Month_09 Tuesday Day_16
Art
Kerry James Marshall
@ Koplin del Rio Gallery
Chicago artist Kerry James Marshall has shown internationally to great acclaim, and now will show for the sixth time with Koplin...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>The Fly: The Opera</em>
Month_09 Tuesday Day_16
Performing Arts: Opera
The Fly
@ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
Loosely based on George Langelaan's 1957 short story and David Cronenberg's 1986 film adaptation, The Fly wings its way to the...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Within Four Miles: The World of Josh Dorman</em>
Month_09 Tuesday Day_16
Art
Josh Dorman
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Kristi Lippire: <em>Paradox and Levity, Mergers and Sigmund</em>
Month_09 Tuesday Day_16
Art
Kristi Lippire
@ d.e.n. contemporary art
Kristi Lippire cobbles together images from a mind-boggling array of sources, then fashions them into large-scale works. Using plywood and other...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Nancy Reddin Kienholz
Month_09 Tuesday Day_16
Art
Nancy Reddin Kienholz
@ LA Louver Gallery
Nancy Reddin Kienholz may be familiar to some because of her lifelong collaboration with late husband Ed Kienholz, one of the...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Hans Burkhardt
Month_09 Tuesday Day_16
Art
Hans Burkhardt
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free