Events on Tuesday, September 2
Tuesday 9/ 2 @ The Troubadour
If indie rock were a class, Glasgow natives Sons and Daughters would be the kid constantly pushing his A into an...
Ongoing Events
Tuesday 9/ 2 @ 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...
Tuesday 9/ 2 @ 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...
Tuesday 9/ 2 @ 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...
Kori Newkirk and Miguel Angel Rios
Tuesday 9/ 2 @ LAXART
Kori Newkirk transforms the mundane into the monumental with his new installation, RANK. The deceptively simple sculpture — an outsized, mirrored...
Tuesday 9/ 2 @ 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 9/ 2 @ Laemmle's Royal Theatre
Screenwriter/director Jirí Menzel translates this tale of a Czech waiter working through both the Nazi and Communist regimes from a novel...
Tuesday 9/ 2 @ 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...
Truthiness and Absurd Recreation
Tuesday 9/ 2 @ 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 9/ 2 @ 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 9/ 2 @ 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...
Tuesday 9/ 2 @ 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...
Tuesday 9/ 2 @ 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 9/ 2 @ 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...
Citizen Artists Making Emphatic Arguments
Tuesday 9/ 2 @ 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 9/ 2 @ Scribble Press
Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with...
Tuesday 9/ 2 @ The Wiltern
Whether playing deity to the mod-obsessed masses or leaving an indelible impression on future members of Oasis, British rocker Paul Weller...
Tuesday 9/ 2 @ Ghettogloss Presents: An art conglomerate on the move
When Jenny Mollen-Biggs isn't acting in films and television shows, she is exhibiting paintings that are simultaneously cute and sinister. The...
Tuesday 9/ 2 @ 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 9/ 2 @ 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 9/ 2 @ 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...
Contemporary Photography from China
Tuesday 9/ 2 @ 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 9/ 2 @ 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....
Tuesday 9/ 2 @ 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...
Tuesday 9/ 2 @ 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 9/ 2 @ 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 9/ 2 @ ACE Gallery
Melanie Pullen extends her macabre view of the world in her latest series, Violent Times, which explores the aesthetics of war...
