All events on Wednesday September 03

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Performing Arts: Theatre
9 to 5
Wednesday Sep 3 @ 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 3 (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

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Ugo Wine Bar
Wednesday Sep 3 (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: Architecture/Design
Phalanstery Module
Wednesday Sep 3 @ Materials & Applications More times »
Free
M&A gallery continues to push the frontiers of architecture and landscape research with Jimenez Lai's installation Phalanstery Module. Zero-gravity design presents the central challenge, as... View details »
Phalanstery Module
Art
Marcel Duchamp Redux
Wednesday Sep 3 (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
Art
Mexican Calendar Girls
Wednesday Sep 3 (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
Art
Kori Newkirk
Wednesday Sep 3 (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
Art
Mark Bradford
Wednesday Sep 3 @ 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
Art
Against the Grain
Wednesday Sep 3 (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 3 (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 3 (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 3 (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 3 (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
Art
Citizen Artists Making Emphatic Arguments
Wednesday Sep 3 (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
Art
David Eddington
Wednesday Sep 3 (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: Rock/Pop
Paul Weller
Wednesday Sep 3 (8pm) @ The Wiltern More times »
Giveaway
Whether playing deity to the mod-obsessed masses or leaving an indelible impression on future members of Oasis, British rocker Paul Weller has always maintained an... View details »
Paul Weller
Art
Kori Newkirk and Miguel Angel Rios
Wednesday Sep 3 (11am–6pm) @ LAXART More times »
Free
Kori Newkirk transforms the mundane into the monumental with his new installation, RANK. The deceptively simple sculpture — an outsized, mirrored podium — invokes the... View details »
Kori Newkirk and Miguel Angel Rios
Art
Summer Smockshop
Wednesday Sep 3 (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
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Twilight at the Club
Wednesday Sep 3 (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: Photography
Contemporary Photography from China
Wednesday Sep 3 (10am–6pm) @ DNJ Gallery More times »
Free
In DNJ's latest exhibition, eight artists take their cameras on the road and on rail, underground into mines, onto farms, and deep into abstract realms... View details »
Contemporary Photography from China
Art
Truthiness and Absurd Recreation
Wednesday Sep 3 (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
Art
Signals: A Video Showcase
Wednesday Sep 3 (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
Doug Henry & Joe Potts
Wednesday Sep 3 (11am–6pm) @ Cardwell Jimmerson Contemporary Art More times »
Free
Video artist Doug Henry and composer/audiophile Joe Potts collaborate in a major new video work honoring the 100-year anniversary of cubism and Picasso's masterpiece Les... View details »
Doug Henry & Joe Potts
Art: Photography
In Focus: The Landscape
Wednesday Sep 3 (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
Art
Kelly Lynn Jones
Wednesday Sep 3 (noon–5pm) @ Little Bird Gallery More times »
Free
Drawing on her suburban So-Cal roots, Kelly Lynn Jones depicts modern America's decay in sparse, childlike paintings. Using house paint and pencil, the artist renders... View details »
Kelly Lynn Jones
Art
Hans Burkhardt
Friday Sep 5 (7–9pm) @ 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
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Scribble Press
Wednesday Sep 3 (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 3 (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
All of This is Melting Away
Wednesday Sep 3 (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
Neck Face
Wednesday Sep 3 (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 3 (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
Jenny Mollen-Biggs
Wednesday Sep 3 (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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The Horror of Tradition
Wednesday Sep 3 (11am–6pm) @ AndrewShire Gallery More times »
Free
The five artists brought together for this end-of-summer group show have little in common — except perhaps episodes of childhood trauma involving home-ec class. They... View details »
The Horror of Tradition
Film
I Served the King of England
Wednesday Sep 3 (1:20, 4:10, 7 & 9:45pm) @ Laemmle's Royal Theatre More times »
Screenwriter/director Jirí Menzel translates this tale of a Czech waiter working through both the Nazi and Communist regimes from a novel into an engaging, balletic... View details »
I Served the King of England
Art
Mercedes Helnwein
Wednesday Sep 3 (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
GLAMFA
Wednesday Sep 3 (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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Antonio Pineda
Wednesday Sep 3 (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
Art
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
Art
Yoko Ono
Wednesday Sep 3 @ 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