Events on Monday, September 8

Bigbang w/ Pawnshop Kings and Seneca Hawk

Music

Bigbang

Monday 9/ 8 @ The Troubadour

Norway's retro-rock trio Bigbang are currently taking up residence in Los Angeles, gearing up for a fall tour in support of... 

Ongoing Events

<em>In Focus: The Landscape</em>

Art: Photography

In Focus: The Landscape

Monday 9/ 8 @ 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... 

Philip-Lorca diCorcia

Art: Photography

Philip-Lorca diCorcia

Monday 9/ 8 @ 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... 

<em>In the Land of Retinal Delights: The Juxtapoz Factor</em>

Art

The Juxtapoz Factor

Monday 9/ 8 @ 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... 

Jenny Mollen-Biggs: <em>Be Your Own Pet</em>

Art

Jenny Mollen-Biggs

Monday 9/ 8 @ 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... 

Greater LA MFA Exhibition

Art

GLAMFA

Monday 9/ 8 @ University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach

The spirit of collegiality among the many graduate art programs in the greater Los Angeles area finds its annual apogee in... 

Brandon Boyd: <em>Ectoplasm</em>

Art

Brandon Boyd

Monday 9/ 8 @ 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,... 

<em>This Side of Paradise: Body and Landscape in LA Photographs</em>

Art: Photography

This Side of Paradise

Monday 9/ 8 @ Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens

If only our cracked sidewalks, classic homes, sprawling hills, and endless streets could talk. But even if objects can't, camera lenses... 

Mark Bradford: <em>Help Us</em>

Art

Mark Bradford

Monday 9/ 8 @ 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... 

<em>Marcel Duchamp Redux </em>

Art

Marcel Duchamp Redux

Monday 9/ 8 @ Norton Simon Museum

This year marks the 45th anniversary of By or of Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Sélavy, the famous Marcel Duchamp retrospective at... 

Marlene Dumas: <em>Measuring Your Own Grave</em>

Art

Marlene Dumas

Monday 9/ 8 @ Museum of Contemporary Art

The first stateside exhibit of French/South African/Dutch artist Marlene Dumas' work, Measuring Your Own Grave is a prodding collection of sketches... 

City Gems

Scribble Press

Monday 9/ 8 @ Scribble Press

Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with... 

<em>The Art of War: American Posters from WWI and WWII</em>

Art

The Art of War

Monday 9/ 8 @ Norton Simon Museum

When searching for a means of drumming up support for World War I, officials in Washington didn't have to look much... 

Hans Burkhardt

Art

Hans Burkhardt

Monday 9/ 8 @ 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... 

<em>Citizen Artists Making Emphatic Arguments</em>

Art

Citizen Artists Making Emphatic Arguments

Monday 9/ 8 @ 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... 

Yoko Ono: <em>Wish Tree</em>

Art

Yoko Ono

Monday 9/ 8 @ 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... 

<em>CUT: Makings of Removal</em>

Art

CUT: Makings of Removal

Monday 9/ 8 @ 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... 

Anne Faith Nicholls: <em>Neofolk</em>

Art

Anne Faith Nicholls

Monday 9/ 8 @ 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... 

James Turrell: <em>Dividing the Light</em>

Art

James Turrell

Monday 9/ 8 @ Draper Courtyard, Pomona College

It's up for debate whether James Turrell is a sculptor, an architect, a light-and-space artist, or an earth-works artist. Whichever he...