All events on Tuesday September 09

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Music: Rock/Pop
Mogwai w/ Fuck Buttons
Tuesday Sep 9 (8pm) @ The Wiltern
Giveaway
Glaswegian quintet Mogwai are on the cusp of releasing a new album, The Hawk Is Howling, and they haven't changed in their mastery of post-rock.... View details »
Mogwai w/ Fuck Buttons
Music: Classical
Symphony of a Thousand
Tuesday Sep 9 (8pm) @ Hollywood Bowl More times »
Austrian composer Gustav Mahler wrote orchestral works that are considered to be some of classical music's biggest blockbusters. One of the most popular is his... View details »
Symphony of a Thousand
Music: Hip-Hop
Balkan Beat Box
Tuesday Sep 9 (8pm) @ El Rey
Mixing electronic grooves and hip-hop beats with elements of Eastern European and Gypsy music, Balkan Beat Box deliver a fresh take on traditional tunes. The... View details »
Balkan Beat Box
Music: Electronic
Ratatat
Tuesday Sep 9 (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
Performing Arts: Theatre
A Bronx Tale
Tuesday Sep 9 (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
Music: Rock/Pop
Émilie Simon
Tuesday Sep 9 (8:30pm) @ The Roxy Theatre
Giveaway
France's empress of electro-pop, Émilie Simon presides over the Sunset Strip's Roxy Theatre this evening, bringing with her the eclectic, intricate tracks her fans have... View details »
Émilie Simon

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More Flavor: City Gem
Ugo Wine Bar
Tuesday Sep 9 (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: Photography
Philip-Lorca diCorcia
Tuesday Sep 9 (noon–8pm) @ Los Angeles County Museum of Art More times »
Photographer Philip-Lorca diCorcia's meticulously planned pictures look as effortless as Polaroids. Most of his works feature a single person — who diCorcia usually finds through... View details »
Philip-Lorca diCorcia
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Mark Bradford
Tuesday Sep 9 @ 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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The Juxtapoz Factor
Tuesday Sep 9 (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
Tuesday Sep 9 (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
Tuesday Sep 9 (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
Tuesday Sep 9 (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
Art
Truthiness and Absurd Recreation
Tuesday Sep 9 (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
Ultrasonic International III
Tuesday Sep 9 (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
Art
Macrocosm
Tuesday Sep 9 (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
Tuesday Sep 9 (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
Hans Burkhardt
Tuesday Sep 9 (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
Tuesday Sep 9 (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
Tuesday Sep 9 (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
Tuesday Sep 9 (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
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Yin Zhaoyang
Tuesday Sep 9 (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
Tuesday Sep 9 (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
Tuesday Sep 9 (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
Tuesday Sep 9 @ 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
Josh Dorman
Tuesday Sep 9 (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
Tuesday Sep 9 (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
Art
Jenny Mollen-Biggs
Tuesday Sep 9 (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
Art
Aspects of Mel's Hole
Tuesday Sep 9 (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
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Mercedes Helnwein
Tuesday Sep 9 (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
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Syndrome
Tuesday Sep 9 (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
Tuesday Sep 9 (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
Art: Photography
Dennis Hopper and Wendy Burton
Tuesday Sep 9 (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
Tuesday Sep 9 (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
Tuesday Sep 9 (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
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GLAMFA
Tuesday Sep 9 (noon–5pm) @ 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
Art
Brandon Boyd
Tuesday Sep 9 (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
Tuesday Sep 9 (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
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Bob Biggs, Doug Edge, and Kate Harding
Tuesday Sep 9 (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
Sarah Cromarty
Tuesday Sep 9 (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
Tuesday Sep 9 (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
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Elizabeth Turk
Tuesday Sep 9 (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
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
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The Maize Project
Tuesday Sep 9 (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
Tuesday Sep 9 @ 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