Events on Wednesday, January 7
Wednesday 1/ 7 @ Egyptian Theatre
The Egyptian Theatre's Focus on Female Directors series features eight shorts, including Green Porno, Isabella Rossellini's titillating probe into the sex...
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 1/ 7 @ The Company
The economy be damned: amid a spate of gallery closings, it's still full speed ahead for the fearless founders of the...
Wednesday 1/ 7 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/ 7 @ Samuel Freeman
Each of the six artists assembled in this Samuel Freeman group exhibition is a master of the watercolor medium. Bucking tradition,...
Wednesday 1/ 7 @ Jack Rutberg Fine Arts
In the years bracketing WWII, a great many artists were among those fleeing to US shores from the specter of Nazi...
Wednesday 1/ 7 @ Scribble Press
Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with...
Wednesday 1/ 7 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/ 7 @ Western Project
The Fellowship of Fortuna (and its "messenger," LA painter and media artist Gordy Grundy) takes up residence on Western Project's website...
James Naccarato, Erik Alos, and Lauren Bergman
Wednesday 1/ 7 @ Corey Helford Gallery
Experts in the unexpected, James Naccarato, Erik Alos, and Lauren Bergman all employ the stylistic underpinnings found in pop surrealism, combining...
Wednesday 1/ 7 @ California Heritage Museum
Glamor gets deep and classic at the California Heritage Museum's Mexican Calendar Girls, opening with a Cinco de Mayo reception. The...
Wednesday 1/ 7 @ Craig Krull Gallery
Photographer Michael Kenna is a technical whiz, a classicist with a flair for the dramatic. His sweeping black-and-white landscapes depict vistas...
Wednesday 1/ 7 @ Vinum Populi
Culver City's latest spot of interest is Ugo Wine Bar, a cozy wine bar with the usual bistro couches and charcuterie...
Wednesday 1/ 7 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/ 7 @ Norton Simon Museum
It's not often that Angelenos have the chance to examine an original painting by Dutch Baroque master Johannes Vermeer. His surviving...
Wednesday 1/ 7 @ Regen Projects
The first of this winter's pair of Raymond Pettibon exhibitions at Regen Projects focused on early monochromatic, pop-culture infused pen-and-ink drawings....
Wednesday 1/ 7 @ Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach
The 2008 installment of the California Biennial should come with an anxiety-attack warning label. In a way, it does, with Patrick...
Bob Baker presents The Nutcracker
Wednesday 1/ 7 @ Bob Baker Marionette Theater
In the early '60s, Bob Baker and partner Alton Wood founded a marionette theater, establishing what has become the longest-running children's...
Wednesday 1/ 7 @ C4 Gallery
Marquetry is an ages-old technique of applying wood veneers to solid surfaces, popular among extremely wealthy Europeans in the time of...
Wednesday 1/ 7 @ New Image Art
New Image Art stages an imaginative collection of works by the Date Farmers (aka Coachella Valley's Carlos Ramirez and Armando Lerma)....
Wednesday 1/ 7 @ Materials & Applications
First, there were robot maids, robot pets, and robot vacuums. Now, there are robot gardens. The technical specifications for Materials &...
Wednesday 1/ 7 @ Armory Center for the Arts
With At the Brewery Project: 1993-2007: the Finale, the Armory pays its respects to an LA art mainstay. For the past...
Wednesday 1/ 7 @ La Luz de Jesus
In Fragments, professional illustrator Mark Todd brings his increasingly abstracted art to La Luz. Bastardizing his signature, comics-based style, Todd's latest...
Tango with Cows: Book Art of the Russian Avant-Garde
Wednesday 1/ 7 @ The Getty Center
In Tango with Cows, the Getty Research Institute presents a concentrated display of unabridged books published in Russia between 1910 and...
Wednesday 1/ 7 @ The Edison
Venture into the shabby-chic underground for a night of festive mayhem courtesy of LA's own urban circus freaks, Lucent Dossier, who...
Wednesday 1/ 7 @ The Getty Center
Nicole Cohen engineers recombinant layers of still and video imagery, investigating the network of associations that interior spaces contain. Also, she...
Wednesday 1/ 7 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA
World-renowned Mexican silversmith Antonio Pineda brings more than 200 of his masterpieces up the coast to UCLA's Fowler Museum, to show...
Wednesday 1/ 7 @ Playa del Carmen, Mexico
In honor of the second annual BPM Festival, club owners, promoters, and other pro nightlifers flock to the Mexican Caribbean for...
Wednesday 1/ 7 @ Lightbox Gallery
In sacred and profane, Los Angeles-based artist George Stoll expands upon his traditional examination of everyday Americana. Objects such as his...
Wednesday 1/ 7 @ 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...
Wednesday 1/ 7 @ Benjamin Trigano Gallery
A suite of digitally collaged fantasmagorias from German artist Martin Denker, Citizenoftheplanet shows us what it would be like to see...
Wednesday 1/ 7 @ Subliminal Projects
One of the best-known names in street photography, Glen Friedman produces jaunty, richly printed black-and-white portraits of skate, punk, and indie...
Wednesday 1/ 7 @ 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...
