Events on Wednesday, January 7

Month_01 Wednesday Day_07
Film
Focus on Femals Directors
@ 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...  View details »
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Ongoing Events

Hans Burkhardt: Paintings of the 1960s
Month_01 Wednesday Day_07
Art
Hans Burkhardt
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>The Art of War: American Posters from WWI and WWII</em>
Month_01 Wednesday Day_07
Art
The Art of War
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Martin Denker: <em>Citizenoftheplanet</em>
Month_01 Wednesday Day_07
Art
Martin Denker
@ Benjamin Trigano Gallery
A suite of digitally collaged fantasmagorias from German artist Martin Denker, Citizenoftheplanet shows us what it would be like to see...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Human Resources</em>
Month_01 Wednesday Day_07
Art
Human Resources
@ The Company
The economy be damned: amid a spate of gallery closings, it's still full speed ahead for the fearless founders of the...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Mexican Calendar Girls</em>
Month_01 Wednesday Day_07
Art
Mexican Calendar Girls
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
2008 California Biennial
Month_01 Wednesday Day_07
Art
2008 California Biennial
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Fortuna Rising: Gordy Grundy is the Messenger</em>
Month_01 Thursday Day_08
Art
Gordy Grundy
@ Western Project
The Fellowship of Fortuna (and its "messenger," LA painter and media artist Gordy Grundy) takes up residence on Western Project's website...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Lucent Dossier
Month_01 Wednesday Day_07
Performing Arts: Cabaret/Burlesque
Lucent Dossier
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
The Bob Baker Marionette Theater presents <em>The Nutcracker</em>
Month_01 Wednesday Day_07
Performing Arts: Puppetry
Bob Baker presents The Nutcracker
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Date Farmers: <em>Tell Them Willy Boy Was Here</em>
Month_01 Wednesday Day_07
Art
Date Farmers
@ 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)....  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>In Focus: The Landscape</em>
Month_01 Wednesday Day_07
Art: Photography
In Focus: The Landscape
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Michael Kenna: <em>Recent Photographs</em> and Pam Posey: <em>Timber</em>
Month_01 Wednesday Day_07
Art: Photography
Michael Kenna and Pam Posey
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Vermeer's <em>A Lady Writing</em>
Month_01 Wednesday Day_07
Art
Vermeer's A Lady Writing
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
James Naccarato, Erik Alos, and Lauren Bergman
Month_01 Wednesday Day_07
Art
James Naccarato, Erik Alos, and Lauren Bergman
@ Corey Helford
Experts in the unexpected, James Naccarato, Erik Alos, and Lauren Bergman all employ the stylistic underpinnings found in pop surrealism, combining...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>All of This is Melting Away</em>
Month_01 Wednesday Day_07
Art
All of This is Melting Away
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
George Stoll: <em>sacred and profane</em>
Month_01 Wednesday Day_07
Art
George Stoll
@ Lightbox Gallery
In sacred and profane, Los Angeles-based artist George Stoll expands upon his traditional examination of everyday Americana. Objects such as his...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Eddy Sykes: <em>Yakuza Lou</em>
Month_01 Thursday Day_08
Art: Architecture/Design
Eddy Sykes
@ Materials & Applications
First, there were robot maids, robot pets, and robot vacuums. Now, there are robot gardens. The technical specifications for Materials &...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Raymond Pettibon: <em>Cutting Room Floor</em>
Month_01 Thursday Day_08
Art
Ray Pettibon
@ 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....  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Mark Todd, <em>Fragments</em> and Alan Forbes, <em>Unmanned Vessel</em>
Month_01 Wednesday Day_07
Art
Mark Todd and Alan Forbes
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Glen E. Friedman: <em>Idealist Propaganda</em>
Month_01 Wednesday Day_07
Art: Photography
Glen E. Friedman
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Nicole Cohen: <em>Please Be Seated</em>
Month_01 Wednesday Day_07
Art: Discussion
Nicole Cohen
@ The Getty Center
Nicole Cohen engineers recombinant layers of still and video imagery, investigating the network of associations that interior spaces contain. Also, she...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Tango with Cows: Book Art of the Russian Avant-Garde</em>
Month_01 Wednesday Day_07
Art
Tango with Cows: Book Art of the Russian Avant-Garde
@ The Getty Center
In Tango with Cows, the Getty Research Institute presents a concentrated display of unabridged books published in Russia between 1910 and...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Silver Seduction: The Art of Mexican Modernist Antonio Pineda</em>
Month_01 Wednesday Day_07
More Flavor: Fashion
Antonio Pineda
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
William Tunberg
Month_01 Wednesday Day_07
Art
William Tunberg
@ C4 Gallery
Marquetry is an ages-old technique of applying wood veneers to solid surfaces, popular among extremely wealthy Europeans in the time of...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
At the Brewery Project 1993-2007: the Finale
Month_01 Wednesday Day_07
Art
At the Brewery Project
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Within Four Miles: The World of Josh Dorman</em>
Month_01 Wednesday Day_07
Art
Josh Dorman
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Mark Bradford: <em>Help Us</em>
Month_01 Thursday Day_08
Art
Mark Bradford
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
WinterWaterColorLand
Month_01 Wednesday Day_07
Art
WinterWaterColorLand
@ Samuel Freeman
Each of the six artists assembled in this Samuel Freeman group exhibition is a master of the watercolor medium. Bucking tradition,...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
BPM Festival
Month_01 Thursday Day_08
Music: Festival
BPM Festival
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Ugo Wine Bar
Month_01 Wednesday Day_07
More Flavor: City Gem
Ugo Wine Bar
@ Vinum Populi
Culver City's latest spot of interest is Ugo Wine Bar, a cozy wine bar with the usual bistro couches and charcuterie...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Month_01 Wednesday Day_07
More Flavor: City Gem
Scribble Press
@ Scribble Press
Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with...  View details »
Ongoing