Events on Tuesday, October 13

Downtown LA Fashion Week: Fashion Angel Awards

Fashion/Style

Fashion Angel Awards

Tuesday 10/13 @ The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA

Time to bust out your best looks, as Downtown LA Fashion Week kicks off. How perfect to start the week with... 

Business Dialogue Series: Vode Lighting

Special Event

Business Dialogue Series: Vode Lighting

Tuesday 10/13 @ Art Center College of Design

The Business Dialogue Series introduces students to the diverse opportunities available within art and design, and most importantly, provides the opportunity... 

MONO

Music

MONO

Tuesday 10/13 @ El Rey

Within the rage of distortion and bombardment of feedback, you are just as likely to experience sadness and beauty, light and... 

Pat Fish, Max Eider, Downy Mildew, Clay Idols & The Black Watch @ Echo

Music

Pat Fish, Max Eider, Downy Mildew, Clay Idols & The Black Watch @ Echo

Tuesday 10/13 @ The Echo & Echoplex

Pat Fish (acoustic) || Listen || Watch

Pat Fish used to be The Jazz Butcher, and made about a million... 

The Gathering feat. the Jane Doe's

Comedy

The Gathering feat. the Jane Doe's

Tuesday 10/13 @ The Mint

Comedy, music and burlesque hosted by Ruben Paul w/ the Jane Doe's as the house band. Here's a video of Dane... 

Binary Presents LA LIGHTS release party with Keenhouse, LexiconDon & Short Circuit @ Echoplex

Music: DJ

Binary Presents LA LIGHTS release party with Keenhouse, LexiconDon & Short Circuit @ Echoplex

Tuesday 10/13 @ The Echo & Echoplex

To celebrate the release of our debut record, Binary Presents: LA Lights........ we're having a party!

We're taking over The... 

Lots of Love with Naomi Greenwald, Rachel Fleischer, and Paige Stark

Music

Lots of Love with Naomi Greenwald, Rachel Fleischer, and Paige Stark

Tuesday 10/13 @ Bootleg Theater

LOTS OF LOVE … began in the summer of 2005, when singer/songwriter Jessica... 

Perahia in Recital

Music: Classical

Perahia in Recital

Tuesday 10/13 @ Walt Disney Concert Hall

"When an artist is as gifted and accomplished as the pianist Murray Perahia, he should be cherished... 

David Allen Grier is Barack Like Me

Books: Reading

David Allen Grier is Barack Like Me

Tuesday 10/13 @ Book Soup

David Alan Grier presents and signs Barack Like Me: The Chocolate-Covered Truth Acclaimed comedian... 

Tokyo Gore Night (feat. Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl)

Film

Tokyo Gore Night (feat. Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl)

Tuesday 10/13 @ The Cinefamily

WATCH A REALLY GORY CLIP FROM THE FILM!

After barnstorming and brain-frying the minds of Asian film fanatics... 

Ongoing Events

May Jong: <em>registered</em> and Echo Park Film Center: <em>This is the LA River</em>

Art

May Jong

Tuesday 10/13 @ Happy

Los Feliz Art and Design District's own home and lifestyle shop, Happy also spotlights local and international artists in a series... 

Christopher Janney: <em>Sonic Forest</em>

Art

Sonic Forest

Tuesday 10/13 @ USC University Park Campus

Think about a hybrid of that awesome piano toy from Big and the kind of motion-responsive light sculptures you might find... 

Kenny Scharf: <em>Barberadise</em>

Art

Kenny Scharf

Tuesday 10/13 @ Honor Fraser

Kenny Scharf's latest one-man show, Barberadise, merges the past and future for a wistfully evocative, pop-culture infused present. The Hollywood native's... 

WTF?! Festival

Festival: Performing Arts

WTF?! Festival

Tuesday 10/13 @ The Actors' Gang Theatre

Given that Tim Robbins founded the Actors Gang in response to a lack of opportunities for independent writers and actors to... 

City Gems

Scribble Press

Tuesday 10/13 @ Scribble Press

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

<em>Intelligent Design: Interspecies Art</em>

Art

Intelligent Design

Tuesday 10/13 @ Sweeney Art Gallery, UC Riverside

Twenty international artists who explore human interaction with domesticated, imaginary, laboratory, or wild animals contribute work in media from video installation... 

(H)it Week LA

Festival: Music

(H)it Week LA

Tuesday 10/13 @ Various locations

LA is about to learn how to celebrate life Italian style as H(it) Week LA, a six-day mini-festival of the most... 

Chris Jordan: <em>Running the Numbers...Continued</em> and Laura Ball: <em>Boundary of the Interior</em>

Art: Photography

Chris Jordan

Tuesday 10/13 @ Kopeikin Gallery

Despite their beauty, Chris Jordan's photographic prints are visual ecological statements we'd rather not see. Like much of his early work,... 

Chris Verene: <em>Family</em> and Jona Frank: <em>Boys</em>

Art: Photography

Jona Frank and Chris Verene

Tuesday 10/13 @ DNJ Gallery

Two very different photographers take on aspects of growing up in America. Jona Frank extends her intimate yet clinical style of... 

Abraham Cruzvillegas

Art

Abraham Cruzvillegas

Tuesday 10/13 @ REDCAT

REDCAT presents Autoconstrucción: The Film by Mexican artist Abraham Cruzvillegas, in which the artist revisits Ajusco, his childhood neighborhood in Mexico... 

Claire Oswalt: <em>Peril In Perfection</em>

Art

Claire Oswalt

Tuesday 10/13 @ Taylor De Cordoba Gallery

While it's easy to become unhinged in our current economic climate, artist Claire Oswalt takes it to the next level, fashioning... 

Salon No. 2: Works 030-065

Art

Salon No. 2

Tuesday 10/13 @ Marine

One silver lining to art-world downsizing is the resurgence of the private salon, made famous by the 19th and 20th century... 

<em>In Focus: Making a Scene</em>

Art: Photography

In Focus: Making a Scene

Tuesday 10/13 @ The Getty Center

Thirty staged photographs are on view at the Getty Center as part of its In Focus series, a thematic presentation of... 

David LaChapelle: <em>The Rape of Africa</em>

Art: Photography

David LaChapelle

Tuesday 10/13 @ David DeSanctis Gallery

David LaChapelle is one of the most well-known and controversial photographers working today, who recently retired from a career in fashion... 

<em>TOOLS</em>

Art

TOOLS

Tuesday 10/13 @ Art Center College of Design

Although some of the objects in TOOLS may seem familiar, they are most definitely far from from ordinary. Jointly organized by... 

Back to Basics: <em>MatterApp</em>

Art

MatterApp

Tuesday 10/13 @ Materials & Applications

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Michael Dee: <em>Melted Hearts and Deadly Force</em>

Art

Michael Dee

Tuesday 10/13 @ Western Project

Channeling his inner Duchamp, sculptor Michael Dee combs the florescent-lit aisles of his local 99-cent store in search of plastic cups,... 

<em>Art of the Movie Poster</em>

Art

Art of the Movie Poster

Tuesday 10/13 @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Whether the product of sheer creative license or shrewd marketing heads, the movie poster has inspired as much debate as the... 

Gary Lang: <em>Circles Lines Grids</em> and Jay Mark Johnson: <em>Spacetime</em>

Art

Gary Lang and Jay Mark Johnson

Tuesday 10/13 @ ACE Gallery

It's a veritable amusement park for optic nerves at ACE Gallery's Beverly Hills location this month, with a pair of exhibitions... 

Ugo Wine Bar

City Gems

Ugo Wine Bar

Tuesday 10/13 @ Vinum Populi

Culver City's latest spot of interest is Ugo Wine Bar, a cozy wine bar with the usual bistro couches and charcuterie... 

<em>Sweets & Treats</em>: Wayne Thiebaud in the Collection of the Norton Simon Museum

Special Event

Sweets & Treats: Wayne Thiebaud in the Collection of the Norton Simon Museum

Tuesday 10/13 @ Norton Simon Museum of Art

In the 1960s, soon-to-be Pop icon Wayne Thiebaud created a series of monochromatic, two-dimensional prints of nine pieces of pie, sufficiently... 

<em>The Pop of Colors</em>

Art

The Pop of Colors

Tuesday 10/13 @ POVEVOLVING

"Pop colors" are the theme in curator Yasmine Mohseni's The Pop of Colors at Chinatown's POVevolving. Bright, slightly disconcerting color scripts... 

Art

Frank Kozik

Tuesday 10/13 @ Billy Shire Fine Arts

Mac and Retna: <em>Vagos y Reinas</em>

Art

Mac and Retna

Tuesday 10/13 @ Robert Berman Gallery

Mac and Retna are a pair of artists who regularly collaborate on monumental outdoor murals and other graffiti-based public art installations.... 

Doug Aitken: <em>migration</em>

Art

Doug Aitken

Tuesday 10/13 @ Regen Projects

Doug Aitken's exhibition at Regen Projects never sleeps. During the day, the darkened indoor gallery displays light boxes comprised of images... 

<em>Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy</em>

Art: Installation

Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy

Tuesday 10/13 @ GRAMMY Museum at LA Live

The recently opened GRAMMY Museum at Downtown's mammoth entertainment complex LA Live offers visitors a rare, intimate glimpse into the life... 

Walls of Algiers: Narratives of the City

Special Event

Walls of Algiers: Narratives of the City

Tuesday 10/13 @ The Getty Museum

The city of Algiers, on the north coast of Africa, historically sheltered a diverse population. During the Ottoman centuries (1529-1830), this... 

Irving Thalberg: Creating the Hollywood Studio System, 1920-36

Art

Irving Thalberg: Creating the Hollywood Studio System, 1920-36

Tuesday 10/13 @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

This new exhibition explores the career of legendary film producer Irving Thalberg, Hollywood’s original “Boy Wonder,” and... 

<em>Inspired by the Ocean</em>

Art

Inspired by the Ocean

Tuesday 10/13 @ Art Center College of Design

Illustration students from Art Center College of Design currently have their work on display at the Aquarium of the Pacific in... 

Capturing Nature's Beauty: Three Centuries of French Landscapes

Art

Capturing Nature's Beauty: Three Centuries of French Landscapes

Tuesday 10/13 @ The Getty Museum

This selection of over 40 drawings from the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Getty Research Institute highlights... 

Art: Photography

Irving Penn: Small Trades

Tuesday 10/13 @ The Getty Museum

Irving Penn was one of the most respected photographers of the 20th century. In a career that began at the premiere... 

Noah's Ark at the Skirball

Special Event

Noah's Ark at the Skirball

Tuesday 10/13 @ Skirball Cultural Center

Imagine yourself immersed in a favorite childhood tale. Five years in the making and occupying an 8,000-square-foot gallery, Noah's Ark at...