Events on Tuesday, October 27

TV Horror Host Night feat. <em>American Scary</em>

Film: Documentary

TV Horror Host Night feat. American Scary

Tuesday 10/27 @ The Cinefamily

Just in time for Halloween, the Cinefamily at the Silent Movie Theatre screens American Scary, a documentary about TV horror hosts... 

The Voyeurs, The Flying Tourbillon Orchestra and The Monolators @ Echo

Music

The Voyeurs, The Flying Tourbillon Orchestra and The Monolators @ Echo

Tuesday 10/27 @ The Echo & Echoplex

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Thoroughly Kinked and corner-turning rock-pop, The Voyeurs’ stately debut, Well... 

Katz stands in the Opposite Field

Books: Reading

Katz stands in the Opposite Field

Tuesday 10/27 @ Book Soup

 spanMARC BROUSSARD:  WELCOME TO MY LIVING ROOM

Music

MARC BROUSSARD: WELCOME TO MY LIVING ROOM

Tuesday 10/27 @ The Mint

MARC BROUSSARD:  WELCOME TO MY LIVING ROOM   **ON SALE 8/14/09**
“My fans have been asking me for years,” said... 

Film

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Tuesday 10/27 @ LACMA

A scientist's investigations into the nature of good and evil turn him into a murderous monster.   1941/b&w/127 min. | Scr:... 

Brigitte Maria Mayer: Anatomie Titus: Fall of Rome

Film

Brigitte Maria Mayer: Anatomie Titus: Fall of Rome

Tuesday 10/27 @ REDCAT

  Presented as a triptych that is as lyrical as it is terrifying, the Berlin-based artist traces a via dolorosa through... 

Ongoing Events

Faris McReynolds: <em>The Primitive Electric</em>

Art

Faris McReynolds

Tuesday 10/27 @ Roberts & Tilton Gallery

Los Angeles painter Faris McReynolds uses multiple points of view, a saturated color palette, and an exaggeratedly loose and heavy-handed interaction... 

The Berlin Wall Project

Art

The Berlin Wall Project

Tuesday 10/27 @ Wende Museum Site

It's been 20 years since the archaic and divisive Berlin Wall was brought down by fed-up and suppressed citizens. Now, the... 

Ugo Wine Bar

City Gems

Ugo Wine Bar

Tuesday 10/27 @ 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>Art of the Movie Poster</em>

Art

Art of the Movie Poster

Tuesday 10/27 @ 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... 

IMAGES FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: Student Voices

Special Event

IMAGES FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: Student Voices

Tuesday 10/27 @ Skirball Cultural Center

Recently, Art Center College of Design students directed their communications prowess towards human rights, yielding emotionally-charged pieces that straddle the line... 

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

Art: Photography

Jona Frank and Chris Verene

Tuesday 10/27 @ DNJ Gallery

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

<em>When Smoking Was Cool</em>

Art

When Smoking Was Cool

Tuesday 10/27 @ Black Maria Gallery

As any fan of Mad Men can tell you, there used to be a lot more cigarette smoking going on, both... 

<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 10/27 @ 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... 

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

Art

Michael Dee

Tuesday 10/27 @ 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,... 

Salon No. 2: Works 030-065

Art

Salon No. 2

Tuesday 10/27 @ Marine

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

<em>Seeing Things: Ghost Polaroids</em>

Art: Photography

Ghost Polaroids

Tuesday 10/27 @ Drkrm

For 15 years, in an old house on a sleepy hillside outside LA, a phalanx of residents, researchers, and TV producers... 

Abraham Cruzvillegas

Art

Abraham Cruzvillegas

Tuesday 10/27 @ REDCAT

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

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

Art

Intelligent Design

Tuesday 10/27 @ 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... 

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

Art: Photography

David LaChapelle

Tuesday 10/27 @ 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... 

Kiel Johnson: <em>Publish or Perish</em>

Art

Kiel Johnson: Publish or Perish

Tuesday 10/27 @ Mark Moore Gallery

Kiel Johnson's latest body of work examines the value of the painstakingly, unnecessarily hand-wrought in the digital age. Simultaneously examining how... 

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

Art: Installation

Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy

Tuesday 10/27 @ 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... 

Brendan Monroe: <em>Places Between Here and Here</em>

Art

Brendan Monroe

Tuesday 10/27 @ Richard Heller Gallery

Brendan Monroe's paintings, sculptures, installation-based works, and publications, despite the differences dictated by mediums, expound the artist's unique interpretation of the... 

140 Characters Conference

Conferences

140 Characters Conference

Tuesday 10/27 @ Kodak Theater

Whoever says higher tweet rates don't lead to real money has never heard of the 140 Characters Conference. But don't let... 

WTF?! Festival

Festival: Performing Arts

WTF?! Festival

Tuesday 10/27 @ 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... 

<em>TOOLS</em>

Art

TOOLS

Tuesday 10/27 @ 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... 

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

Art

Gary Lang and Jay Mark Johnson

Tuesday 10/27 @ 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... 

Mark Gleason: <em>Persona</em>

Art

Mark Gleason

Tuesday 10/27 @ Cella Gallery

The timing may or may not be a coincidence, but the really-for-grown-ups fairy tale Where the Wild Things Are and Mark... 

City Gems

Scribble Press

Tuesday 10/27 @ Scribble Press

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

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

Art

May Jong

Tuesday 10/27 @ Happy

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

Art

Frank Kozik

Tuesday 10/27 @ Billy Shire Fine Arts

Susan Anderson: <em>High Glitz</em>, Edwina White: <em>In Rehearsal</em>

Art: Photography

Susan Anderson

Tuesday 10/27 @ Kopeikin Gallery

Commercial photographer Susan Anderson crosses over to a fine-art career with her striking portraits from child beauty pageants. Shooting "tarted-up tots"... 

<em>Soul Power</em>

Film

Soul Power

Tuesday 10/27 @ Downtown Independent Theater

Soul Power documents the Zaire '74 all-star concert that set the stage for Muhammad Ali and George Foreman's legendary Rumble in... 

<em>Heroes and Villains: The Battle for Good in India's Comics</em>

Art

The Battle for Good

Tuesday 10/27 @ LACMA

Rendering and paraphrasing India's ancient epic tales of archetypal gods and goddesses at war with demonic bad guys, Heroes and Villains:... 

Hello Kitty's 35th Anniversary: <em>Three Apples</em>

Art

Three Apples

Tuesday 10/27 @ Royal/T

Hello Kitty is turning 35, and there's no better venue for her birthday party than Royal/T, Culver City's own art space,... 

<em>New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape</em>

Art: Photography

New Topographics

Tuesday 10/27 @ Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Not much has changed since 1975 when New Topographics first opened at the George Eastman House. The state of the world... 

The Hammer Museum Presents <em>The Bible Illuminated: R. Crumb's Book of Genesis</em>

Art

The Bible Illuminated: R. Crumb’s Book of Genesis

Tuesday 10/27 @ Hammer Museum

R. Crumb's interpretation of the Book of Genesis is at once disturbing, sacrilegious, violent, and debauched, but paired with a holy... 

<em>Antichrist</em>

Film

Antichrist

Tuesday 10/27 @ Landmark Nuart Theatre

Breaking the Waves, Dancer in the Dark, and now Antichrist: Lars von Trier goes to every emotional and cinematographic extreme to... 

Cirque du Soleil: <em>Kooza</em>

Performing Arts: Acrobatics

Cirque du Soleil

Tuesday 10/27 @ Santa Monica Pier

After a meteoric rise in popularity that spawned dozens of touring and resident shows of increasing complexity and pageantry, Cirque du... 

Philippa Blair: <em>Tracks</em> and Jayme Odgers: <em>Figurations</em>

Art

Philippa Blair & Jayme Odgers

Tuesday 10/27 @ Lawrence Asher Gallery

Philippa Blair's abstract, collage-based symphonies truly fulfill the classical adage that, "music is an abstract painting executed on a canvas of... 

Kenny Scharf: <em>Barberadise</em>

Art

Kenny Scharf

Tuesday 10/27 @ 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... 

<em>The Pop of Colors</em>

Art

The Pop of Colors

Tuesday 10/27 @ POVEVOLVING

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

Marilyn Minter

Art: Photography

Marilyn Minter

Tuesday 10/27 @ Regen Projects

Fresh from a year of acclaimed exhibitions in Europe and NYC and the opening spot on Madonna's recent tour, Marilyn Minter... 

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

Art

Claire Oswalt

Tuesday 10/27 @ 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... 

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

Art

MatterApp

Tuesday 10/27 @ Materials & Applications

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Art: Photography

Irving Penn: Small Trades

Tuesday 10/27 @ The Getty Museum

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

Capturing Nature's Beauty: Three Centuries of French Landscapes

Art

Capturing Nature's Beauty: Three Centuries of French Landscapes

Tuesday 10/27 @ The Getty Museum

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

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

Art

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

Tuesday 10/27 @ 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 10/27 @ 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... 

Noah's Ark at the Skirball

Special Event

Noah's Ark at the Skirball

Tuesday 10/27 @ 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...