Events on Wednesday, November 4
Wednesday 11/ 4 @ The Mint
Less a woman than a storm, Faun Fables' Dawn McCarthy has a truly spellbinding stage presence, twirling and stomping like a...
Gail Buckland Shot Rock n Roll
Wednesday 11/ 4 @ Book Soup
Gail Buckland, in conversation with Edward Colver, presents and signs Who Shot Rock and Roll:...
Wednesday 11/ 4 @ The Cinefamily
VIEW TRAILER
"Consensus is boring." -- Koji Wakamatsu
For 35 years, director Koji Wakamatsu...
Wednesday 11/ 4 @ REDCAT
In a lively discussion about their practices and their diverse experiences, Alpert Award-winning choreographers Stephan Koplowitz, Joanna Haigood and David...
Mia Doi Todd with Paul Livingstone & Peter Jacbosen, and Bone Gunn
Wednesday 11/ 4 @ Bootleg Theater
MIA DOI TODD "Mia Doi Todd is a ghost....with nothing more than an acoustic guitar Todd has crafted songs of compelling...
Wednesday 11/ 4 @ El Rey
Rusted Root recently released Stereo Rodeo, their first studio album in 7 years. "We named our record Stereo Rodeo after a...
Wednesday 11/ 4 @ Book Soup
Chris Welles Feder presents and signs In My Father's Shadow: A Daughter Remembers Orson Welles...
Low vs. Diamond, Melee, Voxhaul Broadcast @ Echo
Wednesday 11/ 4 @ The Echo & Echoplex
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The band, made up of five members from five...
Ongoing Events
Ingres' Comtesse d'Haussonville from the Frick Collection
Wednesday 11/ 4 @ Norton Simon Museum of Art
This beguiling portrait occupies a privileged position at the threshold between French Romanticism and the early hints of modernity. Its impossibly...
Wednesday 11/ 4 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/ 4 @ Greenway Court Theatre
Not so long ago, you couldn't pass a coffeehouse without hearing someone professing their private joys or fears to a willing...
Mark Tribe: Port Huron Project
Wednesday 11/ 4 @ LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions)
At Rhizome.org, Mark Tribe supports the creation and dissemination of forward-thinking contemporary art; and LACE is a fixture in LA's anything-goes...
Wednesday 11/ 4 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/ 4 @ 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,...
Wednesday 11/ 4 @ Black Maria Gallery
As any fan of Mad Men can tell you, there used to be a lot more cigarette smoking going on, both...
Wednesday 11/ 4 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/ 4 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/ 4 @ Marine
One silver lining to art-world downsizing is the resurgence of the private salon, made famous by the 19th and 20th century...
Wayne Thiebaud: 70 Years of Painting
Wednesday 11/ 4 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art
Perhaps no pop artist is as famous for his window shopping as Wayne Thiebaud. Known largely for his pale palette oil...
Wednesday 11/ 4 @ MAK Center Schindler House
The MAK Center for Art and Architecture hosts an exhibition in honor of Austrian sociologist, political scientist, intellectual, and author Otto...
Wednesday 11/ 4 @ POVEVOLVING
"Pop colors" are the theme in curator Yasmine Mohseni's The Pop of Colors at Chinatown's POVevolving. Bright, slightly disconcerting color scripts...
Wednesday 11/ 4 @ Scribble Press
Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with...
Wednesday 11/ 4 @ Santa Monica Pier
After a meteoric rise in popularity that spawned dozens of touring and resident shows of increasing complexity and pageantry, Cirque du...
The Search for the Visceral Realists
Wednesday 11/ 4 @ Federal Art Project
Independent artist/curator York Chang has spent years researching the elusive history of an obscure, but by all accounts virulent, aesthetic movement...
Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
Wednesday 11/ 4 @ 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...
Divine Demons: Wrathful Deities of Buddhist Art
Wednesday 11/ 4 @ Norton Simon Museum of Art
Severed heads, skulls and daggers brimming with blood, and cemeteries littered with dismembered corpses may not readily invoke visions of spiritual...
Wednesday 11/ 4 @ 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"...
Wednesday 11/ 4 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/ 4 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/ 4 @ 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
Wednesday 11/ 4 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/ 4 @ DNJ Gallery
Two very different photographers take on aspects of growing up in America. Jona Frank extends her intimate yet clinical style of...
Wednesday 11/ 4 @ Little Temple
Starting this month, if it's Wednesday, it's time to hit the dance floor at the Little Temple, where they've scored some...
Wednesday 11/ 4 @ 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...
The Bible Illuminated: R. Crumb’s Book of Genesis
Wednesday 11/ 4 @ Hammer Museum
R. Crumb's interpretation of the Book of Genesis is at once disturbing, sacrilegious, violent, and debauched, but paired with a holy...
Wednesday 11/ 4 @ REDCAT
REDCAT presents Autoconstrucción: The Film by Mexican artist Abraham Cruzvillegas, in which the artist revisits Ajusco, his childhood neighborhood in Mexico...
Nate Frizzell and The Kids Are Alright
Wednesday 11/ 4 @ LeBasse Projects
Nate Frizzell combines a dark sophistication with the chaos of youthful imagination in a new series of lush paintings depicting the...
Wednesday 11/ 4 @ LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions)
Curator Jennifer Doyle gets in touch with our emotional side in I Feel Different, a group exhibition featuring multimedia works at...
Wednesday 11/ 4 @ LM Projects
The art in this show rocks and rolls — and gets set on fire, sets off chain reactions, and invites users...
Wednesday 11/ 4 @ Regen Projects
Fresh from a year of acclaimed exhibitions in Europe and NYC and the opening spot on Madonna's recent tour, Marilyn Minter...
Wednesday 11/ 4 @ Overtones Gallery
Through the deft and witty reconfiguration of sentimental objects such as ornate furniture, decorative garlands, household saints, wood, feathers, and hand-knit...
Wednesday 11/ 4 @ 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 11/ 4 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/ 4 @ Landmark Nuart Theatre
Breaking the Waves, Dancer in the Dark, and now Antichrist: Lars von Trier goes to every emotional and cinematographic extreme to...
Wednesday 11/ 4 @ Japanese American National Museum
In 2007, Giant Robot launched its first biennale celebrating 15 years as a magazine and a pop culture phenomenon. For its...
Gary Lang and Jay Mark Johnson
Wednesday 11/ 4 @ 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...
Steeped in History: The Art of Tea
Wednesday 11/ 4 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA
The second most consumed drink next to water, tea has also been frequent theme in art history. Guest curated by tea...
Kiel Johnson: Publish or Perish
Wednesday 11/ 4 @ 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...
Irving Thalberg: Creating the Hollywood Studio System, 1920-36
Wednesday 11/ 4 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/ 4 @ 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...
Behold the Day: The Color Block Prints of Frances Gearhart
Wednesday 11/ 4 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art
A leader in the American Printmaking movement, Frances Gearhart’s work was embedded in the time and place of the Arts and...
Wednesday 11/ 4 @ The Getty Museum
Irving Penn was one of the most respected photographers of the 20th century. In a career that began at the premiere...
Gaze: Portraiture after Ingres
Wednesday 11/ 4 @ Norton Simon Museum of Art
In conjunction with the installation of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres's stunning Comtesse d’Haussonville, 1845, on loan from The Frick Collection in New...
2009-2010 Contemporary Documentaries Series
Wednesday 11/ 4 @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
The Academy’s free 2009-2010 Contemporary Documentary series kicks off with a screening of “In...
Wednesday 11/ 4 @ The Getty Museum
The Chimaera of Arezzo traces the myth of Bellerophon and the Chimaera - the legendary fire-breathing monster comprised of a lion,...
Wednesday 11/ 4 @ The Echo & Echoplex
Resident DJs Tom Chasteen, Roy Corderoy, the Dungeonmaster, and Boss Harmony spinning the best in classic reggae, dub and dancehall.
Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity
Wednesday 11/ 4 @ The Getty Museum
Over 180 ancient glass objects from the collection of Erwin Oppenländer are featured in this exhibition. The Oppenländer collection, which the Getty...
Wednesday 11/ 4 @ 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...
Population: Portraits by Ray Turner
Wednesday 11/ 4 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art
A former painting instructor at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, artist Ray Turner fashions a uniquely seductive and engaging...
