Events on Wednesday, November 4

Faun Fables

Music

Faun Fables

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

Books: Reading

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:... 

United Red Army

Film

United Red Army

Wednesday 11/ 4 @ The Cinefamily

VIEW TRAILER

"Consensus is boring." -- Koji Wakamatsu

For 35 years, director Koji Wakamatsu... 

Dancing on Site and on Camera

Special Event

Dancing on Site and on Camera

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

Music

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... 

Rusted Root with Crowfield

Music

Rusted Root with Crowfield

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... 

Murder in the Name of Honor

Books: Reading

Murder in the Name of Honor

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

Music

Low vs. Diamond, Melee, Voxhaul Broadcast @ Echo

Wednesday 11/ 4 @ The Echo & Echoplex

Low Vs. Diamond || Listen || Watch


The band, made up of five members from five... 

Ongoing Events

Ingres' <em>Comtesse d'Haussonville</em> from the Frick Collection

Art

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... 

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

Art

Philippa Blair & Jayme Odgers

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... 

inkSlam Los Angeles Poetry Festival

Performing Arts: Spoken Word

inkSlam

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: <em>Port Huron Project</em>

Art

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... 

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

Art

Intelligent Design

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... 

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

Art

Three Apples

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,... 

<em>When Smoking Was Cool</em>

Art

When Smoking Was Cool

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... 

WTF?! Festival

Festival: Performing Arts

WTF?! Festival

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... 

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

Art

Brendan Monroe

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... 

Salon No. 2: Works 030-065

Art

Salon No. 2

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... 

<em>Wayne Thiebaud: 70 Years of Painting</em>

Art

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... 

The MAK Center presents Otto Neurath: <em>Gypsy Urbanism</em>

Art

Otto Neurath

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... 

<em>The Pop of Colors</em>

Art

The Pop of Colors

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... 

City Gems

Scribble Press

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... 

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

Performing Arts: Acrobatics

Cirque du Soleil

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... 

<em>The Search for the Visceral Realists</em>

Art

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... 

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

Art: Installation

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... 

<em>Divine Demons: Wrathful Deities of Buddhist Art</em>

Special Event

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... 

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

Art: Photography

Susan Anderson

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"... 

The Berlin Wall Project

Art

The Berlin Wall Project

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... 

<em>TOOLS</em>

Art

TOOLS

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... 

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

Art

Art of the Movie Poster

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

Special Event

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... 

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

Art: Photography

Jona Frank and Chris Verene

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... 

Wednesdays at Little Temple

Music: DJ

Wednesdays at Little Temple

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... 

Mark Gleason: <em>Persona</em>

Art

Mark Gleason

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

Art

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... 

Art

Frank Kozik

Wednesday 11/ 4 @ Billy Shire Fine Arts

Abraham Cruzvillegas

Art

Abraham Cruzvillegas

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: <em>Lost in the Thicket</em> and The Kids Are Alright

Art

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... 

<em>I Feel Different</em>

Art

I Feel Different

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... 

Nova Jiang, Len Lye, Robert Rauschenberg, Jacob Tonski, Fischli & Weiss: <em>Cause & Effect</em>

Art

Cause & Effect

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... 

Marilyn Minter

Art: Photography

Marilyn Minter

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... 

Alexis Weidig Zoto: <em>Life is Relentless</em>

Art

Alexis Zoto

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... 

Ugo Wine Bar

City Gems

Ugo Wine Bar

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... 

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

Art

Faris McReynolds

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... 

<em>Antichrist</em>

Film

Antichrist

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... 

<em>Giant Robot Biennale 2: 15 Years</em>

Art

Giant Robot Biennale

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

Art

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... 

<em>Steeped in History: The Art of Tea</em>

Art

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... 

AFI Film Festival

Festival: Film

AFI

Wednesday 11/ 4 @ Various locations

The AFI film festival gathers even more steam this year with increasingly more prolific films than previous years and a cool... 

<em>Parade</em>

Theatre

Parade

Wednesday 11/ 4 @ Mark Taper Forum

The Donmar Warehouse production of Parade currently playing at Mark Taper isn't conventional music theater. Like Tony Kushner's Caroline or Change,... 

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

Art

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... 

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

Art

MatterApp

Wednesday 11/ 4 @ Materials & Applications

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

Art

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... 

R&B Live

Music

R&B Live

Wednesday 11/ 4 @ Cinespace

Wednesday's R&B Nights feature a dynamic blend of new and established acts in an exciting showcase format. Join us to celebrate... 

<em>Inspired by the Ocean</em>

Art

Inspired by the Ocean

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

Art

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... 

Art: Photography

Irving Penn: Small Trades

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... 

<em>Gaze: Portraiture after Ingres</em>

Art

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

Film: Documentary

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... 

The Chimaera of Arezzo

Art

The Chimaera of Arezzo

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,... 

Dub Club

Music

Dub Club

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

Art

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... 

Noah's Ark at the Skirball

Special Event

Noah's Ark at the Skirball

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

Art

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...