Events on Wednesday, December 2
The Wong Sans Wheels Chronicles
Wednesday 12/ 2 @ 18th Street Arts Center
The exhibition Without a Car in the World, in which artist Diane Meyer explores the lifestyles of 100 non-vehicular Angelenos, is...
Ultra Fabulous, Beyond Drag: Part Deux
Wednesday 12/ 2 @ Downtown Independent Theater
First screened in 2007 as part of the Silver Lake Film Festival, Ultra Fabulous: Beyond Drag originally featured works by and...
Wednesday 12/ 2 @ The Hotel Café
Kenneth Pattengale celebrates the release of his seventh LP, Speak!, tonight. Highlight album tracks like "Westward Wind" and "Rock &...
Buzzbands presents Helen Stellar / Kav / Square on Square / Nightmare Air @ echo
Wednesday 12/ 2 @ The Echo & Echoplex
Helen Stellar
This trio, long one of L.A.’s under-recognized bands, will play its first proper show in more than a...
Wednesday 12/ 2 @ The Echo & Echoplex
with Resident DJs:
Tom Chasteen
Roy Corderoy
The Dungeonmaster
Boss Harmony
Spinning...
"Hound Dog" Songwriters Dish on Elvis and More!
Wednesday 12/ 2 @ Book Soup
Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller present and sign Hound Dog: The Leiber and Stoller Autobiography "Leiber and Stoller were among the...
Wednesday 12/ 2 @ Bootleg Theater
THE SONUS QUARTET Formed in 2003, Los Angeles-based Sonus Quartet challenges the definition of the traditional string quartet by fusing together...
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 12/ 2 @ Richard Heller Gallery
Canadian fans can delight in Cripple Creek, a group show featuring five artists from our neighbor to the north and their illustration-inspired works....
Joey Arias and Basil Twist: Arias with a Twist
Wednesday 12/ 2 @ REDCAT
Created by third-generation puppeteer Basil Twist and drag icon Joey Arias, Arias with a Twist merges the visionary direction and production...
IMAGES FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: Student Voices
Wednesday 12/ 2 @ 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 12/ 2 @ GR2
In the last 13 years, Deth P. Sun has contributed works to over 150 group exhibits across the US and UK....
Ingres' Comtesse d'Haussonville from the Frick Collection
Wednesday 12/ 2 @ 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 12/ 2 @ 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 12/ 2 @ 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 12/ 2 @ Galerie Anais
Los Angeles painter and poet Matthew Heller has hit a stride with his latest exhibition at Galerie Anaïs, Bergamot's newest tenant....
Wednesday 12/ 2 @ HVW8 Art + Design Gallery
Three friends, fellow CalArts alums, and working artists join forces to explore the finer side in an exhibit at HVW8 Art...
Wednesday 12/ 2 @ Laguna Art Museum
Works by regional and national artists come together at the Laguna Art Museum's Collecting California, which reflects the long history of...
Wednesday 12/ 2 @ Santa Monica Pier
After a meteoric rise in popularity that spawned dozens of touring and resident shows of increasing complexity and pageantry, Cirque du...
Anderle, Immer, McGrath, and Potocki
Wednesday 12/ 2 @ Billy Shire Fine Arts
Four contemporary artists converge at Billy Shire Fine Arts to interpret similar themes in vastly different ways. Legendary record producer-turned-artist David...
Migrations of the Mind: Manuscripts from the Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection
Wednesday 12/ 2 @ The Getty Museum
Through Spring, the Getty gets medieval with an exhibition of illustrated manuscripts culling ancient Christian, Muslim, and Eastern wisdom from past...
Wednesday 12/ 2 @ 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 12/ 2 @ Mark Moore Gallery
Straddling a fine art line between sculpture and painting, Cordy Ryman flirts with both media but never really commits. Ryman is...
Wednesday 12/ 2 @ Scribble Press
Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with...
Wayne Thiebaud: 70 Years of Painting
Wednesday 12/ 2 @ 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 12/ 2 @ Robert Berman Gallery
Alejandro Gehry is back with another fresh and frisky series of paintings that combine a nostalgia for the blazing palette and...
Wednesday 12/ 2 @ Downtown Independent Theater
Following up on last year's inaugural Zero Film Festival, this year's version promises almost a week's worth of all-new self-financed films...
Wednesday 12/ 2 @ 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 12/ 2 @ Kopeikin Gallery
There's an inherent splendor in Mark Edward Harris' photography that relates both to his experience crafting film stills and the intrigue...
Wednesday 12/ 2 @ Landmark Nuart Theatre
Director/actor Jacques Tati's M. Hulot's Holiday has been an art-house favorite for more than 50 years, regularly topping critics' all-time-best polls....
Wednesday 12/ 2 @ Bar Copa
You know and love him as part of the erstwhile west-side club night Funky in the Middle, as well as the...
Wednesday 12/ 2 @ Skirball Cultural Center
An Idea Called Tomorrow offers meditations on what should/could/would make for a peaceable and sustainable future — culturally, environmentally, and socially...
Wednesday 12/ 2 @ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
Even if you're not an opera fan, chances are you've enjoyed arias from Gioachino Rossini's crowd-pleasing comic opera. Not only is...
Wednesday 12/ 2 @ Overtones Gallery
In case you haven't heard, America is gripped with fear of a little something called the Swine Flu at the moment....
Wednesday 12/ 2 @ Honor Fraser
Tomoo Gokita's new body of work reveals an artistic practice that walks the tightrope between abstraction and representation. Rendered only in...
Divine Demons: Wrathful Deities of Buddhist Art
Wednesday 12/ 2 @ 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 12/ 2 @ 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 12/ 2 @ 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...
The Best of Loop: Remote Viewing
Wednesday 12/ 2 @ Pacific Design Center
Curated by Art Cinema author Paul Young, The Best of Loop: Remote Viewing examines the span of contemporary global video art,...
Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
Wednesday 12/ 2 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/ 2 @ 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 12/ 2 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/ 2 @ 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 12/ 2 @ 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 12/ 2 @ Annenberg Space for Photography
The Annenberg Space for Photography brings the entire genius of its well-appointed exhibition areas and NASA-quality digital-media resources to bear on...
Wednesday 12/ 2 @ Royal/T
Jane Glassman's years of work in the art world have seen her not only getting to know a variety of its...
Wednesday 12/ 2 @ REDCAT
Unfettered by a male-dominated Asian art scene, Everyday Miracles (Extended) — an offshoot of the Everyday Miracles that debuted at the...
Wednesday 12/ 2 @ g727
The Los Angeles River has often endured continuous criticism for being a useless eyesore, yielding foot-high sludge instead of flowing water....
Mark Tribe: Port Huron Project
Wednesday 12/ 2 @ 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 12/ 2 @ Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum
Curated by Flavorpill's own Heather Jeno Silva (who moonlights as the curator of the CAF's monthly Forum Lounge public conversations, among...
Wednesday 12/ 2 @ Arclight Hollywood
Known primarily for its iconic outdoor amphitheatre and legendary musical acts, the Hollywood Bowl is offering fans a glimpse into the...
Breach of Peace: Photographs of Freedom Riders by Eric Etheridge
Wednesday 12/ 2 @ Skirball Cultural Center
The subject of an engaging exhibition and lavishly appended new book, Eric Etheridge's contemporary photographic portraits of this group of American...
Wednesday 12/ 2 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/ 2 @ The Hotel Café
The ethereal Chapin Sisters continue their once-a-month residency at the Hotel Café. With a background as compelling as its sound, the...
Wednesday 12/ 2 @ Jancar Gallery
Annie Buckley has what one might call a diverse artistic practice; one that includes photography, collage, digital and text-based works, curatorial...
Wednesday 12/ 2 @ 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 12/ 2 @ Subliminal Projects
If you believe the prophecies of Nostradamus, the 2012 gang, and other would-be seers (you know, the ones about how the...
The Bible Illuminated: R. Crumb’s Book of Genesis
Wednesday 12/ 2 @ 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 12/ 2 @ Clark Oshin Gallery
Clark Oshin Gallery shows off Frank W. Ockenfels 3's astonishing creative range with an exhibition of photographs and drawings at the...
Wednesday 12/ 2 @ Eagle Rock Center for the Arts
As creator of the popular Edible Estates project and host of the eco-art workshop the Sundown Schoolhouse, architect Fritz Haeg has...
Wednesday 12/ 2 @ Egyptian Theatre
The Artivist Film Festival celebrates six years of fostering filmmaking among artistic advocates, and this year, it hosts a brand-new lineup...
Behold the Day: The Color Block Prints of Frances Gearhart
Wednesday 12/ 2 @ 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 12/ 2 @ The Getty Museum
The Chimaera of Arezzo traces the myth of Bellerophon and the Chimaera - the legendary fire-breathing monster comprised of a lion,...
2009-2010 Contemporary Documentaries Series
Wednesday 12/ 2 @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
The Academy’s free 2009-2010 Contemporary Documentary series kicks off with a screening of “In...
Wednesday 12/ 2 @ 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...
ROAD TO FREEDOM: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956–1968
Wednesday 12/ 2 @ Skirball Cultural Center
Making its West Coast debut at the Skirball, Road to Freedom: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956–1968 features more than...
Irving Thalberg: Creating the Hollywood Studio System, 1920-36
Wednesday 12/ 2 @ 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...
Gaze: Portraiture after Ingres
Wednesday 12/ 2 @ 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...
Population: Portraits by Ray Turner
Wednesday 12/ 2 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/ 2 @ The Getty Museum
Irving Penn was one of the most respected photographers of the 20th century. In a career that began at the premiere...
Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity
Wednesday 12/ 2 @ 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 12/ 2 @ The Echo & Echoplex
Resident DJs Tom Chasteen, Roy Corderoy, the Dungeonmaster, and Boss Harmony spinning the best in classic reggae, dub and dancehall.
Wednesday 12/ 2 @ 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...
