Events on Wednesday, February 4
Explodity: An Evening of Transrational Sound Poetry
Wednesday 2/ 4 @ The Getty Center
The Getty Research Institute hosts an evening of 20th-century sound poetry, in conjunction with its current exhibit, Tango with Cows: Book...
Wednesday 2/ 4 @ The Troubadour
It's hard to keep a grin off your face as you watch Matt and Kim tap into their seemingly bottomless wellsprings...
Wednesday 2/ 4 @ Music Box at the Fonda Theater
With the release of Heart On in 2008, the cleverly named Eagles of Death Metal maintain their sense of humor on...
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 2/ 4 @ Wignall Museum/Gallery at Chaffey College
From psychedelic ceramics to custom-knitted army-tank cozies, the Arts and Crafts movement is thriving at Chaffey College's Wignall Museum in Rancho...
Wednesday 2/ 4 @ Steve Turner Contemporary
Los Angeles painter, installation artist, and (most recently) video artist Mark Bradford has exhibited in some of the world's most prestigious...
Wednesday 2/ 4 @ Steve Turner Contemporary
In previous collaborations between Julia Meltzer and David Thorne, audiences have been offered printed manifestos, photographic projects on public billboards, and...
Tango with Cows: Book Art of the Russian Avant-Garde
Wednesday 2/ 4 @ The Getty Center
In Tango with Cows, the Getty Research Institute presents a concentrated display of unabridged books published in Russia between 1910 and...
Film Independent's Directors Close-Up
Wednesday 2/ 4 @ Landmark Westside Pavilion
Film Independent, producer of the LA Film Festival and the Spirit Awards, hosts Directors Close-Up — inspiring panels every Wednesday night...
Wednesday 2/ 4 @ George Billis Gallery
In an inspired mashup of childhood comfort, adult-onset ADHD, and modern-art history, Brooklyn-based painter Derek Buckner delivers luminous, refined oil paintings...
Wednesday 2/ 4 @ Sherry Frumkin Gallery
With her new book, RIGHT: Portraits from the Evangelical Ivy League, photographer Jona Frank flips the script on the face of...
Wednesday 2/ 4 @ Western Project
The Fellowship of Fortuna (and its "messenger," LA painter and media artist Gordy Grundy) takes up residence on Western Project's website...
Wednesday 2/ 4 @ Craft and Folk Art Museum
Where London has the Victoria and Albert, LA has the Craft and Folk Art Museum; yet, too often, the little institution...
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J. Bennett Fitts and Bas Louter
Wednesday 2/ 4 @ Kopeikin Gallery
Paul Kopeikin Gallery inaugurates its new West Hollywood digs with a pair of solo exhibitions underscoring its central place in the...
Wednesday 2/ 4 @ Koplin del Rio Gallery
Moira Hahn is known for conceptually complex, masterfully rendered mash-up paintings in which wild and domestic animals play the roles of...
Wednesday 2/ 4 @ Subliminal Projects
Photojournalist Martha Cooper literally wrote the book — several books actually — on the co-emergent graffiti and hip-hop scenes in New...
Wednesday 2/ 4 @ Scribble Press
Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with...
Wednesday 2/ 4 @ Charlie James Gallery
Los Angeles artist David E. Stone practices a surreal brand of punsterism, often producing exhibitions in serial form that build upon...
Wednesday 2/ 4 @ Pacific Design Center
Blake Edwards has established a lasting role in an otherwise fickle entertainment industry, directing gems like Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Party,...
Wednesday 2/ 4 @ Pepperdine University, Weisman Museum of Art
The Weisman Museum at Pepperdine's Malibu campus launches one of its most important exhibitions to date with this long-overdue survey of...
Wednesday 2/ 4 @ Mark Moore Gallery
Collaborative painters Daryoush Asgar and Elisabeth Gabriel make no attempt at seamlessness or illusion. The scars of their clashing styles is...
Guillermina Quiroga Dance Company
Wednesday 2/ 4 @ UCLA Live at Royce Hall
The deft footwork and fiery grace of Guillermina Quiroga's poetic variations on classical tango have the unique ability to appease an...
Wednesday 2/ 4 @ Fahey/Klein Gallery
Like many photographers, Jeremy Kidd is drawn to sweeping vistas, from the high desert to the ocean floor, and from suburbia...
Wednesday 2/ 4 @ Armory Center for the Arts
With At the Brewery Project: 1993-2007: the Finale, the Armory pays its respects to an LA art mainstay. For the past...
Wednesday 2/ 4 @ Materials & Applications
First, there were robot maids, robot pets, and robot vacuums. Now, there are robot gardens. The technical specifications for Materials &...
Wednesday 2/ 4 @ Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach
The 2008 installment of the California Biennial should come with an anxiety-attack warning label. In a way, it does, with Patrick...
Marianne Mueller and Penelope Gottlieb
Wednesday 2/ 4 @ Lightbox Gallery
Photographer Marianne Mueller and painter Penelope Gottlieb unite their disparate styles in this visual double bill at the Kim Light/Lightbox Gallery....
Wednesday 2/ 4 @ SCI-Arc
Austrian architect and SCI-Arc alum Susanne Zottl seeks out man-made environments and historic structures, fusing the world's existing space with her...
Wednesday 2/ 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 2/ 4 @ Angles Gallery
Israeli-born, LA-based artist Yuval Pudik executes remarkable graphite drawings on paper that defy the laws of anatomy, narrative, romance, and even...
Wednesday 2/ 4 @ Jail Gallery
While it's certainly true that things are finally looking up in this country, the premise of curator Claressinka Anderson's latest parfait...
Wednesday 2/ 4 @ Lawrence Asher Gallery
LA painter Lisa Adams is something of a riddle. Her work is almost violently sweet, with a dulcet, wafting quality to...
Wednesday 2/ 4 @ Santa Monica Museum of Art
East meets West on many levels as the Santa Monica Museum of Art welcomes octogenarian lion of painting Arnold Mesches to...
Wednesday 2/ 4 @ The Edison
Venture into the shabby-chic underground for a night of festive mayhem courtesy of LA's own urban circus freaks, Lucent Dossier, who...
Wallace Berman and Richard Prince
Wednesday 2/ 4 @ Michael Kohn Gallery
Aside from the landscape, womankind has been art's favorite subject — and few portray femininity quite as impressively or distinctly as...
Wednesday 2/ 4 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA
World-renowned Mexican silversmith Antonio Pineda brings more than 200 of his masterpieces up the coast to UCLA's Fowler Museum, to show...
Wednesday 2/ 4 @ Royal/T
Director of New York's Greene Naftali Gallery, Jay Sanders steps into cafe/shop/gallery Royal/T to curate this group show of works from...
