Events on Wednesday, April 22
Jason Flores-Williams, Gordy Grundy, and Missy Galore
Wednesday 4/22 @ Stories Books
Artist and writer Gordy Grundy reads from his diverting disinformation at Echo Park's beloved local café and indie bookstore Stories. A...
Wednesday 4/22 @ The Troubadour
Madcap songsmith Dan Deacon usually performs solo, convincing sweaty audience members to engage in dance-offs, group chants, and mass fits of...
Wednesday 4/22 @ The Echo & Echoplex
Lucky Dragons offer immersive aesthetic performances that combine gorgeous, surreal video art with complex musical arrangements. Jerking his lanky frame on...
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 4/22 @ De Soto Gallery
The performances and video, audio, and sculptural installations of LA-based artist Fernando Sanchez are often as sparse and DIY as it...
Martha Rich and Robert Pasternak
Wednesday 4/22 @ La Luz de Jesus
There's realism, and then there's reality. For Canadian artist and designer Robert Pasternak (aka Nak), both concepts are fluid and subject...
Wednesday 4/22 @ REDCAT
Marc Bamuthi Joseph delivers a display of hip-hop dexterity with a performance driven by the conflicts between his public identity as...
Wednesday 4/22 @ The Scion Installation LA Space
Taking the ancient craft of origami to a new extreme, Giant Robot invited artists and the art-minded to cut, tear, sew,...
Vahid Sharifian and Mahmoud Bakhshi Moakhar
Wednesday 4/22 @ Khastoo Gallery
Two Iranian artists share the rooms at Khastoo Gallery this month, as Vahid Sharifian and Mahmoud Bakhshi Moakhar — both of...
Wednesday 4/22 @ Arclight Hollywood
While the runaway success of Slumdog Millionaire has retrained international audiences' focus on the flair of India's cinematic character, there's much...
Wednesday 4/22 @ Craft and Folk Art Museum
Joseph Cornell's surrealist shadowboxes reconfigured found objects into multidimensional creations, classified as neither sculpture nor collage, but as assemblages. The Craft...
Wednesday 4/22 @ Roberts & Tilton Gallery
For the third installment of his World Stage series (the first two spotlighted China and Africa, respectively), Harlem's hip-hop-styled conceptualist painter...
Wednesday 4/22 @ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
Those blown away by LA Opera's ingenious production of Das Rheingold, the prologue to Wagner's Ring Cycle, are already on board...
Paul Outerbridge and Jo Ann Callis
Wednesday 4/22 @ The Getty Center
Over 100 prints by prolific New York photographer Paul Outerbridge (1896-1958) are on view at the Getty Center through August 9....
Wednesday 4/22 @ Bottle Rock
Every day has resembled Earth Day lately, so now's an appropriate time to toast those forward-thinking folks, activist John McConnell and...
Wednesday 4/22 @ LOOK Gallery
In 2006, unscrupulous real-estate developers painted over one of the city's most beloved pieces of public art, a portrait of Ed...
Wednesday 4/22 @ Sam Lee Gallery
For artist Phung Huynh, a keen awareness of her Vietnamese culture's long memory and claim on her affections combines with an...
Wednesday 4/22 @ Pier 59 Studios West
In its quest to extol the many forms of photography, the Lucie Foundation curated numerous events and gallery shows for Month...
Wednesday 4/22 @ Tarryn Teresa Gallery
Guest curated by Iranian-American arts writer Yasmine Mohseni, All Under One Roof features a range of creations by ten artists who...
Wednesday 4/22 @ Scribble Press
Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with...
Wednesday 4/22 @ Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens
In honor of Abraham Lincoln's 200th birthday, the newly renovated Huntington Library digs into its massive reservoir of Lincolniana. The letters,...
Wednesday 4/22 @ Laemmle's Monica 4-plex
With more than 18 million people practicing in the US, Enlighten Up! asks a fundamental question: Can yoga transform your life?...
Wednesday 4/22 @ Annenberg Space for Photography
John Baldessari, Catherine Opie, Douglas Kirkland, Lauren Greenfield and Julius Shulman are a few of the world-class photographers whose images are...
Wednesday 4/22 @ Track 16 Gallery
After documenting the Great Depression in San Francisco, Sam Cherry photographed the seeds of the Beat Generation at the city's Black...
Make It, Install It, Perform It: Listen
Wednesday 4/22 @ Eagle Rock Center for the Arts
Beginning with Steve Roden on April 15, SASSAS presents the opportunity to trail four leading voices in the sound-art avant-garde continuum....
Wednesday 4/22 @ Claremont Museum of Art
The Claremont Museum of Art makes no secret of its mission: the preservation, study, and dissemination of the legacy left by...
Wednesday 4/22 @ Skirball Cultural Center
Jerry Robinson, cartoonist and creator of Batman's iconic villain, the Joker, guest curated ZAP! POW! BAM! The Golden Age of Comic...
Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
Wednesday 4/22 @ 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 4/22 @ Norton Simon Museum
The French Fauvist painter Henri Matisse began a simple, 30-lithograph portfolio in 1941, and seven years later transformed it into a...
Wednesday 4/22 @ LA Memorial Coliseum & Exposition Park
Artists, scientists, public-policy makers, and concerned citizens find common ground at unique outdoor art installation Cool Globes. The result of a...
Nine Lives: Visionary Artists from LA
Wednesday 4/22 @ Hammer Museum
Exploring the idea of reinvention, Nine Lives: Visionary Artists from LA illuminates the creative undercurrent of a city that has long...
Wednesday 4/22 @ Phyllis Stein Art
In the hands of gallerist Phyllis Stein and the artists in this exhibition, the notion of sweetness gets a humorous, and...
Wednesday 4/22 @ 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 4/22 @ Shoshana Wayne Gallery
Every once in a while, an art exhibition comes along that defies expectation, blows stodgy rules apart, and gets right to...
Wednesday 4/22 @ Vincent Price Art Museum
Nevada-based artist Rebekah Bogard turns the VPAM into a glazed forest of approachable yet baffling imagined creatures. Handcrafted, life-sized ceramic renderings...
Wednesday 4/22 @ Frank Pictures Gallery
The visionary photography mavens behind the annual Lucie Awards are LA natives (though the awards are presented in NYC), and this...
Exceptionally Gifted: Recent Donations to the Norton Simon Museum
Wednesday 4/22 @ Norton Simon Museum of Art
The Norton Simon Museum presents a selection of artworks donated to the Museum since 2002. Exceptionally Gifted: Recent Donations to the...
