Events on Tuesday, July 21
Stop the Presses: What Is the Future of Newspapers?
Tuesday 7/21 @ Billy Wilder Theater, Hammer Museum
Journalist and KPFK host Ian Masters moderates tonight's Hammer Forum, which attempts to locate the destiny of print in the age...
Tuesday 7/21 @ The Roxy Theatre
Jay Brannan's new record, In Living Color, succeeds where other cover compilations crash and burn. The disc paints fresh strokes over...
Tuesday 7/21 @ GRAMMY Museum at LA Live
The Drop series at the GRAMMY Museum brings musicians onstage for intimate discussions of their work, with performances of material from...
Bringuier Conducts Salonen and Mussorgsky with the Los Angeles Philharmonic
Tuesday 7/21 @ Hollywood Bowl
Formidable young Finnish pianist Juho Pohjonen, in his Bowl debut, performs Salonen’s electrifying and staggeringly difficult Piano Concerto. The LA Phil’s...
Ongoing Events
Tuesday 7/21 @ Lawrence Asher Gallery
Three very different artists enter into a dialogue about the persistence of memory and how recollections are formed, contorted, stored, and...
Tuesday 7/21 @ Pershing Square
Illuminating the wealth of creative resources within the LA art scene, Tarryn Teresa Gallery's Lights on LA strings up light bulbs...
Tuesday 7/21 @ Michael Kohn Gallery
Dark Night of the Soul is a two-pronged project: The visual element, represented here, features psych-noir master David Lynch's photographic interpretations...
Tuesday 7/21 @ The Geffen Playhouse
Westwood's Geffen Playhouse presents a timely hybrid of Survivor, West Wing, and The Hills, outlining the value of loyalty and the...
Tuesday 7/21 @ Honor Fraser
Curated by arts critic and writer Emma Gray, Honor Fraser's annual group show features works by 14 female artists based in...
Tuesday 7/21 @ Black Maria Gallery
Taking a cue from those masters of capturing the youthful zeitgeist, the Who, The Kids Are Alright showcases a new generation...
Tuesday 7/21 @ Scribble Press
Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with...
Andrew Schoultz and Hank Willis Thomas
Tuesday 7/21 @ Roberts & Tilton Gallery
Bay Area artist Andrew Schoultz crafts expansive murals and other large-scale paintings from innumerable individual lines and details. His densely swirled,...
Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
Tuesday 7/21 @ 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...
Tuesday 7/21 @ The Getty Center
Thirty staged photographs are on view at the Getty Center as part of its In Focus series, a thematic presentation of...
Tuesday 7/21 @ LA Louver Gallery
Following three previous incarnations, the Rogue Wave group show returns to Venice's LA Louver with ten Angelenos redefining regionalism. Co-curated by...
Todd Hebert and Jennifer Nehrbass
Tuesday 7/21 @ Mark Moore Gallery
In his latest body of work, Todd Hebert employs a mix of sharp detail and soft focus, and a dark yet...
Tuesday 7/21 @ Happy
There's no excuse to feel glum when you're at Happy, a home and lifestyle nook in Los Feliz that features well-designed...
Paul Outerbridge and Jo Ann Callis
Tuesday 7/21 @ 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....
Tuesday 7/21 @ Regen Projects II
Since his seminal book Statements came out in 1968, Lawrence Weiner has been at the forefront of conceptual art. Using language...
Tuesday 7/21 @ another year in LA
Fallen Fruit — the artist collective formed by David Burns, Matias Viegener, and Austin Young — has typically been known more...
Gary Lang and Jay Mark Johnson
Tuesday 7/21 @ 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...
Tuesday 7/21 @ Santa Monica Museum of Art
Imagine the florid, hyper-decorative seduction of Kehinde Wiley's large-scale portraits of young black men, only rendered with an urban, folk-outsider edge,...
Tuesday 7/21 @ Kinkead Contemporary
Los Angeles-based photographer Heather Cantrell lays elaborate groundwork for her seemingly fresh and casual portraits. Employing props, costumes, and references to...
The Billboard Show: Selling the So-Cal Lifestyle
Tuesday 7/21 @ Take My Picture Gary Leonard
Ever since taking a photograph of the Dodgers as a little boy in 1959, Gary Leonard has documented the mercurial landscape...
Tuesday 7/21 @ Vinum Populi
Culver City's latest spot of interest is Ugo Wine Bar, a cozy wine bar with the usual bistro couches and charcuterie...
Tuesday 7/21 @ Patrick Painter Gallery
Rob and Christian Clayton's first hometown exhibition in over half a decade, Jumbo Fruit represents the culmination of six months' worth...
Tuesday 7/21 @ GRAMMY Museum at LA Live
Spanning the decade between 1976 and 1986, the GRAMMY Museum's first photography exhibition features 30 pictures of rock stars by Israeli-born,...
Tuesday 7/21 @ Gallery Skart
Beyond Björk and ice hotels, most Americans don't have a lot of familiarity with Iceland — but the eerie beauty of...
Tuesday 7/21 @ SolwayJones Gallery
Solway Jones Gallery's summer group show takes on the celebrated cross-pollination of music and art, with an exhibition of mostly sculptural...
Tuesday 7/21 @ 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...
Tuesday 7/21 @ Shoshana Wayne Gallery
In her latest series of photographic and video projections, Nicole Cohen expands upon previous subject matter and technological complexity, constructing layered,...
Tuesday 7/21 @ 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...
Tuesday 7/21 @ The Loft at Liz's
A diverse group of emerging LA artists join forces to give your garbage a new lease on life. Work in the...
Tuesday 7/21 @ 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...
Sweets & Treats: Wayne Thiebaud in the Collection of the Norton Simon Museum
Tuesday 7/21 @ Norton Simon Museum of Art
In the 1960s, soon-to-be Pop icon Wayne Thiebaud created a series of monochromatic, two-dimensional prints of nine pieces of pie, sufficiently...
Cast in Bronze: French Sculpture from Renaissance to Revolution
Tuesday 7/21 @ The Getty Museum
This exhibition represents an overview of three centuries of French bronze sculpture, when monarchs and private collectors came to embrace bronze...
Exceptionally Gifted: Recent Donations to the Norton Simon Museum
Tuesday 7/21 @ 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...
Walls of Algiers: Narratives of the City
Tuesday 7/21 @ The Getty Museum
The city of Algiers, on the north coast of Africa, historically sheltered a diverse population. During the Ottoman centuries (1529-1830), this...
