Events on Wednesday, August 26
Wednesday 8/26 @ Hammer Museum
Benjamin Kunkel reads at the Hammer tonight, part of the museum's New American Writing series. With crackerjack wit, Kunkel's lauded debut...
Wednesday 8/26 @ The Standard Hotel
Daisy O'Dell headlines this month's installment of the Compact Disco party at the Purple Lounge — the extremely chillaxed and comfy...
Dawes, Michael Davis with Lions, Andrew Lynch @ Echo
Wednesday 8/26 @ The Echo & Echoplex
Former Poor Excuses frontman Andrew Lynch returns to his singer/songwriter roots on the heels of finishing up Sun Incisions, a creepily...
Wednesday 8/26 @ Downtown Independent Theater
Sun: 2:30, 5:30, 7:30
Mon: 5:30, 8:30
Tue & Wed: 5:30, 7:30, 9:30
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Wednesday 8/26 @ Greek Theatre
Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter Chris Isaak will be performing at the Greek Theatre on Wednesday, August 26 at 7:30 PM with Susan Tedeschi...
Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band
Wednesday 8/26 @ Hollywood Bowl
A night of big band music at its very best, from the be-bopping All-Stars of Dizzy Gillespie’s alumni and titan James...
Male and Female (1919) - starring Gloria Swanson
Wednesday 8/26 @ The Cinefamily
Gloria Swanson's iconic performance as Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard is exponentially more affecting in light of its echoing her own...
Gilli Moon Presents: the Art Of Men CD Release Party!
Wednesday 8/26 @ The Mint
Art Of Men at 7:30pm-12am NO MORE DINNER RESERVATIONS WILL BE TAKEN FOR THIS SHOW. STANDING ROOM ONLY.
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Ongoing Events
Wednesday 8/26 @ The Scion Installation LA Space
The brainchild of RESfest founder Jonathan Wells and designer, gallerist, and writer Meg Wells, Flux has been providing culture-lovers with a...
Wednesday 8/26 @ Various East Side Venues
Celebrating the spirit of the bicycle through film, art, and music, the Bicycle Film Festival rolls into LA for the sixth...
The Billboard Show: Selling the So-Cal Lifestyle
Wednesday 8/26 @ 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...
Wednesday 8/26 @ 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...
Wednesday 8/26 @ Norton Simon Museum
In the 1960s, soon-to-be Pop icon Wayne Thiebaud created a series of monochromatic, two-dimensional prints of nine pieces of pie, sufficiently...
Sweets & Treats: Wayne Thiebaud in the Collection of the Norton Simon Museum
Wednesday 8/26 @ 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...
Wednesday 8/26 @ 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...
Wednesday 8/26 @ Pershing Square
Illuminating the wealth of creative resources within the LA art scene, Tarryn Teresa Gallery's Lights on LA strings up light bulbs...
Wednesday 8/26 @ 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...
Kime Buzelli and Suzannah Sinclair
Wednesday 8/26 @ New Image Art
New Image Art Gallery presents a pair of very different takes on the feminine mystique as painters Suzannah Sinclair and Kime...
Wednesday 8/26 @ Shoshana Wayne Gallery
In her latest series of photographic and video projections, Nicole Cohen expands upon previous subject matter and technological complexity, constructing layered,...
Gary Lang and Jay Mark Johnson
Wednesday 8/26 @ 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...
Steeped in History: The Art of Tea
Wednesday 8/26 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA
The second most consumed drink next to water, tea has also been frequent theme in art history. Guest curated by tea...
Wednesday 8/26 @ Tarryn Teresa Gallery
Whether your biggest problem with taxidermy hunting trophies is their lack of space-age resins or the rarity of significant anatomical mutations,...
Wednesday 8/26 @ Sea and Space Explorations
Multipurpose culture zone Sea and Space Explorations doesn't feel the need to respect the boundaries between the senses, with the result...
Wednesday 8/26 @ 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 8/26 @ 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...
Wednesday 8/26 @ LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions)
LA-based art and action collective Fallen Fruit uses the visual arts (specifically photography, installation, and performance-oriented actions) to examine the imbalance...
Wednesday 8/26 @ 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 8/26 @ Subliminal Projects
Weekend warriors find their more enlightened alter ego in Weekend Pacifists, a group show featuring the work of five artists —...
Wednesday 8/26 @ The Getty Center
Thirty staged photographs are on view at the Getty Center as part of its In Focus series, a thematic presentation of...
Wednesday 8/26 @ 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...
Wednesday 8/26 @ Corey Helford Gallery
LA native and CalArts alum Carlos Ramos merges his background in character animation with the art of classic poster design in...
Exene Cervenka and Wayne White
Wednesday 8/26 @ Western Project
Daring frontwoman of arguably the coolest punk band ever, X, Exene Cervenka has considerable talents off the stage as well, starting...
Wednesday 8/26 @ Billy Shire Fine Arts
The Billy Shire Fine Arts gallery brings together the work of three different minds to its Culver City space. While the...
Divine Demons: Wrathful Deities of Buddhist Art
Wednesday 8/26 @ 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 8/26 @ Honor Fraser
Curated by arts critic and writer Emma Gray, Honor Fraser's annual group show features works by 14 female artists based in...
Wednesday 8/26 @ Scribble Press
Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with...
Pictures of the Year International: The World. In High Resolution
Wednesday 8/26 @ Annenberg Space for Photography
All year photographers have been clicking camera shutters with their lenses pointed toward the action. The 66th annual Pictures of the...
Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
Wednesday 8/26 @ 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 8/26 @ Book Soup
We love a good happy hour, especially when the wine is free and the books are 25% off. Every weekday from...
You See: The Early Years of the UC Davis Studio Art Faculty
Wednesday 8/26 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art
Featuring work of five UC Davis faculty members Robert Arneson, Roy De Forest, Manuel Neri, Wayne Thiebaud and William T. Wiley,...
Capturing Nature's Beauty: Three Centuries of French Landscapes
Wednesday 8/26 @ The Getty Museum
This selection of over 40 drawings from the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Getty Research Institute highlights...
Annie Lapin: Parallel Deliria Iteration
Wednesday 8/26 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art
The PMCA is proud to present Los Angeles painter Annie Lapin's Parallel Deliria Iteration, which the artist describes as "a never-ending...
Wednesday 8/26 @ 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...
Wednesday 8/26 @ The Getty Museum
The Chimaera of Arezzo traces the myth of Bellerophon and the Chimaera - the legendary fire-breathing monster comprised of a lion,...
Edith Heath: Tabletop Modernist
Wednesday 8/26 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art
This exhibition focuses on the life of Edith Heath and her defining influence on California design through pottery. Popular at dinner...
Cast in Bronze: French Sculpture from Renaissance to Revolution
Wednesday 8/26 @ The Getty Museum
This exhibition represents an overview of three centuries of French bronze sculpture, when monarchs and private collectors came to embrace bronze...
Wednesday 8/26 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art
Benny Chan has worked diligently over the past few years to photograph overhead views of Los Angeles freeways during the height...
Exceptionally Gifted: Recent Donations to the Norton Simon Museum
Wednesday 8/26 @ 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
Wednesday 8/26 @ 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...
Wednesday 8/26 @ 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...
