Events on Wednesday, August 5
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ Paley Center LA
When one thinks of Vogue, legendary fashion editor Anna Wintour automatically comes to mind. Thanks to R. J. Cutler's enthralling new...
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ Egyptian Theatre
Sneak Preview Screenwriting Documentary! TALES FROM THE SCRIPT, 2009, 105 min. Dir. Peter Hanson. Shane Black (LETHAL WEAPON), John Carpenter (HALLOWEEN),...
Miles Davis / Gil Evans: Still Ahead
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ Hollywood Bowl
Porgy and Bess, Sketches of Spain, and Miles Ahead forever changed the sound of jazz. From the original scores, some of...
Nature Photographer Ian Shive presents and signs "The National Parks: Our American Landscape"
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ Book Soup
America's national parks and historical sites embody the American spirit. These epic locales are windows to our past, homes...
Dawes, Slang Chickens, Big Echo @ Echo
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ The Echo & Echoplex
Dawes || Listen
The first album from the new quartet featuring three-quarters of Simon Dawes sneaks up on you like...
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ Skirball Cultural Center
On the eve of the Wild Magnolias’ performance at the Skirball, watch this documentary about New Orleans’ vibrant Mardi Gras Indian...
The Script with special guests Parachute
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ El Rey
The Script is a tightly-knit three-piece that has been garnering the sort of ecstatic write-ups in its native Dublin that makes...
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ 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 8/ 5 @ 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...
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ 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...
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ Scribble Press
Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with...
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ Kinkead Contemporary
Los Angeles-based photographer Heather Cantrell lays elaborate groundwork for her seemingly fresh and casual portraits. Employing props, costumes, and references to...
Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ 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...
Smile 'Til It Hurts: The Up With People Story
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ Arclight Hollywood
As hippies dodged the draft in the 1960s and more and more Americans embraced flower-power, free-love, and psychedelics, the corn-fed, deliriously...
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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,...
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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...
Sweets & Treats: Wayne Thiebaud in the Collection of the Norton Simon Museum
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ 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...
Vice Magazine Photography Exhibition
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ The Scion Installation LA Space
In conjunction with Vice's annual photo issue, the ninth annual Vice Photo Show features work by contributors Jamie Lee Curtis Taete,...
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ Pershing Square
Illuminating the wealth of creative resources within the LA art scene, Tarryn Teresa Gallery's Lights on LA strings up light bulbs...
Paul Outerbridge and Jo Ann Callis
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ 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 8/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ Regen Projects II
Since his seminal book Statements came out in 1968, Lawrence Weiner has been at the forefront of conceptual art. Using language...
Todd Hebert and Jennifer Nehrbass
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ Mark Moore Gallery
In his latest body of work, Todd Hebert employs a mix of sharp detail and soft focus, and a dark yet...
Gary Lang and Jay Mark Johnson
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ 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...
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ Lawrence Asher Gallery
Three very different artists enter into a dialogue about the persistence of memory and how recollections are formed, contorted, stored, and...
Footsteps in Africa: A Nomadic Journey
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ Downtown Independent Theater
Director Kathi von Koerber has created a visual love letter to the nomadic Tuareg people's way of life. Following a community...
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ Vinum Populi
Culver City's latest spot of interest is Ugo Wine Bar, a cozy wine bar with the usual bistro couches and charcuterie...
The Billboard Show: Selling the So-Cal Lifestyle
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ Black Maria Gallery
Taking a cue from those masters of capturing the youthful zeitgeist, the Who, The Kids Are Alright showcases a new generation...
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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,...
Exene Cervenka and Wayne White
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ Western Project
Daring frontwoman of arguably the coolest punk band ever, X, Exene Cervenka has considerable talents off the stage as well, starting...
Kime Buzelli and Suzannah Sinclair
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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...
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ Shoshana Wayne Gallery
In her latest series of photographic and video projections, Nicole Cohen expands upon previous subject matter and technological complexity, constructing layered,...
Pictures of the Year International: The World. In High Resolution
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ 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...
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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...
Cast in Bronze: French Sculpture from Renaissance to Revolution
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ The Getty Museum
This exhibition represents an overview of three centuries of French bronze sculpture, when monarchs and private collectors came to embrace bronze...
You See: The Early Years of the UC Davis Studio Art Faculty
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ 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,...
Walls of Algiers: Narratives of the City
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ 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...
Annie Lapin: Parallel Deliria Iteration
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ 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...
Edith Heath: Tabletop Modernist
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ 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...
Capturing Nature's Beauty: Three Centuries of French Landscapes
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ The Getty Museum
This selection of over 40 drawings from the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Getty Research Institute highlights...
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ 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...
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ The Getty Museum
The Chimaera of Arezzo traces the myth of Bellerophon and the Chimaera - the legendary fire-breathing monster comprised of a lion,...
Exceptionally Gifted: Recent Donations to the Norton Simon Museum
Wednesday 8/ 5 @ 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...
