Events on Wednesday, March 24
Wednesday 3/24 @ Majestic Crest Theater
The Something to Talk About film series takes independent documentaries out of the festival circuit and into the public sphere, screening...
Wednesday 3/24 @ Largo at the Coronet Theater
The Coronet Theater says Listen to Timber Timbre and you might peg the band for natives of Louisiana swampland, True Blood...
Wednesday 3/24 @ Book Soup
Mona Kuhn presents and signs Native. "This work began as a personal journey. Metaphorically, I was thinking of a...
History and Preservation of 1960s Cultural Landscapes
Wednesday 3/24 @ Los Angeles Conservancy
The Los Angeles Conservancy is partnering with The Cultural Landscape Foundation to host a panel discussion on the history and preservation...
Wednesday 3/24 @ The Cinefamily
A Woman of Affairs marks the third pairing of on-and off-screen lovers Greta Garbo and John Gilbert, and is based on...
Devendra Banhart and the Grogs
Wednesday 3/24 @ The Wiltern
Critically-acclaimed singer songwriter Devendra Banhart and his band The Grogs perform songs off their latest album What Will We Be, which...
Admiral Radley (Grandaddy/Earlimart) w/ The Henry Clay People, and Gooby Goo & Peekers at Bootleg
Wednesday 3/24 @ Bootleg Theater
ADMIRAL RADLEY “Ethereal California-based indie bands unite… former Grandaddy frontman Jason Lytle and former Grandaddy drummer Aaron Burtch have teamed up...
Orson Welles in THE THIRD MAN + FALLEN IDOL
Wednesday 3/24 @ Egyptian Theatre
THE THIRD MAN, 1949, Rialto Pictures, 93 min. Dir. Carol Reed Orson Welles excels as homicidal charmer Harry Lime, whose estranged...
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 3/24 @ 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...
Wednesday 3/24 @ Pacific Design Center
This week's confluence of West Week, the Avenues, and tonight's kaleidoscope of new art exists in perfect synergy, with most PDC...
Wednesday 3/24 @ The Viper Room
The Viper Room Says Monáe's Broadway beginnings are evident in her theatrical performances and her one-of-a-kind monochromatic power suits, but that's...
Wednesday 3/24 @ The Last Bookstore
While we certainly wish them all the luck in the world, we hope that the Last Bookstore's name proves un-prophetic. A...
Wednesday 3/24 @ Royal/T
It might be tempting to envision a romper room when you hear a maid café is hosting an exhibit with the...
Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth
Wednesday 3/24 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA
Nick Cave — no, not that Nick Cave — is a Chicago-based artist who crafts wearable sculptures from woven hair, found...
Wednesday 3/24 @ CB1 Gallery
The current exhibition — just the second at Downtown's freshly-minted CB1 Gallery — is a three-person show of diverse works in...
Wednesday 3/24 @ The Continental Gallery
Between their individual projects and their extensive collaborative undertakings, the six artists in Focus Daily operate in photography, painting, fashion, video,...
Wednesday 3/24 @ Affinity Galleries
Affinity Galleries, previously known as the Circus Gallery, presents an innovative group show that effectively redefines the term "multimedia." Exhibiting photography,...
2009–2010 Contemporary Documentaries
Wednesday 3/24 @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
The Academy's free screenings of Oscar-nominated and winning documentary films are always informative and compelling. May 19 is Viva la Causa,...
Star Quality: The World of Noël Coward
Wednesday 3/24 @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Known most famously for his reign as one of theater's greatest playwrights, British-born Noël Coward wore many other hats: singer, actor,...
The Ulysses Guide to the Los Angeles River
Wednesday 3/24 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art
The Los Angeles River has been having a comeback, if you can argue that it was ever popular to begin with....
Wednesday 3/24 @ SCI-Arc
After studying architecture in the '50s, Sir Peter Cook exhibited at ICA (where he later served as director), and co-founded Archigram,...
Wednesday 3/24 @ Crewest Gallery
The Cool 5, better known as TC-5, were responsible for the graffiti, fashion, and all-around scene-making that made the NYC outdoor...
How Many Billboards? Art in Stead
Wednesday 3/24 @ MAK Center for Art and Architecture
In New York, street art is tagged on the sides of buildings and pasted on empty storefronts. In Los Angeles, a...
Wednesday 3/24 @ Bar Copa
You know and love him as part of the erstwhile west-side club night Funky in the Middle, as well as the...
Wednesday 3/24 @ SolwayJones Gallery
In this dual-venue mini-retrospective of works mainly from the mid-'70s and early '80s, SolwayJones and Kunsthalle L.A. set up an intriguing...
Divine Demons: Wrathful Deities of Buddhist Art
Wednesday 3/24 @ 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 3/24 @ American Jewish University
Each of the artists in the three-person show, Body and Soul, carries an impressive list of achievements. Featuring work by Kathryn...
Art Against Empire: Graphic Responses to U.S. Interventions Since W.W.II
Wednesday 3/24 @ LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions)
Art Against Empire, culled from the extensive holdings of the Center for the Study of Political Graphics, offers over 100 selected...
Wednesday 3/24 @ Jancar Gallery
Los Angeles artist Mery Lynn McCorkle exhibits new mixed-media works combining rich, saturated colors with visceral, almost topographic textures, distressed surfaces,...
Wednesday 3/24 @ Arclight Sherman Oaks
Known primarily for its iconic outdoor amphitheatre and legendary musical acts, the Hollywood Bowl is offering fans a glimpse into the...
Wednesday 3/24 @ 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 3/24 @ Roberts & Tilton Gallery
Photographer, painter, installation artist, and skate legend Ed Templeton is a natural documentarian, first coming to the art world's attention with...
Wednesday 3/24 @ Coast Playhouse
A "bone"-ified smash. With "organ" accompaniment. Now that that's out of the way, yes, Puppetry of the Penis is exactly what...
The More the Merrier: Posters from the Ten Best Picture Nominees, 1936–1943
Wednesday 3/24 @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Does having more Best Picture nominations affect the quality of films made? Maybe not. But then again, the last time 10...
Breach of Peace: Photographs of Freedom Riders by Eric Etheridge
Wednesday 3/24 @ Skirball Cultural Center
The subject of an engaging exhibition and lavishly appended new book, Eric Etheridge's contemporary photographic portraits of this group of American...
Wednesday 3/24 @ DNJ Gallery
The often-haunting nightscapes of Night Lights reveal how city environments can become both isolating and poetic with the absence of daylight....
Wednesday 3/24 @ Charlie James Gallery
Travis Somerville is one of the west coast's fastest-rising art stars, first coming to national attention as the winner of the...
Wednesday 3/24 @ Art Center College of Design
Rightfully entitled DreamWorlds, this short exhibition at the Williamson Gallery features the work of the Dreamworks animation artists that help bring...
Wednesday 3/24 @ Downtown Center East/West Gallery
Michael Salerno has been a pillar of the artistic community of writers and painters that has made Downtown LA the epicenter...
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Wednesday 3/24 @ Various LA Theatres
In the Scandivanian cinema storytelling tradition of greats such as Ingmar Bergman and Lars von Trier, The Girl With the Dragon...
Wednesday 3/24 @ Edward Cella Art + Architecture
At a time when the country of Chile is foremost in the world's thoughts for tragic reasons, Mary Heebner's long-planned exhibition...
Wednesday 3/24 @ Jeanie Madsen Gallery
A 79-year old society hairdresser, New York photographer Victor Friedman has been moonlighting as a photojournalist for 45 years. Now, he...
Migrations of the Mind: Manuscripts from the Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection
Wednesday 3/24 @ The Getty Museum
Through Spring, the Getty gets medieval with an exhibition of illustrated manuscripts culling ancient Christian, Muslim, and Eastern wisdom from past...
Wednesday 3/24 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art
Sumi Ink Club represents a new ethos in the art world, one that builds on the playful spirit of artists like...
Wednesday 3/24 @ Michael Benevento Los Angeles
Updegraff's debut exhibition with Michael Benevento is an elegant evolution of the artist's exploration of the power-play between subject and author,...
Wednesday 3/24 @ François Ghebaly Gallery
Although he was born in New York and lives and works in Berlin, there is something about David Levine's long-term found-photo...
Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
Wednesday 3/24 @ 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 3/24 @ 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...
Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity
Wednesday 3/24 @ The Getty Museum
Over 180 ancient glass objects from the collection of Erwin Oppenländer are featured in this exhibition. The Oppenländer collection, which the Getty...
Wednesday 3/24 @ Downtown Independent Theater
digital, 90 min, 2009
dir. Bill Ross, IV
45365 explores the congruities of daily life in an...
Wednesday 3/24 @ Mark Moore Gallery
On the heels of his solo booth at PULSE Contemporary Art Fair (New York), Kim Dorland returns to LA with nearly...
Gaze: Portraiture after Ingres
Wednesday 3/24 @ Norton Simon Museum of Art
In conjunction with the installation of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres's stunning Comtesse d’Haussonville, 1845, on loan from The Frick Collection in New...
Wednesday 3/24 @ The Echo & Echoplex
Resident DJs Tom Chasteen, Roy Corderoy, the Dungeonmaster, and Boss Harmony spinning the best in classic reggae, dub and dancehall.
