Events on Wednesday, March 31
Michael Bodine: Growing Up Psychic: From Skeptic to Believer
Wednesday 3/31 @ Book Soup
Michael Bodine presents and signs Growing Up Psychic: From Skeptic to Believer. This gripping memoir chronicles the hair-raising and...
Wednesday 3/31 @ The Cinefamily
This red-blooded silent adventure story features Navy man Jack Reagon (Jack Holt), who falls for and marries dance-hall girl (Dorothy Revier),...
Criminally Unknown: Eddie Presley & Together Alone
Wednesday 3/31 @ Egyptian Theatre
EDDIE PRESLEY, 1992, Eddie Productions, 106 min. Dir. Jeff Burr. Living in a van off Hollywood Boulevard, tortured Elvis impersonator Eddie...
Mini Mansions, Doll and the Kicks (UK), LINKS, and Silent Comedy at Bootleg
Wednesday 3/31 @ Bootleg Theater
MINI MANSIONS Mini Mansions are a three-piece psych pop band from Los Angeles (w/ Michael Shuman from Queens of the Stone...
Fender Presents John 5: Professor of Shredology
Wednesday 3/31 @ The GRAMMY Museum
Guitarist John 5 has compiled one of the most impressive resumes in rock. In addition to his solo work, he has collaborated...
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 3/31 @ Annenberg Space for Photography
National Geographic puts a new spin on a classic subject, using cutting-edge photographic technology to build a sweeping portfolio of the...
How Many Billboards? Art in Stead
Wednesday 3/31 @ 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...
2009–2010 Contemporary Documentaries
Wednesday 3/31 @ 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,...
Wednesday 3/31 @ 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...
Breach of Peace: Photographs of Freedom Riders by Eric Etheridge
Wednesday 3/31 @ 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...
Migrations of the Mind: Manuscripts from the Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection
Wednesday 3/31 @ 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 3/31 @ 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 3/31 @ 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,...
4th International Exhibition with Thailand
Wednesday 3/31 @ LA Artcore Union Center Gallery
LA Artcore hosts a dual-venue exhibition co-produced by the Thai Art Council and the Office of National Culture Commission of Thailand....
Wednesday 3/31 @ 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 3/31 @ 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 3/31 @ 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...
Britton Tolliver: A Search for the Sky Underneath the Dirt
Wednesday 3/31 @ Kinkead Contemporary
Tolliver's vivid paintings engage a successful and intense marriage of abstraction and geometric rendering, and at times his forms seem to...
Wednesday 3/31 @ 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 3/31 @ Royal/T
It might be tempting to envision a romper room when you hear a maid café is hosting an exhibit with the...
Wednesday 3/31 @ 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 3/31 @ Underground Gallery
Underground Gallery says: Club Med is a solo exhibition by Anne Martens featuring sewn mixed-media sculpture and installation. In Club Med,...
Wednesday 3/31 @ 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 3/31 @ 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...
Star Quality: The World of Noël Coward
Wednesday 3/31 @ 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,...
Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth
Wednesday 3/31 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA
Nick Cave — no, not that Nick Cave — is a Chicago-based artist who crafts wearable sculptures from woven hair, found...
Wednesday 3/31 @ 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 3/31 @ CB1 Gallery
The current exhibition — just the second at Downtown's freshly-minted CB1 Gallery — is a three-person show of diverse works in...
Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
Wednesday 3/31 @ 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 3/31 @ 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 3/31 @ 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 3/31 @ El Cid
The monthly event Serenade Sunset has dual purposes: to serve as a showcase for local artists and to promote Silver Lake...
Wednesday 3/31 @ 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...
The Ulysses Guide to the Los Angeles River
Wednesday 3/31 @ 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 3/31 @ 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...
Wednesday 3/31 @ 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...
Wednesday 3/31 @ 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...
Wednesday 3/31 @ Affinity Galleries
Affinity Galleries, previously known as the Circus Gallery, presents an innovative group show that effectively redefines the term "multimedia." Exhibiting photography,...
Divine Demons: Wrathful Deities of Buddhist Art
Wednesday 3/31 @ 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...
The More the Merrier: Posters from the Ten Best Picture Nominees, 1936–1943
Wednesday 3/31 @ 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...
Art Against Empire: Graphic Responses to U.S. Interventions Since W.W.II
Wednesday 3/31 @ 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 3/31 @ 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 3/31 @ 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...
Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity
Wednesday 3/31 @ 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 3/31 @ Mark Moore Gallery
On the heels of his solo booth at PULSE Contemporary Art Fair (New York), Kim Dorland returns to LA with nearly...
Wednesday 3/31 @ 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...
Gaze: Portraiture after Ingres
Wednesday 3/31 @ 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 3/31 @ The Echo & Echoplex
Resident DJs Tom Chasteen, Roy Corderoy, the Dungeonmaster, and Boss Harmony spinning the best in classic reggae, dub and dancehall.
