Events on Wednesday, April 14
Wednesday 4/14 @ The Mountain Bar
Book geeks and celebs throw it down at tonight's Literary Death Match, a competitive ode to the written word that meshes...
Wednesday 4/14 @ The Second City Theater
The bent boys of NYC's Don't Touch Me There are freely offering their darkly tinged, silly and sardonic Gen-Y brand of...
Wednesday 4/14 @ The Cinefamily
Our third show in the ongoing Blast Phemy! series features outstanding musical soloists performing new, cutting-edge works seamlessly melded with a...
Wednesday 4/14 @ Walt Disney Concert Hall
David Robertson and the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra explore the works of two giants, revealing the refinement...
Neo Noir Premiere with Director in Person: EVE'S NECKLACE
Wednesday 4/14 @ Egyptian Theatre
Wednesday, April 14 – 7:30 PM Los Angeles Premiere! Neo-Noir: EVE'S NECKLACE, 2009, Erickson Films, 80 min. Film noir is a...
Great Guitars: George Thorogood
Wednesday 4/14 @ The GRAMMY Museum
Join as The GRAMMY Museum welcomes legendary blues rocker George Thorogood to the GRAMMY Sound Stage. Before an intimate audience of...
Ruby Suns / Toro Y Moi @ the echo
Wednesday 4/14 @ The Echo & Echoplex
On March 2, sunny New Zealand psych-pop outfit the Ruby Suns will release Fight Softly, the follow-up to the BNM’ed 2008...
Benji Hughes w/ Craig Wedren and John Carpenter
Wednesday 4/14 @ Bootleg Theater
BENJI HUGHES Hailing from Charlotte, North Carolina, Benji Hughes spends much of his time masterminding his blend of inventive rock and...
Sixties Residential Architecture Exploration with Jan Horn
Wednesday 4/14 @ Los Angeles Conservancy
Join us for an evening lecture covering the varied landscape of 1960s residential architecture. Leading the conversation will be Jan Horn,...
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 4/14 @ REDCAT
Truth, Revised Histories, Wishful Thinking, and Flat-Out Lies cuts through the mind-dulling cacophony of competing messages and media-generated "reality" to get...
Wednesday 4/14 @ 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 4/14 @ Laemmle's Music Hall 3
Laemmle's says: In her feature-film debut, renowned visual artist Shirin Neshat offers an exquisitely crafted view of Iran in 1953, when...
Divine Demons: Wrathful Deities of Buddhist Art
Wednesday 4/14 @ 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 4/14 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/14 @ 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 4/14 @ 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 4/14 @ Natural History Museum
One of the Natural History Museum's most eagerly anticipated annual events is its Pavilion of Wings — the installation of living,...
Wednesday 4/14 @ 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...
Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
Wednesday 4/14 @ 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...
Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo
Wednesday 4/14 @ Mark Taper Forum
It's always refreshing to see a work that speaks with such striking originality; it reaffirms the value in taking risks. Playwright...
Wednesday 4/14 @ Taylor De Cordoba Gallery
Chris Natrop is an installation artist by nature, known for his labor-intensive, room-engulfing sculptural environments constructed of cut and painted elements....
The Ulysses Guide to the Los Angeles River
Wednesday 4/14 @ 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....
Migrations of the Mind: Manuscripts from the Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection
Wednesday 4/14 @ 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 4/14 @ 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 4/14 @ Otis College of Art and Design
Otis College continues to churn out the serious artists and designers, with an eclectic alumni list whose influences have been felt...
Jeff Koegel and Gregory Euclide
Wednesday 4/14 @ Merry Karnowsky Gallery
Jeff Koegel and Gregory Euclide each examine the complexities of humanity's interactions with nature. Koegel's paintings, while not immediately seeming to...
Wednesday 4/14 @ 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 4/14 @ 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 4/14 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/14 @ Laemmle's Sunset 5
Circa 1963, Jim Morrison and Ray Manzarek met at UCLA's film school, and the rest is, well, it's kind of a...
Wednesday 4/14 @ The Hive Gallery & Studios
The Hive Gallery is the artistic home to over 25 resident studio visionaries based in Southern California. In honor of its...
Wednesday 4/14 @ Peter Fetterman Gallery
A survey spanning several decades of Caponigro's innovative classicism in still life and landscape, this is quite simply one of the...
Art Against Empire: Graphic Responses to U.S. Interventions Since W.W.II
Wednesday 4/14 @ 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 4/14 @ Royal/T
It might be tempting to envision a romper room when you hear a maid café is hosting an exhibit with the...
Wednesday 4/14 @ Western Project
Being just the second exhibition at its freshly-opened (aka expensively renovated) Culver City location (new from a previous CC place a...
Wednesday 4/14 @ 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 4/14 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/14 @ The Geffen Playhouse
Almost immediately after William Lindsay Gresham's Nightmare Alley was first published in 1946, quintessential Hollywood hunk, Tyrone Power, bought the movie...
Wednesday 4/14 @ Hammer Museum
The Hammer Museum says: This spring the Hammer Museum presents The Red Book of C. G. Jung: Creation of a New...
Star Quality: The World of Noël Coward
Wednesday 4/14 @ 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 4/14 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA
Nick Cave — no, not that Nick Cave — is a Chicago-based artist who crafts wearable sculptures from woven hair, found...
Wednesday 4/14 @ 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 4/14 @ 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 4/14 @ 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 4/14 @ Underground Gallery
Underground Gallery says: Club Med is a solo exhibition by Anne Martens featuring sewn mixed-media sculpture and installation. In Club Med,...
2009–2010 Contemporary Documentaries
Wednesday 4/14 @ 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,...
Britton Tolliver: A Search for the Sky Underneath the Dirt
Wednesday 4/14 @ 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 4/14 @ 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 4/14 @ 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 4/14 @ 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 4/14 @ 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,...
Monsters and Miracles: A Journey through Jewish Picture Books
Wednesday 4/14 @ Skirball Cultural Center
Showcasing more than 100 illustrations and texts from time-honored classics and popular favorites, this new exhibition guides audiences through the colorful...
Wednesday 4/14 @ The GRAMMY Museum
The GRAMMY Museum's third major special exhibit, Strange Kozmic Experience explores the innovations, legacies, and continual impact of the artists who...
Wednesday 4/14 @ 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 4/14 @ 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 4/14 @ The Echo & Echoplex
Resident DJs Tom Chasteen, Roy Corderoy, the Dungeonmaster, and Boss Harmony spinning the best in classic reggae, dub and dancehall.
Wednesday 4/14 @ 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 4/14 @ Downtown Independent Theater
9 - 14 April:
showtimes TBD dir. Henrik Ruben Genz
2008, 35mm, 90 min
Robert...
