Events on Wednesday, April 21
Wednesday 4/21 @ Art Center College of Design
Art Center is one of the best-known art colleges in the world, in part because of its famous focus on non-traditional,...
Wednesday 4/21 @ The Troubadour
Somebody needs to give Cincinatti's Foxy Shazam an award for Best Name Ever. Making good on their moniker, the band plays,...
Wednesday 4/21 @ The Cinefamily
Capra's 1926 feature debut is the crown jewel in the career of Harry Langdon, the often-overlooked fourth great silent clown (alongside...
An evening with... Joseph Arthur and Friends w/ Line and Circle at Bootleg
Wednesday 4/21 @ Bootleg Theater
JOSEPH ARTHUR For his entire, decade-long recording career, Joseph Arthur has been a gushing fountain of creativity, and he doesn’t show...
Chuy Bravo: Little Nuggets of Wisdom: Big Advice from the Small Star of Chelsea Lately
Wednesday 4/21 @ Book Soup
Chuy Bravo presents and signs Little Nuggets of Wisdom: Big Advice from the Small Star of Chelsea Lately. ...
Wednesday 4/21 @ El Rey
This show will be a Pleasure Principle show, much as were performed in the UK in 2009. The Pleasure Principle album...
Megafaun / Breathe Owl Breathe @ the echo
Wednesday 4/21 @ The Echo & Echoplex
“Plant that flag on solid ground,” advise the members of Megafaun on their second album, Gather, Form & Fly. The trio–...
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 4/21 @ Hammer Museum
The Hammer Museum says: This spring the Hammer Museum presents The Red Book of C. G. Jung: Creation of a New...
Wednesday 4/21 @ Arclight Hollywood
Directed by the notorious Banksy himself, Exit Through the Gift Shop takes viewers on a wild ride through the illicit world...
The More the Merrier: Posters from the Ten Best Picture Nominees, 1936–1943
Wednesday 4/21 @ 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 4/21 @ The Autry National Center of the American West
The terminus of Manifest Destiny has produced an unparalleled convergence of cultures, and by using methodologies such as cultural, social, and...
Wednesday 4/21 @ 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 4/21 @ The Cravens Estate
The artistry and innovation of the designers, landscapers, and artisans involved in this year's Pasadena Showcase House is as inspirational and...
Wednesday 4/21 @ 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 4/21 @ 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 4/21 @ 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...
Britton Tolliver: A Search for the Sky Underneath the Dirt
Wednesday 4/21 @ 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 4/21 @ 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 4/21 @ Royal/T
It might be tempting to envision a romper room when you hear a maid café is hosting an exhibit with the...
Wednesday 4/21 @ 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 4/21 @ 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,...
Jeff Koegel and Gregory Euclide
Wednesday 4/21 @ 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 4/21 @ 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 4/21 @ 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 4/21 @ 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...
2009–2010 Contemporary Documentaries
Wednesday 4/21 @ 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 4/21 @ 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...
Divine Demons: Wrathful Deities of Buddhist Art
Wednesday 4/21 @ 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 4/21 @ SCI-Arc
After studying architecture in the '50s, Sir Peter Cook exhibited at ICA (where he later served as director), and co-founded Archigram,...
Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth
Wednesday 4/21 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA
Nick Cave — no, not that Nick Cave — is a Chicago-based artist who crafts wearable sculptures from woven hair, found...
Wednesday 4/21 @ 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 4/21 @ 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...
Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
Wednesday 4/21 @ 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 4/21 @ 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 4/21 @ 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....
Wednesday 4/21 @ Santa Monica Air Center, Barker Hangar
Los Angeles Antiques Show says: LOS ANGELES ANTIQUES SHOW FEATURES 65 NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITORS, LECTURES, BENEFITS P.S. ARTS
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Wednesday 4/21 @ 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...
The Ulysses Guide to the Los Angeles River
Wednesday 4/21 @ 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 4/21 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/21 @ 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 4/21 @ 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 4/21 @ 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 4/21 @ Various LA locations
"More than a century ago, composer Richard Wagner conceived his epic four-opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen as a festival event...
Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo
Wednesday 4/21 @ 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 4/21 @ Edward Cella Art + Architecture
Edward Cella Gallery wears its worldview on its sleeve, or at least its nameplate, being dedicated to investigating the myriad ways...
Wednesday 4/21 @ Antebellum Gallery
The legend goes, 420 first came into existence in 1971 after a group of California high school students met each day...
Wednesday 4/21 @ 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 4/21 @ Western Project
Being just the second exhibition at its freshly-opened (aka expensively renovated) Culver City location (new from a previous CC place a...
Gronk: Live-Action Mural Painting
Wednesday 4/21 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA
The Fowler Museum says: Visit the Fowler Museum to meet celebrated Chicano artist Gronk, and watch him create a site-specific...
Wednesday 4/21 @ The Echo & Echoplex
Resident DJs Tom Chasteen, Roy Corderoy, the Dungeonmaster, and Boss Harmony spinning the best in classic reggae, dub and dancehall.
Wednesday 4/21 @ 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 4/21 @ 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...
Monsters and Miracles: A Journey through Jewish Picture Books
Wednesday 4/21 @ 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 4/21 @ 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...
