Events on Wednesday, April 28
Red Book Dialogues: Leonard Nimoy & Beverley Zabriskie
Wednesday 4/28 @ Hammer Museum
The thing about Spock was that in the end, he always seemed to know people better than they knew themselves. He...
Wednesday 4/28 @ The Cinefamily
In the wake of The Jazz Singer's success, every studio wanted a similar feelgood Jolson-like project in the pipeline, and so...
Anna David: Reality Matters: 19 Writers Come Clean about the Shows We Can't Stop Watching
Wednesday 4/28 @ Book Soup
Anna David (and special guests) presents and signs Reality Matters: 19 Writers Come Clean about the Shows We Can't Stop...
Wednesday 4/28 @ El Rey
Using entire shows from the Grateful Dead's 30 years of extensive touring as a launching pad, Dark Star Orchestra recreates the...
Footprints: Sneak Preview & Reception w/ Cast & Crew In Person
Wednesday 4/28 @ Egyptian Theatre
Wednesday, April 28 – 7:30 PM Sneak Preview! FOOTPRINTS, 2009, 80 min. The feature directorial debut of screenwriter Steven Peros (Peter...
Ongoing Events
Britton Tolliver: A Search for the Sky Underneath the Dirt
Wednesday 4/28 @ 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 4/28 @ Arclight Hollywood
Directed by the notorious Banksy himself, Exit Through the Gift Shop takes viewers on a wild ride through the illicit world...
The Ulysses Guide to the Los Angeles River
Wednesday 4/28 @ 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 4/28 @ Royal/T
It might be tempting to envision a romper room when you hear a maid café is hosting an exhibit with the...
Wednesday 4/28 @ 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 4/28 @ 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 4/28 @ CB1 Gallery
The thing about Lorenzo Hurtado Segovia is that, although nearly all his creative projects involve paint at some point, he's not...
Darkwave: Surfing and the Violence of the City
Wednesday 4/28 @ USC Institute for Genetic Medicine Art Gallery
This expanded and recontextualized exhibition builds on last year's installation at Black Cat Gallery, to now involve the experiences of the...
Wednesday 4/28 @ 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 4/28 @ Hammer Museum
The Hammer Museum says: This spring the Hammer Museum presents The Red Book of C. G. Jung: Creation of a New...
Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
Wednesday 4/28 @ 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 4/28 @ Antebellum Gallery
The legend goes, 420 first came into existence in 1971 after a group of California high school students met each day...
Wednesday 4/28 @ 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 4/28 @ SCI-Arc
After studying architecture in the '50s, Sir Peter Cook exhibited at ICA (where he later served as director), and co-founded Archigram,...
Gronk: Live-Action Mural Painting
Wednesday 4/28 @ 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 4/28 @ Regen Projects
Photographer and UCLA faculty member Catherine Opie displays her new series of time-sensitive images taken from the deck of a container...
Wednesday 4/28 @ 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 4/28 @ 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...
2009–2010 Contemporary Documentaries
Wednesday 4/28 @ 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,...
4 x 4: Four Figurative Photographers
Wednesday 4/28 @ Kopeikin Gallery
Kopeikin Gallery says: Four photographers present four images each.
Alison Brady: This body of work uses staged imagery...
No One Knows About Persian Cats
Wednesday 4/28 @ Landmark Westside Pavilion
Under normal circumstances, most Americans over 30 wouldn't rush to see the latest independent quasi-documentary feature about a bunch of city...
Wednesday 4/28 @ 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...
Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth
Wednesday 4/28 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA
Nick Cave — no, not that Nick Cave — is a Chicago-based artist who crafts wearable sculptures from woven hair, found...
Wednesday 4/28 @ 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 4/28 @ Charlie James Gallery
When Orly Cogan's work first gained international attention, it wasn't only for pressing the traditionally crafts-associated medium of embroidery into the...
Wednesday 4/28 @ 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 4/28 @ 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 4/28 @ 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 4/28 @ El Cid
The monthly event Serenade Sunset has dual purposes: to serve as a showcase for local artists and to promote Silver Lake...
Wednesday 4/28 @ 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 4/28 @ DNJ Gallery
The often-haunting nightscapes of Night Lights reveal how city environments can become both isolating and poetic with the absence of daylight....
Jeff Koegel and Gregory Euclide
Wednesday 4/28 @ 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 4/28 @ 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 4/28 @ 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...
Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo
Wednesday 4/28 @ 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 4/28 @ 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 4/28 @ 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...
Divine Demons: Wrathful Deities of Buddhist Art
Wednesday 4/28 @ 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 4/28 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/28 @ 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 4/28 @ Lazarides Gallery Beverly Hills
On the eve of the release of the new biographical documentary on his life so far, David Choe takes on the...
Wednesday 4/28 @ 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 4/28 @ 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 4/28 @ Downtown Independent Theater
The artists featured in the documentary Beautiful Losers were hardly the first to root their work in street art, but they...
Monsters and Miracles: A Journey through Jewish Picture Books
Wednesday 4/28 @ 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 4/28 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/28 @ 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 4/28 @ Mark Moore Gallery
Utilizing pop and rock music as his source material, Bavington acts as a translator between the aural and visual. Guitar solos...
Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity
Wednesday 4/28 @ 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...
Plants, Flowers and Fruits: Ellsworth Kelly Lithographs
Wednesday 4/28 @ Norton Simon Museum of Art
The Norton Simon Museum presents an exhibition of twenty lithographs of botanical subjects by American artist Ellsworth Kelly (b. 1923). Though...
Wednesday 4/28 @ The Echo & Echoplex
Resident DJs Tom Chasteen, Roy Corderoy, the Dungeonmaster, and Boss Harmony spinning the best in classic reggae, dub and dancehall.
