Events on Wednesday, August 11
They Came! A Spatial Intervention
Wednesday 8/11 @ Architecture + Design Museum
Recently, the Architecture + Design Museum invited 13 visionaries to participate in one of several "spatial interventions" designed to re-imagine the...
Wednesday 8/11 @ Bardot Hollywood
A creative new spin on the cross-genre culture party, the Mysoirée.net Art Tour travels the nation throwing the kind of up-beat,...
Alejandro Escovedo & the Sensitive Boys
Wednesday 8/11 @ El Rey
There are songwriters who sing their songs, and then there are songs who sing their writers.Alejandro Escovedo is one with his...
Taylor Plimpton: Notes from the Night: A Life After Dark
Wednesday 8/11 @ Book Soup
Taylor Plimpton presents and signs Notes From the Night
(Note: This event will be sponsored by Macallan Whiskey,...
Queen Kelly starring Gloria Swanson
Wednesday 8/11 @ The Cinefamily
After years of struggles within the studio system throughout the 1920s, director Erich von Stroheim found the opportunity to create his...
The Joy Formidable (UK) w/ Division Day and The Arkells
Wednesday 8/11 @ Bootleg Theater
THE JOY FORMIDABLE Having sold out multiple UK tours throughout 2009 and taken to the road in this country in support...
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 8/11 @ 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 8/11 @ Hammer Museum
It's already too late to drop your plants off at the Hammer Museum for Machine Project and artist Lisa Anne Auerbach's...
Wednesday 8/11 @ The Farley Building
Mike Kelley is one of the most influential artists ever to come out of Los Angeles. Though he works across every...
Wednesday 8/11 @ Koplin del Rio Gallery
Hangin' Together assembles a divergent group of new-kids-on-the-block and art-world veterans for a cool summer show at Koplin del Rio. Curated...
Wednesday 8/11 @ CB1 Gallery
August is traditionally summer group-show month at fine art galleries—among those that aren't shuttered for the muggy duration at least—and the...
Wednesday 8/11 @ Pacific Design Center
The miniature, indoor gallery district on the Blue Whale's second, and now third, floors welcomes new shows from original residents and...
Wednesday 8/11 @ 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 8/11 @ La Luz de Jesus
A voyage into the mind of a modern-day surrealist painter, the Christ Chronocrator Project represents Christopher Ulrich's continuing investigation into the...
Wednesday 8/11 @ The Hi-Lite
Multi-talent Reuben Cox is truly old school: he recently opened a Silverlake guitar store called Old Style, and when not making...
Wednesday 8/11 @ Skirball Cultural Center
Jews on Vinyl is an auditory history of the influence of Jewish traditions on American pop culture from 1948, the year...
Wednesday 8/11 @ Otis College of Art and Design
From the Otis College of Art and Design comes the summer's first blockbuster art show — actually, an inspired pairing of...
Wednesday 8/11 @ Bert Green Fine Art
Bert Green Fine Art says: David Hollen constructs sculpture from industrial materials such as metal, wood, wire, rubber, and synthetic materials....
Wednesday 8/11 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art
Sting's slow-dance staple "Every Breath You Take" has inspired Kenneth Anger's surveillance-themed homo-erotic 2007 flick I'll Be Watching You and now,...
Wednesday 8/11 @ Hacienda Hot Springs
A mission-style oasis in the Coachella Valley, Hacienda Hot Springs isn't your ordinary spa destination. Between the homemade granola and the...
The Fantastical Worlds of Ray Harryhausen
Wednesday 8/11 @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Long before the recent quasi-blockbuster version, there was the original Clash of the Titans, a 1981 tour de force starring Laurence...
Wednesday 8/11 @ Various Ojai venues
The Ojai Playwrights Conference, founded in 1998, is now in its 13th season of helping playwrights develop new work. The participating...
The Curious World of Patent Models and The Future of Objects
Wednesday 8/11 @ Art Center College of Design
As testament of the ceaselessly inventive American mind and geared towards lifestyle improvement, The Curious World of Patent Models produces myriad...
Wednesday 8/11 @ Country Club LA
Country Club says: Country Club Los Angeles is pleased to announce that Kori Newkirk will be the next artist in the...
Wednesday 8/11 @ Sherry Frumkin Gallery
Doni Silver Simons, a painter and installation artist whose work centers around the performative and symbolically narrative activities of counting, mark-making/marking...
Wednesday 8/11 @ Natural History Museum
One of the Natural History Museum's most eagerly anticipated annual events is its Pavilion of Wings — the installation of living,...
Chad Person: Surviving the End of Your World
Wednesday 8/11 @ Mark Moore Gallery
New Mexico-based multimedia artist Chad Person creates beautifully crafted, ironic indictments of society's most dangerous flaws. In TaxCut, Person shreds US...
Wednesday 8/11 @ The Mint
The Mint says: Now celebrating their 27th year! Simply put, The Rebirth Brass Band is a New Orleans institution. Formed in...
Wednesday 8/11 @ Samuel Freeman
Samuel Freeman Gallery says: A group show featuring works by Cassandra Glessner, Maggie Mull, Hedi Sorger, Michelle Wiener, and Jennifer Wolf,...
Wednesday 8/11 @ Pershing Square
Pershing Square in Downtown Los Angeles is meant to be the literal and symbolic center of the city; and while that's...
Wednesday 8/11 @ Norton Simon Museum of Art
Think of iconic Japanese print-maker Hiroshige as a kind of Andy Warhol of his day, crossed with a staff photographer for...
Patrick Graham and Arshile Gorky
Wednesday 8/11 @ Jack Rutberg Fine Arts
Continuing its tradition of illuminating scholarship on modern and contemporary painting, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts presents one of its most ambitious...
The Artistic Furniture of Charles Rohlfs
Wednesday 8/11 @ Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens
American furniture designer Charles Rohlfs (1853–1936) found inspiration in Art Nouveau, Asian, English, German, and Moorish designs, yet his own style...
Wednesday 8/11 @ Hold Up Art
The premise of Hold Up Art's next group show is both powerful and a little bit wistful, as the curators of...
Wednesday 8/11 @ Arena 1
By turns whimsical and ominous, the work of the 16 artists curated into Signs of the Forest share little in the...
Wednesday 8/11 @ A&I Hollywood
Digital photography is one of the most small-D democratic art forms in the world, providing access to a truly universal means...
Some Assembly Required: race, gender, and globalization
Wednesday 8/11 @ Craft and Folk Art Museum
A series of events is presented in conjunction with Some Assembly Required, the unique, exuberant, and powerful current exhibition of assemblage...
Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
Wednesday 8/11 @ 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 8/11 @ HVW8 Art + Design Gallery
Bill McMullen's new exhibition, Checks Cashed, relates to his previous LA show Hype, Hustle, Rip-Off, but then takes things to a...
Wednesday 8/11 @ Theatre Asylum
Theatre Asylum says: The 1st annual Hollywood Fringe Festival has ended, but we at Theatre Asylum are not willing to let...
Wednesday 8/11 @ LA Louver Gallery
Perhaps the easiest way to think of the work of iconic LA artist Tony Berlant, is to imagine a painter of...
Wednesday 8/11 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art
The Pasadena Museum of California Art has been a longtime supporter of our state's bountiful design legacy, and its biennial recognizes...
Vicious Circle and Surface Tension
Wednesday 8/11 @ Young Projects at the Pacific Design Center
Young Projects at the Pacific Design Center presents a pair of divergent exhibits that both challenge the boundaries of video art...
Wednesday 8/11 @ GR2
Phil Lumbang is a fast-emerging (some would even say ubiquitous) street artist, who also happens to be Shepard Fairey's art assistant....
Wednesday 8/11 @ 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 8/11 @ Various locations
LAXART says: Launching June 1st, 2010 with a special showing at LAXART from 7-10pm, Superclogger will mark Los Angeles-based artist Joel...
Plants, Flowers and Fruits: Ellsworth Kelly Lithographs
Wednesday 8/11 @ 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 8/11 @ LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions)
Not Content: Unnatural Acts Taking its name from the historic collaborative writing marathons led by Bernadette Mayer...
Wednesday 8/11 @ The Groundlings Theatre
Come and see one of L.A.'s longest running long-form improvisation shows. Watch as our Groundlings players begin with 3 suggestions from...
Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity
Wednesday 8/11 @ 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 8/11 @ The Echo & Echoplex
Resident DJs Tom Chasteen, Roy Corderoy, the Dungeonmaster, and Boss Harmony spinning the best in classic reggae, dub and dancehall.
Wednesday 8/11 @ 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...
Saturday High and Art Center for Kids Weeklong Summer Workshops
Wednesday 8/11 @ Art Center College of Design
Saturday High and Art Center for Kids offer an expanded series of five-day classes in the summer, designed to give young...
Chuck Jones: An Animator's Life From A to Z-Z-Z-Z
Wednesday 8/11 @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
An exhibition of the work of Oscar winner and master humorist Chuck Jones, representing his short animated films, features and TV...
George Segal: The Expulsion, feat. photographs of the artist at work by Donald Lokuta
Wednesday 8/11 @ Skirball Cultural Center
Experience George Segal's life-sized sculptural work The Expulsion, the generous gift of the George and Helen Segal Foundation, showcased in its...
Wednesday 8/11 @ 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...
