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Art
Josh Dorman, Carol Es, and Julie Speed
Tuesday Oct 7 (10am–6pm) @ George Billis Gallery More times »
Free
Modern mix-masters Josh Dorman, Carol Es, and Julie Speed are art historians of sorts: all three borrow imagery from recycled sources such as obsolete textbooks,... View details »
Josh Dorman, Carol Es, and Julie Speed
Film
Wong Kar-Wai
Tuesday Oct 7 @ Ricardo Montalban Theatre
Free
With its new weekly in-theatre cinema series and retail experiment at the Montalbán Theatre, Nike Sportswear takes the lead in the race for the most... View details »
Wong Kar-Wai
More Flavor: Fashion
Biagio Black
Wednesday Oct 8 (7–9pm) @ The Sunset More times »
Free
Once just a single-night charity event dedicated to a fashion staple, the Little Black Dress party has grown into a four-week tour of three cities.... View details »
Biagio Black
Art: Festival
Hollywould
Thursday Oct 9 @ Hollywood Blvd between Cahuenga and Orange More times »
Free
The 11th Freewaves media-arts festival, dubbed "Hollywould," is a kind of triple-dog dare to Tinseltown boulevardiers, challenging them to engage with the splashy, spiky world... View details »
Hollywould
Art
Ken Price
Friday Oct 10 (6–9pm) @ LA Louver Gallery More times »
Free
Ken Price is one of the world's most respected ceramicists, part of a small, but proud, posse of sculptors hell-bent on rehabilitating the medium's less-than-sophisticated... View details »
Ken Price
Art
Red Forest
Friday Oct 10 (7–11pm) @ Thinkspace Gallery More times »
Free
Hot off the success of their individual Thinkspace exhibitions, Ejundayo and Johnny "KMNDZ" Rodriguez join forces for their first-ever collaborative collection at their favorite Silverlake... View details »
Red Forest
Art: Festival
Pasadena Art Weekend
Friday Oct 10 @ Old Town Pasadena More times »
Free
On Friday, the city's cultural institutions stay open late to kick off Pasadena Art Weekend. A free shuttle circulates from one spot to the next,... View details »
Pasadena Art Weekend
Art: Architecture/Design
Eddy Sykes
Saturday Oct 11 @ Materials & Applications More times »
Free
First, there were robot maids, robot pets, and robot vacuums. Now, there are robot gardens. The technical specifications for Materials & Applications' latest installation are... View details »
Eddy Sykes
Reading
Art Spiegelman
Saturday Oct 11 (5pm) @ Vroman's Bookstore
Free
In the late '70s, Art Spiegelman published his first major work, Breakdowns, a collection of strips that tackle the artist's own nervous break and time... View details »
Art Spiegelman
Art
Mark Dean Veca
Saturday Oct 11 (5–7pm) @ Otis College of Art and Design More times »
Free
Entering Mark Dean Veca's site-specific installation at Otis College's Ben Maltz Gallery is like stepping into a psychedelic playhouse filled with surreal pop-cultural cartoons. A... View details »
Art
Ai Yamaguchi
Saturday Oct 11 (6–8pm) @ Roberts & Tilton Gallery More times »
Free
Hana wa no ni aruyouni (Flowers as they are in the field) is Japanese artist Ai Yamaguchi's second solo exhibition at Roberts & Tilton. A... View details »
Ai Yamaguchi
Art
James Gobel
Saturday Oct 11 (6–8pm) @ Steve Turner Contemporary Gallery More times »
Free
Steve Turner Contemporary on the Miracle Mile lets its hair down this month, showing new work by James Gobel, portraying portly, hairy, gay men known... View details »
James Gobel
Art
Miriam Wosk
Saturday Oct 11 (7–10pm) @ Billy Shire Fine Arts More times »
Free
For her second exhibition at Culver City's Billy Shire Fine Arts, Santa Monica-based artist Miriam Wosk once again creates her trademark large-scale, laboriously constructed mixed... View details »
Miriam Wosk
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Round One Art Debates
Sunday Oct 12 (3–6pm) @ Circus Gallery
Free
Los Angeles-based Artillery Magazine educates the public on relevant issues within the contemporary art world with a little more humor and panache than other, more... View details »
Round One Art Debates
Art
LA25 Half-Life
Wednesday Oct 15 (6–8pm) @ Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions More times »
Free
Rising stars Annie Lapin, Jeff Sheng, Cal Crawford, and Brenna Youngblood are among the 25 juror-selected artists that make up LA25 Half-Life, a group show... View details »
LA25 Half-Life

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Art
All of This is Melting Away
Tuesday Oct 7 (8am–6pm) @ Royal/T More times »
Free
Director of New York's Greene Naftali Gallery, Jay Sanders steps into cafe/shop/gallery Royal/T to curate this group show of works from prominent collector Susan Hancock's... View details »
All of This is Melting Away
Art
Raymond Pettibon
Tuesday Oct 7 (10am–6pm) @ Regen Projects II More times »
Free
Seminal Work features a selection of pieces from the much-lauded Raymond Pettibon, all completed between 1978 and 1988. Keeping true to the chameleon-like artist, the... View details »
Raymond Pettibon
Art
Mark Bradford
Tuesday Oct 7 @ Steve Turner Contemporary Gallery More times »
Free
Los Angeles painter, installation artist, and (most recently) video artist Mark Bradford has exhibited in some of the world's most prestigious galleries and museums, but... View details »
Mark Bradford
Art: Festival
Off-Axis
Tuesday Oct 7 @ Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum More times »
Free
Although our neighbor to the north is typically known for its stellar views and celebrity mansions, Santa Barbara has a stash of hidden artistic gems,... View details »
Off-Axis
Art
Ultrasonic International III
Tuesday Oct 7 (10am–6pm) @ Mark Moore Gallery More times »
Free
Elementary, My Dear Watson is the Mark Moore Gallery's third installment of its annual Ultrasonic International series. The group show features 16 local, national, and... View details »
Ultrasonic International III
Art: Photography
In Focus: The Landscape
Tuesday Oct 7 (10am–6pm) @ The Getty Center More times »
Free
Art's love affair with landscapes was captured with brush strokes until technology gave way to the click of the shutter. In Focus: The Landscape explores... View details »
In Focus: The Landscape
Art: Photography
Jeff Charbonneau and Eliza French
Tuesday Oct 7 @ Robert Berman Gallery More times »
Free
Dreamlike, sensual, and ominous, the black-and-white photography of Jeff Charbonneau and Eliza French is like a surrealist's take on a Nathaniel Hawthorne novel. The darkly... View details »
Jeff Charbonneau and Eliza French
Art
Katina and Christa Zinner
Tuesday Oct 7 @ James Coleman Gallery More times »
Free
The mother-daughter relationship is fraught with emotion and drama, and what better venue for exploring that tension than a two-woman exhibition of sculpture and painting?... View details »
Katina and Christa Zinner
Art
Yin Zhaoyang
Tuesday Oct 7 (10am–5:30pm) @ DF2 More times »
Free
Chinese-born Yin Zhaoyang didn't have to look too far for inspiration when creating the work in his latest show at DF2 Gallery. After viewing the... View details »
Yin Zhaoyang
Art
Kerry James Marshall
Tuesday Oct 7 (10am–5:30pm) @ Koplin del Rio Gallery More times »
Free
Chicago artist Kerry James Marshall has shown internationally to great acclaim, and now will show for the sixth time with Koplin del Rio in LA.... View details »
Kerry James Marshall
Art
Sandrine Pelletier
Tuesday Oct 7 @ Fette's Gallery More times »
Free
International-artist-friendly Fette's Gallery rings in its fall season with Insekts, an installation of new works by Swiss mixed-media artist/embroiderer Sandrine Pelletier. The Laussane/Paris-based artist creates... View details »
Sandrine Pelletier
Art
Gordy Grundy
Tuesday Oct 7 @ Western Project More times »
Free
The Fellowship of Fortuna (and its "messenger," LA painter and media artist Gordy Grundy) takes up residence on Western Project's website for a 21-week series... View details »
Gordy Grundy
Art: Photography
Jehad Nga
Tuesday Oct 7 (10am–6pm) @ M+B Gallery Los Angeles More times »
Free
Daring photographer Jehad Nga has previously documented poverty and violence from Darfur to Iraq — now, he takes his camera into the world of boxing.... View details »
Jehad Nga
Art
Alexander Melamid
Tuesday Oct 7 (10am–5:30pm) @ Forum Gallery More times »
Free
Russian artist Alexander Melamid is a master at finding humor in serious situations, from totalitarian regimes to the plight of endangered elephants. In his first... View details »
Alexander Melamid
Art
Dennis Oppenheim
Tuesday Oct 7 (10am–6pm) @ ACE Gallery More times »
Free
Dennis Oppenheim first hit the art-world radar in the late 1960s with his Land and Body Art projects, which combined film and video with performance,... View details »
Dennis Oppenheim
Art
Aspects of Mel's Hole
Tuesday Oct 7 (11am–4pm) @ CSUF Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana More times »
Free
Beloved radio host Art Bell is a cross between Jean Shepherd and Fox Mulder, and a man whose paranormality-themed broadcasts were among the most misunderstood... View details »
Aspects of Mel's Hole
Art
Kristi Lippire
Tuesday Oct 7 (11am–5:30pm) @ d.e.n. contemporary art More times »
Free
Kristi Lippire cobbles together images from a mind-boggling array of sources, then fashions them into large-scale works. Using plywood and other construction materials to reinforce... View details »
Kristi Lippire
Art: Photography
Robert Glenn Ketchum
Tuesday Oct 7 (11am–9pm) @ G2 Gallery More times »
Free
Photographer and environmentalist Robert Glenn Ketchum makes landscape images, but this isn't Ansel Adams we're talking about here. The 38-year-old UCLA graduate eschews the somber... View details »
Robert Glenn Ketchum
Art
Cycling Apparati
Tuesday Oct 7 (11am–6pm) @ High Energy Constructs More times »
Free
For many contemporary artists, Warhol is the North Star by which they guide their own emerging views of culture. But for a segment of more... View details »
Cycling Apparati
Art: Photography
War as a Way of Life
Tuesday Oct 7 (11am–5:30pm) @ 18th Street Arts Center More times »
Free
18th Street wraps up its yearlong, four-part examination of sociopolitical issues with War as a Way of Life. The exhibit includes the work of 16... View details »
War as a Way of Life
Art
Kyle Field
Tuesday Oct 7 (11am–5:30pm) @ Taylor De Cordoba Gallery More times »
Free
For his second go-round at Taylor De Cordoba, San Franciscan artist/musican Kyle Field (he's a member of the band Little Wings), plucks whimsical imagery for... View details »
Kyle Field
Art
The Maize Project
Tuesday Oct 7 (11am–5pm) @ Torrance Art Museum More times »
Free
The small but influential Torrance Art Museum simultaneously mounts three new solo exhibitions, united by highly stylized explorations of abstraction and color. The Maize Project,... View details »
Art
Elizabeth Turk
Tuesday Oct 7 (11am–5pm) @ Bandini Art More times »
Free
From the Department of How Did She Do That? comes a new exhibition of drawings and delicate marble sculptures from chisel-wielding enchantress Elizabeth Turk. Her... View details »
Elizabeth Turk
Art
Sarah Cromarty
Tuesday Oct 7 (11am–5pm) @ Circus Gallery More times »
Free
LA painter Sarah Cromarty has had a big year already; she gained recognition through several group shows and a bit of favorable press. She continues... View details »
Sarah Cromarty
Art
CUT: Makings of Removal
Tuesday Oct 7 (noon–4pm) @ Vincent Price Art Museum More times »
Free
The 17 young and emerging artists included in this ambitious group show follow diverse strategies in making work, but the organizing principle is one of... View details »
CUT: Makings of Removal
Art
No Brow
Tuesday Oct 7 (noon–6pm) @ Black Maria Gallery More times »
Free
Not unlike impressionism, "low brow" was a label with initially negative connotations affixed to a group of artists reacting against then-mainstream art. Merging their vision... View details »
No Brow
Art
OFF-REGISTER
Tuesday Oct 7 (noon–5pm) @ Little Bird Gallery More times »
Free
For the past year, this traveling exhibition has showcased artists and graphic designers who were asked to apply their experience with commercial printmaking processes to... View details »
OFF-REGISTER
Art
John Bock
Tuesday Oct 7 (noon–6pm) @ REDCAT More times »
Free
John Bock's unpredictable performances may seem like exercises in artistic capriciousness, but his loud costumes and absurd statements conceal his skill as a social and... View details »
John Bock
Art
Hans Burkhardt
Tuesday Oct 7 (noon–4pm) @ Cal State University Northridge Art Gallery More times »
Free
Comprising selections from the nearly 1,000 works that European-native-turned California-great Hans Burkhardt personally donated to Cal State Northridge (where he taught before his death), this... View details »
Hans Burkhardt
Art
Michael Knowlton
Tuesday Oct 7 (noon–6pm) @ 01 Gallery More times »
Free
Painter Michael Knowlton doesn't feel the need to choose between beauty and terror. His passionately wrought, deftly composed scenes of the ruin and savagery of... View details »
Michael Knowlton
Art
Park Life
Tuesday Oct 7 (1–6pm) @ Subliminal Projects More times »
Free
Subliminal Projects uses its recent move from Koreatown to the more pastoral environs of Echo Park as the curatorial focus for its latest exhibition, Park... View details »
Park Life
More Flavor: City Gem
Vinum Populi
Tuesday Oct 7 (5:30pm–12:30am) @ Vinum Populi More times »
Free
Culver City's latest spot of interest is Vinum Populi, a cozy wine bar with the usual bistro couches and charcuterie selection — with one key... View details »
Vinum Populi
Art
Amanda Ross-Ho
Wednesday Oct 8 (11am–6pm) @ Cherry and Martin More times »
Free
Amanda Ross-Ho returns to Cherry and Martin with her latest exhibition of mixed-media sculptural installation, Half of What I Say Is Meaningless. Since she last... View details »
Amanda Ross-Ho
Art: Photography
Pipo Nguyen-Duy
Wednesday Oct 8 (noon–6pm) @ Sam Lee Gallery More times »
Free
Sam Lee Gallery follows up its dynamic group exhibition I AM I A KILLER with Pipo Nguyen-Duy's cyclical photography project, The Garden. Behind his camera,... View details »
Pipo Nguyen-Duy
Art
Victor Gastelum
Wednesday Oct 8 (noon–6pm) @ Overtones Gallery More times »
Free
Victor Gastelum upholds the grand California tradition of elevating street-art tropes to gallery-level heights with the spray-paint stencil multiples in Xacto Mundo. The Long Beach-based... View details »
Victor Gastelum
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Antonio Pineda
Wednesday Oct 8 (noon–5pm) @ Fowler Museum, UCLA More times »
Free
World-renowned Mexican silversmith Antonio Pineda brings more than 200 of his masterpieces up the coast to UCLA's Fowler Museum, to show what an especially talented... View details »
Antonio Pineda
Art
Eric Sall
Wednesday Oct 8 (noon–6pm) @ Acuna-Hansen Gallery More times »
Free
In confronting the vibrating, thickly textured canvases of Eric Sall, one gets the distinct impression that he could survive by eating nothing but oil paint,... View details »
Eric Sall
Art
Christopher Pate
Wednesday Oct 8 (noon–6pm) @ Jail Gallery More times »
Free
Christopher Pate is interested in the relationship between maps and landscapes, as well as the broader discourse between the real quality of a place and... View details »
Christopher Pate
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Twilight at the Club
Wednesday Oct 8 (7:30–11pm) @ Griffith Park Driving Range Clubhouse More times »
Free
With summertime in high gear, there's no shortage of happening spots where you can grab a chilled post-work cocktail. But few have an unobstructed view... View details »
Twilight at the Club
Art
Tofer Chin
Thursday Oct 9 (noon–5pm) @ Commissary Arts More times »
Free
The "sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll" trifecta holds ample sway in the work of Los Angeles artist Tofer Chin. For his latest collection at... View details »
Tofer Chin
Art
Daniel DeSure
Saturday Oct 11 (1–5pm) @ Found Gallery More times »
Free
Los Angeles-based artist/art producer Daniel DeSure not only creates photography, film, and new media, but he founded the art production/design house Commonwealth last year and... View details »
Daniel DeSure
Art
James Turrell
Sunday Oct 12 (10am–8pm) @ Draper Courtyard, Pomona College More times »
Free
It's up for debate whether James Turrell is a sculptor, an architect, a light-and-space artist, or an earth-works artist. Whichever he is, the transcendent, full-body... View details »
James Turrell
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Maynard James Keenan
Tuesday Oct 21 (2–5pm) @ Various locations More times »
Free
Brainy prog-rock demigod Maynard James Keenan has gone from fronting Tool, A Perfect Circle, and Puscifer to his latest, somewhat quieter role as eco-conscious vintner.... View details »
Maynard James Keenan