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- The Dot and the Line
- Today (8pm) @ The Silent Movie Theatre
- Curated by Argentine Noel Palazzo, the Dot and the Line Festival strips animation to its elemental roots while simultaneously challenging the boundaries of abstraction in... View details »
- Music: Experimental
- No Age
- Today (7pm) @ The Troubadour
- Free
- After censors forced him to remove his Obama shirt at a taping for the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, No Age guitarist Randy Randall... View details »
The following events are ongoing.
- More Flavor: City Gem
- Ugo Wine Bar
- Today (5:30pm–12:30am) @ Vinum Populi More times »
- Free
- Culver City's latest spot of interest is Ugo Wine Bar, a cozy wine bar with the usual bistro couches and charcuterie selection — with one... View details »
- Art
- Mark Bradford
- Today @ 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 »
- Art: Photography
- In Focus: The Landscape
- Today (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 »
- Art
- Martin Kersels
- Today (11am–6pm) @ Santa Monica Museum of Art More times »
- The Santa Monica Museum of Art hosts LA artist Martin Kersels' first retrospective, Heavyweight Champion, drawing from 13 years of his multimedia work. Informed by... View details »
- More Flavor: City Gem
- Scribble Press
- Today (10am–9pm) @ Scribble Press More times »
- Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with markers, stickers, paints, wide... View details »
- Art
- All of This is Melting Away
- Today (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 »
- Art
- Josh Dorman
- Today (11am–5pm) @ Craft and Folk Art Museum More times »
- Traditional paper and canvas simply won't do for New York artist Josh Dorman, who employs vintage maps and textbook diagrams as foundations for his fantastical... View details »
- Art: Photography
- War as a Way of Life
- Today (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 »
- Art
- CUT: Makings of Removal
- Today (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 »
- More Flavor: Food/Wine
- Maynard James Keenan
- Today (9am–noon) @ 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 »
- Art
- Jennifer Vanderpool
- Today (11am–5pm) @ Bandini Art More times »
- Free
- Overtaking every nook and cranny of Bandini Art's box space — including the ceiling — Jennifer Vanderpool's recent, large-scale installation features a garden of manufactured... View details »
- Art
- Mark Dean Veca
- Today (10am–5pm) @ 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: Architecture/Design
- Eddy Sykes
- Today @ 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 »
- Art
- Gordy Grundy
- Today @ 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 »
- More Flavor: City Gem
- Venice Beach Wines
- Today (7am–10pm) @ Venice Beach Wines More times »
- Venice's transformation from the sister nabe of Loisaida into Williamsburg West continues with the re-opening of Venice Beach Wines on the increasingly de-sketchified Rose Ave... View details »
- Art
- Hernan Bas
- Today (10am–6pm) @ Sandroni Rey More times »
- Free
- Fascinated by homo-eroticism and inspired by mythology and classic fiction, Miami painter Hernan Bas' tableaux present an enchanted world of roaming teenage dandies, where spritely... View details »
- Art
- Linda Besemer
- Today (10am–6pm) @ Angles Gallery More times »
- Free
- Linda Besemer produces the kind of art that provokes people to solve the mystery of how she does it. Without divulging trade secrets, it has... View details »
- Art
- Wolfgang Tillmans
- Today (10am–6pm) @ Regen Projects More times »
- Free
- Wolfgang Tillmans is like the Madonna of the art world: never afraid to change directions, reinvent himself, or throw in a surprise or two to... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Spring Awakening
- Today @ Ahmanson Theatre More times »
- It's easy to see why Spring Awakening snagged eight Tony Awards last year, marking what has been heralded as the new direction of musical theatre.... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Little Dog Laughed
- Today @ Kirk Douglas Theatre More times »
- Hollywood and homophobia share the bill in The Little Dog Laughed, a comedy about Tinseltown hypocrisy and the veil of lies shrouding "on-the-down-low" leading men.... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The School of Night
- Today (8pm) @ Mark Taper Forum More times »
- Peter Whelan's latest work, The School of Night, cleverly glides between the modes of traditional murder mystery and avant-garde theatre. As much a history lesson... View details »
- Art
- Sasha Bezzubov & Jessica Sucher
- Today (11am–5:30pm) @ Taylor De Cordoba Gallery More times »
- Free
- In the '60s and '70s, the Beatles led an exuberant parade East, inspiring throngs of Westerners to follow in a search of enlightenment. Though India... View details »
- Art
- Cindy Wright
- Today (10am–6pm) @ Mark Moore Gallery More times »
- Free
- Influenced by Dutch vanitas of the 16th and 17th centuries, Belgian artist Cindy Wright creates excruciatingly detailed, large-scale portraits and still-lifes of human skin, fat,... View details »
- Art
- Hans Burkhardt
- Today (10am–6pm) @ Jack Rutberg Fine Arts More times »
- Free
- In the years bracketing WWII, a great many artists were among those fleeing to US shores from the specter of Nazi Germany. In fine-art terms... View details »
- Art
- Tango with Cows: Book Art of the Russian Avant-Garde
- Today (10am–5:30pm) @ The Getty Center More times »
- Free
- In Tango with Cows, the Getty Research Institute presents a concentrated display of unabridged books published in Russia between 1910 and 1917. Products of the... View details »
- Art
- George Stoll
- Today (11am–6pm) @ Lightbox Gallery More times »
- Free
- In sacred and profane, Los Angeles-based artist George Stoll expands upon his traditional examination of everyday Americana. Objects such as his well-known "Tupperware" pieces of... View details »
- Art
- Mear One
- Today (noon–6pm) @ 01 Gallery More times »
- Free
- Very few painters can swing the brush with the technical wizardry of LA native Mear One. Returning to the... ce where he got his start... View details »
- Art
- Ed Templeton and Matt Leines
- Today (11am–6pm) @ Roberts & Tilton Gallery More times »
- Free
- In this pairing of one-man exhibitions, Roberts + Tilton's new Culver City digs unleashes an ocean of dense artistic detail. Matt Leines' ambitious murals are... View details »
- Art
- Plush
- Today (10am–6pm) @ Eagle Rock Center for the Arts More times »
- Free
- Eagle Rock Center for the Arts' new group show, Plush, uses sculpture, video, and drawing to explore the excesses of the economic bubble and the... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Michael Kenna and Pam Posey
- Today (10am–5:30pm) @ Craig Krull Gallery More times »
- Free
- Photographer Michael Kenna is a technical whiz, a classicist with a flair for the dramatic. His sweeping black-and-white landscapes depict vistas as diverse as the... View details »
- Art
- Enrique Martínez Celaya
- Today (10am–6pm) @ LA Louver Gallery More times »
- Free
- Cuban-born artist Enrique Martinez Celaya's oil-and-wax paintings and mixed-media sculptures offer a rare combination of vigorous, pre-Raphaelite style and pensive, academic deliberation. Though depicting a... View details »
- Art: Photography
- William Hundley
- Today (10am–6pm) @ Kinsey/DesForges Gallery More times »
- Free
- Austin-based photographer William Hundley's work intervenes in reality, harnessing his inner trickster with the yoke of labor-intensive production. His staged and manipulated street scenes generate... View details »
- Film: Festival
- Zero Film Festival
- Today @ Echo Park Film Center More times »
- In a city where big budgets are often confused with big ideas, the first annual Zero Film Festival reminds us that self-financed filmmaking can be... View details »
- Art
- In It Together
- Today @ Tinlark Gallery More times »
- Free
- In It Together is the meta-title for a pair of simultaneous collaborative exhibitions: Matthew Rodriguez and Nicholas Bohac's Drill, Baby, Drill! and Saelee Oh and... View details »
- Performing Arts: Puppetry
- Bob Baker presents The Nutcracker
- Today (10:30am) @ Bob Baker Marionette Theater More times »
- In the early '60s, Bob Baker and partner Alton Wood founded a marionette theater, establishing what has become the longest-running children's company in Los Angeles.... View details »
