All events on Wednesday October 22

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Music: Rock/Pop
The Felice Brothers
Wednesday Oct 22 (9pm) @ The Troubadour
With Catskills-bred manners, feel-good refrains, and the occasional harmonica interlude, the Felice Brothers claim they "sound like a barn smells." Some critics contend that the... View details »
The Felice Brothers
Film
The Face of Another
Wednesday Oct 22 (7pm) @ Royal/T
Celebrated Japanese filmmaker Hiroshi Teshigahara's mid-century masterpiece is an art-house/science-fiction thrill ride that anticipated John Woo's bizarre Face/Off by more than three decades (albeit, without... View details »
The Face of Another

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More Flavor: City Gem
Ugo Wine Bar
Wednesday Oct 22 (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 »
Ugo Wine Bar
Art
Marcel Duchamp Redux
Wednesday Oct 22 (noon–6pm) @ Norton Simon More times »
This year marks the 45th anniversary of By or of Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Sélavy, the famous Marcel Duchamp retrospective at the Pasadena Art Museum... View details »
Marcel Duchamp Redux
Art
Mexican Calendar Girls
Wednesday Oct 22 (11am–4pm) @ California Heritage Museum More times »
Glamor gets deep and classic at the California Heritage Museum's Mexican Calendar Girls, opening with a Cinco de Mayo reception. The color-soaked exhibition comprises a... View details »
Mexican Calendar Girls
Art
Mark Bradford
Wednesday Oct 22 @ 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
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Twilight at the Club
Wednesday Oct 22 (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
Ultrasonic International III
Wednesday Oct 22 (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
Wednesday Oct 22 (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
Martin Kersels
Wednesday Oct 22 (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 »
Martin Kersels
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Scribble Press
Wednesday Oct 22 (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
Katie Grinnan
Wednesday Oct 22 (11am–6pm) @ MAK Center for Art and Architecture More times »
Katie Grinnan has made a career out of walking the fine line between the second and third dimensions. Grinnan takes architectural structures — as well... View details »
Katie Grinnan
Art
All of This is Melting Away
Wednesday Oct 22 (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
Yin Zhaoyang
Wednesday Oct 22 (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
Wednesday Oct 22 (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
Kyle Field
Wednesday Oct 22 (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
Josh Dorman
Wednesday Oct 22 (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 »
Josh Dorman
Art
Amanda Ross-Ho
Wednesday Oct 22 (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
War as a Way of Life
Wednesday Oct 22 (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
Josh Dorman, Carol Es, and Julie Speed
Wednesday Oct 22 (11am–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
Art
Alexander Melamid
Wednesday Oct 22 (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
The Art of War
Wednesday Oct 22 (noon–6pm) @ Norton Simon Museum More times »
When searching for a means of drumming up support for World War I, officials in Washington didn't have to look much further than two-dimensional art.... View details »
The Art of War
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Antonio Pineda
Wednesday Oct 22 (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
CUT: Makings of Removal
Wednesday Oct 22 (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
John Bock
Wednesday Oct 22 (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: Photography
Robert Glenn Ketchum
Wednesday Oct 22 (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
Victor Gastelum
Wednesday Oct 22 (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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Maynard James Keenan
Wednesday Oct 22 (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 »
Maynard James Keenan
Art
Dennis Oppenheim
Wednesday Oct 22 (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: Photography
Jeff Charbonneau and Eliza French
Wednesday Oct 22 @ 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: Festival
Off-Axis
Wednesday Oct 22 @ 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
Park Life
Wednesday Oct 22 (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
Art
The Maize Project
Wednesday Oct 22 (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
Christopher Pate
Wednesday Oct 22 (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
Art
Ai Yamaguchi
Wednesday Oct 22 (11am–6pm) @ 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
Mark Dean Veca
Wednesday Oct 22 (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 »
Mark Dean Veca
Art
Miriam Wosk
Wednesday Oct 22 (noon–6pm) @ 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
Art
LA25 Half-Life
Wednesday Oct 22 (noon–6pm) @ 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
Art
James Gobel
Wednesday Oct 22 (11am–6pm) @ 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: Architecture/Design
Eddy Sykes
Wednesday Oct 22 @ 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
Art
Surface Sounding
Wednesday Oct 22 (11am–6pm) @ See Line Gallery More times »
Free
Any viewer beholding Surface Sounding without background information would likely believe all the art was selected by a single gatekeeper, so cohesive and connected is... View details »
Surface Sounding
Art
Ken Price
Wednesday Oct 22 (10am–6pm) @ 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
Gordy Grundy
Wednesday Oct 22 @ 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
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Venice Beach Wines
Wednesday Oct 22 (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 »
Venice Beach Wines
Art: Photography
Deanna Templeton and Hadassah Emmerich
Wednesday Oct 22 (1–6pm) @ New Image Art More times »
Free
Deanna Templeton didn't need to stray far from her SoCal roots to find inspiration for her engaging photographs. A product of Orange County, Templeton (the... View details »
Deanna Templeton and Hadassah Emmerich
Art
Anthony Goicolea
Wednesday Oct 22 (10am–6pm) @ Sandroni Rey More times »
Free
Anthony Goicolea let his family albums guide his latest exhibition, Related III. The Cuban artist's photographs, drawings, and installations are spun from portraits of family... View details »
Anthony Goicolea
Art
Robbie Conal
Wednesday Oct 22 (11am–6pm) @ Track 16 Gallery More times »
Free
Even Robbie Conal's most fervent admirers tend to see his work primarily through their car windows. His trademark posters — featuring his unique style of... View details »
Robbie Conal
Art
Richard Amend and Christopher Martin Hoff
Wednesday Oct 22 (11am–5pm) @ Lawrence Asher Gallery More times »
Free
Considering the precision and mastery of detail in the work of Richard Amend and Christopher Martin Hoff, it should come as no surprise that both... View details »
Richard Amend and Christopher Martin Hoff
Art
Analytic & Synthetic Pile-Up
Wednesday Oct 22 (noon–5pm) @ Woodbury Hollywood Exhibitions More times »
Free
Woodbury University goes Hollywood — or at least goes to Hollywood — by inaugurating its new off-campus gallery space with Analytic & Synthetic Pile-Up. The... View details »
Analytic & Synthetic Pile-Up
Art
Raw Skies
Wednesday Oct 22 (2–7pm) @ Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art More times »
Free
Seven is a lucky number at Carmichael Gallery this month, as the curators carry out another dazzling, high-octane international group exhibition. Raw Skies presents a... View details »
Raw Skies
Music: Rock/Pop
Conor Oberst
Wednesday Oct 22 (7pm) @ Music Box at the Fonda Theater More times »
Giveaway
Conor Oberst couldn't have recorded his first solo effort in 12 years without help from a big ol' family band. Tapping the usual suspects —... View details »
Conor Oberst
Art
Asad Faulwell and Annie Buckley
Wednesday Oct 22 (11am–6pm) @ Carl Berg Gallery More times »
Free
This Miracle Mile-situated gallery's latest exhibition joins two artists with radically different approaches to the aesthetic of assemblage. Asad Faulwell, recent recipient of an MFA... View details »
Asad Faulwell and Annie Buckley
Art
Takako Yamaguchi
Wednesday Oct 22 (11am–6pm) @ Cardwell Jimmerson Contemporary Art More times »
Free
New landscapes and seascapes from LA-based painter Takako Yamaguchi combine the stylized organic geometry of op art with the sensual smoothness of patterned silk. Strong,... View details »
Takako Yamaguchi
Art
Yoko Ono
Wednesday Oct 22 @ One Colorado More times »
Free
It has been nearly 28 years since John Lennon's passing, but his quest for world peace lives on. Lennon's widow, noted artist Yoko Ono, continues... View details »
Yoko Ono
Art
Charlie Roberts
Wednesday Oct 22 (11am–5pm) @ Richard Heller Gallery More times »
Free
Charlie Roberts is a consummate collector of images, with an organizational system resembling the interior of a Whitman's Sampler. He perceives the world of people... View details »
Charlie Roberts
Art
Hans Burkhardt
Wednesday Oct 22 (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 »
Hans Burkhardt
Art
Marco Brambilla
Wednesday Oct 22 (10am–5:30pm) @ Christopher Grimes Gallery More times »
Free
Marco Brambilla's newest video pieces live up to his reputation for supersaturated maximalism, combining, recombining, randomizing, and manipulating found and sampled film footage into looped... View details »
Marco Brambilla
Art
Mear One
Wednesday Oct 22 (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 »
Mear One
Art: Discussion
Earworms
Wednesday Oct 22 (noon–5pm) @ Pasadena Museum of California Art More times »
PMCA's Project Room is transformed into a beguiling labyrinth, addressing the elusiveness of memory and the neurobiological basis of thought, via Deborah Aschheim's installation Earworms.... View details »
Earworms