All events on Wednesday October 29

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Performing Arts: Theatre
Songs of Ascension
Wednesday Oct 29 (8:30–10:30pm) @ REDCAT More times »
Avant-garde singer and composer Meredith Monk's extended vocal techniques obliterated the boundaries of language, creating otherworldly landscapes awash in grunts and wails. Drawing inspiration from... View details »
Songs of Ascension
Performing Arts: Theatre
Spring Awakening
Wednesday Oct 29 @ 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 »
Spring Awakening
Music: Punk/Metal
Spinnerette
Wednesday Oct 29 (9pm) @ Spaceland
Out of the ashes of breakout punk act the Distillers emerges Spinnerette, Brody Dalle's latest searingly hot take on femme-fronted rock 'n roll. This seductive... View details »
Spinnerette
More Flavor: Conference
3 from 33 1/3
Wednesday Oct 29 (7pm) @ Hammer Museum
Free
This evening's event features multimedia readings by authors from 33 1/3, the book series that tells the stories behind some of the world's most beloved... View details »
3 from 33 1/3
Reading: Lecture
DJ Spooky
Wednesday Oct 29 (6pm) @ UCLA Broad Art Center
Free
As DJ Spooky, That Subliminal Kid, Paul Miller has long been slipping strains of Afro-futurist technology into the hip-hop marketplace. The second part of his... View details »
DJ Spooky
Music: Rock/Pop
The Notwist
Wednesday Oct 29 (8pm) @ Music Box at the Fonda Theater
After nearly five years of silence, everyone's favorite German-bred electro-acoustic outfit makes its way back to America. On this year's The Devil, You + Me,... View details »
The Notwist

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More Flavor: City Gem
Ugo Wine Bar
Wednesday Oct 29 (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 29 (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 29 (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 29 @ 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: Photography
In Focus: The Landscape
Wednesday Oct 29 (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 29 (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
More Flavor: City Gem
Scribble Press
Wednesday Oct 29 (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
Wednesday Oct 29 (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 29 (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
Josh Dorman
Wednesday Oct 29 (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 29 (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 29 (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 29 (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 29 (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 29 (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
More Flavor: Fashion
Antonio Pineda
Wednesday Oct 29 (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 29 (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 29 (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 29 (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: Photography
Jeff Charbonneau and Eliza French
Wednesday Oct 29 @ 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 29 @ 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 29 (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 29 (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 29 (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 29 (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 29 (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 29 (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 29 (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 29 (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 29 @ 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 29 (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 29 (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 29 @ 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
More Flavor: City Gem
Venice Beach Wines
Wednesday Oct 29 (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
Anthony Goicolea
Wednesday Oct 29 (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 29 (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 29 (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 29 (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
Linda Besemer
Wednesday Oct 29 (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 »
Linda Besemer
Art: Photography
Ghost Polaroids
Wednesday Oct 29 (11am–5pm) @ Drkrm More times »
Free
For 15 years, in an old house on a sleepy hillside outside LA, a phalanx of residents, researchers, and TV producers have documented a recurring... View details »
Ghost Polaroids
Art: Photography
Grace Oh
Wednesday Oct 29 @ Edgar Varela Fine Arts More times »
Free
Los Angeles photographer Grace Oh first grew passionate about capturing nudes when she began actively pursuing photography in her early twenties. After broadening her scope... View details »
Grace Oh
Art
Wolfgang Tillmans
Wednesday Oct 29 (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 »
Wolfgang Tillmans
Art: Photography
Neal Spector
Wednesday Oct 29 (10am–6pm) @ Guy Hepner Contemporary More times »
Free
In his previous life as a principal at a "Hollywood creative firm," Neal Spector was instrumental in enabling LA's obsession with labels. Now working as... View details »
Neal Spector
Art
Asad Faulwell and Annie Buckley
Wednesday Oct 29 (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 29 (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 29 @ 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 29 (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 29 (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 29 (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
Bob Zoell
Wednesday Oct 29 (11am–5pm) @ Wal-Art More times »
Free
Remember in LA Story when Steve Martin thought the LED signs on the freeway were speaking to him? The work in Bob Zoell's current show... View details »
Bob Zoell
Art
2008 California Biennial
Wednesday Oct 29 (11am–5pm) @ Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach More times »
The 2008 installment of the California Biennial should come with an anxiety-attack warning label. In a way, it does, with Patrick Hebert's sprawling outdoor installation... View details »
2008 California Biennial
Art
Mear One
Wednesday Oct 29 (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 29 (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