November 18, 2011 – 10:20 am
Friday, Nov. 18 The 930 Art Center 930 Mary St. www.facebook.com/brooksrittermusic $8 adv., $10 DOS; 8 p.m. There are some young adults in these here parts who play music, sometimes even loudly, yet who offer it in praise to their creator, not merely in exchange for booze, babes and bucks. Is it fun? Depends on [...]
November 18, 2011 – 10:18 am
Nov. 18-Jan. 3 Land of Tomorrow (LOT) 233 W. Broadway • 632-6500 www.landoftomorrow.org Opening Reception: Nov. 18, 7 p.m. For a half-century, the relationship between music and visual art was rich and rewarding. Imagine some of your favorite album art, live set designs, iconic photographs or innovative music videos, and then consider iTunes and Snooki. [...]
November 18, 2011 – 10:17 am
Nov. 18 & 20 Brown Theatre 315 W. Broadway • 584-7777 www.kyopera.org $28+; 8 p.m. (Fri.), 2 p.m. (Sun.) Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro” is also known as “The Crazy Day” — what an understatement. Deceptions, revenge and wandering eyes are just part of this 18th century screwball comedic opera. The valet Figaro is set [...]
November 18, 2011 – 9:00 am
The opening reception of “everyone loves a history” by Kenneth Hayden is at Zephyr Gallery, 610 E. Market St., on Friday, Nov. 18 from 5-8 p.m. It runs through Dec. 31.
November 17, 2011 – 12:00 pm
“Leonardo da Vinci’s Theory of Design” is the topic of a lecture by Matthew Landrus at the Speed Art Museum, 2035 S. Third St., 634-2700. Thursday, Nov. 17 at 6 p.m. Free with museum admission.
November 17, 2011 – 9:00 am
The Louisville Artists Syndicate is presenting “Ki-ne-tics: Movement and Art at the Water Tower” on Thursday, Nov. 17 at Louisville Visual Art Association, 3005 River Rd., 896-2146. The event begins at 7 p.m. $5 general admission includes free drink tickets.
November 16, 2011 – 12:28 pm
Through Nov. 20 Howard Steamboat Museum 1101 E. Market St., Jeffersonville 812-283-3728 www.steamboatmuseum.org “Fall Into Art” this year falls into the past, with photographs taken by Capt. Jim Howard, the last owner of the famous steamboat-building Howard Shipyards. Howard began photographing the activities in the shipyard when he was a teenager, and he had a [...]
November 16, 2011 – 12:26 pm
Through Nov. 27 Actors Theatre of Louisville 316 W. Main St. • 584-1205 www.actorstheatre.org $24+; various times “A Christmas Story” is that movie — you either love it or it annoys the living hell out of you. If you love it, you are like a friend of mine who proudly displays a leg lamp complete [...]
November 16, 2011 – 12:25 pm
Through Dec. 9 Gallery at The Brown Fourth and Broadway • 583-1234 www.brownhotel.com Zenyatta stands more than 17 hands tall (in people-talk, that’s about 5 feet, 9 inches). That’s one impressive horse. Her owners Ann and Jerry Moss commissioned Jaime Corum to do a life-size rendering for this year’s Breeders’ Cup. The result is an [...]
November 16, 2011 – 12:22 pm
Nov. 16-20 The Bard’s Town 1801 Bardstown Road • 609-2520 www.lepetomane.org $8-$20; 7:30 p.m. Sick of Christmas celebrations starting before you’ve polished off your last handful of dusty, orange-and-black-wrapped peanut butter chews? As Santa Claus once said, “If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em.” Le Petomane takes the joke one step further with “A Very [...]
November 16, 2011 – 12:19 pm
Nov. 16-20 U of L Thrust Theatre 2314 S. Floyd St. • 852-6814 www.louisville.edu/theatrearts $8-$12; 8 p.m. (Wed.-Sat.), 3 p.m. (Sat.-Sun.) Fear not — this production does not dramatize the impending season of sneezing doom. Set in a psychiatric retreat center where the patients might be far less loony than their caretakers, Will Eno’s 2004 [...]
November 16, 2011 – 12:00 pm
Painter Kevin Oechsli is showing at Westport Whiskey & Wine, 1115 Herr Lane, through Dec. 31.
November 15, 2011 – 12:00 pm
Registration required. The Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, 715 W. Main St., 589-0102, is hosting a Thanksgiving centerpiece workshop by Jan Banta-Briseno on Saturday, Nov. 19 from 1-4 p.m. $43 for KMAC members, $48 non-members.
November 15, 2011 – 9:00 am
“New Work” by gallery artists is opening on Tuesday, Nov. 15 at the Jane Morgan Gallery, 4838 Brownsboro Center, 592-7835. The exhibition will be up through Jan 31. The artists’ reception is Thursday, Dec. 8 from 5-8 p.m.
November 14, 2011 – 12:00 pm
“Stanzas” art quilts by Karen Davis are exhibited in the Community Art Gallery at the Iroquois Branch Library, 601 W. Woodland, through November
November 14, 2011 – 9:00 am
“A Certain Slant of Light” by Sandra Phipps MacDiarmid is on exhibit at B. Deemer Gallery, 2650 Frankfort Ave., 896-6687, through Nov. 26. The works are based on her travels through Italy.
November 11, 2011 – 2:00 pm
Americans for the Arts‘ annual National Arts Marketing Project conference is in Louisville from Nov. 12-15. Museum Row on Main is celebrating Teacher Appreciation Weekend on Saturday, Nov. 12 and Sunday, Nov. 13. All teachers will receive free admission for themselves and one guest to the following locations: Frazier History Museum, Louisville Science Center, Muhammad [...]
November 11, 2011 – 12:00 pm
Painter, singer and dancer Graciela Perrone will be performing at Caffe Classico, 2144 Frankfort Ave., 894-9689, on Friday, Nov. 11 at 10 p.m. She will also be displaying her latest paintings. $10, includes a complimentary glass of wine or beer.
