Events on Friday, November 16
Friday 11/16 @ Landmark Nuart Theatre
Pointedly personal and unapologetically polemical, Eraserhead is David Lynch's 1977 invitation into a wonderful well of weird. The offbeat classic is...
Friday 11/16 @ Safari Sam's
The Mutaytor are more than just a band — they're a full-on circus-freak rock show, with tracks laid down by John...
Friday 11/16 @ [delete] Echoplex
Invigorated by the definitive new book The Source: The Untold Story of Father Yod, Ya Ho Wa 13, and the Source...
Friday 11/16 @ Goethe-Institut Los Angeles
On June 27, 1967, Los Angeles and Berlin became sister cities — and oceanic possibilities for creative conversation loomed large. Forty...
Friday 11/16 @ The Getty Center
Brooklyn-bred avant-soulsters Free Blood drop a bit of ecstatic electricity tonight, whipping the Getty's Flavorpill-curated Fridays Off the 405 party into...
Friday 11/16 @ Theatre Asylum
Harvey Finklestein's Sock Puppet Showgirls combines two things that everyone loves: rude sock puppets and...
Friday 11/16 @ REDCAT
Everything old is new again at this year's Analoglive! concert. The night's seven-member ensemble — whose talents range from Aphex Twin...
Friday 11/16 @ Los Angeles County Museum of Art
It took chutzpah for Disney and Dalí to channel their wild worldviews into the singular styles that garnered them single-name status....
Ongoing Events
Friday 11/16 @ Bert Green Fine Art
Clive Barker is known for creating some pretty frightening characters — Candyman, Pinhead, and the army of monsters in Nightbreed. The...
Friday 11/16 @ University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach
Sandow Birk's Depravities of War examines its titular subject's social, political, and aesthetic constructs. Birk's precursor was 17th-century printmaker Jacques Callot,...
Friday 11/16 @ De Soto Gallery
If LA-based video artist Pascual Sisto had been born a century earlier, he and Salvador Dalí would have been best buds....
Materials & Applications: Density Fields
Friday 11/16 @ Materials & Applications
Experimental-architecture and landscape-research center M&A is a lightning rod for visionary thinkers, bringing the brightest artists and architects together to explore...
Alejandro Gehry & Brian Biedul: Raw Space
Friday 11/16 @ DCA Fine Art
Alejandro Gehry may be the son of uber-architect Frank, but it's his co-exhibitor, Brian Biedul, whose work really focuses on spatiality....
Friday 11/16 @ The Getty Center
Nicole Cohen engineers recombinant layers of still and video imagery, investigating the network of associations that interior spaces contain. Also, she...
Friday 11/16 @ High Energy Constructs
California native Mark Dutcher utilizes Shakespeare as a thematic backdrop, adding a tinge of the macabre to his lavish, effervescent paintings...
SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s
Friday 11/16 @ Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Exhibitions addressing mythologies of Southern California are suddenly seemingly ubiquitous. The Orange County Museum of Art's Art Since the 1960s: California...
Jacob Arden McClure and Charles Wilkin
Friday 11/16 @ Applegate Gallery
Jacob Arden McClure and Charles Wilkin's paintings and collages radiate pop sensibility: McClure's all-too-lovely works layer nostalgic imagery and text, while...
Friday 11/16 @ Various locations
Steal a Pencil for Me is the improbable-but-true documentary about the love affair conducted between two prisoners of a Nazi concentration...
Friday 11/16 @ Chung King Project
Born in Germany and raised in Iraq, Peter Rösel is now a devotee of the whisperings of desert mirages. Rösel's sparse,...
Friday 11/16 @ Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla
Soundwaves: The Art of Sampling is MCASD's response to MOCA's 2005 exhibition Visual Music, a survey of the influence and/or direct...
Friday 11/16 @ Kinsey/DesForges Gallery
The theme of unlearning is an essential aspect in BLK/MRKT gallery owner Dave Kinsey's art. As a result, his multi-medium portraits...
Friday 11/16 @ Christopher Grimes Gallery
Anton Henning's loopy abstractions, painterly portraits, and grandiose furniture are loveable yet curiously familiar. Consuming broad swathes of modernism from Manet...
Friday 11/16 @ MAK Center for Art and Architecture
The Little House, Victor Burgin's new project at the MAK Center, explores the potential of narrative sound installation. Selections from Jean-François...
Friday 11/16 @ Brickhouse Kitchen
Poet, artist, and amateur Buddhist Milo Martin claims to "write what I can't paint, and paint what I can't write," so...
Friday 11/16 @ Lightbox Gallery
Kim Dingle has a knack for turning the innocent into the disturbing. Clownish kids getting their faces stuck in garish cakes...
Friday 11/16 @ Various locations
An abstract-art prodigy for the digital age, four-year-old Marla Olmstead is a rare bird indeed. In My Kid Could Paint That,...
Friday 11/16 @ Merry Karnowsky Gallery
Los Angeles' own Camille Rose Garcia isn't just part of the hot "lowbrow" urban-art movement — she's a key player. Her...
Friday 11/16 @ Western Project
Carole Caroompas' fantastically imaginative paintings and drawings are a melting pot of pop-culture imagery. For Caroompas' latest collection at Western Project,...
Friday 11/16 @ Pomona College Museum of Art
Victor Hugo once said that, in contrast to the sublime, the grotesque is the richest material that nature can offer art....
Clayton Murdach and Travis Somerville
Friday 11/16 @ delete
This exhibition unites two like-minded artists whose work addresses the unstoppable decline of American society. Clayton Murdach manipulates a bevy of...
Friday 11/16 @ Ruth Bachofner Gallery
Ironically, LA-based Jennifer Faist uses one of the most labor-intensive, obsessive processes imaginable to create serene, harmonious, and even poetic monochromes....
Friday 11/16 @ La Luz de Jesus
Custo, Nike, Honda, and others have tapped Barcelona-based illustration sensation Catalina Estrada’s super-stylized imagery. Mark Todd, influenced by comic book artist...
Friday 11/16 @ Petersen Automotive Museum
The lowrider tradition originated in the Chicano barrios of Los Angeles, inspired by a fierce love for classic cars and the...
Friday 11/16 @ LAXART
A Spanish artist who decamped to LA, Adrià Julià is a CalArts grad with a knack for telling unusual stories. Last...
Shona Macdonald: SHIFT & Heimir Björgúlfsson: Allure Gone Buffalo
Friday 11/16 @ d.e.n. contemporary art
Aberdeen-born Shona Macdonald's delicate gouache, silverpoint, and graphite works, exhibited in d.e.n.'s main gallery, comment on the endless order and routine...
Friday 11/16 @ New Beverly Cinema
Muppet-man Jim Henson's final film, Labyrinth, and Ridley Scott's splashy Legend are fetching fantasies fashioned in the old style. Inventive netherworlds...
Beyond Ultraman: Seven Artists Explore the Vinyl Frontier
Friday 11/16 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art
One of three new exhibitions on view this fall at the Pasadena Museum of California Art, vinyl-obsessed group show Beyond Ultraman...
Friday 11/16 @ Gallery C
Hyperrealist painter Kenny Harris showcases his recent paintings inspired by a trip to South America. While Harris' interiors hardly show direct...
Susan Silton: The Day, the Earth
Friday 11/16 @ SolwayJones Gallery
Susan Silton's latest photography project packs centuries of history and cultural politics into what many think of as a lowly design...
Friday 11/16 @ Sandroni Rey
From the horrific to the mythic, Sue de Beer's video installations unravel twisted paths into the sputtering darkness of adolescence. Her...
Ashley McLean Emenegger & Paul Pitsker: You Are Here
Friday 11/16 @ Bandini Art
Inspired by the groundbreaking mixed-media assemblages of Betye Saar and Joseph Cornell, Ashley McLean Emenegger explores themes of masculinity and femininity...
Friday 11/16 @ Japanese American National Museum
Pop-culture empire Giant Robot began way back in 1994 as a zine, and has since grown to include a glossy magazine,...
Friday 11/16 @ The Lab 101 Gallery
Culver City's Lab 101 celebrates its third year in LA's newest international art-world hub with a show that, appropriately enough, features...
Eric Tucker & Rae Scarton: Exit East
Friday 11/16 @ Commissary Arts
Eric Tucker and Rae Scarton's Exit East explores the transformation of the Inland Empire with large-format color prints that pay special...
Barry McGee: Advanced Mature Work
Friday 11/16 @ REDCAT
Barry McGee (aka San Fran street scriber Twist) has created everything from a demolition derby (complete with cars featuring his painting)...
Friday 11/16 @ Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects
The humorous, poignant, and technically impressive paintings, drawings, and prints by Nicole Eisenman at Vielmetter Projects are neatly explained by the...
Friday 11/16 @ Laemmle's Music Hall 3
Ever cruised down the Walk of Fame in Hollywood, found yourself surrounded by a crowd of grown men and women dressed...
Friday 11/16 @ Pete & Susan Barrett Art Gallery, Santa Monica College
Following the DIY aesthetic to a T, Sharon Kagan, Lana Shuttleworth, and Leslie Yagar, collectively known as the ladies of PiNK...
Friday 11/16 @ DF2
While French artist Mathieu Briand is best known for his ambitious sound installations, with UBÏQ: A Mental Odyssey, he takes things...
Friday 11/16 @ See Line Gallery
Friday 11/16 @ Los Angeles Public Library: Central Library
Julius Shulman has done more for the way California modernist architecture is seen and appreciated than probably anyone else —...
Friday 11/16 @ Hammer Museum
Pushing a block of ice through the streets of Mexico City, moving a mountain several inches, hiring a stripper who never...
Friday 11/16 @ Egyptian Theatre
In this festival's sixth edition, the burgeoning cinematic breadth of Buenos Aires and beyond is on display. Hot-topic showpiece XXY portrays...
Friday 11/16 @ Taylor De Cordoba Gallery
Curator Melissa Levin has gathered six New York-based artists whose work focuses on the nature of consumables. While the duo of...
Friday 11/16 @ Various locations
It's been nearly four years since desertification precipitated a tragic conflict in Sudan. According to some estimates, to date as many...
