Events on Friday, November 23
Friday 11/23 @ Aero Theatre
Before becoming the modern misfit Monsieur Hulot, Jacques Tati played an incompetent postal cyclist attempting to imitate an absurd American proficiency....
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Friday 11/23 @ House of Blues Sunset Strip
Local institution Social Distortion are as inextricable from Southern California as beaches, surfing, and endless summers. With a roots-punk style they've...
Friday 11/23 @ Disney Concert Hall
Tonight's lofty program at the LA Philharmonic features gems from 19th-century giants, but it's a "Casual Friday" and that means...
Friday 11/23 @ The Wiltern
Though their name suggests a kinship with the Iron Curtain, Cold War Kids actually hail from behind the orange curtain. The...
Ongoing Events
Friday 11/23 @ 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 11/23 @ 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 11/23 @ 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,...
Alejandro Gehry & Brian Biedul: Raw Space
Friday 11/23 @ 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 11/23 @ DF2
While French artist Mathieu Briand is best known for his ambitious sound installations, with UBÏQ: A Mental Odyssey, he takes things...
Friday 11/23 @ The Scion Installation LA Space
Mark Mothersbaugh, the DEVO diva-turned-soundtrack composer, designs rugs the way David Byrne designs chairs — as humorous objects, not items of...
Friday 11/23 @ 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 11/23 @ High Energy Constructs
California native Mark Dutcher utilizes Shakespeare as a thematic backdrop, adding a tinge of the macabre to his lavish, effervescent paintings...
Friday 11/23 @ 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 11/23 @ Bert Green Fine Art
Clive Barker is known for creating some pretty frightening characters — Candyman, Pinhead, and the army of monsters in Nightbreed. The...
Jacob Arden McClure and Charles Wilkin
Friday 11/23 @ 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 11/23 @ 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 11/23 @ 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....
Friday 11/23 @ Steve Turner Contemporary
East meets West (coast, that is) in this exhibition of 14 NYC-based up-and-comers. Independent curator and New York gallerist Amy Smith-Stewart...
Friday 11/23 @ 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...
Materials & Applications: Density Fields
Friday 11/23 @ 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...
Friday 11/23 @ Milo Gallery
Don't call Joan Tucker another Rothko wannabe. While her exploratory, painterly abstractions are obviously influenced by the forefathers of abstract expressionism,...
Friday 11/23 @ The Getty Center
Nicole Cohen engineers recombinant layers of still and video imagery, investigating the network of associations that interior spaces contain. Also, she...
Stardust Memories and Purple Rose of Cairo
Friday 11/23 @ New Beverly Cinema
Within Woody Allen's comic cosmology, there's the Sun (Annie Hall, 1977), orbiting planets (Manhattan, 1979), and space-junk (Celebrity, 1998), but in...
Friday 11/23 @ Lightbox Gallery
Kim Dingle has a knack for turning the innocent into the disturbing. Clownish kids getting their faces stuck in garish cakes...
SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s
Friday 11/23 @ 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...
Friday 11/23 @ 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 11/23 @ Roberts & Tilton Gallery
For Ellen de Meutter's first US solo exhibition, the Belgian painter displays her signature childlike aesthetic, juxtaposing bright, expressionist imagery with...
Friday 11/23 @ 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....
Friday 11/23 @ 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 11/23 @ 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 11/23 @ LAXART
A Spanish artist who decamped to LA, Adrià Julià is a CalArts grad with a knack for telling unusual stories. Last...
Friday 11/23 @ 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 11/23 @ 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,...
Barry McGee: Advanced Mature Work
Friday 11/23 @ REDCAT
Barry McGee (aka San Fran street scriber Twist) has created everything from a demolition derby (complete with cars featuring his painting)...
Shona Macdonald: SHIFT & Heimir Björgúlfsson: Allure Gone Buffalo
Friday 11/23 @ 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 11/23 @ Various locations
It's been nearly four years since desertification precipitated a tragic conflict in Sudan. According to some estimates, to date as many...
Clayton Murdach and Travis Somerville
Friday 11/23 @ delete
This exhibition unites two like-minded artists whose work addresses the unstoppable decline of American society. Clayton Murdach manipulates a bevy of...
Ashley McLean Emenegger & Paul Pitsker: You Are Here
Friday 11/23 @ 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 11/23 @ 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....
Kim Kimbro, Barry Baldwin, and Doro Hofmann
Friday 11/23 @ Lawrence Asher Gallery
Three newcomers to the LA art scene — Kim Kimbro, Barry Baldwin, and Doro Hofmann — open individual mini-exhibitions tonight at...
Friday 11/23 @ 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 11/23 @ The Lost Studio
Given the topsy-turvy nature of current geopolitics, the idea of a global conflict being instigated by a cabal of petty, puerile...
Friday 11/23 @ 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...
Beyond Ultraman: Seven Artists Explore the Vinyl Frontier
Friday 11/23 @ 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 11/23 @ 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...
The Red Balloon and White Mane
Friday 11/23 @ Landmark Nuart Theatre
In the early 1950s, cinemagician Albert Lamorisse created a new French board game, The Conquest of the World — or, for...
Friday 11/23 @ See Line Gallery
Friday 11/23 @ Gallery C
Hyperrealist painter Kenny Harris showcases his recent paintings inspired by a trip to South America. While Harris' interiors hardly show direct...
Friday 11/23 @ Hammer Museum
Pushing a block of ice through the streets of Mexico City, moving a mountain several inches, hiring a stripper who never...
Friday 11/23 @ Sandroni Rey
From the horrific to the mythic, Sue de Beer's video installations unravel twisted paths into the sputtering darkness of adolescence. Her...
Jacob Magraw & Edward del Rosario
Friday 11/23 @ Richard Heller Gallery
LA painter Jacob Magraw's gouache-on-paper works are improvisational landscapes composed of layers of Skittles-worthy colors. His latest batch of works at...
Friday 11/23 @ Natural History Museum
Whether you cherish the memory of dueling dino skeletons from long-ago field trips, or a more recent late-night music show amongst...
Friday 11/23 @ New Image Art
Bay Area artist Alex Kopps' undeniably beautiful work has been endorsed by Target, Home Depot, and Taco Bell — but don't...
Friday 11/23 @ 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 11/23 @ 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,...
