Events on Friday, November 30

<I>Witness: ACT UP/LA at 20</i>

Special Event: Benefit

Witness: ACT UP/LA at 20

Friday 11/30 @ Highways Performance Space

AIDS touches people in all segments of society, and, despite how we might pretend otherwise, the disease continues to wreak havoc... 

Brian Wright & the Waco Tragedies w/ Buddy, Greg Laswell, and Emily Wells

Music

Emily Wells

Friday 11/30 @ The Hotel Café

Beloved indie singer/songwriter haven the Hotel Café is stuffed to the gills tonight, with sets from intellectual troubadour Greg Laswell, a... 

Jonathan Richman w/ the Mighty Echoes

Music

Jonathan Richman

Friday 11/30 @ Safari Sam's

Massachusetts-bred Jonathan Richman has been dropping controversial vinyl bombs since the mid-'60s. Co-founder of the legendary Modern Lovers (1970-74), the one-man... 

Club Underground feat. Hello Stranger

Music

Hello Stranger

Friday 11/30 @ The Echo & Echoplex

LA-based rockers Hello Stranger have officially succumbed to their obsession with dead-serious disco, legwarmers, and hairspray. Far from cutesy (despite the... 

KCRW presents Dust Galaxy w/ Ursula 1000

Music

Dust Galaxy w/ Ursula 1000

Friday 11/30 @ Knitting Factory

Thievery Corporation's Rob Garza undresses his gruff and humble persona this evening at the Knitting Factory, with an appearance by Dust... 

Ongoing Events

Catalina Estrada & Mark Todd

Art

Catalina Estrada & Mark Todd

Friday 11/30 @ 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... 

Kenny Harris: <I>New Paintings</i> and Roland Reiss: <I>Onshore Flow</i>

Art

Kenny Harris and Roland Reiss

Friday 11/30 @ Gallery C

Hyperrealist painter Kenny Harris showcases his recent paintings inspired by a trip to South America. While Harris' interiors hardly show direct... 

Sandow Birk: <I>Depravities of War</i>

Art

Sandow Birk

Friday 11/30 @ 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,... 

Adri&#224; Juli&#224;: <I>A Means of Passing the Time</I>

Art

Adrià Julià

Friday 11/30 @ LAXART

A Spanish artist who decamped to LA, Adrià Julià is a CalArts grad with a knack for telling unusual stories. Last... 

Emma Ferreira: <I>When Life Dances II: Classic Beauty</i>

Art

Emma Ferreira

Friday 11/30 @ Spin Gallery

Venice's brand-new Spin Gallery merges fine and automotive art, showcasing promising new visual talents alongside rare and beautiful cars. Its latest... 

<I>Grand Delusion</i>

Theatre

Grand Delusion

Friday 11/30 @ 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... 

<I>Green</i>

Art

Green

Friday 11/30 @ Robert Berman Gallery

From the minds at Murphy Art Books comes this mixed-media exhibition of small works by more than 40 contemporary artists who... 

<I>Treasures from the Vault</i>

Special Event

Treasures from the Vault

Friday 11/30 @ 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... 

Alex Kopps & the Gothic Dolphins: <I>Your Today Is Their Tomorrow</i>

Art

Alex Kopps

Friday 11/30 @ New Image Art

Bay Area artist Alex Kopps' undeniably beautiful work has been endorsed by Target, Home Depot, and Taco Bell — but don't... 

<I>A Great Delicacy</i>

Art

A Great Delicacy

Friday 11/30 @ 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... 

<i>SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s</i>

Art

SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s

Friday 11/30 @ 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... 

PiNK: <i>Plays Well With Others</i>

Art

Plays Well With Others

Friday 11/30 @ 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... 

Carole Caroompas: <I>Dancing with Misfits: Eye-Dazzler</i>

Art

Carole Caroompas

Friday 11/30 @ Western Project

Carole Caroompas' fantastically imaginative paintings and drawings are a melting pot of pop-culture imagery. For Caroompas' latest collection at Western Project,... 

<I>Diva</i> 25th Anniversary

Film

Diva 25th Anniversary

Friday 11/30 @ Landmark Nuart Theatre

A genre-bending thriller, Jean-Jacques Beineix's Diva (1982) was among the first French films to herald the Cinéma du Look — the... 

Art

Ashley McLean Emenegger & Paul Pitsker: You Are Here

Friday 11/30 @ Bandini Art

Inspired by the groundbreaking mixed-media assemblages of Betye Saar and Joseph Cornell, Ashley McLean Emenegger explores themes of masculinity and femininity... 

Mathieu Briand: <i>UBÏQ: A Mental Odyssey</i>

Art

Mathieu Briand

Friday 11/30 @ DF2

While French artist Mathieu Briand is best known for his ambitious sound installations, with UBÏQ: A Mental Odyssey, he takes things... 

<I>A Very Grand Guignol Christmas</i>

Theatre

A Very Grand Guignol Christmas

Friday 11/30 @ Art/Works Theatre

Let the absinthe, eggnog, and blood flow at Art/Works Theater in Hollywood, as the Grand Guignol Theatre Company presents A Very... 

Kim Kimbro, Barry Baldwin, and Doro Hofmann

Art

Kim Kimbro, Barry Baldwin, and Doro Hofmann

Friday 11/30 @ Lawrence Asher Gallery

Three newcomers to the LA art scene — Kim Kimbro, Barry Baldwin, and Doro Hofmann — open individual mini-exhibitions tonight at... 

<I>La Vida Lowrider: Cruising the City of Angels</i>

Art

La Vida Lowrider

Friday 11/30 @ Petersen Automotive Museum

The lowrider tradition originated in the Chicano barrios of Los Angeles, inspired by a fierce love for classic cars and the... 

<I>Benedictus</i>

Theatre

Benedictus

Friday 11/30 @ The New LATC

San Francisco-based Golden Thread Productions presents Benedictus, a transcultural tale of reunion and intrigue. In the play, two men from divergent... 

Robert Hardgrave: <I>Xenoglossy</i>

Art

Robert Hardgrave

Friday 11/30 @ Kinsey/DesForges Gallery

Beautiful and sublime, paintings by Seattle-based artist Robert Hardgrave boast slick, slippery, intestinal arabesques, quivering flora, and mysterious corpuscular floaters. Channeling... 

Milo Martin: <I>The Bunnies of Denham</i>

Art

Milo Martin

Friday 11/30 @ 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... 

Stan's Cafe: <i>Of All the People in All the World: The Americas</i>

Art

Stan's Cafe

Friday 11/30 @ Skirball Cultural Center

In Of All the People in All the World: The Americas, UK theatre company Stan's Cafe collects 300 million grains of... 

Jacob Arden McClure and Charles Wilkin

Art

Jacob Arden McClure and Charles Wilkin

Friday 11/30 @ 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... 

<i>Darfur Now</i>

Film: Documentary

Darfur Now

Friday 11/30 @ Various locations

It's been nearly four years since desertification precipitated a tragic conflict in Sudan. According to some estimates, to date as many... 

Pascual Sisto: <I>Everything Must Go</i>

Art

Pascual Sisto

Friday 11/30 @ 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.... 

<I>Dream of Today</i>

Art

Dream of Today

Friday 11/30 @ 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... 

Project Series 34: Iva Gueorguieva

Art

Iva Gueorguieva

Friday 11/30 @ 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.... 

Francis Al&#255;s: <I>Politics of Rehearsal</I>

Art

Francis Alÿs

Friday 11/30 @ Hammer Museum

Pushing a block of ice through the streets of Mexico City, moving a mountain several inches, hiring a stripper who never... 

Sue de Beer: <I>Permanent Revolution</i>

Art

Sue de Beer

Friday 11/30 @ Sandroni Rey

From the horrific to the mythic, Sue de Beer's video installations unravel twisted paths into the sputtering darkness of adolescence. Her... 

<i>Hair</i>

Theatre

Hair

Friday 11/30 @ The MET Theatre

Hair's original 1967 production was way ahead of its time, masterfully exploring the sexual revolution, mind-expanding drugs, and opposition to the... 

Jacob Magraw & Edward del Rosario

Art

Jacob Magraw & Edward del Rosario

Friday 11/30 @ 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... 

Nicole Cohen: <em>Please Be Seated</em>

Special Event

Nicole Cohen

Friday 11/30 @ The Getty Center

Nicole Cohen engineers recombinant layers of still and video imagery, investigating the network of associations that interior spaces contain. Also, she... 

Los Angeles Physical Theatre Festival

Theatre

LA Physical Theatre Festival

Friday 11/30 @ Art/Works Theatre

Channeling the Chaplins and Keatons of Hollywood yesteryear, LAPT's inaugural festival salutes the not-so-subtle, yet supremely precise art of physical theatre.... 

Kim Dingle: <i>The Cake Series</i>

Art

Kim Dingle

Friday 11/30 @ Lightbox Gallery

Kim Dingle has a knack for turning the innocent into the disturbing. Clownish kids getting their faces stuck in garish cakes... 

<i>Cry-Baby</i>

Theatre

Cry-Baby

Friday 11/30 @ La Jolla Playhouse

We've entered the John Waters age. A Broadway musical adaptation of Hairspray and a subsequent cinematic "re-adaptation" has made the legendary... 

<i>Beyond Ultraman: Seven Artists Explore the Vinyl Frontier</i>

Art

Beyond Ultraman: Seven Artists Explore the Vinyl Frontier

Friday 11/30 @ 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... 

Ellen de Meutter: <I>Secrets and Lies</i>

Art

Ellen de Meutter

Friday 11/30 @ 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... 

<I>La Bohème</i>

Performing Arts: Opera

La Bohème

Friday 11/30 @ Los Angeles Opera

Giacomo Puccini's four-act opera La Bohème has been immortalized in more films, songs, and remakes than any other work of its... 

Alejandro Gehry & Brian Biedul: <i>Raw Space</i>

Art

Alejandro Gehry & Brian Biedul: Raw Space

Friday 11/30 @ 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.... 

<I>Soundwaves: The Art of Sampling</i>

Art

Soundwaves

Friday 11/30 @ 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... 

Degenerate Art Ensemble: <I>Cuckoo Crow</i>

Performing Arts

Degenerate Art Ensemble

Friday 11/30 @ REDCAT

Seattle-based DAE's artistic methodology combines jazz, rock, thrash, butoh, poetry, and surrealism to generate intoxicating performances. The six versatile members play... 

Mark Mothersbaugh: <I>Rugs During Wartime and Peacetime</I>

Art

Mark Mothersbaugh

Friday 11/30 @ 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... 

<I>Julius Shulman's Los Angeles</i>

Art: Photography

Julius Shulman

Friday 11/30 @ 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 —... 

<I>A Christmas Twist</i>

Theatre

A Christmas Twist

Friday 11/30 @ Ark Theatre

Dickens' "Please sir, may I have some more?" meets Animal House's "Thank you sir, may I have another?" in A Christmas... 

Cherie Benner Davis: <I>Best Laid Plans</i>

Art

Cherie Benner Davis

Friday 11/30 @ SolwayJones Gallery

LA painter Cherie Benner Davis sees the world in layered transparencies — crisp geometric shapes overlaying expressive, devotional elements of the... 

Giant Robot Biennale: 50 Issues Art Exhibition

Art

Giant Robot Biennale

Friday 11/30 @ 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,... 

<em>SIT: Contemporary and Traditional Seating</em>

Art

SIT: Contemporary and Traditional Seating

Friday 11/30 @ Pounder-Koné Art Space

When not hurting bad guys on FX's The Shield, actress CCH Pounder works alongside her husband Boubacar Koné, developing the Boribana... 

Shona Macdonald: <I>SHIFT</i> &  Heimir Björgúlfsson: <I>Allure Gone Buffalo</i>

Art

Shona Macdonald: SHIFT & Heimir Björgúlfsson: Allure Gone Buffalo

Friday 11/30 @ 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... 

<i>My Kid Could Paint That</i>

Film: Documentary

My Kid Could Paint That

Friday 11/30 @ 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,... 

Clayton Murdach and Travis Somerville: <I>The Great American Let Down</i>

Art

Clayton Murdach and Travis Somerville

Friday 11/30 @ delete

This exhibition unites two like-minded artists whose work addresses the unstoppable decline of American society. Clayton Murdach manipulates a bevy of... 

Jen Liu: <I>New Dawn Fades</i>

Art

Jen Liu

Friday 11/30 @ Lizabeth Oliveria Gallery

Jen Liu's new multimedia collection at Lizabeth Oliveria Gallery finds the anti-technology characters of her Brethren of the Stone series once... 

Teatr Zar: <I>Gospels of Childhood</i>

Theatre

Teatr Zar

Friday 11/30 @ Freud Playhouse

Carrying on the tradition of Polish provocateur Jerzy Grotowski, Teatr Zar's members alter the notion of theatre through acts of deeply... 

Victor Burgin: <I>The Little House</i>

Art

Victor Burgin

Friday 11/30 @ 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: <em>Density Fields</em>

Art

Materials & Applications: Density Fields

Friday 11/30 @ 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... 

<b>CANCELED</b> The Decemberists w/ Laura Veirs and Saltbreakers

Music

CANCELED The Decemberists

Friday 11/30 @ The Wiltern

Despite a penchant for more-absurdist-than-thou lyrics and off-kilter instrumentation, neo-prog folksters the Decemberists are actually pretty populist — courting landlords' daughters,... 

Joan Tucker: <I>The Time Is Always Now</i>

Art

Joan Tucker

Friday 11/30 @ Milo Gallery

Don't call Joan Tucker another Rothko wannabe. While her exploratory, painterly abstractions are obviously influenced by the forefathers of abstract expressionism,... 

Wallace Berman: <i>Photography and Other Works of Art 1950-1976</i>

Art

Wallace Berman

Friday 11/30 @ Michael Kohn Gallery

Even though Wallace Berman exhibited his work at the highly influential Ferus Gallery within years of Andy Warhol's first solo show,... 

<I>Local Story</i>

Theatre

Local Story

Friday 11/30 @ Theatre of NOTE

Set over the course of two balmy days in August, theatre of NOTE's latest production revolves around the emotional cyclones stirred... 

Mark Dutcher: <I>Curtains</i>

Art

Mark Dutcher

Friday 11/30 @ High Energy Constructs

California native Mark Dutcher utilizes Shakespeare as a thematic backdrop, adding a tinge of the macabre to his lavish, effervescent paintings... 

OutFest presents Fusion: The 5th Annual LA LGBT People of Color Film Festival

Film

Fusion Film Festival

Friday 11/30 @ Egyptian Theatre

The Fusion festival celebrates ethnically and sexually diverse themes in new cinema by up-and-coming filmmakers from around the world. This year's... 

Clive Barker: <i>New Paintings and Works on Paper</i>

Art

Clive Barker

Friday 11/30 @ Bert Green Fine Art

Clive Barker is known for creating some pretty frightening characters — Candyman, Pinhead, and the army of monsters in Nightbreed. The... 

Nicole Eisenman: <I>A Show Born of Fear</i>

Art

Nicole Eisenman

Friday 11/30 @ 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... 

<i>Steal a Pencil for Me</i>

Film: Documentary

Steal a Pencil for Me

Friday 11/30 @ 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...