Events on Friday, November 30
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...
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...
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...
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...
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
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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
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...
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...
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....
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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: 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....
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...
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...
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...
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 —...
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...
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...
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,...
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: 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...
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
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...
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: 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...
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,...
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,...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
