All events on Friday December 07

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Music: Rock/Pop
Rue Melo
Friday Dec 7, 2007 (8:15pm) @ Safari Sam's
Parisian chanteuse Rue Melo makes exactly the kind of music her name suggests: a soulful, low-key mashup of international accents (English, French, and Spanish) fleshed... View details »
Rue Melo
Music
Andrew Bird
Friday Dec 7, 2007 (8pm) @ Orpheum Theatre
Just as Joanna Newsom hearts the harp, chanteur Andrew Bird gives great violin. Not only does Bird (signed to Ani DiFranco's Righteous Babe Records) strum... View details »
Andrew Bird
Music: Rock/Pop
Dengue Fever
Friday Dec 7, 2007 (7:30pm) @ The Getty Center
Free
These Khmer popsters have unexpectedly won their hometown's (and the world's) hearts, minds, and ears since their inception in 2004. Singer Chhom Nimol's unbearably compelling... View details »
Dengue Fever
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Choi Jeong-Hwa
Friday Dec 7, 2007 (noon–6pm) @ REDCAT More times »
Free
Interdisciplinary Korean wunderkind and founder of the Gaseum Studio, Choi Jeong-Hwa obliterates the boundaries between visual art, graphic/industrial design, and architecture, and ridicules the preciousness... View details »
Choi Jeong-Hwa
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You are not here, you are still there and think you are here
Friday Dec 7, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ High Energy Constructs More times »
Free
High Energy Constructs has put together a three-person show of up-and-coming artists who traverse the unknown and question culture. While the title, You are not... View details »
You are not here, you are still there and think you are here
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Jordin Isip & Jason Houchen
Friday Dec 7, 2007 (11am–9pm) @ La Luz de Jesus More times »
Free
Brooklyn-based illustrator and mixed-media painter Jordin Isip uses collage as his primary medium. This eclectic approach serves both as a literal means of constructing rough-hewn... View details »
Jordin Isip & Jason Houchen
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Artel: Variation #50
Friday Dec 7, 2007 (8:30pm) @ Highways Performance Space More times »
Giveaway
LA-based live theatre group Artel stages and supports interdisciplinary works of performance art illuminating and exploring the rich, and often misunderstood, legacy of 20th-century Russian... View details »
Artel: Variation #50
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Snow Angels
Friday Dec 7, 2007 (1–6pm) @ Thinkspace Gallery More times »
Free
At Thinkspace Gallery's Snow Angels, audiences would be forgiven for thinking that a fleet of muses had landed in Sunset Junction, turning it into a... View details »
Snow Angels
More Flavor: Shopping
Abbot Kinney Holiday Extravaganza
Friday Dec 7, 2007 (7–11pm) @ Abbot Kinney Blvd
Free
Venice locals have a reputation for being protective of their 'hood, but tonight the boutiques and galleries of the world-famous Abbot Kinney Boulevard stay open... View details »
Abbot Kinney Holiday Extravaganza

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Clive Barker
Friday Dec 7, 2007 (noon–6pm) @ Bert Green Fine Art More times »
Free
Clive Barker is known for creating some pretty frightening characters — Candyman, Pinhead, and the army of monsters in Nightbreed. The script he submitted for... View details »
Clive Barker
Performing Arts: Theatre
Cry-Baby
Friday Dec 7, 2007 @ La Jolla Playhouse More times »
We've entered the John Waters age. A Broadway musical adaptation of Hairspray and a subsequent cinematic "re-adaptation" has made the legendary Baltimorean a household name.... View details »
Cry-Baby
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SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s
Friday Dec 7, 2007 @ Los Angeles County Museum of Art More times »
Exhibitions addressing mythologies of Southern California are suddenly seemingly ubiquitous. The Orange County Museum of Art's Art Since the 1960s: California Experiments historicizes the "evolution"... View details »
SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s
Film: Documentary
My Kid Could Paint That
Friday Dec 7, 2007 @ Various locations More times »
Free
An abstract-art prodigy for the digital age, four-year-old Marla Olmstead is a rare bird indeed. In My Kid Could Paint That, Amir Bar-Lev documents the... View details »
My Kid Could Paint That
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Beyond Ultraman: Seven Artists Explore the Vinyl Frontier
Friday Dec 7, 2007 (noon–5pm) @ Pasadena Museum of California Art More times »
One of three new exhibitions on view this fall at the Pasadena Museum of California Art, vinyl-obsessed group show Beyond Ultraman explores the multifaceted world... View details »
Beyond Ultraman: Seven Artists Explore the Vinyl Frontier
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Alejandro Gehry & Brian Biedul: Raw Space
Friday Dec 7, 2007 (11am–5pm) @ DCA Fine Art More times »
Free
Alejandro Gehry may be the son of uber-architect Frank, but it's his co-exhibitor, Brian Biedul, whose work really focuses on spatiality. In Raw Space, Biedul... View details »
Alejandro Gehry & Brian Biedul: Raw Space
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Giant Robot Biennale
Friday Dec 7, 2007 (9am–5pm) @ Japanese American National Museum More times »
Free
Pop-culture empire Giant Robot began way back in 1994 as a zine, and has since grown to include a glossy magazine, galleries in both San... View details »
Giant Robot Biennale
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Ashley McLean Emenegger & Paul Pitsker: You Are Here
Friday Dec 7, 2007 (11am–5pm) @ Bandini Art More times »
Free
Inspired by the groundbreaking mixed-media assemblages of Betye Saar and Joseph Cornell, Ashley McLean Emenegger explores themes of masculinity and femininity through evocative combinations of... View details »
Art: Architecture/Design
Victor Burgin
Friday Dec 7, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ MAK Center for Art and Architecture More times »
The Little House, Victor Burgin's new project at the MAK Center, explores the potential of narrative sound installation. Selections from Jean-François de Bastide's 1758 novella... View details »
Victor Burgin
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Francis Alÿs
Friday Dec 7, 2007 (11am–7pm) @ Hammer Museum More times »
Pushing a block of ice through the streets of Mexico City, moving a mountain several inches, hiring a stripper who never quite strips: these are... View details »
Francis Alÿs
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Adrià Julià
Friday Dec 7, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ LAXART More times »
Free
A Spanish artist who decamped to LA, Adrià Julià is a CalArts grad with a knack for telling unusual stories. Last year at the Orange... View details »
Adrià Julià
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Kim Kimbro, Barry Baldwin, and Doro Hofmann
Friday Dec 7, 2007 (11am–5pm) @ Lawrence Asher Gallery More times »
Free
Three newcomers to the LA art scene — Kim Kimbro, Barry Baldwin, and Doro Hofmann — open individual mini-exhibitions tonight at Lawrence Asher Gallery. Kimbro's... View details »
Kim Kimbro, Barry Baldwin, and Doro Hofmann
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Joan Tucker
Friday Dec 7, 2007 (11am–5pm) @ Milo Gallery More times »
Free
Don't call Joan Tucker another Rothko wannabe. While her exploratory, painterly abstractions are obviously influenced by the forefathers of abstract expressionism, this Detroit-born, LA-based painter's... View details »
Joan Tucker
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Jacob Magraw & Edward del Rosario
Friday Dec 7, 2007 (11am–5pm) @ Richard Heller Gallery More times »
Free
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 Richard Heller Gallery is... View details »
Jacob Magraw & Edward del Rosario
Performing Arts: Theatre
Grand Delusion
Friday Dec 7, 2007 (8pm) @ The Lost Studio More times »
Given the topsy-turvy nature of current geopolitics, the idea of a global conflict being instigated by a cabal of petty, puerile European nobles and military... View details »
Grand Delusion
Art
Green
Friday Dec 7, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ Robert Berman Gallery More times »
Free
From the minds at Murphy Art Books comes this mixed-media exhibition of small works by more than 40 contemporary artists who were asked to explore... View details »
Green
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Milo Martin
Friday Dec 7, 2007 (8am–3pm) @ Brickhouse Kitchen More times »
Free
Poet, artist, and amateur Buddhist Milo Martin claims to "write what I can't paint, and paint what I can't write," so it makes sense that... View details »
Milo Martin
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Materials & Applications: Density Fields
Friday Dec 7, 2007 (10am–10pm) @ Materials & Applications More times »
Free
Experimental-architecture and landscape-research center M&A is a lightning rod for visionary thinkers, bringing the brightest artists and architects together to explore the artful use of... View details »
Materials & Applications: Density Fields
Art
Cherie Benner Davis
Friday Dec 7, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ SolwayJones More times »
Free
LA painter Cherie Benner Davis sees the world in layered transparencies — crisp geometric shapes overlaying expressive, devotional elements of the physical and psychological world.... View details »
Cherie Benner Davis
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Robert Hardgrave
Friday Dec 7, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ Kinsey/DesForges Gallery More times »
Free
Beautiful and sublime, paintings by Seattle-based artist Robert Hardgrave boast slick, slippery, intestinal arabesques, quivering flora, and mysterious corpuscular floaters. Channeling a "Fantastic Voyage" vision... View details »
Robert Hardgrave
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Sue de Beer
Friday Dec 7, 2007 (10am–6pm) @ Sandroni Rey More times »
Free
From the horrific to the mythic, Sue de Beer's video installations unravel twisted paths into the sputtering darkness of adolescence. Her protagonists appear alternately incandescent,... View details »
Sue de Beer
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Plays Well With Others
Friday Dec 7, 2007 (noon–5pm) @ Pete & Susan Barrett Art Gallery, Santa Monica College More times »
Free
Following the DIY aesthetic to a T, Sharon Kagan, Lana Shuttleworth, and Leslie Yagar, collectively known as the ladies of PiNK (Pins, Needles, and Knives... View details »
Plays Well With Others
Performing Arts: Opera
La Bohème
Friday Dec 7, 2007 @ Los Angeles Opera More times »
Giacomo Puccini's four-act opera La Bohème has been immortalized in more films, songs, and remakes than any other work of its time. The love story... View details »
La Bohème
Art
Kim Dingle
Friday Dec 7, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ Lightbox Gallery More times »
Free
Kim Dingle has a knack for turning the innocent into the disturbing. Clownish kids getting their faces stuck in garish cakes may seem the perfect... View details »
Kim Dingle
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Clayton Murdach and Travis Somerville
Friday Dec 7, 2007 (noon–6pm) @ delete More times »
Free
This exhibition unites two like-minded artists whose work addresses the unstoppable decline of American society. Clayton Murdach manipulates a bevy of found objects into assemblages... View details »
Clayton Murdach and Travis Somerville
Film
Diva 25th Anniversary
Friday Dec 7, 2007 (midnight) @ Landmark Nuart Theatre More times »
A genre-bending thriller, Jean-Jacques Beineix's Diva (1982) was among the first French films to herald the Cinéma du Look — the glossy, style-conscious movement that... View details »
Diva 25th Anniversary
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Richard Deacon
Friday Dec 7, 2007 (10am–6pm) @ LA Louver Gallery More times »
Free
Venice's premier art space reminds us that sculpture can be one of the most thrilling creative media with the debut of Richard Deacon's Dead Leg,... View details »
Richard Deacon
More Flavor: Benefit
Wishful Thinking
Friday Dec 7, 2007 (noon–6pm) @ project: gallery More times »
Free
To celebrate the first anniversary of its move to Culver City, project: gallery collaborates with Juxtapoz magazine on an exhibition in support of the Make-A-Wish... View details »
Wishful Thinking
Performing Arts: Theatre
A Christmas Twist
Friday Dec 7, 2007 (8pm) @ Ark Theatre More times »
Dickens' "Please sir, may I have some more?" meets Animal House's "Thank you sir, may I have another?" in A Christmas Twist — a bizarre,... View details »
A Christmas Twist
Art
Pascual Sisto
Friday Dec 7, 2007 (noon–6pm) @ De Soto Gallery More times »
Free
If LA-based video artist Pascual Sisto had been born a century earlier, he and Salvador Dalí would have been best buds. Like his Spanish countryman,... View details »
Pascual Sisto
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Iva Gueorguieva
Friday Dec 7, 2007 @ Pomona College Museum of Art More times »
Free
Victor Hugo once said that, in contrast to the sublime, the grotesque is the richest material that nature can offer art. Iva Gueorguieva heeds Hugo's... View details »
Iva Gueorguieva
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Sandow Birk
Friday Dec 7, 2007 @ University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach More times »
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, whose Miseries and Misfortunes... View details »
Sandow Birk
Performing Arts: Theatre
A Very Grand Guignol Christmas
Friday Dec 7, 2007 (8:30pm) @ Art/Works Theatre More times »
Let the absinthe, eggnog, and blood flow at Art/Works Theater in Hollywood, as the Grand Guignol Theatre Company presents A Very Grand Guignol Christmas. From... View details »
A Very Grand Guignol Christmas
Art
Jacob Arden McClure and Charles Wilkin
Friday Dec 7, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ Applegate Gallery More times »
Free
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 the Rauchenburg-influenced Wilkin treats... View details »
Jacob Arden McClure and Charles Wilkin
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Nicole Eisenman
Friday Dec 7, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects More times »
Free
The humorous, poignant, and technically impressive paintings, drawings, and prints by Nicole Eisenman at Vielmetter Projects are neatly explained by the artist in a crude... View details »
Nicole Eisenman
Performing Arts: Theatre
Los Angeles Poverty Department
Friday Dec 7, 2007 (8:30pm) @ REDCAT More times »
Since 1985, the Los Angeles Poverty Department has been committed to creating extraordinary, challenging performances that express the realities and hopes of people who live... View details »
Los Angeles Poverty Department
Performing Arts: Theatre
Benedictus
Friday Dec 7, 2007 (8pm) @ The New LATC More times »
San Francisco-based Golden Thread Productions presents Benedictus, a transcultural tale of reunion and intrigue. In the play, two men from divergent Middle Eastern faiths meet... View details »
Benedictus
Performing Arts: Theatre
Local Story
Friday Dec 7, 2007 (8pm) @ Theatre of NOTE More times »
Set over the course of two balmy days in August, theatre of NOTE's latest production revolves around the emotional cyclones stirred up within the interwoven... View details »
Local Story
Art
Ellen de Meutter
Friday Dec 7, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ Roberts & Tilton Gallery More times »
Free
For Ellen de Meutter's first US solo exhibition, the Belgian painter displays her signature childlike aesthetic, juxtaposing bright, expressionist imagery with desolate backdrops. The collection... View details »
Ellen de Meutter
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Carole Caroompas
Friday Dec 7, 2007 (11am–5pm) @ Western Project More times »
Free
Carole Caroompas' fantastically imaginative paintings and drawings are a melting pot of pop-culture imagery. For Caroompas' latest collection at Western Project, she counts films by... View details »
Carole Caroompas
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Jen Liu
Friday Dec 7, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ Lizabeth Oliveria Gallery More times »
Free
Jen Liu's new multimedia collection at Lizabeth Oliveria Gallery finds the anti-technology characters of her Brethren of the Stone series once again entrenched in humorously... View details »
Jen Liu
Performing Arts: Theatre
LA Physical Theatre Festival
Friday Dec 7, 2007 (8pm) @ Art/Works Theatre More times »
Channeling the Chaplins and Keatons of Hollywood yesteryear, LAPT's inaugural festival salutes the not-so-subtle, yet supremely precise art of physical theatre. Festival producers [via]Corpora have... View details »
LA Physical Theatre Festival
Art
Dream of Today
Friday Dec 7, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ Steve Turner Contemporary Gallery More times »
Free
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 lends her well-trained eye... View details »
Dream of Today
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Stan's Cafe
Friday Dec 7, 2007 (noon–5pm) @ Skirball Cultural Center More times »
In Of All the People in All the World: The Americas, UK theatre company Stan's Cafe collects 300 million grains of rice, creating a hauntingly... View details »
Stan's Cafe
Art
Alex Kopps
Friday Dec 7, 2007 (1–6pm) @ New Image Art More times »
Free
Bay Area artist Alex Kopps' undeniably beautiful work has been endorsed by Target, Home Depot, and Taco Bell — but don't hold that against him.... View details »
Alex Kopps
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Shepard Fairey
Friday Dec 7, 2007 (noon–6pm) @ Merry Karnowsky Gallery More times »
Free
Whether reading between the lines or blurring them entirely, ubiquitous designer Shepard Fairey mines the deep vein of irony running through the American dream. Though... View details »
Shepard Fairey
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Kenny Harris and Roland Reiss
Friday Dec 7, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ Gallery C More times »
Free
Hyperrealist painter Kenny Harris showcases his recent paintings inspired by a trip to South America. While Harris' interiors hardly show direct evidence of their exotic... View details »
Kenny Harris and Roland Reiss
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Soundwaves
Friday Dec 7, 2007 (11am–5pm) @ Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla More times »
Soundwaves: The Art of Sampling is MCASD's response to MOCA's 2005 exhibition Visual Music, a survey of the influence and/or direct use of music in... View details »
Soundwaves
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Emma Ferreira
Friday Dec 7, 2007 (10am–6:30pm) @ Spin Gallery More times »
Free
Venice's brand-new Spin Gallery merges fine and automotive art, showcasing promising new visual talents alongside rare and beautiful cars. Its latest wall-based offering is a... View details »
Emma Ferreira
Art: Photography
Julius Shulman
Friday Dec 7, 2007 (10am–6pm) @ Los Angeles Public Library More times »
Free
Julius Shulman has done more for the way California modernist architecture is seen and appreciated than probably anyone else — and he's also shot... View details »
Julius Shulman
Art: Architecture/Design
La Vida Lowrider
Friday Dec 7, 2007 (10am–6pm) @ Peterson Automotive Museum More times »
The lowrider tradition originated in the Chicano barrios of Los Angeles, inspired by a fierce love for classic cars and the need for expressing cultural... View details »
La Vida Lowrider
More Flavor: Exhibition
Treasures from the Vault
Friday Dec 7, 2007 (9:30am–5pm) @ Natural History Museum More times »
Whether you cherish the memory of dueling dino skeletons from long-ago field trips, or a more recent late-night music show amongst stuffed-buffalo-and-antelope dioramas, you probably... View details »
Treasures from the Vault
Art
Deborah Hede and Lynda Pizzuto
Friday Dec 7, 2007 (noon–5pm) @ Commissary Arts More times »
Free
While Deborah Hede and Lynda Pizzuto are both Los Angeles-based artists working in the medium of drawing, the juxtaposition of their work in this dual... View details »
Deborah Hede and Lynda Pizzuto
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Wallace Berman
Friday Dec 7, 2007 (10am–6pm) @ Michael Kohn Gallery More times »
Free
Even though Wallace Berman exhibited his work at the highly influential Ferus Gallery within years of Andy Warhol's first solo show, you've probably never heard... View details »
Wallace Berman
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Gardar Eide Einarsson
Friday Dec 7, 2007 (10am–6pm) @ Honor Fraser More times »
Free
Gardar Eide Einarsson's latest series features nine massive plywood panels, printed with graphics from a '60s police manual. As the officers demonstrate baton maneuvers, the... View details »
Gardar Eide Einarsson
Art: Architecture/Design
SIT: Contemporary and Traditional Seating
Friday Dec 7, 2007 (1–7pm) @ Pounder-Koné Art Space More times »
Free
When not hurting bad guys on FX's The Shield, actress CCH Pounder works alongside her husband Boubacar Koné, developing the Boribana Museum in Dakar and... View details »
SIT: Contemporary and Traditional Seating
Art: Discussion
Nicole Cohen
Friday Dec 7, 2007 (10am–5:30pm) @ The Getty Center More times »
Free
Nicole Cohen engineers recombinant layers of still and video imagery, investigating the network of associations that interior spaces contain. Also, she has something of a... View details »
Nicole Cohen