Events on Friday, January 18
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The Short Films of David Lynch
Friday 1/18 @ Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Like concentrated versions of his feature films, David Lynch's shorts are kaleidoscopic views of the director's dreams (and nightmares). LACMA's 30-year...
Friday 1/18 @ Aero Theatre
Otto Preminger directs one heckuva murder mystery. Laura hinges on a spellbinding turn by Gene Tierney as the film's obscure object...
Friday 1/18 @ The Silent Movie Theatre
Rob Nilsson and John Hanson's independent milestone Northern Lights features understated performances magnificently set against the wintry backdrop of early-century North...
Friday 1/18 @ Hammer Museum
Marking a watershed of wantonness for Korean cinema, Shin Sang-ok's 1958 A Flower in Hell features his nation's first onscreen kiss....
Friday 1/18 @ Bordello Bar
Misfit dreamers Xu Xu Fang blend awkward hook runs with graceful power chords to make moody, sweet psychedelic jams. Their atmospheric...
Ongoing Events
Friday 1/18 @ DCA Fine Art
Matthew Heller has stripped down his busy aesthetics for something more minimal, without straying from his trademark shadowy figures and text....
Friday 1/18 @ Macgowan Little Theatre, UCLA
Fans of David Sedaris' bone-dry wit can get a sneak peak of the humorist's new book, scheduled for release this summer....
Friday 1/18 @ Jancar Gallery
LA's Virginia Katz uses a complex mixed-media process that involves so many layers of hand-worked pigments and liquids, her art can...
Friday 1/18 @ DNJ Gallery
Photographer Bill Owens skillfully captures Americana in his two series Suburbia and Leisure. The former, an early-1970s photo essay, features domestic...
Friday 1/18 @ Walter Maciel Gallery
Curator Kristine Bowen brings together 16 artists who channel the contemporary American spirit of fear and, as the show title suggests,...
Friday 1/18 @ 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 1/18 @ La Luz de Jesus
While gallery owner Billy Shire's other endeavor, upscale Culver City salon Billy Shire Fine Arts, exhibits a collection of David Sandlin's...
Friday 1/18 @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences
The Academy honors Douglas Kirkland's carefully composed photography with Freeze Frame, an exhibit of celebrity portraits riddled with familiar faces. Besides...
The Content of Their Character II
Friday 1/18 @ Highways Performance Space
In commemoration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, prolific author/producer J.M. Morris brings to the stage a diverse set of real...
Friday 1/18 @ Richard Heller Gallery
At first glance, Neil Farber's vivid, whimsical drawings seem to capture all the ignorant bliss of childhood, but their darker intentions...
SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s
Friday 1/18 @ 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 1/18 @ New Image Art
New Image Art owner Marsea Goldberg remembers when posters were a vehicle for edgy, urban art and illustration — and so...
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Friday 1/18 @ Fette's Gallery
Twenty-five photographers working in cities around the world were given a simple task: to take an 11 x 14-inch self-portrait —...
Friday 1/18 @ Corey Helford Gallery
Individual series and a set of collaborative works from prodigal SoCal tattoo artists Regino Gonzales and Henry Lewis showcase the profound...
Friday 1/18 @ Fahey/Klein Gallery
Jokes about working with children and animals aside, LA-based photographer Jill Greenberg has built an internationally acclaimed fine-art career by doing...
Friday 1/18 @ Paul Kopeikin Gallery
Berlin is in perpetual transition. The enduring fountainhead of Western culture is endlessly fascinating to students of art, architecture, and politics,...
Friday 1/18 @ Craig Krull Gallery
In his latest collection of photographs for Santa Monica's Craig Krull Gallery, Japanese artist Masao Yamamoto's work is somber and still,...
Friday 1/18 @ The Artists' Gallery
The Artists' Gallery (TAG) is one of the best membership-based art galleries in LA, in part due to the talent of...
Friday 1/18 @ 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 1/18 @ The Ford Theater
Circle X Theatre Company cordially invites you to attend its wicked Victorian farce about adultery, blackmail, and teacakes, set against the...
Friday 1/18 @ Gallery 1988
Looking through Gallery 1988's roster of artists, it's easy to spot the legacy of the giants of alt-culture illustration and progressive...
Friday 1/18 @ REDCAT
Interdisciplinary Korean wunderkind and founder of the Gaseum Studio, Choi Jeong-Hwa obliterates the boundaries between visual art, graphic/industrial design, and architecture,...
Materials & Applications: Density Fields
Friday 1/18 @ 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 1/18 @ Hammer Museum
Pushing a block of ice through the streets of Mexico City, moving a mountain several inches, hiring a stripper who never...
Friday 1/18 @ 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 1/18 @ Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Ojai
Don't let the title fool you: for her second solo effort at Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Cassandra C. Jones isn't just...
Friday 1/18 @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences
Stylized, self-mythologizing director Alfred Hitchcock would have you believe him to be a one-man originality machine — when, in fact, his...
Tim Sullivan and Colin Roberts
Friday 1/18 @ Steve Turner Contemporary
Photographer and video artist Tim Sullivan, the highlight of last year's OC Biennial, inserts himself into bizarrely macabre and possibly drug-induced...
Friday 1/18 @ Ghettogloss Presents: An art conglomerate on the move
This exhibition at Silverlake's favorite gallery/alt-culture hangout features the work of Noel ILL, Jenny Mollen, and Jessica Garrison among a sizeable...
Friday 1/18 @ Los Angeles County Museum of Art
This eccentric documentary tracks David Lynch during the filming of his heavyweight epic Inland Empire. Assembled from two years of video...
Friday 1/18 @ Bandini Art
The female artists showing their work at Bandini Art most definitely know how to have fun. For starters, there's Castillo's whimsical,...
Friday 1/18 @ Regen Projects
Matthew Barney, iconic multimedia rainmaker and Björk's baby daddy, shows drawings relating to his newest multimedia work, Guardian of the Veil....
You are not here, you are still there and think you are here
Friday 1/18 @ High Energy Constructs
High Energy Constructs has put together a three-person show of up-and-coming artists who traverse the unknown and question culture. While the...
Friday 1/18 @ Rosamund Felsen Gallery
The empowered female subjects of Karen Liebowitz's paintings exist in a fantasyland encompassing mythology, religious tales, and the contemporary world. For...
Kyoung Ha Yoo, Jon Tarry & John Krawczyk
Friday 1/18 @ Lawrence Asher Gallery
The trio of contemporary artists assembled for the first show of the year at the Lawrence Asher Gallery draws inspiration from...
Friday 1/18 @ Forum Gallery
Forum Gallery usually sets the gold standard for classical figurative painting, exhibiting works ranging from the creamy, high-res romanticism of Steven...
Friday 1/18 @ Diavolo Dance Theatre
Now in its fourth year, iD Fest continues to grow and attract national talent beyond the LA dance community. Festival director...
Friday 1/18 @ California Heritage Museum
George Hurrell shot studio stars as they are remembered today: glamorous, graceful, and a tad theatrical. With his sophisticated black-and-white blowups,...
Friday 1/18 @ 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,...
SIT: Contemporary and Traditional Seating
Friday 1/18 @ 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...
Friday 1/18 @ Circus Gallery
There's political art; there's the art of political stagecraft; and then there's The Candidate, the new exhibition of sketches, sculptures, and...
Friday 1/18 @ 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 1/18 @ 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 1/18 @ Cherry and Martin
Los Angeles artist Ruby Osorio's collection at Cherry and Martin Gallery was heavily influenced by her recent trip to Athens. Surrounded...
Friday 1/18 @ Koplin del Rio Gallery
Brothers Einar and Jamex couldn't possibly deny the influence of their heritage — their blown-glass and mixed-media works radiate with the...
Friday 1/18 @ Kinsey/DesForges Gallery
Born in Poland and educated in Germany, Angelika J. Trojnarski depicts desolate cultural landscapes, dismembered bodies, and the barbwired evidence of...
Friday 1/18 @ 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...
