Events on Friday, January 25
Friday 1/25 @ Various locations
Brazilian filmmaker Chico Teixeira's Alice's House is a soul-stirring snapshot of working-class São Paulo. Though the tale of Alice (a world-weary...
Blazing Saddles and History of the World: Part I
Friday 1/25 @ Aero Theatre
When it comes to Mel Brooks, remember two golden rules: every archetype is an easy target, and anything resembling normalcy will...
Friday 1/25 @ The Silent Movie Theatre
Eagle Pennell's 1979 paragon of regional filmmaking, The Whole Shootin' Match, observes the lives of two backwoods dreamers (Lou Perry and...
Friday 1/25 @ Los Angeles County Museum of Art
The Archers (aka legendary collaborators Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger) adapted Jacques Offenbach's classic opera Tales of Hoffmann in their typically...
Friday 1/25 @ Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Filmmaker's filmmaker Michael Powell was in a precarious fix in 1964, having been ostracized by the British film industry for his...
Friday 1/25 @ The Troubadour
Named after a hilariously unforgettable scene in Tim Burton's Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Brooklyn girl-band Au Revoir Simone sing serious pop...
Friday 1/25 @ Planetarium, Santa Monica College
Before landing your spacecraft at whatever far-flung destination you have in your sights tonight, experience the grandeur of the twinkling firmament...
Friday 1/25 @ Pacific Electric Lofts
Enjoy a staggering array of original artwork — from the urban and romantic to the alt-folky weird, from graffiti and illustration...
Ongoing Events
Friday 1/25 @ 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 1/25 @ Robert Berman Gallery
Rocker/designer Kevin Reagan and Juxtapoz's Greg Escalante co-curate this survey of images by Alex Steinweiss. In 1939, the Columbia Records packaging...
Friday 1/25 @ Various Chinatown galleries
As Chinese New Year celebrations bring you to Chinatown, remember that the neighborhood is also home to dozens of contemporary art...
Friday 1/25 @ Hammer Museum
Pushing a block of ice through the streets of Mexico City, moving a mountain several inches, hiring a stripper who never...
Friday 1/25 @ 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 1/25 @ 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 1/25 @ 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...
Tim Sullivan and Colin Roberts
Friday 1/25 @ 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 1/25 @ The Getty Center
Nicole Cohen engineers recombinant layers of still and video imagery, investigating the network of associations that interior spaces contain. Also, she...
Neil Campbell and Peter Schuyff
Friday 1/25 @ The Balmoral
This Venice Beach gallery's latest endeavor juxtaposes the work of Dutch artist Peter Schuyff and Vancouver-based Neil Campbell. Schuyff's paintings are...
Friday 1/25 @ Santa Monica Air Center, Barker Hangar
They say artLA is the "fun" one, and the Fine Art Dealers Association (FADA)'s Los Angeles Art Show is the "mature"...
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Friday 1/25 @ 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 1/25 @ 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 1/25 @ 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 1/25 @ Santa Monica Museum of Art
Rather than create new spaces and pieces, conceptual mixed-media artist Michael Asher prefers to deconstruct and punctuate extant spaces with found...
Friday 1/25 @ 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...
Friday 1/25 @ Highways Performance Space
Venice-based Blue13 adds a little spice to its artistic license for this weekend's program of contemporary Bollywood dance pieces. Several original...
Friday 1/25 @ 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 1/25 @ 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 1/25 @ REDCAT
Interdisciplinary Korean wunderkind and founder of the Gaseum Studio, Choi Jeong-Hwa obliterates the boundaries between visual art, graphic/industrial design, and architecture,...
Friday 1/25 @ Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach
There was a time when the 20th century seemed like an unimaginable and distant future. The Orange County Museum of Art...
Friday 1/25 @ Kirk Douglas Theatre
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Center Theatre Group's world-premiere musical, busts out of the theatrical gate with energetic, rapier wit. Colored by...
Friday 1/25 @ 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 1/25 @ 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 1/25 @ 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 1/25 @ 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 1/25 @ 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 1/25 @ Michael Dawson Gallery
Renowned Japanese photographer Hiromi Tsuchida has trained his lens on facets of ordinary life throughout his lengthy career. Tsuchida's first solo...
Friday 1/25 @ 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 1/25 @ 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,...
Friday 1/25 @ Commissary Arts
Frustrated debutantes, overdressed crocodiles, and bandaged aristocrats parade through Tucker Neel's latest exhibition. The LA artist conjures up witty, intriguing imagery...
Friday 1/25 @ The Scion Installation LA Space
Britain's Scrawl Collective is an emerging group of post-illustration urban romantics. They bring their ramped-up aesthetic energy to the States this...
Friday 1/25 @ 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 1/25 @ 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...
Kyoung Ha Yoo, Jon Tarry & John Krawczyk
Friday 1/25 @ 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 1/25 @ 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...
Friday 1/25 @ 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...
Friday 1/25 @ SCI-Arc
Head of the Visual Studies Program at SCI-Arc Jean-Michel Crettaz has plenty of experience, having studied in Switzerland, at the ultra-exclusive...
Friday 1/25 @ New Image Art
New Image Art owner Marsea Goldberg remembers when posters were a vehicle for edgy, urban art and illustration — and so...
Friday 1/25 @ 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 1/25 @ 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 1/25 @ 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 1/25 @ 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...
Friday 1/25 @ 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 1/25 @ 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 1/25 @ UCLA Live at Royce Hall
It took 11 years for Vietnamese choreographer Ea Sola to follow up her heralded work Drought and Rain. In Vol. 2,...
Friday 1/25 @ 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...
SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s
Friday 1/25 @ 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...
