Events on Friday, January 4
Friday 1/ 4 @ Landmark Nuart Theatre
There's something sublime about John Hughes' Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Perhaps it's Matthew Broderick's likable portrayal of the film's titular lad....
Friday 1/ 4 @ Egyptian Theatre
Neo-realist filmmaker Luchino Visconti adapted Italian author Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa's The Leopard with an elegant, epic eye. While Claudia Cardinale...
Friday 1/ 4 @ The Silent Movie Theatre
Killer of Sheep, Charles Burnett's plotless survey of the working-class world of '70s Watts, was among the first 50 films chosen...
Ongoing Events
Friday 1/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ Landmark Nuart Theatre
With a tender musical motif that recalls Kon Ichikawa's The Burmese Harp (1985), Francisco Vargas' astute debut, The Violin, tracks a...
Friday 1/ 4 @ LA Louver Gallery
Venice's premier art space reminds us that sculpture can be one of the most thrilling creative media with the debut of...
Friday 1/ 4 @ Thinkspace Gallery
Just in time for National Bird Day (first Saturday of January, in case you forgot to mark your calendar), Silverlake's Thinkspace...
Friday 1/ 4 @ Mollusk Surf Shop
Serena Mitnik-Miller doesn't take the usual kind of surf photography, and Venice's freshly opened Mollusk Surf Shop isn't the usual kind...
Friday 1/ 4 @ Merry Karnowsky Gallery
Whether reading between the lines or blurring them entirely, ubiquitous designer Shepard Fairey mines the deep vein of irony running through...
Friday 1/ 4 @ Honor Fraser
Gardar Eide Einarsson's latest series features nine massive plywood panels, printed with graphics from a '60s police manual. As the officers...
Friday 1/ 4 @ Walter Maciel Gallery
Curator Kristine Bowen brings together 16 artists who channel the contemporary American spirit of fear and, as the show title suggests,...
SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s
Friday 1/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ Highways Performance Space
Sketch trio Butchlalis de Panochtitlan infuriate and inspire in their riotous show Dickwhipped!. The self-described butch dykes/transgender butches/genderqueer spoken-word...
Friday 1/ 4 @ Gallery 825
Gallery 825, the La Cienega Boulevard location of LA's oldest artists cooperative, presents this year's Open Show. An annual highlight of...
Friday 1/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ Gallery C
Hyperrealist painter Kenny Harris showcases his recent paintings inspired by a trip to South America. While Harris' interiors hardly show direct...
Materials & Applications: Density Fields
Friday 1/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ Billy Shire Fine Arts
Like Victorian-era toys brought to life by the touch of a creepy goblin's wand, Elizabeth McGrath's works sprout claws and extra...
Friday 1/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ LAXART
A Spanish artist who decamped to LA, Adrià Julià is a CalArts grad with a knack for telling unusual stories. Last...
Friday 1/ 4 @ 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,...
Friday 1/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ DNJ Gallery
Photographer Bill Owens skillfully captures Americana in his two series Suburbia and Leisure. The former, an early-1970s photo essay, features domestic...
SIT: Contemporary and Traditional Seating
Friday 1/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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...
Deborah Hede and Lynda Pizzuto
Friday 1/ 4 @ Commissary Arts
While Deborah Hede and Lynda Pizzuto are both Los Angeles-based artists working in the medium of drawing, the juxtaposition of their...
Friday 1/ 4 @ Forum Gallery
Forum Gallery usually sets the gold standard for classical figurative painting, exhibiting works ranging from the creamy, high-res romanticism of Steven...
You are not here, you are still there and think you are here
Friday 1/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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 1/ 4 @ Regen Projects
Matthew Barney, iconic multimedia rainmaker and Björk's baby daddy, shows drawings relating to his newest multimedia work, Guardian of the Veil....
Beyond Ultraman: Seven Artists Explore the Vinyl Frontier
Friday 1/ 4 @ 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 1/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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...
