All events on Friday January 04
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Ferris Bueller's Day Off
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Friday Jan 4 (4am) @ Landmark Nuart Theatre
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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. Or maybe it's the... View details »
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The Leopard
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Friday Jan 4 (7:30pm) @ Egyptian Theatre
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Neo-realist filmmaker Luchino Visconti adapted Italian author Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa's The Leopard with an elegant, epic eye. While Claudia Cardinale and Alain Delon lend... View details »
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The Violin
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Friday Jan 4 @ Landmark Nuart Theatre
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With a tender musical motif that recalls Kon Ichikawa's The Burmese Harp (1985), Francisco Vargas' astute debut, The Violin, tracks a violinist's escapades during the... View details »
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Oasis
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Friday Jan 4 (7:30pm) @ Los Angeles County Museum of Art
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In his third feature Oasis, quietly audacious director (and former South Korean Minister of Culture) Lee Chang-dong supplies transcendent snatches of life's little sweetnesses. The... View details »
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Sea Wolf
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Friday Jan 4 (6–11pm) @ Natural History Museum
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Local indie troubadours Sea Wolf (helmed by Alex Brown Church) kick off a new year of education, exhibitions, and entertainment at the NHM's First Fridays... View details »
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Fight for Flight
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Friday Jan 4 (7–11pm) @ Thinkspace Gallery
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Just in time for National Bird Day (first Saturday of January, in case you forgot to mark your calendar), Silverlake's Thinkspace Gallery presents a two-day-only... View details »
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David Sandlin & Martha Rich
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Friday Jan 4 (11am–9pm) @ La Luz de Jesus
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While gallery owner Billy Shire's other endeavor, upscale Culver City salon Billy Shire Fine Arts, exhibits a collection of David Sandlin's large-scale paintings, Silverlake's edgier... View details »
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Killer of Sheep
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Friday Jan 4 (8pm) @ The Silent Movie Theatre
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Killer of Sheep, Charles Burnett's plotless survey of the working-class world of '70s Watts, was among the first 50 films chosen for the Library of... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
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The Cut
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Friday Jan 4 (8pm) @ Rude Guerrilla Theater Company
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British playwright Mark Ravenhill gives theater company Rude Guerilla another opportunity to stage the U.S premieres of his work. Past collaborations have included Shopping and... View details »
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Modern American Sculpture
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Friday Jan 4 (10am–5:30pm) @ Forum Gallery
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Forum Gallery usually sets the gold standard for classical figurative painting, exhibiting works ranging from the creamy, high-res romanticism of Steven Assael to the visceral,... View details »
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Giant Robot Biennale
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Friday Jan 4 (9am–5pm) @ Japanese American National Museum
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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 »
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Victor Burgin
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Friday Jan 4 (11am–6pm) @ MAK Center for Art and Architecture
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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 »
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Francis Alÿs
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Friday Jan 4 (11am–7pm) @ Hammer Museum
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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 »
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Adrià Julià
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Friday Jan 4 (11am–6pm) @ LAXART
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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 »
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Richard Deacon
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Friday Jan 4 (10am–6pm) @ LA Louver Gallery
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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 »
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Bill Owens
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Friday Jan 4 (10am–6pm) @ DNJ Gallery
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Photographer Bill Owens skillfully captures Americana in his two series Suburbia and Leisure. The former, an early-1970s photo essay, features domestic scenes rendered with the... View details »
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Elizabeth McGrath
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Friday Jan 4 (noon–6pm) @ Billy Shire Fine Arts
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Like Victorian-era toys brought to life by the touch of a creepy goblin's wand, Elizabeth McGrath's works sprout claws and extra heads, batting extravagant lashes... View details »
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Choi Jeong-Hwa
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Friday Jan 4 (noon–6pm) @ REDCAT
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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 »
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LAAA Open Show
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Friday Jan 4 (10am–5pm) @ Gallery 825
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Gallery 825, the La Cienega Boulevard location of LA's oldest artists cooperative, presents this year's Open Show. An annual highlight of the emerging artist community... View details »
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Matthew Barney
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Friday Jan 4 (10am–6pm) @ Regen Projects
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Matthew Barney, iconic multimedia rainmaker and Björk's baby daddy, shows drawings relating to his newest multimedia work, Guardian of the Veil. The film documents a... View details »
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Jill Greenberg
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Friday Jan 4 (10am–6pm) @ Fahey/Klein Gallery
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Jokes about working with children and animals aside, LA-based photographer Jill Greenberg has built an internationally acclaimed fine-art career by doing just that. Alternately revered... View details »
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Steep
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Friday Jan 4 @ Landmark Nuart Theatre
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Like Werner Herzog's slo-mo documentary on ski-flying The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner (1974), Steep conveys the breathless exhilaration of an extreme sport: big-mountain skiing.... View details »
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Shepard Fairey
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Friday Jan 4 (noon–6pm) @ Merry Karnowsky Gallery
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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 »
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Emma Ferreira
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Friday Jan 4 (10am–6:30pm) @ Spin Gallery
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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 »
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Cassandra C. Jones
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Friday Jan 4 (11am–6pm) @ Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Ojai
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... n't let the title fool you: for her second solo effort at Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Cassandra C. Jones isn't just offering viewers another photography... View details »
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Wallace Berman
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Friday Jan 4 (10am–6pm) @ Michael Kohn Gallery
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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 »
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Gardar Eide Einarsson
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Friday Jan 4 (10am–6pm) @ Honor Fraser
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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 »
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Julia Schwartz
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Friday Jan 4 (11am–5pm) @ The Artists' Gallery
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The Artists' Gallery (TAG) is one of the best membership-based art galleries in LA, in part due to the talent of its roster. Regular programming... View details »
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Don't Fence Me In
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Friday Jan 4 (11am–5pm) @ Bandini Art
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The female artists showing their work at Bandini Art most definitely know how to have fun. For starters, there's Castillo's whimsical, touching installation of paper... View details »
