All events on Friday January 04

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Performing Arts: Comedy
Butchlalis de Panochtitlan
Friday Jan 4 (8:30pm) @ Highways Performance Space More times »
Sketch trio Butchlalis de Panochtitlan infuriate and inspire in their riotous show Dickwhipped!. The self-described butch dykes/transgender butches/genderqueer spoken-word entertainers expand the lexicon... View details »
Butchlalis de Panochtitlan
Film
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Friday Jan 4 (4am) @ 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. Or maybe it's the... View details »
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Film
The Leopard
Friday Jan 4 (7:30pm) @ 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 and Alain Delon lend... View details »
The Leopard
Film
The Violin
Friday Jan 4 @ Landmark Nuart Theatre More times »
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 »
The Violin
Film
Oasis
Friday Jan 4 (7:30pm) @ Los Angeles County Museum of Art
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 »
Oasis
Music: Rock/Pop
Sea Wolf
Friday Jan 4 (6–11pm) @ Natural History Museum
Giveaway
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 »
Sea Wolf
Art
Fight for Flight
Friday Jan 4 (7–11pm) @ Thinkspace Gallery More times »
Free
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 »
Fight for Flight
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David Sandlin & Martha Rich
Friday Jan 4 (11am–9pm) @ La Luz de Jesus More times »
Free
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 »
David Sandlin & Martha Rich
Film
Killer of Sheep
Friday Jan 4 (8pm) @ 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 for the Library of... View details »
Killer of Sheep
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Cut
Friday Jan 4 (8pm) @ Rude Guerrilla Theater Company More times »
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 »
The Cut
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Modern American Sculpture
Friday Jan 4 (10am–5:30pm) @ Forum Gallery More times »
Free
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 »
Modern American Sculpture

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SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s
Friday Jan 4 @ 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 Jan 4 @ 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 Jan 4 (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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Giant Robot Biennale
Friday Jan 4 (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
Art: Architecture/Design
Victor Burgin
Friday Jan 4 (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 Jan 4 (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
Art
Adrià Julià
Friday Jan 4 (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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Materials & Applications: Density Fields
Friday Jan 4 (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
Richard Deacon
Friday Jan 4 (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
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Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Friday Jan 4 (11am–6pm) @ Walter Maciel Gallery More times »
Free
Curator Kristine Bowen brings together 16 artists who channel the contemporary American spirit of fear and, as the show title suggests, anxiety. Mixed-media and painted... View details »
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Art: Photography
Bill Owens
Friday Jan 4 (10am–6pm) @ DNJ Gallery More times »
Free
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 »
Bill Owens
Performing Arts: Theatre
A Christmas Twist
Friday Jan 4 (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
Elizabeth McGrath
Friday Jan 4 (noon–6pm) @ Billy Shire Fine Arts More times »
Free
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 »
Elizabeth McGrath
Art
Choi Jeong-Hwa
Friday Jan 4 (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
Art
You are not here, you are still there and think you are here
Friday Jan 4 (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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LAAA Open Show
Friday Jan 4 (10am–5pm) @ Gallery 825 More times »
Free
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 »
LAAA Open Show
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Matthew Barney
Friday Jan 4 (10am–6pm) @ Regen Projects More times »
Free
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 »
Matthew Barney
Art: Photography
Jill Greenberg
Friday Jan 4 (10am–6pm) @ Fahey/Klein Gallery More times »
Free
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 »
Jill Greenberg
Art: Photography
Serena Mitnik-Miller
Friday Jan 4 (10am–6:30pm) @ Mollusk Surf Shop More times »
Free
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 of board store. While... View details »
Serena Mitnik-Miller
Film
Steep
Friday Jan 4 @ Landmark Nuart Theatre More times »
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 »
Steep
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Shepard Fairey
Friday Jan 4 (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 Jan 4 (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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Emma Ferreira
Friday Jan 4 (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 Jan 4 (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 Jan 4 (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 Jan 4 (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
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Cassandra C. Jones
Friday Jan 4 (11am–6pm) @ Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Ojai More times »
Free
... 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 »
Cassandra C. Jones
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Deborah Hede and Lynda Pizzuto
Friday Jan 4 (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 Jan 4 (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 Jan 4 (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
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Julia Schwartz
Friday Jan 4 (11am–5pm) @ The Artists' Gallery More times »
Free
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 »
Julia Schwartz
Art: Architecture/Design
SIT: Contemporary and Traditional Seating
Friday Jan 4 (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
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Don't Fence Me In
Friday Jan 4 (11am–5pm) @ Bandini Art More times »
Free
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 »
Don't Fence Me In