Events on Friday, October 10
Friday 10/10 @ Avalon Hollywood
As most club kids know, Flosstradamus deserve the next-big-thing ink that's been spilled over their sweaty DJ sets during the last...
Friday 10/10 @ The Smell
High Places' free-associative clatter recalls the odd robo-poetry of spam email, but painted pink. The Brooklyn calypso deconstructionists relish digital static...
Ongoing Events
Friday 10/10 @ 01 Gallery
Painter Michael Knowlton doesn't feel the need to choose between beauty and terror. His passionately wrought, deftly composed scenes of the...
Friday 10/10 @ Mark Moore Gallery
Elementary, My Dear Watson is the Mark Moore Gallery's third installment of its annual Ultrasonic International series. The group show features...
Friday 10/10 @ Electric Lodge
In a world rife with indie film festivals (that's a good thing), this annual weekend juggernaut of alt-culture cinema, music, and...
Friday 10/10 @ Whitefire Theatre
Sarah Palin may have the elusive Hockey Mom demographic sewn up, but who knows how she's going to handle the nation's...
Friday 10/10 @ Cal State University Northridge Art Gallery
Comprising selections from the nearly 1,000 works that European-native-turned California-great Hans Burkhardt personally donated to Cal State Northridge (where he taught...
Friday 10/10 @ Jack Rutberg Fine Arts
In the years bracketing WWII, a great many artists were among those fleeing to US shores from the specter of Nazi...
Friday 10/10 @ Bandini Art
From the Department of How Did She Do That? comes a new exhibition of drawings and delicate marble sculptures from chisel-wielding...
Friday 10/10 @ Koplin del Rio Gallery
Chicago artist Kerry James Marshall has shown internationally to great acclaim, and now will show for the sixth time with Koplin...
Friday 10/10 @ LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions)
Rising stars Annie Lapin, Jeff Sheng, Cal Crawford, and Brenna Youngblood are among the 25 juror-selected artists that make up LA25...
Friday 10/10 @ Hammer Museum
The risk-taking John Lautner is often described as an architect's architect, even though some of his designs brought him both criticism...
Jeff Charbonneau and Eliza French
Friday 10/10 @ Robert Berman Gallery
Dreamlike, sensual, and ominous, the black-and-white photography of Jeff Charbonneau and Eliza French is like a surrealist's take on a Nathaniel...
Friday 10/10 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA
World-renowned Mexican silversmith Antonio Pineda brings more than 200 of his masterpieces up the coast to UCLA's Fowler Museum, to show...
Friday 10/10 @ Cherry and Martin
Amanda Ross-Ho returns to Cherry and Martin with her latest exhibition of mixed-media sculptural installation, Half of What I Say Is...
Friday 10/10 @ Western Project
The Fellowship of Fortuna (and its "messenger," LA painter and media artist Gordy Grundy) takes up residence on Western Project's website...
Friday 10/10 @ The Sunset
Once just a single-night charity event dedicated to a fashion staple, the Little Black Dress party has grown into a four-week...
Friday 10/10 @ Regen Projects II
Seminal Work features a selection of pieces from the much-lauded Raymond Pettibon, all completed between 1978 and 1988. Keeping true to...
Friday 10/10 @ Edgemar Center for the Arts
Norman Mailer's legacy lives on, not only in the minds and hearts of his global readership, but through the pen of...
Friday 10/10 @ d.e.n. contemporary art
Kristi Lippire cobbles together images from a mind-boggling array of sources, then fashions them into large-scale works. Using plywood and other...
Friday 10/10 @ 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 10/10 @ Thinkspace Gallery
Hot off the success of their individual Thinkspace exhibitions, Ekundayo and Johnny "KMNDZ" Rodriguez join forces for their first-ever collaborative collection...
Friday 10/10 @ Torrance Art Museum
The small but influential Torrance Art Museum simultaneously mounts three new solo exhibitions, united by highly stylized explorations of abstraction and...
Friday 10/10 @ Commissary Arts
The "sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll" trifecta holds ample sway in the work of Los Angeles artist Tofer Chin. For...
Friday 10/10 @ MAK Center for Art and Architecture
Katie Grinnan has made a career out of walking the fine line between the second and third dimensions. Grinnan takes architectural...
Friday 10/10 @ Hollywood Blvd between Cahuenga and Orange
The 11th Freewaves media-arts festival, dubbed "Hollywould," is a kind of triple-dog dare to Tinseltown boulevardiers, challenging them to engage with...
Friday 10/10 @ High Energy Constructs
For many contemporary artists, Warhol is the North Star by which they guide their own emerging views of culture. But for...
Friday 10/10 @ Steve Turner Contemporary
Los Angeles painter, installation artist, and (most recently) video artist Mark Bradford has exhibited in some of the world's most prestigious...
Friday 10/10 @ REDCAT
If the idea of staging the first chapter of Faulkner's brooding Southern epic, The Sound and the Fury, in all its...
Friday 10/10 @ Norton Simon Museum
This year marks the 45th anniversary of By or of Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Sélavy, the famous Marcel Duchamp retrospective at...
Friday 10/10 @ ACE Gallery
Dennis Oppenheim first hit the art-world radar in the late 1960s with his Land and Body Art projects, which combined film...
Friday 10/10 @ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
Madama Butterfly's composer, Giacomo Puccini, rightly considered the opera his most "deeply felt and imaginative" work. Inspiring a number of reinterpretations...
Friday 10/10 @ Circus Gallery
LA painter Sarah Cromarty has had a big year already; she gained recognition through several group shows and a bit of...
Friday 10/10 @ DF2
Chinese-born Yin Zhaoyang didn't have to look too far for inspiration when creating the work in his latest show at DF2...
Friday 10/10 @ California Heritage Museum
Glamor gets deep and classic at the California Heritage Museum's Mexican Calendar Girls, opening with a Cinco de Mayo reception. The...
Friday 10/10 @ Los Angeles Theatre Center
For the second year in a row, the New LATC concocts an enthralling admixture of theatre, dance, and performance that brings...
Friday 10/10 @ Craft and Folk Art Museum
Traditional paper and canvas simply won't do for New York artist Josh Dorman, who employs vintage maps and textbook diagrams as...
Friday 10/10 @ James Coleman Gallery
The mother-daughter relationship is fraught with emotion and drama, and what better venue for exploring that tension than a two-woman exhibition...
Friday 10/10 @ Jail Gallery
Christopher Pate is interested in the relationship between maps and landscapes, as well as the broader discourse between the real quality...
Friday 10/10 @ Forum Gallery
Russian artist Alexander Melamid is a master at finding humor in serious situations, from totalitarian regimes to the plight of endangered...
Friday 10/10 @ Sacred Fools Theater
Using comedy, drama, dance, and music, the half dozen actors in this crash course in presidential history conjure a theatrical experience...
Friday 10/10 @ CSUF Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana
Beloved radio host Art Bell is a cross between Jean Shepherd and Fox Mulder, and a man whose paranormality-themed broadcasts were...
Friday 10/10 @ Scribble Press
Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with...
Friday 10/10 @ G2 Gallery
Photographer and environmentalist Robert Glenn Ketchum makes landscape images, but this isn't Ansel Adams we're talking about here. The 38-year-old UCLA...
Friday 10/10 @ Royal/T
Director of New York's Greene Naftali Gallery, Jay Sanders steps into cafe/shop/gallery Royal/T to curate this group show of works from...
Friday 10/10 @ Sam Lee Gallery
Sam Lee Gallery follows up its dynamic group exhibition I AM I A KILLER with Pipo Nguyen-Duy's cyclical photography project, The...
Friday 10/10 @ Santa Monica Museum of Art
The Santa Monica Museum of Art hosts LA artist Martin Kersels' first retrospective, Heavyweight Champion, drawing from 13 years of his...
Friday 10/10 @ Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum
Although our neighbor to the north is typically known for its stellar views and celebrity mansions, Santa Barbara has a stash...
Friday 10/10 @ Overtones Gallery
Victor Gastelum upholds the grand California tradition of elevating street-art tropes to gallery-level heights with the spray-paint stencil multiples in Xacto...
Friday 10/10 @ 18th Street Arts Center
18th Street wraps up its yearlong, four-part examination of sociopolitical issues with War as a Way of Life. The exhibit includes...
Friday 10/10 @ The Steve Allen Theater
Grab your best buds — or just someone you can hide behind — as the Steve Allen Theater's homemade drive-in combines...
Friday 10/10 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art
PMCA's Project Room is transformed into a beguiling labyrinth, addressing the elusiveness of memory and the neurobiological basis of thought, via...
Friday 10/10 @ M+B Gallery Los Angeles
Daring photographer Jehad Nga has previously documented poverty and violence from Darfur to Iraq — now, he takes his camera into...
UCLA Live International Theatre Festival
Friday 10/10 @ Freud Playhouse
UCLA Live offers a finely curated nine-month season of performances, with the International Theatre Festival serving as its cornerstone. The event...
Josh Dorman, Carol Es, and Julie Speed
Friday 10/10 @ George Billis Gallery
Modern mix-masters Josh Dorman, Carol Es, and Julie Speed are art historians of sorts: all three borrow imagery from recycled sources...
Friday 10/10 @ The Getty Center
Art's love affair with landscapes was captured with brush strokes until technology gave way to the click of the shutter. In...
Deanna Templeton and Hadassah Emmerich
Friday 10/10 @ New Image Art
Deanna Templeton didn't need to stray far from her SoCal roots to find inspiration for her engaging photographs. A product of...
Friday 10/10 @ See Line Gallery
Any viewer beholding Surface Sounding without background information would likely believe all the art was selected by a single gatekeeper, so...
Friday 10/10 @ Fette's Gallery
International-artist-friendly Fette's Gallery rings in its fall season with Insekts, an installation of new works by Swiss mixed-media artist/embroiderer Sandrine Pelletier....
Friday 10/10 @ Norton Simon Museum
When searching for a means of drumming up support for World War I, officials in Washington didn't have to look much...
Friday 10/10 @ Taylor De Cordoba Gallery
For his second go-round at Taylor De Cordoba, San Franciscan artist/musican Kyle Field (he's a member of the band Little Wings),...
Friday 10/10 @ Old Town Pasadena
On Friday, the city's cultural institutions stay open late to kick off Pasadena Art Weekend. A free shuttle circulates from one...
