Events on Friday, October 31
Friday 10/31 @ Hammer Museum
Acid-burlesque troupe Discount Cruise to Hell kicks off the Hammer Museum's tryptic of Halloween horrowshows, resurrecting glam with blood-curdling cabaret. Dance...
Friday 10/31 @ Air Conditioned Supper Club, Venice
What better night than Halloween to resurrect the ghost of Funky in the Middle? Tonight the one-time Westside dance-music staple returns...
Friday 10/31 @ El Rey
As a founding member of '60s psych legends 13th Floor Elevators, singer/guitarist Roky Erickson wasn't shy about experimenting with drugs (he...
Friday 10/31 @ Taix
In the Tulsa Skull Swingers' ghoulish world, every day is Halloween. The LA-based garage-rock outfit perennially amuse audiences with skull masks...
Friday 10/31 @ Natural History Museum
Indie 103.1 and Bud Lime's Drop Dead Gorgeous Halloween party stars Darker My Love, a crew known, and loved, for an...
Friday 10/31 @ Disney Concert Hall
Check out the original film version of Phantom that started all the fuss in 1925, decades before Andrew Lloyd Webber was...
Friday 10/31 @ The Echo & Echoplex
Tonight the Echo brings a polarizing night of tunes for boys and girls, so no standing on opposite sides of the...
Friday 10/31 @ Lot 613
Bound to be one of the underdog parties this All Hallows Eve, Halloween Downtown's rock showcase features local rock veterans the...
Friday 10/31 @ Shrine Expo Hall
The only thing spooky about the HARD Haunted Mansion — masterfully curated by Nitrus Records — is the sheer amount of...
Mickey Avalon and Damian Lazarus
Friday 10/31 @ Avalon Hollywood
An irreverent LA-based rapper with a famously sordid past, Mickey Avalon spouts bawdy lyrics infused with scathing pop-culture references. Hitting everything...
Friday 10/31 @ Guatelinda Nightclub
Very Be Careful bring cumbia and vallenato into the 21st century. The Caribbean-by-way-of-LA group expound upon urban grit with jubilant music...
Ongoing Events
Friday 10/31 @ Woodbury Hollywood Exhibitions
Woodbury University goes Hollywood — or at least goes to Hollywood — by inaugurating its new off-campus gallery space with Analytic...
Friday 10/31 @ 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 10/31 @ 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 10/31 @ 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 10/31 @ Regen Projects
Wolfgang Tillmans is like the Madonna of the art world: never afraid to change directions, reinvent himself, or throw in a...
Friday 10/31 @ 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 10/31 @ Track 16 Gallery
Even Robbie Conal's most fervent admirers tend to see his work primarily through their car windows. His trademark posters — featuring...
Friday 10/31 @ 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 10/31 @ Richard Heller Gallery
Charlie Roberts is a consummate collector of images, with an organizational system resembling the interior of a Whitman's Sampler. He perceives...
Jeff Charbonneau and Eliza French
Friday 10/31 @ 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 10/31 @ 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 10/31 @ 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 10/31 @ Ahmanson Theatre
It's easy to see why Spring Awakening snagged eight Tony Awards last year, marking what has been heralded as the new...
Friday 10/31 @ 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 10/31 @ Otis College of Art and Design
Entering Mark Dean Veca's site-specific installation at Otis College's Ben Maltz Gallery is like stepping into a psychedelic playhouse filled with...
Friday 10/31 @ Roberts & Tilton Gallery
Hana wa no ni aruyouni (Flowers as they are in the field) is Japanese artist Ai Yamaguchi's second solo exhibition at...
Friday 10/31 @ 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 10/31 @ 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 10/31 @ Drkrm
For 15 years, in an old house on a sleepy hillside outside LA, a phalanx of residents, researchers, and TV producers...
Friday 10/31 @ 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 10/31 @ Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach
The 2008 installment of the California Biennial should come with an anxiety-attack warning label. In a way, it does, with Patrick...
Friday 10/31 @ Materials & Applications
First, there were robot maids, robot pets, and robot vacuums. Now, there are robot gardens. The technical specifications for Materials &...
Friday 10/31 @ Billy Shire Fine Arts
For her second exhibition at Culver City's Billy Shire Fine Arts, Santa Monica-based artist Miriam Wosk once again creates her trademark...
Friday 10/31 @ 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 10/31 @ Arclight Hollywood
The AFI Fest continues its yearly assault on the Arclight with a truly impressive lineup for 2008. Among the highlights are...
Josh Dorman, Carol Es, and Julie Speed
Friday 10/31 @ 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 10/31 @ Angles Gallery
Linda Besemer produces the kind of art that provokes people to solve the mystery of how she does it. Without divulging...
Friday 10/31 @ 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 10/31 @ Scribble Press
Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with...
Friday 10/31 @ The Actors' Gang Theatre
Cynthia Ettinger acts as more of an editor/troupe leader than a writer/director in the Actors Gang's ongoing workshop production of its...
Friday 10/31 @ Cardwell Jimmerson Contemporary Art
New landscapes and seascapes from LA-based painter Takako Yamaguchi combine the stylized organic geometry of op art with the sensual smoothness...
Friday 10/31 @ 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 10/31 @ 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 10/31 @ 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 10/31 @ Edgar Varela Fine Arts
Los Angeles photographer Grace Oh first grew passionate about capturing nudes when she began actively pursuing photography in her early twenties....
Friday 10/31 @ Forum Gallery
Russian artist Alexander Melamid is a master at finding humor in serious situations, from totalitarian regimes to the plight of endangered...
Friday 10/31 @ 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 10/31 @ Guy Hepner Contemporary
In his previous life as a principal at a "Hollywood creative firm," Neal Spector was instrumental in enabling LA's obsession with...
Friday 10/31 @ REDCAT
Avant-garde singer and composer Meredith Monk's extended vocal techniques obliterated the boundaries of language, creating otherworldly landscapes awash in grunts and...
Richard Amend and Christopher Martin Hoff
Friday 10/31 @ Lawrence Asher Gallery
Considering the precision and mastery of detail in the work of Richard Amend and Christopher Martin Hoff, it should come as...
Friday 10/31 @ 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...
Friday 10/31 @ 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 10/31 @ 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 10/31 @ Jail Gallery
Christopher Pate is interested in the relationship between maps and landscapes, as well as the broader discourse between the real quality...
Friday 10/31 @ 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 10/31 @ 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 10/31 @ Sandroni Rey
Anthony Goicolea let his family albums guide his latest exhibition, Related III. The Cuban artist's photographs, drawings, and installations are spun...
Friday 10/31 @ Steve Turner Contemporary
Steve Turner Contemporary on the Miracle Mile lets its hair down this month, showing new work by James Gobel, portraying portly,...
Friday 10/31 @ Christopher Grimes Gallery
Marco Brambilla's newest video pieces live up to his reputation for supersaturated maximalism, combining, recombining, randomizing, and manipulating found and sampled...
Friday 10/31 @ Mark Taper Forum
Peter Whelan's latest work, The School of Night, cleverly glides between the modes of traditional murder mystery and avant-garde theatre. As...
Asad Faulwell and Annie Buckley
Friday 10/31 @ Carl Berg Gallery
This Miracle Mile-situated gallery's latest exhibition joins two artists with radically different approaches to the aesthetic of assemblage. Asad Faulwell, recent...
Friday 10/31 @ 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 10/31 @ 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 10/31 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Louise Bourgeois' deeply personal art combines an in-your-face sexuality with disturbing, even terrifying, imagery of trespassed flesh and violated privacy. Yet...
Friday 10/31 @ Western Project
The Fellowship of Fortuna (and its "messenger," LA painter and media artist Gordy Grundy) takes up residence on Western Project's website...
