Events on Friday, December 19
Friday 12/19 @ Egyptian Theatre
The American Cinematheque's intermittent Cult Cinema Club showcases seldom-seen movies at the Egyptian's intimate Spielberg Theater. Hard to find (they're often...
Friday 12/19 @ Spaceland
Invigorated by the definitive recent book The Source: The Untold Story of Father Yod, YaHoWa 13, and the Source Family, the...
Friday 12/19 @ Knitting Factory
Feel-good poet rapper Pigeon John, emerging hip-hop Detroit powerhouse Illa J, and homespun electro-dandy Daedelus share the bill in tonight's floor-shaking...
Friday 12/19 @ The Roxy Theatre
While British outfit the Duke Spirit's rollicking blues riffs are more polished on their latest release, Neptune, their formula remains the...
Friday 12/19 @ El Rey
Classic hip-hop, with its no-frills rhythms and shell-toe Adidas, seems anachronistic in an age ruled by shiny grills, stripper poles, and...
Ongoing Events
Friday 12/19 @ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
While some traditions are made to be broken, others are simply too opulent to ignore. Washing away the rigors of the...
Friday 12/19 @ 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 12/19 @ 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 12/19 @ 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 12/19 @ 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...
David McDonald, Annie Wharton, and Jason David
Friday 12/19 @ Jail Gallery
Essentially three concurrent solo shows, this trio of installations by LA artists shares impulses ranging from gentle mockery to intellectualized deconstruction,...
Friday 12/19 @ Kinsey/DesForges Gallery
Austin-based photographer William Hundley's work intervenes in reality, harnessing his inner trickster with the yoke of labor-intensive production. His staged and...
Friday 12/19 @ Cherry and Martin
Whatever outfit they sport, leisurely activity they pursue, or unearthly landscape they inhabit, Coulis' men are never revealed as themselves (and...
Friday 12/19 @ Pasadena Central Library
Art Center College of Design students direct their communications prowess towards human rights, presenting 25 emotionally-charged pieces that straddle the line...
99¢ Only Calendar Girl Competition
Friday 12/19 @ Bootleg Theater
Bargain-hunting beauty queens and dollar store Don Juans convene as Bootleg Theatre pays homage to LA's kitschy holiday headquarters. The 99¢...
Friday 12/19 @ Samuel Freeman
Each of the six artists assembled in this Samuel Freeman group exhibition is a master of the watercolor medium. Bucking tradition,...
Friday 12/19 @ Laemmle's Sunset 5
If High School Musical graduated its teenage actors from cliché-school scenarios, it could look a lot like Were the World Mine....
Friday 12/19 @ Subliminal Projects
One of the best-known names in street photography, Glen Friedman produces jaunty, richly printed black-and-white portraits of skate, punk, and indie...
Bob Baker presents The Nutcracker
Friday 12/19 @ Bob Baker Marionette Theater
In the early '60s, Bob Baker and partner Alton Wood founded a marionette theater, establishing what has become the longest-running children's...
Friday 12/19 @ Norton Simon Museum
It's not often that Angelenos have the chance to examine an original painting by Dutch Baroque master Johannes Vermeer. His surviving...
Friday 12/19 @ Applegate Gallery
Applegate Gallery stays up late with a group show featuring a choice selection of gallery artists that includes Mark Hobley, Britt...
Friday 12/19 @ Scribble Press
Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with...
Friday 12/19 @ 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 12/19 @ Materials & Applications
First, there were robot maids, robot pets, and robot vacuums. Now, there are robot gardens. The technical specifications for Materials &...
Friday 12/19 @ The Actors' Gang Theatre
Written and directed by the Actors' Gang's own Angela Berliner, Scrooge Must Die! offers an X-rated reading of Charles Dickens' classic...
Friday 12/19 @ 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 12/19 @ Regen Projects
The first of this winter's pair of Raymond Pettibon exhibitions at Regen Projects focused on early monochromatic, pop-culture infused pen-and-ink drawings....
Friday 12/19 @ 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 12/19 @ Sandroni Rey
Fascinated by homo-eroticism and inspired by mythology and classic fiction, Miami painter Hernan Bas' tableaux present an enchanted world of roaming...
Friday 12/19 @ Armory Center for the Arts
With At the Brewery Project: 1993-2007: the Finale, the Armory pays its respects to an LA art mainstay. For the past...
Friday 12/19 @ LA Louver Gallery
Cuban-born artist Enrique Martinez Celaya's oil-and-wax paintings and mixed-media sculptures offer a rare combination of vigorous, pre-Raphaelite style and pensive, academic...
Friday 12/19 @ Lightbox Gallery
In sacred and profane, Los Angeles-based artist George Stoll expands upon his traditional examination of everyday Americana. Objects such as his...
Friday 12/19 @ 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 12/19 @ Art/Works Theatre
For the first half of the 20th century, Le Theatre du Grand Guignol in Paris reigned as the predominant purveyor of...
Evan B. Harris and Catherine Ryan
Friday 12/19 @ Cerasoli-LeBasse Gallery
This month, Cerasoli-LeBasse Gallery presents a pair of exhibitions depicting imaginary lands, pairing the work by Evan Harris in the main...
Friday 12/19 @ Kirk Douglas Theatre
Hollywood and homophobia share the bill in The Little Dog Laughed, a comedy about Tinseltown hypocrisy and the veil of lies...
Friday 12/19 @ Thinkspace Gallery
Thinkspace Gallery presents new works by artists whose street-based achievements reveal impassioned stratagems on top of fundamental creative impulses. Conceived in...
Friday 12/19 @ 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 12/19 @ 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...
Tango with Cows: Book Art of the Russian Avant-Garde
Friday 12/19 @ The Getty Center
In Tango with Cows, the Getty Research Institute presents a concentrated display of unabridged books published in Russia between 1910 and...
Friday 12/19 @ Black Maria Gallery
For the fourth year in a row, Atwater's Black Maria Gallery pursues a simple but powerful idea for the holiday season,...
Friday 12/19 @ Benjamin Trigano Gallery
A suite of digitally collaged fantasmagorias from German artist Martin Denker, Citizenoftheplanet shows us what it would be like to see...
Friday 12/19 @ MAK Center for Art and Architecture
Johannesburg-based urban geographer and artist Ismail Farouk offers a multimedia overview of his recent work in the second installment of the...
Friday 12/19 @ 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 12/19 @ GOOD Space
Everyone wants to be a better person, but no one wants to forgo art, music, or great food in the process....
Friday 12/19 @ New Image Art
New Image Art stages an imaginative collection of works by the Date Farmers (aka Coachella Valley's Carlos Ramirez and Armando Lerma)....
Friday 12/19 @ Mark Moore Gallery
Influenced by Dutch vanitas of the 16th and 17th centuries, Belgian artist Cindy Wright creates excruciatingly detailed, large-scale portraits and still-lifes...
Friday 12/19 @ The Company
The economy be damned: amid a spate of gallery closings, it's still full speed ahead for the fearless founders of the...
Friday 12/19 @ Craig Krull Gallery
Photographer Michael Kenna is a technical whiz, a classicist with a flair for the dramatic. His sweeping black-and-white landscapes depict vistas...
Sasha Bezzubov & Jessica Sucher
Friday 12/19 @ Taylor De Cordoba Gallery
In the '60s and '70s, the Beatles led an exuberant parade East, inspiring throngs of Westerners to follow in a search...
Friday 12/19 @ 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 12/19 @ 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 12/19 @ Western Project
The Fellowship of Fortuna (and its "messenger," LA painter and media artist Gordy Grundy) takes up residence on Western Project's website...
