Events on Friday, December 5
Friday 12/ 5 @ [DELETE] Various
Dust off those fedoras: it's the 75th anniversary of Prohibition's repeal, and LA is wetter than ever. The folks at Dewar's...
Friday 12/ 5 @ Herbert Zipper Concert Hall
Inspired by the sculptor Alexander Calder and his monumentally jovial aesthetic, the Calder Quartet blends the skill and repertoire of classical...
Friday 12/ 5 @ The Echo & Echoplex
Pitchfork-anointed hot new things Crystal Antlers take a free-form, orchestral approach, layering sizzling rock with trippy, space-obsessed interludes. Hot off last...
Ongoing Events
Friday 12/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ Bandini Art
Overtaking every nook and cranny of Bandini Art's box space — including the ceiling — Jennifer Vanderpool's recent, large-scale installation features...
Friday 12/ 5 @ REDCAT
A founding artist in the Judson Dance Theater, David Gordon has left his fingerprints all over the canon of contemporary dance,...
Friday 12/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ The Ford Theater
[Inside] the Ford's New Plays Series makes use of the intimate theatre under the venue's more familiar outdoor setting during the...
Friday 12/ 5 @ 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 12/ 5 @ Pharmaka
Berlin has always been notorious for cultivating the avant garde, but its conceptual art scene has flourished since the fall of...
Bob Baker presents The Nutcracker
Friday 12/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ Dolby Laboratories Burbank
HDFEST Los Angeles returns for its ninth year, celebrating high-definition technology's integral role in the 21st century movie-going experience. Screening documentaries,...
David McDonald, Annie Wharton, and Jason David
Friday 12/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ Regen Projects
Wolfgang Tillmans is like the Madonna of the art world: never afraid to change directions, reinvent himself, or throw in a...
Friday 12/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ Art/Works Theatre
For the first half of the 20th century, Le Theatre du Grand Guignol in Paris reigned as the predominant purveyor of...
Friday 12/ 5 @ Roberts & Tilton Gallery
In this pairing of one-man exhibitions, Roberts + Tilton's new Culver City digs unleashes an ocean of dense artistic detail. Matt...
Friday 12/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ SAE Institute of Technology
Remix magazine's Remix Hotel decamps to LA this weekend for three full days of panels, workshops, after-parties, and free tunes. Highlights...
Friday 12/ 5 @ 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 12/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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 12/ 5 @ 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 12/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ Norton Simon Museum
This year marks the 45th anniversary of By or of Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Sélavy, the famous Marcel Duchamp retrospective at...
Tango with Cows: Book Art of the Russian Avant-Garde
Friday 12/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ Scribble Press
Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with...
Friday 12/ 5 @ 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...
Friday 12/ 5 @ Old Robinson's May Building
Activist and spiritual writer Marianne Williamson founded Project Angel Food in 1989 to help bring nourishment to those with life-threatening illnesses;...
Friday 12/ 5 @ Materials & Applications
First, there were robot maids, robot pets, and robot vacuums. Now, there are robot gardens. The technical specifications for Materials &...
Friday 12/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ Tinlark Gallery
In It Together is the meta-title for a pair of simultaneous collaborative exhibitions: Matthew Rodriguez and Nicholas Bohac's Drill, Baby, Drill!...
Friday 12/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ Angles Gallery
Linda Besemer produces the kind of art that provokes people to solve the mystery of how she does it. Without divulging...
Sasha Bezzubov & Jessica Sucher
Friday 12/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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...
Rudy Perez Performance Ensemble
Friday 12/ 5 @ Highways Performance Space
Pioneering movement and dance artist Rudy Perez and his loose company of independent performers present two evenings featuring collaborative works linked...
Friday 12/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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 12/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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 12/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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...
99¢ Only Calendar Girl Competition
Friday 12/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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 12/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ Echo Park Film Center
In a city where big budgets are often confused with big ideas, the first annual Zero Film Festival reminds us that...
