Events on Friday, March 14
Friday 3/14 @ Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr has been playing with shot duration for the last four decades. He swoops, swivels, and dances his...
Friday 3/14 @ Knitting Factory
Tonight's Give Me Shelter benefit is the first for the Teen Project, an Orange County initiative that gets youths off the...
Ongoing Events
Friday 3/14 @ Powerhouse Theatre
If you only have time this month to see one dark-comedy dance spectacular about a dystopian future in which sex-craved, man-eating...
Friday 3/14 @ Track 16 Gallery
Extravagance, irony, and ephemera converge in five concurrent exhibitions. The focus is the 30th-anniversary celebration of Jeffery Vallance's performance piece Blinky...
Friday 3/14 @ David Lawrence Gallery
Since his early days drawing for Zap Comix, Robert Crumb has made quite a name for himself as the comic world's...
Friday 3/14 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA
Before red ribbons became de rigeur accessories at televised awards ceremonies, artists from around the globe inspired and provoked the radical...
Friday 3/14 @ MODAA gallery
With the Oscars over and your awards-show itch still dying to be scratched, it's time to honor the work of a...
Friday 3/14 @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences
The Academy honors Douglas Kirkland's carefully composed photography with Freeze Frame, an exhibit of celebrity portraits riddled with familiar faces. Besides...
Friday 3/14 @ Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach
There was a time when the 20th century seemed like an unimaginable and distant future. The Orange County Museum of Art...
Friday 3/14 @ Patrick Painter Gallery
Toby Ziegler's work is full of dichotomies. For his new collection of painting and sculpture in Patrick Painter's West Gallery, the...
Friday 3/14 @ [delete] The Met Theatre
Before her untimely death at the tragic age of 28, socialite, heiress, and fledgling film star Edie Sedgwick was Andy Warhol's...
Friday 3/14 @ Roberts & Tilton Gallery
With the creative ingenuity of a mad doctor and the unwieldy imagination of a five-year old, installation artist Adam Janes unveils...
SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s
Friday 3/14 @ Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Exhibitions addressing mythologies of Southern California are suddenly seemingly ubiquitous. The Orange County Museum of Art's Art Since the 1960s: California...
Friday 3/14 @ Laguna Art Museum
Dave Hickey has one of the most original minds in the contemporary art world. His best-selling collection of critical essays, Air...
Friday 3/14 @ Commisary Arts
Like fellow Italian Surrealist Giorgio de Chirico, Angela DeCristofaro's paintings obscure reality with dreams and memories. Seemingly unrelated images find their...
Friday 3/14 @ Petersen Automotive Museum
The lowrider tradition originated in the Chicano barrios of Los Angeles, inspired by a fierce love for classic cars and the...
Friday 3/14 @ Santa Monica Museum of Art
Rather than create new spaces and pieces, conceptual mixed-media artist Michael Asher prefers to deconstruct and punctuate extant spaces with found...
Friday 3/14 @ LA Louver Gallery
Though Los Angeles is her stomping ground, provocative painter/sculptress Alison Saar is internationally acclaimed. Daughter of the groundbreaking Betye Saar, whose...
Friday 3/14 @ Hammer Museum
Employing iconic black-paper silhouettes, Kara Walker — who was named one of Time's "100 Most Influential People" in 2007 — sparks...
Friday 3/14 @ The Getty Villa
Looking at tony museum collections of ancient Greek and Roman statuary, one might think that the whole of antiquity existed only...
Friday 3/14 @ Theatre of NOTE
Stadium Devildare is billed as "a tale of future sport... America to the extreme" — and indeed, Ruth Margraff's play pushes...
Friday 3/14 @ Kinsey/DesForges Gallery
In 2001, Colorado-based artist Evan Hecox inaugurated Culver City's Kinsey/DesForges gallery. Now he returns in a show that highlights how they...
Everything But the Kitschen Sync
Friday 3/14 @ La Luz de Jesus
The type of work that's usually celebrated at La Luz de Jesus Gallery, located inside Wacko (the Costco of kitsch), is...
Friday 3/14 @ PawnShop Gallery
Traditionally, bust portraiture has been a means of honoring those with wealth, power, and status; Ben Pruskin, however, believes that such...
Friday 3/14 @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences
Stylized, self-mythologizing director Alfred Hitchcock would have you believe him to be a one-man originality machine — when, in fact, his...
Friday 3/14 @ California Heritage Museum
George Hurrell shot studio stars as they are remembered today: glamorous, graceful, and a tad theatrical. With his sophisticated black-and-white blowups,...
Friday 3/14 @ Gagosian Gallery
Neo-expressionist aesthete and, most recently, award-winning feature-film director Julian Schnabel (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly) takes a break from the...
Friday 3/14 @ The Steve Allen Theater
Scott Thompson (of immortally beloved sketch-comedy crew the Kids in the Hall) drops his new one-man show on the Steve Allen...
Friday 3/14 @ Tarryn Teresa Gallery
Miami-based painter and self-proclaimed "frustrated scientist" Julie Davidow presents a series of new works that embody the interactions between man and...
Friday 3/14 @ Skirball Cultural Center
This year's resurgent Dylanmania — from Todd Haynes' byzantine biopic, I'm Not There, to Murray Lerner's performance-driven documentary, The Other Side...
Friday 3/14 @ The Manual Archives
Puppet theatre is back with a vengeance, and Susan Simpson, director/designer/writer of Concrete Folk Variations, turns the genre on its little...
Friday 3/14 @ Anna Helwing Gallery
Bright and brash, Mindy Shapero concocts sculptures with a childlike zeal: always curious and never satisfied. Her works seem like visual...
Friday 3/14 @ project: gallery
This Valentine's Day, project: gallery presents Tessar Lo and Chris Devera, two illustrator/artists whose imagination-gone-wild paintings never hesitate to take things...
There We Were, Now Here We Are
Friday 3/14 @ Mark Moore Gallery
LA artist Tim Bavington reinvents the once-obsolete "stripe painting" with hometown verve. Bavington incorporates sound into many of his dense compositions,...
Friday 3/14 @ Telic Arts Exchange
More laboratory than art gallery, Telic Arts Exchange stages collaborative multimedia projects that invite curious audiences along for the ride. Its...
Friday 3/14 @ Michael Dawson Gallery
Renowned Japanese photographer Hiromi Tsuchida has trained his lens on facets of ordinary life throughout his lengthy career. Tsuchida's first solo...
Friday 3/14 @ House of Blues Sunset Strip
What do an evolutionary biology PhD, the owner of Epitaph Records, and the guitarist from the Circle Jerks have in common?...
Friday 3/14 @ Bandini Art
In his new series of work, painter Luke Whitlatch offers a meditation on both the emotional events that define human life...
Friday 3/14 @ Koplin del Rio Gallery
The history of art may seem an obvious source of inspiration, but a new collection of paintings by LA's Aaron Smith...
Friday 3/14 @ The Actors' Gang Theatre
Twenty years after Carnage's wildly successful premiere, the Gang revives Adam Simon and Tim Robbins' play with frightening vitality and acerbic...
Friday 3/14 @ Milo Gallery
With leaked sex tapes and nude photos of celebrities comprising a billion-dollar industry, David Touster's new work couldn't be more humorous...
Friday 3/14 @ Various locations
An abstract-art prodigy for the digital age, four-year-old Marla Olmstead is a rare bird indeed. In My Kid Could Paint That,...
Friday 3/14 @ REDCAT
Even if you don't recognize their names, you are likely familiar with the art of Ed Fella and Geoff McFetridge. In...
Friday 3/14 @ Farmani Gallery
Portrait photography of celebrities in their own homes is always compelling fare, but Tom Atwood's images of high-profile figures from the...
Friday 3/14 @ Honor Fraser
In a departure from her usual allusions to European art, Crow focuses on America, particularly Los Angeles, in her latest collection...
Friday 3/14 @ Claremont Museum of Art
Nestled 30 minutes outside of the hustle and bustle of Los Angeles lies Claremont — not known for much other than...
Friday 3/14 @ epOxybOx
Celebrated surf photographer Tom Servais comes to Venice Beach's original "green" gallery for his debut fine-art exhibition. Servais is known for...
Friday 3/14 @ Ahmanson Theatre
Johnny Depp's acclaimed cinematic stab (ahem) at Mr. Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, has refreshed our memories on...
Friday 3/14 @ Cherry and Martin
Spanish conquistadors beware: payback is a bitch. Nathan Mabry exacts Montezuma's revenge with irreverently styled bronze sculptures based on Pre-Columbian Moche...
Friday 3/14 @ The Getty Center
Nicole Cohen engineers recombinant layers of still and video imagery, investigating the network of associations that interior spaces contain. Also, she...
