Events on Friday, March 7
Friday 3/ 7 @ El Rey
Brooklyn-based, Israeli-born dance band Balkan Beat Box (aka Tamir Muskat and former Gogol Bordello member Ori Kaplan) turn the brassy intensity...
Friday 3/ 7 @ Spaceland
Touting their exquisitely weepy rendition of Roxy Music's "More Than This," as well as a punkish sabre dance titled "Ricky," Division...
Ongoing Events
Everything But the Kitschen Sync
Friday 3/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ High Energy Constructs
One of Chinatown's most interesting emerging galleries, High Energy Constructs inaugurated its space with an exhibition by David Brady. Two years...
Friday 3/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ Theatre of NOTE
Stadium Devildare is billed as "a tale of future sport... America to the extreme" — and indeed, Ruth Margraff's play pushes...
Miguel Osuna and Sam Seawright
Friday 3/ 7 @ Lawrence Asher Gallery
Landscape paintings from Mexican artist Miguel Osuna have a photographic sensibility. His California landscapes possess all the fleeting romance of a...
Friday 3/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ [delete]
This private-residence-turned-gallery's latest offering, Projection, interprets the titular concept both literally and figuratively in an ambitious multimedia group show. The works...
Friday 3/ 7 @ Telic Arts Exchange
More laboratory than art gallery, Telic Arts Exchange stages collaborative multimedia projects that invite curious audiences along for the ride. Its...
There We Were, Now Here We Are
Friday 3/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 3/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 3/ 7 @ Landmark Nuart Theatre
Eight-year-old Amelia is crafting a 14-song cycle about her dog Peppi, but her mate Palace is more of a metal head....
Friday 3/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ Richard Heller Gallery
The organic forms that populate Mel Kadel's drawings have begun to grow in scale, creeping toward the edges of the sheet...
Friday 3/ 7 @ SCI-Arc
Head of the Visual Studies Program at SCI-Arc Jean-Michel Crettaz has plenty of experience, having studied in Switzerland, at the ultra-exclusive...
Friday 3/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 3/ 7 @ Various Chinatown galleries
As Chinese New Year celebrations bring you to Chinatown, remember that the neighborhood is also home to dozens of contemporary art...
Friday 3/ 7 @ PawnShop Gallery
Traditionally, bust portraiture has been a means of honoring those with wealth, power, and status; Ben Pruskin, however, believes that such...
MAK Center Artists and Architects in Residence Exhibition
Friday 3/ 7 @ MAK Center Schindler House
MAK Center residents Sabine Müller and Andreas Quednau, Hank Schmidt in der Beek, Bernhard Eder and Theresa Krenn, and Johann Neumeister...
Friday 3/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ Taylor De Cordoba Gallery
Los Angeles artist Frohawk Two Feathers makes fanciful, avant-folk paintings featuring a cast of singularly imaginative characters. For his latest collection...
Friday 3/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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...
SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s
Friday 3/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ Landmark Nuart Theatre
In the revolution-rich year of 1968, the French had a tough May; the US, in turn, had one heck of an...
Friday 3/ 7 @ GR2
GR2 combines the artistic minds of Katherine Guillen, Zachary Rossman, and Brian Rush for a group show of anti-monumental proportions. Discarding...
Friday 3/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects
"Interdisciplinary" is an understatement when it comes to Brooklyn-based artist Wynne Greenwood: she's known for melding performance, installation, video, and two-dimensional...
Friday 3/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ [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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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 3/ 7 @ Thinkspace Gallery
Hailing from various points in New York City, up-and-coming artists Tony Philippou, Zach Johnsen, and Marion Bolognesi present a conglomeration of...
Friday 3/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
Racism, jealousy, and betrayal form the backdrop of Shakespeare's penultimate tragedy, Othello. The stakes of the story are set even higher...
