Events on Friday, April 11
Friday 4/11 @ The Echo & Echoplex
The Bay Area's avant-garde indie rockers Xiu Xiu take the stage in support of their sixth full-length, Women as Lovers, which...
Friday 4/11 @ House of Blues Sunset Strip
Irreverent cover kings the Dan Band first poked their heads into the limelight when they appeared as the profane wedding band...
Friday 4/11 @ El Rey
Robyn Hitchcock first emerged in the late '70s as the frontman for UK power-pop outfit the Soft Boys. Since then, the...
Ongoing Events
Friday 4/11 @ Pounder-Koné Art Space
Atwater Village's Pounder-Koné Art Space uses color as the great communicator, gathering work from its favorite underappreciated overseas artists with a...
Friday 4/11 @ See Line Gallery
New York artist Edgar Heap of Birds doesn't use text to support his visual aesthetic — the text is the aesthetic....
Friday 4/11 @ 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 4/11 @ Overtones Gallery
Upon graduating from art school and relocating to the city, local painter Christopher Chinn was struck by how intrepid artists would...
Friday 4/11 @ Bank
Los Angeles multimedia artist Martin Durazo curates this collection of work by 17 artists under the broad thematic umbrella of power...
Friday 4/11 @ First Baptist Church
Out of 36 glass panels and multiple tonnage of cracked clay and resin, German artist Anselm Kiefer has created an illusion...
Friday 4/11 @ 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 4/11 @ Freud Playhouse
Aurélia Thierrée stars in a circus-theatre spectacle of retro, sideshow-style wonderment. Thierrée's parents invented Le Cirque Bonjour, which is credited as...
Friday 4/11 @ Hammer Museum
Employing iconic black-paper silhouettes, Kara Walker — who was named one of Time's "100 Most Influential People" in 2007 — sparks...
Friday 4/11 @ Regen Projects II
After capturing the essence of SoCal beach life with her surfer portrait series, photographer Catherine Opie tackles another bastion of American...
Friday 4/11 @ Cinespace
As Internet video, indie film, and broadcast TV continue merging in today's new-media world, the Very Short Movies Festival gets in...
Guyton\Walker and Anna Sew Hoy
Friday 4/11 @ LAXART
Los Angeles' Anna Sew Hoy takes inspiration from her medical-doctor father in her latest exhibition POW!, which focuses on the theme...
Friday 4/11 @ The Getty Center
As video art's growing reach now extends from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera to commuters watching YouTube on their iPhones,...
Friday 4/11 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA
Before red ribbons became de rigeur accessories at televised awards ceremonies, artists from around the globe inspired and provoked the radical...
A Narrative History of the Light Bulb
Friday 4/11 @ Gallery Luisotti
Photographer Catherine Wagner used the Baltimore Museum of Industry's impressive collection of lightbulbs as the inspiration for her latest exhibition, which...
Friday 4/11 @ 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 4/11 @ 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 4/11 @ The Raven Playhouse
Academia and egomania collide in Rick Mitchell's Personality Crisis, a play that takes aim at the recent phenomenon of authors seeking...
Friday 4/11 @ 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 4/11 @ The Getty Center
In celebration of its tenth anniversary, the Getty Center presents Ten Years in Focus: The Artist and the Camera. The exhibition...
Friday 4/11 @ Subliminal Projects
Blek le Rat is known as the Parisian forefather of stencil and graffiti art. Nearly three decades ago, he plastered the...
Friday 4/11 @ Chung King Project
For her debut solo bow in the United States, French artist Anne-Laure Sacriste shows new large-scale paintings at Chung King Project....
Friday 4/11 @ Various locations
The blessing and curse of international cultural exchange is that the influx of exotic, unfamiliar art can be a bit overwhelming,...
Friday 4/11 @ Armory Center for the Arts
ArtForum critic and independent curator Michael Duncan encourages childish behavior in Good Doll Bad Doll, an exhibition featuring modern and contemporary...
Friday 4/11 @ Robert Berman Gallery D5
No doubt David Trulli's former career as a cinematographer had an impact on his current work, as his scratchboard pieces exhibit...
Friday 4/11 @ 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 4/11 @ 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 4/11 @ Patrick Painter Gallery
Salomón Huerta is one of LA's most popular painters — although personally, he seems somewhat reserved. His best-known works are smallish,...
Friday 4/11 @ Various LA galleries & museums
Black Frame and ForYourArt present the first annual LA Art Weekend festival. From the premiere of Laurie Anderson's new piece, Homeland,...
Friday 4/11 @ High Energy Constructs
Armageddon looms at Eddie Ruscha Jr.'s debut solo show. The son of the pop-art icon pairs psychedelic works on canvas and...
Friday 4/11 @ 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,...
Israeli Women: A Portrait in Photographs
Friday 4/11 @ Skirball Cultural Center
Israeli Women: A Portrait in Photographs looks at Israel's female citizenry as a reflection of the state's 60-year history of independence....
Friday 4/11 @ Milo Gallery
Two-parts pop to one-part folk, Max Miceli's landscapes and portraits force viewers to examine the relationships between man and beast, industry...
Friday 4/11 @ 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 4/11 @ Kinsey/DesForges Gallery
While Ryan McLennan's Audubon-inspired drawings of woodland animals seem innocent enough, the graphite-and-acrylic works on paper reveal the animal kingdom's vicious...
Friday 4/11 @ 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 4/11 @ 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 4/11 @ Carl Berg Gallery
Los Angeles-based painter and sculptor Tony de los Reyes has more in common with 19th-century author Herman Melville than most politically...
Friday 4/11 @ 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 4/11 @ Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art
In the group show Anything Could Happen..., five international artists get together to celebrate the vibrancy of contemporary street art. From...
Friday 4/11 @ Western Project
Billed as "punk Mark Twain defiance," Wayne White's latest show features the recent collection of his famous word paintings and sculptures....
Friday 4/11 @ Agnes B.
Filmmaker Harmony Korine's newest movie, Mister Lonely, follows a Michael Jackson impersonator (Diego Luna) living in a remote French castle with...
Friday 4/11 @ 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 4/11 @ La Luz de Jesus
Japanese artist Yumiko Kayukawa's work is a fine example of what happens when East meets West. In Kayukawa's world, young women...
Friday 4/11 @ The Lab 101 Gallery
As the much-beloved Polaroid photograph takes its final bow, David Horvitz and Flavorpill editor Ashley Tibbits harness the medium's lo-fi grace...
Friday 4/11 @ Mark Moore Gallery
Last year, London art-gallery impresarios Simon Rumley and Zavier Ellis curated The Future Can Wait, an ambitious group show spotlighting some...
Friday 4/11 @ 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 4/11 @ SCI-Arc
"Merletti" means lace in Italian; for architects, it refers to the pattern of folds along a watchtower's defensive rims and other...
Complexions Contemporary Ballet
Friday 4/11 @ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
Complexions is a dynamic New York dance collective led by artistic directors Dwight Rhoden and Desmond Richardson. The company's populist appeal...
Friday 4/11 @ 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...
