All events on Friday April 18

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Music: Rock/Pop
Legend and Legacy
Friday Apr 18 (8pm) @ UCLA Live at Royce Hall More times »
Tonight's UCLA Live concert commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Ash Grove, the legendary folk-music club that defined '50s- and '60s-era LA music. Ash Grove's... View details »
Legend and Legacy
Music: Rock/Pop
Helmet
Friday Apr 18 (8pm) @ Key Club
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These days, Helmet is pretty much Page Hamilton's baby. The frontman/guitar virtuoso has remained the lone constant over numerous changes to the legendary metal group's... View details »
Helmet
Music: Rock/Pop
Ghostland Observatory
Friday Apr 18 (8pm) @ Music Box at the Fonda Theater
Austin duo Ghostland Observatory fuse sprawling, futuristic electro with Rapture-style spastic rock, describing their sound as "a robot making love to a tree." On their... View details »
Ghostland Observatory
Performing Arts: Dance
Modern Myths and Monsters
Friday Apr 18 (8pm) @ Diavolo Dance Theatre More times »
Los Angeles Contemporary Dance Company is a repertory on a mission. The troupe offers workshops and classes as well as a broad-minded program of original... View details »
Modern Myths and Monsters
Art: Architecture/Design
Michael Kalish
Friday Apr 18 (7–10pm) @ MODAA gallery More times »
Opening
Free
While Michael Kalish's early work is marked by portraits of iconic figures (Jimi Hendrix, Jesus), his new exhibition at Culver City's Museum of Design Art... View details »
Music: Rock/Pop
Seneca Hawk
Friday Apr 18 (11pm) @ The Hotel Café
LA-based trio Seneca Hawk crank out loud, rootsy Americana in the same stripped-down vein as the Black Keys, with guttural, heartfelt vocals courtesy of Jonah... View details »
Seneca Hawk
Performing Arts: Comedy
Is Your iPod Hilarious?
Friday Apr 18 (10pm) @ UCB Theatre
Hitting shuffle on an unsuspecting iPod can mean unpredictable embarrassment — as when, say, songs from The Little Mermaid soundtrack pop up. Upright Citizens Brigade... View details »
Is Your iPod Hilarious?
Film
Beyond the Call
Friday Apr 18 @ Laemmle's Grande 4-Plex More times »
Director/producer/cinematographer Adrian Belic follows 1999's Academy Award-nominated documentary Genghis Blues (about blind musician Paul Peña's relationship with Tuvan throat-singers) with a startling new documentary, Beyond... View details »
Beyond the Call

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Film: Documentary
My Kid Could Paint That
Friday Apr 18 @ Various locations More times »
Free
An abstract-art prodigy for the digital age, four-year-old Marla Olmstead is a rare bird indeed. In My Kid Could Paint That, Amir Bar-Lev documents the... View details »
My Kid Could Paint That
Art: Architecture/Design
La Vida Lowrider
Friday Apr 18 (10am–6pm) @ Peterson Automotive Museum More times »
The lowrider tradition originated in the Chicano barrios of Los Angeles, inspired by a fierce love for classic cars and the need for expressing cultural... View details »
La Vida Lowrider
Art
First Generation
Friday Apr 18 (11am–5pm) @ Claremont Museum of Art More times »
Nestled 30 minutes outside of the hustle and bustle of Los Angeles lies Claremont — not known for much other than some great old houses... View details »
First Generation
Film
Alfred Hitchcock
Friday Apr 18 (10am–5pm) @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences More times »
Free
Stylized, self-mythologizing director Alfred Hitchcock would have you believe him to be a one-man originality machine — when, in fact, his films took hundreds of... View details »
Alfred Hitchcock
Art: Photography
Lights! Camera! Glamour!
Friday Apr 18 (11am–4pm) @ California Heritage Museum More times »
George Hurrell shot studio stars as they are remembered today: glamorous, graceful, and a tad theatrical. With his sophisticated black-and-white blowups, "The grand seigneur of... View details »
Lights! Camera! Glamour!
Art
Bob Dylan's American Journey
Friday Apr 18 @ Skirball Cultural Center More times »
This year's resurgent Dylanmania — from Todd Haynes' byzantine biopic, I'm Not There, to Murray Lerner's performance-driven documentary, The Other Side of the Mirror —... View details »
Bob Dylan's American Journey
Art: Photography
Freeze Frame
Friday Apr 18 (10am–5pm) @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences More times »
Free
The Academy honors Douglas Kirkland's carefully composed photography with Freeze Frame, an exhibit of celebrity portraits riddled with familiar faces. Besides shooting spools of film... View details »
Freeze Frame
Art
The Imaginary 20th Century
Friday Apr 18 (11am–5pm) @ Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach More times »
There was a time when the 20th century seemed like an unimaginable and distant future. The Orange County Museum of Art presents 2,200 images from... View details »
The Imaginary 20th Century
Art
Kara Walker
Friday Apr 18 (11am–7pm) @ Hammer Museum More times »
Employing iconic black-paper silhouettes, Kara Walker — who was named one of Time's "100 Most Influential People" in 2007 — sparks a tense dialogue between... View details »
Kara Walker
Art
Make Art/Stop AIDS
Friday Apr 18 (noon–5pm) @ Fowler Museum, UCLA More times »
Free
Before red ribbons became de rigeur accessories at televised awards ceremonies, artists from around the globe inspired and provoked the radical awareness that the AIDS... View details »
Art
California Video
Friday Apr 18 @ The Getty Center More times »
Free
As video art's growing reach now extends from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera to commuters watching YouTube on their iPhones, the Getty... View details »
California Video
Art
Angela DeCristofaro
Friday Apr 18 (noon–5pm) @ Commisary Arts More times »
Free
Like fellow Italian Surrealist Giorgio de Chirico, Angela DeCristofaro's paintings obscure reality with dreams and memories. Seemingly unrelated images find their way onto the same... View details »
Angela DeCristofaro
More Flavor: City Gem
Ugo Wine Bar
Friday Apr 18 (5:30pm–1:30am) @ Vinum Populi More times »
Free
Culver City's latest spot of interest is Ugo Wine Bar, a cozy wine bar with the usual bistro couches and charcuterie selection — with one... View details »
Ugo Wine Bar
Art
Las Vegas Diaspora
Friday Apr 18 (11am–5pm) @ Laguna Art Museum More times »
Dave Hickey has one of the most original minds in the contemporary art world. His best-selling collection of critical essays, Air Guitar, built bridges between... View details »
Las Vegas Diaspora
Art
Eddie Ruscha
Friday Apr 25 @ High Energy Constructs More times »
Free
Armageddon looms at Eddie Ruscha Jr.'s debut solo show. The son of the pop-art icon pairs psychedelic works on canvas and paper with a cosmic... View details »
Eddie Ruscha
Art
Good Doll Bad Doll
Friday Apr 18 (noon–5pm) @ Armory Center for the Arts More times »
Free
ArtForum critic and independent curator Michael Duncan encourages childish behavior in Good Doll Bad Doll, an exhibition featuring modern and contemporary artists who use dolls... View details »
Good Doll Bad Doll
Art: Photography
A Narrative History of the Light Bulb
Friday Apr 18 (10:30am–6pm) @ Gallery Luisotti More times »
Free
Photographer Catherine Wagner used the Baltimore Museum of Industry's impressive collection of lightbulbs as the inspiration for her latest exhibition, which focuses on the illuminating... View details »
A Narrative History of the Light Bulb
Art
Christopher Chinn
Friday Apr 18 (noon–6pm) @ Overtones Gallery More times »
Free
Upon graduating from art school and relocating to the city, local painter Christopher Chinn was struck by how intrepid artists would often share their Skid... View details »
Christopher Chinn
Art
Guyton\Walker and Anna Sew Hoy
Friday Apr 18 (11am–6pm) @ LAXART More times »
Free
Los Angeles' Anna Sew Hoy takes inspiration from her medical-doctor father in her latest exhibition POW!, which focuses on the theme of physical injury, treatment,... View details »
Guyton\Walker and Anna Sew Hoy
Art
The Color of Life
Friday Apr 18 (10am–9pm) @ The Getty Villa More times »
Free
Looking at tony museum collections of ancient Greek and Roman statuary, one might think that the whole of antiquity existed only in tones of white... View details »
The Color of Life
Art
Anything Could Happen...
Friday Apr 18 (2–7pm) @ Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art More times »
Free
In the group show Anything Could Happen..., five international artists get together to celebrate the vibrancy of contemporary street art. From sobering reflections on inequality... View details »
Anything Could Happen...
Art
Edgar Heap of Birds
Friday Apr 18 (11am–6pm) @ See Line Gallery More times »
Free
New York artist Edgar Heap of Birds doesn't use text to support his visual aesthetic — the text is the aesthetic. In his exhibition at... View details »
Edgar Heap of Birds
Art
Gravity Art
Friday Apr 18 (noon–6pm) @ Telic Arts Exchange More times »
Free
More laboratory than art gallery, Telic Arts Exchange stages collaborative multimedia projects that invite curious audiences along for the ride. Its current exhibition, Gravity Art,... View details »
Gravity Art
Art
Max Miceli
Friday Apr 18 (11am–5pm) @ Milo Gallery More times »
Free
Two-parts pop to one-part folk, Max Miceli's landscapes and portraits force viewers to examine the relationships between man and beast, industry and nature, and abstraction... View details »
Max Miceli
Art
HEF
Friday Apr 18 (noon–6pm) @ JAIL Gallery More times »
Free
Hef. The single syllable alone conjures up images of smoking jackets and decadent mansion parties. Exploring that imagery, a group of artists at JAIL Gallery... View details »
HEF
Art: Architecture/Design
Elena Manferdini
Friday Apr 18 (10am–6pm) @ SCI-Arc More times »
Free
"Merletti" means lace in Italian; for architects, it refers to the pattern of folds along a watchtower's defensive rims and other secure rooftops. In Elena... View details »
Elena Manferdini
Art: Architecture/Design
Phalanstery Module
Friday Apr 18 @ Materials & Applications More times »
Free
M&A gallery continues to push the frontiers of architecture and landscape research with Jimenez Lai's installation Phalanstery Module. Zero-gravity design presents the central challenge, as... View details »
Phalanstery Module
Art
Salomón Huerta
Friday Apr 18 (10am–6pm) @ Patrick Painter Gallery More times »
Free
Salomón Huerta is one of LA's most popular painters — although personally, he seems somewhat reserved. His best-known works are smallish, finely detailed "portraits" of... View details »
Salomón Huerta
Art
Blek le Rat
Friday Apr 18 (1–6pm) @ Subliminal Projects More times »
Free
Blek le Rat is known as the Parisian forefather of stencil and graffiti art. Nearly three decades ago, he plastered the City of Lights' meticulously... View details »
Blek le Rat
Art
Toys
Friday Apr 18 (11am–6pm) @ Gallery 1988 More times »
Free
Watching kids fry their eyeballs playing video games can make some of us feel old. There was a time when board games and Matchbox cars... View details »
Toys
Art
Yumiko Kayukawa
Friday Apr 18 (11am–9pm) @ La Luz de Jesus More times »
Free
Japanese artist Yumiko Kayukawa's work is a fine example of what happens when East meets West. In Kayukawa's world, young women are erotic, sought-after creatures... View details »
Yumiko Kayukawa
Art
David Trulli
Friday Apr 18 (11am–6pm) @ Robert Berman Gallery D5 More times »
Free
No doubt David Trulli's former career as a cinematographer had an impact on his current work, as his scratchboard pieces exhibit a decidedly film-noir aesthetic.... View details »
David Trulli
Art: Photography
Here Is Where You'll Find Me
Friday Apr 18 (noon–6pm) @ The Lab 101 Gallery More times »
Free
As the much-beloved Polaroid photograph takes its final bow, David Horvitz and Flavorpill editor Ashley Tibbits harness the medium's lo-fi grace for their own artistic... View details »
Here Is Where You'll Find Me
Art: Photography
Catherine Opie
Friday Apr 18 (10am–6pm) @ Regen Projects II More times »
Free
After capturing the essence of SoCal beach life with her surfer portrait series, photographer Catherine Opie tackles another bastion of American culture: high-school football. Opie... View details »
Catherine Opie
Art
André Ethier and Cathy Akers
Friday Apr 18 (10am–6pm) @ Honor Fraser More times »
Free
Toronto-based André Ethier's grotesque, surreal paintings are psychedelic allegories illustrating misconceptions about modern history and culture. In his latest collection, Vancouver Before Christ, the artist... View details »
André Ethier and Cathy Akers
Art
New London School
Friday Apr 18 (10am–6pm) @ Mark Moore Gallery More times »
Free
Last year, London art-gallery impresarios Simon Rumley and Zavier Ellis curated The Future Can Wait, an ambitious group show spotlighting some of the city's most... View details »
New London School
Art: Photography
Mister Lonely
Friday Apr 18 @ Agnes B. More times »
Filmmaker Harmony Korine's newest movie, Mister Lonely, follows a Michael Jackson impersonator (Diego Luna) living in a remote French castle with a group of fellow... View details »
Mister Lonely
Art
100% Other
Friday Apr 18 (11am–5pm) @ 18th Street Arts Center More times »
Free
For the next installment of Future of Nations exhibition series 100% Other, curator Tyler Stallings asked artists Matthew Bryant, Cheryl Gilge, Perry Vasquez, Reggie Woolery,... View details »
100% Other
Performing Arts: Dance
dirty mean tricks
Friday Apr 18 (8–10pm) @ Unknown Theater More times »
Director/choreographer Jennifer Li spins her theatrical yarn with a seamlessly integrated movement style and an ensemble of offbeat collaborators. For dirty mean tricks, she's working... View details »
dirty mean tricks
Art
Panopti(con)
Friday Apr 18 (11am–5pm) @ Bank More times »
Free
Los Angeles multimedia artist Martin Durazo curates this collection of work by 17 artists under the broad thematic umbrella of power and authority. The exhibition's... View details »
Panopti(con)
Art
Jason Martin
Friday Apr 18 (10am–6pm) @ LA Louver Gallery More times »
Free
The title of UK painter Jason Martin's latest exhibition evokes the South Pacific's warm, breezy environs — but his abstract, mostly monochromatic oil-on-aluminum pieces are... View details »
Jason Martin
Art
Bent Festival
Friday Apr 18 @ California Plaza More times »
If Chucky the homicidal doll had gotten a scholarship to Juilliard and developed an obsession with John Cage instead of murder, he might have been... View details »
Bent Festival
Art
Anselm Kiefer
Friday Apr 18 (noon–6pm) @ First Baptist Church More times »
Free
Out of 36 glass panels and multiple tonnage of cracked clay and resin, German artist Anselm Kiefer has created an illusion (as well as an... View details »
Anselm Kiefer
Performing Arts: Theatre
Personality Crisis
Friday Apr 18 (8pm) @ The Raven Playhouse More times »
Academia and egomania collide in Rick Mitchell's Personality Crisis, a play that takes aim at the recent phenomenon of authors seeking celebrity. Inspired by the... View details »
Art
Lush
Friday Apr 18 @ Salon Oblique More times »
Free
With Lush, West Side sensation Salon Oblique upholds its growing reputation for intellectually and aesthetically engaging multimedia group exhibitions. As in previous shows, a cadre... View details »
Lush
Art
Ryan McLennan
Friday Apr 18 (11am–6pm) @ Kinsey/DesForges Gallery More times »
Free
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 side. In his latest... View details »
Ryan McLennan
Art
Mark Bradford
Friday Apr 18 @ Steve Turner Contemporary Gallery More times »
Free
Los Angeles painter, installation artist, and (most recently) video artist Mark Bradford has exhibited in some of the world's most prestigious galleries and museums, but... View details »
Mark Bradford
Art: Photography
Ten Years in Focus
Friday Apr 18 (10am–9pm) @ The Getty Center More times »
Free
In celebration of its tenth anniversary, the Getty Center presents Ten Years in Focus: The Artist and the Camera. The exhibition draws parallels between photography... View details »
Ten Years in Focus
More Flavor: City Gem
Pavilion of Wings
Friday Apr 18 (9:30am–5pm) @ Natural History Museum More times »
Pavilion of Wings returns to the Natural History Museum for the exhibition's tenth anniversary. Now, anyone jealous of the Shins' experience in Mexico can walk... View details »
Pavilion of Wings
Art: Photography
Israeli Women: A Portrait in Photographs
Friday Apr 18 (noon–5pm) @ Skirball Cultural Center More times »
Free
Israeli Women: A Portrait in Photographs looks at Israel's female citizenry as a reflection of the state's 60-year history of independence. Drawing on documentary and... View details »
Israeli Women: A Portrait in Photographs